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Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Central European immigrants brought polka music to America in the mid-19th century but the people in the O'odham Indian nations in Arizona's Sonoran desert have made the mixture of accordions, saxophones and percussion all their own...Taken from the word baila, which means dance in Spanish, Akimel and Tohono people have created waila, a form of music that embodies polka and Mexican tejano, cumbias and Norteno. And one family, the famous Joaquin Brothers,...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Today, North Koreans are breaking down the barriers to discover the true horrors of the gulag state. Following the journey of a small group of secret filmmakers, this doc shows the viewer what life is really like under the new leader Kim Jong Un, highlighting the contrast of the starving homeless children on the streets to the glittering life of the elite in Pyongyang. We are shown the secret trade in USBs, cell phones and DVDs, which are transforming...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When you hear the phrase "Native American music" you may not think of tubas, trumpets, and Sousa marches. Yet, this rich musical tradition has long been a part of Native American culture...Experience the Native American music scene like never before and get an inside look at contemporary Indian life in this unexpected and engaging half-hour documentary, Sousa on the Rez: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum.
Publisher
Brown Planet Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We All We Got captures the poetic language of the streets: police helicopters flying over the city, music popping out of cars, people talking shit on the street corners, ambulances on the run, and preachers hollering for the violence to stop after another young man is senselessly gunned down in the streets of Chicago.. In the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the country’s recent focus on youth violence, police brutality, poverty and...
6) Backyard
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
The result of McElwee turning his camera on his family and their neighbors, the film is a humorous and poignant look at odd moments in a genteel Southern town.
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Facing scorching temperatures, 19-year-old Andy Payne, a small-town Cherokee boy, takes home the gold after winning a grueling 3,422-mile foot race designed to bring attention to the newly constructed Route 66 Highway. The race recounted in this Emmy-nominated film became one of the wildest promotion schemes in history, allowing Andy to win enough money to marry his girl and keep the family farm.
8) Corpus
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
CORPUS is a moving tribute to Selena, the Tejana superstar gunned down in 1995 at the age of 23 as she was on the brink of blockbuster crossover fame. While the story of her murder, which was filled with sex, glamour and betrayal, caught the attention of many outside the Chicano community, this film moves well beyond the sensational to present a nuanced feminist analysis of Selena's story.. Award-winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (SEÑORITA EXTRAVIADA,...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
With insight and levity, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's Disease and the evolution of a daughter's response to the illness. The desire to cure the incurable-to set right her mother's confusion and forgetfulness, to temper her mother's obsessiveness-gives way to an acceptance which is finally liberating for both daughter and mother. Neither depressing nor medical, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this insightful short documentary, body acceptance activists Keena and Jessica speak candidly about growing up overweight, and the size discrimination they have faced. "While I have all the confidence in the world, I’m told every day that my body is revolting." Jessica turns heads in the street—for both her striking fashion, and larger than average body. Keena is the heaviest she has ever been—and the happiest. Brought together by social...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Albertina Carri’s THE BLONDS is a look at Argentina’s recent history from the perspective of a generation forced to mourn those of whom they have no recollection. Carri, who lost her parents to Argentina’s brutal military junta when she was three years old, travels through Buenos Aires with her crew to unravel the factual and emotional mysteries of her parents’ life, disappearance and death. Traces of Carri’s family emerge, colored by sharply...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Kuma, a young Kazak man, retraces the steps of his grandfather who was formerly eagle master back to the remote mountainous region of his family's origin. There, in extreme western Mongolia, he fulfills his dream of trapping and training his own eagle. Under the tutelage of a local eagle master named Khairatkhan, Kuma learns not only the ways of hunting with eagles, but also the ways of his own people.. Set against the staggering and exotic beauty...
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An urban and social Geography program that looks at what makes cities liveable and what impacts on liveability. Includes Melbourne which was rated the World’s most liveable city in 2015. Criteria for liveability are discussed using Australia’s capital cities and a selection of small towns as case studies. A good way to compare and contrast other Western cities such as those in the USA and Europe with one of the World’s most highly urbanised...
14) Yolngu Homeland
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Yolngu Homeland explores how a community in Arnhem Land, Australia, is connected with other beings - ancestors, animals and plants.. Aboriginal people have lived in Arnhem Land for over 45,000 years. Over time they have developed a deep, spiritual connection with the land. Totemic beings of significance include the saltwater crocodile, crows, dogs, crabs, sea eagles, turtles, and yams. The film follows 'Yolngu time’ where the pace is measured and...
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Extension 11 - one of many districts in the Mamelodi township in South Africa. Welcome to the "shack side”. Running water, electricity and paved roads are nowhere to be found. But even here there is of course daily life, which the Mtsweni family masters with routine and ingenuity. Father Steven puts all his energy into his small kiosk located in the township, thus keeping his family afloat and enabling his children an education. His daughter "Mosquito"...
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This program visits this North African developing country of about 34 million people to see the contrasts between urban and rural areas and the way of life of the people. A number of ways of measuring development and wellbeing are discussed and ways of improving these are covered. Problems related to development and social issues are shown in variety of locations from large cities to small towns and villages in rural areas. Contrasts in landscapes...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Of marriage and loyalty: “Daughter, she obeys her father/ Wife, she obeys her husband/ Widow, she obeys her son.”. Vietnamese-born Trinh T. Minh-ha’s profoundly personal documentary explores the role of Vietnamese women historically and in contemporary society. Using dance, printed texts, folk poetry and the words and experiences of Vietnamese women in Vietnam—from both North and South—and the United States, Trinh’s film challenges official...
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Included are the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen as well as the World ‘s most densely populated city of Hong Kong. A vast floating population from rural areas migrates to and from these cities. Rural villages are visited to show why people leave for work and lifestyles in cities and why others are anxious about the future of villages. The government is planning a major shift in population from the villages to existing and new cities...
Publisher
The Phoenix Learning Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Fokwele, Liberia, conflicts often arise as a result of differing lifestyles. Cattle have divided the people into two classes: the rich cattle owners who can sell their stock for profit, and the poorer rice farmers whose crops are often ruined by the cattle. In this film, such an incident is followed through the proceeding of justice in the community with the “hot-knife ordeal” becoming the test of guilt or innocence..
Publisher
Renegade Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster. ‘Black Saturday’ claimed 173 lives, left more than 7,000 homeless and destroyed close to half a million hectares of Victorian bushland. One year on, this is the story of what happened Inside the Firestorm. This documentary will be a film of record - a film that commemorates a catastrophe as seen through the eyes of those who were there..
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