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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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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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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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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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HISTORY IS A TEACHER (2008)
(For History & Cultural Studies Programs)
The bitter struggles for freedom in Bosnia and Rwanda are the backdrop for first 2 installments on the importance of History in shaping national identity. In Bosnia, where memories of conflict are still very fresh children are growing up with a one-sided account of History. In multi ethnic towns schools are divided and in the same building Croat children are taught in seperate classrooms from Muslims. In Rwanda, for eight years following the 1994 genocide, history was not taught in Rwandan schools. Over the last 4 years, historians and educators have tried to re-introduce history into the curriculum with limited success. The problem is that history has been so manipulated to justify political actions that impartial accounts of Rwanda’s history are very hard to come by. Started by the Belgian Administration 150 years ago and then inflamed by Hutu figure heads for the last 50 years, the social structure of Rwanda has been divided into Tutsi elite and Hutu labourers. Archaeologists are finding evidence to prove that this division into distinct ethnic groups was never the case.
(45 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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VOICES FROM THE CAPE (2008)
(For Education, Sociology & Family Studies Programs)
In 2007, a dynamic team of multi-media trainers took their unique engagement model to a small school in the traumatized Australian indigenous community of Aurukun. The training was designed to inspire young people to engage with digital media, express their personal stories and develop capacity in new media technologies that would then inspire them in other educational area. The trainers also aspired to encourage inter-generational communication between disadvantage youth and their families in telling stories about their lives and their region. For 6 weeks the Community Prophets team, led by a former human rights lawyer and filmmaker David Vadiveloo, worked with the community and youth of Arukun. What transpired during the program was confronting, frustrating and emotionally raw
(52 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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COMMITTING POETRY IN TIMES OF WAR..
COMMITTING POETRY IN TIMES OF WAR (2007) (For Education & Communications Programs)
An award-winning, cutting edge documentary, COMMITTING POETRY IN TIMES OF WAR is a poetic look at a community's response to the suspension and firing of teachers who supported their students right to speak out on the war, and the subsequent police response, forcefully moving peaceful protesters into "free speech zones." With its hard-hitting slam poetry which united the community in support o f fundamental freedoms, the documentary shows a vibrant and insira tional response to a nation at war in Iraq and with its own citizens.
(110 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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