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1) Spanish Lake
Language
English
Description
A bold and uncompromising documentary focused on economic oppression in the suburb of Spanish Lake, Missouri. Operating without a local government, the lack of community leadership has disastrous effects, including a mass exodus of the white population in the late 1990's.. The themes of the film parallel America's growing political divide, underlying racism, and rise of anti-government sentiment. Highlighted in the film is a landmark U.S. Supreme...
Publisher
Talking Eyes Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
While discussing politics at their dinner table, filmmaker Julie Winokur's 17-year-old son called her 'one of the most intolerant people he had ever met.' The accusation stopped Winokur in her tracks and made her realize that she actually wasn't listening to people with different political views. In fact, she was as much to blame for the divisive tone of politics in America as the people whom she blamed. So rather than continue to be a part of the...
4) Guido Models
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (68 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Guido Fuentes is a Bolivian immigrant living in Villa 31, the biggest slum in Buenos Aires. Villa 31 is also where he runs a modeling agency and academy for local girls who share his passion.. His dream is to achieve social integration in the world of fashion. Despite the difficult experiences of Guido and his two more promising models, Sonia and Delia, he embarks on a journey to realize his dream and change society's perception of Villa 31.
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Cody High: A Life Remodeled Project focuses on the efforts of Detroit's impoverished Cody Rouge community to remove blight and create a safe environment for students at the local schools, including the hundreds of students who attend Cody High School.. In 2014, residents of Cody Rouge, in partnership with Life Remodeled, a Detroit-focused non-profit organization and 10,000 volunteers rose up to bring new life to the troubled neighborhood. Together...
Publisher
Learning Seed
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Parent relations deepen when childcare staff can explore contrasting perspectives and spark dialogue. This video depicts variations on themes of independence, interdependence and individuality in the delicate issues involved in day-to-day caregiving.. Are there rights and wrongs when it comes to sleeping, eating, playing and learning? How can teachers "educate" parents when there are so many ideas on how to do things?. What we believe about the best...
7) Beltracchi
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
For nearly 40 years, Wolfgang Beltracchi fooled the international art world and was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era. An expert in art history, theory and painting techniques, he tracked down the gaps in the oeuvres of great artists - Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Heinrich Campendonk, André Derain and Max Pechstein, above all - and filled them with his own works. He and his wife Helene would then introduce them to...
Publisher
Learning Seed
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (34 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the program, we role-play some possible conflicts between parents and early childhood professionals, to help prepare teachers for today's diverse world. Through viewing diverse opinions among and across cultures, we see that disagreement is healthy (really, it is!). We see how people of the same cultural background can have wildly different ideas about how things should be done..
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
SERMONS AND SACRED PICTURES profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Memphis-based Baptist minister who in the 1930s and 40s built a fiery reputation by lacing his sermons with parables, fables and dramatic visual descriptions. Taylor was also an inspired photographer and filmmaker with a keen interest in preserving a visual and aural record of the fabric of black American life. He photographed and filmed businesses and schools, the National Baptist Convention,...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This documentary uncovers the largely unknown and pivotal role played by Black landowning families in the deep South who controlled over a million acres in the 1960s. They were prepared to put their land and their lives on the line in the fight for racial equality and the right to vote in America's most segregated and violently racist state.. In the face of escalating terror, Black landowners and independent farmers provided safe havens, collateral...
11) Barge
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A towboat drifts down the Mississippi River, due for the port of New Orleans. The water, the banks, the bright lights of a port ahead, the lure of a coming paycheck and a home-cooked meal: This is the world of Barge. On board, dry land's misfits find purpose and direction twenty-eight days at a time as the steady hands of an industrial ecosystem teeming with line boats, fleet boats, and a few million tons of cargo moved each year. Amongst the crew...
Publisher
Idesygn Creative
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (6 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Two women at the forefront of a refugee community in Central NY reflect on what their presidential vote means to those whose only true home is the American town that took them in.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this one-hour election special, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa takes us on location to: Cleveland, Ohio where Arab Americans who are Muslim and Christian register to vote and run for office to combat Islamophobia; Orlando, Florida as Latino Evangelicals find their political voice and support conservative causes as well as immigration reform; Orange County, California, where Asian American candidates face off in one of the state's predominantly...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Three generations of chroniclers from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) go in search of one of the island's sacred spirits, Moia Hoa Haka Nana'ia (or the Stolen Friend), taken by colonizers more than 100 years ago and now housed in a museum.. For the Rapa Nui, the Moia is infused with Mana, the power essential to their lives and well-being. His absence from the island threatens their survival as the link between spirit and people weakens over time. Worse still,...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In popular Western imagination, a Muslim woman in a veil - or hijab - is a symbol of Islamic oppression. But what does it mean for women's freedom when a democratic country forbids the wearing of the veil? In this provocative documentary, filmmaker Diana Ferrero portrays the struggle of two women - one in France and one in Iran - to express themselves freely.. In 2004, the French government instituted an "anti-veil law," forbidding Muslim girls from...
16) Wilhemina's War
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In much of America, progress in HIV/AIDS treatment suggests the worst is behind us, but every year 50,000 Americans are still diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS. Astonishingly, it's one of the leading causes of death of African American women. And nearly half of the Americans with HIV live in the South, where the AIDS epidemic has taken root in rural communities.. WILHEMINA'S WAR is an intimate, personal narrative that tells the story of one...
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (70 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In a mountain estate a group of Chileans make a radical decision: to leave behind their comfortable existence to isolate themselves in the country and practice an intense Christian lifestyle. When one of the group's members dies under strange circumstances, a harsh judicial process threatens their future as a collective. This is a story about faith, social prejudice, and the fine line between normalcy and insanity.
18) The Other Kids
Publisher
Java Films Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This inspiring story reveals the power of football to change people's lives. Hundreds of millions of kids play football every day. For many of them, football grants are the only way to access education or the ticket to a better future. In some cases, it is their only way to survive.. The life of Mubiru Rigan depends on one of these sport grants. Rigan dreams of being the next Fernando Torres and scoring the goal that brings Uganda their first African...
Publisher
One Step Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary film THE GIRLS IN THE BAND tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.. They wiggled, they jiggled, they wore low cut gowns and short shorts,...
Publisher
Idesygn Creative
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (11 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ashley, a young Native-American Caucasian girl, converts to Islam in hopes of finding structure in a life where it never existed. Surrounded by drugs and alcohol, at age 8 Ashley becomes a ward of the state. She is separated from her brother and shuffled between the homes of extended family members where she bares witness to prostition, drug dealing and her own mother's overdose.. As a teenager Ashley seeks stability and unexpectedly finds it in the...
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