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What has become of the Sunni tribes a year after the end of Saddam's dictatorship? This film examines the attempts by Americans to understand Sunni mentality and gain control of what has actually become a civil war between Sunni and Shia muslims. American officers, former CIA agents and Shia and Sunni leaders discuss Saddam's legacy which threatens the stability and future of Iraq. more »
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Off the coast of Sumatra live the Sakuddei, an egalitarian society cut off from the outside world, living in near perfect harmony with the environment and each other. more »
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Jews have a long history in India. Although only a handful remain, they maintain their traditions. more »
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This film offers insight into a country seething with change but ruthlessly contained by the Islamic theocracy. It is also a universal portrait of exile -- intense yearning for what can never be reclaimed. more »
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This eloquent film brings into sharp focus the conflict between freedom of expression and religious conservatism. It focuses on the protests that Satanic Verses provoked throughout Muslim communities all over the world. more »
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This starkly beautiful film exemplifies the burden borne by African women to survive and support their families. The Ghanaian women who live on a lagoon in Ada, mine for salt with their bare hands during the three month-long dry season. more »
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Reflections of Africa in Brazilian Culture This lively film goes behind the scenes of the samba and carnival world in Rio de Janeiro to reveal how the cultural clash of the African/Black and European/White cultures gave birth to a new tradition. more »
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The Samurai offers an enthralling and colorful odyssey into Japan's history in which Samurai culture became the core of Japanese values. The film colorfully illustrates the Samurai's martial traditions and the manifestations of its ties to the Zen principles of Respect, Purity and Composure. more »
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An overwhelming majority of the men responsible for hijacking planes on 9/11 were Saudis, yet historically the Saudis were our allies. What this film shows with indelible clarity is the deep rift within Saudi society between the extremely wealthy and corrupt royal family who are ostensibly our allies (and business partners) and the majority of people who live in poverty and resent the excesses of the monarchy. more »
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Save and Burn puts the institution of the library within a startling political context. Although generally considered preservers of culture, libraries are subject to the ideologies and violence of their time and place. The film addresses the commercialization of libraries, the irresponsible closing of libraries, and their cultural debt to the Orient. more »
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The colorful film portrays the musicians of a mountainous region in the Peruvian Andes who have adopted saxophone music from New York's big band era. Dressed in sharp suits and fedoras from the 40s and 50s they blend divergent cultures as they play for village celebrations. more »
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Say I Do chronicles the stories of three "mail-order brides" from the Philippines who uprooted themselves to marry men they did not know in order to escape poverty. Life was not what they expected. more »
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Four year old Robin, who has autism, has been mainstreamed into a normal school. This film follows his progress, as well as the satisfaction his teachers take in his achievement. more »
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When the Pinochet dictatorship came to an end, it left a legacy of bereaved mothers, sisters and wives, who were determined to find out the fate of their loved ones who had "disappeared." more »
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Searching for Wallenberg tells the legendary story of Raoul Wallenberg, who as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944, saved tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi deportations and certain death. He accomplished this through intimidation, manipulation and sheer courage. more »
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A compassionate look at a wide variety of people who suffer from phobias and anxiety disorders, and the different forms of therapy used to help them. more »
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A portrait of Millie Jeffrey, an indomitable activist for social change, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom by former President Clinton more »
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A grassroots movement, spearheaded by newly educated women, has successfully halted female circumcision in Senegal. more »
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This is an innovative, intimate portrait of stalwart members of an indigenous people who inhabit Mexico¹s Sierra de Santa Marta and speak a derivative of ancient Olmec. more »
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Korean American filmmaker Hak J. Chung explores his roots by documenting his engaging family, including his father, a black veteran of the Korean War and his mother, a Korean war bride. more »
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Battling against hunger in Third World countries, Borlaug developed new techniques to increase productivity of subsistence farmers. more »
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This beautifully photgraphed film documents an unusual healing ceremony in Senegal, where a young women is cured of post-partum depression. more »
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Faith, identity, and sexuality collide as three gay and lesbian Seventh-day Adventists are caught between the church they know and love and their desire to be fully accepted for who they are. more »
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In this fascinating documentary on transsexuality, Dr. John Money shares his ideas on gender identity. more »
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A teenage theater company educates peers about AIDS prevention. more »
