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1) Immortal
Series
Publisher
Aspect Ratio Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director's subtle but demanding look reveals "the system" at work in the most benign-looking...
Series
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Internationally renowned psychologist Philip Zimbardo and provocative human rights scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton combine forces in this unique compilation to demonstrate how effective human rights policies must take account of situational dynamics.
Series
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hidden inside overcrowded factories around the world, THE PRICE OF FREE tells the story of countless children who are forced into slave labor due to rising global demands for cheap goods. With the help of a covert network of informants, Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi and his dedicated team carry out daring raids to rescue and rehabilitate imprisoned children.
Series
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the labor union that represents writers in the American television and movie industry, hit an impasse in their contract negotiations with the Studios. At the center of the dispute was jurisdiction over the Internet. Unable to make progress, the WGA called a strike, which brought Hollywood to a halt for 100 Days. Using a blend of ground level strike footage, one-on-one interviews with key industry figures,...
5) Bomb Hunters
Series
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Bomb Hunters is an engrossing examination of the micro-economy that has emerged in Cambodia from untrained civilians harvesting unexploded bombs as scrap metal. The film explores the long-term consequences of war and genocide in an attempt to understand the social, cultural, and historical context and experiences of rural villagers who seek out and dismantle UXO (unexploded ordnance) for profit. Part of a global economy, these individuals clear UXO...
Series
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The Witches of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Every year in this part of Ghana, hundreds of women endure communal and domestic violence as a result of traditional religious beliefs that demonize women. It's also assumed that it is in women's nature to harm others. These beliefs, combined with decades of poor health and educational standards, mean women inhabit a world where...
Series
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Europe is in the grip of an immigration crisis: people from Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere are arriving in ever greater numbers as they flee war, oppression, and a lack of opportunity. Germany receives more asylum seekers than any other European country...The Invisibles presents the human face of the immigration crisis, following four migrants from Syria, Kenya and Cameroon as they wade through Germany's rigorous immigration process and await...
8) Every Child
Series
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This Oscar-winning short film was at the invitation of the United Nations Organization to celebrate UNICEF's Declaration of Children's Rights. EVERY CHILD illustrates one of the ten principles of the Declaration, namely that every child is entitled to a name and a nationality. It is the story of a baby who appears mysteriously on the doorstep of a busy executive, and who is subsequently bounced from household to household down the block. Nobody in...
Series
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu traveled to Turkey with their camera in hand to learn about Mathieu's Armenian heritage and to learn what modern day Turks think about the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915.Sadly, Turkey denies the Genocide for a variety of reasons including that the crimes was actually committed by Armenians against the Turks.Using footage from their trip mixed with interviews, news footage, historical documents and animation,...
Series
Publisher
Label Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When politicians and property developers threaten to take over the working-class inner-city Sydney suburb of Waterloo and force public housing battlers to the edges of the city, the locals fight back: their war cry an ambitious artwork, the making of which will both unite and divide.
Series
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mica: it's the common ingredient in cosmetic products such as nail polish, foundation, mascara and lipstick. It's what gives them their luminosity, making them responsible for the fortune of major cosmetic groups like L'Oréal, Lancôme, Dior and Chanel. Unknown to its hundreds of millions of consumers is that most of it is filled with "dirty mica", extracted using antiquated methods, close to slavery, in one of the poorest regions of the world:...
12) The Red Tail
Series
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
On August 19, 2005 Roy Koch, along with 4,400 airline mechanics, custodians, and cleaners, went on strike against Northwest Airlines, the 4th largest airline in the world. Northwest, otherwise known as "The Red Tail" by its employees, wanted to lay off 53% of their union and outsource their jobs. What followed was a 444 day strike that would end with 4,000 union members out of work, including Roy. Instead of being left in the wake of this "losing...
Series
Publisher
Lupin Film
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
H.O.T. is a shocking inquiry which exposes the protagonists of this global trade: the donors, often coerced or tricked into having a part of their body removed, with the false promise of a job or of receiving a substantial amount of money, which is, more often than not, never delivered; but also the mediators, the organ-hunters, and the criminals who organize the smuggling of people and organs across different countries and continents, with the illicit...
14) Imminent Threat
Series
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents a documentary on the War on Terror's impact on civil liberties. For the past 15 years, the phrase 'War on Terror' has been used to justify everything from mass surveillance and spying to the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists without evidence or trial. Throughout history, governments have applied security surveillance programmes to people they considered a political threat. But surveillance on...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk (United States of Secrets, Losing Iraq, Bush's War, The Torture Question) comes the dramatic story of the fight over the CIA's controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture.. Based on recently declassified documents and interviews with key political leaders and CIA insiders, the film investigates what the CIA did -- and whether it worked..
16) Made in India
Series
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In San Antonio, Lisa and Brian Switzer risk their savings with a Medical Tourism company promising them an affordable solution after seven years of infertility. Halfway around the world in Mumbai, 27-year-old Aasia Khan, mother of three, contracts with a fertility clinic to be implanted with the Texas couple's embryos. MADE IN INDIA, about real people involved in international surrogacy, follows the Switzers and Aasia through every stage of the process....
17) One Taxi Ride
Series
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Erick has been the recluse in the family for the past decade. Nobody but him knows why. Ten years ago, on his 17th birthday, his life took a harrowing turn when he boarded a taxi. The driver and two accomplices sexually assaulted him. For the then-teenager, there would be no police reports. No medical attention. No support groups or counseling. No telling his family or closest friends. ONE TAXI RIDE is an observational documentary that tells the intimate...
Series
Publisher
GlobalGirl Media Productions
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Since its earliest days, Las Vegas has depended on women. It's a city where the female body is more of an object of commerce than anywhere else in America.. STRIPPED AND TEASED goes behind the 'Showgirls' mythos to tell the true story of real women who live and work in Las Vegas -- the mothers, maids, waitresses, wives, cabdrivers, casino executives, and construction workers -- whose stories combine to represent a fascinating portrayal of the complexity...
Series
Publisher
Education Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine explores the life and tragic death of Matthew Shepard, the gay student brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Framed through the personal lens of friends and family, it's a story of loss, love, and courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy. This film has earned 10 Best Documentary and Audience Choice Awards from film festivals worldwide, including the Audience...
20) Growing Up Coy
Series
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a highly conservative Colorado town, a pink-loving, pig-tailed six-year-old girl named Coy becomes the unlikely poster child for transgender rights, in a 2013 landmark case that is reverberating in state courts across the country. Although she was born as a boy in a set of triplets, Coy's gender identity was evident even as a toddler, leading her parents, Kathryn and Jeremy, to accept her early on as the girl she wished to be. At first their...
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