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1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Discusses the history of Falun Gong in China, from its meteoric rise in popularity in the 1990s to its ban by the Chinese government in 1999 and the resulting persecution of its practitioners. Contains interviews with Falun Gong practitioners and human rights advocates.
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. Specifically considers the music that sustained and galvanized blacks for more than 40 years. Focuses on the struggle's spiritural dimension named for the Xhosa word for "power". An uplifting story of human courage, resolve and triumph.
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Shot clandestinely over three years by best-selling novelist and filmmaker Robert H. Lieberman, this film with its stunning footage provides an astonishing and intimate look inside what has been one of the most isolated countries on the planet With an exclusive perspective provided by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, this film brings a human dimension to a country that remains a mystery to much of the world"--Container.
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1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it. Best Documentary winner at the **Independent Film Festival Boston**. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Women Film Critics Circle Awards**. "*One of the year's best films. An urgent, illuminating dive into the headwaters...
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1 videodisc (2 hrs., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
7) The East
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sarah Moss is an ambitious new recruit at an elite private intelligence firm. Her first undercover assignment is to infiltrate 'The East,' an elusive activist collective that terrorizes corporate leaders who commit crimes against humanity. The more involved she gets, the more Sarah's life is in danger.
8) Seoul train
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Ironweed Film Club volume no. 3
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color and black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Seoul train: "In order to survive, hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fled to neighboring China. For North Koreans, life in China is desperate--women are often trafficked into prostitution and children left homeless. Going back is not an option. Defecting from North Korea is a capital offense punishable by torture, forced labor, and execution. Yet the Chinese government, in defiance of international laws, hunts down North Koreans and...
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since early childhood, was a passionate advocate for change, using her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty. Becoming Helen Keller examines the complex legacy of this author, advocate, lecturer, and human rights pioneer.
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rabble rouser or activist? Opportunist or trailblazer? During his six-decade journey from pastoral prodigy to racial justice firebrand to elder media statesman, the Reverend Al Sharpton has been a polarizing figure on the national stage. It is the definitive look at his life and legacy, featuring President Barack Obama, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Senator Chuck Schumer.
11) Children of men
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and refugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism, and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, London peace...
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Family patriarch Mike Campbell is one of the few white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent land seizure program in 2000. Since then the country has descended into chaos, the economy brought to its knees by the reallocation of formerly white-owned farms to Mugabe cronies, who have no knowledge, experience or interest in farming. In 2008, after years of intimidation and threats to his family and farm, Campbell decides...
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1 videodisc (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Panjabi
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Told through the lens of a love story, this Oscar-nominated documentary examines the tensions between modernism and tradition in Pakistan. The film follows Saba, a young Pakistani woman, who has survived her attempted honor killing by her own family in Gujranwala.
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Anders Østergaard's...documentary... is a rare and exceptional look into the 2007 uprising in Burma (Myanmar) where 100,000 people, including thousands of Buddhist monks, peacefully took to the streets to protest the country's repressive regime that has held them hostage for over forty years. During the uprising, the military turned their guns on the peaceful protestors, and blood spilled in the streets. Foreign news reporters were banned and the...
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7 videodiscs (approximately 840 minutes) : sound, color with black & white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
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