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2009-2010 New Films
46 film(s) found
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Meet Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, a human rights activist twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the impassioned though graying exiled leader of the Uyghurs, a Muslim people whose ancestral home, East Turkestan, was annexed by the Chinese in 1949 and re-named Xinxiang province. more »
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This intriguing four-part series is about scientists and anthropologists searching for vanishing populations, lost cultures and hidden cities. Their work expands our knowledge of hitherto "lost" people. They are: The Last Nomads - The Penan of Borneo; The Everlasting Oasis - Ancient Egypt Before the Pyramids; A Story Told in Stone - French Polynesia; and The Lost People of the Baja - The Pericu of Baja California, Mexico. more »
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This is a deeply personal exploration of the bedroom politics that make black women, and in fact all women, especially vulnerable to AIDS infection. The film follows a young female doctor, working in the South Bronx, as she gives medical and emotional support to her afflicted patients. more »
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This film is about two people faced with the daunting task of learning to speak again. As the wife of one of them says, "...a person without language is a non-person." more »
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Sidney Poitier, a native of the Bahamas, introduces us to the rich artistic talent flourishing on these islands. His own creativity was nurtured there. The ten artists profiled display a range of styles from the formally trained Brent Malone to the brilliantly simple Amos Ferguson, often referred to as “the grandfather of Bahamian art.” more »
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The Warsaw Uprising was the largest and bloodiest military operation undertaken by any resistance movement in World War II. From August 1 - October 2, 1944 the Nazis were challenged by an underground army of irregular volunteers - the vast majority barely adult. The allies did not come to their aid and 80% of Warsaw was destroyed. With unique testimony from Polish, British, and German participants. more »
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Recent research into the human brain is radically changing how we look at the potential for neurological recovery. Psychiatrist and author Dr. Norman Doidge meets pioneering scientists who are proving that our brains can be "rewired" so that stroke victims and other brain-injured patients can regain their lost skills. more »
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"Buried Stories" reveals the life story of a Native American Ella Rodriguez, who, in her seventies, resents that she was taken from her rural California home at age thirteen and sent to an Indian boarding school. A resilient woman, she now fights to preserve her ancestors’ history. more »
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Carmen Lomas Garza is a Chicana artist who creates images about the lives of Mexican Americans based on her memories and experiences growing up in South Texas. In this charming film, Carmen returns to Texas to revisit the people and places that inspired her work. more »
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The Korean film industry, which once struggled to attract domestic audiences, has been successfully exporting its movies and expanding its influence throughout Asia, Europe and North America in the past decade. Korean cinema is enjoying a revival of interest internationally because of the broader cultural phenomenon of hallyu ("Korean Wave"). But contemporary Korean cinema's roots run deep and hallyu is only the latest chapter in a rich history. more »
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Egyptologist Tony Mills unearths artifacts and examines skeletal remains of "the other Egypt," an area around the Dakhleh Oasis, far away from the pyramids and the Nile. more »
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Each year the wheelchair-bound 76-year-old Dr. Dicksheet, travels from New York to India to perform free reconstructive facial surgery on hundreds of children. Without the operations, these children would be not be able to develop normally and would be treated as outcasts.The film shows how this quirky, funny, and sometimes difficult character overcomes his own ailments by curing others. His stamina and commitment are truly staggering. more »
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This film describes the remarkable partnership between black South African grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren, orphaned by AIDS, and a group of grandmothers from North America who are being supportive of them. more »
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This documentary explores the Greensboro Massacre of 1979 and its aftermath. Members of the Communist Workers Party massed for a “Death to the Klan” rally when a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis arrived. The Klansmen opened fire. A quarter of a century later a truth and reconcilliation committee explores the tragedy. more »
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The sexuality of the handicapped has always been a taboo subject. In this ground breaking film, we learn of an experimental program recently begun in Switzerland: "sex workers" of both sexes provide sex for a fee to people who are physically or mentally challenged. more »
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Dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking, works with a group of teenagers with Marfan Syndrome, a little-known and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder, designing movement and dance that capitalizes on their shaky long bodies and unexpectedly inspires their self- esteem. more »
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Yousef Karsh, renowned portrait photographer, became internationally famous when he photographed Winston Churchill in December,1941. For over six decades, Karsh photographed famous, powerful and influential people. In this definitive biography, produced over 20 years ago but never released after it's broadcast on CBC, Karsh speaks of his work ethic and philosophy. more »
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In a call center in India, young sales agents struggle to sell an unmarketable product and are at risk of losing their jobs. This poignant but humorous film points up the absurdity that can occur in the global telemarketing industry. 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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Who decides how life ends? The patient? The family? The physician? The healthcare system? Last Rights is a compelling documentary film looking at the choices available to four dying people. The intent is to introduce viewers to the complexity of end-of-life choices. more »
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By 1908, Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago. He traveled to Mason City, Iowa, to design a unique business block-- a bank and an adjoining hotel, the Park Inn. This unique film traces the life, death, and possible rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of the decaying hotel. As a last resort, the city decided to place it on E-bay in an effort to sustain this landmark structure. 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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With a sense of humor and curiosity, the filmmaker explores the shocking connections between the mad cow crisis, the farm crisis, and the global food crisis.