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Explores the "gender verification test" as it is applied in the sphere of international sports competition. more »
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This comprehensive film is a cultural guide through the maze of menopause for both sexes. more »
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Some medical experts claim that a shocking 98% of hysterectomies are unnecessary. Yet, half the women in North America will have had their ovaries removed by the time they are 65. A "don't miss" film for women's studies. more »
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Explores the conditions that have led to escalating rates of teen pregnancy and examines the role that public schools can play in stemming the tide of early and unwanted pregnancy. more »
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In this important historical film, the grim details of the slave trade are made real for a modern audience. more »
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This is an inspirational documentary about a young Muslim woman, trained as an anthropologist, who suffered hardship and professional censure to save a desert tribe from becoming extinct in the harsh Sahara. more »
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The effects of the one-child policy combined with a rapid revolution in China's values and lifestyles, have created increasingly selective middle-class Shanghai women. For working class men, finding a wife is a quest that requires money, time, and the strength to withstand countless disappointments. more »
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It is the first day of school in grade four of the Shanghai Experimental Primary School. The film follows the children through the semester as they learn, misbehave, flirt, play, and take exams under their teacher's watchful eye. more »
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What is it like to be an entrepreneur in today's China? This engrossing film provides an up-close view of the daily life of a tour operator in Shanghai determined to become wealthy. more »
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This remarkable film profiles a couple that craves personal freedom, but is faced with the unwanted constraints of parenthood. In a society where grandmothers are expected to care for babies, how much freedom is it reasonable for a mother to expect? more »
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This series on contemporary China is filmed from an insiders point of view and portrays daily life in one of the nation's busiest and most iconic cities. more »
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The emotional story of a family forced to deal with schizophrenia not once, but twice. Two brothers were afflicted with the disease. The third made this film. more »
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A 'life skill center' where parents and professionals struggle to communicate wit and elicit response, from autistic people. more »
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This unique film provides insight into the sad world of compulsive overeating and the turmoil of addictive behavior. The filmmakers follows his mother over five months as she struggles to change her eating habits. more »
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When Edmund Hillary made history in 1953 by conquering the peak of Mt. Everest with the help of his Sherpa guide, it changed forever the life of the Sherpas. This spectacularly shot film points out the ironic juxtaposition of eastern and western values and lifestyles now that the Sherpas have adjusted to their success as guides to adventurers. more »
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An expose of the environmental hazards accompanying salvage operation in India's shipyards. more »
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Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, was haunted by his grandfather's stories about the extermination carried out by the Einsatzgruppen firing squads in the Ukraine between 1941 and 1944. He relentlessly searches for the truth about the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews. more »
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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is a riveting portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. more »
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When a young Japanese exchange student was shot to death on Halloween by a suburban homeowner, the world was horrified by another tragic event resulting from racism and the U.S. gun culture. more »
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Originally from a small village in the Buryat region of Siberia, Irina Pantaeva emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980's. Every summer, Irina, a world-famous model, and her son travel back to help her troubled family, trapped in the new free market society. Siberian Dream shows the effects of perestroika and glasnost on this Buryat community. more »
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Narrated by Eli Wallach, this film shows us the birthplace of psychoanalysis with its book-lined study and collection of antiquities. Photographed shortly before Freud fled the Nazis. more »
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This haunting animation film captures the surreal world of a child survivor of Teresienstadt concentration camp whose pain had not been recognized or shared. At twenty, she was given letters written by her mother and finally had a bridge to the past, but it took many more for her to break the silence. more »
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Narrated by Rita Moreno, this film documents startling testimonies of women who were mistreated and sexually abused while seeking care in Peruvian public health facilities. more »
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South Africa is hard hit by the AIDS epidemic, which reflects the social, racial , and economic divisions that still continue. more »
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Silent Pioneers introduces eight elderly gays and lesbians who describe living through an era when homosexuality was not acknowledged, and who battled for self-esteem and survival in a "straight world." more »
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This unusually sensitive film is a powerful reminder that adults must take children seriously if they hint that something is amiss at home. The sisters in this film found the strength as grown women to come forward and prosecute their father in a court of law for his sexual molestation of them. more »
