"filmID","creator","title","date_of_publication","runtime","series_title","summary","format_type","associated_entity","geography","subject_group","genre","image_url","direct_url"
"asp1641531-flon","","The split horn. Life of a Hmong shaman in America","2001","57 min","[]","The Split Horn chronicles the seventeen-year journey of a Hmong shaman and his family transplanted from the mountains of Laos to Appleton, Wisconsin. As a shaman, Paja Thao ministers to the physical and spiritual needs of friends and family with elaborate rituals that bridge the natural and spirit worlds. His young daughter’s narration gives us insight into the transition from an Asian village to Middle America. To his dismay, Paja’s children are losing touch with their family’s ancient traditions as they turn to TV, computer games and Christianity. Only his youngest daughter, age fourteen, who studies Hmong traditional dance, seems interested in her culture. Paja’s sixteen-year-old son, Xue, works at the local pizza parlor and spends most of this time with his American girlfriend. Paja’s concern about family unity deepen when Xue reveals his girlfriend is pregnant. Paja’s older children have started families of their own, turning to Christianity and severing ties to their ancient Hmong traditions.Seeing his family splinter causes Paja great sadness. He conducts a ceremony and while in trance, discover that his own soul has strayed from his body. He spirals into depression and is unable to heal himself or to perform rituals for others for a year. Ultimately, the crisis sets off a family and community response that helps restore the shaman’s strength and reunites his family.","stream","[]","['Wisconsin']","['Hmong (Asian people)', 'Hmong Americans', 'Shamans']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832079/1003832079-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641531"
"asp1641530-flon","Choy, Christine","The shot heard round the world","1997","68 min","[]","When Yoshi Hattori, a Japanese high school exchange student, was shot to death one October night by a suburban homeowner, the whole world was shocked once again at America's gun culture. Christine Choy, director of the multi-award -winning film Who Killed Vincent Chin?, spent three years researching the event and the ensuing criminal and civil trials. The result is this searing study in the pathology of urban fear, gun violence, criminal justice and cultural miscommunication. Yoshi had approached the Baton Rouge home of Rodney and Bonnie Peairs seeking directions to a Halloween party. Bonnie feared the stranger walking up her driveway and summoned her husband. Gun in hand, Rodney shouted ""freeze"" to which Yoshi, unfamiliar with the idiom, did not comply. Rodney then pulled the trigger. Hattori s parents, who had raised their son to admire America, suffered their loss with dignity. They recall their son as an honor student who enjoyed life with his host family and was well liked by his new class mates. Rodney Peairs had an extensive gun collection which neighbors remembered he used when animals wandered on his property. The film does not take sides regarding his claim that he was defending his rights as a homeowner. Avoiding simple answers, it serves up a complex picture, letting the audience draw their own conclusions about one of the most controversial criminal cases in recent years.","stream","['Peairs, Rodney', 'Hattori, Yoshihiro']","['Louisiana']","['Trials (Murder)', 'Japanese students']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832071/1003832071-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641530"
"asp1641529-flon","","The secret to change","2001","39 min","[]","On August 9, 2000, former President Bill Clinton awarded Mildred McWilliams Jeffrey the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. In this inspiring film, Senator Ted Kennedy, Gloria Steinem, Geraldine Ferraro, John Conyers and others reveal why the diminutive Millie stands tall as a galvanizing activist in the twentieth century s revolution for social justice. Through seven decades, Millie Jeffrey brought about change -- by empowering victims of exploitation and discrimination to fight for equality and opportunity. In the 1930 ', she organized textile workers. During World War II, she helped thousands of ""Rosie the Riveters"" learn to thrive in a male-dominated world. The 50s and 60s found Millie a pioneer among whites in the struggle for civil rights. To get progressive policymakers elected, she became a leader in Democratic Party politics. And, when the modern women s movement was taking shape, Millie offered savvy leadership. This documentary chronicles Millie s achievements with a rich mixture of archival, educational and commercial films. The exuberant Millie offers a tested blueprint for action, urging those working for social change to organize, build power coalitions and above all -- never give up! In her words -- ""You never win freedom permanently. You have to win it time after time ... whether it s union rights, civil rights, or equality for women. We have to keep at it and at it."" A Production of the Educational Film Center and National Women s Education Fund.","stream","['Jeffrey, Mildred']","[]","[""Women's rights"", 'Feminism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832070/1003832070-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641529"
"asp1641528-flon","Sheppard, John, director","The Sakuddei of Indonesia","1992","54 min","['Disappearing World']","The Sakuddei of Indonesia: Off the coast of Sumatra live the Sakuddei, completely cut off from the outside world. Here is an egalitarian society, in near perfect harmony with the environment. There are no leaders, men and women are equal, peace is cherished. We see how this Utopian way of life is threatened by encroaching civilization. Films in this series: Asante Market Women, Kataragama, Witchcraft Among the Azande, The Dervishes of Kurdistan, The Sakuddei of Indonesia.","stream","[]","[]","['Sakudei (Indonesian people)']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832068/1003832068-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641528"
"asp1784830-fln4","","Right to be","","27 min","['Filmakers library online']","Harriet Skye, a 61-year old Lakota woman from the Standing Rock, ND Reservation, just graduated N.Y.U. Film School. This film is about her pilgrimage back to her people. Having seen Indians misrepresented in the media, she wanted to produce honest, realistic portrayals of her tribe. She visits United Tribes Community College where the principal, David Gipp, describes the 'Spirit Program,' a course where students learn about their tradition. We see the Sioux Tribal Council in session discussing the high unemployment rate which has a depressive effect on the community. Harriett was allowed to film the very private Sweat Ceremony held in her honor. She sees how the U.S. Government dam on the Missouri River flooded prime land on the reservation and concludes: 'The 'Custer mentality' is alive and well. They don't use guns anymore; they come in three-piece suits and use the law, the water. The only things that has helped us is that we hung on to our belief system. That's why we're still here today.'","stream","[]","['North Dakota']","['Dakota Indians', 'Indian reservations']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832065/1003832065-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784830"
"asp1641526-flon","","The pig commandments","2007","69 min","[]","This fascinating film illustrates how religious differences, even on the basic level of dietary prohibitions, can affect the way neighbors interact. It focuses on Malaysia, home to 12 million Muslims and 6 million Chinese. Islam bans the eating of pork, considering it unclean, while the Chinese have treasured pork for thousands of years. The ancient Chinese character for ""home"" was a pig. For the Chinese the pig is a symbol of prosperity and all celebrations involve a pig roast. ""Pig Commandments"" outlines the ways in which the Muslim prohibition to eat pork affects the relationship between the Chinese and Muslims in this part of the world. There is legislation to keep pig farms away from the Muslim population. Many Chinese in Malaysia have converted to Islam. For them, the Koran has been translated into Chinese; and four chapters of the Koran deal with the prohibition to eating pork. One Chinese convert describes the problem with eating with her family. Only once a year when the Chinese celebrate the New Year with a vegetarian meal, can she join her family at dinner. ""The Pig Commandments"" shows how dietary laws can divide people or being them closer together. It demonstrates dramatically the social effects of food regulations and the sensitivity of people who are offended by another culture's eating habits. Scholars, religious leaders, and people of both religions express their feelings about this contentious issue. In addition we see how generations of pig farmers are proud of their succulent product.","stream","[]","['Malaysia']","['Muslims']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832061/1003832061-disc001-file001-frame00950-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641526"
"asp1641525-flon","Reed, Rosemarie","The path to nuclear fission","2006","57 min","[]","This absorbing film details the story of a brilliant Jewish woman, Lise Meitner, who made scientific history when she and her collaborator, Otto Hahn, discovered nuclear fission in 1938. Yet her forced emigration from Nazi Germany meant that Otto Hahn would never credit her contribution when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1944. Lise Meitner, a shy young physics student from Vienna, and the worldly Otto Hahn, a chemist, became close friends and colleagues in 1907. At the time, the nature of atoms and elements was still poorly understood. Their collaboration benefited from their separate disciplines. Meitner and Hahn s first period of joint research culminated in their discovery of the ""missing"" radioactive element, protactinium, in 1918. Meitner was a pioneer in the field that became known as nuclear physics. She published the first theoretical interpretation of the fission process, calculated the enormous energy released and coined the name ""fission"" which was instantly accepted by the physics community. Lise Meitner became prominent within a circle of colleagues that included Einstein, Max Planck, and Niels Bohr. Although their names became household words, few people know of her contributions.","stream","['Meitner, Lise', 'Hahn, Otto']","[]","['Nuclear fission']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832058/1003832058-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641525"
"asp1641524-blsv","Haskin-O'Reggio, Jennifer","The mirror lied","1999","28 min","['Black studies in video']","How does a young African-American woman cope with the ideals of feminine beauty imposed by white society? This film shows the struggle of the filmmaker's fifteen-year-old sister, Jantre, to accept her appearance. Though she spends an hour each day trying to tame her unruly hair, she never feels attractive. She envies the white girls hair. When she asks for a wig for her birthday, her mother accuses her of not accepting her blackness. Jantre's mother grew up in the segregated South and says it took many years to accept herself. In a bold move to challenge her classmates standards, Jantre goes to school with her hair in its natural fullness. She finds it a liberating experience.","stream","[]","[]","['Body image in women', 'African American teenage girls', 'Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832045/1003832045-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641524"
"asp1641523-flon","","The mascot","2003","60 min","[]","As a a five-year-old Russian orphan in World War II, Alex Kurzem had been found by Latvian soldiers, made their mascot and given a new name and birthdate. But Alex was actually a Jew, kept alive by those who were exterminating his people. With his real identity hidden, he became a poster boy for the Nazi ideal and was taken into a Latvian family, who later migrated to Australia.For fifty years, Alex lived a quiet, suburban life in Melbourne, marrying and raising three sons. He never revealed his shocking history to anyone, until in 1996, a series of events led him on a quest back to Europe with his son, filmmaker Mark Kurzem. There, he rediscovered his past and found relatives he never suspected he had. On his return to Australia, those revelations would be met with surprise, even denial, and raise difficult and emotional questions. The film explores Alex s search for his true history and the unexpected impact that had on his family, community and his own sense of identity.","stream","['Kurzem, Alex']","['Latvia']","['Holocaust survivors', 'Jewish children in the Holocaust']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832044/1003832044-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641523"
"asp1641522-flon","Levie, Françoise","The man who wanted to classify the world","2004","61 min","[]","In 1934, a Belgian visionary named Paul Otlet conceived of a library with no physical books whose contents could be viewed on a screen. His obsession was to classify, encode and unify books and documents published all over the world. Over the years, he and his staff would fill in 12 million index cards. His classification system is regarded today as similar to hypertext, which enables us to navigate the internet. A pacifist and an internationalist, Otlet was one of the driving forcesbehind the League of Nations. He persuaded the architect Le Corbusier to design a World City dedicated to Peace, Knowledge and Fraternity. This beautiful film interweaves a vast fund of recently discovered documents from his archive with autobiographical material to create a fascinating piece of intellectual history.","stream","['Otlet, Paul']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832043/1003832043-disc001-file001-frame00115-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641522"
"asp1641521-flon","","The machine that made us","2009","57 min","[]","In an age of sophisticated technology, this film helps us appreciate the enormous contribution to culture, politics, industry and even human psychology of Johann Gutenberg's 15th century achievement - the printing press. Stephen Fry, writer and actor, energetically explores the story of the machine, and of the man who created it. To really understand the man and his machine Stephen gathers a team of craftsmen to help him build a copy of Gutenberg's printing press and sets himself the task of learning how to make the paper and type to print as Gutenberg once did. It is through these practical trials and tests that Stephen demonstrates the brilliance of Gutenberg's invention and brings the man and his machine to life. The film also investigates why printing mattered so much to Gutenberg and his contemporaries. It explores the political and religious turmoil which shaped Gutenberg's world, and was affected by this invention.","stream","['Gutenberg, Johann']","['Europe']","['Printing presses', 'Communication', 'Printing']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832041/1003832041-disc001-file001-frame02920-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641521"
"asp1641518-artv","","The lost city. Beijing","2007","72 min","[]","This enlightening film looks at the issues of urban gentrification and preservation in Beijing today. For the past decade many of the city's old neighborhoods, the ancient, densely populated enclaves of narrow, winding streets and crumbling courtyard houses have been steadily demolished due to industrialization and modernization. The houses called ""hutongs,"" were built around a central courtyard which provided structure for each family's development. Many were labelled unsafe by the government and have now been replaced by office towers and high-rise apartments. Much of the devastation has occurred in the Quianmen neighborhood, once the domain of the Qing dynasty (1644 -1911). For centuries it was filled with hutongs, opera halls and boarding houses filled with scholars. Quianmen is only one piece of the continuing citywide slum clearance and construction boom that have accelerated to prepare for the Olympic Games in 2008. Affordable housing has become such a serious problem that many people from old Beijing have been forced to the city's outskirts because they can no longer afford to live in their old neighborhoods. This has led to enormous traffic jams as more Chinese workers own cars and commute from the outskirts to the center. In 2005 the government came up with a new city plan which they hope will provide a way to accomodate both the city's heritage and its new development. This plan may provide for the city's growth as a world power center but has it come too late to save the city's architectural heritage?","stream","[]","['China']","['Gentrification', 'City planning', 'Historic preservation']","['Documentary television programs']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832036/1003832036-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641518"
"asp1641517-flon","Böhm, Gabriela","The longing. The forgotten Jews of South America","2007","75 min","[]","A small group of South Americans are eager to affirm their Jewish faith. Their ancestors, Spanish Jews, were forced to convert during the Inquisition. Even after centuries of living in the New World as Catholics and intermarrying, their families still managed to secretly pass down some Jewish traditions from generation to generation. These practices have convinced them that they were originally Jews and fuel their desire to convert.The Longing, set in Ecuador, tells the story of a group of ""conversos"" attempting to regain their birthright. Among those featured are three women who traveled 36 hours roundtrip, by bus, from Colombia and a couple from a small Ecuadorian town. On the Internet, they have found an American rabbi from Kansas City committed to helping ""lost Jews"" throughout the world reclaim their identities. For two years they have studied online, following the rabbi's conversion course to Judaism. Now they are meeting the rabbi in Guayaquil, Ecuador. When the rabbi arrives, he finds the local established Jewish community uncooperative. The congregation is suspicious of the group s claim to their Jewish roots, even locking the Temple doors against these outsiders. Ultimately, the rabbi is able to get several local Jews to reluctantly participate in the conversion.Lost no more, the new converts dreams are fulfilled. Yet they face an uncertain future. They are isolated in their Catholic towns and receive little support from the Jewish community, which questions the religious authenticity of the rabbi s conversions.","stream","[]","['South America']","['Conversion', 'Jews', 'Jewish converts']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832035/1003832035-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641517"
