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This upbeat, often humorous film presents three busy mohels -- Jewish ritual circumcisers -- as they practice their ancient profession in modern Los Angeles. It also shows how the ritual is an occasion for celebration and how Jews express their identity, faith and family ties, in these early moments of life. more »
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Interweaving past and present and combining fabulous archival film
and photographs with current documentary footage, The Lacandon Maya
tells the story of an isolated community catapulted into civilization
within the space of one generation. more »
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This stunning film takes us to a rare matriarchal community in southwest China. The ancient Mosuo culture has survived both the time of the concubines and the Cultural Revolution. more »
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Lady Warriors is the story of seven Native American teenage girls who are Arizona state cross-country running champions more »
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In 1800 South Carolina was home to the largest and wealthiest Jewish community in North America. This lively documentary traces their history from colonial days until the present time, showing how they maintained both their southern and Jewish identities. more »
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For centuries, the world has jostled for control of the land now known as West Papua, a rugged, isolated region, with its abundant natural resources and strategic position. Colonial ambition, fervent nationalism and cold war politics have played a part in its turbulent history. more »
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Languages Lost and Found is uniquely thought provoking for those who take their language for granted. It will be a resource for courses in anthropology, communication, ethnomusicology, and the humanities in general. more »
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Twenty-two year old Miguel Martinez has been languishing on death row in Huntsville, Texas, for five years, while his co-defendant, the son of a judge, was let off for giving state’s evidence. more »
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In a small West Texas town, a parent refuses to have his 12-year-old son undergo mandatory drug testing. This conservative farmer forms an unlikely alliance with the American Civil Liberties Union to fight for his son's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search. more »
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Six young men and women were filmed as they prepared for their high school prom, and then six years later as they reconcile their current lives with their former hopes and dreams. more »
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Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, children in Saigon's Tu Du Hospital are among several millions diagnosed by the Vietnamese as victims of Agent Orange. more »
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An elder in Kyrgyzstan passes down the heroic stories of their oral tradition. more »
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Linguist Ian Mackenzie preserves the unique language of the Penan of Borneo, the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth. more »
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Relegated to remote reservations on the rugged slopes of Mt. Pinatuba, the Aetas survived slavery by the Spanish colonizers and battled commercial logging and encroachment on their ancestral land. more »
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Who decides how life ends? The patient? The family? The physician? The health care system? Last Rights is a compelling, deeply personal exploration of four families and their terminally-ill loved ones as they begin to contemplate death. more »
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This remarkable film documents of the final hours of Salvador Allende, before the country fell under the military government of General Pinochet. more »
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Novelist, filmmaker and Cornell physics professor Robert Lieberman, an Americanized child of Holocaust survivors, revisits Kew Gardens, which in the 1940's and 50's was an immigrant "village" a few subway stops from the heart of New York City. more »
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This groundbreaking program shatters the Victorian notion of childhood innocence, revealing the sexual abuse of children committed by other children. more »
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Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago when he traveled to Mason City, Iowa, in 1908 to design a unique business block—a bank and adjoining hotel facing a park. This unique film traces the life, death, and possible rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of the decaying hotel. more »
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Filmed in the deserts of Namibia, one of the hottest and driest places on earth, we meet indigenous people who survive in this harsh environment. more »
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Mira Nair's latest documentary is a portrait of the "serious laughers" who meet daily in India - and now in the U.S. as well - to laugh as a group in order to improve their health. more »
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South Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, opened in 1866, was once hailed as one of the shortest and most important waterways in the world. It is also one of the world’s dirtiest. With humor, the film shows how the community is trying to clean up the canal. more »
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The Law of the Dragon examines the way in which the Chinese legal system is trying to cope with the myriad recent dramatic changes to Chinese life and society by following the activities of a provincial legal practice, the Tiger Law Firm of Chengdu. more »
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Few people know that in 18th century France, a black man became not only an internationally recognized composer, but also a director of France¹s leading orchestras. His remarkable life story is recounted in this film, which shows how he overcame the adversities of class, race and society to distinguish himself as a violinist, composer and conductor. His musical compositions inspired Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. more »
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This touching film explores the challenges and triumphs of two women. aged 36 and 44, who regained their hearing after undergoing a cochlear implant. The film follows the women through surgery, and shows their joy at rediscovering the hearing world. more »
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Dr. Norman Geschwind of the Harvard Medical School introduces this fascinating film on hemispheric brain research. more »
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The Legacy Project is a ten-DVD series that documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed writers for the theater in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author or collaborative team interviewed by a younger emerging writer. more »
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This inspiring film tells the story of a poetry, painting, and photography workshop and its profound impact on three people deemed by the criminal justice system to be "not guilty by reason of insanity." more »
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A portrait of a young black man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. For years in and out of mental institutions, he shares with us his startling past. more »
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Rough, raw, and unapologetically inspirational, Let Fury Have the Hour is a charged journey into the heart of today's creative counter-culture that rose out of a the search for authenticity in a world of growing consumerism and confusion. more »
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This poignant film captures the ironies of the ritualized mating game played at the five Singles' Weekends held each year at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills. more »
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To establish a utopian homeland in Liberia was the dream of Black Americans in the 19th Century. Instead, the country has been racked with civil war and violence. more »
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From ancient China, India, Islam, and the Graeco Roman world, we see how the library radiated knowledge and spiritual values, and facilitated the cross fertilization of ideas from one culture to another. more »
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This BBC film exposes how fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran in Pakistan leaves women vulnerable to be murdered for seeking divorce. more »
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The film is a vivid character study of a strong minded lady in her declining years, confused between reality and delusions. more »
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Dr. Curtis Boyd is a courageous doctor who risked imprisonment, loss of license, and his future in order to provide safe abortions in an era when women could not get them legally. more »