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A striking number of deaths of military women in Iraq were ruled suicide by the US Army and remain shrouded in suspicious circumstances. The parents of Private LaVena Johnson have grave suspicions that their daughter’s death involved foul play and fight to have her case reopened. more »
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The film documents the treatment of leprosy victims in Hawaii in the 19th and early 20th century, when more than 8,000 sufferers were banished to an isolated peninsula amd practically abandoned more »
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The epidemic of AIDS in South Africa is huge and the government has been lax in addressing the problem.This film shows how an HIV- positive mother, Busi Maqungo, living in a shanty town in South Africa, has become an AIDS activist. more »
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The Johore Strait separates the highly prosperous city-state of Singapore from the rapidly developing economic "tiger" of Malaysia. As the film illustrates, they are nevertheless extremely interdependent. more »
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A warm portrait of one of the most revered musical families in India, in which the cherished tradition of dhrupad vocal music is passed on from father to son. It presents for the first time on film an in-depth look at the musical training fundamental to this special music. more »
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This groundbreaking documentary explores the explosive issue of gays in the military. It examines the case of Perry Watkins, the first openly gay man to challenge the ban against gays in the military. more »
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Sister Helen, a tough, 69-year-old Benedictine nun, runs the Travis Center, a clean and sober halfway house for recovering addicts and ex-convicts in the South Bronx, New York more »
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Four young women of considerable weight proudly proclaim that they can feel attractive and find love despite the disapproval of society (and their mothers!) more »
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Gives a clear explanation of what happens to us during the unconscious hours of sleep, and how our sleep patterns affect productiveness. more »
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This multi-festival film documents the filmmaker's ten-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. Antidepressants and therapy helped her return to normalcy, and now she wants others to know about this disorder. more »
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Traditional foods are at risk of disappearing forever, as a speed-obsessed world turns increasingly to fast foods. To counter this trend, there is an international movement known as Slow Food. more »
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A searing report on the attempt in the former Soviet Union to develop "weapons grade" smallpox, which is still a threat. more »
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Mira Nair's portrait of a family split between two worlds. The husband has come to America to seek his fortune, while his despairing wife is left ashamed and dependent on her in-laws for support. more »
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In the 1940s, the uranium for the Manhattan Project was secretly supplied from a mine in the Canadian Arctic. Mined by indigenous people, there was little attention given to the fact that many in the community later sickened and died from various cancers. more »
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Shows the effect of the women's movement on the lives of several women of diverse backgrounds who, although they were not activists, felt the effect of changing gender roles. more »
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Someone Sang for Me profiles the critically acclaimed African-American singer and music educator Jane Sapp. Since 1989 Sapp has been based in Springfield, Massachusetts, where her music workshops with "at risk" youth are changing lives and animating the community. more »
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The pain of severe burns is said to be greater than that of any other injury. Burn survivors tell about their recovery, both from the physical and psychological effects of trauma. more »
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This is the story of St. Augustine's, a Catholic school in the South Bronx. The school's pastor and a gifted music teacher committed the school to a curriculum specializing in the arts with remarkably positive results. more »
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This film surveys the New York School of Poets: its poets, poetry and important influence on the next generation of American poets. It includes a reading of the poem "Twin Towers" by David Lehman written after the 1993 bombing of the WTC as well as poetry by Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery and Hettie Jones. more »
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The Bishop of East Timor, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, dares to speak out against Indonesia's relentless oppression. more »
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Because of the U.S. embargo, hundreds of Cuban musicians struggle with barely working instruments. "Send a Piana to Havana" is the slogan of a US-based organization that sends pianos and volunteer tuners to Cuba to refurbish their broken- down instruments more »
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This is a lively musical tribute to Ralph Rinzler who championed indigenous American music, first as a musician, then in field research and recording, eventually founding the Center for Folklife in the Smithsonian Institute. more »
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The filmmaker captures the character of Everett Soop, a Blackfoot journalist and political cartoonist who has had to face the challenges of being both indigenous and disabled. more »
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In Guatemala City, five warmhearted psychic healers try to solve the problems of the poorest of the poor, who search for advice, healing and comfort more »
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Though it’s generally accepted that the human mind affects the body, this film gives dramatic examples, supported by scientific data, of people who recovered from debilitating physical and mental illnesses, including depression and post traumatic stress syndrome, without the aid of medication. more »
