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NOTHING WITHOUT YOU (2004)
Ted stood there in the 100 degree heat of the Nevada desert. He had NOTHING. No food. No water. No shelter. No clothes. He wanted to see if the extraordinary and temporary community known as Burning Man would not only help him survive a week in the harsh desert, but if they would interact with his "theme camp" on a much more complex level. What he got in return is a testament to the generosity of the human spirit. This remarkable experiment was called NOTHING WITHOUT YOU. The winner of three "Best Documentary" awards including the Jury prize at the Malibu Film Festival and the Audience Choice at the Artivist Film Festival in Hollywood, NOTHING WITHOUT YOU has been lauded for its boldness, sincerity, inspiration and humor. This unique documentary takes the audience on an amazing journey of vulnerability and will serve as a vital catalyst for classroom discussion (Brief Nudity/No Sex). (52 min. DVD-R & VHS Price $195.00 S&H $8.95) Click to sample film
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THE NEVER ENDING PATH
The state of Tamil Nadu is located along the south east coast of the Indian subcontinent. The Tamil culture and language is said to have its origins in prehistoric times and is related to the ancient Dravidian culture of Southern India. The rural region of interior Tamil Nadu is made up of thousands of small villages, most with no electricity, inadequate health care and on-going problems with inadequate sanitation and water supplies. Health care is not affordable for most families. Produced and directed by Professor Annette Danto of Brooklyn College, THE NEVER ENDING PATH tells the stories of the women living in rural Tamil Nadu. From 5 family units, the women share many of the concerns facing mothers and their daughters throughout rural regions OF Southeast Asia. As with women from poor villages in many parts of the world, issues of dowry, their daughters' educational opportunities, and economic hardship are discussed, along with inter-caste and arranged marriages.
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CHILDLESS BY CHOICE (2004)
While so many couples today are going to extraordinary lengths to be parents, other couples are making the decision to be CHILDLESS BY CHOICE. Although childlessness is less of a taboo lately, there are still distinctly differing opinions about having children. Thee documentary examines several couples and singles about leading lives that are not family-centered. Decisions the couples grapple with are based on freedom, career choice, worldviews, disposition toward children in general and an unwillingness to take on the responsibility.
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A PERFECT WORLD (2004)
What is perfection and why are so many of us striving to reach perfection in ourselves and our future children? Through interviews with a plastic surgeon and one of his patients, an egg donor and the director of Egg Donation, Inc., the co-founder of the Human Genome Project, people who are not happy with their imperfections, A PERFECT WORLD examines various procedures available to modern society in its ongoing search for perfection.
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WHITE CANE AND WHEELS (2004)
How difficult would it be for a man with muscular dystrophy and a woman with retinitis pigmentosa to meet, fall in love and build a marriage that lasts 14 years and counting? For 40 years, Carmen was obsessed with becoming famous. She was a small theatre actress and talented dancer in spite of her disability. When she met Steven, she explains that Steven was the first person who she ever valued above her career. Steven’s muscular dystrophy increasingly limits his activities down to watching his beloved movies and listening to his music. It takes special effort to even so much as shave. But together, their personalities seem too large for their small apartment. Steven resents being stared at in public, and Carmen finds it endlessly frustrating running into obstacles. But their sense of humor, forgiveness, patience and understanding enable the soulmates to find happiness everyday.
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SHOOTING STARS
Millions of people across the globe are HIV+, and the numbers continue to increase. Although treatments for AIDS have improved, there still is no cure for this devastating disease. Tragically, improved medications have created a false sense of security: risky sexual behaviors and consequent HIV infections are increasing, especially in young, urban populations, both straight and gay. Produced and directed by Roberta Pyzel, SHOOTING STARS is a lively and honest portrait of eight men in group therapy living with AIDS. With candidness and courage, humor and love for each other, the men in this group show us all the dimensions of AIDS at its deepest emotional/spiritual levels as well as its effects on basic day-to-day living. Powerful insights about living with a life-threatening illness give this film universal significance as well. It is as crucial today that AIDS and its real effects be taken seriously as it was in 1994 when the 8 men in this group were originally videotaped.
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LIVING ON WATER (2005)
(For Sociology/Anthropology & Earth Science Programs)
Six hundred million people on the planet live on the water or around it. Featuring magnificent photography, LIVING ON WATER looks at these people and their particular cultures. Although linked by the common denominator of water, each group has developed different solutions to the same problems. We will discover how they live, their methods of transport and what diseases they suffer from. We will travel to markets on the Mekong, through the river towns of the Amazon and to Ganvie, the Venice of Africa.