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Every year thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala leave their families and homes, staking everything they own on a one-way trip to the promised land of the United States, and encountering unimaginable hurdles along the way. more »
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Life Sentence gives voice to six formerly incarcerated men and women, some of whom were sentenced as adolescents. Each spent between 12 and 26 years in prison, and must now find a way, economically and emotionally, to rebuild life on the outside. more »
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A charming portrait of a mildly retarded married couple, Marni and Chris, who live a full life engaged with work, friends and family. more »
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The film follows one strong, open, lively girl as she navigates the passage from preadolescence to adolescence. We follow Lila from a tree-climbing eight-year-old who likes to compete with boys, through the complexities of a changing body and a new set of rules for behavior. more »
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An investigation of the drug war raging in Columbia, the cocaine capital of the world. more »
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This lively film adds a new dimension to the appreciation of African music, focusing as it does on the space between sounds - the richness of silence. more »
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Some people have very big hearts! We meet an Australian couple who have adopted several Ethiopian orphaned children. We see how they help the children overcome the pain of their past as they adjust to a new country. more »
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The meddahatts are women musicians who perform for other women in Algeria. Many are widowed or divorced and have fallen on hard times. Only a woman filmmaker could have penetrated this closed environment and captured on film such a spontaneous portrait. more »
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First-hand accounts of the pioneering women who settled the Israeli kibbutz. more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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This film celebrates the long and rich tradition of Latin culture in a multicultural community in Florida which was founded on the cigar industry. more »
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Portraits of women of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, who are living full lives although HIV/AIDS positive. more »
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Living the Roller-Coaster explores the experiences of two young women attending Stanford University who were diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder more »
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Filmmaker Flora Moon was born in Indiana of parents who had fled Red China. Because of her family's efforts to avoid scrutiny during the Cold War era of the 1950's they tried hard to blend in with their surroundings and little mention was made at home of their Chinese past. Flora was grown when she learned about her family history and her Chinese roots. more »
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A Black European journalist in Zambia exposes the untold story of AIDS in Africa; how poverty and the complex nature of African culture and sexuality are hampering efforts to eradicate this horrifying disease. more »
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Dr. Fred Lee, renowned specialist in prostate cancer, discovers he has the disease. His experience as a patient deepens his understanding of life and death issues. more »
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The story of an unusual nuclear family: Roberta, Phil, and their two adopted chimpanzees. It shows the joys and challenges of life with our closest primate relatives. more »
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The myth has captured the imagination of generations. Today's women cast Lizzie in the role of heroine, overpowering patriarchy more »
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Stories from a Jewish Home. This film examines the implications of caring for the aging survivors of the Holocaust as they face death and isolation for the second time. more »
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In the 1940s, an Asian American couple rose from the Chinatown nightclub circuit to the Ed Sullivan Show, watched by millions of Americans. This film details the couple's story and their struggles in an era of racism. more »
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Through the eyes of one family, the film traces the history of the Ndebele people and their art and rituals. more »
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The Longing, set in Ecuador, tells the story of a group of ”conversos" attempting to regain their birthright. Their ancestors Spanish Jews were forced to convert during the Inquisition. more »
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This film examines the cultural, political and historical reasons behind the persecution of homosexuals in the early years of Cuba's revolution and shows the improvements in their lives today. more »
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Since 1980 when China decreed that couples should have just one child, there has been an alarming disproportion of young men over young women. Here are the personal stories behind a modern demographic crisis in China. more »
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The film gives voice to the gay and lesbian high school students in Westhampton, Massachusetts after the state enacted an anti-discrimination law establishing their rights. It allows us to hear articulate testimony from all sides of the controversy. more »
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Victoria, a young Argentine woman, set out to find the truth about her parents who disappeared in 1978 during the military dictatorship. Painful questions emerge: were her parents terrorists? Did they suffer more because they were Jewish? more »
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Lost and Sound is a moving and beautiful film that weaves its way through a startling world of sound and silence via the ears and brains of three extraordinary people trying to discover music after losing their hearing. more »
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This sensitive film portrays the emotional difficulties men have who have grown up without a father. more »
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This film looks at the issues of urban gentrification and preservation in Beijing today, as the old neighborhoods are being demolished for 'development' more »
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At the end of the 1950’s, the Shanghai Art Studios were among the most important in the world. The came the Cultural Revolution and the director was imprisoned. more »
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Paleo-athologist Eldon Molto examines the bones of the now-vanished Pericu of Baja California, Mexico, using DNA to piece together the story of a fierce and independent people. more »
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As China changes at an awesome rate, becoming more industrialized, urban, and westernized, this film explores how this has impacted traditional relationships between men and women. more »
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This warm, intimate documentary follows a young Tuareg girl in Niger who is about is about to marry a man she has never met and documents a quickly vanishing tradition. more »
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This richly photographed film captures the courtship rituals of the Miao who live deep in the mountains of China, preserving the traditions of the past. Young men and women woo each other with soulful songs. more »
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This program examines the complexity of the emotion we call love, from the burning desire that can strike suddenly, to the giddy euphoria of falling in love. Part of the four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
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The German army’s 1940 invasion of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg marked the beginning of a long ordeal for the nation’s people. For more than four years, Nazis occupied the country, eager to destroy its independence and integrate the Grand-Duchy into the Reich. more »
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This haunting film tells the story of the Lynchburg Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded in Virginia where, between 1927 and 1972, more than eight thousand children and young teenagers were forcibly sterilized, a program which became the basis of Hitler's eugenics program. more »
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The crime of lynching is long-gone practice, as shown by events in Jasper, Texas, in 1998, where an African American was dragged to his death behind a truck. more »
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