"asp1641515-flon","Arkatov, Salome Ramras","The legacy of Rosina Lhevinne","2008","57 min","[]","This documentary film offers an intimate and compelling portrait of the life and achievements of the legendary pianist and master teacher, Rosina Lhevinne: her years of study at the Moscow Conservatory of Music, her marriage to famous pianist, Joseph Lhevinne, her devastation following her husband s death and her recovery and stunningly productive life from age 65 to 96. Recognized as one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century, Mme. Lhevinne was hailed as the greatest piano teacher in the world. Through her teaching on film, we witness her influence as a creative force that not only preserved the great 19th century Russian pianistic tradition but helped students go beyond themselves to develop their artistic individuality. We see how Mme. Lhevinne s incomparable teaching career flourished after age 65. And we hear extraordinarily beautiful performances from her solo career which began at age 75 and climaxed at age 82 when Mme. Lhevinne made her spectacular debut with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. By focusing on one remarkable artist whose work flourished in the twilight of her life, we may enlighten society on the creative experience, the aging process and the possibilities that lie within both.","stream","['Lhevinne, Rosina']","[]","['Women pianists', 'Older musicians']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832031/1003832031-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641515"
"asp1641514-lawv","Gardner, Janet","The last ghost of war","2007","57 min","[]","At Tu Du Hospital in Saigon, the painful aftermath of the Vietnam War is all too evident. Babies in a special unit have enlarged heads or are missing limbs. Pham Thi Thu Linh, born without arms, writes with her feet. A boy with a shrunken leg careens around the corridor in a wheelchair. Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War they are among several millions diagnosed by the Vietnamese as victims of Agent Orange. In The Last Ghost of War, we meet several who are plaintiffs in a class action suit against 32 US chemical companies. Attorneys, activists, scientists, and a military historian take us to a new battlefield. These Vietnamese victims are seeking compensation and justice. The question is were these dioxin-laden herbicides chemical weapons? And if so, who should be held accountable in the wake of what was allegedly the largest chemical warfare operation in history? Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities A presentation of the Center for Asian American Media With educational and public performance rights.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Agent Orange', 'Products liability', 'Vietnam War, 1961-1975']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832023/1003832023-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641514"
"asp1641512-busv","","The king of calls","2009","29 min","['Global business and economics in video']","At a call center in the Indian city of Hyderabad, work starts at 8 P.M. India time. It's morning in the U.S., when America is beginning to work. A business directory, ""The American Yellow Pages,"" similar to the original ""Yellow Pages,"" has outsourced their telemarketing to India. Kabith is the Indian executive-in-charge, trying to build his career as a call center tycoon. He has hired 75 new sales agents to sell listings for several hundred dollars. The problem is that listings in the competitive directory are free. Equipped with new American names and rudimentary English, they begin to pursue customers. Confusion reigns supreme, no sales are made. As the agents frantically dial, fearing the loss of their precious jobs, Kabith grows increasingly desperate. New agents are hired, scolded, and fired. One young woman is promoted to deputy manager thanks to her relentless efforts to train the newcomers to speak with an American accent, to get their initial pitch on target, and to avoid hang-ups. She likes working in the call center ""... because moneywise it's a very good industry"" and she wants to be independent from her parents. Two million young Indians work in the call center industry. How can American workers compete with them when they cost five times more than Indian workers? This is the frontier of globalization.","stream","[]","['India']","['Telemarketing', 'Globalization']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832019/1003832019-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641512"
"asp1784816-fln4","","Key to the world","","50 min","['Filmakers library online']","Dyslexia is a disability that has puzzled and frustrated parents, teachers, and those who suffer from it. Contrary to popular belief, the disorder is not simply one where letters are scrambled. It is a physical disorder of the brain which may lead to confused perceptions and an inability to organize thoughts. One man describes his relief at having a diagnosis. Before it had a name, he knew only that he was different from others. This film introduces us to a wide range of dyslectic people, along with their families, teachers and therapists. It concentrates on the inroads that auditory therapy is making on the illness. Bob Roy, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Listening and Language, in Regina, Sasketchewan, explains the importance of the ear's vestibular system which regulates posture, muscle tone, balance and eye movements. Michael, a twenty-one year old with a severe vestibular problem has trouble expressing himself, dealing with syntax, and telling left from right, although his intelligence is at the genius level. This otherwise healthy, attractive young man cannot hold a job and must be on welfare. He has begun therapy at Toronto's Listening Centre and is hopeful, for the first time, that he can learn to cope with his disability. A combination of therapies have been developed to give people coping skills that may be the key to their world.","stream","[]","[]","['Dyslexia']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003832xxx/1003832017/1003832017-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784816"
"asp1641510-flon","","The Japanese nightmare","2002","29 min","[]","""In Japan, more and more young women are rebelling against the societal norm. They do not want to settle down, marry and have families. Instead, more and more have careers and live with their parents enabling them to have disposable income which they spend for their own enjoyment""--Original container.","stream","[]","['Japan']","['Single women', 'Marriage', 'Women']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003832xxx/1003832016/1003832016-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641510"
"asp1641507-flon","Mokko, Kari","The conscience of a warrior nation","2003","29 min","[]","A small core of reservist in the Israeli army have refused to serve in Gaza and the West Bank, on moral grounds. They have subjected themselves to jail terms and harsh recriminations. The ""refusers"" are not pacifists, or cowards; they are willing to serve their country anywhere else but in the occupied territories. One of the organizers, Lieutenant Zonsheine, commended for bravery on the Lebanese front, speaks of his experiences in Ramallah, Hebron and Yenin which polarized him. He saw how searching for Palestinian terrorists in densely populated areas was creating havoc for young and old. With other reservists he published ""The Fighters Letter"" announcing that they would no longer serve in territories taken by Israel in the 67 war. The group is now five hundred strong, including one hundred fifty officers. Most of the ""refusers"" are well-educated and over thirty. Although their stand does not compromise the fighting force of the army, their refusal to participate brings to public view the moral aspects of the occupation. Eight refusers have submitted a petition to Israel s Supreme High Court to investigate the legality of the occupation. The documentary presents a sympathetic portrait of a voice not usually heard from Israel.","stream","[]","['Israel']","['Arab-Israeli conflict']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831993/1003831993-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641507"
"asp1641506-busv","","The big lie","2006","53 min","['Global business and economics in video']","This is a global court room drama where the stakes are billions of dollars -- and the health of countless people who are being seduced into smoking by aggressive marketing strategies. The case started in Australia where Rolah McCabe, a smoker since she was nine years old, was terminally ill with lung cancer. She sued British American Tobacco for manipulating the truth regarding its research on the hazards of smoking. It appears that fifty years of data on research by British American Tobacco have gone missing due to a company policy to systematically destroy the incriminating documents. The cast of characters includes McCabe's attorney, Peter Gordon, a dedicated public interest lawyer; Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, a nicotine addiction specialist and former employee of the tobacco company; and Frederick Gulson, a former legal counsel for the tobacco company. The plaintiff in Australia wins at first, only to have the decision overturned by an appellate court. Attorney Peter Gordon says, ""I've never been in a fight where justice was on my side and I lost."" He is confused and has unsettling doubts about the justice system. However, the case against ""big tobacco"" isn't over. The U.S. Department of Justice is building on evidence revealed in the Australian lawsuit to take on the tobacco company in a fraud and racketeering lawsuit. It is seeking unprecedented damages of hundreds of billions of dollars. This will no doubt be pursued through the courts for years. Note: Russell Crowe's character in The Insider was modeled on Jeffrey Wigand.","stream","['British American Tobacco Company']","[]","['Products liability', 'Smoking', 'Tobacco industry', 'Tobacco Industry']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831984/1003831984-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641506"
"asp1641504-flon","","That old gang of mine","1998","56 min","[]","This is a multi-layered portrait of growing up in New York City's El Barrio in the late 1940s and 50s, set against that neighborhood as it exists today. It includes archival footage and interviews with four generation of New Yorkers of Puerto Rican heritage. The filmmaker, Carlos de Jesus, remembers the values that sustained the community even in the midst of poverty -- respect for elders, discipline, religious beliefs and mutual support. Today he sees a frightening deterioration in the community. Violence, drugs, the breakdown of the family, and a culture of instant gratification are eroding the fragile web of connections that once existed. It is this sense of connection that can make the difference between children who value life or treat it with dangerous indifference. The annual stick ball players reunion brings together the past and the present. Many of the ""old timers"" have moved beyond the neighborhood, and pursued higher education and professional careers. A superintendent of schools; a consultant for the corrections department; a stockbroker; and the filmmaker, a professor and artist, are part of the old gang. Their lively reminiscences bring the past to life. Carlos de Jesus was motivated to make this film in part by his desire to find a sense of community for his own child. He mourns the fact that her ties will not be to the El Barrio of his youth, but to a community he has to forge himself.","stream","[]","['East Harlem (New York, N.Y.)', 'New York (State)']","['Puerto Ricans']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831973/1003831973-disc001-file001-frame00220-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641504"
"asp1641503-flon","Blank, Molly","Testing hope","2008","40 min","[]","In the impoverished black townships outside Cape Town, South Africa, everyone knows that the only way to improve one s life is to go to university and get a good job. And the only way to do that is to pass the challenging series of examinations known as Matric. Students prepare all year; their hopes and dreams as well as those of their families all depend on passing. This engaging film follows four students in Nyanga township in their last year of high school. Theirs is the first graduating class who entered school in 1994, the year apartheid ended. While this is the new South Africa, many vestiges of apartheid persist. Many families live in shacks, several homes lack running water and electricity, and the average household income is $3,000 per year. Babalwa, who wants to become a doctor, says she is ""used to"" not having breakfast and does not know if her family will be eating dinner that night. Some of her classmates are responsible for taking care of younger siblings as many parents are absent. Gang violence is rife. The film explores what lies ahead for students who pass Matric and what awaits those who do not. How will Nyanga s children achieve their dreams in a country where so many obstacles remain?High schools may telephone 212-808-4980 or email info@filmakers.com for a Special Price on Testing Hope. A closed captioned version is available. Please specify when ordering.","stream","[]","['South Africa']","['Achievement tests', 'De facto school segregation', 'Education', 'High school seniors']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831972/1003831972-disc001-file001-frame00550-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641503"
"asp1641502-flon","De Leo, Maryann","Terror at home","2006","59 min","[]","The statistics are shocking. One in three women face the threat of domestic abuse. Thirty-seven per cent of emergency hospital visits by women are a result of domestic violence. In the United States, 1500 women are murdered each year by their husbands or boyfriends. This film provides an unflinching look at some of the personal stories that lie behind these statistics. The violence cuts across all lines--racial, educational and financial. We meet working-class women and wealthy women living in million-dollar homes; their vulnerability and their response to their abuse is strikingly similar. Many women are ashamed of the situation and hide it from family members who could be of help. Nor do they think that calling the police is a safe option. Responsibility to their children further complicates their decision to leave. Nancy, like many of the other women, thought it would be easier to stay married and bear the beatings than try to flee and risk being fatally assaulted. Tracy needs a police presence to give her the courage to retrieve her possessions from her former home. Barbara is so frightened it takes three policeman to persuade her it is safer to go to a shelter than remain at home. The film shows that counseling sessions, group therapy, and battered- women groups help these women. Women s shelters can provide temporary safe havens. Court scenes make clear that the legal system can curtail the cycle of violence. The message is that the silence must be broken by the abused women themselves. An important film for sociology, psychology, criminal justice and women s studies.","stream","[]","[]","['Family violence']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831971/1003831971-disc001-file001-frame00245-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641502"
"asp1641501-flon","Roth, Vanessa","Taken in. The lives of America's foster children","1999","57 min","[]","Almost half a million children in the United States are in foster care. These are young people abused or neglected in their homes, or abandoned by their parents. For the last 150 years, social welfare agencies have placed children in temporary foster care. What are the real long term emotional and psychological costs of this policy? This powerful film delves in to the lives of generations of children who have grown up in foster care. The centerpiece of the program documents a year in the life of fifteen-year-old Jeffrey Smith and his five-year-old sister Joanna after they are separated from their crack addicted parents and three brothers. They now live in a two bedroom apartment with a Spanish speaking foster mother who has three children of her own. With the help of a guidance counselor, they confront the pain of separation and the difficult adjustment to a new home, neighborhood and culture. To the disappointment of the children, their parents fail to visit for several months. When they finally do, it becomes evident that their mother is still using drugs and fighting with their father. The hopes they had for being reunited are further diminished when their father is diagnosed with leukemia and their mother becomes pregnant with her sixth child. Interwoven with the Smith s story are the stories of four generations of adults who were once in foster care. From eighty-year-old Bill and his seventy-five year old brother Paul who lived in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in 1932 to twenty-year-old Tieysha who aged out of foster care two years ago, they all feel they were deprived of a normal childhood. This is an important film for social workers, counselors, policy makers, and classes in sociology and social policy.","stream","[]","[]","['Foster children', 'Foster home care']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831961/1003831961-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641501"
"asp1641499-flon","","Sweet old song","2001","57 min","[]","Acclaimed African American musician Howard ""Louie Bluie"" Armstrong, 91, is renowned for a lifetime of jazz, blues, folk and country music. He has been performing since the 1920s, when his father carved his first fiddle from a wooden crate. The National Endowment for the Arts has honored him as a ""national treasure."" But when Armstrong at 73 met Barbara Ward, a sculptor thirty years his junior, a new chapter of his life and art unfolded. Sweet Old Song is the story of Armstrong and Ward s courtship and marriage -- a unique partnership that inspired an outpouring of art and music. Their creative work draws on nearly a century of African American experience, beginning with Armstrong s vivid stories and paintings of his childhood in a segregated town in Tennessee. A tireless artist and collaborator, Ward encourages Armstrong to document their memories in paintings and illustrations for a children s book. For Armstrong, these recollections reach back to a pre-World War II era of black string bands when, along with his younger brothers, he performed on the street and at white society dances. Armstrong s recollections take on added poignancy when he is invited to his hometown of LaFollette, Tennessee, which declares a Howard Armstrong Day in his honor. The visit is bittersweet as he reminisces with old neighbors, and is honored at the local high school, which was closed to black students when he was a child.","stream","['Armstrong, Howard']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831956/1003831956-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641499"