(55 min. DVD only Price $199.95 S&H $8.95)
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FUTURE: THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE 2004
(For Sociology/Anthropology & Biology Programs)
FUTURE is a documentary about the state of science and its current phase of development. Its objective is to expound the questions, threats and challenges that face scientific investigators and to explore the ramifications of those challenges. FUTURE move from theories of the creation of the universe to the novel state of our species. The producers uncover the route taken by investigations on the origin of life, the exploitation of energy, climate change, genetic engineering, the functioning of the brain and the dangerously diminishing biodiversity, in a world that is increasingly interconnected, to offer the face of the future that is already being sketched onto our planet.
(55 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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THE PEOPLE OF TIBET: SILENCE, . . .
THE PEOPLE OF TIBET: SILENCE, PRISON OR EXILE (2005)
(For Asian Studies & Religious Studies Programs)
The people from Tibet has faced to continuous violations of their fundamental human rights during more than four decades. Those individuals who have lifted their voices to reveal the truth in Tibet, have been constantly punished. The Tibetan people represents the protection of a culture, an identity and a different civilization. This is a documentary shot in Tibetan refugee camps entirely , and that gathers the experiences of a reality of men and women who across their organizations have expressed what they are, what they feel and their desires of a better world.
(55 min. DVD only Price $199.95 S&H $8.95)
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YARD SALE (2006)
(For Anthropology & American Studies Programs)
A young couple, preparing for the birth of the first child, realizes that there is not enough space in their home for all of the new baby things they've ordered. What to do? Like thousands of American families every weekend, they decide to have a yard sale. But what to sell and what to keep? Produced and directed by Brad Barber, YARD SALE examines the eternal question: What's junk and really worth holding on to? (26 Min. DVD only Price $179.95 S&H $8.95)
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FRANK, JEFFREY, BENJI & ME (2006)
(for Anthropology, Parenting & Aging Programs)
This personal documentary examines 4 generations of peace activists try to make peace where it's lacking the most: in their own family. Using his young son Benji's birthday party as motivation, Josh Wilkinson, the director of FRANK, JEFFREY, BENJI & ME brings together 4 generations of Wilkinson males for the first time. Then using interviews with his father and grandfather to provide the impetus, Wilkinson attempts to open lines of communication within his family that have been shut down for decades. (26 Min. DVD only Price $189.95 S&H $8.95)
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SHORT MAN OF THE FOREST
(for Anthropology Programs)
In this real life adventure, explorer Murray Collins goes in search of the Orang Pendek, a new species of bi-pedal Great Ape believed to exist in the highland jungles of Sumatra. SHORT MAN OF THE FOREST follows Collins on his quest and explores the legend behind one of the world's most elusive creatures. Sumatra's jungles may well hide this unknown species of Great Ape. Recent discoveries on the isalnd of Flores in Indonesia have proven that short humans existed 13,000 years ago. Should it exist, Orang Pendek would change our own evolutionary story. A natural history resource, SHORT MAN OF THE FOREST questions who and what we can believe.
(50 min. DVD only Price $195.00 S&H $8.95)
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KUMBH MELA
(For Religious Studies & Anthropology Programs)
A Hindu spiritual fair that takes place every 12 years alternating between the most sacred Indian towns of Allahabad, Hardwar, Nasik and Ujjain, the KUMBH MELA is largest human gathering on earth, attracting an estimated 100 million people in January and February of 2001 in Allahabad and over 40 million in Ujjain in 2004. A temporary spiritual parliament that creates and destroys the largest city in earth that only lives 40 days, the Kumbh Mela is where spiritual leaders, holy men and every day people alike gather to bathe in holy bodies of water. Ascetics and sadhus cover great distances to attend this event where they meet others who come to share the knowledge acquired on the road to enlightenment. Whether the pilgrims worship Vishnu, the Creator, Shiva, the Destroyer or Brahman, the All Pervading, each uses a different path to reach liberation, free from the constraints of this world.
