"filmID","creator","title","date_of_publication","runtime","series_title","summary","format_type","associated_entity","geography","subject_group","genre","image_url","direct_url"
"asp1650506-flon","","The un -Americans","2001","50 min","[]","Between 1945 and the early 50 s the lives of thousands of ordinary citizens were destroyed because they were accused of un-American activities. Government workers, teachers, union leaders, scientist, artists, writers-anyone who expressed a liberal or leftwing opinion could be identified as a Communist or a fellow traveler.In this film both the anti-Communists and the victims of the notorious McCarthy witchhunts talk candidly about the era of anti-Communist hysteria and blacklists. We meet men and women who had joined the Communist Party out of idealism and in reaction to injustices in American society, such as poverty, and racism. They had no thoughts of violently overthrowing the government and indeed, only 43,000 Americans were members of the Communist party.More than 400 people were brought to trial and about a third were sent to prison and assessed huge fines. The execution of the Rosenbergs was the culmination of the hysteria. Arthur Kinoy, a constitutional lawyer, recalls his efforts to stay the execution. Archival newsreels, old propaganda films, and newspaper cartoons recapture those days.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Communism', 'Propaganda, Anti-communist', 'Anti-communist movements']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832097/1003832097-disc001-file001-frame00140-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650506"
"asp1650505-artv","Whitehead, K. Wise (Kaye Wise)","The twin towers. A history","2002","49 min","[]","The Twin Towers have attained mythic status in the 21st century. The effect of their destruction and the tragic loss of life is engraved on the American consciousness. Here is a fascinating history of the buildings that set the character of lower Manhattan and symbolized not only the power of New York City but American culture and financial dominance. The Twin Towers takes the viewer on an architectural journey that explores the design, construction and ultimate destruction of the 110-story buildings. Through interviews with architects, cultural historians, engineers and construction workers, a rich and absorbing story emerges. It was David and Nelson Rockefeller who initially envisioned the development of lower Manhattan as the center for international trade. There is a certain irony in that they thought global trade would promote world peace. Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki was chosen to design the World Trade Center, and despite some negative response toward the ""spaghetti boxes,"" most believed these two major buildings would usher in the 21st Century. The film describes the technical problems that were overcome, including the challenge to the ironworkers. It also recounts the daredevil stunts that the buildings attracted. Paul Goldberger, renowned architecture critic, and others contemplate the future of the site.","stream","['World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)']","['New York (N.Y.)']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832096/1003832096-disc001-file001-frame00040-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1650505"
"asp1785129-envv","","The trash trade. Selling garbage to China","2006","50 min","[]","Japanese waste is turning into gold in the hands of Chinese dealers who extract valuable metal and plastic from mountains of scrap. The rubbish is carefully disassembled in China, then made into new cars and clothes that are shipped back to Japan. This international recycling system appears to kill two huge birds with one stone. China s lack of resources and Japan's rubbish problem. But, there is a problem. Japan s own recycling industry is running out of raw materials, and it s on the brink of collapse. And not all Japanese trash is welcome. Discarded computers are making their way onto the black market in China, and contributing to pollution. Recycling is regarded as the keystone of sustainability, but is recycling itself sustainable?","stream","[]","['Japan', 'China']","['Recycling industry', 'Recycling (Waste, etc.)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832093/1003832093-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1785129"
"asp1650502-flon","Guerrini, Bernard","The samurai","2002","53 min","[]","In Japan, there is still a great deal of admiration for the Samurai and their rigid code of honor. Much more than their role as warriors, they represent the very roots of Japanese civilization. The Samurai offers an enthralling and colorful odyssey into Japan's history in which Samurai culture became the core of Japanese values. The film colorfully illustrates the Samurai s martial traditions and the manifestations of its ties to the Zen principles of Respect, Purity and Composure. Professor Kohei Irie of Tsukuba University says: ""The Samurai warrior class realized that to keep power during the seven hundred years in which they prevailed, they had to add intellectual and spiritual elements to the act of war ... and acquire a culture based on literature, art and religion."" The film contains mesmerizing images of horseback riders in spectacular recreations of battles and in Kendo, a sport using sticks as swords. The discipline and audacious spirit of the Samurai also emerges in the art of swordmaking or ""Katana,"" in the tea ceremony, in calligraphy and in the art of flower arrangement. The Samurai also contains clips from features such as Akiro Kurosawa s The Seven Samurai which idealizes the art of conflict and pays homage to the Samurai s self-control, their sense of strategy and their control over their opponents minds. From the Edo period to the present, the martial arts have been used to shape and train model citizens. Despite the broad cultural changes in this ultra-modern and urbanized country, many people are nostalgic for the ancestral values of Honor, Truth and Virtue and try to rekindle the spirit of the ancient Samurai warrior.","stream","[]","['Japan']","['Samurai']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832069/1003832069-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650502"
"asp1650501-flon","Estomin, Lynn","The other side of the fence","1993","30 min","[]","The current debates in Congress, the press, and the public over the appointment of two new Supreme Court justices remind us, once again, of the critical role the issue of abortion plays in American politics. The Other side of the Fence: Conversations with a Female Fundamentalist offers viewers a unique insider s perspective on the relationship between conservative Evangelical Christianity and anti-abortion activism. Extensive interviews with a leader of the movement to end legal abortion highlight her experiences as a woman in the anti-abortion movement and the Christian right. Lynn Estomin went to work for Planned Parenthood in Cincinnati, OH, at the same time Nancy O'Brien and her husband moved to Cincinnati and formed a militant anti-abortion organization. In the next few years, Planned Parenthood s clinic was firebombed twice, Nancy O Brien convinced Jerry Falwell to pledge a million dollars to the local anti-abortion movement and Cincinnati became known as the national testing ground for anti-choice tactics. Years later Lynn tracked down Nancy. The result is a fascinating insider s account of the religious right and the conservative agenda for women.","stream","[]","['Ohio']","['Pro-choice movement', ""Women's rights"", 'Fundamentalism', 'Pro-life movment', 'Abortion']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832057/1003832057-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650501"
"asp1650499-flon","Cohen, Fred, firector","The New Yorker special","1986","26 min","[]","This beautiful film portrays the life and artistry of renowned guitar builder James D'Aquisto. D'Aquisto exemplifies what it means to be a great craftsman. Each guitar represents his total commitment to his art. At a time when instruments are mostly factory-made, it is impressive to learn that it takes him a month to complete one guitar by hand. He reminisces about his 12-year apprenticeship. The film takes us to the Village Vanguard in New York City, where we enjoy the sound of D Aquisto s guitars at a lively concert by the Jim Hall Trio. We also hear jazz guitarist Joe Puma play in D'Aquisto s workshop.","stream","[""D'Aquisto, James""]","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832053/1003832053-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650499"
"asp1650496-artv","","The last Wright","2009","51 min","[]","By 1908, Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago. He traveled to Mason City, Iowa, to design a unique business block- a bank and an adjoining hotel, facing a park. Soon, scandal and tragedy would ruin his career, but the Park Inn Hotel would remain, one of his last Prairie style structures. From 1909 to 2008, The Park Inn witnessed alterations and downgrading, while Mason City dealt with a Dillinger Bank robbery in the 1930s, an economic downturn in the 1960s, and the label 'Porn City' in the 1970s. While the city struggled to fund renovations of The Park Inn in the 1990s in an effort at heritage tourism, it also attempted an economic revival with a 20 million dollar tribute to the musical comedy, 'The Music Man,' based on Meredith Willson's boyhood in Mason City. As a last resort, the city decided to place the Park Inn on Ebay --IMDb.","stream","['Park Inn Hotel (Mason City, Iowa)', 'Wright, Frank Lloyd']","['Mason City (Iowa)', 'Iowa']","['Architecture, Domestic']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832029/1003832029-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1650496"
"asp1650494-busv","Bourgarel, Jose","The chicken stampede","2007","52 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Chicken has become a global agribusiness, and the chicken in our super markets may have come from far away Thailand. The Chicken Stampede outlines the global forces that compete for a market in which 160,000 tons of chicken are consumed each day, worldwide. The U.S. and Europe used to be the leading suppliers, but this film shows that Thailand and Brazil are waging a fight to take over. Not surprisingly, politics plays a big role in the market. The World Trade Organization used its loans to persuade the Cameroon government to open its borders to imports. The result was that local farmers were put out of business. When Avian flu struck, the largest chicken company in Thailand, CPF, did not have to kill any of its birds, whereas thousands of family farms were wiped out by order of the government. It helped to know the right people for there had been small farmers who kept their coops as safe and spotless as did CPF. The French chicken farmers were being forced out of business by the importation of low priced frozen chicken from Brazil. Finally a Farmers Confederation was formed to protect the private farmers. Through portrayals of traditional farmers up against poultry businessmen the film makes us question whether the globalization of food production is good for society.","stream","[]","[]","['Agribusiness', 'Chicken industry']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831988/1003831988-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1650494"
"asp1785120-envv","","Chemical kids","2001","61 min","[]","Discusses the chemical heritage we're bequeating our children and the damage it can cause.","stream","[]","[]","['Environmental toxicology', 'Chemical industry', 'Chemicals']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831987/1003831987-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1785120"
"asp1785118-flon","","The best time of my life","1988","59 min","[]","How do women perceive themselves in mid-life? In this lively film, women aged forty to sixty share the thoughts and experiences that enrich this new stage of their lives. Reflecting a wide range of income levels, lifestyles, careers and experiences, they have in common the conviction that growth and change are always possible. Whether they chose to re-enter the work force, go back to school, begin a new romance, or develop neglected talents, their attitudes challenge the stereotype of the middle-aged woman. While not everyone passed through menopause with equal ease, they all feel a sense of freedom and the energy to explore new directions. This important film shows that mid-life an opportunity for growth.","stream","[]","[]","['Middle-aged women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831982/1003831982-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1785118"
"asp1785117-envv","","The bells of Chernobyl","2000","55 min","[]","This fast paced and chilling story of the Chernobyl disaster, pieced together from eyewitness accounts and historic film footage, shows a cover up of epic proportions. April 26, 1986 marked the day of no return for the residents of Pripyat, just north of Kiev. It was here that Units 3 and 4 of the nuclear reactor of Chernobyl exploded, spewing radiation as far as Scandinavia and Japan. It was here that the dangers were kept from the residents, who witnessed ""outsiders in strange suits"" with geiger counters come to ""clean up"" the plant. It was days before the government decided to evacuate the population, telling the residents they would return shortly. Pripyat is still uninhabitable. This was the biggest disaster of the industrial age. More radiation was unleashed than at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Vegetation, cattle, milk, and even firewood was, and continues to be, contaminated all over Belorus and Russia. A whole generation is growing up surrounded by sickness and death. As the spectre of failing nuclear reactors looms large, especially in the former Soviet Union, this film will forever be a chilling reminder of the potential for disaster.","stream","[]","[]","[""Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986""]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831981/1003831981-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1785117"
"asp1650489-flon","Haspels, Casper","The banana verdict","2000","51 min","['Filmakers library online']","This documentary tells the story in a visually exciting way of the fascinating world of the international banana trade with all of its moral implications. World trade in bananas is dominated by major companies such as Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte. They have used a shocking level of pesticide, causing serious illness among the workers and depleting the rain forest. At the urging of some small scale banana producers, a European initiative called Agrofair began to produce people friendly and environmental friendly crops, known as Oke Fair-Trade bananas. Thus began the banana wars. Price cutting, attempts at union busting, monopolizing overseas transportation were but a few of the weapons used by the transnationals. Will the Oke Fair Trade banana survive on the battlefield of profit and politics?.","stream","[]","[]","['Banana trade']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831979/1003831979-disc001-file001-frame00250-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650489"
"asp1650488-flon","Bakker, Jacqueline, 1966","The angel returns","2003","52 min","[]","This colorfully photographed films is set in Somalia, where the tradition of female circumcision is firmly entrenched. Isnino Ahmed Musso, a determined and articulate woman, wants change. More than most other films on this subject, this shows clearly what problems a reformer faces. Circumcision is a tradition of family honor, a marketable commodity for dowries, a religious rite, a means to control women s sexuality, and what is often not expressed, a livelihood for the many women who perform this ritual. Circumcisers are viewed with respect and paid for their services. They lobby fiercely against its abolition. Isnino uses all methods at her disposal to change the mindset of her people, including radio debates, which is an effective way to reach an illiterate population. But often, after meeting with religious leaders and elders in villages, she realizes that her best hope is to encourage a transition from a full Pharaonic circumcision to the lesser Sunna-type just a few small cuts. This is an important film to show in African Studies and Women s Studies.","stream","['Musse, Isnino Ahmed']","['Somalia', 'Somalis']","['Female circumcision', 'Clitoridectomy']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831978/1003831978-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650488"
"asp1650487-flon","McPheely, Alan","Soundmix","2007","57 min","[]","Soundmix brings together five extraordinary teenage musicians who are reinvigorating American musical traditions. In communities where music is a way of life and at a workshop where they meet for the first time, these dedicated young artists offer fresh and inspiring takes on a range of American music. Styles explored include jazz horn, old-time fiddle, Native American flute, Latin percussion, classical cello, and rock bass. Featured mentors include trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the late old time fiddle legend Melvin Wine, Soundmix celebrates American diversity, the passing on of traditions, and the unique power of music in people s lives.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Music', 'Child musicians']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831926/1003831926-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650487"
"asp1650486-hlth","Aronson, Josh","Sound and fury. Six years later","2006","29 min","[]","Sound and Fury: Six Years Later is an engaging look at what has happened to the Artinians since their family saga captured audiences around the world in the Academy-Award Nominated documentary Sound and Fury. Sound and Fury ended with 6-year-old Heather's parents deciding not to implant her. With the family painfully divided over this, Heather's parents had moved to a signing deaf community in Maryland to bring their kids up in the deaf world In this stand-alone follow-up film we learn that Heather finally did get the implant at 9-years-old, as did her two younger brothers, her mother, her deaf aunt and her two deaf cousins. Now 12 and back on Long Island, Heather is the only deaf child in her school. She plays basketball and volleyball, stays near the top of her class and is popular with her hearing peers. Though she got the implant ""late,"" Heather's speech is understandable and she delights in her communication skills. Heather still signs 'like a native"" and slides easily between the hearing world she is now a part of and the signing deaf world of her parents. Heather's father, who was so resistant to the implant in Sound and Fury, says that through observation and education, he has learned how useful the implant can be for deaf children and how glad he is that his children have it. (Closed-captioned) This remarkable film is a testament not only to the success of medical advances, but to the enduring love that allows family members to grow and adapt. A closed captioned version is available. Please specify when ordering.","stream","[]","[]","['Deaf parents', 'Children of deaf parents', 'Deaf children', 'Cochlear implants']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831925/1003831925-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1650486"
"asp1650485-flon","Movin, Lars","Something wonderful may happen. New York School of Poets and beyond","2002","58 min","[]","In the years after World War II the New York School of Poets set a new agenda for American literature with poetry that did not shy away from common language, cliches and humor. The core of the movement was a small group of writers including Museum of Modern Art curator Frank O Hara and his friends John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch. This new generation of poets and artists was fuelled by a strange mix of optimism and disillusion, fresh energy and dissatisfaction with the prevalent conformity of the time. The New York School of Poets manifested a powerful departure from traditional poetry. Today they are considered among the most important 20th century poets in America. This lively and comprehensive film presents readings and interviews with Ashbery and Koch as well as rare archival footage of O Hara. Two younger poets, David Lehman (author of The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, 1998), and Charles Bernstein, (coeditor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) read poems and discuss the New York School. Lehman recites his poem ""Twin Towers"", remarkable for its relevance today and for its prescience as he expresses his emotions after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Other writers appearing include: Hettie Jones, Jordan Davis, and Bill Morgan. In addition, artists Jane Freilicher, Alfred Leslie and Larry Rivers discuss the important connections between the writers and the famous visual artists of the 1950s (the New York School of Painters).","stream","['Koch, Kenneth', 'Ashbery, John']","['New York (State)']","['American poetry']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831918/1003831918-disc001-file001-frame00065-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650485"
"asp1650484-flon","Nair, Mira","So far from India","1983","50 min","[]","Viewers will be caught up in this poignant portrait of a family split between two worlds. Ashok Sheth is an Indian immigrant who has come to New York to seek a better life for his family. Once here, he postpones sending for them. Money is scarce and he is growing away from the traditional life he left behind. Meanwhile, his despairing wife has lost face, dependent as she is on her in-laws for sustenance. The tension mounts when Ashok journeys to India to confront the situation. Beautifully photographed, So Far from India makes a universal statement about uprooting, starting a new life, and the pain of those left behind.","stream","[]","['United States', 'East Indian Americans', 'India']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831912/1003831912-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650484"
"asp1785110-huri","Jamison, Gayla","Scraps of life","1993","29 min","['Human rights studies online (video)']","Two thousand people were murdered in Chile during the Pinochet years, according to official government statistics. Although the dictatorship has finally come to an end, it has left a legacy of bereaved mothers, sisters and wives. These surviving women come together to demand truth and justice from the new government. They sew murals out of scraps of fabrics, called arpilleras, that record Chile's bloody history. These women's groups are a far cry from traditional women's sewing circles. Many women have become politically active, determined to wrest the truth about the fate of their loved ones from the labyrinth of government bureaucracy. Some undertake projects to help the poor and to educate their country's youth. As we meet the women and hear their tragic stories, we marvel at their strength. Their unique creations are their insurance that the deaths will be remembered by future generations. A Spanish version is available.","stream","[]","['Chile']","['Women', 'Politics in art']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831873/1003831873-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HURI;1785110"
"asp1650481-flon","Goldenberg, Sonia","Sax country - the music of the central Andes","2008","72 min","[]","This is the surprising tale of how a mountainous region in the Peruvian Andes came to adopt saxophone music as it was played in New York City in the big band era of the 40's and 50's. Here in the Montaro Valley, 10,000 feet above sea level, blues, jazz and rock and roll is interpreted in the rhythms and melodies of folkloric traditions. Every folk orchestra in the Peruvian central mountains has at least eleven or twelve saxophones, accompanied by a violin, a harp and one or two clarinets. We see how the local musicians imitate the New York style of the big band era, wearing dark, beautifully tailored suits, Al Capone fedoras and neckties, often emblazoned with ""I Love New York."" In this poor rural area, weddings take on the magic and exuberance of the world of Garcia Marquez. The smallest wedding has at least two orchestras, with eighteen musicians each. The music never stops. The musicians accompany the bride, dancing through the streets of the village along with the guests. This lively film is fascinating musical anthropology as well as a heart warming portrait of musicians passionate about their heritage, but also longing for recognition in the larger world.","stream","[]","['Peru']","['Saxophone music']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831871/1003831871-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650481"
"asp1650480-flon","Samuel, Julian","Save and burn","2006","81 min","[]","Save and Burn builds from The Library in Crisis by deepening an understanding of the history of civilization through the phenomenon of the library. From ancient China, India, Islam, and the Graeco Roman world, we see how the library radiated knowledge and spiritual values, and facilitated the cross fertilization of ideas from one culture to another. Save and Burn puts the institution of the library within a startling political context. Generally considered a preserver of culture, the documentary points out how libraries are subject to the ideologies of their time and place, and not above them, as may have been assumed. The film assays the commercialization of libraries, the irresponsible weeding and closing of libraries, the excesses of copyright law, but most of all, the fact that the West has not recognized the Orient for much of its cultural heritage. The film is packed with provocative ideas. Historically, libraries have been used to promote or inhibit democratic debate, with a nod to the Patriot Act. The filmmaker combines exquisite footage of the Alexandrian Library, the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and Bromley House in Nottingham. Interviews include Tom Twiss, Government Information Librarian, University of Pittsburgh, who describes the destruction of Palestinian libraries by Israeli soldiers, as well as the fate of Iraqi libraries during the ""liberation."".","stream","[]","['Iraq']","['Libraries']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831870/1003831870-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650480"
"asp1650478-flon","Laufer, Vanessa C","Salaam shalom. The Jews of India","2001","50 min","[]","This colorful film about the Jews of India brings to life a remarkable history dating back two millennia. A microscopic minority living within a vast, varied and densely populated nation, they co-existed for all those years in an environment of tolerance and pluralism. But a watershed was reached in 1947 with the declaration of Indian independence and in 1948 with the creation of Israel. Many of the Jews of India decided to ""leave their home to find their home: their religious loyalty stronger than their national loyalty to India."" The filmmaker travels to the cities of the fascinating subcontinent of India where the remainingJews have made their homes, to Goa, Bombay, Cochin, Calcutta. There she finds those Jews studying the Talmud, adhering to religious custom, wearing yarmulkah. In many ways, they seem even more observant than Western Jews.","stream","[]","['India']","['Jews']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831863/1003831863-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650478"
"asp1650477-flon","","Rwanda. History of a genocide","1998","54 min","[]","This film shows, with compelling historical footage and first-hand accounts, that the genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994 had its seeds in the early colonization of the country.When German explorers first came to Rwanda they observed in the royal court a ruling class, the Tutsis, and a subservient class, the Hutus. This class structure was perpetuated by the Belgians and the French missionaries who followed, supporting as they did the Tutsi minority governing class.  In the 1950 s when decolonization movements were spreading in other parts of Africa, there was a stirring for independence in Rwanda as well. The Tutsis wanted to be free of foreign rule but keep the social status quo within the country. The Hutus, however, were in favor of democracy, even before independence, since that would have given them power. This then was the setting for the ethnic conflagration which was to tear the country apart. Despite the signals of what was to erupt, the rest of the world never acknowledged the seriousness of the threat until it was too late.","stream","[]","['Rwanda']","['Genocide', 'Hutu (African people)', 'Tutsi (African people)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831861/1003831861-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650477"
"asp1650475-flon","","Raul, the terrible. Argentina's Robin Hood","2002","53 min","[]","In December 2001, there was a seismic shift in Argentina's economic and political landscape. The government devalued the currency and froze people s savings effectively pushing the middle class into the even larger pool of working poor. Currently, there are 20 million people below the poverty line. Countless children suffer malnutrition and many die from it. Unemployment and homelessness are rampant.  In response to this crisis, a leader has emerged ready to do battle with the corrupt political system and corporations that exploit the poor. He is Raul Castells, born in the city of Rosario, birthplace of the legendary Che Guevara. He is a walking talking, pushing, barging force of nature. Along with his supporters, he has taken over MacDonalds outlets, occupied casinos and invaded government buildings.  With intimate and often dangerously close access, Raul the Terrible is a warts-and-all portrait of a man driven to change the world, and a frightening insight into the politics of poverty.","stream","['Castells, Raúl']","['Argentina']","['Poverty']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831839/1003831839-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650475"
"asp1650474-lawv","","Prison lullabies","2003","83 min","[]","Prison Lullabies is the remarkable portrait of four women living on the bad side of luck, struggling with drug addiction, arrested for dealing and prostitution and serving prison time with one common bond: they are pregnant. Amy, Monique, Joann and Ann Marie -- they all have given birth behind bars. For these women who are on intimate terms with sexual abuse, poverty and addiction, the Taconic Correctional Facility in New York State offers a rare gleam of hope. One of only five prisons in the U.S. to provide a nursery program for inmates, Taconic allows the women to keep their babies for the first eighteen months of their lives while insisting that the mothers participate in a rigorous series of classes that range from basic child care to anger management, and drug counseling. Each woman is released from prison in the course of filming. Each must make life altering choices: whether to find a job and break the cycle of relapse and re-arrest that has led to the loss of her other children, or pick up the crack-pipe, abandon the child and return to the streets. Prison Lullabies addresses these issues by allowing the inmates to relate their own stories.","stream","['Taconic Correctional Facility']","['United States', 'New York (State)']","['Women prisoners', 'Children of women prisoners']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831395/1003831395-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1650474"
"asp1785103-envv","","Pollution in China","2008","33 min","[]","Since the economic reforms of the 1980s, runaway economic growth has turned China into a major creator of pollution. While the Chinese government ineffectually tries to grapple with its growing environmental problems, rising discontent among the masses augurs political changes. The film shows the city of Chongqing on the Yangzte River, to be one of the most industrialized and polluted areas in China. Drinking water for the local population is precarious at best. Some 360 million Chinese find themselves in similar circumstances. One entrepreneur lost 450 tons of fish -- and his business -- as the result of illegal dumping. Six years of legal action against the polluting industry have come to nothing. He complains that during the case, the corrupt authorities made his life hell. Hu Jia, a dissident currently under house arrest, says ""Environmental officials are either bribed or have shares in the factories."" In Linfen, one of the world's most polluted cities, we see how China s growing dependence on coal to fuel its industries takes its toll. Cities like Linfen are becoming the biggest source of greenhouse gases. Residents in the area are disgusted and demand solutions but the local authorities do nothing. The Ministry of the Environment has neither the will nor the resources to tackle the polluters. Grassroots campaigners are demanding a real voice in how decisions are taken. For those seeking political changes in the world's biggest dictatorship, these protests represent a small ray of light and hope. A closed captioned version is available. Please specify when ordering.","stream","[]","['China']","['Pollution']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831382/1003831382-disc001-file001-frame00410-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1785103"
"asp1650472-flon","Kwan, Paul","Pins and noodles","1997","56 min","['Springroll triology']","Co-director Paul Kwan (Anatomy of A Springroll) once again takes us on a journey back to his roots, this time in a search to regain his health. Food, which was the love of his life and nourished both his palate and his cultural roots, became the source of major discomfort. Allergies to shellfish and other rich, spicy foods provoked uncomfortable reactions. When traditional Western doctors could not help, he visits Asian doctors in San Francisco's Chinatown, and then goes on to Saigon, Taiwan and Hong Kong. As East meets West he meets physicians who practice traditional acupuncture and herbal therapies-- some palatable, some unpalatable. One practitioner of Chinese medicine uses a computer and modern technology to update his diagnosis. Kwan's odyssey turns into a life theatening ordeal when midway through the filming he suffers a debilitating stroke, unusual in a young man. His hospitalization and the process of recovery lend special drama to Kwan's preoccupation with food, medicine, culture and health. Ranging from playful to serious, Pins and Noodles uses a spectrum of storytelling styles, including documentary verite, animation, puppetry, historical photographs, and ancient medical charts. Once again the artistic collaboration of producers Kwan and Iger has generated a unique fusion of East and West. This film is part two of the Springroll Trilogy, along with Anatomy of a Springroll and Wok in Progress.","stream","['Kwan, Paul']","[]","['Medicine, Chinese', 'Food allergy', 'Cooking, Chinese', 'Alternative medicine']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831373/1003831373-disc001-file001-frame00235-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650472"
"asp1650471-flon","","Pine Ridge, USA. A frontier of the forgotten","2006","26 min","[]","The 40,000 Sioux Lakota Native Americans living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota are the poorest inhabitants in America. In this film, they describe the abysmal conditions there, with neither a bank, a store, an industry or technology of any kind. Unemployment has reached 95%, life expectancy is about 50 years of age and social problems are rife. They are shockingly isolated from the rest of the U.S. More than 90% of the land In Pine Ridge is rented and farmed by non-Indians who do not even live on the reservation. The closest city offering employment is Rapid City, South Dakota, the economic and financial hub of Western Dakota. It attracts Pine Ridge inhabitants but discrimination, lack of skills and low salaries keep most of them in a state of financial instability. On top of that, they have to endure the humiliation of tourists visiting the site of their historic defeat in the Black Hills.","stream","[]","['Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)', 'South Dakota']","['Teton Indians', 'Indians of North America']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831371/1003831371-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650471"
"asp1650470-hlth","","Peter Wegner is alive and well and living in Providence","2003","21 min","[]","Peter Wegner was a professor of computer science at Brown University and enjoyed an international reputation in his field. In the summer of 1999, on a trip to London to receive an award, he was hit by a bus and sustained serious brain injuries. The film follows the family, with the help of his doctor, making difficult decisions about his treatment. Should the comatose professor be subjected to a lengthy and complicated brain surgery which could save his life but might leave him in a vegetative state? How does one make a decision at a time when scientific knowledge is limited and decisions must be made under stress? The odds were very much against a satisfactory recovery; but then, what is ""satisfactory""? Doctors who evaluated Peter s condition gave him only a 5% chance to survive and another 5% chance to have brain function. His wife and sons decided to proceed with the surgery. Seventy year old Wegner beat the odds. After lengthy surgery and recovery, many of his powers were restored. He regained his speech, had the use of his fertile mind, was able to teach again and continue with his research. There were some limitations; he could not maintain the level of concentration he once had, his memory was not as sharp, and his scholarly papers had to be co-authored. However, he could continue to be productive. And his family was grateful to have him alive! After such traumatic events his personality and some of his priorities changed. His devoted wife describes how the ""new"" Peter is more open and loving towards her. Professor Arthur Van Dam, a colleague of Peter's reflects on whether he would gamble on a life with some brain impairment, or whether he would prefer death to losing some mental faculty. The film will spark discussion about the difficult bioethical questions surrounding the treatment of patients with catastrophic injuries. Study guide available.","stream","['Wegner, Peter']","[]","['Brain damage']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831367/1003831367-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1650470"
"asp1785099-fln4","","Peru. Inca Indians return home","","17 min","['Filmakers library online']","The Shining Path, although imbued with Marxist philosophy, wreaked havoc on the lives of the poor Indian descendants of the Incas living in northern Peru. In trying to enlist them in their revolution, they used violence and terror and tried to destroy their culture and way of life. Professor Carlos Ivan Degreogori explains that the Shining Path were mestisos who did not understand or respect the Indian's religion, or their ways of working the fields. Peasants who were forcibly recruited remember the trail of killings during the ten years of civil war. Today, they are rebuilding their devastated highland villages and looking towards the future.","stream","['Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)']","['Peru']","['Incas']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831366/1003831366-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1785099"