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This Academy Award nominated film is the story of two brothers who anguish over whether to allow their deaf children to have cochlear implants. One brother welcomes the chance for his child to be part of the hearing world. The other brother, who is deaf, does not want his offspring to leave the deaf culture and its sense of community. more »
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Sound and Fury: Six Years Later is an engaging look at what has happened to the Artinians since their family saga surrounding the decision whether or not to get cochlear implants captured audiences around the world six years earlier. more »
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Dr. Chen Ho Yun is a gifted violinist who teaches violin after school to young people in South Central L.A. This charming film shows children from the ghetto taking pride in their accomplishment in learning a challenging instrument. more »
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This inspiring film brings together five extraordinary teenage musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds who are reinvigorating American musical traditions. more »
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This documentary exposes issues of prejudice, racism and class as they affect the multicultural community of South Central. more »
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This lively film challenges the stereotypes of the Southern woman - neither Scarlett O'Hara or Daisy Mae. more »
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In a rural village of southwestern China a bevy of young girls yearn for an education. Their parents are poor and mostly illiterate; going to school costs money the families can ill afford. more »
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Providing rare insight into the obstacles to peace between Israelis and Palestinians, this film records seven Israeli professionals working in the field of human rights in the Israeli occupied territories. more »
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This heartwarming film documents the friendship between two young women with Down syndrome. For nineteen years, Ciara and Aileen have done everything together – horseback riding, disco dancing, pottery making. Through their friendship, each has gained an impressive level of independence. more »
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A richly illustrated account of the 15th Century voyages that opened European trade with Africa and Asia.(in 2 parts) more »
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In the Mexican American community around the Rio Grande, folk healing is still an established practice. This film follows three healers, or curandera, as they use a variety of spiritual and herbal techniques. more »
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This award-winning film is a lively portrait of the Kuna Indians of Panama's San Blas Islands, determined to protect their rainforest homeland and survive the encroachment of the Western world. more »
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Quilting is interwoven with the history of black women in America. We meet ebullient women and see their colorful creations, which link them to their past. more »
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When Annika is given an eagle feather by a Native American visiting Sweden, she realizes it is a sacred object which should probably not be in her hands. She travels to American Indian communities in Albuquerque, San Antonio and Bear Butte in South Dakota and meets many Native Americans who are fighting to preserve their culture and their faith as well as to protect their land. more »
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This stunningly photographed film focuses on Sebim Odjo, of the Ivory Coast, who draws upon Muslim, Christian, and traditional African beliefs in his healing ceremonies. more »
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Seen through the eyes of his fourteen-year-old daughter, a Hmong Shaman, grapples with life in America. more »
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The Fergana Valley, a fertile plain rich in gas deposits in Central Asia, is populated by more than a hundred million inhabitants in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. This film takes an in-depth look at the Islamic fundamentalist threat in this strategic region. more »
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This historical documentary chronicles the risky but successful effort of a few women working at Delta Pride Catfish to organize a union at their plant. The mostly black female workforce had worked in noisy and wet factories for minimum wage and without benefits. more »
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This set includes all six of Milgram's videos and provides the important visual imagery essential for understanding the foundations of social psychology. more »
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How realistic is it for the U.S. to develop the much talked about "missile shield"? This film recapitulates the search of a defense system beginning with the Cold War until today. more »
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This fascinating documentary on the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach also explores the social, political, and aesthetic forces in Germany during his life. more »
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The looting of ancient artifacts from the troubled regions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is an ongoing scandal. This film reveals the closely knit network of looters, smugglers, dealers, collectors and academics which encourages this illegal trade . more »
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Stealing the Fire follows an unbroken chain of events and personalities connecting Hitler's atomic bomb program and today's nuclear weapons black market. more »
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The film uses the recent conflict over the worldwide steel market, dominated by the US, Brazil, and the European Union, to explore the "economic war" generated by globalization. more »
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The use of embryonic stem cells for medical research has unleashed passionate political controversy nationwide. The documentary explores both sides of the issue. more »