(48 Min. DVD only Price $199.95 S&H $8.95)
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SAMADHI
(For Religious Studies & Anthropology Programs)
A widely known practice among yogis in the Himalayas, SAMADHI is a state of suspended animation -- a virtual death where all bodily functions are suspended. This state has been repeatedly demonstrated by Pilot Baba, a Hindu mystic. Although a pilot in the Indian Air Force who fought the 1965 and 1971 wars against Pakistan, the path of his life made him renounce the secular world at the age of 35 to become a yogi. After 7 years of studying with various teachers, Pilot Baba attained self-realization and hence the capacity to maintain the state of Samadhi. He has taken many underground Samadhis, where he will remain buried in a small space as in Agra for 7 days, in Devidhura for 15 days and in an ice cave in the Himalayas for 33 days. Pilot Baba has also taken Samadhi in an airtight glass at Mavlankar Hall in New Delhi and at several other places. In this completed episode he undertakes Samadhi in an airtight glass in the town of Dewas in Madhya Pradesh for 96 hours. (48 Min. DVD only Price $199.95 S&H $8.95)
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CASSADAGA
(For Religious Studies & Anthropology Programs)
Situated between Orlando and Daytona Beach, the town of Cassadaga, Florida is populated exclusively by mediums, healers and clairvoyants. The home of the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Campmeeting Association, CASSADAGA is the oldest active spiritual community in the Southern U.S. In an environment reminiscent of the turn of the century, mediums speak to the spirits of the dead, healers practice the laying on of hands and clairvoyants use such tools as psychometry and aura readings to discern problems and offer solutions. Viewers will be introduced to practitioners who follow the American Indian path and worship the elements as a conduit to their ministry. You will meet people who make Angels and get a glimpse of the healing properties of these dolls. You will hear tales of reincarnation and top-secret information unintentionally breached by clairvoyants at Cassadaga, but more astounding, you will experience physical phenomena first hand when a group conducts a séance that is captured by a night-vision camera to witness spirit communication as never seen before. (48 Min. DVD only Price $199.95 S&H $8.95)
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AS IS: A DOWNSIZED LIFE
(for Sociology, Psychology & Philosophy Programs)
A new documentary film from forensic psychologist Maryanne Galvin, the award-winning AS IS: A DOWNSIZED LIFE presents 4 gritty real accounts of the fallout of unemployment and displacement. The program is saved, however, from utter bleakness by the hope infused accounts of 5 others who have embraced voluntary economic simplicity for a variety of reasons. AS IS delves into themes of self-respect, honor and freedom, attainable for some through total disengagement from consumer society and others by losing everything and starting over. Former Disney artists, entertainers, physicians, monastic nuns, educators all dispossessed and challenging the axiomatic " more, more, more" with the idea that a well-lived life has less to do with more and more to do with better.
(75 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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PARTY (2005)
(for Asian-American Studies, Cultural Studies & Sociology Programs) A must-see documentary for both Asian and non-Asian students. PARTY explores modern Asia-America through the prism of New York's Asian party scene, where each week, thousands of young Asian-Americans receice e-mails for the weekend's parties which are held at mainstream ("White") venues. Going behind the scenes and documenting the lives and struggles of both the promoters and the partygoers, PARTY focuses on the closely-knit but vibrant Korean party scene, whose nerve center sits in Manhattan's Koreatown. Featuring narration by Columbia University professor Gary Okihiro, PARTY also examines the controversial "Tsunami Song" - highlighting the effect of the racially-charged song on the Asian party scene where hip-hop is the music of choice. A well-produced documentary, PARTY probes beneath the "safe space" exterior to reveal a honest mosaic of modern Asian-American life in between the parties. (87 min. Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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AMAZONIA: LAST CALL (2000)
(For Anthropology & Environmental Studies Programs) This new documentary from New Atlantis of Spain takes the viewer across Brazilian landscapes by way of one of the main links still binding the essence of humanity with the Earth: the Amazon. The filming of the first point of contact with an isolated race, the encroachment on areas of the Amazonian forest previously uncaptured on film, the evidence relating to the development of the illegal trafficking of species or the recording of the immeasurable value of Brazil's natural spaces; these are just excerpts from the series. The underlying theme is the conflict between the development and conservation of one of the key natural areas underpinning the stability of the planet.