"asp1650468-flon","","Patently offensive. Porn under siege","1993","58 min","[]","Video cassette recorders, computers, and evolving new technologies have catapulted pornography into a $10 billion industry. Despite sustained attacks from radical feminists and traditional groups concerned about the moral environment, porn profits soar. Winner of a coveted award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Patently Offensive: Porn Under Siege examines pornography in its social and historical context. As a dominant force in popular entertainment, porn has redefined the image culture. Its iconography has been coopted by music videos, Hollywood films, tv sitcoms, and especially advertising: the most powerful socializing agents in contemporary life. Is the tension between freedom of expression and the preservation of values which define a civilized society irreconcilable? Whose interests shall prevail in the explosive, politically divisive dialectic which now rages about pornography's contribution to criminal behavior, its First Amend-ment status, its use and depiction of women and even children? The debate about pornography engages many of the major issues of this era: individual rights, censorship, feminist theory, artistic freedom, family values. Praised for its balanced presentation, Patently Offensive; Porn Under Siege contains exclusive footage of the controversial Meese Commission hearings on pornography as well as riveting interviews with principals on all sides of the porn wars. Amongst those included are ACLU spokesperson Barry Lynn, forensic psychiatrist Park Elliott Dietz, criminologist A. Nichols Groth, former Eros magazine publisher Ralph Ginzburg, anthropologist Carole Vance, pornographer Al Goldstein, Harvard Law School professor Frederick Schauer, radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, and representatives of Women Against Pornography, National Organization For Women, and the National Christian Association. Eight years in the making, this masterful documentary is an invaluable asset to serious discussion in disciplines as varied as sociology, ethics, women s studies, psychology, constitutional law, and criminal justice. Producer Harriet Koskoff is available by special arrangement with Filmakers Library to introduce and discuss the film. Public screening $300. Classroom Video rental $95.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Pornography', 'Sex crimes']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831363/1003831363-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650468"
"asp1650467-curv","","Out of status","2007","67 min","[]","In post 9/11 America, civil liberties have been curtailed in the name of national security, and immigrants were separated from their families when laws changed quickly, and were enforced selectively. Before, there was an implicit understanding between the INS and immigrant communities that people who had applications pending to legalize their status could reside in the country until an application was approved. After 9/11, and for South Asians and Arabs, the rule changed. The Muslim community, today, is alone among the vast immigrant population to face such targeted enforcement. Out of Status follows four families whose lives were permanently altered.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Muslims', 'Arab Americans']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831359/1003831359-disc001-file001-frame00175-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1650467"
"asp1650466-flon","Cadigan, Katie","Out of my mind","1996","29 min","[]","Out of My Mind is an intimate portrait of twenty-three year old John Cadigan, the filmmaker's brother who became seriously mentally ill while he was an art student at college. Soon after his first psychotic break John asked his sister, the filmmaker and his primary caretaker, to document his story. Filmed over three years, the siblings narrate the story of John s painful deterioration despite various therapies. Rarely has the family experience of the early stages of schizophrenia been articulated so clearly. John's acute self awareness and his intense art work make him the ideal subject. He describes what is is like to be labeled psychotic, to become catatonic and to feel like part of your mind is working against you. Day to day John struggles with a steady stream of paranoid and violent thoughts. John continues to battle his illness which has now been diagnosed as schizoaffective disorder. Obtaining an accurate diagnosis, medical benefits and housing were part of the arduous process of searching for help. Despite multiple hospitalizations he tries to lead as normal a life as possible, relying on the love and support of his family.","stream","[]","[]","['Schizophrenia', 'Schizoaffective disorders']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831358/1003831358-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650466"
"asp1650464-flon","","Our nation. A Korean punk rock community","2002","40 min","[]","The rise of a new youth subculture in the Republic of Korea is an outgrowth of dramatic changes occurring there in the 1990s. The country elected its first civilian president, it experienced new prosperity, and became increasingly exposed to Western influences. Young Koreans became exposed to the internet and a steady stream of new musical influences. Our Nation is a stunning portrayal of how Korean youth are using punk rock to find their voices in a rapidly changing culture. Through the eyes of two young college age fans, we journey through the underground punk rock scene. The small club ""Drug"" features bands with names like Crying Nut, No Brain and Weeper, and the all-female band Supermarket. To Americans the flashing lights, stomping bodies, blaring sounds and angry incantations are nothing new. But seeing it in an Asian culture known for restraint raises many questions. Sociology professor Cho Hae Joang provides a socio-historical overview of the youth subcultures in Korea, and the emergence of consumer capitalism with the concomitant economic crisis of the late 90 s. Our Nation gives air to a multiplicity of voices on issues such as the role of the school system in the lives of Korean youth, their relationships with their parents, and indeed the impact of globalization on the culture.","stream","[]","['Korea (South)']","['Subculture', 'Punk rock music', 'Punk culture', 'Youth']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831354/1003831354-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650464"
"asp1650463-flon","Zurita de Higes, Félix","Our land. The struggle for land rights in Nicaragua","2009","56 min","[]","The struggle for ownership of land in Nicaragua has been particularly bitter. This film takes an in-depth look at the history of agrarian reform policies since they were first instituted by the Sandinista administration in 1979. In 1979, about 20 percent of the country's rich farm land formerly owned by the Somozas was turned into state farms. Eleven years later, the Sandinistas lost power and President Violeta Chamarro dismantled the cooperative movement and established a commission to adjudicate the land claims. Farmers lost title to the land and much of the best farm land was sold to rich private individuals. Protests against the government by impoverished farmers continue to this day. An informative film for classes in the politics and economics of Latin America.","stream","[]","['Nicaragua']","['Land tenure']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831352/1003831352-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650463"
"asp1650462-flon","Weisberg, Roger","Our families, our future","1994","57 min","[]","Our Families, Our Future is a portrait of the American family in crisis. The ""traditional"" American family has changed dramatically over the past 30 years, as half of marriages now end in divorce and 70 percent of the children spend part of their childhood in a single-parent household. Yet Our Families, Our Future does not sound a death knell for the American family. Instead, it highlights successful programs across the country that are seeking to address the multiple stresses of family life. Indeed, this documentary puts a human face on the problems facing the American family and examines programs that are part of the burgeoning ""family support"" movement, which offers comprehensive services for both parents and children. By highlighting successful multi-generational programs, Our Families, Our Future reveals how supporting and strengthening families is the key to solving many of the nation s most serious social problems.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Family policy', 'Families', 'Family services']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831348/1003831348-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650462"
"asp1650461-flon","","Onward Christian soldiers","1996","51 min","[]","For fifteen years journalist Freke Vuijst has followed the growth of the Religious Right from a small special interest group to a major force in American politics. She first came across them in 1980 when several fledgling conservative Christian organizations held a training session on the art of influencing government. They tried to avoid coverage of this event and thus aroused her suspicions. Fifteen years later the group had grown into "" a mighty army,"" with Pat Robertson at the helm. In this film, she traces the phenomenal growth and influence of the Christian Coalition, not only on American politics and diplomacy, but also on American culture. It shows Bob Billings, director of the Moral Majority, influencing his New Hampshire parishioners to vote for Ronald Reagan. It follows Pat Robertson's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. It shows how the beliefs of the Relgious Right, particularly their vision of the apocalypse, shape their political agenda. Clips of Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart and other tv evangelists show how the electronic pulpit reaches a mass audience. The report is rounded out by interviews with Skipp Porteous, an expert on First Amendment issues; Jim Wallis, who first exposed the fundamentalists  political ambitions. Without resorting to sensationalism, Onward Christian Soldiers presents a convincing picture of how the Religious Right threatens democracy in America.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Religion and politics', 'Evangelists', 'Evangelicalism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831343/1003831343-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650461"
"asp1785090-marc","","Of fatwas & beauty queens","","43 minutes","[]","A beauty pageant in Nigeria was the flashpoint for a cultural, political, and religious war in this impoverished country with its crumbling infrastructure. Set against the conflict between the Muslim north and the Christian south, the Miss World contest came to an ironic and devastating end as beautiful young ladies from many nations around the world, scantily clad by Muslim standards, were to compete during the holy month of Ramadan. A 21-year-old Nigerian woman journalist, Isioma Daniel, was covering the event for a local paper. In her news article, 'The World at Their Feet' she casually wrote 'What would Mohammed think? He would probably have chosen a wife from the contestants.' Those words inflamed the mullahs and incited riots that turned Muslims against Christians in bloody rampages. Hundreds of people were killed and dozens of villages destroyed. The office of her paper in northern Nigeria was burned to the ground. Before the dust settled, the pageant had been cancelled, the beauty queens had fled, and Isioma escaped into exile with a 'fatwa' issued against her life. Salman Rushdie, Ken Wiwa (son of the martyred activist Ken Saro-Wiwa) and Judy Bachrach of Vanity Fair offer their perspective on the human rights issues.","stream","['Daniel, Isioma']","['Nigeria']","['Fatwas']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831331/1003831331-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?MARC;1785090"
"asp1650456-flon","Sheppard, Chris","Nyamakuta. The one who receives","1989","34 min","[]","Mai Mafuta is a nyamakuta - a traditional midwife - in Zimbabwe. Half of all births in the developing world are attended by women like her, without the help of modern medicine. People seek her out because she is skillful, compassionate, and because her grandmother was also a midwife. Five years ago, Mai Mafuta s skills were inadequate to save her own daughter's life and she died in childbirth. In an attempt to prevent such deaths, over eighty countries have begun training traditional midwives in modern medical methods. Mai Mafuta enrolled in one such program. Now she tries to reconcile what she has learned at the clinic with traditional birth practices. We see her deliver a child on the dirt floor of a hut. Mai Mafuta narrates her own story, giving the audience an intimate view of the lives of Third World women.","stream","[]","['Zimbabwe']","['Midwifery', 'Midwives']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831327/1003831327-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650456"
"asp1650455-flon","Lambert, Susan","No sex, no violence, no news","2001","54 min","[]","This unique film examines the battle raging to control China's airwaves. Working with a government that allows nothing of social or political import to be broadcast, entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia bring their full complement of consumerism and mindless entertainment to the millions or Chinese greedy for a glimpse of the outside world.Prof. Leonard Chu of Hong Kong Baptist University sees the arrival of television to the villages of China as a positive development, even with its limited programming. He applauds the new openness, providing a ""window on the world."" On the other hand, we hear from the director of Shanghai Communications whose only interest is in selling. He sees television solely as a tool for promoting Chinese products in their developing market. Gary Darcy, CEO of Murdoch's Star Network describes how BBC News was cancelled from the schedule because the Chinese government would never allow a newscast from abroad.Dr. Geremie Barme, a widely respected observer of Chinese society says, ""Chinese television is a negation of the social contract which provided free educations, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self sacrificing citizen of the past is being turned into a consumer."".","stream","[]","['China']","['Censorship', 'Television broadcasting policy']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831316/1003831316-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650455"
"asp1650454-curv","Estomin, Lynn","No justice, no peace","2002","48 min","[]","In the wake of civil unrest in Cincinnati, September 11, and escalating violence in the Mideast, four children of 1970s activists define their own roles in the fight for justice and equality. No Justice, No Peace offers a window into the world of today's politically active youth. This compelling video presents portraits of four Ohio college students of different racial backgrounds who are active in a variety of issues including the fight for equal education, affirmative action, affordable housing, civil liberties, and women's rights; an end to racial profiling and police brutality; and a solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. While all four share a passion for justice and equality, their perspectives, strategies and tactics differ -- offering the audience a look at the complexity of youth activism in the new millennium. In April 2001, the racial climate in Cincinnati made the national news during three days of civil unrest following the shooting death of an unarmed 19 year-old black man by a white police officer. The mayor declared a state of emergency, announced a curfew and threatened to call out the National Guard. No Justice, No Peace follows the organizing efforts of the young activists in the year after the shooting.","stream","[]","['Ohio']","['Political activists', 'Youth']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831313/1003831313-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1650454"
"asp1650453-flon","","Nine days of hell. Japan's toughest school","1993","18 min","[]","Japan's most ambitious parents pack off their promising kids at holiday time to an academic boot camp that will either make them or break them. Successful completion of this ordeal enables them to stand up to the tremendous pressures of the Japanese school system.Up before dawn, drilled before eating, constantly quizzed, prodded and harassed to learn by rote, these kids are on constant alert except for a few hours sleep at night. Even breakfast is not a respite since it is eaten while pouring over a book. Each student must pass an oral examination, grilled by a stern panel of academicians, who goad and mock them and exhort them to present their ideas more fiercely.While many Japanese approve of this privately run program, there are some who question whether it stifles creativity and independent thought.","stream","[]","['Japan']","['Education']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831312/1003831312-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650453"
"asp1650452-flon","","Natives. Immigrant bashing on the border","1993","26 min","[]","Starkly shot in black and white, this multi-festival film captures the unabashed xenophobia of a number of Americans living in California along the U.S.-Mexican border. They are reacting to the influx of undocumented aliens, who they believe are draining community resources and committing crimes. Nativist organizations have been formed such as ""Light Up The Border"" which masses cars along the border with head-lights blazing at possible intruders.The film critiques the nativist position by contrasting the professed love of country with racist and anti-democratic attitudes. One white-haired couple advocates machine-gunning down a few at the border as a warning. Other residents complain that ""the illegals bring drugs and disease, multiply like rabbits, fill up the jails, and go on welfare.""A closed captioned version is available on vhs only. Please specify when ordering.","stream","[]","['Mexican-American Border Region']","['Xenophobia']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831307/1003831307-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650452"
"asp1650450-flon","Courchesne, Helene","My mother, my abuser","2006","42 min","[]","The sexual abuse of children committed by women, most often mothers, is a rarely documented subject. In this film, six victims of maternal incest powerfully convey their nightmarish child hoods. ""It is common that young children do not have the words to tell other people"" says Michelle Elliott, psychologist and author of Female Sexual Abuse of Children. The abuse often begins in infancy when children do not understand what their mother is doing. They lose hope that anyone will stop it and cannot talk about it until decades later. Often, physical violence accompanies the sexual abuse. From the age of two for eleven years, Lucy was abused by her mother who tried to smother her with a pillow when she refused to submit. The mother began abusing Lucy's younger sister when Lucy reached thirteen. Paul could not share his memories of abuse and feelings of abandonment with anyone. His secret dragged him into depression, hallucinations and institutionalization. The psychologist Monique Tardif of the Institute Philippe Pinet in Montreal says many incestuous mothers were abused by their fathers and later treat their own children as rivals for their husbands  love. She believes sexual abuse by mothers is much more common than formerly believed. The trauma is very deep and the victims often suffer for the rest of their lives. Ironically, many victims continue to seek maternal love long after they have been in therapy and have articulated the awful truth.","stream","[]","[]","['Mothers', 'Women child molesters', 'Incest', 'Child sexual abuse']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831303/1003831303-disc001-file001-frame00175-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650450"
"asp1650449-flon","","My mother thought she was Audrey Hepburn","1992","18 min","[]","In this funny and sometimes irreverent journey through San Francisco's Chinatown, Suzanne comes to terms with her own ethnic identity. This film is a personal statement about growing up Asian-American in a white society. Suzanne was brought up ""not to be Chinese."" All traces of her family's Chinese culture and traditions were to be left in China. Her mother was proud to dress like Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Kennedy, thinking she had attained the American dream if she modeled herself after them. Though she never became an active member of white society, she unwittingly fostered a ""Chinese self-hatred"" in her daughter.The film suggests that racial stereotypes are imprisoning whether the minority person rebels against them or conforms. Thus Suzanne, after mindlessly alternating between a series of different self images, goes full circle, accepting, at last, her ethnic heritage.","stream","[]","[]","['Self-esteem', 'Assimilation (Sociology)', 'Stereotypes (Social psychology)', 'Chinese American women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831302/1003831302-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650449"
"asp1785081-flon","Nelson, Jessie","My first time","1990","27 min","[]","Everyone remembers the first time they made love, but no one ever talks about it. This film good-naturedly breaks that taboo. A diverse group of Americans of all ages and backgrounds recall their experiences-some funny, some sad, some disappointing, some ecstatic. Their reflections on sexual curiosity, anxiety over the act s aftermath, its exhilarating psychological effect, and the retrospectively comic ignorance that often precedes the moment will provide new insights. From teenagers to octogenerians, the memories reflect the continuity and changes in our sexual mores over four generations. There are recollections of backseat escapades, innocent wedding nights, AIDS-conscious encounters, starry-eyed meetings. This film will be useful for classes dealing with human sexuality, social history and psychology.","stream","[]","[]","['Defloration', 'First sexual experiences']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831296/1003831296-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1785081"
"asp1650447-flon","Babbott, Margaret","My first bra","2004","11 min","[]","Women and girls will smile over this engaging film on a memorable female rite of passage buying the first bra. Six mother-daughter pairs reminisce about this under appreciated but hugely complex milestone. We hear from girls and women ages 8 to 60 whose stories reveal the influence of peers, the anxiety over different physical maturation rates, and the importance of the mother-daughter bond. This could be used as a wonderful shame-free resource for schools, youth programs, psychology and parenting classes.","stream","[]","[]","['Puberty', 'Brassieres']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831295/1003831295-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650447"
"asp1650446-flon","Matthews, Aaron","My American girls. A Dominican story","2001","63 min","[]","This is a vivid portrayal of a year in the life of the Ortiz family -- hard working Dominican immigrants who live frugally in Brooklyn and dream of retiring one day in their native country. Their American-born daughters have different ideas and aspirations. These bittersweet contradictions form the core of the film as we watch the family sort out the rewards and the costs of pursuing the American dream.Sandra, the mother, grew up in the Dominican Republic, with 14 brothers and sisters, where there was no electricity or running water. She came to Brooklyn in 1975, all alone, seeking better work and pay. She and her husband, Bautista, hold two jobs each as hospital cleaners. Despite their long hours and relatively low pay, they provide their children with a comfortable lifestyle and the advantages of an American education.Their daughters represent the next generation of immigrants. Their eldest Monica (21), is an achiever who attends an ivy league college. She has an American boyfriend and has separated herself from the Dominican community , although she maintains close family ties. Aida (16) is a typical middle child, finding her way between the world of the streets and the ambitions of her parents. The youngest daughter Mayra (14) is a self proclaimed ""ghetto"" kid. She is failing in school and mainly wants to hang out with her friends. Sandra struggles to do right by each of them. Sandra s five-story house is filled with members of the extended family, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and attendant infants. Sandra realizes the irony that fulfilling her retirement dream will mean leaving her family once again. My American Girls captures the immigrant experience at the beginning of the 21st century.","stream","[]","['New York (State)', 'New York (N.Y.)', 'Dominican Republic']","['Dominicans (Dominican Republic)', 'Children of immigrants', 'Women immigrants']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831293/1003831293-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650446"
"asp1650444-flon","Estomin, Lynn","Motherhood on trial. The tragedy of Susan Smith","1997","26 min","[]","The case of Susan Smith, a young mother who drowned her sons in South Carolina, repelled and fascinated the whole nation. Amidst all the uproar it is interesting to note that Newt Gingrich claimed the tragedy was the inevitable outcome of years of liberal control of Congress. Motherhood on Trial challenges viewers to examine current conservative thinking that blames the breakdown of the traditional family for causing crime, poverty, illiteracy, teenage pregnancy and other problems.","stream","['Smith, Susan']","['South Carolina']","['Murder', 'Infanticide']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831279/1003831279-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650444"
"asp1650441-flon","Gallone, Annemarie","Love and sex in China","2008","50 min","[]","As China changes at an awesome rate, becoming more industrialized, urban and westernized, this film explores how this has impacted traditional relationships between men and women. Our guide is a young journalist, Yang Li Ne, whose parents have just divorced and whose own marriage is unraveling. She speaks about love and sex with young Bejingers, as well as older couples from the villages. Many of the young are afraid of commitment and are cynical about love and marriage. Money, not love, they say, is the basis for marriage. Prostitution is rampant; an estimated 6% of the national revenue comes from prostitution. Older couples reflect on the vanishing traditions that have given their marriages stability. A young gay man who was hesitant to be identified describes the homophobia in Chinese society and the secrecy with which gay and lesbians must lead their lives. He talks about the difference between making love and having sex. Examples of China's traditional erotic art, which was nurtured by the imperial court, are laced through the film. This documentary would be rated R.","stream","[]","['China']","['Sex', 'Marriage', 'Man-woman relationships', 'Homosexuality', 'Love']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831226/1003831226-disc001-file001-frame00150-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650441"
"asp1650440-flon","Choy, Christine","Long story short","2009","54 min","[]","Combining a poignant family story with the stigma of racism, this film gives insight into the Asian-American experience, including the trauma of internment.The latest film from Academy Award-nominated director Christine Choy (Who Killed Vincent Chin?) tells the fascinating story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular husband-and-wife nightclub act of the '40s and '50s. Narrated by their daughter, actress Jodi Long, the film traces the couple's rise from the Chinatown nightclub circuit to a coveted appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Known as ""The Leungs,"" (a more Chinese-sounding name), they performed a mix of tap dancing, witty repartee and ""Chinaman"" caricatures that both played to and undermined the racist attitudes of the day. Trudie Long, born Kimiye Tsunemitsu, was actually not Chinese but of Japanese descent, which made her the target of discrimination during the war.Because of the limited opportunities for Asian Americans in the Broadway theater, Larry mourned the fact that he lost his role in the original production of Flower Drum Song. Although he went on to perform in the show's traveling company, his career never fully recovered. Redemption of a sort came when daughter Jodi appears on Broadway in a revival of the same musical, re-written by Chinese-American playwright David Henry Hwang.","stream","['Long, Trudie', 'Long, Lawrence K']","[]","['Discrimination', 'Asian American actors', 'Racism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831220/1003831220-disc001-file001-frame00190-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650440"
"asp1650439-flon","Goodman, Jonathan Levitt","Living the roller-coaster","2007","14 min","[]","Living the Roller-Coaster explores the experiences of two young women attending Stanford University who were diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. Through their voices and those of family and friends, the documentary describes mania and depression as well as their common interpersonal ramifications. Among details provided is the fact that the onset of illness is typically between the ages of 18 and 21. For this reason, the film provides a particularly relevant introduction for college students and other young people about a condition that remains misunderstood despite its prevalence.","stream","[]","[]","['Manic-depressive illness']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831214/1003831214-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650439"
"asp1785073-envv","","The riches of the elephants - Zimbabwe","1996","27 min","[]","The Campfire project is a highly successful program for both wildlife conservation and social development. The local community is allowed to sell safaris or hunting rights on public land reserves. The profit is used for development projects such as fences, schools, and individual households.","stream","['CAMPFIRE (Program)']","['Social aspects', 'Zimbabwe']","['Community development', 'Wildlife conservation']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831209/1003831209-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1785073"
"asp1650437-flon","Chayes, Bill","Jews and Buddhism","2000","41 min","[]","This documentary examines the dramatic surge of interest among American Jews in the spiritual teachings of Buddhism. Jews, who make of 2% of the population, account for some 30% of non-Asian American Buddhists. Many of them are among the leading expositors and scholars of Buddhism in America. In practice, traditional Jewish ritual and liturgy are being modified in synagogues and among individuals seeking to incorporate the teachings of Buddhism into their spiritual lives. The striking resonance between Buddhism and Judaism has been remarked upon by writers and scholars, and has generated many notable books and articles. Jews and Buddhism is the first film to interrogate in depth the reasons for this phenomenon, explore it in the context of 20th century Jewish-American life, and consider its impact on contemporary Jewish thought and practice. This award-winning documentary includes rare footage of the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, as well as David Ben Gurion, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Boorstein, and many others.","stream","[]","[]","['Buddhism', 'Judaism']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831156/1003831156-disc001-file001-frame00505-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650437"
"asp1650436-flon","Sickert, Paula Rodriguez","Isabel Allende","2008","58 min","[]","The world-famous Chilean author reveals her passionate engagement with life and politics. She has written nearly twenty novels, the most famous of which are The House of the Spirits, Paula and Aphrodite. Her books have sold more than thirty-five million copies in over thirty languages. Born in Peru in 1942 and raised in her grandparent s house in Chile, she started her career as a journalist. After the Chilean army overthrew her uncle Salvador Allende s government, she spent thirteen years in political exile in Venezuela before love finally brought her to live in the United States. Isabel Allende manages to transform her passionate and painful life into literature, exorcizing her experiences onto the page. Each of her most successful novels marks an important part or even watershed in her biography, like the tragic loss of her 28-year-old daughter Paula who died in Spain from a metabolic disease. The film contains intimate interviews with her and her close companions and reveals her complicated personality. Several of her readers explain how meaningful her books are to them.","stream","['Allende, Isabel']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831148/1003831148-disc001-file001-frame00075-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650436"
"asp1650434-artv","Jokel, Lana","Chinese contemporary art","2006","56 min","[]","While most westerners have some familiarity with traditional Chinese art, the isolationism and restrictive policies of the post war years have precluded a development of a contemporary art scene that would interest outsiders. This has all changed in recent years and there has been an astounding flowering of innovative, energetic and challenging contemporary art. Filmmaker Lana Jokel, born in Shanghai and educated abroad, has a special interest in art as reflected in her documentaries on such artists as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Larry Rivers. She now turns her camera on the visionary Chinese artists of today whose new freedom to express themselves is evident in the work they show us. Lana travels to artists studios, galleries and museums where this art is evolving and displayed, and the artists explain their techniques and philosophies. Art experts bring historical context to the new movement. There is a companion film also available Chinese Contemporary Art Comes to America. Please note there is occasional nudity.","stream","[]","[]","['Art, Modern', 'Art, Chinese']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831012/1003831012-disc001-file001-frame00400-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1650434"
"asp1650433-ahiv","Chen, Amy","Chinatown files","2001","58 min","['American history in video']","Amy Chen's acclaimed new documentary The Chinatown Files reveals the hidden story of Chinese-American men and women who were hunted down, jailed, and targeted for deportation during the Cold War hysteria of the 1950's and l960's. Their interviews are interwoven with rare home movies, photographs and archival films exploring the prejudice and xenophobia surrounding U.S.-China relations. During the McCarthy era witchhunts, the loyalties of over ten thousand American citizens of Chinese descent were questioned based on their ethnicity and alleged risk to national security. Henry Chin, a laundry worker and president of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance and the China Daily News, describes how ""Chinese immigrants came to America for a better life for themselves and the loved ones they left behind in their impoverished villages."" Yet for sending money home, his friends were charged by the U.S. government for trading with the enemy and his life was shattered by constant FBI surveillance and harassment. Other people featured in the film include several members of Mun Ching, the Chinese American Democratic Youth League in San Francisco who were harassed by the FBI. Several agents speak candidly of the FBI objectives in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and New York. The Chinatown Files is a cautionary tale of how nationalist paranoia can quickly lead to racially-motivated violations of civil rights and liberties. It serves as a dramatic and enduring reminder of the fragility of constitutional protections, encouraging viewers to reexamine the democratic promises of the American government and to hold all of society responsible when rights are infringed.","stream","[]","['United States', 'Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)']","['Xenophobia', 'Chinese', 'Chinese Americans', 'Anti-communist movements']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831011/1003831011-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1650433"
"asp1785067-fln4","","China opens up. Kina abner sig","","24 min","['Filmakers library online']","This is a view of China in transition through the eyes of six members of the intelligentsia. They are addressing the issue of freedom of expression and censorship. Among them are: an author who points out that if his book gets banned in China he will reap the profits from foreign sales; a film director who know how far he can go to get by the censors; a journalist dedicated to socialism who feels she must expose corruption despite receiving threats; a dramatist who speaks out about China's transformation; a composer who observes that Western music has gained acceptance; and an artist who looks forward to the day when 'more voices can be heard.' They offer widely differing opinions about China's future. Some have developed into high powered entrepreneurs; others still long for communism in its purest form. Artistic freedom is no longer looked upon as a force that threatens the system. There is a growing understanding that in a society as complex as China's, the state-sanctioned arts of the communist era are simplistic and irrelevant.","stream","[]","['China']","['Art and state', 'Arts', 'Socialism and the arts']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831006/1003831006-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1785067"
"asp1785066-huri","Bradbury, David","Chile. Hasta cuando?","1987","57 min","['Human rights studies online (video)']","This is the story of a country racked with political repression and torture. The film flashes back to the violence of 1973 in which the country's military, backed by the U. S., overthrew the government of Salvadore Allende, replacing it with the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. It is the Pinochet government s harsh, repressive measures that are recorded in this searing documentary. The film crew risked their lives to capture this story of indiscriminate arrests, military intimidation, brutal murders and disappearances, all taking place while Chile's elite enjoyed the good life.","stream","[]","['Chile']","['Student protesters']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831005/1003831005-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HURI;1785066"
"asp1650430-flon","Fassio, Didier","Children of the seven-headed snake","2002","52 min","[]","In the kingdom of Cambodia the pace of life has always been determined by the Tonle Sap, which is both a river and a huge lake. Its waters abound with fish and its flooding supports the rice crop, so essential to the peasants. Cambodians say that the Tonle Sap contains a respected yet feared divinity: the sacred Naga, a giant seven- headed snake which they must honor on important holidays. One such occasion is the Water Celebration, when thousands of farmers come with their families to enjoy the boat races as well as to barter their rice for the fish which will feed their families for months to come. After the races, the ""genies of protection"" must be satisfied, granting the participants and their families safe passage back to their villages and a productive year. The genies are supernatural beings of animist origin which have haunted Cambodians for millennia, dating back to times before Buddhism. This colorful film also explores other areas bordering the Tonle Sap, one of which is the world-renowned Angkor Wat, where the Khmer civilization thrived eight centuries ago. The documentary provides a remarkable picture of a country that endured political upheaval and genocide, yet renewed itself by reconnecting with its ancient beliefs and traditions.","stream","[]","['Tonle Sap (Cambodia : Lake)', 'Cambodia']","[]","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831002/1003831002-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650430"
"asp1650429-lawv","Michel, Thierry","Children of Rio","1997","48 min","[]","Luis Carlos, also called ""The Rat"" and Luciano de Souca, also known as ""The Chinaman"" are gang members who were abandoned as kids to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These two Cariocas teenagers have been left to their own devices all their lives and have survived by begging, stealing, and dealing in drugs. Brightening this harsh life are the friendships that have sustained them, their loyalty to each other, and their contagious high spirits that emerge at events like Carnival. This film allows them to speak in their own words. For Luis, the controlling imperatives are eating and surviving. China, the sixteen-year-old gang leader has a canniness and intelligence that allows his to survive on the fringe of society. He steals to buy food and also glue whose fumes provide him with a blissful high -- the only happiness he has ever known. Unemployment, population explosion and the break up of families is the root cause of the abandonment of such kids all over the Third World. This unique document was filmed despite the barriers put up by a government that does not want such images revealed.","stream","[]","['Brazil']","['Gangs', 'Street children', 'Abandoned children']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831001/1003831001-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1650429"