"asp1641496-flon","","Struggle for identity. Issues in transracial adoption","2000","21 min","[]","Because of all the upheavals worldwide and the social problems in our own country, many idealistic people are tempted to rescue children through foster care and adoption. But they may not be prepared for the kinds of problems that can arise. This powerful new video brings into focus the issue of race, culture and identity in adoptive or foster families It is refreshing to hear teenagers speak so candidly about their conflicts and confusions. One African American girl says ""My parents are Swedish American and I love my parents, but at the same time ... we need to look to black parents to give us the answers."" Another girl remembers that as a child she desperately wanted to return to her country. Another young man questions how parents will react when their adopted kids goes through the ""anti-white stage."" This film will be a useful resource for social workers, psychologists and counselors.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Interracial adoption']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831948/1003831948-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641496"
"asp1641495-gltv","Kao, Antonia","Straight white men and me","2001","24 min","[]","With wit and style, Antonia Kao explores the world of ""straight, white men"" in this revealing, humorous and often poignant new film. ""I went to a women's college and came out a lesbian."" Antonia Kao is a first-generation Taiwanese-American woman who spent several years in activist, progressive LGBT ""of-color"" circles before deciding to ""return to the mainstream."" She enters film school at the University of Southern California and finds herself for the first time in a while in the company of many ""straight, white men."" In an effort to interact comfortably with ""the oppresors,"" and understand who she is in relation to them, she interviews several who represent to her stereotypes ""of straight white men."" These interviews are mixed with charming animations. The men range from Pascal, a drummer whose walls are covered by pictures of naked women; to Phil, a former Marine who admits that his friends used him as bait to beat up gay men; to two married men, one a corporate golf- lover, and another a socially conservative father of three. Antonia, with her delightful sense of humor and no-holds-barred attitude, joins her new friends in the locker room, on the ice hockey rink and in front of the tube for the Superbowl in an effort to move beyond the stereotypes to a place of personal power and understanding.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Heterosexual men', 'Men']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831946/1003831946-disc001-file001-frame00065-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1641495"
"asp1641494-flon","Ross, Tana","Straight up rappin","1993","29 min","[]","Anybody who believes that crime, poverty, and drugs have killed political thought among the young people of America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods, has only to see Straight Up Rappin to be set straight. This compelling documentary is about rap as it is declaimed in the streets of New York, straight up - without music. These rappers, amateurs all, feel a compelling need to express their feelings about the world they live in. There are ten-year olds who rap about the Bill of Rights, young men who rap about homelessness and child abuse, a young woman who raps about revolution. The powerful and often bitter words of their street poetry, expresses the political consciousness of their generation.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Rap (Music)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831945/1003831945-disc001-file001-frame00050-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641494"
"asp1641493-hlth","","Still breathing","2003","27 min","[]","Rob Fraser was born with cystic fibrosis and always knew his life would be cut short. With wry humor he observes that at thirty -three he has outlived his alotted time. We watch his struggle for dignity against the humiliating effects of illness and the tendency of caregivers to lose sight of his humanity. Rob has confronted the philosophical issues most of us struggle with all of our lives; the meaning of life and death, body and soul. Rob s remarkably frank discussions of his situation illustrate his huge capacity for life: for him, the surf seems bigger and his guitar sounds sweeter than it might otherwise. He is down-to-earth and gets irritated with pills, hospitals and the medical system; yet he realizes he is utterly dependent on them. Rob has decided that he is ready to risk everything by placing himself on the waiting list for a lung transplant. Rob s courage and steadfastness is buoyed by the strong bonds he has formed with other people with life-threatening illnesses. He is fortified by the nourishing love of his wife which helps him deal with the precarious nature of his life.","stream","[]","[]","['Cystic fibrosis']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831941/1003831941-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641493"
"asp1641490-flon","Johansson, Folke","Spirits for sale","2008","59 min","[]","When Annika is given an eagle feather by a Native American visiting Sweden, she realizes it is a sacred object which should probably not be in her hands. These days Native American ceremonies are being commercialized for ""outsiders,"" arousing resentment in the Native community. Annika sets out to find the feather s rightful owner, a quest which takes her to American Indian communities in Albuquerque, San Antonio and to Bear Butte in South Dakota. She meets many Native Americans who are bitter, believing they are ""the forgotten people."" But others are fighting to preserve their culture and their faith as well as to protect their land. Navajo Andrew Thomas, who manages the Albuquerque Pueblo Center, explains that certain tribes use feathers in special ways to communicate with ""the Upper God."" He fears modern Native Americans have lost touch with the ancient beliefs. In this film we hear from a professor of Native American history in San Antonio who discusses the five hundred tribes who lived in the US centuries ago and recalls the massacres they suffered. Gayle Ross, a respected Cherokee teacher, feels Americans do not understand native people. Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota nation is deeply disturbed by the entire arena of cultural exploitation.","stream","[]","[]","['Indians of North America']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831932/1003831932-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641490"
"asp1784797-asiv","","Sparrow village","2003","28 min","['Asian film online']","This video follows the struggle for education faced by several young girls living in a rural village in southwestern China.","stream","[]","['China, Southwest']","['Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831928/1003831928-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ASIV;1784797"
"asp1641487-flon","","Soothsayers, cigars and San Simon","1997","59 min","[]","In Guatemala, in a slum district known as the Line, five women soothsayers try to solve the problems of the poorest of the poor. In their tin shed, they see their clients who open their hearts in search of advice, healing and comfort. The healers invoke the illegal San Simon-- ""illegal"" in that he is not recognized by the Catholic Church - although the majority of the people of Guatemala do regard him as a saint. Saint Simon is the patron saint of the poor and is regarded as being able to cure most ills. San Simon liked liquor and smoked cigars. The gnarled women who evoke his spirit share this affinity. We watch the emotional outpourings of their clients through a cloud of smoke.The tougher the problem the more cigar smoke is needed for the cure. Many a rejected lover is able to reclaim lost affection, and problem children become easier to deal with through their intervention. With few material possessions, these people call on faith and hope for their survival.","stream","[]","['Guatemala']","['Saints', 'Divination']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831923/1003831923-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641487"
"asp1784793-fln4","","Somba Ke. The money place","","55 min","['Filmakers library online']","In the 1940s, the uranium for the Manhattan Project was secretly supplied from a mine in the Canadian Arctic. At the time, no one knew what the effects of uranium in any of its forms would be on human life. Mined by indigenous people, there was little attention given to the fact that many in the community later sickened and died from various cancers. In addition, a valuable source of fresh water became contaminated. This groundbreaking documentary travels to the Arctic, New Mexico, Shanghai, Hiroshima and New York City to follow the multi-million dollar investigation into the effects on those who were witnesses to the very dawn of the atomic age. With the promise of huge profits, a uranium exploration company is eager to reopen the abandoned mine in the Arctic, called Somba Ke by the local people. Renewed mining in the uranium-rich north promises new economic opportunities to impoverished First Nations. With dire warnings about the world's dwindling oil supplies and concerns over global warming, nuclear power is increasingly embraced. This powerful documentary is a stark reminder of the human cost of this endeavor.","stream","[]","['Northwest Territories']","['Uranium mines and mining', 'Bearlake Indians']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831913/1003831913-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784793"
"asp1641482-flon","","Slender existence","2001","24 min","[]","""In 9th grade I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. I have little memory of it."" Thus begins the filmmaker's story of her ten year struggle with the disorder. The onset was rather sudden. She was told by a modelling agency that she should lose fifteen pounds. It was her first experience of ""not being good enough."" This compelling film documents Laura's descent from a healthy, attractive teenager into one starving herself to the verge of death, obsessed with exercise, unable to sleep, solitary and secretive. It follows her story from the point of view of her parents and best friend. Anti depressants and psychiatry provided the impetus to begin the assent to normality. Laura concludes, "" No good comes from silence. Living with an eating disorder is a trauma; surviving it is a triumph!"" A closed captioned version is available. Please specify when ordering.","stream","[]","[]","['Eating disorders', 'Body image in women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831909/1003831909-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641482"
"asp1641481-flon","Holzinger, Brigitte","Sleep and its secrets","1999","53 min","[]","A third of our life we spend sleeping. This period, when the body is at rest and sensory input is more or less inactive, is in fact a time of intense activity for the brain. This documentary, which interweaves informative interviews with internationally renowned researchers and vivid graphics gives a clear explanation of what happens to us during those unconscious hours. Sleeping soundly enhances psychological well being and productivity, while sleep disorders undermine mental and physical health. Some of the topics covered are: the stages of sleep; its role in restoring the body's metabolic energy; sleep cycles and circadian rhythms; the role of melatonin; sleep disorders, and adaptations during aging. The film includes footage of early sleep deprivation experiments and offers interesting tidbits on the sleep habits of Dali, Napoleon and Einstein. Among the experts represented are psychologist William Dement from Stanford University and neuropsychologist Allan Hobson from Harvard.","stream","[]","[]","['Sleep', 'Sleep deprivation', 'Sleep disorders']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831908/1003831908-disc001-file001-frame00225-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641481"
"asp1641479-busv","","Singapore-Malaysia. The lion and the tiger","2006","27 min","['Global business and economics in video']","The Johore Strait separates the highly prosperous city-state of Singapore from the rapidly developing economic ""tiger"" of Malaysia. As the film illustrates, they are nevertheless extremely interdependent. Johore Barhu, the second largest city in Malaysia, changed radically at the beginning of the 1980s when its growth was stimulated by Singapore's expansion. Thousands of Malaysians streamed in from the provinces like Zacaria Bin Samion who moved to Johore Barhu with his family so he could work in construction. Noriah Tahir is among the 25,000 Malaysian workers who cross the border into Singapore every day. She started out as a simple factory worker in an electronics factory and today is a skilled worker in charge of quality control for microprocessors, earning three times what she would in Malaysia. Prof. Kesavapany, University of Singapore, discusses the history of the two formerly British territories and the economic ""miracle"" of Singapore. Nowadays, many Singaporians come to Johore to have a wild night out or to go shopping in Malaysia where things cost less. Malaysia has made the decision to compete with Singapore and has built a new container port in Johore. In spite of the tensions and temptations to compete with each other, a second border bridge between the two states was inaugurated in 1999, freeing up traffic and encouraging exchange between the two countries.","stream","[]","['Malaysia', 'Johor Baharu (Johor)', 'Singapore']","['Labor supply']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831904/1003831904-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641479"
"asp1641478-hlth","Peyrot, Pierre","Sinesipho. Why must I die?","2008","58 min","[]","The epidemic of AIDS in South Africa is huge and the government has been lax in addressing the problem. In addition, on the international front, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has been slow to give aid to countries in need. This film shows how an HIV-positive mother, Busi Maqungo, living in a shanty town in South Africa, has become an AIDS activist. Through the internet, she contacts leaders of the Fund and actually meets some of them who are attending the G-8 Summit in London. She gets a sympathetic ear from prominent politicians like Kofi Annan and Paul Wolfowitz. They promise help and funds, but she remains skeptical. She is an example of citizens taking political responsibility who ultimately make a difference. And who is Sinesipho, for whom the film is named? She was the young poster girl for the Global Fund, who lives with her grandmother in poverty and still believes AIDS is transmitted from other peoples toothbrushes.","stream","[]","['South Africa']","['AIDS (Disease)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831903/1003831903-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641478"
"asp1784787-ant3","","Simple courage. An historical portrait in the age of AIDS","1998","59 min","[]","Simple Courage documents the treatment of leprosy victims in Hawaii in the 19th and early 20th century. More than 8, 000 sufferers, mostly native, were banished to an isolated peninsula and practically abandoned. One man, however, in a simple act of courage, took it upon himself to bring comfort to these hopeless people. He was Father Damien, a Catholic missionary from Belgium, who spent sixteen years caring for the ""untouchables"" until he himself succumbed to the disease. He transformed their prison into a place of decency and respect. Using archival footage and moving interviews with survivors from the 30s and 40s, Simple Courage shows the emotional pain of banishment from their ancestral homes added to the ravages of the disease.","stream","['Damien', 'Father, Saint']","['Hawaii']","['Missions to leprosy patients', 'Leprosy']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831902/1003831902-disc001-file001-frame00190-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANT3;1784787"
"asp1641475-ahiv","Moreau, Michel, director","Shackles of memory. The Atlantic slave trade","1996","55 min","['American history in video']","From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New World. Africans were deported by the millions, not only by the French, but by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English, starting as early as the 15th century. In this important historical film, the grim details of the slave trade are made real for a modern audience. Paintings, documents and artifacts recount the immensely profitable trade that enriched the great port cities of Europe as it decimated the African people. None of the tropical colonies would have prospered had it not been for merciless use of slave labor. Without resorting to polemics, The Shackles of Memory evokes a chilling reality that reverberates today.","stream","[]","['France']","['Slave trade', 'Slaves']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831887/1003831887-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1641475"
"asp1641474-hlth","Dickson, Deborah","Sex, teens and public schools","1995","56 min","[]","The United States has the dubious distinction of having the highest adolescent pregnancy, abortion, and birth rates in the developed world. Every minute in America, another teenager becomes a mother, and 82% of the one million pregnancies experienced by American adolescents every year are unintended. Sex, Teens, and Public Schools explores the conditions that have led to escalating rates of teen pregnancy, illustrates the costs and consequences of this national epidemic, and most importantly, examines the role that public schools can play in stemming the tide of early and unwanted pregnancy. By speaking with students, pregnant and parenting teens, teachers, health care providers and policy experts, this documentary explores how efforts designed to prevent teen pregnancy can be translated into effective public policy. While the nations seem to have come to a conclusion that schools play an important role in the effort to combat teen pregnancy, defining that role is at the center of a heated debate. Sex, Teens, and Public Schools travels to embattled communities to illustrate the ideological debate over the proper role of sexuality education and school based health clinics in preventing teen pregnancy and childbearing. Given the enormous social cost of teen pregnancy, the volatile nature of the public debate, and this documentary s intimate portraits of teens at risk, Sex, Teens, and Public Schools makes a powerful and timely contribution to the public s understanding of this critical issue.","stream","[]","[]","['School health services', 'Teenage parents', 'Birth control', 'Teenage pregnancy']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831886/1003831886-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641474"