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ANIMAL SAPIENS (2004)
(For Anthropology & Biology Programs)
The history of mankind is a history plenty of questions. We have been wondering one hundred thousand years about what is sorrounding us. The big questions have marked our cultures, have shaped the religious beliefs and whole civilizations have been arised to turn the human race into the dominant one thoughout the planet. ANIMAL SAPIENS will bring viewers closer to the cultural successes of mankind to show us that these strategies are also used by other inhabitants of our planet. The use of tools, the skills of language or the practice of games and amusements at the same time get us closer and keep us away from the rest of living creatures. This makes the human beings to ask themselves the same question again: Are we something more than an animal?. (? Min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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ORDER & CHAOS (2004)
(For Science & Sociology = Programs) ORDER & CHAOS is the second part of a documentary series about the state of science and its current phase of development. Its objective is to expound the questions, threats and challenges that face scientific investigators and to explore the ramifications of those challenges. We move from theories of the creation of the universe to the novel state of our species; in continual contact with technology. We uncover the route taken by investigations on the origin of life, the exploitation of energy, climate change, genetic engineering, the functioning of the brain and the dangerously diminishing biodiversity, in a world that is increasingly interconnected, to offer the face of the future that is already being sketched onto our planet. (DVD only. Price $229.95 S&H $8.95
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REPLAY REVENGE (2006)
(For international Studies, Political Science & Psychology Programs)
Basil Khalil, an English-Irish-Israeli-Palestinian young filmmaker presents viewers with a tongue-in-cheek, entertaining and refreshing approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Targeting a [younger] audience that’s ignorant of the conflict, REPLAY REVENGE documents Basil journey from his home in Scotland to Israel and Palestine, where he was raised. As he drives around Israel and Palestine, Basil presents a very human point-of-view on the conflict, where people, victims and party-animals try to stay sane and away from the sense of revenge. Viewers are introduced to a variety of people trying to live ‘normal’ life, ignoring the war around them as they maintain a sense of humour within that bloody mess. while ever aware that terrorism is just round the corner. On his journey, Basil encounters a dead terrorist, a DJ, Israeli soldiers, a one-legged Palestinian, a frustrated politician and Israeli- Arab with large appetite for pork. While uncovering an ever-present urge for revenge, Basil learns about the true, yet cynical face of ‘terrorism’, as it shows on both sides. After leaving Israel and Palestine for the UK, Basil documents how the outside world sees the conflict--a battle of angry young men waving guns in the air, bloody bus attacks and angry mobs on both sides seeking revenge. Students should be prepared to laugh, be shocked, feel disgusted and become educated.
(43 min. DVD Only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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CAN YOU HEAR ME?
CAN YOU HEAR ME?: Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight for Peace (2006)
Directed by Lilly Rivlin & narrated by Debra Winger, Can You Hear Me? looks at several Israeli women’s groups committed to the co-existence of Israel and Palestine, focusing on two individuals on opposite sides in the peace movement. Leah Shakdiel is a Jewish civic leader dedicated as much to Zionism as she is to working with Palestinian activists toward a lasting peace. Maha Abu Dayyah is a Christian Palestinian who has committed her life to improving the welfare of Palestinians while reaching out to Israeli women to find a solution for both sides. Another focus of the film is “Women in Black,” an activist group that has gathered every Friday since 1988 on street corners in Israeli cities to carry signs protesting Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories. This has remained an open wound on both sides since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Rivlin’s film reveals the passion of these women and their relentless pursuit of peace despite the overwhelming odds that they face. Their story is a beacon for hope, not only in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also in conflicts throughout the world.
(51 min. DVD only Price $239.95 S&H $8.95)
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JOEY (2004)
(For Sociology & African-American Programs)
Produced by American Girl Productions, JOEY is a documentary about life in the inner city. It is an intimate and vivid portrayal of the lives of children growing up amid gangs and violence in South Los Angeles that focuses on the needless death of one innocent young boy and its effect on his family and the entire community.
(15 min. DVD only Price $179.95 S&H $8.95)
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STEALING INNOCENCE
(For Middle East & Peace/Justice/Conflict Programs)
A gripping portrayal of the ongoing hostilities in the Israeli-Palestine conflict through the eyes of two girls, STEALING INNOCENCE is an educational film that helps explain the tragedy in simple human terms. Rachel, the Israeli and Ayat, the Palestinian raised in . Rachel and Ayat are best friends in spite of all the horror going on around them. Unfortunately events spin out of their control, testing their friendship. Produced by American Girl Productions, the film depicts a tragedy that leaves its victims without dignity or hope and gives a human dimension to the violence in the Middle East.