"asp1785063-fln4","","Childhood's end","","29 min","['Filmakers library online']","This documentary portrait of three suicidal youngsters will help counselors, parents and young people begin a constructive dialogue. Anna was sixteen when she broke away from her family. Now at twenty, she remembers the events leading up to her overdose. Therapy and a network of friends have helped. Sherri came from an affluent background, but clearly something was missing. She made two attempts to end her life. Today she is beginning to see options. For Michael, getting help didn't work. When he killed himself at eighteen, his two closest friends were devastated. This film shows the importance of using all resources to help troubled youngsters.","stream","[]","[]","['Suicide', 'Youth']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831000/1003831000-disc001-file001-frame00080-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1785063"
"asp1650427-flon","Gleason, Judith","Chiapas. Prayer for the weavers","1999","36 min","[]","Gripped by painful memories of the civil war in Chiapas, Mexico, twenty-four women members of a Tzotzil family cooperative gather for a festival to display their work in order to market it. Income from the work of these women is essential to the maintenance of their families. Musicians led by a rezador (prayer maker), accompany them to a ""safe place"" in town. The prayer, the music and the weavings intertwine in homage to Mayan traditions and to those who have suffered and died resisting oppression. A year ago, 45 members of a progressive Catholic group known as Las Abejas (""The Bees"") were brutally murdered in Acteal by a government paramilitary organization. The husband of one of the weavers, a leader of the Abejas, explains the purpose of his nonviolent organization and of its solidarity with the social programs of the Zapatistas. The leader of the weavers group, who also works with women in a Zapitista support base, describes women's suffering under military occupation. And finally, we hear a firsthand account of the massacre by one who survived. Here is a film that gives a close and moving portrait of the people most affected by the ""low intensity war"" which to this day has not been responsibly addressed by the federal government. The oppression continues, tacitly supported by global intentions to exploit the natural resources in the area. Meanwhile, the Mayan inhabitants of the land fight poverty and disease, without a promised voice in local government. These deeply pious weavers and their kinfolk survive with charm and dignity.","stream","[]","['Mexico', 'Chiapas (Mexico)']","['Weaving']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830999/1003830999-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650427"
"asp1650425-artv","Lévy-Kuentz, François","Chagall. A film","2006, c2003","53 min","[]","This remarkable film retraces the life and work of the beloved artist Marc Chagall. Much of the narrative is told in his own words, drawn from his autobiography, Ma Vie (My Life) and there is unique film footage of Chagall being interviewed as he paints. An intimate picture of the mischievous painter and his peripatetic life emerges through interviews of the many personalities in the art world which Chagall inhabited : Apollinaire, Bonnard, Matisse, Picasso, Mayakovski and Malraux. Extensive use of rare historical film adds richness to this astounding biography of the man who was born in the shtetl of Vitebsk in tsarist Russia. When World War I broke out, he was forced to join the Russian Army and then asked to open an art school in Vitebsk by the Bolsheviks when they took power. He left for Paris in 1923 where he and his wife Bella lived in poverty. Finally, his illustrations for a special edition of Gogol s Dead Souls attracted wide admiration. As he put it, ""I created my own reality -- neither Cubist nor Impressionist."" Fleeing Paris in 1939 he spent the war years in New York, collaborating on art, theatre and ballet projects with other artists in exile, Duchamps, Calder, Tanguy, Stravinsky and Massine. Post-war, he created monumental works often inspired by the Bible: the magnificent ceiling of the Paris Opera, the murals for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the stained glass windows for cathedrals in Metz and Reims and the Hadassah clinic in Jerusalem. In 1984 three large exhibitions in France celebrated the artist's 97th birthday, one at the National Museum Message Biblique Marc Chagall in Nice. His attempts to connect the Jewish traditions of his childhood to the artistic modernity of his time yielded a profoundly original oeuvre somewhat removed from the prevailing currents of art in the 20th century. As he said, ""I chose painting because it seemed a window through which I could take flight to another world.""","stream","['Chagall, Marc']","['Russia (Federation)']","['Artists']","['Documentary television programs']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830994/1003830994-disc001-file001-frame00055-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1650425"
"asp1785059-flon","","Captive minds. Hypnosis and beyond","2001","56 min","[]","How do cults hold on to their disciples? How do the Marines command such loyalty? Why do Jesuit priests submit to a lifetime of strict authority? This film explains how long-term conditioning takes place and shows that the indoctrination methods of disparate institutions are surprisingly similar. Recruits are isolated and worked to exhaustion. Confused and frightened, they readily submit to a leader, be it guru, fuhrer or sergeant. The film shows how the power of suggestion influences behavior. Hypnosis, for example, may lead to short-term change; other psychotherapies may alter behavior for an extended time. Captive Minds reminds us that we are all vulnerable to psychological manipulation.","stream","[]","[]","['Conditioned response', 'Hypnotism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830991/1003830991-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1785059"
"asp1650423-flon","Edmondson, Mark","Buddha realms","2007","55 min","[]","Buddhism, a religion that started in India, has shown a remarkable ability to adapt across race, language and cultural barriers. What became the dominant spiritual tradition of the East has now taken root and is flourishing in the West. Buddha Realms captures this contemporary spiritual phenomenon which sometimes manifests itself in massive edifices and gargantuan crowds of worshippers. The film suggests that Buddhism's universal appeal lies in the astonishing plurality of philosophies and practices that have evolved from its ancient traditions. Yet despite these permutations, the Buddha himself remains the ultimate ideal. Whether as a simple ascetic, or the compassionate Buddha, or the ""Cosmic Light,"" devotees believe the Buddha is the symbol of all that is great and good in this world and beyond.","stream","[]","[]","['Buddhism']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830988/1003830988-disc001-file001-frame00150-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650423"
"asp1650422-flon","","Bridge of winds","1992","60 min","[]","This film takes us to a remote part of Yunan province in China where the Lisu people have lived for generations in a village carved out of a steep mountain gorge. Their only contact with the outside world is made by crossing a wild, rushing river. They matter-of-factly use a rope to tie themselves to a pulley which traverses a slender cable over the gorge. We watch them negotiate this aerial transport laden with wares bound for market. Even the village teacher, his body dangling over the turbulent river, is transported in this fashion. The Lisu cheerily battle the elements to go about their daily tasks, raising rice and corn and keeping livestock. Although it is a challenging lifestyle, their mutual support and close family ties sustain their spirits.","stream","[]","['Yunnan Sheng (China)', 'China']","['Lisu (Southeast Asian people)']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830987/1003830987-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650422"
"asp1650419-flon","Spellos, John Peter","Borderline syndrome. A personality disorder of our time","1989","75 min","[]","Patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder are a growing and burdensome population in mental health facilities. Since the diagnosis is fairly new, there is a great need for more information. Borderline Syndrome offers a clear presentation of what is currently known about the disorder. It provides explicit information about the patient as well as the views of the leading therapists in the field. Doctors such as James Masterson and John Gunderson offer their informed ideas concerning causation, development, diagnosis and treatment. Dr. James Masterson: Overview of the Borderline Syndrome. 58 min. Dr. Masterson examines the etiology of the syndrome as well as the complex symptoms leading to diagnosis. Sale $79.95. Dr. Marilyn Gewacke: A Borderline Out-Patient Program. 48 min. Dr. Gewacke presents an innovative and comprehensive treatment and management program to supplement out-patient treatment. Sale $79.95. Dr. Marilyn Gewacke, director of one of the few Borderline out-patient programs in the country, talks about innovative treatment modalities. Dr. Renate Wack, Executive Director at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in New York, treats the subject of the male Borderline in prison. Rare footage shows in-depth conversations with patients who express their personal feelings about the illness and its treatment. We learn about their early life and the frustration and pain they experience as they attempt to understand what is happening to them. Staff members at a psychiatric hospital share their strategies for dealing with the enormous demands made by these patients.","stream","[]","[]","['Borderline personality disorder']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830980/1003830980-disc001-file001-frame00295-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650419"
"asp1650418-hlth","Weisberg, Roger","Borderline medicine","1991","58 min","[]","With the U.S. struggling to control soaring health care costs and 37 million Americans not covered by health insurance, the Canadian system of national health insurance looks attractive. This documentary takes a close look at how health care is delivered on both sides of the border. The film begins by comparing prenatal care in both countries. A San Diego woman who has insurance through Medicaid called sixty obstetricians and could not find one who would care for her. In Vancouver, a high-risk obstetric patient faces no financial barriers in having a closely monitored pregnancy. While routine medical care is more accessible in Canada, there are often waiting lists for elective surgery. Canadian patients with coronary artery disease often cross the border for surgery in the U.S. The last section examines the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. In British Columbia mammograms are covered by insurance and there is a population screening program which may reduce breast cancer mortality by as much as a third. Yet high technology diagnostic procedures are much more available in the U.S., and Canadian patients may be subjected to older, more dangerous diagnostic tests. To complement the powerful patient stories, health care experts and business leaders like Lee Iococca comment on the medical and financial implications of both systems.","stream","[]","['United States', 'Canada']","['Medical care']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830979/1003830979-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1650418"
"asp1650417-ahiv","","Bloody island","c1998","42 min","['Award winning films and videos', 'American history in video']","In the early part of the century, thousands of African Americans migrated from the rural South in search of a better life in the northern industrial cities. This black migration was an important event in U.S. history. It fueled the factories of the North, but hurt an already weakened southern economy. In East St. Louis, Ill., trouble was brewing as black workers were being hired to replace striking white workers. It all came to a head on the night of July 1, 1917.","stream","[]","['East Saint Louis (Ill.)', 'Illinois']","['African Americans']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830978/1003830978-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1650417"
"asp1785052-fln4","","Blind spot","","28 min","['Filmakers library online']","Vanessa enjoyed a loving, secure family life until the age of twelve when her sixteen-year-old sister began having schizophrenic episodes. From that moment on, life in the family was fraught with concern and anxiety for the mysterious, unpredictable and frightening behavior of her adored sibling. In Blind Spot, Vanessa expresses to her parents the anger, shame, and sense of deprivation she felt, not only for the 'loss' of her sister but what she perceived as the loss of their nurturing. All their energy was diverted to the care of her sister. In a mixture of painfully honest dialogue with her parents and evocative images of life with a schizophrenic family member, the film powerfully conveys the stresses on a family imposed by mental illness. Vanessa never learned to drive. Her sister was prevented from getting her driver's license by illness; her parents felt it was not appropriate for Vanessa to learn to drive before her older sister. Driving becomes a metaphor for moving on with her life. Now, an adult, Vanessa is able to ask her parents to be by her side as she practices driving. Life and hope renew for the family when Vanessa becomes a parent. In this intense and painful family portrait the bonds of love continue through the next generation.","stream","[]","[]","['Schizophrenia', 'Families']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830977/1003830977-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1785052"
"asp1785051-envv","","Black triangle","1992","51 min","[]","A pollution problem of major proportion is now surfacing in the ""black triangle"" where Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany meet. Eastern Germany has Europe's biggest concentration of uranium mines outlined by slag heaps which loom over the local towns. In northern Czechoslovakia vast open coal mines stretch as far as the eye can see. Power stations emit thick sulphurous smoke, defoliating the forests. The toll on the health of people in the neighboring towns is staggering. One in ten children is born with a birth defect. Although people are now able to express their opposition to dangerous practices, there are no easy solutions to meeting energy needs while safeguarding the environment.","stream","[]","['Europe, Eastern']","['Pollution', 'Radioactive pollution', 'Environmental policy']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830976/1003830976-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1785051"
"asp1650413-flon","Dorès, Maurice","Black Israel","2002","85 min","[]","This engaging film is a vibrant portrait of pluralistic 21st-century Jewish identities across the globe. It documents Africans and African-Americans who live in Israel and practice Judaism there. Africans from Nigeria, Togo, the Congo, Zaire, Lagos and Ethiopia have emigrated to Israel to work or to study Judaism. They were unable to study their religion at home since there was no one to teach them. In the Negev desert, several thousand black Americans who fled the urban slums in the 1960s have formed an independent community where they practice their own version of the Hebraic religion under the law of their leader Carter Ben Ami. Although they have been denied citizenship in Israel, they enjoy friendly relations with Israelis and believe Israel is ""the kingdom of Paradise on Earth."" Many black Jews born in the Caribbean have moved to the U.S. to practice Judaism. One congregant of the Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Harlem, born in Trinidad, recalls that his father s family which had Sephardic roots, kept kosher and celebrated the Sabbath. We meet a diverse group of people from a Harlem rabbi who reveals his thoughts on the spread of Judaism in sub-Saharan Africa, to Rebecca Walker, the biracial daughter of civil rights activist Alice Walker and to an African learning Yiddish in Paris. As one Jew from Nigeria concludes ""Judaism has no color."" See also: Keep On Walking, the award-winning film of an African-American gospel singer who teaches the Torah.","stream","[]","['Israel']","['Black Hebrews', 'Blacks', 'Africans', 'African Americans']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830974/1003830974-disc001-file001-frame00045-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650413"
"asp1650412-flon","","Beyond the borderline","1996","54 min","[]","This documentary revisits five women suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder. We met them last six years ago in an earlier film (Borderline Syndrome: A Personality Disorder of Our Time) about this controversial diagnosis. While the first film concentrated on clinical issues, this new production allows us to see the gains they have made in personal functioning. Today, each of the women lives independently. Each talks about her progress and the ongoing struggle in coping with the draining emotions associated with the illness. By inter-cutting with the earlier footage, the film shows the evolutionary changes at work in their lives. Their candid accounts of their experiences will provide insight to mental health professionals.","stream","[]","[]","['Borderline personality disorder']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830973/1003830973-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650412"
"asp1650411-busv","Owen, Chris, director","Betelnut bisnis","2006","52 min","['Global business and economics in video']","The betelnut has been a socially accepted narcotic in coastal Papua New Guinea since ancestral times but in the Highlands, where a majority of the population lives, it is a recent arrival. Many Highlanders depend on the betelnut (or buai as it is called locally), not only because of their addiction to it, but because many families earn their livelihood trading small quantities of the drug. This film follows the fortunes of one family, Lukus Kalma and his wife Kopu, as told by their neighbor, Chris Owen, an Australian expatriate and documentary filmmaker (Man Without Pigs, Bridewealth for a Goddess). Lukus owns no land and lives on a small plot with soil too poor to grow food. He works part-time as a watchman and laborer but cannot make ends meet. He embarks upon a business venture of buying betelnuts from growers on the coast and reselling them at home. In following his trials and tribulation to make a success of his business, the film presents an insider's look at the day-to-day life in Papua New Guinea whose people have few material possessions but face each day with dignity and determination. Economic times are difficult for the majority of Papua New Guineans. Their currency has been devalued so anything they cannot produce themselves is very expensive. Basic necessities are difficult to come by; even water is in short supply. Access to medical attention is minimal and basic education involves school fees. While some turn to crime, most of the ""grassroots"" people struggle on, hoping to earn a few dollars for a tin of meat, a bag of rice and some betelnuts to keep going.","stream","[]","['Papua New Guinea']","['Betel nut']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830972/1003830972-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1650411"
"asp1650410-flon","","Behind the smile","1998","45 min","[]","Hundreds of thousands of Thai young women leave their rural homes to work in the factories of Bangkok. They are the backbone of Thailand s economic success, yet are looked upon as almost less than human. Behind the Smile explores the lives and culture of these young women who live in crowded dormitories or shacks with few possessions, homesick for their families. Yet the money they earn is so desparately needed by their families that they must stay for years in their grim servitude. Through portraits of three women, we see the human cost of the country's rapid industrialization. Amoan, at nineteen, has been working in a textile factory for five years amidst the endless dust and never ending noise. As a good Buddhist daughter, she sends all her money home and spends nothing on herself. Laiad and her husband had to leave their children in the village. They rarely see them. Willaiwon after working in the same factory for fourteen years for minimum wage has become a union organizer. A whole generation of women has disappeared from the villages, changing traditions for ever.","stream","[]","['Thailand']","['Women employees', 'Work environment', 'Thailand']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830971/1003830971-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650410"
"asp1650409-gltv","Ong, Shulee","Because this is about love","1993","29 min","[]","This is a touching profile of five lesbian and gay couples from multicultural backgrounds who have made a life long commitment to each other by going through a marriage ceremony. Each couple tells their own story of how they met, why they decided to marry and how their family and friends responded. These funny, bittersweet and, at times, triumphant stories speak of the power of love. There are no parental pressures or societal advantages persuading these couples to wed. They do not share health insurance or retirement benefits, or file a joint tax return as conventional couples do. They are validating a commitment that lends joy and meaning to life, especially for one couple with AIDS. The power of this film is that it portrays in warm, non-threatening terms, a revolutionary act that questions the very foundations of family structure.","stream","[]","[]","['Gay couples', 'AIDS (Disease)', 'Same-sex marriage', 'Lesbian couples']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830969/1003830969-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1650409"
"asp1650407-flon","Salam Pax","Baghdad blogger","2009","80 min","[]","""I live in Baghdad. I am a blogger. A blog is an online diary."" So begins this succinct report from Salam Pax, an Iraqi journalist attempting to keep the world informed about his beleaguered country. Pax regularly sends fifteen-minute video reports to the BBC. Filmed in Najaf, Baghdad, Karbala, and the south of Iraq, they are cleverly worded, cantankerous and non-partisan overviews of reality outside the Green Zone. The blogger made his pseudonymous name with ""The Baghdad Blog,"" an online English-lingo journal of life before, during and since the U.S. invasion. An architect and decidedly Western-skewed fellow, he is troubled by the inability of the Americans to maintain a stable occupation. He witnesses the failure of the interim government under Prime Minister Allawi and the formation of a new army under the cleric Al Sadr. This army has undermined the American plan of an orderly political process leading to elections. Instead, it has created havoc. Pax slowly and sadly closes his laptop at the end of the film. A ""cutting edge"" discussion starter for journalism and communications classes, as well as Middle East studies.","stream","['Salam Pax']","['Iraq', 'Baghdad (Iraq)']","['Blogs']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830966/1003830966-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650407"
"asp1650406-flon","","Back wards to back streets","","59 min","[]","When the Supreme Court decreed that mental patients able to live safely in freedom could not be kept in institutions against their will, it was hailed as a humane step forward. They were to return to their communities and receive supportive care. But that support never came through. The patients ended up in back streets all over America. This report follows some of these mental patients. We learn that profitable adult homes have sprung up which are often inadequate and resented by the community. Sometimes former patients are housed in nursing homes converted to locked psychiatric centers. Some communities resort to locking up the mentally ill in jail. Others leave them to wander the streets. There are also examples of successful community treatment programs. It takes money, staff and care, but we see that it can be done.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Mentally ill', 'Mental health facilities', 'Insanity (Law)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830965/1003830965-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650406"
"asp1785041-fln4","","At your service","","51 min","['Filmakers library online']","This entertaining video takes a look at attitudes towards service in four western countries: England, France, Canada and the U.S. It gives a historical perspective, taking into account how service is affected by class and culture. In Britain today, almost as a rebellion against the former class system, the service sector is at odds with the public. Sales help and waiters are indifferent to the needs of customers. In France, the idea of the professional waiter emerged after the Revolution. Waiting tables is taken seriously by the French. In America, service is fast and informal, with little line between server and served. American innovations such as supermarkets, fast food chains, and mass marketers like Wal-Marts, have changed the interaction of customer and business. Professor Susan Porter Benson, author of Counter Culture; Margaret Wisser, author of Much Depends on Dinner; Professor Sue Vickers-Thompson, Fellow of Customer Service, at Oxford; John Mariani, author of America Eats Out are among the many experts who comment on the effects of social change on customer relations.","stream","[]","[]","['Customer services', 'Customer relations']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830964/1003830964-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1785041"
"asp1650404-flon","","Asante market women","1983","52 min","['Disappearing World']","Asante Market Women shows us a tribe in Ghana where the men are polygamous and the women are subordinate in all domestic matters. In the bustling Kumasi market place, however, the women reign supreme. These tough, assertive women have evolved their own power structure to settle all disputes over price and quality. Member of the series: Disappearing World.","stream","[]","['Ghana']","['Ashanti (African people)', 'Women, Ashanti']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830961/1003830961-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650404"
"asp1650403-flon","Kwan, Paul","Anatomy of a springroll","1994","57 min","['Springroll triology']","""Food is everyone s first language,"" says Paul Kwan, the Vietnamese-born immigrant who fashioned this film out of the rich sensory memories of his childhood. He tells his story of finding a new life in America while maintaining his cultural connection through cooking, eating and sharing the rich and varied food of his native land. This dazzling film is a gigantic stirfry of savory images - Paul and his mother cooking in his San Francisco kitchen, street vendors simmering their soups, bustling markets piled with peppers, cilantro, and chilis. In America, cooking is often a solitary experience, but in Vietnam it is a family affair, with everyone cutting, chopping, and stirring while chattering. An undercurrent of longing for the motherland runs through this nostalgic film. The death of his father in Vietnam is the occasion for his visit to Saigon. Now at last memory and reality are reconciled, and he is ready to return to his adoptive country. This film is the first in a trilogy, with Pins and Noodles and Wok in Progress.","stream","['Kwan, Paul']","['California']","['Vietnamese Americans', 'Cooking, Vietnamese', 'Immigrants']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830955/1003830955-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650403"
"asp1650402-blsv","","An unlikely friendship","2002","45 min","['Black studies in video']","About a surprising friendship between an embittered KKK leader (C.P. Ellis) and an outspoken Black woman activist (Ann Atwater), that developed when they were appointed to co-chair a community committee to resolve problems arising from a court-ordered school desgregation, and that changed race relations and shocked Durham's residents.","stream","['Atwater, Ann', 'Ellis, C. P', 'Ku Klux Klan (1915- )']","['North Carolina', 'Durham (N.C.)']","['School integration', 'Civil rights workers', 'Social change']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003830xxx/1003830954/1003830954-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1650402"
"asp1650401-flon","Weisberg, Roger","Aging out","2004","86 min","[]","Navigating the transition from adolescence to adulthood is challenging for even the most mature and privileged youth. For three young people in New York and Los Angeles, making the transition to independent living is considerably more difficult as they ""age out"" of the foster care system. They suddenly discover that they're on their own for the first time. Aging Out chronicles the daunting obstacles that these veterans of foster care encounter as they are forced to fend for themselves.Daniella Anderson juggles her college career with the hard reality of raising her newborn child and paying her bills. David Griffin leaves foster care for the streets, goes on a self-destructive drug and crime binge, copes with homelessness and incarceration, and eventually moves to Alaska with the hope of becoming a fisherman. And Risa Bejaramo attends her high school prom and graduates with several scholarships but also battles drug addiction and suffers an emotional breakdown during her freshman year of college. Although Aging Out presents an intimate and uncensored view of the difficult problems these teenagers face, the film also shows these young people using resiliency they developed during their years ""in the system"" to take control of their lives. Ultimately, this emotionally complex documentary becomes a deeply affecting portrait of the struggles of three young adults to overcome the scars of their troubled childhoods in order to realize their dreams of independence and fulfillment. Note: Sadly, Risa was the victim of a deadly murderer who killed her so she would not identify him for a previous felony. The film No Tomorrow reveals how Risa s life story, as depicted in Aging Out, was shown at the trial of the murderer and influenced the jury to declare the death sentence.","stream","[]","['United States', 'New York (State)', 'California']","['Foster children', 'Foster home care']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830945/1003830945-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650401"
"asp1650400-flon","Jones, Elizabeth C","Africa. Living with corruption","2008","49 min","[]","In this eye-opening film, the award-winning African journalist Sorious Samura reveals how corruption has become normal and accepted in Africa -- it is one of the root causes of Africa's many problems. Sadly, most aid money given by the West never reaches those it is meant to help; it gets siphoned off by corrupt governments. This film provides a sober portrait of how modern Africa really works. Samura moves into one of the largest slums in Africa, Kibera in Kenya, to reveal the relentlessness of everyday corruption, where the poor have to bribe just to survive. Bribery is the modus operandi for obtaining basics such as hospital appointments, building their shacks, getting work and staying out of jail. Samura returns home to Sierra Leone to live with a friend and her 10 children. Here widespread corruption led to a brutal and bloody civil war that ended in 2002. The country had the chance to start again but Samura describes how a seven-year aid project, led by the British, has failed because of corruption and a lack of understanding from Western donors. In the slums there is no water or electricity and Sierra Leoneans still have the worst life expectancy on the planet. Even a 9-year old must bribe his teachers just to be taught. Samura claims that, in many parts of Africa, school is a place where children learn how to bribe and to use power and status to get what they want.","stream","[]","['Africa']","['Corruption']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830941/1003830941-disc001-file001-frame00075-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650400"
"asp1650398-flon","Kwan, Paul","A wok in progress","2001","57 min","['Springroll triology']","The third film in the Springroll Trilogy interweaves a love of food with cultural and psychic survival. Paul Kwan, who was uprooted from his family and native country by the fall of Saigon, finds comfort in recreating his native foods in San Francisco, his new home (Anatomy of A Springroll). He faced the physical impairment imposed on him by a debilitating stroke (Pins and Noodles).In A Wok in Progress, Paul triumphs over the demons with his sense of whimsy, lyricism, and of course, his enjoyment of food and family. A Wok in Progress is a joyous romp through memory; a touch of personal philosophy; a distillation of sensory perceptions surrounding food and its preparation. Identity and a sense of well being are re-created in the kitchen. The co-producer's Jewish mother adds her latkes to the culinary mix. The film is a celebration of the powers of recovery on many different levels.","stream","['Kwan, Paul']","['California']","['Vietnamese Americans', 'Cooking, Vietnamese']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830935/1003830935-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650398"
"asp1650397-lawv","Trombley, Stephen","A death in the family","2000","53 min","['Eye for justice']","A Death in the Family is an anatomy of what family members experience as they gather to say goodbye to their loved one, witness his execution, then bring his body back home to bury him. During the long course of judicial appeals, the Bannister verdict had been regarded by many as a grave injustice. Jesse Jackson and Ed Asner had petitioned the Missouri governor for clemency. But Bannister s attorney felt that the Missouri attorney general was determined to ""kill A.J."". On the day of the execution, a small group of anti-death-penalty protestors gathered outside the prison, while pro-death-penalty activists carried signs that read ""Die. Die. Die."" The family members are allowed one last visit. His mother laments : ""It s not only the condemned man they re punishing. It s a whole family."" Live footage is combined with interviews, haunting still photographs, and an evocative musical score to create an almost unbearable portrait of loss. Clearly, the effect of the sentence is far reaching, way beyond the life of the person who is judged. Member of a series: Eye for Justice (series).","stream","['Bannister, A. J']","['Missouri']","['Death row inmates', 'Capital punishment']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830913/1003830913-disc001-file001-frame00120-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1650397"
"asp1650396-flon","Devine, Leigh","A changing heart","2003","52 min","[]","Fifty years ago, most marriages in Japan were arranged by parents and matchmakers (Nakodo). Arranged (Omiai) marriages were possible only within a culture of obedience. Obedient sons and daughters chose to do what their parents wanted them to do, the needs of society being more important than the needs of the individual. Today, Omiai marriages are relatively rare, but they continue to occur among people who are concerned with inherited property and titles. A Changing Heart takes an intimate look at how the Japanese, in only a century, have come to adopt love as a rationale for marriage. By examining the changing roles of women, the shape of families, the impact of World War II, as well as industrialization and the decline of tradition, the film illustrates how and why the Japanese have accepted new attitudes toward dating, romantic love and marriage. A Changing Heart also addresses the social consequences of this evolution. As people struggle with the high expectations fueled by this newly love-obsessed culture, marriages occur less often, birthrates decline and the number of divorces grows. Women in particular are increasingly choosing the independence of professional careers over married life, and young men are facing unwanted bachelorhood.","stream","[]","['Japan']","['Man-woman relationships', 'Marriage', 'Arranged marriage']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830907/1003830907-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650396"
"asp1650394-flon","Finocchiaro, Turi","Concert Yiddish soul","2007","43 min","[]","Lovers of Klezmer and Yiddish music are treated to performances by vocalists Chava Alberstein, Myriam Fuks, Shura Lipovsky, Karsten Troyke, the KlezRoym ensemble and a host of talented accompanists. Playing to a packed house in Brussels in 2005, their mournful and ecstatic tunes continue to evoke a rich tapestry of European Jewish life from the Middle Ages through the Second World War. Dance-happy rabbis, starry-eyed lovers and the longing for distant homelands are but a sampling of themes within the expansive canon. The jubilance and suffering of the songs attest to the history of the Yiddish language as the mouthpiece for European Jewry on topics as diverse as religion, politics and love. They move us with their celebrations of life in the face of unimaginable hardship.","stream","[]","[]","['Songs, Yiddish', 'Klezmer music']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826837/1003826837-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650394"
"asp1650391-hlth","Weisberg, Roger","Critical condition","2008","83 min","[]","What happens when you re sick and uninsured? The unforgettable people in this film discover that it can cost you your job, health, home, savings, and even your life. Critical Condition puts an intimate human face on America's growing health care crisis by chronicling the struggles of a diverse group of uninsured Americans as they battle critical illness over a two-year period. Joe Stornaiuolo, a doorman for fifteen years, loses his finger, then his job, and ultimately his health insurance. Unable to afford the medication or doctor visits he needs to manage his progressing liver disease, Joe is hospitalized four times in one year and dies on November 30, 2006 from a lack of medical coverage, according to his loving wife. Karen Dove loses her insurance because her deteriorating health forces her to quit her job as an apartment manager. When Karen begins experiencing severe recurrent abdominal pains, the doctors she contacts are unwilling to see uninsured patients. After she finally finds a gynecological oncologist willing to treat her a year later, she is diagnosed with Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer, which is almost always terminal. Carlos Benitez, an uninsured chef at a French restaurant, has a severe back deformity that has caused him fifteen years of chronic pain and taken seven inches off his height. After learning that the County Hospital will not perform surgery, Carlos becomes convinced that the only way to find a cure without insurance is to travel to Mexico, where the orthopedic specialists recommend he undergo surgery as soon as possible. Hector Cardenas takes a medical leave from his job as a warehouse supervisor when his diabetes necessitates an amputation for a gangrenous foot. The loss of his job and insurance force Hector to struggle to repair his broken temporary prosthesis on his own. He feels trapped, as he cannot earn money without a permanent prosthesis, and he cannot afford the prosthesis without employment and decent medical benefits. No matter how staggering it is to learn that 18,000 Americans die every year simply because they lack health insurance, that number is just an abstract statistic. Access to health care as a moral issue, bridging the conventional partisan political divide. And, these stories graphically illustrate the enormous cost in dollars and human suffering that we pay when the public foots the bill for catastrophic illnesses that could be inexpensively prevented with access to routine primary care. This film shows real people and the tragic circumstances they face without health insurance.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Health insurance', 'Medically uninsured persons', 'Medical care']","['Documentary television programs']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826831/1003826831-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1650391"