"asp1641473-hlth","Weisberg, Roger","Sex and other matters of life & death","2001","57 min","[]","This film chronicles a year in the life of STAR Theater, a vibrant teenage theater company that performs for adolescents throughout New York City. The performances raise awareness about the risks young people face in the age of AIDS. As the film evolves, viewers discover that the performers are struggling with the same problems in their own lives that they are dramatizing on stage. STAR Theater uses drama and peer education to help teens avoid pregnancy and disease. The performances always conclude with a question and answer session. The documentary captures these uncensored peer to peer discussions. The teens are free to express themselves in ways that are often raw, sometimes amusing, and occasionally tragic. Peer education, including programs like this, has proven to be an effective educational approach. Using teen culture and language, it develops a trusting environment in which teens are more receptive to information about reducing risks. The documentary offers a moving portrait of how painful, dangerous, and yet hopeful the process of growing up can be.","stream","[]","['United States']","['AIDS (Disease)', 'Sexual health', 'Teenagers', 'Peer counseling of students', 'Safe sex in AIDS prevention']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831882/1003831882-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641473"
"asp1784782-envv","Freeth, Tony","Setting the grass roots on fire - Norman Borlaug & Africa's green revolution","2001","57 min","[]","Dr. Norman Borlaug, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, has spent his life battling against hunger and poverty in developing countries. With characteristic energy and a sense or urgency, he is setting the agenda for a ""Green Revolution "" in Sub-Saharan Africa as population increases overwhelm production. Borlaug grew up on a small farm in Iowa during the Depression years and trained as an agricultural scientist. He developed a lifelong determination to use science for the benefit of subsistence farmers. The film charts his struggle against third world poverty, using footage shot in Africa and Mexico over the last thirty years. In Mexico after World War II Borlaug designed a simple approach for intensifying traditional agriculture that had dramatic results. It saved India and Pakistan from a repetition of the dreadful famine of the 1960 s. Often embroiled in politics in his determination to put agriculture at the top of the agenda, he has also crossed swords with some environmentalists, who he felt had little understanding of life in developing countries. His faith as always been in small -scale farmers who are ""setting the grassroots on fire.""","stream","['Borlaug, Norman']","['Africa']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831879/1003831879-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784782"
"asp1641471-flon","Chung, Hak J","Seoul II soul","1999","25 min","[]","Korean American filmmaker Hak J. Chung explores his own identity by taking a close look at a very engaging family. The Yates household consists of the father, a black Korean war veteran, his war bride and their three grown children. This love match has endured for thirty-five years because of the couple s intellectual and spiritual unity. When they first settled in America, they faced discrimination and misunderstanding. We learn how their children felt growing up as mixed race kids in a home where both cultures were valued. However, it is a surprise to learn that this seemingly well-adjusted family cannot escape the pain of cultural miscommunication. The beloved eldest son is estranged from his parents because his blonde wife and his mother are at odds. His wife does not understand the nuances of her in-laws expectations. His mother is offended that his wife won t eat kimchi and addresses her by her first name. This candid film makes a valuable contribution to resources on multiculturalism and diversity.","stream","[]","[]","['Families']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831878/1003831878-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641471"
"asp1641467-flon","","Salam Iran - a Persian letter","2002","53 min","[]","Salam Iran offers insight into a country seething with change but ruthlessly contained by the Islamic theocracy. It is also a universal portrait of exile; intense yearning for what can never be reclaimed. Amir Moussami fled Iran eighteen years ago as a young student targeted by the revolution as an agitator for democracy. He settled in Montreal, yearning for his country and for the mother to whom he never had a chance to say goodbye. When his mother wrote of her fear that she would die before setting eyes on him again, Amir planned a brief return. Filmmaker Jean-Daniel was captivated by Amir's story and decided to accompany him, camera in tow. But then fate cast a curve ball -- Amir's visa was deferred by the Iranian consulate the day before departure, and Jean-Daniel flew on without his native guide. He discovers for himself the complexities of a country struggling under the heavy yoke of Ayotollah Khomeini's conservatism, yet needing to navigate in the modern world. He finds a fascinating assemblage of Iranians to help him decipher this unfamiliar territory. Among them are a female vice president of the Republic who voices her disapproval of Western values; an academic who is prohibited from teaching because of his views; a news dealer who observes that the liberal press has been stifled. Finally Amir's visa is approved and he arrives at Tehran airport beaming with anticipation. Home at last! But home to what? The land of his happy childhood memories, or of the current repressive state? Amir journeys the many miles, past nomads, camels and mountains to reunite with his mother. They have a speechless but tearful reunion.","stream","[]","['Iran']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831864/1003831864-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641467"
"asp1641466-flon","Weisberg, Roger","Rosevelt's America - a refugee's inspiring journey to build a new life for his family","2006","26 min","[]","After being tortured and narrowly escaping execution during Liberia s civil war, Rosevelt Henderson makes his way to America to start his life over again in a strange country. He brings his three children with him but is forced to leave his pregnant wife behind. Although Rosevelt was trained as a civil engineer, he doesn t hesitate to work day and night as a janitor, airport van driver, and assembly line worker in order to support his family. Eventually his perseverance pays off, and he is reunited with his wife who quickly gets a job as a nurse s aide. After years of struggle and deprivation, Rosevelt and his family are finally able to enjoy the prosperity and freedom that drew them to this country.","stream","[]","[]","['Liberia', 'Political refugees']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831857/1003831857-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641466"
"asp1641465-ahiv","","Rosa Parks. The path to freedom","[1996?]","26 min","['American history in video']","Film features Rosa Parks and others involved in the boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system which her refusal to give up ger set to a white person sparked.","stream","['Parks, Rosa']","['Alabama', 'Montgomery (Ala.)']","['Segregation in transportation', 'African Americans']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831856/1003831856-disc001-file001-frame00190-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1641465"
"asp1641464-busv","","Ropa Americana (American clothing)","2003","23 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Ropa Americana documents the travels of an old purple t-shirt from the Toronto housewife who donates it to Goodwill Industry to its final destination, a housewife in Costa Rica who buys it in a second-hand store. The film is brightened by an immediacy provided by the unforgettable people involved in the complex chain of events: the donor, the charity worker, the textile company representative, the merchant in Costa Rica and the end user. The film brings to light the debate between the donors and the businessmen involved in the textile trade, an important commodity in today's global economy. The charitable donor finds it morally and ethically wrong for charities and middlemen to be making money off donated items. The companies involved believe they are running a legitimate and extremely worthwhile business, providing people in developing countries with cheap but good quality clothing. The film's objectivity allows viewers to come to their own conclusion.","stream","[]","['Costa Rica', 'Canada']","['Nonprofit organizations', 'Business ethics', 'Used clothing industry']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831855/1003831855-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641464"
"asp1641463-flon","Preston, Ian, director","Room full of men","1991","48 min","[]","Why are men violent toward women? How can they change? A Room Full of Men is a riveting documentary that examines a group of men with a history of abuse towards women, and their efforts to change. The film follows three men who have joined a program to change. The film follows three men who have joined a program to help them change their lives. As the documentary unfolds, both participants and viewers learn that violence is more than bruises and beatings. As long as men believe they have authority and control over women, both physically and mentally, the potential for violence is there. A Room Full of Men is about choice and responsibility. It will interest students and professionals in social work, health care and criminal justice. An excellent resource for community groups and battered women's groups.","stream","[]","[]","['Family violence']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831854/1003831854-disc001-file001-frame00105-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641463"
"asp1784775-flon","","River of life","2008","53 min","[]","River of Life chronicles the experiences of a determined group of women who make up the 2006 Paddlers Abreast racers in the Yukon River Quest, the world's longest annual canoe and kayak race. Their diverse stories unfold in this beautifully-realized documentary as they reveal their reasons for pushing themselves to new limits by paddling competitively. Set against the stunning backdrop of Canada's North, this film combines lively footage of the race with touching and humorous interviews with the women, their families, and other paddlers.  Some members of Paddlers Abreast have been in remission for years, one was diagnosed as recently as the year before. Stroke by stroke, they forge on; everyone moving fluidly, part of the river and its surroundings. As the documentary follows the arduous physical and emotional journey of the team in its struggle towards the finish, what emerges most clearly is the incredible strength and spirit resonating from the boat. River of Life is an exhilarating story of a group of women who have faced death and understand how precious life is.","stream","[]","[]","[""Women's studies"", 'Cancer']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831850/1003831850-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784775"
"asp1784773-envv","","Radioactive reservations","1996, c1995","51 min","[]","The story of how the Indian tribes may become the repository for radioactive waste is yet another chapter in their sad history in North America. In this film tribal leader Ron Eagleye Johnny takes us to four reservations whose inhabitants chronicle the negotiations with the U.S. government to place Monitored Storage Retrieval sites on their land The large commercial power companies have run out of places to bury their nuclear waste. The lure to these impoverished people is quick money, jobs, and the promise of safety. Unhappily, it is often the tribal councils that will negotiate the deals and profit from them without the money filtering down to the rest of the population. The tour starts with the Paiute Shoshone reservation, near Fort McDermott, Oregon, goes to the Skull Valley Cosiute reservation outside of Salt Lake City, and takes us to New Mexico and Nevada where the Apaches, Navajos and Pueblos have long been recipients of nuclear fallout from weapons testing. Ron Eagleye Johnny also visits a power plant in Minnesota where conversation is monitored by lawyers and public relations people. Radioactive Reservations is an eloquent statement from the Native Americans themselves on the vulnerability of their very existence.","stream","[]","['West (U.S.)']","['Indians of North America', 'Indian reservations', 'Radioactive waste disposal in the ground']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831844/1003831844-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784773"
"asp1641459-gltv","","Regretters","2010","60 min","[]","Regretters gives heartfelt voice to two transgendered people who underwent sex change surgery to become women. Now, years later, they would like to return to their original, masculine selves. Through their experiences we learn how very complicated gender identity is; morphing from one gender to another is not accomplished solely by sexual reassignment surgery. Orlando and Mikael are Swedish, now in their sixties. Meeting for the first time, they face one another on a stage and engage in a spontaneous dialogue. Orlando, an androgynous dandy dressed in a red velvet suit, had one of the first sex change operations in Sweden in 1967. He tells of his eleven year marriage to a man who never suspected that his wife had not been born female. Mikael, dressed as a man, underwent the surgery in the 1990's when he was fifty years old. He has tried to convince his doctors to change him back, as he feels desperately lost between genders, trapped inside a body that is not his. Regretters is frank without being sensational. It will be important material for any discussion of gender.","stream","[]","['Sweden']","['Transsexuals', 'Regret']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831843/1003831843-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1641459"
"asp1641458-flon","Davis, Clare Gartrell","Rajmohan Gandhi. Encounters with truth","1990","40 min","[]","Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, exhibits many of the spiritual qualities of the ""Father of India."" Author, journalist, tireless campaigner for social progress, this charismatic man seeks to bridge the values of his grandfather with the challenges facing India today. Filmed against the sights and sounds of India in all its variety, this portrait of an inspiring leader captures the complexity of contemporary India.","stream","['Gandhi, Rajmohan']","['India']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831832/1003831832-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641458"
"asp1641457-lawv","Lyon, Rachel V","Race to execution","2007","54 min","[]","Race to Execution"" is a gripping documentary that offers a compelling investigation of America's death penalty, probing how race discrimination infects our capital punishment system. The film neither advocates nor repudiates the death penalty; instead, it enlarges the conversation regarding capital punishment, focusing attention on race-of-jury as well as race-of-victim. Research reveals that our justice system is far worse than arbitrary and capricious; it has deteriorated significantly in the last twenty years. Highlighted is a well-documented indicator of this trend - the higher value placed on the lives of white victims. Once a victim's body is discovered, the race of the victim and the accused deeply influence the legal process: from how a crime scene is investigated, to the deployment of police resources, to the interrogation and arrest of major suspects, to how media portrays the crime, and, ultimately, jury selection and sentencing. The film traces the fates of two death row inmates: Robert Tarver in Russell County, Alabama, and Madison Hobley in Chicago. Their compelling personal stories are enlarged and enriched by attorneys who fought for these men's lives, and by prosecutors, criminal justice scholars, and experts in the fields of law and the media. These varied voices contribute to a thoughtful examination of the factors that influence who lives and who dies at the hands of the state. While recent death penalty documentaries have focused on innocence and the wrongfully accused, ""Race to Execution"" tackles a more difficult, more complex issue: the prevalence and influence of racial bias in capital punishment cases.","stream","[]","[]","['Death row inmates', 'Discrimination in capital punishment', 'Capital punishment', 'Racism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831827/1003831827-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641457"
"asp1641456-blsv","","Race or reason, the Bellport dilemma","2003","58 min","['Black studies in video']","In 1969-70, when race riots were sweeping across America in the wake of the civil rights movement, Bellport, a small town on Long Island, NY, was caught in the storm. The town was divided between its poor African-American and Puerto Rican population and affluent whites. The local high school became the scene of angry confrontations, resulting in its temporary closure and a police presence. The house of community resident Betty Puleston was being used as a meeting place where black, white and Latino students could air their grievances. To help further, she gave the students two port-a-pac video cameras following a concept introduced by the National Film Board of Canada. The hope was that media could be used to facilitate dialogue. That hope was realized, as the students recorded their concerns and felt empowered by being able to question adults in their community. Thirty years later these same students regroup to view the tapes. Despite some lack of production values of these early black-and- white tapes, the images clearly reveal the passion of the young activists who felt that minority rights could no longer be ignored. We learn that the students have gone on to lead productive lives -- a social worker, lawyer, community organizer, and a policeman are among them. This film will introduce today's youth to the racial problems of the 70s, where suburban schools, even in the North, did not employ African-American teachers nor teach black history. It will inspire students, knowing that they can make a difference as their predecessors did. And it will show how effective media can be to facilitate conflict resolution.","stream","[]","['Bellport (N.Y.)']","['Race relations', 'Racism']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831826/1003831826-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641456"