(15 min. DVD only Price $179.95 S&H $8.95)
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GERNIKA LIVES (2007)
(For History & Cultural Studies Programs)
Ever since she was a child, writer and director Begonya Plaza could remember her father telling her stories of his childhood memories: running from the bombs, hiding, hearing the sounds of other Basque people screaming, and seeing the death all around him. For the 50th anniversary of those atrocious days, when the Nazis bombed the beautiful city of Gernika from the skies. It was the first time a city was bombed from the air and it was a precursor to World War II. Begonya and her father taraveled to Gernika to try to understand and to see that peace is promoted instead, throughout this troubled world. Hosted by actor John Randolph and GERNIKA LIVES was filmed in the Basque Country and rlater in New York after the tragic events of 9/11 with commentary by historian/writer, Mario Salegi.
(45 min. DVD only Price 229.95 S&H $8.95)
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MUSIC MOVES THE WORLD (2005)
(for Music & Anthropology Programs)
Different cultures have succeeded in imposing order on noise and creating music that complements their environment. With a variety of rhythms and melodies taken from cultures throughout the world, This visually and musically stunning documentary examines the important role that music has played in the development of in human culture: From the music that sends dervishes into a trance, to the intimidating sounds issuing from the mouths of the crocodile men of Papua, to the sports anthems sung by fans. Each contains hidden keys to understand the societies which create them. This is a documentary to be both seen and heard.
(55 min. DVD only Price $249.95 S&H $8.95)
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CROSSING A PAINTED VESUVIUS (2007)
(English Subtitles) (for Arts & Humanities Programs)
This innovative Italian documentary examines how art can be an alternative to drugs, abuse, unemployment and conformism in young people. CROSSING A PAINTED VESUVIUS attempts to uncover the meaning of art in the dreams of 7 young Italian artists. In a fantastic setting, the artists and their works are set to the music of seven of Naples best bands, as the film displaying the illusions and the passions through their eyes and then expressing their work in original ways.
(41 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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MOZAMBIQUE (2004)
(For Cultural Studies & Africana Programs)
Mozambicans are putting their shattering past behind them and rebuilding their country at a remarkable pace. There's plenty to see, including stunning beaches and islands, a World Heritage site, charming colonial architecture and colorful local cultures, however, the education, economy and health care of this country depicts one of the poorest regions of Africa. In despite of everything, MOZAMBIQUE looks at how its inhabitants still manage to demonstrate a great spirit for surviving in these conditions.
(55 min. DVD only Price 219.95 S $8.95)
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FUTURE: ENERGY (2004)
(for Science & Sociology Programs)
ENERGY is the 4th in a series of award-winning European TV documentaries from NEW ATLANTIS about the state of science and its current phase of development. Its objective is to expound the questions, threats and challenges that scientific investigators are facing and to explore the implication of those challenges. This is a trip from theories of the creation of the universe to the novel state of our species; in continual contact with technology. We uncover the route taken by investigations on the origin of life, the exploitation of energy, climate change, genetic engineering, the functioning of the brain and the dangerously diminishing biodiversity, in a world that is increasingly interconnected, to offer the face of the future that is already outlined in our planet.
(55 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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A MIND OF HER OWN (2005)
(For Education, Psychology & Health Sciences)
Inspired by a true story, the award-winning British film A MIND OF HER OWN tells the poignant and moving story of a talented and determined young woman whose ambition to become a doctor is obstructed by the fact she is severely dyslexic. But Sophie, encouraged by her her best friend, has never been one to give up despite being advised by her parents and school teachers to be more realistic and pursue something less academically strenuous. Against all odds, she remains determined to achieve her ambition, refusing to settle for anything less.
(91 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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BACK TO THE VILLAGE (2006)
(For Economics, Cultural Studies and South Asian Studies)
South Indian villages have been an almost closed world unto themselves for centuries …..this is no longer the case. Globalization has paved the way for cheap imports, handicrafts have been replaced by plastic goods, with the consequent loss of livelihood. Less land, less water, and a massive population growth is forcing millions of villagers into the cities in search of work. While the south Indian city of Bangalore has been lauded as the world’s new IT capital, there is a dark side: two million slum dwellers, one quarter of its population, doesn’t have running water let alone a computer. A thought provoking documentary film BACK TO THE VILLAGE focuses on the causes and results of rural-urban migration, a phenomenon that is strangling capitals in filth and its dwellers in misery in the developing world, as governments, pushed on by investment, in India and elsewhere, rush to build industrial centres, draining much needed funding to the rural sector. The film is also a study of resilient Indian people, and age-old friendships, and takes us on a journey, where we experience the survival strategies for several rural societies, through the eyes of villagers themselves.