"asp1785026-curv","","Children of war","2003","45 min","[]","Thousands of children in Uganda have been abducted, tortured, and forced to fight as soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army, led by religious fanatic, Joseph Kuny. John Rheinstein, a therapist from Save the Children Denmark, runs a rehabilitation program to help those children who escape from the rebel army to deal with their traumatic experiences, and hopefully, to return to their families.","stream","['Kony, Joseph']","['Uganda']","['War', 'Children', 'Children and war']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826827/1003826827-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1785026"
"asp1650389-flon","Bader, Barbara","Beautiful piggies","2001","29 min","[]","This revealing self portrait of an overeater will strike a chord with most Americans who are concerned with weight and body image. It follows Barbara, the video maker, from seeming to be an attractive, cheerful young child through her metamorphosis into a five foot tall, one hundred and seventy-five pound conflicted woman. Mixing old photos and reminiscences of family members, the film creates an amusing vision of the survival of a compulsive eater and the trials of family members who love and live with her. Who are these family members who speculate on where Barbara went astray? A well -groomed mother who laments Barbara s inability to dress with chic. A fat father who gives the geneaology of his family's portliness. A loving husband who admires her beautiful eyes if not her shape. And then there s Barbara herself who describes the compulsion and shame of binging. She may be looking for the comfort food of her youth. She may be avoiding her sexuality. She may be wanting to ""drop out."" Beautiful Piggies is not a clinical study of an eating disorder. But no one who sees it will ever blame a fat person for being that way.","stream","['Bader, Barbara']","[]","['Compulsive eaters', 'Eating disorders']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826826/1003826826-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650389"
"asp1650388-curv","","Among the disappeared. A Cambodian survivor remembers","2003","44 min","[]","As a young child, Kodaim Ear survived the suffering the Khmer Rouge inflicted on Cambodia. He lost his parents and three sisters and was saved by his cunning and determined grandfather who enabled the remaining family members to survive the rigors of forced labor in the countryside. Now thirty, and recently married, Kodaim resolves to revisit the land of his childhood, to re-trace his terrifying journey to freedom. He needs to ""face the demons"" by putting the images of terror to rest and restoring the memory of his parents. Along with Kodaim s personal story, this compelling documentary traces the history of Cambodia from the reign of King Sihanouk, to his overthrow, with American support, by Lon Nol, a right wing former police chief. This corrupt regime was toppled by the insurgent Khmer Rouge and the country spiraled downward into mayhem and genocide. We hear first hand how the cities were emptied out, and the professional class forced into rural areas to work the land. People starved, sickened and died. When war broke out between Vietnam and Cambodia, Kodaim and his grandfather fled to safety in Vietnamese-controlled Cambodia. But their odyssey did not end there and we learn how they picked their way through mine fields and trekked through mountains without food or water. The path of escape would lead to Thailand and finally to the safe haven of Canada. This vivid story of survival and human renewal is a memorable addition to audiovisual resources on southeast Asia.","stream","[]","['Cambodia', 'Canada']","['Genocide', 'Cambodian-Vietnamese Conflict, 1977-1991', 'Cambodians']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826823/1003826823-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1650388"
"asp1650387-flon","Kramer, Karen (Karen Susan)","Days of awe","1997","44 min","[]","Throughout New York City, Orthodox Jews practice ancient customs that are little known to outsiders. Though often closed to strangers, the filmmaker was able to follow one ultra orthodox community in Brooklyn during their most sacred season. While ancient Jewish traditions are carried out year-round, there is one month in autumn when the most important holidays are observed. Prayer, song, ecstatic dance, and celebration mark this time of year. Against the backdrop of modern New York, the thousand year-old-traditions come alive in processions, street dancing, candle lighting, and the building of temporary houses adorned with greenery. As the celebrants speak about the history and meaning of their customs they become part of the cultural mosaic that is New York. The result is a sympathetic and lyrical portrait of a people during their most holy time of year.","stream","[]","['New York (State)']","['Judaism', 'High Holidays', 'Fasts and feasts', 'Orthodox Judaism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826694/1003826694-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1650387"
"asp1649857-busv","","Dollar by dollar","2001","45 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Tells the story of the neighborhood activists who struggled to establish community development credit unions, sometimes known as ""people's banks"".","stream","[]","['United States']","['Community development credit unions', 'Credit unions', 'Documentary films']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826701/1003826701-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1649857"
"asp1649841-flon","","A one & a two","1997","28 min","[]","This is a portrait of Angelo, a widower after thirty-seven years of marriage, as he begins to build a new life. During the process of ""starting over,"" he discovered afternoon ballroom dancing -- a new passion that is becoming a senior phenomenon. Set against his adventures on the dance floor in search of female companionship, are his down -to- earth descriptions of the adjustments he has had to make. He had depended on his wife for so much in life --preparing his meals, balancing his checkbook, selecting his clothes, and explaining his actions or reactions to his children. Now he must deal with issues of loneliness, retirement, finances, courtship and fathering all by himself -- at the same time as he learns how to date. This is an encouraging film about the potential of people to grow and enjoy life in their later years.","stream","[]","[]","['Older people', 'Bereavement', 'Widowers', 'Ballroom dancing']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830923/1003830923-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649841"
"asp1649761-lawv","","Innocent until proven guilty","1999","89 min","['Award winning films and videos']","Follows Forman both in his role as public defender and as educator at an alternative high school for juvenile ex-offenders, which he co-founded. Using his knowledge of the judicial system, his understanding of the streets, and his commitment to the African-American community, he is trying to help at-risk youth get back on track.","stream","['Forman, James']","['United States', 'Washington (D.C.)']","['Juvenile justice, Administration of', 'African American youth', 'Juvenile delinquents', 'Alternative schools', 'Discrimination in juvenile justice administration', 'Public defenders']","['Non-fiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826778/1003826778-disc001-file001-frame00065-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1649761"
"asp1649697-flon","Bourgaux, Pascale","Rape in the ranks","2010","30 min","[]","This hard-hitting film is the first to cover the shocking story of sexual harassment and rape of American women soldiers. The Pentagon has acknowledged receiving 3,000 reports of sexual mistreatment in one year alone. These female soldiers were not attacked by the Afghan or Iraqi ""enemy,"" but by colleagues in their own platoons and sometimes by their own superior officers. Each year the number of reported sexual assaults has skyrocketed but not the number of convictions: only 2% of accused rapists are ever court-martialed. The double traumas of sexual persecution and combat may be why a 2008 RAND study found that female veterans are suffering twice as much depression and post-traumatic stress disorder as their male counterparts.Very few women have been willing to speak out, but four women, all in their twenties, and their families decided to talk openly about their ordeals. Unable to stand the nightmarish daily rapes by her commander in Iraq, Suzanne refused to report back for mission and was subsequently court-martialed. Jessica was raped in the U.S. and Korea and left the service, yet hopes to return and bring her attackers to justice. Stephanie has come to regret never reporting her own rape, hence perpetuating the law of silence. Tina, who was raped in Iraq, supposedly ""killed herself"" although her mother claims she was murdered. This film recounts the story of their pain, revolt and uphill battle for justice.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Rape', 'Sexual harassment of women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003906xxx/1003906932/1003906932-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649697"
"asp1649696-busv","","Mongolian cashmere traders","1999","24 min","['Global business and economics in video']","The nomadic goat herders of Mongolia, who live on the plains southwest of Ulan Bator, are thriving in the new economic climate. Long controlled by the government, wool from the cashmere goats is now on the free market. Here, on the broad plateau, the sale of large volumes of fine cashmere wool is negotiated between tribespeople and traders.We get a close- up look at several nomadic families whose traditional ways have been changing. Riyshya traded his wool for a stylish new motor bike on which he proudly cruises the plateau. Clearly, new commodities are being introduced. Rice, which had always been scarce, has become part of the staple diet. The small community has established its own school, so children no longer have to travel long distances daily.Among the herders, all important matters are discussed together as a group. The film provides a fascinating insight into a traditional community successfully adapting to changing times.","stream","[]","['Mongolia']","['Nomads', 'Goats']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003906xxx/1003906864/1003906864-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1649696"
"asp1649695-flon","Levie, Françoise","Memoirs of a Hindu princess","1999","52 min","[]","This biographical portrait of Gayatri Devi, the outspoken daughter and granddaughter of the Maharajas, spans modern India's history from British rule, through the struggle for independence to today's modern state. It is enriched with archival footage and home movies showing scenes of colonial splendor from a vanished way of life. Born in 1920, Gayatri was married at twenty to the dashing Prince of Jaipur, with whom she lived a glamorous life on an international scale. After independence and the slow dismantling of princely powers, she continued to stay in the limelight, and was hostess to the Kennedys, the Queen of England and Nikita Kruschev. Always dedicated to the welfare of her people, the Princess sought to emancipate girls living in Purdah by starting India s first public school. She was elected as a state senator in 1962, and held that seat until 1978. During Indira Gandhi s rule, the Princess was jailed along with other political opponents and her palace was ransacked for its treasures. Today, known as Rajmatah Sahiba, the mother of the people, she continues to look after her schools and rebel against injustice and corruption.","stream","['Gayatri Devi', 'Maharani of Jaipur']","['India']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003833xxx/1003833826/1003833826-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649695"
"asp1649694-flon","Birder, Melis","The tenth planet","2006","39 min","[]","A sparkling young Baghdadi woman, Kawkab, leads us around her city with a mischievous glint. Defying the stereotype of the Muslim woman, she is not afraid to speak her mind about anything, from sex, love and virginity to her pro-Saddam patriotism. The film paints an unique picture of the current situation in Iraq from her perspective -- totally different from the U.S. media s coverage as it measures the cost of war by body-counts and dollars spent. Kawkab reveals an intimate and human side of Baghdad, speaking with compelling optimism of her hopes and joys. She visits a neighborhood beauty parlor where many brides come to have their make- up and hair done. The women, remembering Saddam s era as ""the good old days,"" express their feelings about the U.S. occupation with great candor. Whatever goodwill they felt towards the U.S. has evaporated due to the extreme insecurity, lack of jobs and public services and the rising cost of living they are experiencing. Tired of these gloomy discussions, Kawkab is more curious about how the brides feel about losing their virginity after their weddings. Her overt curiosity turns even a shopping trip into an insightful look into a complex society in massive upheaval. She voices issues faced by women in Iraq and in the Arab world at large.","stream","[]","['Iraq', 'Baghdad (Iraq)']","['Single women', 'Iraqis', 'Iraq War, 2003']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832088/1003832088-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649694"
"asp1649692-flon","Norelli, Gianfranco","The sunrise dance","1995","29 min","[]","This unique and highly visual documentary shows an ancient, sacred Apache ceremony that has never before been filmed. The Sunrise Ceremony which marks the passage from adolescence to adulthood for young Apache women, is disappearing under the pressure of cultural assimilation. This documentary focuses on 13-year-old Maureen Nachu, who lives on the Fort Apache Reservation, in Whiteriver, Arizona. It captures the elaborate preparations for the ceremony: the mystical rituals of the Medicine Man who presides over the dance, the spiritual purification rites in the ""Sweat Lodge,"" and the secret midnight appearance of the ""Crown Dancers."" The Sunrise Dance is a tremendous physical test, lasting three days. It proves that Maureen has the courage and strength of character to take her place in adult society. For Maureen, her family and her community, the dance is a reaffirmation of tribal identity and the celebration of the role of women in Apache society.","stream","[]","[]","['Changing Woman Ceremony (Apache rite)', 'Apache Indians']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832084/1003832084-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649692"
"asp1649688-ahiv","","The rouge. The factory and the workers","1998","47 min","['American history in video']","When it was built in 1918, the Ford motor plant in Detroit was the largest industrial complex in the world. The plant was the embodiment of Henry Ford's vision to build cars that every American working man could afford to buy. Using old footage, The Rouge captures the flavor of the early part of the century when thousands of workers flocked to Detroit in search of a better life. They came from Europe, from Mexico, and the southern United States to work on the assembly line. The Rouge became an important part of labor history from the time it was built until the time it was organized by the United Auto Workers in 1941. When the Depression hit the country, the Rouge workers were laid off and suffered in great numbers. At the height of the depression, five workers were killed outside of the plant's gates while participating in a hunger march. In another labor incident, Walter Reuther and other United Auto Workers organizers were beaten up by Ford s security guard in an incident known as the Battle of the Overpass. Through archival footage and first-hand accounts by the Italian, Ukranian, Mexican, African American and Irish who spent their lives in the factory, the struggle of the workers is made vivid for a new generation.","stream","['Ford Motor Company']","['Michigan', 'Detroit (Mich.)']","['Automobile industry workers']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832067/1003832067-disc001-file001-frame00195-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1649688"
"asp1649686-hlth","","The more we get together","1987","45 min","[]","The More We Get Together gives insights into working with very old, disoriented, nursing home residents. Naomi Feil, who has devoted her life to working with the elderly, demonstrates her techniques for restoring dignity, awakening social responses and making sense out of confusion.In Part I, ""The Three Stages of Disorientation,"" she shows how to work with individuals who are suffering from malorientation, time confusion, and repetitive movement. In Part II, ""The Three Phases of a Validation Group"", she demonstrates how to form a validation group.l and scientific community can add to the understanding of human nature and the cultivation of positive life skills.","stream","[]","[]","['Older people', 'Validation therapy']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832047/1003832047-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1649686"
"asp1649683-flon","Haanstra, Bert","The family of chimps","1988","55 min","['Filmakers library online']","The internationally known ethologist, Dr. Frans de Waal based his spectacular book ""Chimpanzee Politics"" on his unique study at the Arnhem Zoo in Holland. This film documents his study on the remarkable life within this almost human community. We see the primate's intricate social strategies. They are passionate in their greed for power, touching in their relations to one another, and intriguing in their sexual behavior. We also note their ingenious use of tools.","stream","[]","[]","['Chimpanzees']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832004/1003832004-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649683"
"asp1649681-artv","Jokel, Lana","Strong-Cuevas sculpture","2006","54 min","[]","Strong-Cuevas sculpts powerful, larger than life pieces that can hold sway on a hilltop, and conjure up tribal pieces from Africa or Oceania. In this film, we follow her from her studio in Amagansett, Long Island to the foundry up the Hudson where her pieces take their final shape in its glowing furnace. With an exacting eye, she works with the staff of experts to refine the shape and burnish the finish. For those who have never seen the genesis of a larger -than -life statue, this is an education in the science and craft of sculpture. Some of Strong- Cuevas pieces may be seen in the famed Grounds for Sculpture, a 22-acre sculpture park in New Jersey. This illuminating documentary allows us to see how an artist's personal vision translates into a work of art. ""Strong-Cuevas bronze sculptures contain a great deal of psychic energy. Isolated facial features removed from context, enclosed mysterious spaces, meticulously polished surfaces and a certain ritualistic quality, all help to generate this spiritual feeling"" The New York Times.","stream","['Strong-Cuevas, Elizabeth']","[]","['Sculpture']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831947/1003831947-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1649681"
"asp1649680-flon","Winer, Lucy","Silent pioneers. Gay and lesbian elders","1985","43 min","[]","In this film we meet eight elderly gays and lesbians who lived through an era when homosexuality was not tolerated, and who battled for self-esteem and survival in a ""straight world."" Among them are: a male couple still in love after 55 years of living together; a former monk turned rancher who in his eighties has made peace with being Catholic and gay; and a black great-grandmother who revealed her lesbianism to her grandchildren. This film challenges many stereotypes about homosexuals and shows that they have long-standing, deep-rooted commitments.","stream","[]","[]","['Older people', 'Homosexuality']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831900/1003831900-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649680"
"asp1649679-flon","","Portrait of a muckraker. The stories of Jessica Mitford","1990","58 min","[]","This award-winning program is a wise and witty portrait of the outspoken activist, Jessica Mitford, whose scathing expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, gained her instant notoriety. From her acid pen came The Trial of Dr. Spock, a critique of the 1968 trial of the Boston Five. Next came Kind and Unusual Punishment, a catalyzing force behind the prison reform movement. The story of Mitford's life is interwoven with the issues of post-war America - civil rights, communism and the anti-war movement. Personal recollections, archival footage, and accounts by family and friends round out this portrait of a woman whose dedication to causes has led to significant social change.","stream","['Mitford, Jessica']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831384/1003831384-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649679"
"asp1649678-flon","","Mother Teresa's first love","1999","27 min","[]","This documentary contains perhaps the last authorized footage of Mother Teresa and is a testament to the legacy she left behind. It was filmed in Calcutta at The Home for the Dying and Destitute, the first refuge she established. Other such hospices followed, but the one in Calcutta remained her ""first love.""Seen through the eyes of the foreign volunteers, this film gives an intimate look at the love and care provided to the destitute ill. Mother Teresa s philosophy encouraged hard physical work and a ""hands on"" caring, so the ill do not feel isolated. The film also captures the spiritual uplift the volunteers feel through their service. Included is rare footage of Mother Teresa in her private Catholic chapel.","stream","['Teresa, Mother', 'Missionaries of Charity']","['India', 'Calcutta (India)']","['Nuns']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831278/1003831278-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649678"
"asp1649676-gltv","","Generations of violence","1989","59 min","[]","This documentary is a compelling portrait of the legacy of family violence that is passed on from one generation to another. We meet both the victims and the perpetrators of violent behavior, and hear their personal experiences. One young boy tells how he was sexually abused by his mother's live-in boyfriend. Another boy tells of his mother who beat him with a belt as hard as she could. A mother reveals how she severly mistreated her son as a youth. She now realizes that her actions contributed to his becoming a criminal. A father describes the compulsion he once had to sexually abuse his three daughters. Professionals who deal with these troubled people, including a detective, a judge and a psychiatrist, share with us their insights. We hear from representatives of self-help organizations such as Parents Anonymous.","stream","[]","[]","['Family violence', 'Child sexual abuse']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831084/1003831084-disc001-file001-frame00170-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1649676"
"asp1649675-artv","Kessler, Jason","A thief among the angels","2001","55 min","[]","This entertaining film tells the story of Barry Moser, one of America's greatest book artists. Moser is a big bear of a man with a full, white beard and the Tennessee accent of a Bible Belt preacher which, at 19 is exactly what he was. He s also a master book designer, illustrator, publisher and virtuoso wood engraver. Now, he has completed the project of a lifetime, a limited edition Bible. It is the only Bible of the 20th century to be illustrated by a single artist, who believes ""the problems of good and evil are still to be fought today"". Moser s visually stunning, intensely personal interpretation of Western civilisation s central text is fascinating. Many of the Old Testament stories are never told because of the terrible ""travails of the human spirit and human warts"" found in the Bible. Moser does not shy away from these stories and indeed enjoys illustrating the blood and gore described in the Bible. His images of the characters in the Bible are arresting and original; for example, his model for Jesus is a chef in an Italian restaurant! After being brought up in a southern fundamentalist background, Moser became disillusioned with the church and moved north, studying printing and typography at the Gehenna Press. His own Pennyroyal Press has published books like Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. He also designs for other publishers, such as Arion Press for whom he did Melville s Moby-Dick.","stream","['Moser, Barry']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003830xxx/1003830933/1003830933-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1649675"
"asp1649674-flon","Kuper, Jack","A day in the Warsaw Ghetto","1993","30 min","[]","No collection of films on the Holocaust can be considered complete without this haunting visual record of the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. One will never know why Wehrmacht Sergeant Heinz Joest decided to celebrate his 43rd birthday in 1941 by illegally photographing inside the ghetto. Or why he kept the pictures hidden for some forty years until he knew he was dying. But this German soldier s images of the misery, and also the spirit, of its doomed inhabitants form the core of Jack Kuper's extraordinary portrayal of humanity in a nightmare situation. The filmmaker, himself a Holocaust survivor, has done a masterful job combining Joest s pictures with a multi-voiced dramatic narration taken from hidden ghetto diaries. Yiddish songs, klezmer music, sound effects and skillful camera work heighten the impact. Stark images show life behind the ghetto walls. There are beggars with imploring grins, peddlers hawking arm-bands, scruffy urchins, emaciated musicians, and the occasional nattily dressed resident, probably a recent arrival. Though they live in unbearable circumstances, it is apparent that the people have not been completely stripped of their culture and identity. Illegal schools and prayer groups co-exist with disease and hunger. The diaries reveal a chord of humor running through the despair. A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto gives reality to an almost incomprehensible evil.","stream","[]","['Warsaw (Poland)', 'Poland']","['Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003830xxx/1003830911/1003830911-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1649674"
"asp1649673-hlth","","India. Medical tourism","2007","24 min","[]","India's booming private healthcare system is expected to be worth billions of dollars in the decades to come, as westerners flock to India to get healthy. Fed up with long lines and exorbitant fees at home, these patients can now fly to the subcontinent and go straight to the front of the line for cheap operations in newly built, hi-tech hospitals. Averill Dollery who lives in Worcestershire in the U.K.suffers from chronic pain; a pinched nerve in her back is destroying her quality of life. Averill can't get an operation to fix her back because the National Health Service considers that her weight problem would make the spinal surgery she requires too dangerous. But salvation is at hand - in the form of India's Doctor Prathap Reddy. Reddy is a cardiologist, a medical entrepreneur and the driving force behind the Apollo Hospital empire. All Averill has to do to get help is sign up, pay up and get on a plane to New Delhi. But for the many millions of Indians who live in abject poverty the health system barely functions. India's overstretched and under resourced public health system is failing its people. With the rapidly growing private sector catering to prosperous medical tourists, the health care of ordinary Indians is being neglected.","stream","[]","['India']","['Medical tourism', 'Poor', 'Medical care']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826775/1003826775-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1649673"
"asp1647242-hlth","","The Chinese hospice","2000","47 min","[]","In Bejing stands the only hospital in China to specialize in allowing people approaching the end of their lives to die with dignity. It was established ten years ago by Dr. Li Wei, who had been a barefoot doctor in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. He saw much hardship during those years and vowed to help some of those people who survived. Compared to a Western hospital, this is a simple, basic facility. Care and respect permeates the atmosphere. Each of the elderly patients embodies the history of his or her generation. Entwined with their stories is film footage illustrating the turbulent times through which they lived. By focusing on the stories of a few people nearing the end of life, The Chinese Hospice lends a personal face to history.","stream","[]","['China']","['Older people', 'Hospices (Terminal care)', 'Terminally ill']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831991/1003831991-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1647242"
"asp1784996-fln4","","Dads wanted","","45 min","['Filmakers library online']","Parenthood is a big step for anyone irrespective of their sexual orientation. But because gay and lesbian parents have broken the traditional family mold, they have even more choices to make. How will they get a child? Who will be the designated parents? How will they define each parents' role? Will their children have a difficult time socially? We meet Leigh, a lesbian single mother, who advertises in a gay newspaper for a man to be an active co-parent. The film tracks her search and discovers what is involved when embarking on such a mission. Glen has two young boys whom he fathered for a lesbian couple. Glen and his partner share custody of the boys with the women and have developed a unique system of sharing child care. A lesbian couple, Erin and Theresa, have newly born twins after Theresa impregnated herself at home with sperm from an anonymous donor. We follow Erin's legal battle to be a guardian of the children.","stream","[]","['New Zealand']","['Gay parents']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831031/1003831031-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784996"
"asp1646915-flon","Samuel, Julian","The library in crisis","2002","48 min","[]","Dense with the informed commentary of notable scholars, this documentary in effect traces the history of civilization through the phenomenon of the library. From ancient China, India, Islam, and the Graeco Roman world, we see how the library radiated knowledge and spiritual values, and facilitated the cross fertilization of ideas from one culture to another. Now this venerable institution is under siege, these scholars suggest, from a variety of forces: the internet, digital technology, copyright law and that most contemporary bugaboo, globalization. Among those we hear from are Fred Lerner, author of the Story of Libraries; Peter F. McNally, McGill University; Islamic scholar Sumaiya Handani, George Mason University; Donald Gutstein, Simon Fraser University. A challenging production for everyone in academia, including students!.","stream","[]","[]","['Libraries and society', 'Libraries']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832032/1003832032-disc001-file001-frame00090-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646915"
"asp1646914-hlth","Nair, Mira","The laughing club of India","2002","35 min","[]","Five years ago in Bombay, Dr. Madan Kataria decided to find out whether or not ""laughter is the best medicine."" He gathered together a group of patients and neighbors to meet daily to laugh. After a time, Dr. Kataria found that the participants experienced improved health and decreased levels of stress. Thus was born across India the phenomenon of laughing clubs. Since then, clubs have spread to Europe and to the United States.In this film, award-winning director Mira Nair has created a compassionate, sometimes ironic portrait of a number of ""serious laughers"" who meet daily in these clubs in pursuit of happiness.","stream","[]","['India']","['Laughter', 'Medicine']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832030/1003832030-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1646914"
"asp1646913-flon","","The last taboo. Children who sexually abuse","1993","40 min","[]","This groundbreaking program shatters the Victorian notion of childhood innocence. It reveals that sexual abuse of children is also committed by other children. New research shows that over one third of child abusers are under the age of eighteen and one third of those are under eleven. We meet both abused children and those who abuse others, and learn how they are often part of a cycle of family abuse. Prof. Judith Becker from the University of Arizona questions the Freudian assumption that children between the ages of six and twelve are in a latency period, uninterested in sex. She defines an abusing relationship as one where there is no informed consent, where there is an imbalance of power between the individuals, and when there is manipulation by the abuser to gain one's end.One problem in intervention is a reluctance of social workers to label a child as an abuser. Another problem is the dearth of rehabilitation programs. Experts agree that early intervention is necessary, since deviant behavior becomes more entrenched in adulthood.","stream","[]","[]","['Child sex offenders', 'Children', 'Child sexual abuse']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832028/1003832028-disc001-file001-frame00035-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646913"
"asp1784990-flon","","Our way of loving","1996","58 min","['Hamar trilogy']","The third program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. This film shows Duka, now a mother with two young children. Her life is dominated by caring for them and her husband, Sago. Although Sago and Duka seem to have an affectionate marriage, he beats her when provoked. She accepts this behavior for she believes it is a man's way of loving. Film also shows the ceremony of Sago's cousin's initiation into manhood.","stream","[]","['Ethiopia']","['Ethnology', 'Sex role', 'Hamar (African people)', 'Rites and ceremonies', 'Marriage', 'Women', 'Families']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832014/1003832014-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784990"
"asp1646908-flon","","The grand generation","1994","28 min","[]","From Academy Award winner Paul Wagner comes this warm portrait of six elderly Americans whose vigor belies their age. Three are folk artists, one a baker, one a political activist, and one a bayman on the Chesapeake. Though they remember the past, they still relish the present and life it fully. Rosina Tucker, a 102-year-old African American, was a union organizer and civil rights activist. Rosina is still engaged in these causes and her face lights up as she recites the poetry that inspired her. Alex Kellam knows how to navigate in fifty-mile gales and knows where to find the best crabs. He considers himself as professional as any doctor or lawyer, only his education came from the sea. Moishe Sacks recalls his pleasure as a baker with his hands an extension of the dough he kneaded. Ballad singer Nimrod Workman, albedos singer Cleofes Vigil and embroiderer Ethel Mohamed demonstrate their artistry and trace its role in their lives. Throughout the film old photographs and folk music round out the portraits. Their lives of struggle, accomplishment and earned wisdom can teach and inspire all Americans.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Older people']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832013/1003832013-disc001-file001-frame00080-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646908"
"asp1646907-lawv","Hollander, Neil","The golden triangle. Forbidden land of opium","2006","52 min","[]","The fabled Golden Triangle of southeast Asia is the home of heroin, morphine, and a host of amphetamines. One corner rests in northern Thailand, another in the jungles of Laos and the third is lodged deep in the mountains of Myanmar, once known as Burma. On the rugged hillsides and in remote clearings, rippling seas of golden poppies grow. Soon their sap will be turned into opium and heroin and will make its way to the back streets of the world's urban ghettos. Shielded by jungles, mountains and many private armies, the area is still the fiefdom of drug lords and their cronies, where conflict is the norm and everyone is armed. The section of the triangle in Myanmar, has traditionally been the biggest, most productive and, in recent years, the most foreboding. A kind of no-man's land and a haven for drug lords, it has become a monument to monoculture - the cultivation of opium. But times are changing for the opium world. The world community is seeking to curtail the yearly crop of poppies and introduce crop substitution as a viable alternative for poppies. One by one, the drug warlords are making peace and disbanding their armies. This film focuses on the opium growers themselves, tribal people who are currently caught in this moment of change when opium may well cease to be their staff of life. They relate what it is like to live in a culture of opium where everyone is a grower, or trader, or user or all three. A mini Las Vegas has grown up in a boom town called Mongla where gambling is a flourishing legal local industry filled with Chinese tourists. Formerly known as: ""Flowers of Death"".","stream","[]","['Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)', 'Burma']","['Opium trade', 'Drug traffic', 'Opium poppy growers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832010/1003832010-disc001-file001-frame00145-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1646907"
"asp1646906-flon","","The golden cage. A story of California's farmworkers","1991","29 min","['America : a cultural mosaic']","Chronicles the experiences of Mexican farmworkers in California. Traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union from the sixties to its current decline.","stream","['United Farm Workers']","['California']","['Foreign workers, Mexican', 'Migrant agricultural laborers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832009/1003832009-disc001-file001-frame00190-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646906"
"asp1646905-blsv","Roennau, Linda","The cloth sings to me","1998","17 min","['Black studies in video']","In this video, we meet the ebullient women quilters who display their colorful creations. Many of the women incorporate African fabrics into their work, thus enhancing their connection to their roots. Here is an art form made from remnants, where every scrap of fabric has its history. Textile historian Dr. Floris Cash reflects on how quilts are interwoven with the lives of black women in America. Those artists that depict narrative scenes in fabric are continuing the storytelling tradition that is such an integral part of their cultural heritage. Willis ""Bing"" Davis, Chairman of the Art Department of Central State University, speaks of the spirituality of these works which come from the hearts and memories of their creators.","stream","[]","['United States']","['African American quiltmakers', 'Quilting', 'African American quilts']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831992/1003831992-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1646905"
"asp1646904-flon","","Salman Rushdie. Between the devil and the deep blue sea","1998","43 min","[]","This eloquent film on Salman Rushdie brings into sharp focus the conflict between freedom of expression and religious conservatism. The film opens with a short reading by Rushdie in his richly modulated voice from Haroun and the Sea, a book he wrote for his son a year after after he went into hiding. The film goes on to show the bookburnings and protests that Satanic Verses provoked thoughout Moslem communities all over the world, but most shockingly in Bradford, England.  Bradford is the Islamic capital of England. There are forty mosques and many Koranic schools. Many of its inhabitants support the fatwa of Ayotollah Komeini and express their disgust at the book. Rushdie reminds us that books do not injure people; one can always close a book if it offends. In response to being labeled blasphemous, he says ""this is a crude, fascist term to shut people up."" At a conference on censorship, secrecy and democracy, author Gunther Grass says ""no one should claim a monopoly on the truth"".","stream","['Rushdie, Salman']","[]","['Islam and literature', 'Freedom of the press']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831865/1003831865-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646904"