"asp1641455-flon","Asard, Johan","Price of honour","2005","46 min","[]","Pela Atroshi, a child of Kurdish immigrants living in Sweden, was brought up in the strict traditions of her native country. She and her sister were not allowed to socialize with boys and were expected to be home immediately after school. However, as a teenager, she was spotted having an innocent meeting with a Swedish young man. Her outraged family returned to their village in northern Iraq where she was murdered by her uncle to uphold the family honor. This compelling film follows Breen, her sister, who at great personal risk brought the story to light back in Sweden. Breen had escaped from Iraq determined to avenge her sister s murder. The Swedish press took up her cause, but she has paid a heavy price for her assertiveness isolated life with a secret identity, fearful that she too will be killed.","stream","['Atroshi, Pela']","['Sweden']","['Refugees, Kurdish', 'Honor killings', 'Women, Kurdish', 'Immigrants']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831391/1003831391-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641455"
"asp1641454-flon","Bourgaux, Pascale","Prayers of a warlord","2003","52 min","[]","For the first time a warlord opens his doors and takes us on an intimate tour to the heart of the Afghan feudal system. Mamour Hasan governs 50,000 people in Dash-Te-Qalah, in the north east corner of Afghanistan. They are largely Tajik and Pashtun. Gray bearded and mild mannered, with an army 10,000 strong, his authority is unchallenged. The film opens with the peaceful image of Hasan praying by the side of a river. Later he explains how he opposed the cruelty of the Taliban. Their version of Islam, he says, is not the true Islam, which is forgiving and tolerant. We follow him through the busy local market, friendly but firmly collecting taxes from the vendors. This revenue stays in his domain. With it, he pays the army, supports the schools, and his Council of Elders takes care of those in need. He mediates justice in a benevolent way. Hassan has enlightened views on women, although his three wives refuse to be filmed. This documentary takes one to a world far from urban Kabul and global politics, but representative of much of the countryside. Although the term ""warlord"" has been bandied about by journalists and commentators reporting on Afghanistan, this portrait of Mamour Hasan and his villagers illuminates a way of life, a social organization and indeed a mentality that needs to be understood by westerners considering the future of Afghanistan.","stream","[]","['Afghanistan']","['Warlordism', 'Feudalism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831389/1003831389-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641454"
"asp1641451-flon","Reed, Rosemarie","Out from the shadows","2009","57 min","[]","This fascinating biography relates the life and times of Irène Joliot-Curie, the eldest daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. Although less well known than her parents, Irene and her husband, Frédéric, made a contribution to nuclear physics that was of equally ground-breaking significance. And like her parents, they were awarded a Nobel Prize. In 1934, Irène and her husband announced in a report to the French Academy of Sciences that they had created a radioactive atom which did not exist in nature. The bombardment of a simple sheet of aluminum with alpha rays had produced a phosphorus isotope which disintegrated just like natural radioactive elements. Until then radioactivity had been a phenomenon which scientists could not influence or manipulate, but which they were able to observe in certain heavy nuclei. The discovery of the Joliot-Curies marked the beginning of a new era in the relationship of man towards matter: it had become possible to artificially create new atoms and new sources of radioactive radiation. The discovery of artificial radioactivity was also an important step towards the discovery of nuclear fission, made in 1938, and the development of the atomic bomb, completed in 1944. The film makes use of the Curie family photos and home movies, as well as interviews, stock footage, and dramatizations.","stream","['Joliot-Curie, Frédéric', 'Joliot-Curie, Irène']","[]","['Induced radioactivity']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831356/1003831356-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641451"
"asp1784764-fln4","","One summer in New Paltz. A cautionary tale","","54 min","['Filmakers library online']","In February 2004 President Bush called for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to enshrine a heterosexual definition of marriage. This ignited a wave of civil disobedience in the form of same-sex marriages across the USA. The film focuses on the small village of New Paltz, N.Y. where the 26-year-old mayor Jason West stunned his neighbors and the nation by performing 25 same-sex marriages in defiance of state law. As a result, thousands of gay couples flooded New Paltz seeking to be married. When Mayor West, who is straight, was arrested, Rev. Dawn Sangrey and Kay Greenleaf took over, marrying 277 more couples. There was a wave of same-sex marriages, demonstrations and law suits across New York State. The film probes the debate on same-sex marriage, examining the intersection of same-sex marriage with the Constitution, race, war and the family. The film also documents the first day of legal same-sex marriages in Boston in May 2004, when the Massachusetts legislature voted affirmatively despite Gov. Romney's opposition. Since then, the N.Y. State Assembly voted to legalize same-sex marriage but the Senate blocked passage of the bill. The New Paltz marriages remain unrecognized. This strong film is about grassroots organizing, straight/gay alliances and confrontation with repressive state laws.","stream","[]","['New York (State)']","['Gay rights', 'Same-sex marriage']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831342/1003831342-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784764"
"asp1641448-flon","Trombley, Stephen","Nuremberg","1997","53 min","[]","A few months after the end of World War II, with the international community outraged at the excesses committed by Germany, trials against war criminals were convened in Nuremberg, the symbolic seat of Nazism. There was a series of twelve trials, but it was the first that was the most prominent. Top military and governmental figures including Goering, Hess, Von Ribbentrop, and Durnitz were among those first prosecuted. Later trials followed against doctors, bankers, industrialists and others.Entirely composed of historical footage, including some newly discovered archival films, Nuremberg brings to life the challenge of administering justice when crimes are on such a scale. Fifty-five million people had been killed in World War II; seven million civilians in the Soviet Union alone. Although the first trial was concluded successfully with death or imprisonment for those found guilty, the subsequent trials were compromised by Cold War politics. The Soviet Union was now regarded as a threat by its former allies and a reconstructed Germany was to be a buffer. Many imprisoned Germans were pardoned and restored to power if they were considered useful to the West. In the end, the cold War overturned to American commitment to justice.","stream","[]","[]","['Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946', 'Cold War', 'Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831326/1003831326-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641448"
"asp1641445-flon","","North Korea. Portrait of a red dictator","2008","29 min","[]","This exclusive portrait is the first to portray North Korea's ""Dear Leader"" Kim Jong-il, with interviews of North and South Korean politicians, as well as close relatives and former employees who have fled the regime. The government is secretive and little is known about Jong-il. He managed to retain power after his father Kim Il- Sung's death in 1994. By 1997, North Korea had become one of the most isolated countries in the world, with an economy in shambles and frequent famines, causing the death of millions of his compatriots. Jong-il s regime has made North Korea a nuclear rogue state threatening the security of the world.Having grown up among the military and political operatives of his father s government, Jong-il was appointed his father s propaganda chief. By writing and directing films, ballets and operas glorifying his father and himself, he created a remarkable personality cult around his father. This he extended to encompass himself, thereby legitimizing the father-son political succession. He has a reputation as a vain and capricious playboy, having been married five times and has had many mistresses, some chosen from the ""Pleasure Brigade"" of young women used by his cronies and himself. He lives in great opulence, feasting on rare foods and drinking heavily.Kim Dae Jung, the former President of South Korea and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize recalls his visit to Kim Jong-il in 2001 when Jong- il told him he wished to improve relations with the U.S. His message was passed on to President G.W. Bush. Despite this, Bush demonized Jong-il, declaring North Korea to be part of an ""axis of evil"" in 2002. As a result, U.S. - North Korean relations have worsened considerably over the past six years.","stream","['Kim, Chŏng-il']","['Korea (North)']","['Heads of state']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831320/1003831320-disc001-file001-frame00365-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641445"
"asp1641444-blsv","Andersen, Erika Surat","None of the above","1995","24 min","['Black studies in video']","None of the Above is a documentary about people of mixed racial heritage based on the filmmaker's own search for identity and community. Ms. Andersen, whose mother is (Asian) Indian and father is Danish American, explores her ""own personal hangup"" by finding others in the same ambiguous category. Through her journey into the multiracial world we are given an inside view of the emotional reality of what it s like to be racially unclassifiable in a society obsessed with race. During the course of the film we meet Leslie, a young woman of Native American, African, and European ancestry; Curtiss, whose mother is Japanese and father is African-American; and Henrietta, whose family has been mixed for at least six generations and defies all categorization. The intimacy of the interviews and the filmmaker's openness about her own experience make this film emotionally compelling and particularly relevant in today's multicultural society.","stream","[]","[]","['Racially mixed people']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831318/1003831318-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641444"
"asp1641443-lawv","Weisberg, Roger","No tomorrow","2010","56 min","[]","No Tomorrow focuses on the murder of Risa Bejarano, the principal subject of Aging Out, an earlier film about teenagers leaving foster care. No Tomorrow explores how Aging Out unexpectedly documented the last year of Risa's life, and became the centerpiece of a chilling homicide investigation and death penalty trial. Juan Jose Chavez went on trial in 2007, in Los Angeles Superior Court in front of Judge Lance Ito, who had become famous for presiding over the O.J. Simpson trial. In one of the trial's most dramatic moments, the district attorney showed Aging Out in order to humanize the victim and convince the jury to impose the death penalty. While the trial focuses on whether Risa's murderer deserves to die, several leading death penalty experts address the broader question of whether the state should be empowered to kill him. Ultimately, the unique film-within-a-film perspective of No Tomorrow takes viewers inside a suspenseful death penalty trial and challenges beliefs about capital punishment.","stream","[]","['California']","['Homicide investigation', 'Capital punishment', 'Murder', 'Trials (Homicide)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831317/1003831317-disc001-file001-frame00240-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641443"
"asp1641442-hlth","","No Place Like Home. Long Term Care For the Elderly","","59 min","[]","Providing home care rather than institutionalized care is often less costly to the public and more desirable for the older person. Experts estimate that one-third of the population now living in nursing homes would not need to be there if alternative services were more widely available.This documentary shows several alternatives to institutionalizing the elderly. In New York City's Greenwich Village, the local hospital provides a visiting team of doctors, nurses and social workers to care for the frail, elderly at home. In rural Appalachia, training is available for family members to care for their infirm elders. In San Francisco, vans pick up the elderly at their homes and take them to senior centers where they can receive medical and other support services.In conclusion, Miss Hayes says, ""Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices. For most of us, there's no place like home.""","stream","[]","[]","['Older people', 'Nursing homes', 'Home care services']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831315/1003831315-disc001-file001-frame00160-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641442"
"asp1641440-flon","Magierski, Tomasz, 1960","My father the Luo","2009","40 min","[]","My Father the Luo is a film about finding one's identity. The main character is Roma Ndolo, a young woman who grew up in Germany with parents from Poland and Kenya. She had always longed to find out more about her ""African side"" so she travels to her late father's homeland. While there, she recognizes the parallels between her own life and that of President Barack Obama. Each of their fathers were from the Luo tribe and Obama's half sister is Roma's family friend.This film was shot during the Democratic Convention in Denver 2008. Not surprisingly there is also a historic footage of Senator Obama's trip to Kenya in 2006. Prof. Gilbert Ogutu of the University of Nairobi, also a Luo, remarks that Kenyans were enthusiastic about Obama and curious whether he was more American or Kenyan.Roma visits her grandmother whom she has not seen in many years, and also honors the grave of her father for the first time. Everywhere she travels she is warmly welcomed and becomes more and more comfortable with her African origins. Here is a portrait of a person successfully integrating her multicultural identity.A closed captioned version is available. Please specify when ordering.","stream","['Ndolo, Roma', 'Obama, Barack']","['Kenya']","['Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831294/1003831294-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641440"
"asp1641439-flon","Usmen, Zerina","Muslims in love","2010","26 min","[]","Americans interested in marrying generally go out on dates and move from relationship to relationship until they find the right fit. But how do Americans of the Muslim faith find mates when their culture prohibits dating? This lively film shows us devout American Muslim young people pursuing love and marriage, searching for alternatives to arranged marriages common to traditional Muslim culture. Mohammad and Ferdaus moved from emails and phone calls to family involvement, and then on to the signing of the Nikah, an Islamic marriage contract. Zahra, a law student whose parents are from India, will consisder dating only those men who can handle the ambitious career goals she describes online. She leaves her quest for Mr. Right to ""fate."" Jameelah, an African-American Muslim, called off her engagement when she came up against racism, discovering her future in-laws prejudiced attitudes toward African Americans. African Americans make up 40% of the Muslim population in America but many Muslim parents who are immigrants from abroad object to their children marrying African-American Muslims. When Michelle converted to Islam, she became involved with Muslim matrimonial websites and third party matchmakers. She now believes the best solution is to find a Muslim adoptive family who can guide her through the maze of Muslim courtship in America.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Courtship', 'Marriage', 'Muslims']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831292/1003831292-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641439"
"asp1641438-hlth","","Murder. Those left behind","1993","18 min","[]","When a family member has been tragically murdered, the survivors not only face the shock of losing a loved one unexpectedly, but face the cruel fact that the death was caused by another human being. Families must contend with sensationalistic media, a confusing and impersonal criminal justice system, and a lack of privacy.In an attempt to offer support to such families, five individuals, including the filmmaker, describe their feelings of betrayal, rage and alienation. Rosemary Masters, C.S.W., a post-traumatic stress disorder specialist, explains the emotional difficulties following such painful events.Divided into sections to facilitate use, the program will be helpful for counselors and the bereaved families themselves. While these people can never forget, with patience and understanding from others they can go on with their lives to become stronger human beings.","stream","[]","[]","['Murder']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831289/1003831289-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641438"
"asp1641437-artv","Schidlowski, Christian","Mr. Wong's world","2008","81 min","[]","Shanghai, the center of Chinese capitalism, has been undergoing an unprecedented building boom. Over 2,000 high-rise buildings have gone up since the 1990's. As a result, many historic treasures fall prey to the wrecking ball. Mr. Wong is a wealthy businessman who returned to China from Canada. He has made it his mission to spend every penny he can on rescuing old houses, villas, and temples of old Shanghai that are no longer valued by the development-minded Chinese. Whenever Mr. Wong travels the streets of Shanghai, he keeps his eyes open, ready to buy any house worth preserving before the sledge hammering begins. Stone by stone his workers disassemble the old houses and bring them to a large property outside of Shanghai he bought expressly for the purpose of setting up a park for endangered buildings. He envisions a safe haven for lost traditions and ancient arts. Most of his fellow Chinese are mystified. Town planners and investors see him as a threat to progress and an obstacle to their plans. This is both an intriguing and humane story of a most unusual man realizing his vision against all odds. It is an insightful portrait of the divided soul of modern China.","stream","[]","['China', 'Shanghai (China)']","['Historic buildings', 'Architecture']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831287/1003831287-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641437"
