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Publisher
ThinkFilm
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
New York-based photographer Zana Briski embarked on a project by which she gave cameras to the children of prostitutes and taught them photography, awakening within them hidden talent and creativity and giving them a means to transform their lives.
2) Half the sky
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Take an unforgettable journey with six actress / advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof to meet some of the most courageous individuals of our time, who are doing extraordinary work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of heartbreaking challenge, dramatic transformation and enduring hope.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Michael Moore visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions to America's most entrenched problems already exist in the world. They're just waiting to be co-opted.
Publisher
Belzberg Films
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
Romanian
Description
Follows the hand-to-mouth existence of five Bucharest street kids. Their drug use, homelessness, and poverty are representative of the problems of thousands of other Romanian orphans and runaways. Romanian with English subtitles.
Publisher
Screen Media Flims
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In this expos�e, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States"--Film web site.
Publisher
Life Size Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Arabic
Description
Simone Bitton etches a haunting portrait of one of the most profound geographical markers of our time -- the wall of separation constructed by Isreal that shields it from adjacent, conflicted Palestinian territories. This documentary shows how the Wall is destroying one of the most historically significant landscaspes in the world, while imprisoning one people and enclosing the other.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Publisher
Maya Vision International
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's most ancient surviving civilization, with unbroken continuity...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten,...
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