"asp1784984-fln4","","Motherland. A genetic journey. 1","","90 minutes","['Motherland']","Cut off from their ancestry by the three-hundred-year-long slave trade which uprooted 12 million people from Africa, three people are given the opportunity, through DNA searches, to reconnect with their roots. Through advances in DNA research and with the help of laboratories in the UK and America, the possibility arises that with a swab from the inside of a person's cheek they can trace back twelve or thirteen generations to the tribe of their ancestors. We follow three people in their search for their roots. Mark's search leads him from London to reconnect with the Kanuri tribe in southern Niger. Jacqueline's family comes from Jamaica. She is mixed race and research reveals one ancestor was a slave owner; she visits what was once his sugar plantation. Beaula has always felt a deep affinity with Africa. Her DNA test results lead her to Bioko island in Equatorial Guinea where the Bubi tribe still lives. There she is welcomed as a sister. For each person, the reconnection is emotional, but weighted also with unanticipated cultural differences. What is behind this longing to know? Strong feelings of ""otherness"" because of being dark skinned in white society. Motherland explores the emotional terrain of being cut off from one's roots. By following these intense journeys of rediscovery and re-connection, the film speaks to a wide range of identity issues in the African diaspora.","stream","[]","['England']","['Blacks', 'Heredity, Human', 'Genetics', 'African Americans', 'Human genetics']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831280/1003831280-disc001-file001-frame00165-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784984"
"asp1646902-flon","","Morocco. The past and present of Djemma el Fna","1996","19 min","[]","Marrakech's famous square, a historic crossroad of Arab and Berber cultures, has for years stirred the imagination of Westerners. This documentary captures the color, romance and spiritual atmosphere that once led visitors such as Edith Wharton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill to marvel at its magic. More than a tourist spectacle, the square with its storytellers, musicians, acrobats and snake charmers, embodies centuries-old cultural traditions. Our Moroccan guide informs us of the square's history as a destination for caravans from the Sahara and how from earliest times it has been a center for the dissemination of ideas. He weaves his way through the square which is overflowing with performers including the snake charmer, Blaid Farrouss and his young son who hopes to carry on his family s profession. We watch visitors enjoy their exchanges with people who at first appeared strange and exotic. In turn Moroccans show their interest in foreigners and the world beyond Morocco they represent. Always, our guide points to the importance of tradition and hospitality in the Arab world.","stream","[]","['Marrakech (Morocco)', 'Morocco']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831276/1003831276-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646902"
"asp1646901-blsv","Kramer, Karen (Karen Susan)","Moko Jumbie. Traditional stilt walkers","1992","16 min","['Black studies in video']","The name means ""dancing spirit"", and these ten-foot-high stilt walkers appear at street festivals in New York City, at Carnival celebrations in the Caribbean, and during religious ceremonies in West Africa. Wearing special costumes and masks which add to their mystery, the moko jumbie is both feared and revered. Because of their great height they are seen as all-powerful figures accompanied by joyous music and feelings of awe. This unique film shows the art, craft, dance and history of the moko jumbie. It gives background into the costume and dance movements, as well as its origins in West Africa. Narrated by two moko jumbies living in New York City, this lively film provides fresh cultural insight.","stream","[]","[]","['Moko Jumbies']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831272/1003831272-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1646901"
"asp1646899-curv","Donovan, Bill","Michael Harrington and today's other America","2001","86 min","[]","Michael Harrington's book The Other America, a groundbreaking study of poverty in America, was published in 1962. Read by President John F. Kennedy, it was probably the driving force behind the ""war on poverty."" The Boston Globe editorialized that Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps and expanded social security benefits were traceable to Harrington's ideas. Harrington became the pre-eminent spokesman for socialism in America.This film captures the essence of Harrington's ideas through the use of archival footage and interviews with people who knew and worked with him, as well as those who were in total disagreement. Over thirty interviews are filmed with people as diverse as John Kenneth Galbraith, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley and Charles Murray. We also hear from ordinary people who struggle to make a living, or are dependent on social services. These are the victims of what Harringon called ""the new American poverty,"" which unfortunately still exists despite a booming economy. The documentary includes a brief history of socialism in America, and raises questions concerning the merits and relevance of unions today, and the problems of migrant workers, farmers, inner cities and our health care system.","stream","['Harrington, Michael']","['United States']","['Poverty', 'Socialism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831264/1003831264-disc001-file001-frame00070-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1646899"
"asp1646898-flon","","Messengers without an audience","2003","52 min","[]","Messengers Without An Audience is a gripping documentary about the heroism of a handful of eyewitnesses who brought the first devastating reports about the Nazi atrocities to the West. Why did such a large proportion of the world ignore the genocide of millions of civilians in Europe? Did people not believe what was happening in Europe or was their indifference plain anti-Semitism? These questions are addressed in the documentary through interviews with four men who tried to warn the world: Jan Karski, Gerhart Riegner, Jan Nowak and Wladislav Bartoszewski. The documentary examines the reasons for ignoring the Nazi s murderous actions. Anti-Semitism was common at the time not only in Europe but among high officials of the American State Department. Was it shared by President Roosevelt? We do know that the State Department suppressed information, delayed action and directed consulates in the field to refuse refugees life-saving visas.Also interviewed are William Slany, the former Chief Historian of the State Department and Stuart Eizenstat, former U.S. Under Secretary of State. Slany's is the first testimony by a former top official of the Department. He speaks candidly about the catastrophic mistakes and the significant anti-Semitic attitude of that era. Stuart Eizenstat who published the Nazi-Gold Reports, discusses American responsibility for this tragic history.","stream","['Nowak, Jan', 'Karski, Jan', 'Riegner, Gerhart', 'Bartoszewski, Władysław']","[]","['Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)', 'World War, 1939-1945']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831262/1003831262-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646898"
"asp1646897-lawv","Birleffi, Bobbie","Men who molest. Children who survive","1986","55 min","[]","This film is an exploration into the lives of four child molesters. Three of them are in treatment at the nation's largest community-based facility, Northwest Treatment Associates of Seattle. We witness dramatic group therapy sessions in which they struggle to control their deviancy through this tough-minded treatment system. Through close, intimate stories we learn how devastating this crime is to the child and the family. Lucy Berliner, a major national expert in treating children, works with one little girl, encouraging her to face her convicted uncle in prison. This confrontation helps her to see that what happened was not her fault. This film is a powerful resource for mental health professionals, social workers, hospital staff, correction agencies, and crisis centers.","stream","[]","[]","['Family violence', 'Sexually abused children', 'Incest victims', 'Child molesters']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831261/1003831261-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1646897"
"asp1646896-hlth","Johnson, D. J","Men like my father, families like my own","2001","27 min","[]","This is sensitive portrait of men who had each lost a dearly loved wife at an early age, through illness or sudden act of fate. We learn how they fare bringing up their children, housekeeping, dealing with their emotions, and sometimes, finding new love. The filmmaker's mother had died when he was young, and his father had never been able to speak of their loss. It was this silence that ultimately propelled him to make the film and explore the effect of loss on young families. During the course of filming, father and son grew to understand each other. The filmmaker is entrusted with his parents' precious wedding album. Rarely does one see on camera the unambivalent love these men felt for their wives, which makes loss particularly poignant. An impressive film on male psychology as well as grief studies.","stream","[]","[]","['Grief', 'Bereavement', 'Death', 'Loss (Psychology)']","['Documentary television programs']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831260/1003831260-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1646896"
"asp1646894-flon","Ingleton, Sally","Mao's new suit","1999","53 min","[]","For decades people in China modeled themselves on Chairman Mao who wore a simple worker's outfit in blue or grey. It was known as the ""Mao Suit."" To wear anything different meant that you stood out, and in China any sign of independent thought had always been dangerous. But China's doors have opened - and so have people s wardrobes.This irrepressible film follows the fortunes of two attractive thirty- year-old Bejing fashion designers who are out to make their mark on the international fashion industry. Both women were born during the Cultural Revolution, but unlike their parents, they are dedicated to their careers, not to politics.Sun Jian, witty and confident, and her friend Guo Pei, softer and more diplomatic, travel to Shanghai to participate in the most important fashion show. Once there, they are plagued by problems - the slide projectors don t work; the student models are uncomfortable with the bold clothes; the location doesn t attract the press. But the show must go on and the friends are optimistic that it will be better next year. A delightful film to show the human face of changing China.","stream","[]","['China']","['Fashion', 'Women fashion designers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831247/1003831247-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646894"
"asp1646893-flon","","Man made famine","1987","54 min","[]","Three women from three African countries, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso, tell of their struggle to feed their families. Their stories give a human context to Africa s relentless slide into perpetual famine. We see how the efforts of women, who in fact grow 75% of Africa s food, are so often frustrated by the men in their villages as well as by outside business interests. They receive little help from their husbands who regard farming as demeaning, fit only for women. Often the husbands sell the land for a quick profit. This film gives insight into the women s existence and shows how they are challenging traditional male authority. Their stories are a powerful plea for support of their role in alleviating famine.","stream","[]","['Africa']","['Agriculture', 'Food industry and trade', 'Women farmers', 'Famines']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831243/1003831243-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646893"
"asp1646891-busv","Weisberg, Roger","Making welfare work","1995","56 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Making Welfare Work examines the current wave of welfare reform in America. In recent years, many Americans - while troubled by the plight of the poor - have become frustrated by what appears to be a permanent subculture of welfare dependency in this country. As a result, a number of states are experimenting with new financial incentives - ""carrots and sticks"" - in an effort to restructure their welfare systems.This documentary looks at the personal lives behind this complex and controversial welfare reform debate, searching for initiatives that have proven effective. The relative merit of supportive versus punitive measures, the effects of time limits, and the role of child support enforcement are all brought into focus by the real-life stories of families living in states that have become ""laboratories"" for the welfare reform experiment.While President Clinton has declared his desire to ""end welfare as we know it,"" there is little consensus over how to make welfare work. This film explores the success as well as the controversy surrounding welfare reform experiments, and cautions us not to further shortchange disadvantaged families in our rush to overhaul a failing welfare system.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Economics', 'Public welfare']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831238/1003831238-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1646891"
"asp1646890-flon","Hamermesh, Mira","Maids and madams","1996","54 min","[]","Mira Hamermesh's powerful film, shot in South Africa, eloquently examines the tragedy of Apartheid through the complex relationship between black household worker and white employer. This domestic situation is a microcosm of the racial issues dividing the country. Over a million black women live in a state of domestic bondage, underpaid, working long hours and at the mercy of draconian laws which separate them from their own families.As psychologist Ethel Wallt says at the end of the film: ""The white people in this country are imprisoned by their own fear"".","stream","[]","['South Africa']","['Apartheid', 'Women, Black']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831236/1003831236-disc001-file001-frame00225-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646890"
"asp1646889-busv","","Macao. A Chinese Las Vegas?","2006","27 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Since the former Portuguese colony Macao was ceded to China in 1999, it has become China's ""Empire of Gambling."" It derives all its income from tourism, thanks to its sleek new casinos and shopping malls. It s a short ferry ride for Hong Kongers, who visit on weekends in droves. Prostitution is illegal in the People's Republic of China, but here tourists can go to ""girly"" bars with no worries. Thousands are employed by the casinos, with 80% of the population indirectly making their living from them. Incredibly, all of the casinos belong to the same person: Stanley Ho, an elderly man who remains invisible and untouchable. We meet Silveira Machado who describes how cosmopolitan and lively the city was throughout the twentieth century, with Portuguese, English, French, Italians, Russians and Chinese mixing easily. The film also traces the history and special status of the city from its early days as a Portuguese settlement in the 16th century, through its development as the largest Chinese commercial port for the rest of the world. Then in the 19th century, the large ships preferred the deep-water port of Hong Kong and that ended Macao's prosperity. Until now ...","stream","[]","['Macau (China : Special Administrative Region)', 'China']","['Tourism', 'Casinos']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831231/1003831231-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1646889"
"asp1784971-huri","Vriens, Ton","Looking for Victoria. An Argentine story","2004","58 min","['Human rights studies online (video)']","Victoria, a young Argentine woman, set out to find the truth about her parents who disappeared in 1978 during the military dictatorship. She was 18 months old at the time. Painful questions emerge: Were her parents terrorists? Did her father suffer more because he was Jewish? Why did they leave her behind when they all could have fled the country? With Argentina on the brink of social chaos today, Victoria finds herself facing the same difficult choices her parents had to make: to emigrate, or stay and fight for change.","stream","['Lewi, Adriana Victoria']","['Argentina']","['Human rights', 'Jews', 'Political prisoners']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831224/1003831224-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HURI;1784971"
"asp1784970-flon","","Looking for a space","1995","38 min","[]","One of the ironies of the Cuban Revolution was that, from the beginning, it persecuted many of its loyal supporters because of their sexual orientation. ""Looking for a Space"" examines the cultural, political and historical reasons behind the persecution of lesbians and gay men during the early years of the Revolution, and takes a fresh look at this issue from the perspectives of Cubans who are living on the island today. We meet a diverse group of people, from a wide range of age groups and occupations, who express differences of opinion. Older people recall the repression of the late sixties when gay people were sent to ""UMAP"" camps for ""re-education."" During the Mariel boatlift of 1980, many gay people were seen as ""counterrevolutionary"" for fleeing the country. Many younger Cubans feel there is more tolerance today, as an emerging gay subculture demonstrates. Given the uncertain political and economic climate of today's Cuba, the future remains unclear. The documentary raises critical questions about political ideology and sexual identity.","stream","[]","['Cuba']","['Lesbians', 'Gays']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831221/1003831221-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784970"
"asp1646886-flon","Humes, Immy","Lizzie Borden hash & rehash","1996","31 min","[]","Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one.Anon., Fall River, 1892. Why has the image of Lizzie Borden captured the imaginations of so many generations of women? Each generation remakes the myth, fitting it to the changing anxieties and awareness of the times. Today s women cast Lizzie as a feminist heroine, overthrowing patriarchy with her forty whacks.In this sardonic and original film an assortment of people, from a forensic scientist to a rock star, find vastly different meaning in the infamous case. Was Lizzie perhaps an incest victim fighting back? Was she a lesbian? What does the case tell us about class, gender and family in industrial America?As well as providing a lively retelling of the ever-popular story of Lizzie Borden, this film also raises complex deeper issues relating to social history, women s studies, and popular culture.","stream","['Borden, Lizzie']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831218/1003831218-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646886"
"asp1646885-flon","Fontes, Flávia","Living with chimpanzees. Portrait of a family","1996","53 min","[]","Here is the entertaining story of an unusual nuclear family, Roberta and Phil and the two chimpanzees they have adopted, Charlie and his half sister Casey. It shows the joys and challenges of life with our closest primate relatives. It investigates their adaptive abilities when removed from their natural habitat, their amazing mental abilities, and the bonding love that exists between chimpanzees and humans when they share such intimate space. We see how chimps adapt to domestic life and even become like surrogate children. Sociable and affectionate, they dine at the table with less than perfect manners, they watch television, play ball games and take walks in the woods with their human caretakers. The living room is their playground with ropes and swings hanging from the ceiling. Yet, they are unpredictable and their strength makes them capable of inflicting harm.The filmmaker lived with this unusual family on and off for three years to capture the spontaneous and revealing moments. She observes Charlie learning to use keys, painting pictures, and throwing kisses at a friendly voice on the telephone. But mostly it is the intimate, affectionate interaction of man and chimp in day to day life that will intrigue animal behaviorists as well as general audiences.","stream","[]","[]","['Chimpanzees', 'Human-animal communication']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831217/1003831217-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646885"
"asp1646884-hlth","","Living with cancer. The windstorms of life","1991","28 min","[]","This is an inspiring documentary about Dr. Fred Lee who is recognized by the National Institutes of Health as one of the leading researchers in prostate cancer. Ironically, he discovered that he himself has this disease. The film explores Dr. Lee s personal struggle with cancer and the recognition of his own mortality. It shows the conflicts which arise between his dedication to his work and his commitment to his family; his changed relationship to his patients now that he is a patient himself. Most dramatically, it shows how his own sense of purpose has been transformed by the awareness of death, enriching his life in a totally unexpected way. Everyone involved with the terminally ill, as well as patients themselves will gain hope and understanding from Dr. Lee s experience.","stream","['Lee, Fred']","[]","['Cancer']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831216/1003831216-disc001-file001-frame00080-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1646884"
"asp1646883-hlth","Hunte, Karen Robinson","Living positive. Women and AIDS","2001","40 min","[]","Living Positive examines the lives of five HIV/AIDS diagnosed women from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds (African-American, Latino and Caucasian). What is unique about this film is that it highlights everyday women who just happened to fall into misfortune. It could happen to anyone.The film follows the women over the course of four years. It explores important life lessons about love, strength, empowerment and learning to have faith in oneself. It is about the women s fears, triumphs, families, respective ethnic communities and what life is like for them day to day.Through their stories we come to understand how they have grown from a place of fear to a place where they appreciate the beauty of life and strive to live each day fully. By the end, we learn how to prevent being infected with the HIV virus, what to do if one learns that he or she is infected, and how to live well in spite of it.","stream","[]","[]","['AIDS (Disease) in women', 'HIV-positive women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831213/1003831213-disc001-file001-frame00190-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1646883"
"asp1646881-hlth","","The virus that has no cure - Zambia","1996","28 min","[]","Worldwide there are over 17 million people infected with the AIDS virus and an estimated ten million live in Africa. The problem is placing a serious strain on the Zambian health system. The film explores ways in which the community is uniting to fight back, caring for sufferers and educating about prevention.","stream","[]","['Zambia']","['AIDS (Disease)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831211/1003831211-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1646881"
"asp1646880-busv","","The survival age -Tanzania","1996","26 min","['Living in Africa : African solutions to African problems', 'Global business and economics in video']","Tanzania illustrates some of the problems of development and the environmental crisis. The economists featured are critical of Western ideas about progress. The film reflects on the failure of both socialism and capitalism in this country and explains the need to overcome the legacy of colonialism.","stream","[]","['aTanzania']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831210/1003831210-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1646880"
"asp1646879-flon","","Masai in the modern world - Kenya","1996","27 min","['Living in Africa : African solutions to African problems']","This film looks at the impact of the modern world on the ancient culture of the Masai people. Traditionally the Masai herded their cattle between the plains and the well -watered mountain land. As tourism makes inroads on their already scarce land, they are trying to adapt without losing their heritage.","stream","[]","['Kenya']","['Maasai (African people)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831208/1003831208-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646879"
"asp1646878-flon","","A land of immense riches - Mozambique","1996","28 min","['Living in Africa : African solutions to African problems']","Once devastated by war, Mozambique now offers positive models for bio-diversity, community conservation and eco-tourism. We meet members of the local community who are working with the conservation authorities to educate people about sustainable harvesting and many other ways of protecting the environment.","stream","[]","['Mozambique']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831207/1003831207-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646878"
"asp1646877-flon","Dekel, Lilach","Living for tomorrow","2001","53 min","[]","This film is a moving tribute to the idealistic young women who settled the Israel Kibbutz in the early days of the movement. Made by the granddaughter of one of the pioneers, it brings to life the courage required to leave everything familiar behind and adapt to the rigors of desert life as well as the demands of kibbutz ideology.The filmmaker interweaves archival footage with interviews and memoirs of the survivors of these difficult times. Her grandmother and other women in their 80s and 90s recall the rigid rules and inequities of kibbutz society. They attempt to peel away the layers of idealism and collective mythology as they bring those stories up-to-date with the wisdom and hindsight they have now. Many women experienced difficulty leaving their European homes and families for primitive living conditions and food shortages. They faced physical hardships both working - in the hot fields and at monotonous tasks of laundry and guard duty - and coping with diseases like malaria and typhoid. When they began marrying and having children, the limitations of the kibbutz system became truly heartbreaking. The women did not protest the lack of privacy or the kibbutz nursery system. The kibbutz nurse was in charge and the parents were permitted visits with their children for only a few hours in the morning and afternoon.But all this was made bearable by their belief in a unique ideology composed of Socialism and Zionism and by their passionate dreams of a prosperous, future Israel.","stream","[]","['Israel']","['Kibbutzim', 'Jewish women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831206/1003831206-disc001-file001-frame01215-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646877"
"asp1646876-flon","Brown, Diane, director","Lila. Eight to thirteen","2004","55 min","[]","Lila: Eight to Thirteen follows one strong, open, lively girl as she navigates the passage from preadolescence to adolescence. Preadolescense, the pivotal time when puberty begins, is a crucial period which has been often overlooked in coming-of-age films. This charming film celebrates Lila's resilience in the face of pressures from within herself and from the outside as she struggles to retain her identity. Filmed over a six-year period, Lila grew out of a unique relationship between filmmaker and subject. The style is intimate and personal, inviting us into Lila's inner world as she reveals thoughts she can t say even to her parents. The setting moves back and forth from the family's tiny apartment in New York City to a trailer in the bucolic, lovely Upper Delaware Valley. We follow Lila from a tree-climbing eight-year-old who likes to compete with boys, through the complexities of a changing body and a new set of ""rules"" for behavior. Milestone moments include a disastrous haircut and the first day of menstruation. Throughout, Lila s luminous persona permeates the film as she struggles with the loss of childhood and tries to redefine herself as a young adult.","stream","[]","[]","['Teenage girls', 'Girls', 'Puberty']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831202/1003831202-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646876"
"asp1646875-flon","Boyd, Kyle","Life matters. The story of an illegal abortionist","2002","50 min","[]","In an era when women could not get legal abortions there were only a handful of courageous doctors who risked imprisonment, loss of license, and their future in order to provide safe abortions to women. The filmmaker's father, Dr. Curtis Boyd, was one such individual. A one-time Pentecostal preacher, Dr. Boyd was influenced by the social changes of the Sixties. As a small town physician he performed thousands of abortions to desperate women. Ironically, it was only after abortion became legal in 1973 that Dr. Boyd became subject to the most severe harassment. Despite this, he continues to provide abortion services because he believes abortion is not only a fundamental women's rights issue, but that it is a human rights issue as well. As he puts it, ""by providing abortion services we are in fact helping to make the world a better place"".","stream","['Boyd, Curtis Wayne']","['Texas']","['Abortion services', 'Abortion']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831197/1003831197-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646875"
"asp1784958-flon","","Correspondent. Licence to kill","2001","45 min","['Correspondent']","Investigates cases of women murdered in Pakistan in the name of honor, and the impunity granted to the perpetrators through the fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.","stream","[]","[]","[""Women's rights"", 'Women (Islamic law)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831195/1003831195-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784958"
"asp1646871-flon","","Leslie. A portrait of schizophrenia","1990","58 min","[]","This is a portrait of a remarkable young black man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. Hearing voices and hallucinating as a child, abandoned by his parents in his teens, twenty-one-year-old Leslie obeyed voices telling him to jump from a fifth floor apartment window. Leslie himself conceived and developed this journey into his private world. He provided the art works, graphics and original music. A compelling story teller, he draws us into his startling past, providing a direct experience with one of the most prevalent, tragic illnesses of our time.","stream","[]","[]","['Schizophrenia']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831192/1003831192-disc001-file001-frame00050-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646871"
"asp1646870-flon","Berg, Lasse, 1943","Last year's rain fell on Monday","1999","59 min","[]","This is a film about one of the driest countries on earth. Filmed in the deserts of Namibia where the temperature goes up to 110 degrees, it shows the harshness of life in this isolated but magnificent area.Water is one of the paramount issues of the next century. The people we meet in this film bring this problem to life. Unemployed Suro sees herself as a modern woman and dreams of having a swimming pool. Hermanus, with a small business and his roots in the desert tribe of Topnaars, sees opportunities in the bareness of the drought. The rainmaker, Werner, looks to the past when things were better. The goat farmer Thimoteus knows exactly when the happiest day of his life occurred: it was Monday, February 6th, last year when the rain fell for a whole day.","stream","[]","['Namibia']","['Droughts']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831187/1003831187-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646870"
"asp1646869-flon","Birnbaum, Mark","Larry v. Lockney","2003","57 min","[]","Of the 2,200 residents in the West Texas town of Lockney, Larry Tennahill is the only parent against the local school board's new mandatory drug testing policy. A third-generation cotton farmer, Tannahill believes the testing is a violation of his 12-year-old son's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. The documentary dramatically reveals the price of democracy, when one man stands against the majority. The issue of public safety versus individual rights is particularly relevant in the post 9/11 world. Flouting mob mentality in a town gripped by ""War on Drugs"" hysteria, Tannahill refuses to bend. The community soon grows just as rigid in its stance against him, especially after Tannahill's case moves from the principal s office to a federal courtroom. When he sues the school board to overturn the policy,the soft spoken farmer forms an unlikely alliance with the American Civil Liberties Union. In the battle over rights, Tannahill makes headlines around the country, loses his job and his home, and his family becomes the target of threats. The film takes a penetrating look at all sides in this landmark case that pitted one man against his friends and neighbors.","stream","[]","['Texas']","['Educational law and legislation', 'Students']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831184/1003831184-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646869"
"asp1784952-fln4","","Korea. The unfinished war","","53 min","['Filmakers library online']","This film documents a war where neither side was victorious nor defeated; a struggle that came very close to thermonuclear war, and that still resonates in the geopolitical machinations between East and West. From 1950 to 1953 more than a million men fought under the United Nations flag, with most of the manpower from the United States. More Americans were killed in that war than in Vietnam. The boundary between North and South remains the most militarized zone in the world. The war is still shrouded in secrecy; questions remain about whether biological weapons were used. Korea: The Unfinished War combines archival footage, first person accounts with soldiers and civilians on both sides, direct quotes from Truman, MacArthur, Mao and Stalin, clearly showing their roles in the conflict. Atrocities on both sides are cited. In the years since there has been an uneasy truce, often broken, between the Koreas. But beyond that, the Korean War bequeathed a global hangover which haunts mankind today — biological weapons. The films investigates Chinese and North Korean charges that the U.S. secretly deployed these weapons during the war. This important film provides the background for today's fear of nuclear testing by North Korea.","stream","[]","[]","['Korean War, 1950-1953']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831177/1003831177-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784952"
"asp1646867-flon","","Kataragama","1987","52 min","['Disappearing World']","As Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) modernizes, her gods change also. Some are fading away and some are becoming more powerful. The strange story told in this documentary shows a revival of mystical belief in the ancient Hindu god, Kataragama. Member of a series: Disappearing World Series.","stream","[]","['Sri Lanka']","['Kataragama (Hindu deity)']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831172/1003831172-disc001-file001-frame00095-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646867"
"asp1646866-flon","Breyer, Richard, director","Kasthuri. A South Indian film star","1995","29 min","[]","Kasthuri is a twenty-one-year old film star who lives and works in Madras, the film capital of South India. She has starred in seven films and is about to make her eighth. In following her daily life - rehearsals, fan club appearances, visits with old friends, and shopping trips with her mother - the documentary exposes the paradox between her public and private life. Despite being a successful woman with a glamorous career and exposure to Western culture, Kasthuri does not challenge the traditional values of her culture. She is content to have her parents arrange a suitable marriage to a man of their choosing. This charming portrait contains excerpts from traditional Indian films.","stream","[]","['India']","['Motion picture actors and actresses', 'Motion pictures']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831171/1003831171-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646866"
"asp1646865-lawv","","Justice. Japan style","2006","25 min","[]","Almost every person charged with committing a serious crime in Japan is convicted and goes to jail. Jury trials simply do not exist and convictions are based on confessions. Some believe that Japanese criminal court cases are simply ceremonies to impose punishment rather than determine guilt. The filmmaker obtained rare access to Japan's jails, where a cruel, secret system allows the abuse, torture and death of inmates. Prisons have spartan conditions and extremely strict rules; prisoners can be kept in solitary confinement for decades, others live eight to a room. In the last ten years there have been close to 250 suspicious deaths in custody. The film recounts the tragic ordeal of Sakae Menda who spent thirty-four years on death row after he confessed to a crime he did not commit, a confession obtained following six days of sleep deprivation and beatings. His testimony is powerful evidence of the flaws in Japan's justice system where reform is unlikely and Western notions of human rights are relatively new.","stream","['Menda, Sakae']","['Japan']","['Criminal justice, Administration of', 'Law enforcement', 'Prisoners']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831168/1003831168-disc001-file001-frame00095-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1646865"
"asp1646864-busv","Marcoli, Consuelo","Journey of a rose","2006","40 min","['Global business and economics in video']","This film about growing and selling roses is an illuminating study of the globalization of the floriculture industry. ""Roses are for you, but thorns are for us"" says a worker at the Ecuadorian plantation which grows these flowers for export. It is indeed ironic that this symbol of romance has become a story of exploitation and disease. The most beautiful and prized roses find perfect growing conditions in Ecuador, where huge greenhouses replace small farms and are the only employment available. However, to grow these flowers requires heavy applications of pesticides and fumigants; many plantations do not provide protective gear for their workers. There has been a huge increase in cancers, respiratory diseases and other health problems among the workers-- and their babies. In addition, the laborers are grossly underpaid and attempts to unionize have led to mass dismissals. A few enlightened companies have instituted a system of certification-- buying ""certified"" roses means the workers safety was protected and their wages and workload were fair. However, certified companies have higher expenses, and are at a competitive disadvantage from non- regulated companies. This eye-opening film gives voice to both workers, owners and health officials and makes clear that producing and transporting such fragile item to customers thousands of miles away is a risky undertaking for all involved.","stream","[]","['Ecuador']","['Rose industry']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831160/1003831160-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1646864"
"asp1646863-flon","","Jessye Norman, singer","1991","75 min","[]","Jessye Norman was born in Augusta, Georgia and grew up at a time when America was torn with racial strife. Today, she is at the peak of her career. Jessye Norman's insights into her cultural roots and evolution as a singer make this a moving commentary on an extraordinary career. After studying music at Howard University, her career progressed rapidly. She has a vast classical repertoire, but has always sought to extend her vocal capacity, attempting some of the most technically demanding music of the 20th century. One of today's most popular classical singers, she guarantees full houses wherever she performs. The full range and diversity of Jessye Norman s singing is featured here, from the London Opera Stage to recitals with the Dance Theater of Harlem.","stream","['Norman, Jessye']","[]","['Vocal music']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831155/1003831155-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646863"