(26 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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HIGHER POWERS (2007)
(For Religious Studies & Behavioral Sciences Programs)
Is there a Higher Power that controls our lives? If so, is there an escape from the fate it chooses for us? What happens after death? Are some people luckier than others? Motivated by the terminal illnesses of his father and sister, British artist Peter Harris explores the big questions, gleaning personal wisdom and discovers the secrets to life from a cast of mavericks and wise men. Interviewees include the famous, the infamous and the man on the street, among them a politician, a gangster, a police chief, a holy man, a transvestite, an agony aunt, a film director, musicians and artists. Punctuating the interviews are short artistic responses by Harris, brought to life with magical special effects often involving unique collaborations with some of those featured, such as a spoon-bending encounter with Uri Geller and a protest to god with reggae music legend Lee 'Scratch' Perry. HIGHER POWERS is one man's journey from death to birth via inspiration.
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POKDONG (2007)
(For Sociology & Asian-American Studies)
Alex Dong Ko's "Pokdong" tells the story of a Korean immigrant family torn apart by the 1992 LA riots. The director focuses upon his own family as the subject, telling a heartfelt story of how a hardworking family was affected by the violent uprising and how his father's dream of sharing in the American dream was shattered.
(25 Min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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ALL YOU CAN BE (2007)
(For American Studies and Latin-American Studies)
The focus of the Junior ROTC for high school student is reflected in its mission statement, "To motivate young people to be better citizens." But can JROTC prepare poor, first generation Latino students in San Pedro, California for responsible leadership roles while making them aware of their rights, responsibilities, and privileges as American citizens. ALL YOU CAN BE looks at how JROTC can be the road to the American dream for some and a dead end for other students.
(27 min. DVD only Price $189.95 S&H $8.95)
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BUDDHA WILD:
BUDDHA WILD: THE MONK IN A HUT (2008)
(For Religious Studies & Cultural Studies Programs)
Produced & narrated by Anna Wilding, www.buddhawild.com, Buddha Wild provides viewers with a well-judged glimpse into the monastery world of the Buddhist Monk and the real world of those who follow the precepts and principals of Buddhism. The documentary centers on the life of the Buddhist monks. They are a kind lot of warm hearted and enlightened men who are eager to share their religious doctrines of faith. Buddha Wild is a journey of discovery. The monks are honest in the telling of their lives, hopes, and disappointments. They speak freely about their lives, limitedly about the absence of physical closeness and sexual activity, and in depth about the world challenges faced by a Buddhist. The monks were clearly enamored by Ms. Wilding and their generosity of information from taboo subjects exhibits this fact. It appears that being a monk is not so much a calling as a culture. There is a break from the seriousness of the narration with the invitation by one of the Monk’s to visit his hut – hence the title “The Monk in a Hut.”
(60 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95
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LIFE WITH PRINCIPLE :
LIFE WITH PRINCIPLE : THOREAU'S VOICE IN OUR TIME (2007)
(For Philosophy, Ethics & Sociology Programs)
Life With Principle is a an educational documentary that introduces Thoreau's timeless and provocative ideas in a 21st Century context. The interactive program contains over 2 hours of interactive video content and additional features. The documentary includes interviews with historian Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg and noted linguistics expert Noam Chomsky, along with other individuals who forthrightly explain how they have learned to cope in today's modern world. Produced in cooperation with The Thoreau Society, Life With Principle features a comprehensive Thoreau curriculum, study guide and scholarly commentary. The DVD's special features include Profiles In Social Disobedience, Thoreau's Concord/Walden Pond, 12 minute film, and the BOATMEN Bill & Ben, an animated short story.
(56 min. DVD only Price $249.95 S&H $8.95)
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TOVARISCH I Am Not Dead (2007)
(For 20th Century History & Family Studies Programs)
Garri Urban endured the Holocaust and the Gulag with his pride intact, refusing to become a victim of his harrowing life in Russia and Ukraine in the 20th century. Garri Urban's life story is as incredible as it is real, featuring escape, adventure and triumph. Yet, he put it all to paper, not everyone could bring themselves to believe it. Determined to prove his story, Dr. Garri Urbaan decided to to return to Moscow to recover his KGB file. Armed only with his will power and his son (two-time BAFTA winning director Stuart Urban), Garri sets out on a remarkable journey of discovery, trauma and reunion. Opening painful memories, revealing shocking family secrets and proving insight into surviving Stalin's dictatorship, This is an extraordinary and poignant biography of a true survivor and his family heritage.