Globalization emerges as a recurring theme, connecting the food we eat to the environmental, cultural, economic and health crises we are currently facing. Ironically, India is home to a burgeoning meat export industry that threatens to destroy an agricultural economy once centered around the feeding of the sacred cow, which was the livelihood 65% ot the population. more »
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This carefully researched film celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Cooper, the remarkable 19th century inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. When business success brought wealth, Cooper used it to foster social justice. more »
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Louise Bennett-Covelly, a Jamaican icon, is an ebullient performer, folklorist, playwright and poet. She has spent her life furthering Jamaican language, raising the patois dialect to an art level. more »
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"My Father the Luo" is about a young woman with a similar multicultural heritage to President Barack Obama. Roma Ndolo’s mother is European and her father from Kenya. Like Obama, she journeys to Kenya to find her “African side.” Each of their fathers was from the Luo tribe. There is historic footage of Obama’s initial journey in 2006. Roma Ndolo is an example of a person successfully integrating her multicultural identity. more »
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This unique documentary interweaves the story of the filmmaker, who grew up in Persia (Iran) with the history of the country from the 30s and onward to the Islamic Revolution. Her parents were European and the family had to flee when the Shah was deposed. more »
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k"No More Smoke Signals" is about Kili Radio, "Voice of the Lakota Nation," which broadcasts out of a small wooden house in the vast countryside of South Dakota. There, people converge to speak to the community about daily concerns and in doing so, strengthen their sense of identity. A film about the role of media, as well as an up-close look at present day life on the reservation. more »
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This unique film takes viewers inside a suspenseful death penalty trial and challenges beliefs about capital punishment. As evidence in the trial is an earlier film, Aging Out, which documented the the victim's life as she aged out of foster care. more »
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This film focuses on the small village of New Paltz, N.Y. where the 26-year-old mayor Jason West stunned his neighbors and the nation by performing 25 same-sex marriages in defiance of state law. The film probes the debate on same-sex marriage as it relates to the Constitution and the family. more »
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The struggle for ownership of land in Nicaragua has been particularly bitter. This film takes an in-depth look at the history of agrarian reform policies since they were first instituted by the Sandinista administration in 1979. more »
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This dramatized documentary drawn verbatim from testimony examines the painful story of the only known Jew to be lynched in America. Originally from New York, Leo Frank was the manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta in 1913, when he was falsely accused and convicted in the rape and murder of a worker, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan. The case was a key factor in launching the Ant-Defamation League. more »
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The International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw is an event that takes place every five years. It is the oldest and most prestigious piano contest in the world. This lively film follows four young American pianists from different ethnic backgrounds, through each stage of the grueling thirty-day-long competition. more »
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This unique film series presents intimate portraits of five major American poets: John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, Anthony Hecht, Kay Ryan and W.S, Merwin. It takes viewers inside their homes and lives as they reminisce about their formative years, reveal their poetic processes, and read some of their best-known poems. more »
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This addition to the popular Poet's View series focuses on Pulitzer Prize winning poet C.K. Williams. more »
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This film is an exposé of how the banking industry harvests billions of dollars from consumers in the form of overdraft and other fees. In actuality,the banks consider these fees to be loans and consumers are charged usurious rates. 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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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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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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The Arctic sea ice, a plate of ice roughly the size of Europe, is disappearing.
In addition to the environmental concerns, the political and economic implications are dramatic. more »
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The film reveals the medical, financial, and emotional struggles of one family as they try to cope with a medical crisis without health insurance. more »
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In Ghana, children as young as three and as old as sixteen are often sent away from home to work in bondage for small payments, desperately needed by impoverished families. more »
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Because of a genetic predisposition, the Bedouin village of El Sayed in southern Israel has an extraordinary number of deaf people. The people of this village never regarded deafness as a handicap. They even created their own sign language. When one child was offered a cochlear implant by the Israeli government, the community was very conflicted. more »
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Water Flowing Together offers an intimate portrait of a remarkable dancer, Jock Soto, who retired from the New York City Ballet at age forty, after a twenty-four-year career. Soto's journey as an openly gay man of Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican descent provides a rare glimpse into the life of a dancer and the disparate worlds which shaped this important artist more »
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Willa Beatrice Brown was the first African American woman in the U.S. to be a licensed pilot. Her
efforts were responsible for Congress' forming the renowned Tuskegee Airmen squadron, leading to the integration of the U.S. military service in 1948. more »
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In the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world, witchcraft is an enshrined element of their legal system - formally treated as a crime. Each year thousands are tried, imprisoned and even killed in accordance with the law. more »
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