"asp1646862-flon","Gal, Julie","Islam and democracy","1997","59 min","[]","With fundamentalism sweeping the Islamic world, is there a chance for a moderate, democratic voice to be heard? This disturbing film captures the intensity of Islamic fundamentalists and the willingness of extremists to eliminate anyone with an opposing point of view. While not all fundamentalists call for violence, less militant groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood are intransigent in their ultimate aim of eliminating minorities, establishing theocracies in the Middle East, and overthrowing Israel. The filmmaker obtained a rare interview with Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman before the World Trade Center bombing. In it, the Sheik applauds the assassination of Farag Foda, a spokesman for Egyptian democracy, who was gunned down shortly after he was interviewed in this film. The Sheik also calls for the ""extermination"" of Mubarak s regime. Candid interviews with Arab leaders, including President Mubarak of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan, acknowledge the difficulties of having a Western style democracy in countries where so many are illiterate and impoverished. In addition, a strict adherence to the Koran precludes such democratic principles as minority and women s rights. American Congressman Lee Hamilton, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Edward P. Djerejian and others offer a broader perspective to one of the world s most explosive issues.","stream","[]","['Middle East']","['Islam and politics', 'Islam']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831149/1003831149-disc001-file001-frame00090-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646862"
"asp1646861-flon","Jiang, Yue, 1962","War of love","2003","44 min","['Interesting Times']","Beijing social worker Hu Yanping and her friend nurse Liu Xian spend all their evenings and weekends running an amateur dating agency. The agency flourishes in a social climate where China's new career women discover that their new found wealth and independence is threatening to many men, making it harder to find husbands. In sharp contrast to her dating service, social worker Hu Yanping spends her working day as a lawyer dealing with women victims of marital breakdown and domestic violence.","stream","[]","['China']","['Man-woman relationships', 'Women', 'Dating services']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831143/1003831143-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646861"
"asp1646860-artv","","Inner visions","1995","29 min","[]","This documentary gives us a rare opportunity to meet young artists and intellectuals in Beijing and hear how they steer a course between survival and artistic expression. This new generation of artists does not paint scenes of nature like the classical painters. Nor do they produce the oversized socialist realist canvases that were popular during the Mao years. These young men and women, influenced by Western modern art, have turned inward for inspiration, expressing their emotions through art. How do they fare in post Tiananmen Square China? They have not had an official exhibit since the student rebellion. Nor is there a market for their work. But most have jobs that enable them to support themselves. Since painting and sculpture are considered less threatening to the regime than the printed word, their art is tolerated.","stream","[]","['China']","['Fine arts. Art, Chinese', 'Artists']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831139/1003831139-disc001-file001-frame00075-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1646860"
"asp1646858-flon","Nair, Mira","India cabaret","1986","61 min","[]","By focusing on a group of female strippers who work in a nightclub in the suburbs of Bombay, India Cabaret explores the ""respectable"" and ""corrupt"" stereotypes which typify women in contemporary Indian society. It shows us the ordinary lives the dancers lead during the day, and follows them into the dressing room where they transform themselves into ""queens of the night."" The film tells their story, relating their hopes and fears while respecting their sense of pride, independence, strength and resilience. It also reveals the rules and double standards of India s patriarchal society.","stream","[]","['India']","['Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831136/1003831136-disc001-file001-frame00605-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646858"
"asp1646857-hlth","","In the name of God. Changing attitudes towards mutilation","1997","30 min","[]","Ethiopian women who refuse to be circumcised are called ""filthy dog."" There is a whole mythology going back thousands of years that such women are repulsive and unmarriageable. Even today, over 115 million women are genitaly mutilated by razors, scissors or even more primitive and painful methods. Twenty-five nations in Africa, in parts of Asia, and in Arabic countries maintain this practice and through refugees it is being performed in Europe and the U.S. On the bright side, their are small inroads being made. This film takes us to the Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, one of the few places giving medical care to victims of infibulation. Here, recovered patients are even trained to assist doctors in repairing the damages to other women. An increasing number of Ethiopian women have started to protest against these ancient traditions, even giving out information in schools. But change will not happen overnight.","stream","[]","['Ethiopia']","['Female circumcision']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831133/1003831133-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1646857"
"asp1784939-fln4","","In search of sleep","","51 min","['Filmakers library online']","According to surveys, over a third of North Americans and Europeans suffer from sleep problems. Modern society is plagued by the sleep-deprived, who cause thousands of auto accidents and other disasters, not to mention marital discord. Josh Freed, the insomniac-filmmaker, hasn't slept like a baby since he was one. He has spent thousands of nights thinking about sleep when he should be sleeping. He takes cold comfort knowing that Socrates and Benjamin Franklin were also insomniacs. He decides to get help, meeting with the world's top sleep doctors and scientists like Dr. Jeffrey Lipshift, a sleep therapist and Dr. William Denert, a Stanford University sleep expert. He submerses himself in a flotation tank, experiments with acupuncture and even tries 'New Age' relaxation therapy in California. He orders a new mattress from a company specializing in custom-made beds. He attends the World Sleep Symposium in Toronto and travels to Spain to meet some night owls who teach him the art of the siesta, hoping for afternoon relief, if not nocturnal. Finally, he spends a night wired up at the Toronto Sleep Disorders Clinic after which he learns some of the reasons behind his insomnia: mild sleep apnea, seizures and twitchy legs. But will he sleep any better?","stream","[]","[]","['Sleep disorders', 'Insomnia']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831130/1003831130-disc001-file001-frame00370-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784939"
"asp1646852-flon","Franklin, Nicole","I was made to love her","2001","93 min","[]","Women with names like Smooth, Heart, Sassy, and Lady Di are the core of the Double Dutch Divas, a team that has mastered the art of jumping and dancing double Dutch during their twenty years together. They are a real life example of sisterhood at its best. Giving show stopping performances in the US and abroad, they bring fitness and fun to a multitude of people of all ethnicities. The game of double Dutch is an urban game where two ropes turn simultaneously in egg-beater fashion and one or more persons jump in the middle. Practiced and performed by both women and men, it is still a game where women shine. Age doesn t stop a Double Dutch Diva. The oldest jumper is forty-nine. They're married, they're single, they're mothers, they're stress-ridden career people - nothing keeps them from enjoying their sense of ""can-do"" and fun that inspires audiences everywhere. The featured groups of jumpers include Stan's Baby Pepper Steppers, The McDonald's Dynamos, and The Double Dutch Divas as well as scenes from Skip Blumberg's film ""Pick Up Your Feet: The Double Dutch Show."" And interviews with Ulysses F. Williams, Vy Higginsen and Kyra D. Gaunt, Ph.D. examine the Double Dutch phenomenon.","stream","['Double Dutch Divas']","[]","['Rope skipping', 'Women athletes']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831127/1003831127-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646852"
"asp1646851-flon","Friedman, Peter","I talk to animals. A portrait of Samantha Khury","1992","55 min","[]","Samantha Khury has made a profession of being an animal therapist. She may not be a Freudian, but she does seem to have established communication with a variety of species, including race horses, goats, dogs and cats. Their owners call on her to discover what is troubling their animals. You may be skeptical that Samantha is really getting information directly from the animals. How else did Samantha discover that one mournful cat missed greeting customers at its owner s store, or that a dog was bereft at the loss of its stuffed toy? Even professional horse trainers listen to Samantha when their animals seem down in the mouth. We watch Samantha talk to a race horse who wasn't eating. She discovered that he craved more time off from his rigorous training. His appetite came back to normal after his schedule was adjusted. Samantha has a loyal following among pet owners and those who depend on animals for their livelihood. Even if you re not convinced of Samantha s gifts, you ll enjoy this foray into the mysteries of the animal psyche.","stream","[]","[]","['Animal communication', 'Human-animal communication']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831126/1003831126-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646851"
"asp1646850-flon","","I know a song. A journey with Alzheimer's Disease","2000","23 min","[]","This artfully made documentary shows that Alzheimer's disease need not be the end of a loving relationship. Filmmaker Brenda King stood by her mother from her first lapse through her decline. During the six years she cared for her mother at home, Brenda kept an emotional rapport with her, accepting her increasing limitations. She adapted to the changing role of being a ""parent"" to her mother. Her mother is now in a nursing home, showing great physical and mental decline. Undeterred, Brenda reaches out to her by song and touch. Sometimes she gets a response, and sometimes not. But Brenda feels the bond of love continues between them. This upbeat film should be shown to caretakers of Alzheimer's patients, both professionals and families.","stream","[]","[]","[""Alzheimer's disease""]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831124/1003831124-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646850"
"asp1646849-ahiv","","Ontario","1998","57 min","['Hymn to freedom: the history of Blacks in Canada', 'American history in video']","The Duvall family are descendents of fugitive slaves who fled New Orleans by way of the Underground Railway in the 1860 s. There were, at that time, already 25,000 free black people in Canada. Member of a series: Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada.","stream","[]","['Ontario', 'Canada']","['Slavery']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831121/1003831121-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1646849"
"asp1646848-ahiv","","Nova Scotia","1998","57 min","['Hymn to freedom: the history of Blacks in Canada', 'American history in video']","The population of Nova Scotia ebbed and flowed from the major wars that shaped Canada and the United States. The Jones family experienced slavery and segregation since southerners from the United States had settled in Nova Scotia. Member of a series: Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada.","stream","[]","['Nova Scotia', 'Canada']","['Slavery']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831120/1003831120-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1646848"
"asp1646847-ahiv","","Quebec","1998","56 min","['Hymn to freedom: the history of Blacks in Canada', 'American history in video']","Few people know that slavery existed in Canada as it did in the United States. Using illustrations, maps, archival documents and photographs, it shows how slaves were kept and sold in Canada until 1863, thirty-two years before the U.S. Emancipation Proclamation. Member of a series: Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada.","stream","[]","['Québec (Province)', 'Canada']","['Slavery']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831119/1003831119-disc001-file001-frame01290-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1646847"
"asp1784931-envv","","Human waste","1993","52 min","[]","An urgent environmental problem of our times is the disposal of human waste. The relationship between drinking water and waste effluents, disease and contaminants, is explained clearly in this challenging program. After showing a brief history of the Victorian sewage system, Human Waste stresses that now ""prevention is more economical than treatment."" One preventive solution is the waterless composting toilet, championed by Abby Rockefeller. Waste is transformed by bacterial action into an odorless, germ-free fertilizer. Other visionary alternatives to traditional waste management are shown, such as using plants and trees to remove toxic metals from water.","stream","[]","[]","['Waste products as fertilizer', 'Sewage', 'Sewage disposal']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831117/1003831117-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784931"
"asp1646845-lawv","","Human rights in Haiti","2001","57 min","[]","In a masterful blend of exclusive historical footage, interviews, and artwork, this film takes viewers through the history of the Haitian people and their struggle for their rights. A slave revolt in 1791 and a second war against colonial France led to Haiti becoming the first independent black republic in 1804. After suffering under tyrants for decades, most recently the infamous Duvalier (Papa Doc) and his son, the Haitians finally elected Jean Bertrand Aristide, a reformer. Haiti s troubles continued when the military overthrew Aristide, although he later returned. The film focuses on some of the victims of the more than 40,000 human rights violations that have taken place in this troubled country. Death and injuries occur after clashes between Aristide supporters and the military, between the ""new"" police , the old police, and criminals . United Nations human rights observers (MICIVIH) have been dispatched to Haiti to help establish a working democracy. It is a complex problem since the judiciary and the prison system operate under ancient laws dating back to the Napoleonic codes. The UN observers are instituting new methods such as town meetings, mediation training, and community policemen. They are working to help the Haitians learn to protect and promote human rights.","stream","[]","['Haiti']","['Human rights']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831115/1003831115-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1646845"
"asp1646844-blsv","Blank, Donald","How to become sheriff .. when born poor and black in segregated Mississippi","2002","49 min","['Black studies in video']","For two centuries, Mississippi blacks have had to endure slavery, poverty, discrimination, and violence. Finally in the 1960s, the civil rights campaign in the South brought real change. Mississippi now has thirteen elected black sheriffs. This film tells the story of one of them: Sheriff Frank Davis and how he gained acceptance by the community of Port Gibson as its major law enforcer. Frank was one of eleven children of Mary Triplett, whose mother and grandmother had been victims of Jim Crow. Mary could not vote or eat in a restaurant of work as a clerk in a store. His father was a mechanic and although they never missed a meal, the Tripletts were very poor, attended segregated schools and lived in shabby houses on unpaved streets. In 1965, the Port Gibson branch of the NAACP organized the first non-violent civil rights marches and boycotts there. When young Frank attended the first civil rights rally, he was immediately fired from his job in a white-owned supermarket. Frank was drafted and sent to Korea. On his return, he was hired as Deputy Sheriff by Port Gibson's white sheriff, with one piece of advice, ""Be fair."" He was then elected to the office, becoming one of the first three black sheriffs elected in Mississippi since Reconstruction. Thanks to Federal civil rights legislation and enforcement, along with the brave efforts of its black citizenry, this town has come a long way.","stream","[]","['Mississippi']","['Sheriffs', 'Civil rights']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831114/1003831114-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1646844"
"asp1646843-flon","Young, Melissa","How can I keep on singing?","2001","56 min","[]","This evocative film is a tribute to both the pioneering and Native American women in the West at the turn of the last century. Their stories offer glimpses of everyday life, and help recover the historical contributions of women. Striking images of the landscape are woven together with historical photographs and re-enactments of women s daily activities, and an unforgettable musical score. The women and girls who cooked, cleaned, taught, did laundry and milked the cows endured unbelievable hardships. In Jana Harris story ""Cattle-Killing Winter"" a settler woman describes the terrible blizzard that hit in the winter of 1889-90. In a particularly poignant story, a mother tries to teach her eldest daughter how to run the household as they lie buried in an avalanche. In another segment of the film, Mourning Dove of the Colville tribe writes ""My birth happened in the year 1888 ... I was born long enough ago to have known people who had lived in the ancient way, before everything started to change."" While describing her love of the summer gathering expeditions, she also conveys her experience in a residential Indian school. Acclaimed Canadian poet Jeannette Armstrong of the Penticton Indian Band takes us on a berry picking expedition with three generations of Okanagan women.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Women pioneers', 'Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831112/1003831112-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646843"
"asp1646842-flon","","Honorable nations","1993","55 min","[]","Salamanca is the only city in the United States that is situated entirely on land owned by Native Americans. For 99 years, the townspeople have rented the land upon which their homes stand from the Seneca Indians for $1 a year. They have gotten used to their right to live and to do business on Indian property. But on February 19, 1991 the lease expired. The Seneca Nation felt that it has been badly exploited by the old terms, and now insisted on huge increases - or else it would take back the land. Many of the townspeople were outraged at higher rents, especially as the town was suffering from a depressed economy. The film follows the five years of negotiation, as each side heatedly defended their position. Archival footage, historical photographs and interviews help tell the story of two communities caught in a web of historical injustice. Eventually, a landmark agreement was hammered out which enabled the town to survive. Among its terms is $60 million in reparation by the Federal government to the Senecas, the first Native American tribe to receive this acknowledgement of past wrongs.","stream","[]","['New York (State)', 'Salamanca (N.Y.)']","['Land tenure', 'Seneca Indians']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831110/1003831110-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646842"
"asp1646841-ahiv","Saffa, Joan","Honor bound","1996","55 min","['American history in video']","During the Second World War, while America was fighting the Japanese, a unit of second generation Japanese-Americans was fighting bravely on the European front. These sons of Japanese immigrants proved their courage and loyalty on the fiercest battlefields, as they fought to overcome the stigma of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The 100/442nd Regiment suffered the highest rates casualty and became the most decorated unit in American history. Meanwhile back at home, their families were in desolate internment camps, forced to leave their homes, farms and businesses. This film, made by the daughter of one of the soldiers, tells their story through remembrances and archival footage. With pride the veterans recall how they rescued the"" Lost Battalion"" of 211 Texans about to be annihilated by the enemy. Eight-hundred soldiers were wounded or killed in this operation which the U.S. Army has called one of the top ten battles of all time. The veterans also remember the friendly rivalry between the exuberant Hawaiian-Japanese, who had never faced discrimination, and the reserved American Nisei who had the double burden of fighting prejudice at home as well as the enemy abroad. This heartfelt documentary will be welcomed in programs on multiculturalism, Asian American history, immigration and military history.","stream","['United States', 'Infantry Regiment, 442nd', 'Infantry Battalion, 100th', 'Army']","[]","['World War, 1939-1945']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831109/1003831109-disc001-file001-frame00185-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1646841"
"asp1646840-lawv","Healey-Conlon, Mary","Holy water-gate","2006","57 min","[]","Holy Water-Gate explores the lengths to which sexual abuse has been systematically obscured throughout the nation. It presents startling testimony from an admitted priest perpetrator, church officials and victims, as well as the story of Father John Bambrick who was himself molested by a priest as an adolescent and continues to seek justice for fellow victims. The victims, victims advocates, priests and reporters who tried to reveal the situation to public view were repeatedly blocked and/or harassed by the perpetrators themselves and by church officials. In particular the film examines abuse that was occurring in several areas around the country, including Rhode Island, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Jersey and New York and the methods and mechanisms used to conceal this wide-spread abuse. In chilling testimony, an admitted perpetrator priest, Father William C., recounts his abuse of two children who reported their abuse to the police. The report ""disappeared"", and no criminal charges were made. The Church sent him for six months of therapy and later reassigned him to six different parishes. When stories about the sexual abuse began appearing in the Boston Globe, the New York Times and many other newspapers, many victims came forward with their stories and sued the Church. It is clear that the Church put the protection of priests ahead of the protection of children compounding the problem for thousands of Catholic families and individual victims.","stream","['Catholic Church']","['United States']","['Child sexual abuse by clergy']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831108/1003831108-disc001-file001-frame00140-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1646840"
"asp1646839-flon","","Ho Chi Minh","1997","25 min","[]","In Vietnam, one of the last communist nations, Ho Chi Minh remains the father figure for the nation. For many in the West there remains a fascination with Uncle Ho, the frail, idealistic leader who against seemingly insurmountable odds humiliated two of the world s strongest armies, the American and the French. This film, based on newsreel footage and interviews with contemporaries, traces the story of his life. Born into a mandarin family in 1890 when Indochina was part of the French empire, he gravitated towards Paris like many in his generation. There he founded the Indochinese Communist Party, calling for an independent Indochina composed of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The following years were spent between Russia and Asia where he learned guerrilla warfare from MaoTse Tung. His big chance came during World War II when the Japanese occupied Indochina. The film goes on to show how his army, the Viet Minh, drove them out and then went on to fight the French for control of the country. Independence for North Vietnam was achieved with the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu. He never lived to see the victory over the Americans or the unification of Vietnam.","stream","['Hố€, Chí Minh']","['Vietnam']","['Presidents']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831107/1003831107-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646839"
"asp1646838-flon","","High school of American dreams","1995","30 min","[]","This high-spirited film brings us to the International High School, a public high school in New York City where recent immigrants from 43 countries create the most multicultural classroom imaginable. Besides the standard curriculum, much of their time is spent mastering the new language and exploring their relationship to their new society and to one another. The teachers and the principal are sensitive to the conflicts students face between clinging to their cultural roots and assimilating. Although students often gravitate to others from a similar culture, they learn at the school to respect one another's differences. School is a very open environment, with free-wheeling discussions on all aspects of their lives. Innovative teaching methods are encouraged. Discovering that standard English instruction (ESL) bored the kids, a teacher turned the class into a comparative linguistics lab. He had them examine the structure of their own languages, using that as a base to learn the new language. High School of American Dreams shows how cultural and racial differences can be reconciled within the educational system by facilitating communication and channeling youthful enthusiasm.","stream","['International High School (New York, N.Y.)']","[]","['Cultural pluralism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831106/1003831106-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646838"
"asp1646836-flon","Goldman, Mitzi","Hatred","1997","57 min","[]","This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker s father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father s reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to New York the filmmaker found increasing tension between blacks and Jews. Calvin Butts, Pastor of the Abysinnian Baptist Church, talks about the history of discrimination faced by American blacks. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton feels that groups chose a designated victim to scapegoat in order to assert their own identity. Others interviewed are Michele Wallace, author; jazz musician Milt Hinton; Akbar Ahmed, academic and author; and Prof. Yehuda Bauer of Hebrew University. Traveling to Egypt and Israel, the filmmaker constantly asks people who and what they hate. In this explosive part of the world, no one ever admits to hating anyone. Yet their deeply felt passions of nationalism, religion and race belie this denial. The filmmaker concludes ""it is easier to hate another than to see hatred in yourself."".","stream","[]","[]","['Hate', 'Race relations', 'Ethnic relations']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831101/1003831101-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646836"
"asp1646835-flon","Schiesari, Nancy","Hansel Mieth. Vagabond photographer","2006","54 min","[]","Hansel Mieth is the compelling tale of a pioneering woman photojournalist who created some of the most indelible images of mid-twentieth century America. Armed with convictions, perseverance, and talent, she carved out a career in the male-dominated world of photojournalism, eventually becoming a celebrated LIFE Magazine staff photographer, only the second woman to occupy that position. The film is narrated by Mieth in her own words. Mieth was a German working-class immigrant who arrived in this country in the midst of the Great Depression, having been denied the educational opportunities she craved. Throughout her career, she was accompanied by photojournalist Otto Hagel. Their tumultuous marriage and artistic collaboration spanned nearly five decades. They lived and documented the reality of the Depression, struggling themselves as migrant farm workers. Their photographs revealed a more intimate story of the Depression than those of official photographers. During the late 1930s and 1940s -- the golden age of pictorial magazines -- Mieth's and Hagel's images of strikers, criminals, scientists, cowboys, Native Americans, and countless others appeared in every major publication in America. Mieth was internationally acclaimed as one of the most courageous, principled, and influential photographers of her time. Her photographs stand as a testament to her humanity and to her unyielding commitment to social justice.","stream","['Mieth, Hansel', 'Hagel, Otto']","[]","['Photojournalism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831098/1003831098-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646835"
"asp1646834-flon","Young-Joo, Byun","Habitual sadness","1999","71 min","[]","During World War II an estimated 200,000 women, mostly Korean, were forced by the Japanese into sexual slavery. This experience scarred the women, who hid their shame in silence. Now in their sixties and seventies, the surviving women have dared to speak of their suffering at the hands of their Japanese oppressors. This film captures the spirit and spunk of a group of survivors who live together in a sharing community. Amidst the activities of everyday life, they laugh, voice their tough minded views, and care intensely for one another. One of the women, dying of cancer, expresses her past in boldly colored paintings. Habitual Sadness is a reminder of women s vulnerability during war. It is also a testament to the strength of former victims who have exchanged their painful memories for the warmth of communal life.","stream","[]","['Korea']","['Comfort women', 'World War, 1939-1945']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831096/1003831096-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646834"
"asp1784918-flon","Choy, Christine","Ha ha Shanghai","2001","78 min","[]","In 1992 the filmmaker Christine Choy returned to Shanghai for the first time in over thirty years: to track down the title of her family's house. She also wanted to locate an old schoolmate. She found her quest was like going down the rabbit hole with Franz Kafka as a tour guide. Her mother had abandoned the family's house on leaving China for the U.S. in the early 1960's. Christine was sent to innumerable city housing authorities and agencies only to find that the house had never been registered with the city of Shanghai and the government had taken over the property when her mother left. Trying to take it back from the city now would ""shame the city and therefore the country"" and would be considered traitorous. Christine finally located her old girlfriend, Li Dao Wen, at the Music Conservatory after several baffling interviews with Li's estranged relatives and innumerable fortune tellers. The filmmaker found many people in Shanghai still haunted by the ghosts of the Cultural Revolution and guarded in their speech to avoid being labeled ""anti-social. Her trip had become a frustrating voyage into the nature of modern China.","stream","[]","['Shanghai (China)']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831095/1003831095-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784918"
"asp1646832-flon","","Growing up and liking it","1993","30 min","[]","The monthly menstruation cycle, that natural occurrence which from time immemorial has made women the object of taboo and superstition, is the subject of this fresh and often humorous Video or DVD. We meet women of varying ages and cultural backgrounds who share with us the vivid and often disturbing memories of coming of age. A young Jewish woman recollects being slapped sharply across the face and then kissed to celebrate her womanhood. An East Indian tells how her mother had to take a cold shower in the middle of winter to purify herself. A far cry from the prim sex education manuals that the film gently mocks, it will touch deeply buried chords of memory in most women who see it. Growing Up and Liking It will interest husbands, boyfriends and brothers who, one way or another, are affected by the vagaries of the female cycle.","stream","[]","[]","['Menarche', 'Women', 'Menstruation', 'Menstrual cycle']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831094/1003831094-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646832"
"asp1646831-blsv","","God is angry. The Black power movement","1997","58 min","['Black studies in video']","In October 1995, over a million black men gathered in Washington, D.C. in a huge demonstration of solidarity. Organized by Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, it was a controversial event, viewed with suspicion and hostility by the white establishment. God Is Angry looks at what Farrakhan means to black society and how he came to his leadership role. In tracing the history of the black struggle for power, the film interviews Stokely Carmichael (who now lives in Africa) and other activists of the sixties. Through archival footage the film traces the history of the painful struggle for civil rights and political power. We see the leaders as they were then -- idealistic and angry young men -- and learn what has become of them. Some are still in prison, some have died, some were absorbed into the middle class, and some became Muslims. There are many who dismiss Farrakhan as a racist and an anti-Semite. This film puts him and the movement into historical context and shows how he may continue to play a major role in effecting social change.","stream","['Carmichael, Stokely', 'Farrakhan, Louis']","['United States']","['Civil rights movements', 'Black power', 'Black Muslims']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831088/1003831088-disc001-file001-frame00240-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1646831"
"asp1646830-flon","Feller, Flavyn","Geronimo. His story","1996","29 min","[]","Geronimo Mendoza Sanchez came to the United States in 1986 as an ""illegal alien,"" not knowing a word of English. He worked by day and went to school by night, learned English, and sent money home to Mexico. Geronimo shares the same dreams and goals a many Mexicans have who come to the U.S. Geronimo: His Story is an intimate portrayal of what it s like to be an ""illegal alien."" It follows Geronimo, from his United States life in California to his ancestral home in central Mexico. His village, like hundreds in Mexico, is transforming due to the high rate of migration to the United States. Of the village s 1,500 people, aproximately half have left. Almost all have migrated to the same location, Santa Cruz, California. Geronimo is like many others in his town, with the exception that he is the only person from his village to seek a college education in the United States. His hope is that he will someday be equipped with the tools he needs to help his dying town. This documentary puts a human face on the border problem between the U.S. and Mexico.","stream","['Mendoza Sánchez, Gerónimo']","['United States']","['Illegal aliens']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831087/1003831087-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646830"
"asp1646828-flon","Shopsowitz, Karen","A place to save your life. The Shanghai Jews","1994","52 min","[]","The incredible story of the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai during World War II is the subject of this fascinating documentary. Seeking refuge from Nazi terror, some 17,000 Jews travelled to Shanghai, one of the few places that did not require a visa. Although a few Jews already lived in China (Sephardic Jews from India had been there since the mid-1800s) the Europeans found life there strange and difficult. Juxtaposing interviews with survivors with archival photographs, this film recounts the days when Jews lived in China under Japanese rule. Although the Japanese forced the exiles into a ghetto, they did not follow Hitler s extermination plan. Shanghai indeed became a place of refuge.","stream","[]","['China']","['World War, 1939-1945', 'Jewish refugees', 'Jews']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830925/1003830925-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646828"
"asp1646827-flon","Okino, Steve","A most unlikely hero","2006","58 min","[]","This inspiring film chronicles Capt. Bruce Yamashita s fight against racial discrimination in the Marine Corps. A third-generation American of Japanese ancestry, he grew up in Hawaii and was a graduate of Georgetown law school, and a delegate to the Hawaii Constitutional Convention. In 1989 he joined the Marine Corps and sought to qualify as an officer. Bruce was subjected to humiliating slurs from the moment he entered officer s training. During the nine -week training program, he was continually taunted by both his peers and the officers in charge, who told him in no uncertain terms he should go back to Japan. Two days before graduation, he was ""disenrolled,"" along with three other minority candidates. Although he had never been a civil rights activist, this injustice nagged at him. He wrote a complaint to the Marine commandant. After looking into Bruce s allegations, the commandant maintained that racial discrimination was not in evidence. Bewildered and outraged, Yamashita decided to pursue the issue. It was to be a fiveyear battle before he won his case.A second Marine investigation admitted that serious racial incidents had occurred and offered Yamashita the option of repeating the ""nine weeks of hell,""-- the training course for commission. The ""offer"" was declined and Bruce pressed on with his charges. Through the Freedom of Information Act, it was revealed that there was a significantly higher rate of ""disenrollment"" among minorities. An eight-hour hearing brought national news coverage. When interviewed on 60 Minutes the Marine Corps Commandant let slip, ""minorities don?t shoot that well, they don t swim that well and they dont use a compass that well.""Bruce s courageous and tenacious efforts revealed that racial discrimination was rampant in the Marine Corps. His success showed that one individual can make a difference!.","stream","['United States', 'Marine Corps', 'Yamashita, Bruce I']","[]","['Discrimination in the military', 'Racism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830922/1003830922-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646827"
"asp1646826-hlth","Gallup-Roholt, Louise M","A journey back","1991","24 min","[]","When a parent commits suicide, he or she leaves behind a wake of pain and guilt for children and spouse. It may take years for the survivors to resolve their feelings; some never do. Louise Gallup, who made this film, was nine years old when her father shot himself. She and her brothers and sisters grew into productive human beings, upstanding members of the community. But they never spoke of the personal tragedy that engulfed their family. A Journey Back is a moving account of her coming to terms, fifteen years later, with her father s suicide. Despite the family s initial reluctance to talk about their traumatic experience, it is evident that the process of opening up communication has helped all of them.","stream","[]","[]","['Families', 'Suicide']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830917/1003830917-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1646826"
"asp1784910-flon","","A house divided. Elderly abuse","1990","36 min","[]","Through four portraits, A House Divided sheds light on the hidden tragedy of elder abuse. The abuse itself takes many forms, ranging from willful neglect to financial exploitation to physical attack. The families depicted come from all walks of life and cultural backgrounds. We see one loving niece who is pushed to the threshold of her patience by her aunt's increasingly difficult behavior and failing health. The younger woman finally recognizes her need for outside help to prevent an explosive situation. In another family a frail elderly couple is being financially exploited by their daughter and son-in-law. A painful court battle resolved the conflict. Still another situation involves an elderly Chinese immigrant in San Francisco who was deprived of his social security checks by his wife and adopted son until a community support network came to his assistance. A case of physical abuse by an alcoholic son is complicated by the mother's enduring love for her child. She is finally forced to turn to the judicial system for help. With great sensitivity, A House Divided portrays the emotional complexity of family relationships that can lead to abuse of the elderly. It shows the isolation and helplessness of the victims and the need for understanding and support by those who work with the elderly.","stream","[]","[]","['Older people', 'Caregivers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830915/1003830915-disc001-file001-frame00065-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784910"