"asp1784753-flon","","Mr. Nobody","1990","36 min","[]","Do mentally competent seniors have the right to neglect themselves and their surroundings to the extent that they offend the community? What should be done when reclusive or eccentric seniors refuse help? Do government agencies have an obligation to intervene? Mr. Nobody sensitively addresses these questions by focusing on quirky 65-year old, Jack Huggins. Jack has lived alone in his family's house ever since the death of his parents. A bachelor, he lavishes affection on a menagerie of cats. The house is crammed with discarded appliances collected from garbage cans. Jack's troubles began when his neighbors complained to the Health Department about the condition of his house. Health officials came and carted away his ""junk"". For a time Jack was certified incompetent and his financial affairs were monitored by a state-appointed trustee. He deeply resented this interference, having always functioned independently. ""I never owed a person a cent and now I'm being treated like Mr. Nobody,"" he protested. Finally a senior advocacy agency had him re-assessed by a psychiatrist.In no other film have these legal, ethical and human issues been addressed so clearly and poignantly.","stream","[]","['Ontario']","['Older people']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831286/1003831286-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784753"
"asp1641435-flon","Gleason, Judith","Mother's Day in Cuetzalan. Panchita the weaver","2003","59 min","[]","This film gives us an intimate look at a resilient and spirited woman whose forbearance and skill as a weaver keeps her family afloat through difficult economic times. Life in a small village in Mexico's Sierra Norte has not been easy for Panchita and other indigenous people. Through her eyes one can see how the forces of global economy affect her people. They have been marginalized by Mexico's central government. Their land has been degraded and waters polluted by industries in which they have no stake. Their religion and culture is challenged by the secular outside world.The film shows us the busy Cuetzalan market where this champion weaver sells her wares. She speaks Spanish to tourists and bargains in her own Nahuatl idiom with local peasants. Panchita's everyday experiences are interwoven with memories of a difficult childhood and dreams of a better future for her children. She embroiders her stories with vivid strands of anecdotal feeling, fortitude, devotion and humor.Panchita wants to arrange a ""traditional"" Mother's Day ceremony for her 80-year-old mother at the homestead in remote Topango, where most of her family still lives. The news of this impending event is reported by Cuetzalan's indigenous radio, ""The Voice of the Sierra,"" whose popular broadcasts reinforce the sense of community. An important film for anthropology and Latin American studies.","stream","[]","['Mexico', 'Sierra Norte (Oaxaca, Mexico)', 'Cuetzalan del Progreso (Mexico)']","[""Mother's Day"", 'Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831282/1003831282-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641435"
"asp1641434-flon","","Moving on","2006","59 min","['Motherland']","Motherland: A Genetic Journey followed three people of African descent who traced their roots through DNA testing. This new film picks up their story two years later. Shot in the UK, USA, Africa and Jamaica, this very moving film continues their soul-searching journeys, raising fundamental questions about who we are. Mark discovers that his ancestors belonged to the Kanuri tribe. When he connects with them, he cannot communicate since there is a language barrier. He goes through an emotional ""naming ceremony"" but finds that he has mistakenly chosen a name that belongs to the slave catchers that oppressed his people. Beaula learns that she has ancestors that belong to more than one tribe and some of the tribespeople are only interested in what gifts she can offer them. Jacqueline visits English cousins who are white who accept her as part of the family. All three participants feel enriched by their new discoveries but understand that DNA tracing may lead to complicated emotional discoveries. With Dr. Rich Kittle, Howard University, and Fatimah Jackson, University of Maryland, and other experts.","stream","[]","['England']","['African diaspora', 'DNA', 'Blacks', 'Heredity, Human', 'Genetics', 'African Americans', 'Human genetics']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831281/1003831281-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641434"
"asp1641433-flon","Choy, Christine","Monkey king looks west","1992","43 min","[]","This colorful production contrasts the rich heritage of Chinese opera with the day-to-day realities of its emigréperformers in New York's Chinatown. It depicts the efforts of three classically-trained opera artists to keep alive their revered art form for the generation of young Chinese-Americans who would otherwise not be exposed to their tradition.In the time-worn pattern of immigrant life, they spend their days grinding out a living. In their spare time each performs and teaches Chinese opera. Scenes from the classic work Monkey King Looks West stand as a metaphor for cultural survival.","stream","[]","['New York (State)']","['Chinese Americans', 'Opera, Chinese']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831274/1003831274-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641433"
"asp1641432-flon","","Modern heroes, modern slaves","1999","46 min","[]","Each day, thousands of women leave under developed countries like the Philippines to seek work as domestics in more prosperous places. What little money they earn they send home to their families. This crucial source of revenue to their country's economy has prompted the Philippine government to call these contract workers ""modern day heroes.""Starting from the case of Flor Contemplacion, the Philippine maid hanged in Singapore for the killing of her abusive employer, this film shows the human and sometimes tragic side of this organized labor trade: failed marriages, family break ups, and exploitation and abuse at the hands of unscrupulous employers. The film also takes us to a shelter in Saudi Arabia where abused domestics seek refuge. These women will ultimately return home penniless.The Philippine government sponsors training courses for young women to become nightclub dancers abroad, and facilitates their transportation. When it comes to human rights violations, however, the government is reluctant to pressure foreign governments for fear of losing revenue. This leaves women migrant workers vulnerable to exploitation.","stream","[]","['Philippines']","['Household employees', 'Contract labor', 'Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831271/1003831271-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641432"
"asp1641431-flon","","Mississippi. Power of place","1998","28 min","[]","The culture of the South nourishes its artists through close family ties, religion, music and a strong sense of history. Mississippi, for example, has always been known for its rich literary and brilliant musical heritage even though it also has the highest illiteracy rate of any state. It has been the home of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, and Muddy Waters. Today, a new generation of artists is emerging from this place that some say embodies the best of American culture, despite poverty and social ills. Through the artists profiled in this film, we see how the spirit of place inspires their creativity. These artists represent different racial, educational, and socio-economic backgrounds.Barry Hannah is considered the ""most outrageous writer of the contemporary South."" He is one of the leading practitioners of neo-Southern Gothic and an heir to the Southern literary tradition in his love of language. David Malone, a blues musician tells how his father, also a famous bluesman, influenced his music. Lewis Nordan, author of Wolf Whistle (about the lynching of Emmett Till) won the1994 Southern Book Award. The novel is written as a fairy tale, because as Nordan says, the tragedy had become ""absorbed into my bloodstream as white guilt and mythology."" Donna Tartt has been writing poems since the age of five and started her critically acclaimed first novel while at the University of Mississippi. .Actor Morgan Freeman, perhaps the most famous of the artists, recalls a happy youth in a segregated small town, surrounded by caring adults.","stream","[]","['Mississippi']","['Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831270/1003831270-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641431"
"asp1641430-flon","","Miss Lou. Then and now","2009","24 min","[]","Louise Bennett-Covelly, a Jamaican icon, is an ebullient performer, folklorist, playwright and poet. She has spent her life furthering Jamaican language, raising the patois dialect to an art level. This short portrait of ""Miss Lou""goes back and forth between her later years in Canada and her early days in Jamaica, then a British colony. With a wink, she tosses off the cultural condescension experienced by Jamaicans from their colonizers. What makes the English language superior to the language of her native island, she asks. Singing and a shrugging her shoulders, she asserts the vitality and relevance of Jamaican culture before a Caribbean audience in Canada, whose hearts she has clearly touched. Her words in patois may not always be clear to an English-speaking audience, but her meaning is. Clips of her televised interviews show she has admirers in both white and black cultures. We hear from Prof. Errol Hill, University College of West Indies, on her significant contribution to Jamaican culture.","stream","['Bennett, Louise']","['Jamaica']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831269/1003831269-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641430"
"asp1641429-flon","","Miriam's daughters celebrate","1996","25 min","[]","Miriam's Daughters Celebrate shows Jewish feminists creating new rituals. In the two occasions celebrated in this video, the Passover Seder and a baby- girl naming ceremony -- the women speak about their lives and how traditional Jewish rituals relate to them as well as men. Instead of the traditional Passover where women have cooked and men have presided over the Seder, this group of women -- mothers and daughters, sisters and friends -- reads from a feminist Haggadah. They also choose a theme relevant to their lives and each woman contributes her insights. This Seder has been ongoing for eighteen years and includes luminaries of the women s movement including Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem. These rituals demonstrate how traditions can be updated to make women full participants.","stream","[]","[]","['Feminism', 'Seder', 'Jewish women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831268/1003831268-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641429"
"asp1641426-gltv","Leeman, Lisa","Metamorphosis. Man into woman","1990","59 min","[]","As many as 60,000 people are uncomfortable with the sex they were born into (gender dysphoria). Gary, a 39-year-old transsexual, has been convinced since childhood that he is a woman trapped in a male body.At age 36, Gary decided to begin the extraordinary process of changing his sex. Shot over three years, this compassionate yet unsentimental film follows Gary's transformation into Gabi. Before he can be accepted for sex-reassignment surgery, Gary mustprove that he can successfully live and work as a woman, 24 hours a day, for at least one year. We see Gary sorting out his masculine and feminine traits, undergoing facial plastic surgery, electrolysis, hormone therapy, and psychological counseling. A lively discussion among Gabi s co-workers raises questions about the very nature of masculinity and femininity. Gabi attends a transsexual support group, and wrestles throughout the film with religious conflicts. By the end of the film she reconciles with her mother, and attends her high school reunion.Metamorphosis raises profound questions about gender stereotypes as Gary s fantasies collide with the realities of living as a woman. Watching Gary make conscious choices of what is appropriate behavior for a woman today challenges the audience to confront personal biases and expectations of what men and women are supposed to be.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Gender identity disorders', 'Transsexuals', 'Sex change']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831263/1003831263-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1641426"
"asp1641425-ahiv","","Mechanic to millionaire. The Peter Cooper story","[2009]","57 min","['American history in video']","Documents the life of Peter Cooper, the 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States. He founded The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a college in Manhattan.","stream","['Cooper, Peter']","['United States']","['Philanthropists', 'Industrialists']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831256/1003831256-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1641425"
"asp1641424-flon","Ang, Mirabelle","Match made","2006","48 min","[]","Marriage customs reveal much about the economic and social structure of a country. This documentary, filmed in Ho Chi Minh City, chronicles the search of an awkward 38-year-od Singaporean for a young, beautiful Vietnamese bride, with the help of a marriage broker. Ricky, the bachelor, sits in a modest hotel room, self consciously assessing the shy young women who present themselves as candidates for marriage. Communication is accomplished with the help of a translator since Ricky, speaks only Chinese, and the girls speak Vietnamese.The young women still in the running are subjected to medical examinations, to insure they are disease free and virgins. The marriage brokers are well versed in arranging introductions, quick picture perfect weddings, travel documents ... and payments to the bride's family. Ricky selects the beautiful, 20 year old, Nhanh, after assuring himself that she will take care of his ailing mother.The film follows the couple as they purchase rings and clothes for the wedding. The marriage is accomplished within three days of the meeting. While her travel documents are being processed Nhanh says goodbye to her family in their dusty village. Then she heads for her new life in high-rise Singapore, with hope to fulfill her duties as a good daughter-in-law, along with the uncertainty of her new future.Stay tuned to see how two people's search for happiness unfolds.","stream","[]","['Asia']","['Marriage brokerage']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831251/1003831251-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641424"
"asp1641422-flon","Pretolani, Luisa","Mandy's choice. A bioethical controversy","2007","50 min","[]","Mandy and Josh were a happily married young couple, when their idyll was abruptly shattered. Josh was in a motorcycle accident which left him in a seven day coma with death imminent. Mandy, desperate to preserve her tie to her beloved husband, asked that his sperm be harvested so that she could have his child. As there was no written consent from Josh, the hospital refused. The family of both Mandy and Josh, as well as their friends, rallied to the cause, and with pressure on their behalf from the media, they were able to get this controversial issue resolved. Dr. Cappy Rothman, the first doctor to have harvested post mortem sperm (1978), subsequently founded the Cryobank in California to store sperm. With his help, Mandy's mission was accomplished.The film follows Mandy's in vitro fertilization, her very emotional pregnancy and the birth of her son. Her resolve to bring up Josh's child never wavers even when a new man enters her life. Josh's parents are devastated at the loss of their son and the fear that Mandy's new relationship may make it harder for them to be connected to their grandson. For Mandy, the birth 15 months after the fatal accident makes her feel that part of Josh has survived.","stream","[]","[]","['Fertilization in vitro', 'Medical ethics']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831245/1003831245-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641422"
"asp1784738-fln4","","Mad cow, sacred cow","","54 min","['Filmakers library online']","Terrified that his favorite food, hamburgers, will kill him, filmmaker Anand Ramayya embarks on a journey that reveals shocking connections between the mad cow crisis, the farm crisis, and the global food crisis. He realizes the contradiction between the cow that provides his favorite meal and is the livelihood of his Canadian in-laws who are small farmers, and the cow that is a god of his Hindu ancestors. With a sense of humor and curiosity, Ramayya travels back to India to learn about the modern mad cow and the ancient sacred cow, hoping that the stories he hears will reveal a solution to his fear of food. Ironically, India today is also home to a burgeoning meat export industry that threatens to destroy an agricultural economy centered around the feeding of the sacred cow, and critical to the livelihood of 65% of India's population. Globalization emerges as a recurring theme, connecting the food we eat to the environmental, cultural, economic and health crises we are currently facing. Included are interviews with activists Dr. Vandana Shiva and Maneka Gandhi; author Dr. Murray Waldman (Dying for a Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and Alzheimer's Disease); and Swami Agnivesh, a social activist best known for his work against bonded labor in India. This film will fascinate both academic and general audiences.","stream","[]","['India']","['Cattle trade', 'Beef industry', 'Cattle']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831233/1003831233-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784738"
"asp1784737-fln4","","Macumba, trance and spirit healing","","44 min","['Filmakers library online']","In today's stressful world, millions of people turn to spiritism for help. This film shows the roots and beliefs of Afrospirit religions as practiced by the privileged rich as well as the illiterate poor. Although shot principally in Rio de Janeiro, these sects are flourishing in the United States as well. Spiritism is based on the belief that man can communicate with the supernatural world through mediums who act as intermediaries. Grouped commonly under the word 'voodoo' or 'macumba,' these forbidden sects were the targets of police raids. Now some of the techniques of trance healing are used by the medical profession to help individuals achieve personal and social equilibrium. In this film a doctor is seen treating schizophrenics, epileptics and drug addicts with spiritist techniques.","stream","[]","['Brazil']","['Spiritualism', 'Umbanda (Cult)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831232/1003831232-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784737"