(83 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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NICE BOMBS (2006)
(For Middle East Studies & Cultural Studies)
In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different than the country of his childhood. Usama captures the conflicting reactions to the conditions of life in Baghdad. Through a wide range of opinions and experiences he provides a broad panorama of voices long neglected under Saddam’s regime. His cousin Tareef enters the room upon hearing an explosion. “It’s a bomb. A Nice Bomb,” he explains. The phrase is indicative of his family’s nonchalance about their situation. As one young boy put it, “We’re Iraqis. It’s normal.” W ith humor and resilience Nice Bombs explores Usama’s dual role as both Iraqi and American.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF TORA BORA (2007)
(for Cultural Studies & 21st Century History Programs)
More than five years on from the Battle of Tora Bora and the US military’s ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’, first-generation American Alia Ayub returns to her tribal home in the North West Frontier Provinces of Pakistan. Just 12 km from the border with Afghanistan, and with growing Taliban and sectarian tensions in the area, this largely autonomous region remains closed to outsiders. Through unique access, THE OTHER SIDE OF TORA BORA looks beyond this veil of infamy giving insight into a largely misunderstood and under-represented way of life, exposing an ancient culture on the cusp of change, and a region under growing threat from Taliban forces.
(30 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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FLOWERS DON'T GROW HERE (2005)
(for Sociology & Humanities Programs)
Think you know Europe? Think again… Much of Eastern Europe has been devastated by the rapid transition from communism to capit alism. Fifteen years since independence from the former USSR, Ukraine – Europe’s second largest country – is struggling to regain economic and social stability. One little-known consequence is the estimated 1,000,000 children currently living homeless on Ukraine’s streets. FLOWERS DON'T GROW HERE, filmed over four months and told through the eyes of a gang of Kyiv’s street kids, offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of young people paying the ultimate price for political reform. Young mothers, united siblings, close friends and sworn enemies form a troubling underworld of society, governed by their own rules, and haunted by prostitution, crime, violence and murder…
(52 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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SECRETS OF THE WAI WAI (2008)
(For Anthropology & Cultural Studies Programs)
Britain’s very own ‘Indiana Jones’ leads an expedition deep into the tropical rainforest to try and save the legendary Wai Wai Tribe of Guyana. Two weeks after filming conclude d sever flooding destroys the village and it was abandoned. This documentary is a unique portrait of an ancient African culture include the village life and customs that had survived for hundreds of years.
(52 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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VARANASI (2004)
(For South Asian Studies, Religious Studies & Cultural Studies Programs)
”Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.” – Mark Twain, 1897. Produced by Samsara Films, VARANASI is a cinematic meditation on a remarkable ancient city, where both life and death are encountered daily on the historic Ganges River. This film is a rare account of cremation rituals at Manikarnika Ghat, India’s holiest cremation ground
(60 min. DVD only Price $199.95 S&H $8.95)
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JAZZ BRIDGES … (2007)
(For Music & Cultural Studies Programs)
In 2007, the US Embassy in London supported a unique film initiative as part of its program of communities outreach program. The result was ‘Jazz Bridges: Music Without Frontiers’, a concert film depicting the meeting of two very different styles of musical genre: Western (American) Jazz and Eastern (Afghan) Folk. The film contains interesting interviews which explore the difference in attitudes and perceptions between the musicians. The Western musicians were the first to play in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban; the Eastern musicians, Afghanistan’s pre-eminent folk ensemble, were banned from playing music for years under the Taliban. The result is a fusion of styles that is rarely communicated on camera.
(45 min. DVD only Price $199.95 S&H $8.95)
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KE GARNE: What to do … (2008)
(For Asian Studies, Political Science & Cultural Studies Programs)
Nepal is currently experiencing the worst political crisis of its fifteen year old democracy. The King has sacked the government and assumed absolute military and political power. KE GARNE is the story of how Nepal’s king tried to consolidate his power over the people by attempting to crush the nation’s free, independent media. Pradip, who works for Kantipur, Nepal’s largest and most popular independent media agency, is the sole support of his extended family. The pressure is on when the King clamps down on Kantipur, threatening Pradip’s job. This brash move by the king is perceived by many to be the final straw and thousands of protesters take to the streets as the fight for real democracy in Nepal truly begins.