"asp1646824-lawv","","The execution protocol","1992","83 min","['Eye for justice']","Shot inside a state-of-the art maximum security prison in southeastern Missouri, the film delves into a world never before seen on film. All of Potosi Correctional Center's inmates face either death or are incarcerated for life without parole. No one leaves the prison, except in a hearse. Missouri has chosen lethal injection as the means of carrying out executions. In Potosi, executions are conducted in the prison hospital, using a lethal injection machine. The protocol is devised so that the burden of responsibility spreads across a number of individuals.The executioners speak openly about their role and the condemned men reflect on their lives. We see precisely what happens when the state takes a life. Member of a series: Eye for Justice (Series).","stream","[]","['United States', 'Missouri']","['Capital punishment', 'Executions and executioners', 'Death row']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826810/1003826810-disc001-file001-frame00035-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1646824"
"asp1646000-flon","Rogers, Deeds","When the bough breaks-- children of women in prison","2001","57 min","[]","What happens to children when their mothers are incarcerated? In prisons throughout the United States, 80% of all female inmates are incarcerated for non-violent offenses, and 80% are mothers of vulnerable children. This sensitive documentary is an up -close look at children coping with their mother's incarcerations. The children lay bare their longings and their desire for love. Each story illustrates policy gaps between the judicial and social service systems that are supposed to serve them. More than 250,000 children in the U.S suffer daily being separated from their mothers. They are often left in the custody of extended family members where their needs are misunderstood, where poverty prevails and where they suffer emotional neglect and abuse. These children are six times more likely than their peers to end up in prison. Indeed the system of justice perpetuates the very problems it seeks to prevent.When the Bough Breaks -- Children of Mothers in Prison is a powerful reminder that the system must be changed if these children are to have an emotionally healthy future.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Women prisoners', 'Children of women prisoners']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003907xxx/1003907053/1003907053-disc001-file001-frame01150-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1646000"
"asp1784907-flon","","Zanzibar soccer queens","2008","52 min","[]","In the Muslim country, Zanzibar, women's activities are severely curtailed. This is a portrait of a feisty group of women who have defied the cultural constraints by playing a man's game, soccer, giving reign to their competitive spirit, and defining new roles and identities for themselves in a predominantly Muslim society. Clerical disapproval has meant that there is a lack of women's teams with which to compete so the women must sometimes play against men's teams.","stream","[]","['Tanzania']","['Soccer for women', 'Muslim women', 'Women soccer players', 'Soccer', 'Women athletes']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832236/1003832236-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784907"
"asp1645998-flon","Hamid, Ruhi","Women and Islam. Islam unveiled","2004","50 min","[]","What does the veil mean to Muslim women? Is it a symbol of repression or faith? Journalist Samira Ahmed travels from her home in Britain to the Middle East, Asia, Malaysia and Africa interviewing a wide variety of men and women -- spiritual leaders, educators, and activists to understand the roots of the Islamic view of women. Are the harsh laws regarding women fundamental to the Koran or have they been grafted on to the religion long after the prophet Mohammed's death? In Iran we find that the chador was a sign against the Shah who forcibly westernized Iran. Spiritual values are put in the context of politics. There are women burning hijabs and chanting ""no Taliban in Iran."" In Cairo we meet the editor of a weekly with an openly feminist agenda, supporting equality but not sexual liberation. And in Turkey, women must fight for the right to wear the veil. A medical student was banned from Istanbul University for wearing a head scarf. In Malaysia 50% of the population is Muslim. In the north, the people are very conservative, whereas in Kuala Lampur the Muslims are more liberal.This wide ranging exploration of women in the Muslim world grapples with the questions of whether there can be democracy in an Islamic state, and how can Muslim women maintain their spiritual connection to the religion without giving up their independence. The film explores issues of circumcision, arranged marriage and polygamy. It shows that some Muslim women are prepared to challenge the mullahs in order to reconcile Islam with modernity.","stream","[]","[]","['Women in Islam', 'Hijab (Islamic clothing)', 'Muslim women']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832212/1003832212-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645998"
"asp1645996-flon","Weisberg, Roger","The main stream","2004","56 min","[]","Humorist Roy Blount, Jr. takes an offbeat journey down the Mississippi River, the literal and figurative Main Stream of America. Blount's unpredictable odyssey celebrates the full range of American diversity and eccentricity -- from a wedding ceremony at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, to  a rodeo at America s toughest prison in Angola, Louisiana.Like Mark Twain, Blount is a displaced Southerner with the wit and wisdom to capture contemporary life. Blount introduces an unforgettable cast of characters and explores what holds this wildly diverse country together. He throws himself into unique Mississippi River events and viewers meet such memorable characters as Garrison Keillor, who challenges Blount to a stone-skipping contest; Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe activist who twice ran for Vice President of the U.S.; Kenny Salway, a reclusive environmentalist who spent 28 years living alone in the swamp; and Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning newspaper editor serving a life sentence for murder.Many of the communities and individuals featured in the film are struggling with beliefs and lifestyles that fall outside of mainstream culture. There are Native Americans battling to reclaim tribal lands and traditions; African Americans working with Greenpeace to fight environmental racism; and homesteaders contending for the right to live in old boathouses. Ultimately, the film celebrates diversity, eccentricity, and freedom of expression, as Blount concludes that America is not nearly as homogeneous as he feared. With its unusual blend of humor, irreverence, and insight, The Main Stream will stimulate animated discussion in a range of courses in American studies, history, sociology, ethnic studies and cultural anthropology.","stream","['Blount, Roy']","['Mississippi River']","['American wit and humor']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832042/1003832042-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645996"
"asp1645994-lawv","","Forbidden plant","1999","56 min","[]","For thousands of years hemp has been known and used globally. Since 1937, a war has been waged against the plant because of its' drug properties. In recent years, voices against this prohibition have been raised. One former hardline judge in Germany concluded after twelve years of experience in the courts, that regulation of marijuana was more effective than prohibition.","stream","[]","[]","['Cannabis']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832007/1003832007-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1645994"
"asp1645993-flon","","The first people, the last word","2002","44 min","[]","For the first time since their land was taken, many Native American tribes have the opportunity to take over the rights to the land they live on and create a cultural consciousness. The filmmakers travel around the United States, talking to an Indian attorney, a movie director, an artist, a nurse, and others. The question remains - will Native Americans be able to maintain their unique culture now that they are participating in the American dream?","stream","[]","['United States']","['Documentary films', 'Indians of North America']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832005/1003832005-disc001-file001-frame00175-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645993"
"asp1784900-envv","Alskov, Ole","The dragon that slew St. George (Utah)","2000","29 min","[]","In the 1950s, the conservative, patriotic Mormon community of St. George, Utah took the full impact of the downwind radioactive dust from atomic tests. Government scientists deliberately lied to the local population. Radiation figures were falsified and children were allowed to drink radioactive milk and eat contaminated food to avoid causing panic. Now the survivors are telling their stories. Months after the most life-threatening tests, Hollywood came to St. George to film The Conqueror. In the ensuing years, around half the cast of 220, including John Wayne, were dead from cancer. To this day, oest-related cancers remain in the community. The bitter irony is that most of the post-war victims of atomic weapons testing are American.","stream","[]","['Saint George (Utah)', 'Utah']","['Nuclear weapons testing victims', 'Radioactive pollution', 'Radioactive fallout', 'Nuclear weapons']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831997/1003831997-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784900"
"asp1645990-flon","Weimberg, Gary","The double life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez","2001","55 min","[]","Fifteen-year-old Ernesto Gomez finds his life squeezed between two identities, two families and three nations: the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico. This moving and informative documentary follows the teenage Ernesto as he goes on a journey of self-discovery, moving from Mexico to the USA to meet his Puerto Rican birth mother in prison and learn from her the truth about his heritage, his legacy and himself. Dylcia Pagan, a Puerto Rican patriot, was captured in 1980 in a van packed with bombs. She received a severe sentence of 55 years in jail for seditious conspiracy. Her baby boy was adopted by a loving, politically minded Mexican family and Ernesto grew up unaware of his past. When his origins were finally revealed, he decided to reconnect with his mother, imprisoned in San Francisco. The film documents his struggle for identity as he establishes a relationship with not only his mother but also her ideology. He asked the filmmakers to tell his story, as he navigates his conflicting emotions between longing for his family left in Mexico and sympathizing with his mother.","stream","[]","['Puerto Rico']","['Jíbaro (Puerto Rican identity)', 'Identity (Psychology)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831996/1003831996-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645990"
"asp1784898-marc","","The brain that changes itself","","44 minutes","[]","For centuries the human brain has been thought of as incapable of fundamental change. People suffering from neurological defects, brain damage or strokes were usually written-off as hopeless cases. But recent and continuing research into the human brain is radically changing how we look at the potential for neurological recovery. The human brain, as we are now quickly learning, has a remarkable ability to change itself - in fact, even to rewire itself. Psychiatrist and author, Dr. Norman Doidge travels across North America to meet some of the pioneering researchers who made revolutionary discoveries about the plasticity of the human brain. He also visits with people, once thought of as incurable, who are now living normal lives. Known in scientific circles as 'neuroplasticity,' this radical new approach to the brain provides an incredible way to bring the human brain back to life. The impact is just beginning to be felt in research, medical and rehabilitation circles.","stream","[]","[]","['Evolutionary psychology', 'Psychology', 'Neuroplasticity']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831985/1003831985-disc001-file001-frame00075-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?MARC;1784898"
"asp1645988-gltv","","Sworn virgins","2008","52 min","[]","Why would a girl swear to stay a virgin? What kind of tradition sanctions this form of self-denial? In a mountainous area of Albania, an ancestral code of laws -- observed to this day -- placed women in the bottom rank of society. It dictates that ""a woman is a sack, made to endure."" A woman cannot choose her husband, buy or sell property or express herself politically. For centuries, on a bride s wedding day, her father gave the groom two bullets, to be used to kill his daughter in case she misbehaved and dishonored the clan. But there is a loophole. The ancient laws allowed certain women known as ""Sworn Virgins"" to take an oath in front of their clan, announcing their intention to remain virgins. This fascinating film reports on several unusual Albanian women who dress, act, talk, drink, shoot and are respected as real men. It s not a matter of sexual orientation, and there s no surgery involved. The villagers in this area simply accept the fact that some women want to live like men because they like their freedom. They prefer to manage their own lives; they do not want to marry and have children. One such virgin, the oldest of six daughters, took over the running of the family when their parents died. Another became an accountant, saying: ""I am neither wife nor mother. I loved working, I did everything for myself."".","stream","[]","['Albania']","['Sex role', 'Women']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831957/1003831957-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1645988"
"asp1645987-busv","Zúniga, Joaquín. drt","Sun and shadows. The downside of tourism in Central America","2009","34 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Tourism has traditionally been presented as a factor of modernization and economic growth for poor nations. But tourism is often developed at the expense of indigenous populations and this is a growing problem all over the world. This film looks at this issue in five countries: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Honduras. In Nicaragua several developers of luxurious hotels on beachfront property purchased four kilometers of land but are actually using over sixty kilometers. The local community is protesting but the national government is actively encouraging developers from abroad to build on the unpurchased land. Small farmers in Costa Rica complain that new resorts being built are environmentally unsound and using up the scarce water supply. The Dominican Republic has beachfront property that is being developed to resemble Cancun, Mexico. Many of the workers hired are Haitian immigrants who will work for lower wages than the Dominicans. People from this area sold their land cheaply and have now been forced into poverty. In Cancun, hotel workers are given 28-day contracts and no benefits; income from these lucrative resorts has not trickled down to the workers. Prof. Celina Izquierdo, Universidad del Caribe, Mexico, says that two distinct styles of life have developed there, that of the tourists and that of the locals. The local people have no economic opportunity and are losing their cultural identity to the encroachment of large international hotels.","stream","[]","['Central America']","['Tourism', 'Indigenous peoples']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831953/1003831953-disc001-file001-frame00445-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1645987"
"asp1645984-flon","Magierski, Tomasz, 1960","Pianists. Defining Chopin","2009","88 min","[]","The International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw is an event that takes place every five years. It is the oldest and most prestigious piano contest in the world. This lively film follows four young American pianists from different ethnic backgrounds, through each stage of the grueling thirty- day- long competition. As the camera follows each contestant s highs and lows and the enormous psychological and physical toll exacted from them, we learn what it really takes to be a pianist. Interviews with the young contestants teachers contrast the innocence of the competitors with the wisdom of their mentors. Here is a tale of passion and dedication, of aspiration and acceptance of disappointment, always with Chopin's magnificent music at its center. Music teachers and students explore various approaches to Chopin s music. Wide audiences will find this film engaging, both for the passion, dedication and inspiration of the young pianists and the timeless and universal appeal of Chopin s music.","stream","[]","[]","['Pianists', 'Music']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831369/1003831369-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645984"
"asp1645983-ahiv","","Original intent. The battle for America","[2008]","55 min","['American history in video']","""Original Intent is the judicial philosophy promoted by President George W. Bush and Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Originalists believe the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted in the way the Founding Fathers understood it in 1789 -- an era when only white men were allowed to vote and slavery was legal. Others believe the Constitution was crafted in broad, open-ended language and that its meaning evolves over time. Original Intent: The Battle for America argues that the far right is using originalism as a cover to advance a radically conservative political agenda""--Original container.","stream","['United States']","['United States']","['Judicial review', 'Constitutional law', 'Judicial power']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831346/1003831346-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1645983"
"asp1645982-flon","Bräuning, Fanny","No more smoke signals","2009","89 min","[]","Kili Radio, the ""Voice of the Lakota Nation,"" is broadcast out of a small wooden house in the vast countryside of South Dakota. There, people converge to speak to the community about daily concerns and in doing so, strengthen their sense of identity. Daily existence on America's poorest reservation is hard. We meet people like Roxanne Two Bulls, who's trying to start over again on the land of her ancestors after a difficult life nearly destroyed by alcoholism; and Bruce, the white lawyer who for thirty years has been trying to free an American Indian militant who's been fighting for equal rights for his people. Everything comes together at Kili Radio. Instead of sending smoke signals the radio station transmits its own signals across a vast and magnificent landscape with a delightful combination of humor and melancholy. We hear native hip hop and complaints about broken windshields. Some of their pride has been restored with the radio broadcast; the listeners now feel that it really is acceptable to be Lakota. After all, ""Kili"" means awesome in Lakota. As the young DJ Derrick Janis who is discovering his gift for music says: ""We once were warriors, I like to think about that. Back in those days I'd be a warrior on a horse. But today, I'm a DJ on a hill."" A film about the role of media, as well as an up-close look at present day life on the reservation.","stream","['KILI (Radio station : Porcupine, S.D.)']","[]","['Teton Indians']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831314/1003831314-disc001-file001-frame00290-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645982"
"asp1645981-hlth","Martin-Gousset, Luc","Men in danger","2008","55 min","[]","Sperm production in humans has suffered a spectacular drop; by 50% in 50 years. In addition, testicular cancers and congenital malformation of male reproductive organs are on the rise. This disturbing documentary looks at findings that point to pollutants as the cause of endocrinal changes in the male reproductive system.Problems have also been found in the animal kingdom. A Danish researcher has discovered feminisation of certain fish and frogs, as well as sexual malformation in alligators and birds. Scientists are pointing to a long list of molecules and substances that affect the endocrine system, released into the market by the chemical industry. They are known as ""endocrine disruptors."" Among them are PCB s, DDT, and pesticides. The plastics in baby bottles, the ingredients in cosmetics, the wrapping used for food could all be contributing to endocrine problems.Men in Danger brings into focus yet another area where pollutants threaten human and animal life.","stream","[]","[]","['Endocrine toxicology', 'Generative organs, Male', 'Reproductive toxicology', 'Environmental health', 'Infertility, Male']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831259/1003831259-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1645981"
"asp1645980-flon","","Matzo & mistletoe","2008","59 min","[]","Filmmaker Kate Feiffer was six years old when her father told her she was Jewish. Since she celebrated Christmas and never attended synagogue, this information came as a surprise. In Matzo & Mistletoe, Feiffer interviews a fascinating cast of characters, and uses archival footage, illustration, and clips from television shows and movies to ponder the paradox of American secular Judaism. Matzo & Mistletoe features interviews with Ms. Feiffer.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Secularism', 'Jews']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831252/1003831252-disc001-file001-frame00365-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645980"
"asp1645978-blsv","Patten, Lesley Ann","Loyalties","2001","57 min","['Black studies in video']","This is the poignant story of two women who discover they share two halves of a common past in the painful lineage of slave and slave holder. Carmelita Robertson, a black graduate student who worked at a museum of natural history and her co-worker, Dr. Ruth Holmes Whitehead, a white ethnologist, met for a professional lunch. First they discovered their joint interest in genealogy, then their roots in South Carolina, and then, to their dismay, a strange common thread. Almost certainly, one of Ruth's ancestors owned one of Carmelita's as a slave. As a result of this discovery, the pair decide to travel to South Carolina to unravel their linked heritage. We witness their journey through pain, resentment, embarrassment and ultimately acceptance, as each woman, in her own way, comes to terms with their shared history. A landmark film for African-American studies, women's history, and Southern history.","stream","['Robertson, Carmelita', 'Whitehead, Ruth Holmes']","['South Carolina']","['Slavery', 'Genealogy']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831229/1003831229-disc001-file001-frame00505-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1645978"
"asp1645977-flon","Dutilleul, Philippe","Kits and cards","2007","54 min","[]","For forty-five years the Congo waited for free elections. But before the election, several important items had to be in place, namely, an electoral register and voters' cards. And these things presented huge problems in a country with limited infrastructure and security. With the help of the United Nations, the European Union and advisors from Belgium it has been accomplished. A Belgian firm shipped the computers, printers, photographic equipment, and its experts were on call. Delivering the necessary electronic kits for printing the voters' cards to a safe holding area was also a tremendous problem. The trucks were in disrepair and their low-paid drivers did not have enough food, drink, or sleep. But with the dream of democracy near at hand, and good spirits, the people pulled together.","stream","[]","['Congo (Democratic Republic)']","['Elections']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831176/1003831176-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645977"
"asp1645976-flon","Key, Liza","Karoo kitaar blues","2006","93 min","[]","Karoo Kitaar Blues follows South African songwriter David Kramer and slide guitarist Hannes Coetzee into remote regions of South Africa on their quest to find musicians who play an almost forgotten folk music. The film documents their journey into the harsh and arid landscape of Namaqualand and the Great Karoo interweaving musical performance and interviews with violinists, guitarists, piano accordionists and mouth organ players who play what Kramer describes as Karoo Blues. Little is known of the origins of this music. It is the music of shepherds and sheep shearers who are descendents of the original inhabitants of these semi -desert areas. This music has probably evolved in much the same way as the Afrikaans language that the musicians speak: a blend of indigenous and colonial influences. By the end of the journey nine musicians are invited to Cape Town where they record some of their songs and perform to packed houses and great acclaim. An endangered culture has been given a new breath of life. Longer version (92 min) is available.","stream","['Kramer, David']","['South Africa']","['Music']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831169/1003831169-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645976"
"asp1645974-flon","","Inside the closed kingdom. Saudi Arabia","2006","23 min","[]","It has become apparent over the past few years that an increasingly destabilized Saudi Arabia is more willing to listen to Islamic fundamentalists and to bankroll the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in a holy war against the West. This troubling film includes an interview with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul-aziz al-Saud who is effectively the country's ruler. He states that he is unaware of any Saudi funds going to terrorist groups. American attorneys working for the families of victims from September 11, 2001claim otherwise. One attorney, Allan Gerson, is suing Saudi charities, banks and members of the royal family for $2 trillion for allegedly financing the September 11 attacks. He claims to have evidence that money went from Saudi charities, via terrorist cells in Europe, to the Jema ah Islamiah group in Southeast Asia for the Bali bombing, and that they were the same people who funded the Twin Towers attack This film obtained rare access to the ""closed kingdom,"" where we see a country full of frustrated young people - sixty percent under the age of 25 - who are increasingly alienated, both by some in the royal family and perceived American aggression against Muslim countries.","stream","['Qaida (Organization)']","['Saudi Arabia']","['Terrorists', 'Terrorism']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831142/1003831142-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645974"
"asp1645972-flon","","Inca music, travels and rituals","2002","30 min","[]","Two Peruvian musicians, Ebert and Jabier, have dedicated their lives to researching the ancient musical traditions of Peru. Ebert reproduces the old instruments, using natural materials. He also collects the music for the Peruvian Institute for Culture and teaches it to children so it will survive.","stream","[]","['Peru']","['Indians of South America', 'Indian mythology', 'Incas']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831134/1003831134-disc001-file001-frame00115-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645972"
"asp1645970-hlth","","House calls","2006","56 min","[]","House calls by doctors are largely a thing of the past. But one doctor realized how vulnerable his frail elderly housebound patients were, and has devoted his practice to seeing them at home. In this way they are spared the necesssity of entering nursing homes. Dr. Mark Nowaczynski is both a physician and photographer in Toronto and his photographs of elderly patients capture their timeless humanity. This film will enable those caring for the elderly to understand what drives patients to maintain their independence at all costs. It shows that our health care system has not kept up with the changing demographics and spends too little on home care.","stream","['Nowaczynskit, Mark']","[]","['Older people', 'Physician and patient']","['Non-fiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831111/1003831111-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1645970"
"asp1784882-fln4","","Her brilliant career","","51 min","['Filmakers library online']","This film examines discrimination in the workplace and politics, and introduces the viewer to a controversial program for women executives. What exactly is the glass ceiling that for so long challenged women and allowed so few to rise to power? Even though there are more opportunities for women now than a generation ago, there still is a state of mind among both men and women that can hold women back. Laura Liswood, who founded the Council of Women World Leaders, observes.","stream","[]","['Canada']","['Success in business', 'Women executives']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831104/1003831104-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784882"
"asp1645967-flon","","Helen Foster Snow. Witness to revolution","2001","57 min","[]","Helen Foster Snow, collaborator and wife of historian Edgar Snow, left Utah as an inexperienced 18-year old and threw herself into the turmoil of Revolutionary China. This engrossing documentary of her life allows us to view rare archival footage and photos of what she witnessed from 1931 until 1940, as China experienced devastating floods, famine, revolution, civil war and bombardment and invasion by the Japanese. For historians in both China and the U.S., her first-hand account of the Chinese Revolution in the mid-1930s.","stream","['Snow, Helen Foster']","['China']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831103/1003831103-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645967"
"asp1645966-ahiv","Zucker, Adam","Greensboro. Closer to the truth","2009","60 min","['American history in video']","This documentary explores the Greensboro Massacre of 1979 and its aftermath. Members of the Communist Workers Party massed for a ""Death to the Klan"" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina when a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis arrived. As the police assigned to protect the rally inexplicably disappeared, the Klansmen opened fire, killing five demonstrators and injuring eleven others. Now, a quarter of a century later, the survivors have finally come upon a way to get to the heart of what really happened by mounting a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004-2006). The film focuses on five of the survivors of the attack, examining the paths they have taken since 1979. These activists have each struggled to stay true to their ideals. Two of the Klan figures -- one a former Grand Dragon who is now repentant, the other still an Imperial Wizard and staunchly unrepentant -- weave their own interpretation on the events and their aftermath. They all converge at the Truth Commission, the first time such an initiative has been utilized in the United States. Against the backdrop of a city which would largely like to forget the attack and pretend it never occurred, the participants come together exploring possibilities of truth, understanding and forgiveness.","stream","['Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission', 'Communist Workers Party (U.S.)', 'Ku Klux Klan (1915- )']","['North Carolina', 'Greensboro (N.C.)']","['Massacres']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831093/1003831093-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1645966"
"asp1645965-flon","Luostarinen, Kiti, 1951","Gracious curves","1999","53 min","[]","This multi-festival film is a provocative cinematic journey about women, their bodies and aging. It brings into focus the current worship of youth and reflects on women's willingness to refashion themselves to achieve the perfect body. The filmmaker starts with a rumination on her own body and her love/hate relationship to its middle aged imperfections. In her mother's generation, wrinkles, veins and sagging breasts were accepted as a symbol of a lifetime of childbirth and child rearing. Health and usefulness was what that generation expected of their bodies. Now, with the tools of the plastic surgeon, no deviation from the norm is tolerated. Filmed in Scandinavia, it shows nude women of all ages and sizes enjoying a summer's day by a lake. The naturalness of the setting and their apparent lack of self consciousness frees the viewer to appreciate and accept the variety of womanly shapes.","stream","[]","[]","['Body image in women', 'Aging']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831091/1003831091-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645965"
"asp1645964-blsv","Stout, Boris","God's Alcatraz","1996","37 min","['Black studies in video']","New Lots, a little north of Howard Beach in East Brooklyn, NY was a community plagued with unemployment, drug abuse and violence. Two generations of fractured African- American families, children who had never met their fathers, never had jobs, had been written off as a community of despair. Eighteen years ago, Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood arrived in New Lots - God's Alcatraz - to infuse new life into the community through his parish, St. Paul's Village. Here, the charismatic preacher taught his congregation about dignity and black pride and helped them cure themselves of self hate. Reverend Youngblood does not mince words. He has little tolerance for ""white oppressors"" and little patience for blacks who neglect their own heritage. The film takes us to St. Paul's retreat where a group of men recall with tears and anger the pain of growing up neglected by their fathers. This powerful film takes us beyond sociological cliches into the heart of a community.","stream","['Youngblood, Johnny Ray']","['New York (State)', 'New Lots (New York, N.Y.)']","['African Americans']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831089/1003831089-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1645964"
"asp1645963-flon","Daniels, Mark","George Washington bridge. Crossing the hudson","2000","50 min","[]","The George Washington Bridge spanning the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey is often called the most beautiful bridge in the world. Such a bridge had been envisioned ever since the Brooklyn Bridge was built in the 1890 s but the execution of such a large span had to wait for more than a quarter of a century, until 1931. The film tells the story of the building of the bridge, which is also the story of the brilliant engineer, Othmar Amman, who became obsessed with this grandiose plan. For two years he had no income while he worked on its design and solicited politicians for support. New Yorkers were absorbed watching its construction and even participated in its naming through a poll. Appearing in this lively film is Kathleen Hulser of the New-York Historical Society who puts the construction of the bridge into the historical perspective of New York City at the beginning of the 20th century. Archival footage shows a city that is teeming with energy as bridges, tunnels and tall buildings are being built at a rate not seen before in a modern city. It was a great time in the history of engineering when being an engineer was like being a rocket scientist today. Dan Rastorfer, author of 6 Bridges and Christian Meyer, Columbia University School of Engineering, describe the technical challenges of building this magnificent suspension bridge.","stream","[]","['George Washington Bridge (New York, N.Y.)']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831085/1003831085-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645963"
"asp1645961-lawv","","From victim to survivor","1980","30 min","[]","Surviving a sexual assault involves not only physical survival but the slow restoration of emotional and spiritual wellness. This film focuses on three survivors, two women and a man, who poignantly and openly share their experience and its aftermath. Julia was assaulted in her home by a stranger; Carol was assaulted by a family member when she was ten; and Randy, an ex-Marine, was raped in a public restroom. The purpose of From Victim to Survivor is to educate the public on this sensitive subject. Most importantly, it encourages present and future victims of sexual assault to come forward and receive the help and support they desperately need.","stream","[]","[]","['Rape', 'Rape victims']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831081/1003831081-disc001-file001-frame00020-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1645961"
"asp1645960-flon","O'Leary, Ronan","Fragments of Isabella","1996","73 min","[]","Finally available from the festival circuit, this riveting film based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book by Isabella Leitner, recounts the true story of a young Hungarian Jew and her sisters interned in Auschwitz, their struggle to survive, and their daring escape from a death march to Bergen Belsen. In 1944, Isabella and her family were arrested and deported by cattlecar to Auschwitz where they encountered Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called ""Angel of Death."" He condemned Isabella s mother and youngest sister to death ""by a flip of his thumb,"" but Isabella, her brother and three remaining sisters were spared to suffer until their miraculous escape. The leit-motif of this extraordinary film is love not hate, the love that sustained Isabella and her sisters through the horrors of the Holocaust. As performed by the luminous Gabrielle Reidy of Dublin's Abbey Theater, this is a lyrical testament to the soul of a young woman yearning to transcend her fate. Isabella Leitner is available for speaking engagements.","stream","['Leitner, Isabella', 'Auschwitz (Concentration camp)']","[]","['Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831078/1003831078-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645960"
"asp1645956-blsv","Grünberg, Slawomir","Fenceline. A company town divided","2003","53 min","['Black studies in video']","Polluting industries have a history of locating in low-income, minority communities, impacting health and leaving residents to fight for environmental justice. Fenceline follows the struggle of an African-American neighborhood known as the Diamond Community to be relocated because of the pollution from the Royal Dutch/Shell Oil Company. When Shell bought out Diamond in the 1940s to build a petrochemical industry, the company said nothing about potential health hazards, instead promising high paying jobs with generous benefits. Sixty years later, Norco, a company town which includes Diamond, is divided. Residents of the Diamond Community say they receive no economic benefits, yet inherit health problems ranging from asthma to cancer. The majority of white residents work for Shell and view the company as a benevolent employer. They reject the health problems of their neighbors as the result of poor lifestyle choices. Meanwhile, Shell depicts itself as a ""good neighbor,"" carefully monitoring chemical emissions and offering employment to the community. This film helped to resolve the conflict in Norco; in June 2002, the publicity caused by the impending national broadcast of Fenceline on PBS prompted Shell to offer to buy out all four streets of the Diamond Community.","stream","['Shell Oil Company']","['Diamond (La.)']","['Pollution']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831069/1003831069-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1645956"