"asp1641416-flon","","Love songs of the Miao in China","1993","45 min","[]","This richly photographed film captures the lifestyle of the Miao who live deep in the mountains of southern China. The Miao preserve the traditions of the past, unaffected by the changes of modern China.The Miao s courtship rituals are particularly interesting, because of the importance placed on love songs. We watch the young men and women woo one another with their soulful songs. Each year there is a regional festival called Pa-po-jeh where the young go in search of marriage partners from another village. The film focuses on a seventeen-year-old girl who attends the festival, and her family's every day life within their village. This is a rare opportunity to see life in a remote area of China.","stream","[]","['China']","['Hmong (Asian people)', 'Ethnology']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831227/1003831227-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641416"
"asp1784733-flon","","Looking for China girl","2005","49 min","[]","A program that asks what happens when women become a rare commodity. China Girl is a documentary that explores China's one child policy which was introduced as a measure to stabilise China's burgeoning population and now has resulted in over 500,000 abortions and many more girls being killed once they have been born. The program looks at the underlying issues, from the increase of professional women in China who have rejected their traditional role, to the overwhelming lack of women in the provinces and why China's crime rate has tripled in the last 20 years, with police struggling with loutish behavior, gangs and the disappearance of young women.","stream","[]","['China']","['Sex role', 'Women', 'Birth control', 'Family size']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831222/1003831222-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784733"
"asp1641413-flon","","Long shadows. Stories from a Jewish home","2003","53 min","[]","The largest population of Holocaust survivors, per capita, outside Israel lives in Melbourne, Australia. This film examines the impact of institutionalizing the care of aging survivors of the Holocaust. These survivors are facing death and isolation for the second time, as they make the traumatic transition to an old-age facility. Dementia, memory loss and physical immobility contribute to a splintering of identity. Removed from their families, homes, familiar routines and the outside community, past horrors come flooding back. Long Shadows examines the impact of institutionalization on three survivors and their spouses in Melbourne s largest Jewish old age facility. One of the residents guides us through this teeming ""tower of Babel"" that houses up to six hundred residents formerly from all over Europe. He relates his personal tale of tragedy and love. Evelyne, a child survivor aged sixty, must face moving to the home prematurely since an accident has rendered her dependent. Alzheimer s sufferer Dora is an example of how how massive trauma affects these patients and the people who love and care for them. All three stories are delivered with honesty and humor, and underscore the importance of love for survival.","stream","[]","['Australia']","['Holocaust survivors', 'Aging']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831219/1003831219-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641413"
"asp1784730-flon","","Listen to the silence","2002","52 min","[]","Taking off from the peace of nature, the singing cicadas, and the simple routines of the workday, this program explores a kaleidoscope of musical examples from Ghana: children's games and their musical bands; traditional drums; sensual dances; trance dances; animated funeral music, and other examples from the Ewe, Ashanti, Ga, and Frafra peoples of Ghana.","stream","[]","['Ghana']","['Gã (African people)', 'Folk music', 'Ewe (African people)', 'Ashanti (African people)', 'Music']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831204/1003831204-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784730"
"asp1641410-lawv","Moser, Brian, 1935","Lines of blood. The drug war in Colombia","1992","52 min","[]","This is a powerful investigation of the drug war which is raging in Colombia, the cocaine capital of the world. For almost a decade, the United States, backed by Britain and other Western countries, has tried to smash the powerful and wealthy drug cartels with little success. Coca growing has increased and has now spread into new areas. For 5,000 years the Indians of the Andes have relied on coca, the raw material of cocaine, to ease the harsh realities of their life. Coca has been at the very heart of their culture and economy. But when Western- ers began reducing it down to make cocaine, a savage industry of vast proportions was unleashed. Murder and terrorism have become commonplace as drug cartels protect their territory.The film criticizes the rigidity of U.S. policy which doggedly pursues the foreign producers and traffickers, while ignoring the domestic social problems that create the demand. Extradition of drug traders to stand trial in the United States has led to a blood bath against judges, politicians and law enforcement agents in Colombia. And meantime, poor people in inner cities of both countries have had their lives torn apart by the drug scourge.","stream","[]","['Colombia']","['Cocaine industry', 'Drug traffic', 'Coca industry']","['Documentary television programs']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831203/1003831203-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641410"
"asp1641408-lawv","Gray, Lisa, director","Life sentence","2008","31 min","[]","Recent statistics indicate that one in 100 Americans are incarcerated. This shocking figure impels us to look closely at our penal system. Tough sentencing rules and release policies have become the norm in the federal system, which is extremely punitive.Life Sentence lets us hear from six formerly incarcerated men and women, some of whom were sentenced as adolescents. They spent from twelve to twenty-six years in prison. Now they must find their way, economically and emotionally, to rebuild their lives after being behind bars, some from the age of sixteen.The film begins as each prisoner prepares for their first parole board hearing. Each is denied and must wait two years until their next hearing. They discuss what brought them to prison, the time spent there, and what it felt like being sentenced to decades of imprisonment. One of the most important opportunities while incarcerated was the ability to receive education. Just before Congress abolished federal financing for college programs in prisons in 1994, all six had completed associate, bachelor and master degrees. Now released, we see how these longtermers contribute to society and their communities, all of them working with other formerly incarcerated people. The film shows the potential of people, including those who have committed criminal acts, if they are given access to education and prepared for careers.Scholars, policy makers and advocates of reform discuss the great obstacles formerly incarcerated people face, including job and housing regulations and discrimination, sentencing policies, and lifetime parole.","stream","[]","[]","['Prisoners', 'Prison sentences']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831199/1003831199-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641408"
"asp1641407-hlth","Kuffner, Lori","Learning to hear","2004","45 min","[]","Most people assume that it is children and young teenagers who are the beneficiaries of the cochlear implant in alleviating deafness. It is less well known that adults can also benefit from this life changing operation. This touching film explores the challenges and triumphs of two women. aged 36 and 44, who regained their hearing after undergoing this dramatic procedure. Janice Todd Wellington lost her hearing in early childhood and spent most of her life compensating for the almost complete loss of this critical sense. Melanie Broom, a married mother of two, is about to receive an implant. With only 30% hearing in one ear, she has been constantly struggling to live normally in this hearing society.This film enables the viewer to comprehend the world of the hearing- impaired. We watch as the operation is performed and rejoice as they regain their hearing. These two courageous women are enthralled with their new found skill, as they not only hear the voices of their loved ones, but also such everyday sounds as doors closing, birds singing, even the sound of a carrot being cut for a salad. Their days of isolation are over.","stream","[]","[]","['Deafness', 'Cochlear implants']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831190/1003831190-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641407"
"asp1641406-flon","","Le Mozart noir. Reviving a legend","2006","54 min","[]","Few people know that in 18th century France, a black man became not only an internationally recognized composer, but also a director of France s leading orchestras. Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges was born in Guadeloupe c1739 to a slave mother and a French colonialist father who brought the family to France when he was ten. His remarkable life story is recounted in this film, which shows how he overcame the adversities of class, race and society to distinguish himself as a violinist, composer and conductor. His musical compositions inspired Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.Through the use of beautifully rendered historical recreations, archive-based narration, orchestral performance by the Tafelmusik Orchestra, and interviews with Ashley Horne, Concertmaster of Chicago s New Black Music Repertory Ensemble, Gabriel Banat, historian and Jeanne Lamon, Musical Director of the Tafelmusik Orchestra, Le Mozart Noir reveals how such a talent was overlooked by history.","stream","['Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne', 'chevalier de']","['France']","['Music', 'Composers, Black', 'Composers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831189/1003831189-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641406"
"asp1784724-envv","Prete, Alison","Lavender Lake. Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal","2001","54 min","[]","South Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, opened in 1866, was once hailed as one of the shortest and most important waterways in the world. It was also known as one of the world s dirtiest. Its putrid, perfumed airs were highly recommended for head colds. After one hundred thirty years of raw sewage, toxic sludge, dumped corpses and drowned dogs, the community continues to fight to clean up the Gowanus. Lavender Lake looks at what the promise of a new environment means to those who live and work in the Gowanus area: the funeral director has fought for decades for his vision of a Venice in Brooklyn; the environmentalist attempts to re-introduce oysters to the canal; the physicist working to turn the canal into a test site for transforming toxic sludge into kitchen tiles; the cops who fish a suitcase out full of body parts. Weaving together their stories with the past three years of progress and delays to flush out the canal, the documentary captures a blighted urban space of astonishing physical beauty at a critical moment of change. It shows a community dreaming and battling over a new and suddenly desirable urban landscape. Can a group of visionary citizens reclaim the waterway and build a viable neighborhood that is also a mecca for travelers?","stream","[]","['Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.)']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831188/1003831188-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784724"
"asp1641403-lawv","Ryden, F","Laredo and the law","2000","53 min","[]","For over five years, 22-year-old Miguel Martinez has been languishing on death row in Huntsville, Texas, convicted of murdering businessman James Smiley and two young boys in Smiley's home. Intent on robbery, Martinez and two friends broke into what they thought would be an empty house. Martinez denied that he was responsible for the killings. The poorest of the three youths, he was the only one brought to trial. One of the accomplices was the son of a city judge who was saved from trial for giving state's evidence. The other, a youth who had been mixed up in drugs and satanism, was eventually arrested for a different crime and never faced the murder charges.This investigation by F. Ryden, who first met Miguel while filming Not Too Young to Die, calls into question the use of the death penalty, especially when the possibility exists that justice may not have been carried out in the court proceedings. A number of factors cast doubt on the trial. The citizens of Laredo were anxious for a conviction. The district attorney was running for re-election. Miguel was defended by an inexperienced lawyer. The boy who owned the murder weapons, a judge's son, was never brought to trial. The forensic expert who testified was found to have falsified testimony in other cases. The young Martinez talks solemnly about his years on death row, and clings to the hope that an appeal may be granted him.","stream","[]","[]","['Death row inmates', 'Capital punishment', 'Juvenile delinquency']","['Documentary television programs']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831183/1003831183-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641403"
"asp1641401-flon","","Land of promise. The Jews of South Carolina","2003","58 min","[]","Land of Promise is a fascinating, richly illustrated documentary that explores the Jewish experience in South Carolina from colonial days to modern times. It is a heartwarming story of religious tolerance, economic and political opportunity By 1800, Charleston was home to the largest and wealthiest Jewish community in North America. The settling of Jews in South Carolina mirrors the Jewish immigration to the United States with Sephardic Jews in the 17th century being followed by German Jews, then Eastern Jews and Russian Jews today.The film relates many surprising firsts. For example: the first Jew in the western world, (not merely in the U.S.) to be elected to a popular assembly was a South Carolinian, Francis Salvador, in 1774 . He was also the first Jew to have died in the Revolutionary War. The first reform temple in America was built in Charleston in 1841. The first Jewish Secretary of State in the U.S. was not Henry Kissinger but Judah Benjamin during the Confederacy.With archival material, photographs and paintings, the film touches on all aspects of Southern Jewish life -- their involvement with slavery, the Civil War and civil rights, the prospering of the cities after Reconstruction and their transition from family businesses into the professions. It addresses the challenges Jews face in maintaining their cultural identity as they integrate into the broader Southern communities where they live.","stream","[]","['South Carolina']","['Jews']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831181/1003831181-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641401"
"asp1641398-flon","Ross, Tana","Keep on walking","2001","52 min","[]","Filmed on location in Newark, St. Louis, Stockholm and Jerusalem this film is a celebration of an exceptional young man, Joshua Nelson. Joshua, an African American who is Jewish, transcends the differences between races and faiths through his music. He is both an up-and-coming gospel singer in the tradition of Mahalia Jackson and a Hebrew teacher. Joshua began singing at 13. His mother remembers him as an eccentric youth, displaying leadership qualities from an early age. In this film, he participates in jazz sessions, concert performances in this country and abroad and religious observances. Through his composing, gospel singing and chanting Torah, Joshua is the musical embodiment of cultural harmony. His rich voice, charismatic personality, and singular ideas make this a powerful and inspiring film for all audiences.","stream","['Nelson, Joshua']","['United States']","['Gospel musicians', 'African American Jews']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831173/1003831173-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641398"
"asp1641396-flon","Torell, Yvette","Just mom and me. Single motherhood","2000","60 min","[]","Single motherhood in the United States is not just the experience of poor, uneducated women, or minority teenagers, as often depicted by the media and in the press. The reality is that there are 25 million single mothers heading households in America and they come from all walks of life. Just Mom and Me interweaves the stories of five mothers, whose circumstances are vastly different, who are raising children on their own. Adi, who lost her beloved husband to cancer was left to rear their seven -year-old bi-racial daughter on her own. Isayana learned the hard way about sex and love. She became pregnant and dropped out of high school. Diana, a lawyer, made the difficult decision to have her baby even though she broke up with her boyfriend. Tracy, who had three young children when she divorced her husband at twenty, had the courage to go to college. Beth, single and worried about her biological clock, opted for a baby through artificial insemination. Filmed over three years, this is a realistic portrayal of the financial and emotional challenges of single parenting. It gives voice to the children also, who reflect on the realities of not having a father in the home.","stream","[]","[]","['Single mothers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831167/1003831167-disc001-file001-frame00360-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641396"
"asp1641395-gltv","","Just married. The epic battle over gay marriage","2006","58 min","[]","The issue of gay marriage has polarized the country. This even- handed film follows events in Massachusetts after the state supreme court ruled 4 to 3 in favor of allowing same sex marriage. It is at the same time a lesson in the turbulent political process as a compelling portrait of several responsible, loving, stable couples who yearn for recognition by the state and their community to validate their families. Central to the story are Ellen Wade and Maureen Brodoff, both attorneys, who met and fell in love twenty years ago in law school. They have a fifteen year-old daughter Kate who appears to thrive. Although they have a comfortable suburban life, they feel deeply that they have been deprived of marital status and are ""second-class citizens"" because they are not ""man and wife."" The film follows Ellen and Maureen through the filing of the original lawsuit to their historic wedding, supported along the way by gay and lesbian organizations. It also treats with respect the opposition, whose deeply held convictions mobilize them to political action. By examining the political, religious and psychological arguments involved in the heated gay marriage debate, the film demonstrates just how central our concept of marriage is to us as individuals and as members of society.","stream","[]","['Massachusetts']","['Same-sex marriage']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831166/1003831166-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1641395"