(36 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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TEN DAYS (2007)
(For Religious Studies, Music & Cultural Studies Programs) An ethnographic / ethnomusicological exploration of ritual, symb olism and devotion amongst the Shi'a religious minority community in Pakistan. The film is entirely told, without narration, through the actual participants of the annual Ashura mourning processions. Ten Days captures the raw energy of this controversial event which is rarely understood by outsiders. The film was selected for screening at a number of international film festivals. TEN DAYS is a serious and sympathetic exploration of religious ritual and cultural symbolism, introducing a new genre of devotional music known as ‘qaseedas’ and ‘nuhas’, performed by one of Pakistan’s best known – and loved – zakirs, Sayyed Shafqat Mohsan, to an international audience for the first time.
(41 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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KUMBH MELA: Songs Of the River
KUMBH MELA: Songs Of the River (2004)
(For South Asian Studies, Religious Studies & Cultural Studies Programs)
The Allahabad Kumbh Mela religious festival in India in January 2001 was the final mela in a series of 12 full cycles: the “Maha Kumbh Mela” that occurs every 144 years. This increased spiritual powe drew an estimated 70 million people to vast encampments on the sand over a 44 day period, making this religious and spiritual celebration the largest single gathering of humanity in recorded history. Produced by Samsara Films, this documentary is a fascinating look at our humanity and how our spirituality manifests in the world.
(50 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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YYoga (2008)
(For Health Sciences & Behavioral Studies Programs)
Produced by Arthur Klein, YYoga is a sentimental documentary that illuminates the proactice and philosophy of yoga, taking viewers on a voyeuristic journey through the producer's personal love affair with the American yoga scene. The producer takes his camera to to visit teachers, studios and students rather from Santa Monica's Power Yoga, to yoga in a South Central LA elementary school, demonstrating the diversity of people affected by the practice of yoga. The film is not a how-to manual. Rather YYoga puts yoga under a microscope with interviews with teachers and students and their anecdotal stories of how and why they practice yoga, their relationship with yoga, and how yoga has transformed their lives.
(88 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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ABE OSHEROFF: One Foot In the Grave
ABE OSHEROFF: One Foot In the Grave, The Other Still Dancing (2008)
(For History, Sociology & Social Justice Programs)
From the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to the picket lines of the U.S. labor movement to the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi to work for human rights in Nicaragua, people know Abe Osheropeopff as an activist who threw himself into the fray with rare energy and enthusiasm throu gh his 92 years. In this riveting documentary, Osheroff reflects on the meaning of that activism and the ideas that animated his actions in movements for social justice. A truly organic intellectual, Osheroff shares the wisdom built up over a lifetime of commitment to the "radical humanism" that defined his politics and philosophy.
(72 min. DVD only Price $239.95 S&H $8.95)
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UNSPOKEN (2007)
(For Behavioral Studies & Health Sciences Programs)
The 4th in a series of well-produced documentaries from mental health services provider Mind in Croydon in the UK, UNSPOKEN is a film about sex, relationships and mental health. Although mental health problems may interfere with peoples' sexual functions and practitioners are aware that psychiatric medication can interfere with sexual function, service users often feel that these matters are ignored or discounted. At a time when there is such an emphasis on promoting equality, working towards recovery and overcoming stigma, UNSPOKEN argues the importance of discussing matters openly, challenging poor proactice and recognizing and celbrating progress.
(27 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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INTERROGATE THIS: Psychologists...
INTERROGATE THIS: Psychologists Take On Terror (2008)
(For Behavioral Studies, Criminal Justice & Ethics Programs)
Should psychologists help the military interrogate national security detainees? Interrogate This presents a troubling and deeply human story illustrating the complexities encountered when national security, psychology, politics, ethics and morality collide . Most are unaware that mental health professionals and others have been involved in the so-called war-on-terror. These professionals have been at odds with each other a nd policies limiting their participation in interrogations in national security settings have evolved over the past few years. Weaving intimate interviews, archival footage, animation, innovative visuals and original music, Interrogate This presents an even-handed representation of perspectives from both sides of this thin line in the sand.
(90 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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