"asp1645953-gltv","","Family values","1996","57 min","[]","This intensely personal film documents lesbian videomaker Pam Walton's attempt to reconcile with her long estranged father. It is also her search for what ""family"" means to her. After her mother's death and her father's remarriage, her father Rus Walton broke off ties with his daughters. He evolved into a right wing fundamentalist and a ""family values"" activist. In his writing he considered invoking the death penalty for practicing homosexuals. Although Pam surrounded herself with a new lesbian family of nurturing and supportive friends, she yearned for her blood ties. Despite the emotional cost, she made repeated attempts to connect with him. This emotional saga is a journey through uncharted ""family"" terrain, evoking suspense, pain and wisdom. Told in the form of a video diary, Family Values shows how the longing for parental acceptance can never be extinguished.","stream","['Walton, Pam']","[]","['Homosexuality', 'Families']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831065/1003831065-disc001-file001-frame00065-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1645953"
"asp1645951-hlth","","Facing death","1994","61 min","[]","For more than twenty years, Lars Westman has been filming his mother. The result is a unique record of life s inevitable passage, as well as a tender portrait of an aging mother who lived to a ripe old age in her own home, until complications from a hip injury necessitated her move to a nursing home. When she succumbed to her final illness, her son was at her bedside to record her last breath. Their strong affection helps the film transcend grim reality.","stream","[]","[]","['Aging', 'Families']","['Documentary television programs']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831062/1003831062-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1645951"
"asp1784864-huri","","Esta esperanza","1997","41 min","['Human rights studies online (video)']","In this documentary on post-war El Salvador, people from all over the country recount the nightmare of the twelve-year civil war that came to an end in 1992. The filmmaker and his crew traveled throughout the country interviewing people who had witnessed some of the grimmest events of the war. He goes to the village of Mozote where American-trained soldiers of the Salvadoran army massacred 800 citizens. Similar round ups of civilians took place in many areas and we meet survivors who recall the loss of their loved ones. In the mountains of Guazapa and FLMN guerrilla shows where he lived and how he fought for six years before being captured by government forces. A student describes what happened to him and his teachers at the University of Central America. Jesuit priests were leaders in the struggle for justice and often targeted for assassination by the government forces. In contrast to these testimonies, a member of the upper class complains that the church had become mixed up in politics. Although scars from the war remain vivid, people are rebuilding their lives. Farmland is being cleared and replanted, new construction is taking place in the city. Perhaps the most hopeful sign of all is that former enemies are working together and beginning to forgive one another.","stream","[]","['El Salvador']","['War victims']","[]","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831058/1003831058-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HURI;1784864"
"asp1645947-busv","Weisberg, Roger","Ending welfare as we know it","1999","87 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Ending Welfare As We Know It follows six welfare mothers over the course of a year as they struggle to comply with new work requirements, find reliable child care and transportation, battle drug addiction and depression, confront domestic violence, and try to make ends meet in the new era of welfare reform. By profiling families living in Wisconsin, Florida, and New Jersey, states that implemented their own reforms before the passage of the federal bill, the program offers the public a preview of welfare reform as it unfolds throughout the rest of the country. Each of the states featured has reduced its welfare caseload by imposing strict new rules which include work requirements, time limits, and special provisions for teen mothers. Some states offer job training, education, child care subsidies, life skills classes, and more. But which measures are most effective? More importantly, what has become of the people who have left the welfare rolls? While the documentary reveals that the new work requirements and time limits are motivating many welfare recipients to go to work, it also finds that many of the people we are pushing off welfare are not landing on their feet. As this program reveals, there are no pat answers, and the solution to welfare dependency are as complex as the reasons people turn to welfare in the first place.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Welfare recipients', 'Ex-welfare recipients']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831054/1003831054-disc001-file001-frame00780-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1645947"
"asp1645945-flon","","Ethnic cleansing. The media and world opinion","2001","52 min","[]","This riveting documentary follows step by step the persuasive media offensive waged by a powerful public relations firm for their client in the Balkan War in 1992. It shows how the key phrase ""ethnic cleansing"" was used in a media campaign by the firm Ruder Finn. There, James W. Harff orchestrated the campaign that implied ""ethnic cleansing"" was a human rights violation harking back to the Nazi era. This key phrase was planted in the media around the world with the certainty that this euphemism for genocide would jolt the West's collective memory of past atrocities to lead world opinion against Serbia. It worked. Harff describes his strategy: how he pursued print and TV journalists, and finally the White House. He used the photogenic Bosnian Foreign Minister, Dr. Haris Silajdzic to make Bosnia's case more compelling. Serbian leaders including the former prime minister Milan Panic, admit making serious errors in putting forth their side of the story. So successful was Harff's campaign to vilify Serbia that it became the first nation ever to be expelled by the United Nations. Following that, the UN set up a tribunal in The Hague to examine war crimes. ""The effect of the PR company was ... to implant this very black-and-white picture in the minds of the public ... "" says Sylvia Poggioli of NPR. And Margaret Tutwiler, former State Department spokesperson says that none of the parties were totally innocent. The documentary concludes ""the PR industry is poised to write the history of the 21st Century."".","stream","[]","['Bosnia and Hercegovina']","['Genocide', 'Political atrocities', 'Public relations and politics', 'Yugoslav War, 1991-1995']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826718/1003826718-disc001-file001-frame00100-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1645945"
"asp1642929-flon","Conford, Michal","River people. Behind the case of David Sohappy","1991","51 min","[]","River People documents a timely issue - the clash between an ancient culture and modern society. It is the story of David Sohappy, a Native-American spiritual leader who was sentenced to a five-year prison term for selling 317 salmon out of season. For twenty years Sohappy has fished in open defiance of all state and federal fishing laws. He claims he has an ancestral right to fish along Oregon s Columbia River. As a result, he has become a symbol of resistance for indigenous people of the Northwest United States and beyond. River People uses Sohappy's case to explore the historic conflict over the resources of the Columbia and the political controversy involving fishing rights and the right to religious freedom. Behind the controversy is the story of a man caught in a conflict between two cultures, and two seemingly irreconcilable ways of looking at the world.","stream","[]","['Washington (State)']","['Indians of North America', 'Salmon fisheries']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831851/1003831851-disc001-file001-frame00100-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1642929"
"asp1642928-busv","Hatch, Karney","Rip off! banks exploiting consumers","2009","56 min","['Global business and economics in video']","This film is an exposé of how the banking industry harvests billions of dollars from consumers in the form of overdraft and other fees. In actuality, these fees are loans and consumers are charged usurous rates. In Washington, D.C., Ralph Nader discusses the predatory lending practices of the major national banks and how individuals can fight against the unfair fees -- by organizing campaigns against the banks, by joining organizations like the Consumers Union and by suing the banks in small claims court. The Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney wrote and sponsored the Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act in 2003 and she is still fighting for the bill's passage. Also interviewed are Gail Hillebrand of the Consumers Union, a class action attorney whose $1.5 billion class action case against Bank of America went to the California Supreme Court; and a loan shark whose rates are better than the banks. The film also looks at the larger issue of corporate dominance of our culture by speaking with author and filmmaker Joel Bakan (""The Corporation""). The filmmaker used his debit card to make small purchases costing $60, spending more money than he had in his account, relying on the bank's automatic overdraft protection. When he opened his next bank statement, he saw that he was charged $80 on top of the $60. The happy ending: the filmmaker recouped his overdraft fees from Wells Fargo by following Nader's advice and filing a case in small claims court.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Consumer credit', 'Banks and banking', 'Corporate culture']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831848/1003831848-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1642928"
"asp1642926-flon","","Rajneeshpuram. An experiment to provoke god","1995","57 min","[]","The Rajneeshpuram community, founded in 1981 by the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in central Oregon, was the object of controversy from its beginnings. This film tells the story of this epic scale social and cultural experiment. When thousands of newcomers streamed into this conservative area of the Pacific Northwest, the stage was set for a clash of cultures. Rajneesh's liberal views on human sexuality, and his opulent style of living, were viewed with suspicion by the local people. Internal struggles further weakened the commune. Here is a quintessential portrait of the power struggle between conflicting ideologies.","stream","['Osho']","['Rajneeshpuram (Or.)']","[]","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831833/1003831833-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1642926"
"asp1642925-flon","Persson, Nahid, 1960","Prostitution behind the veil","2006","53 min","[]","Prostitution Behind the Veil explores the lives of two Iranian prostitutes in an uncompromising but sympathetic manner. This cutting-edge film illustrates how prostitution functions in a country where it is banned and where adultery sometimes results in capital punishment. Minna and Fariba, who are good friends, have to make money to support both their children and their drug habits. They find male customers on the streets and have the dilemma of whether to bring their children along with them when they have sex with various men, or to leave the children alone at home. They describe their middle class backgrounds and how mendacious men and drugs led them into prostitution. Men in Iran can find a way to buy sex and still comply with Muslim law by way of ""Sighe,"" a temporary marriage legal in Shia Islam. A Sighe marriage can last from two hours up to 99 years. Both Minna and Fariba participate in this pseudo-marriage with many of their customers . This is a heartfelt film by the director who fled Iran twenty years ago. She was horrified by the widespread prostitution and the huge drug problem. Her comments add perspective and contextual information to the unfolding events.","stream","[]","['Iran']","['Prostitutes', 'Prostitution']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831821/1003831821-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1642925"
"asp1642924-blsv","","Promised land","1993","50 min","['Black studies in video']","This program sets out to portray the current tensions and frustrations, hopes and fears, of this divided city that was at the center of the civil rights struggle in the 50s and 60s. Here is where it all started in 1955 with the famous bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ten years later, Montgomery was the symbolic goal of the march from Selma to protest restrictions on black voters, when many marchers were beaten by police. Images of those years are interwoven with the experiences of Montgomery's black citizens today. Vanzetta, a lawyer, recounts how the whites fled when she moved into their middle-class neighborhood. Harold and Lloyd are brothers who own a hairdressing shop. Theirs is one of the few black businesses to survive in this racially divided city. Paget took her employers at a fast food shop to court after she was fired because white customers complained that there were too many black employees. ""It's important to make a stand on something,"" she says. Rev. Ralph Abernathy voices the suspicion that King's involvement in the poor people's campaign was the cause of King s death. He believes it was too radical a movement to be tolerated by the American power structure.","stream","[]","['Montgomery (Ala.)']","['Civil rights movements']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831398/1003831398-disc001-file001-frame00495-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1642924"
"asp1642923-lawv","Kutchins, Po","Prison town USA","2007","75 min","[]","In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in rural America every 15 days. ""Prison Town, USA"" tells the story of Susanville, California, one small town that tries to resuscitate its economy by building a prison -- with unanticipated consequences. Nestled in the picturesque foothills of the California Sierras, Susanville once thrived on logging, ranching and agriculture.Today the Susanville area hosts three prison complexes housing more than 11,000 inmates, with plans for more to come. The inmate population is more than one-and-a-half times the number of local residents. ""Prison Town, USA"" follows the fortunes of people and families in Susanville over the course of two years. Among those portrayed are: a laid-off mill worker turned guard; a tenacious dairy owner fighting to retain his contract with the prison; a man on parole who can t find a job to support his family;local businessmen who were given false hopes; and prison-boosting politicians. The resulting story is one of hard choices and unanticipated consequences. As Susanville s good-hearted country-boys-turned-prison-guards soon learn, life outside the walls is developing eerie parallels to life on the inside.","stream","[]","['United States', 'California']","['Correctional personnel', 'Prisons']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831396/1003831396-disc001-file001-frame00055-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1642923"
"asp1642922-lawv","Charles-Messance, Patrick","Prison for kids","2002","27 min","[]","In a Phoenix, Arizona penitentiary, Sheriff Joe Arpalo has initiated an extremely controversial deterrent for juvenile delinquency, called ""Smart Tents."" It involves incarcerating children who have broken the law in a real prison for two days, to show them what they could become as adults if they don t clean up their act. The sheriff's goal is ""... to show the kids how you live if you commit any crime. Not just drugs, any crime. They are going to live in a tough, tough jail system. They don t like it. I hope they will never forget the nights they spent in the tents, eating bologna, wearing the striped uniform, being awake at night with the dogs. They learn the lesson like that. The parents and teachers go through their experience with them, so they're being educated too."" Neither the ACLU nor the Justice Department likes what Sheriff Arpalo is doing, but he feels he is accountable only to the public which elected him. One mother is sure her 13-year old son has been affected by the experience and hopes he will straighten out because of it. She insists she will bring him back repeatedly to make sure he understands the lessons to be learned there.","stream","[]","[]","['Juvenile delinquents']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831394/1003831394-disc001-file001-frame00475-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1642922"
"asp1642921-curv","","Primetime war","2000","57 min","[]","This film focuses on two cameramen who bring the horror of the Israeli/Arab conflict nightly into homes around the world. Although one is Israeli, working for the Associated Press and the other is Palestinian, working for BBC, they are good friends and colleagues. What is remarkable about this film is that it shows how the media affects the very events it covers.The battles heat up and the rhetoric becomes more vociferous when the video camera rolls. These two friends from opposite sides conduct a continual debate about their job and what they witness.They question the validity of their work and express their moral dilemma concerning the role and responsibility of the media in reporting the events they are paid to cover. For once the cameras are turned onto the news gatherers, whose presence makes the combatants perform for a tv audience.","stream","[]","[]","['Television broadcasting of news', 'Mass media', 'Arab-Israeli conflict']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831393/1003831393-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1642921"
"asp1642920-flon","Gardner, Janet","Precious Cargo. Vietnamese adoptees discover their past","2001","57 min","[]","When the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam in 1975, one of its last acts was the dramatic transport of 2,800 South Vietnamese children into American homes almost overnight. This film reveals the complex story of Operation Babylift. For the military it seemed like a final act of redemption; to the Hanoi government, a propaganda ploy; and for most Americans, a final compassionate gesture in a war they wanted to forget. Those least able to forget are the babies -- now in their mid-20s to early 30s. A small group of them met each other for the first time, bonded, and journeyed back to Vietnam. Raised in relative affluence, they confront the overcrowding and poverty as well as the beauty and culture of their homeland, wrestling with their identity and complex feelings of loss and gratitude, connection and detachment. Seeking clues to their past, none blame their mothers for giving them up for adoption, understanding how dangerous Vietnam was at the time. The program includes an exclusive interview with the pilot and chief flight nurse of the first flight which tragically crashed shortly after takeoff, casting a shadow over Operation Babylift. Also featured are the pioneering adoptive parents of the 1970s who embraced these biracial and sometimes handicapped children as their own. They began a movement that has grown to redefine the American family. A closed captioned version is available on vhs only. Please specify when ordering Produced in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.","stream","[]","['United States', 'Vietnam']","['Adopted children', 'Vietnam War, 1961-1975', 'Intercountry adoption']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831390/1003831390-disc001-file001-frame00355-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1642920"
"asp1642919-flon","Ball, Sam","Poumy","2006","31 min","[]","Eloquent and witty, 92-year-old Andree ""Poumy"" Moreuil reflects on her adventures when, as a young Jewish mother, she joined the wartime resistance in France. Images, music, family testimony and Poumy's own narrative convey the struggle as well as the mysterious exhilaration of this experience. Poumy was born in the French-German border region of Alsace. She escaped the Nazis and saved her two sons by taking refuge in a mountain village, where instead of just hiding out she joined the French Resistance. She translated, carried messages by bike and train, spied on German troop concentrations, and brought food and supplies to hungry underground fighters in the mountains. Acting against oppression helped her transcend isolation and fear. With consummate skill the filmmaker has brought Poumy s inspiring story to life. Here was a woman who refused to be a victim, but became instead a heroic fighter for her country. DVD includes interactive features for teachers at different levels. It comes with interactive graphics, maps, and discussion and research guides that are easy to download and use. Included on the DVD are downloadable, printable curriculum guides for high school, middle school and college History, Jewish Studies, Social Studies and French classes.","stream","['Moreuil, Andrée Scheuer']","['France']","['Jewish women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831387/1003831387-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1642919"
"asp1642917-flon","Dougherty, Sean","Poet of poverty","2008","52 min","[]","This is a film about one man's words. These are the words of an Irish priest who came to Camden, New Jersey, forty years ago and never left. They are the extraordinary words of a natural-born poet, Father Michael Doyle, the Poet of Poverty. Father Doyle's words bear witness to a horrendous crime: the total neglect of America's poorest city, Camden, New Jersey. They began as words written for monthly letters that serve as a lifeline to those who support his Catholic church. But, as a friend once told Doyle, these prose-poem letters are really his ministry. Using Michael Doyle's letters as its subject, the film is a record of his parish and city -- a month after month, year after year documentation of the consequences of poverty. Camden, already poor when Doyle arrived, now resembles nothing more than bombed-out urban landscape. ""Yet we have to live in the meantime,"" writes Doyle. And his letters are a testimony to the lives lived amidst urban decay, drug trade, murders, and prostitution. They are also a stark reminder of the lives lived in a dumping ground, filled with everything that the surrounding wealthy communities don't want in their own back yards: sewage, trash, scrap metal, and prisons. There is anger in Doyle's letters, and sadness and despair, but also delight in the small accomplishments of the community, and the parish priest's faith and hope for the children of Camden. The scenes that Doyle writes about in his letters are shown in the film, giving visual expression to his words.","stream","['Doyle, Michael']","[]","['Literature']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831380/1003831380-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1642917"
"asp1642916-flon","Bellinelli, Matteo","Palestinian writers","2001","58 min","[]","This is a portrait of two important women writers from the West Bank: Sahar Khalifah and Liana Badr. Sahar Khalifah, a feminist and revolutionary, is considered by some to be the most prominent Palestinian novelist. Her novels, including Wild Thorns, The Door of the Sirens and The Sunflowers, reflect her opinions calling for a revision of the male dominated hierarchy in Arab society. After studying in the U.S. for eight years, Sahar returned to Nablus in the West Bank to start a center for Arab women. The documentary follows her as she walks through the old streets of Nablus, talking about her views on religion: ""New interpretations of the Koran are needed if women are to advance in the Arab world ... If change does not come through Islam, we will find other ways - perhaps through international law"". She also discusses her criticism of the Palestinian Authority and its aging leadership: ""How ironic that the Intifada has encouraged women to study at the university but has not freed them from being oppressed and exploited. In fact, Palestinian men who say they are fighting for freedom, equality and justice, deny those rights to women and practice discrimination against women in private."" Liana Badr, an intellectual who has experienced several dislocations in her life as a result of being part of the Palestinian Establishment, returned to Palestine after the Oslo Agreement of 1993. She now works for the Palestinian Culture Ministry, writing on themes of Palestinian history and memory and producing films. She recently filmed the Palestinian poet Fadwa Touquan, now in her eighties, well-known as an eminent Palestinian intellectual of the 20th century.","stream","['Badr, Liyānah', 'Khalīfah, Saḥar']","[]","[]","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831361/1003831361-disc001-file001-frame00915-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1642916"
"asp1642915-flon","Cantor, Karen","Last rights","2009","57 min","[]","Who decides how life ends? The patient? The family? The physician? The health care system? This is a compelling and deeply personal exploration of four families and their terminally-ill loved ones as they face death. It brings up a multitude of issues implicit in the individuals' option to hasten death when the dying process makes life unendurable. Last Rights explores medical, ethical, and political issues.We meet Scott Nelson, a physician in the Mississippi Delta whose father, Elbert Nelson, was diagnosed with kidney cancer; Julie McMurchie from Oregon whose mother, Peggy Sutherland, was just beginning to enjoy her life after divorce when lung cancer overtook her; Lennie Gladstone of the Washington, DC area whose beloved husband, Doug Gladstone, was diagnosed with liver cancer; and Carol Poenisch of Michigan who tells about her mother, Merian Frederick, whose body was atrophying with Lou Gehrig's disease and who had lost the power to speak. For guidance the patients turned to clergy, medical professionals and legal authorities.Several nationally-known spokespeople with diverse points of view appear in the film: Derek Humphry (Final Exit); J. Wesley Smith ( Forced Exit ); and Barbara Coombs Lee of Compassion & Choices. In addition we become acquainted with Reverend Kenneth Phifer who stood by Merian and her family when she decided to take control of her death. The film also includes newsreels of Jack Kevorkian who ultimately helped Merian Frederick die; We are also given a brief history of the hospice movement and its founder Sister Cicely Saunders' commitment to palliative care.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Palliative Care', 'Right to die', 'Eurhanasia', 'Medical ethics']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831185/1003831185-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1642915"
"asp1641738-lawv","","Life on the line","2008","32 min","[]","Every year thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala leave their families and homes in Central America in their attempt to make a life for themselves in ""El Norte"" (the U.S.). Staking everything they own on a one-way trip to the promised land, they encounter police abuse, robbery, extortion, rape and even murder at the hands of Mexicans. Ironically, Mexicans face similar hardships when they try to enter the U.S. illegally. This powerful documentary tells the stories of the desperate Central American men, women and children who put their lives on the line for a dream they can never be sure to reach. As they journey north through Tabasco and Veracruz, traveling along the tracks of the train known as ""The Beast, these migrants are treated not as human beings but as a profitable industry. Cristina, a Honduran woman, had left her daughter behind in the hope of finding a job in the U.S. that would let her send money back to her family. She got stopped at the border, when Mexican authorities wouldn't let her leave until she could pay the ""coyotes"" (people smugglers). She finally made it to Houston, where she started working. Since the film was made, the trains leaving Chiapas for the north were suspended and thousands of migrants were stranded in Chiapas without food or money. Military forces and police dealt with the situation by means of massive deportations and human rights violations.","stream","[]","['United States', 'Central America']","['Immigrants']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831198/1003831198-disc001-file001-frame00720-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641738"
"asp1641542-lawv","","Coca mama. The war on drugs","2001","52 min","[]","""Filmed over a year in four countries, this documentary shows us coca-growing peasants, anti-narcotic patrols, U.S. law-makers, and the Colombian rebels who stand accused of protecting the drug trade""--Original container.","stream","[]","['South America', 'Colombia', 'Peru', 'Bolivia']","['Narcotics, Control of', 'Drug traffic', 'Coca industry', 'Drug legalization', 'Cocaine industry']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003909xxx/1003909673/1003909673-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641542"
"asp1641540-blsv","Cohen, Maxi","South Central Los Angeles. Inside voices","1996","49 min","['Black studies in video']","This is a powerful documentary that honestly and directly exposes issues of prejudice, racism and class as they effect multicultural communities. Filmed by the people living and working in the areas affected by the L.A. riots, it is a vivid portrayal of the complex urban tapestry where violence and hope live side by side. It has been broadcast all over the world to critical acclaim. Activist filmmaker Maxi Cohen decided the weapon of choice among the protagonists should be a video camera with which to film their lives. Among those participating are: * Lea Edwards, whose concern with raising her son as a black man leads her to film the volatile life of neighborhood gang members. * The Lees, first generation Koreans who lost their grocery store during the riots. Their grief was compounded by accusations that they had set the fire themselves. * Rubin Green, an African American high school student whose family is riddled with drug problems. His determination to rise above his problems led to his participation in the White House Summit on Children and Families. * Francisco Leon, was a migrant worker when he was young. His video concentrates on the plight of Latino street vendors as they are harassed by both the police and gangs. * Frank DePaulo, a policeman whose experience with gang members leaves him cynical about the future of the city. Their honest voices and strong images bring out issues of race and class with compassion. Applauded by educators, dispute resolution mediators, community workers and the press, Inside Voices is certain to stimulate discussion.","stream","[]","['Los Angeles (Calif.)', 'California']","['Riots']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003906xxx/1003906979/1003906979-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641540"
"asp1641538-flon","","Women in China","1997","102 min","[]","Women in China is a timely two-part documentary on the conditions of women in today's economically -oriented Chinese society. By visiting four diverse parts of China, it provides a representative view of the opportunities and living conditions of Chinese women today. The first part focuses on Bejing where we meet a successful women s rock group. Although the group is not officially accepted, these emancipated women are popular among the young both there and abroad. Kang Rui, once a member of Mao s People s Army talks about life as a young female soldier during the Civil War. One of the city s most successful women is Wan Wen Ying, head of a major department store. We also observe activities at a women's crisis center, which is a new phenomenon in today's more open China. The second part bring us to Yenan in the middle of China. Here poverty is visible. Many of the women are illiterate and some cope with abandonment as their husband s seek their fortunes elsewhere. In Dayudao, a prosperous fishing community, women are allowed more than one child per family. In Yantai, one of the new economic zones, a female CEO is driven among her factories by a private chaffeur. Much progress has been made in the fifty years since women had their feet bound!.","stream","[]","['China']","['Women']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832216/1003832216-disc001-file001-frame00130-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641538"
"asp1641537-lawv","Wieking, Dawn","We're here now. Prostitution","1983","35 min","[]","This film focuses on the myths and realities of prostitution as related by seven women formerly in ""the life."" These women are struggling to return to the mainstream of society and they meet in a group counseling session that offers mutual support and guidance. Aided by two skilled social workers, they talk candidly about personal histories, deadened emotions, distrust of human interaction and lack of self-esteem. The stories they tell - beatings, arrests, exploitation by pimps, and dependency on drugs and alcohol - stand out in sharp relief to society s image of the ""happy hooker.""The film does not record the street life. Instead, it shows women coming to grips with the great problems of their lives. It demonstrates the dynamics of group therapy. For women s groups, sociology, criminal justice and psychology classes.","stream","[]","[]","['Prostitutes', 'Prostitution', 'Social work with prostitutes']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832183/1003832183-disc001-file001-frame00285-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641537"
"asp1641536-flon","Levine, Jeremy","Walking the line","2006","59 min","[]","Walking the Line offers a harrowing view of the chaos, absurdity and senseless deaths of Mexican illegals along the U.S. - Mexico border because some American citizens are taking the law into their own hands. Southern Arizona, a region celebrated for its history of lawlessness, has become the most highly trafficked area for immigrants in the world -- and one of the most dangerous. A shift in the border policy forces migrants to cross the unforgiving desert where thousands die. Those who make it across face volatile, often armed, civilian militias. Standing in opposition to the vigilantes are humanitarians, organized to prevent migrant deaths. Confronting the growing crisis, they too find themselves on the wrong side of the law. A Tucson pastor is indicted on federal felony charges for aiding and abetting while a Native American faces banishment from his reservation for constructing water stations. Following rancher vigilantes with semiautomatic weapons, outlaw pastors with four-wheel drives, and impoverished immigrants armed only with dreams of a better life, the film explores the uncertain line between what is patriotic, what is moral, and what is just.","stream","[]","['Mexican-American Border Region']","['Illegal aliens', 'Border patrols']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832171/1003832171-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641536"
"asp1784838-envv","Ettinger, Barbara. drt pro","Two square miles","2007","54 min","[]","When a proposed multinational coal-fired cement plant threatens to change the character and possibly generate environmental waste to the small city of Hudson, N.Y., its citizens are galvanized into action. Hudson is like many small cities and towns across America; its industries have declined, it needs to adapt, but it wants to maintain its character. In addition to these concerns, the film also asks how the global economy is affecting our communities. Can a traditional small town main street with mom and pop stores be viable in the 21st century, when big box stores on the outskirts of town compete with local business? How can the community mediate the different interest groups? Can idealistic goals drive real political change? Two Square Miles is a window onto the rapidly changing fabric of American communities nationwide. It provides a unique opportunity to see up close the workings of local democracy.","stream","[]","['New York (State)', 'Hudson (N.Y.)']","['Cities and towns']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832140/1003832140-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784838"
"asp1641534-flon","","Turbans","2001","34 min","[]","Turbans is a presentation of National Asian American Telecommunications Assoc. and Different Drum Productions with funding provided by the CPB. It is a lyrical short drama set in the lush, green Oregon of 1918. It explores the conflict within an Asian Indian immigrant family torn between cultural traditions and a strong desire for social acceptance. Based on the memoirs of the filmmaker's grandmother, Turbans illuminates issues of assimilation faced by all immigrants. The compelling story concerns the young Singh boys who, although born in the U.S., are attacked for being different. The turbans they wear, a tradition sacred to their Sikh ancestors, identify them as outsiders in the prejudiced landscape of their time and place. Their father makes a tough, heart-breaking decision that brings us face-to-face with the harsh realities of racial intolerance. Based on the memoirs of Kartar Dhillon. Originally shot in 35mm.","stream","[]","['Oregon']","['East Indian Americans', 'Sikhs', 'Race relations', 'Racism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832135/1003832135-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641534"
"asp1641533-flon","","Through madness","1993","28 min","[]","This penetrating documentary de-mystifies psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia and manic depression, and humanizes those who suffer from them. It is essential viewing for mental health professionals and students who need to understand mental illness, as well as for general audiences. In this half-hour program, we hear about psychosis from three people who describe it from the inside out. * Eileen, a once promising actress, now lives in a half-way house. She has a severe form of schizophrenia and must live in a sheltered atmosphere. * Lionel, a former NFL football star who played with the Green Bay Packers, had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. For a time his illness forced him to live on the streets. * Joe, troubled since adolescence with delusions and hallucinations, is diagnosed as manic/ depressive. He and his wife describe their struggles with sickness and recovery. Each of these individuals presents an engrossing tale of despair and hope and teaches us about the fragile boundary between insanity and sanity. Psychiatrist/producer Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, M.D., undertook a nation-wide search for the three individuals profiled. He was assisted in the project by the American Psychiatric Association (NY Branch), the Foundation for Education in Psychiatry, and patient advocate groups.","stream","[]","[]","['Mental illness', 'Schizophrenia', 'Manic-depressive illness']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832116/1003832116-disc001-file001-frame00125-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641533"
"asp1641532-hlth","","The stem cell divide","2010","59 min","[]","The use of embryonic stem cells for medical research is an issue that has unleashed passionate political controversy nationwide. Many conservative religious groups oppose it on the grounds that using embryonic stem cells involves destroying a life at its earliest stage. Researchers and doctors working with embryonic stem cells, specifically with the Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) procedure, insist that those early stem cells are not human life. The researchers contend that they would never use the DNA in the stem cells to create human life -- only to conduct biomedical research that they hope will lead to cures for such maladies as cancer, Parkinson s disease, Alzheimer s, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and spinal cord injuries. Embryonic stem cells offer much hope for medical advancement because of their ability to grow into almost any kind of cell and replicate any organ in the body. This documentary looks at one state, Missouri, as the state senate deals with contentious legislation introduced to eliminate altogether SCNT, the most promising form of stem cell research. This film culminates with a ballot initiative campaign to approve an amendment to the Missouri constitution that would protect all forms of stem cell research that are allowed by the federal goverment. The documentary explores both sides of the issue and challenges assumptions as it shows the passions and principles of patients, advocates, politicians, scientists and religious leaders. It shows how the political process works in a democracy.","stream","[]","['United States', 'Missouri']","['Embryonic stem cells', 'Stem cells']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832082/1003832082-disc001-file001-frame00665-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641532"