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Join one of the most brilliant scientists of the 20th century in his book lined study at Harvard as he tries to unravel for us what makes life worth living. more »
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Renowned writer Stieg Larsson’s Millennium books—including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—are renowned bestsellers worldwide, spawning films in Sweden and in Hollywood. Though they are considered mysteries, Larsson’s partner Eva Gabrielsson explains their true intention as fierce social criticisms. more »
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Stolen Memories follows three people in their fifties who have been recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. All are married with children, and struggle to come to terms with an incurable illness usually thought of as an "old people's disease". more »
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This documentary visits Gatesville Penitentiary in Texas, where three female inmates convicted of murder and serving sentences ranging from 25 to 40 years describe the domestic violence that eventually brought them to prison. more »
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In the village of Longbaoshan, northwest of Beijing, inhabitants are trying to prevent their homes from being engulfed by ferocious sandstorms. more »
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Archeologist Edmundo Edwards explores the French Polynesian islands which are filled with huge stone cities, left by thriving native populations that were wiped out by European disease. more »
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This compelling documentary is about rap as it is declaimed in the streets of New York, straight up -- without music. The young people demonstrate that their grim surroundings have not killed their ability to express their political thoughts. more »
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An Asian-American lesbian discovers that men aren't so bad. more »
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This gripping documentary exposes the alarming rise of sexual predators on the Internet. more »
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This is the story of a daughter whose father left the family when she was young to pursue his gambling addiction in Las Vegas. It follows the daughter's struggle to get her father off the streets and back into society. more »
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Strong-Cuevas sculpts powerful, larger than life pieces that can hold sway on a hilltop, and conjure up tribal pieces from Africa or Oceania. In this film, we follow her from her studio in Amagansett, Long Island to the foundry up the Hudson where her pieces take their final shape in its glowing furnace. more »
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This powerful film focuses on issues of race, culture and identity in families in which there have been transracial adoptions. more »
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Three and a half million people ride the New York subway system daily. This film explores this underground world in all its diversity. more »
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The civil war has resulted to women and children being abducted into slavery. more »
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The film traces the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan which has led to the civil war between the Muslim North and the Christian South. Included is a view of a Koranic school, where boys are chained and whipped for misdemeanors. more »
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This film examines the complex world of international commerce by looking at the major players in the sugar industry -- European and African farmers, major sugar production companies on both continents, experts and officials. The report shows how decisions made at distant international meetings affect the lives of individuals. more »
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A little kingdom in northern Cameroon looks like a throwback to the Arabian Nights, but 20th-century political currents intrude. more »
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Tourism has traditionally been presented as a factor of modernization and economic growth for poor nations. But it often develops at the expense of indigenous populations. This film looks at the issue in five countries: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Honduras. more »
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Dr. Allan Levi is suspended from work and in trouble at home following behavioral episodes caused by his bipolar disorder. Filmed in the year after Allan's diagnosis, the film is an intimate and ironic portrait of a marriage and a family in crisis. more »
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This highly visual documentary shows an ancient, sacred Apache coming of age ceremony that marks the passage to womanhood of Apache young women. more »
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Suzanne Bonnar was the mixed-race child of a black American serviceman and a Scotswoman from a small seaside town. She grew up without her father -- a black child in white Scotland. In this very moving film, she re-unites with her father and journeys with him to meet her close-knit black family in South Carolina. more »
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Recounts the stories of Czech women who endured years of imprisonment during the Communist era because of their beliefs. more »
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Acclaimed African American musician Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, 91, is renowned for a lifetime of jazz, blues, folk and country music. When Armstrong at 73 met Barbara Ward, a sculptor thirty years his junior, a new chapter of his life and art unfolded. more »
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In 2001, a tragic accident left firefighter Captain Marshall Allen paralyzed from the neck down. SWINGMAN tells the story of his triumphant return, despite all odds, to oversee his department, and his powerful connection with a family member he never knew he had. more »
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In a mountainous area of Albania, an ancestral code of laws places women in the bottom rank of society. But there is one loophole. The ancient laws allow certain women to take an oath announcing their intentions to remain virgins. These "Sworn Virgins" dress, act, talk and drink like men and are respected as any man would be. more »
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