"asp1641394-blsv","","Just black? Multi-racial identity","1992","60 min","['Black studies in video']","Most of us at one time or other are faced with an official form requiring us to ""check"" the applicable ethnic designation. What ""box"" does a person check if his or her parents come from different racial backgrounds? In this provocative documentary, we meet several articulate young men and women of mixed racial heritage. Each has one black parent, and a white, Asian or Hispanic second parent. They share with us their struggle to establish, acquire and assert a racial identity. Their experiences lead one to question whether there is room in America for a multi- racial identity. The interviews presented reflect the research of anthropologist Francine Winddance Twine. Her searching questions on dating, family relationships, friendships and childhood experiences reveal a wide range of reactions to having a dual heritage. As these young people speak of their hopes and frustrations, they all reveal the tension of having their multicultural background overlooked and being classified as having one racial identity. The candor with which these college students reveal themselves makes this compelling viewing for university and general audiences.","stream","[]","[]","['Racially mixed people']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831165/1003831165-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641394"
"asp1641392-flon","","John's not mad. Tourette syndrome","1993","29 min","[]","Here is a powerful documentary portrait of John, an adolescent who suffers from a severe case of Tourette Syndrome. This neurological disorder causes him to make involuntary sounds, including a constant stream of profanity. He feels these words and sounds are forced out of him, beyond his ability to exercise control. As we see in the film, daily life is very difficult once he leaves the confines of his home. People who pass him in the neighborhood feel that John is verbally insulting them, since they do not understand his illness. Normal adolescent friendships are almost impossible to sustain because of his alienating behavior. Dr. Oliver Sacks, who appears in the film, has spent many years studying this syndrome. He describes its history and treatment and lends insight to John s symptoms. It should be noted that most people with this disorder are not as severely affected as John, who represents the extreme end of the spectrum of Tourette Syndrome.","stream","[]","[]","['Tourette syndrome']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831159/1003831159-disc001-file001-frame00065-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641392"
"asp1641387-hlth","","Is this life worth living?","1989","30 min","[]","Through the personal experiences of three families, this documentary explores the ethical issues involved in sustaining the life of a severely brain damaged or comatose patient. It explores the plight of Patricia Brophy, who fought a legal battle for permission to remove her husband s feeding tube after he lapsed into a vegetative state. Then we meet the Barashes, who are emotionally and financially exhausted from caring for their helpless 12-year-old son. He was saved by heroic measures at birth, despite their wishes to the contrary. For another point of view we meet the Micros who will not give up on their brain damaged son after an accident in the Marine Corps. Our society is reluctantly allowing a mentally competent person to refuse life-lengthening measures. Who then should make that decision when the individual is mentally incompetent or an infant?.","stream","[]","[]","['Right to die', 'Euthanasia', 'Medical ethics']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831147/1003831147-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641387"
"asp1641386-artv","Wheatley, Kennedy","Iron ladies","2002","31 min","[]","Louise was a hairdresser. Jackie was a cocktail waitress. How did these two women end up working on a construction site, high above the ground, welding two-ton iron beams together? Iron Ladies tells the story of 49 year-old Louise and 37 year-old Jackie, new ironworker apprentices who left their jobs to try the lucrative but dangerous trade of ironworking. Many men think women ""just don t belong"" in the ironworking trade. The work is heavy and dirty and risky. When erecting a building, the ironworkers are the only ones on the job site who aren t required to be ""tied off"" to the building with safety lines. A fall usually results in serious injuries or death; ironworkers have the highest fatality rates in the construction trades. The Los Angeles Ironworkers union has 3,000 men and eight women. The apprenticeship program is rigorous; only 30% make it through the three-year training. In this documentary, veteran women ironworkers tell stories of surviving as the only female working on a construction site. These stories are interwoven with footage of Louise and Jackie struggling through their training, meeting the challenges of the physically grueling program with fortitude and courage. They must also deal with issues of sexual harassment on the job, which they do in a refreshingly forthright manner.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Women iron and steel workers', 'Sex discrimination in employment', 'Iron and steel workers']","['Documentary television programs']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831145/1003831145-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641386"
"asp1641385-busv","","Endgame Europe","1996","54 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Low-skilled as well as high-technology jobs have recently migrated from Europe to Asia, where labor cost is much lower, causing mass unemployment in some Western countries. For instance, a large Swiss Bank and some European airline companies have their data processing system developed and operated by Indian engineers based in India. Is Europe losing out to Asian competition? What will the consequences be on the Welfare state?","stream","[]","['India', 'Europe']","['Competition, International']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831053/1003831053-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-fit-1024x578.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641385"
"asp1641384-flon","Zurita de Higes, Félix","El chogui","2001","57 min","[]","Luis Miguel, a young peasant living in Oaxaca, had a dream. He wanted to lift his family out of poverty by becoming a champion Mexican boxer. He even invented a name for himself -- ""El Chogui"" (Little Bird). But when he determined that fame and fortune in the boxing ring was not a real possibility, he decided to emigrate to the US, following the footsteps of countless other Mexican peasants. This absorbing and dramatic film follows Luis' transition over six years. We witness his tension-filled, illegal border crossing along with his sister. With grit and determination learned from watching boxing movies, Luis creates a life for himself in San Diego, arduously working his way up in a hotel. Being a ""wetback"", he lives with the constant fear of being arrested and deported. Six years later, his dream of becoming a champion boxer has receded. His real fight, he realizes, is to improve the lives of his family. He manages to bring his four brothers to California, and continues the attempt to bring his parents. Luis articulates the larger picture his life symbolizes. America has grown rich on Mexican labor, but refuses to change the rules giving workers legality, peace of mind, and dignity.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Illegal aliens', 'Immigrants']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831052/1003831052-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641384"
"asp1641383-flon","","Domestic violence. Which way out?","1994","28 min","[]","With domestic violence a growing problem in our society, one community's successful counseling program is becoming a national model. Bellevue, Washington developed a system in which first-time offenders can forego criminal charges and conviction in exchange for undergoing intensive treatment. This approach has resulted in a repeat offense rate of only 4% among those completing treatment. For people like Bill Edmundson, just completing group therapy, the program has made a major difference. Had he not had the opportunity to understand the causes and consequences of his action, ""I could have seriously hurt somebody,"" he acknowledges. This documentary shows it is not only men who abuse. A family counselor discusses his own situation in which he was the victim of his wife's behavior. Often the judicial system does not protect the victim. With the courts backlogged with cases, abusers may remain at large while their victims live in fear. An important program for mental health professionals.","stream","[]","['Washington (State)']","['Family violence']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831050/1003831050-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641383"
"asp1641382-flon","","Divorce sharia style","2008","49 min","[]","From a terraced house in East London the Sharia Council presides over hundreds of cases every year, mainly marital disputes. The Sharia Council is a parallel legal system that remains unknown to many people, although it has existed for years. This documentary takes us inside the workings of Sharia law in a Western society, especially as it affects women seeking divorce. What can the Muslim legal system offer couples in conflict? Presiding over the court are two Sheikhs who are both respected members of the Muslim community with an intimate knowledge of Islamic law. Their rulings are not recognized by British law but for the Muslim community their judgments carry the word of God. In one case, we meet Imran who approaches the Sharia court for a ruling or ""fatwa"" that he believes can save his marriage to Nasira. Imran had married a second wife in Pakistan, whereupon Nasira left him and taken their three children to another city. It is now up to the court to decide what the future will be for this unhappy couple.","stream","[]","['Great Britain']","['Divorce (Islamic law)', 'Muslim women', 'Muslims', 'Islamic courts']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831049/1003831049-disc001-file001-frame00840-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641382"
"asp1641381-ahiv","","Disobeying orders. G. I. resistance to the Vietnam war","1990","29 min","['American history in video']","This documentary focuses on the antiwar movement within the armed forces. Interviews with Vietnam veterans, including a navy nurse, are interwoven with archival photos, film footage, and popular music of the 1960s. One nurse coordinated an air drop of antiwar leaflets over her naval base for which she was court-martialed. A black soldier spent time in the stockade for his protest of the military s racial discrimination. This film highlights the intersection of the civil rights and antiwar movements, and the ethics of whether to follow orders that one feels are immoral.","stream","['Vietnam Veterans Against the War']","[]","['Civil rights movements', 'Vietnam War, 1961-1975', 'Peace movements']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831048/1003831048-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1641381"
"asp1641380-flon","","Dineh nation. The navajo story","1992","27 min","[]","This powerful film, with its haunting Native American music, o-graphed in the Sovereign Dineh Indian Reservation which stretches through parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Here the Navajo people have lived on vast deposits of oil, coal and uranium. Their religion considers Mother Earth sacred and forbids them from exploiting her resources. But outside forces are at work, strip mining the coal and polluting the water. The sweet wells on Dineh land are drying up. This land has also suffered a uranium spill larger than that of Three Mile Island.Tens of thousands of Dineh were relocated. Others were fenced off from the land they worship. The film emphasizes the spiritual essence of the Dineh, with their unique art forms, music and original lifestyle.","stream","[]","['Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah', 'Southwest, New']","['Indians of North America', 'Navajo Indians']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831046/1003831046-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641380"
"asp1641378-flon","","Despair","1996","57 min","[]","Horizons narrow for those overshadowed by depression. It shapes a life of reduced expectations, compromised talents and unfulfilled emotional relationships. It erodes self-esteem. Despair is the first full-length documentary about depression to consider the pervasive mood disorder from multi-ethnic viewpoints. In culturally sensitive personal portraits and riveting interviews with psychiatrists, social workers and spiritual leaders from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, this uncommonly eloquent documentary explores depressive illness from traditional and nontraditional perspectives. Classical music and jazz, poetry and art enrich Despair as it unmasks the stigma and denial which veil a misunderstood and potentially fatal illness. This brilliant documentary will become essential viewing in psychology, public health, sociology and multicultural studies. Harriet Koskoff, who also produced the award-winning Patently Offensive: Porn Under Siege, is available by special arrangement to introduce and discuss the film.","stream","[]","[]","['Depression, Mental']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831044/1003831044-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641378"
"asp1641377-flon","","Defying the odds","1997","29 min","[]","This upbeat film, produced for the Bejing Women s Conference, focuses on the lives of four women of diverse ages and backgrounds who have broken ground in new fields. They are questioning age-old traditions as they forge careers in their respective societies. Asthma Jahangir, an internationally renowned lawyer from Pakistan is outspokenly critical of the barriers placed in her way in this male-dominated profession. In Guatemala, Sandra Gonzalez, a single parent, is a labor organizer at the textile factory where she works. At personal risk she has rallied her colleagues to unionize. Mara Kimele, a Latvian theater director, is at the forefront of the arts in her newly independent country. Immigrant Tam Goossen, formerly from Hong Kong, has successfully won an election in her newly adopted homeland, while at the same time raising a young daughter and caring for an ailing mother. These achieving women are paving the way for their sisters around the world.","stream","[]","[]","['Women social reformers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831042/1003831042-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641377"
"asp1641376-flon","","Deception. Munchausen's disorder","1997","50 min","[]","People afflicted with Munchausen's disorder invent illnesses in order to be admitted to a hospital. They repeatedly turn up in emergency rooms, claiming to be in acute distress and falsifying their medical histories. So convincing is their deception that they may even be operated on needlessly. This powerful documentary follows 41-year-old Nina and 26-year-old Simon into their bizarre world where reality has all but disappeared. Nina has made over 500 hospital visits in her lifetime. Having once suffered a genuine ectopic pregnancy, she has faked many such emergencies and been operated on seven times. While Nina s case is tragic, Simon is an even more complex individual who exhibits a dangerous combination of medical obsessions and habitual lying. He has made over a hundred hospital visits, often taking a taxi directly from the medical library where he researches symptoms. Psychiatrist Dr. Ben John admits the medical profession is largely defeated by Munchausen s disorder. These people divert valuable health resources from the truly sick in their endless drive to gain attention. Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Murphy of Queen Mary s Hospital observes that the typical Munchausen patient has few peer relationships and uses nursing and medical staff for social contact that does not become too intimate.","stream","[]","[]","['Munchausen syndrome']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831041/1003831041-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641376"
"asp1641375-curv","Antell, Rachel","Death on a friendly border","2002","26 min","[]","The border that runs between Tijuana and San Diego is the most heavily militarized border between ""friendly"" countries anywhere in the world. Since 1994 when the U.S. instituted Operation Gatekeeper, an average of one person a day has died crossing into the U.S. The policy has been condemned by the UN Commissioner of Human Rights, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. This poignant film puts a human face on a tragedy that occurs daily. First we visit a small village in Oaxaca where more than half the men have emigrated to the United States to send money home. From here we follow the story of one young woman who made the journey to follow her husband, but died of dehydration in the desert. Then the film goes to Tijuana where thousands of people have desperately attempted the crossing, only to be thrown back. We learn of the hardships imposed by heat and thirst and abusive border guards. Finally, we hear first hand from a border guard, a human rights activist, and a citizen who actually goes into the desert each weekend to provide water for the fugitives. This is a memorable portrait of people who risk everything to come to ""the land of plenty"" --- and often lose this gamble.","stream","['Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)', 'U.S. Border Patrol']","['Mexican-American Border Region']","['Illegal aliens', 'Border patrols']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831040/1003831040-disc001-file001-frame00415-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1641375"
"asp1641374-flon","MacDonald, Trilby","Daughters of the canopy","2004","58 min","[]","This vibrant film focuses on the struggles and successes of two local women's groups fighting to preserve their land, forests and way of life in Brazil's Amazon region. The women combine scientific study, political advocacy and grassroots activism to save their communities fields and forests from ranchers and loggers and to improve their standard of living. The farmers in Quinandeua invited Dr. Patricia Shanley, an American ethno-botanist from the Woods Hole Research Center, to educate the community about the use of non-timber forest products. As one villager says, ""she showed us the value of the forest, that wood and fruit are both important."" They have become aware that the forests must stay intact for fruits and herbs to be harvested for food and medicine. Through their participation in local politics and education, the women are gaining confidence and respect in what has been a traditionally male-dominated society for the past five hundred years. Throughout the region, women s associations are forming and becoming increasingly organized and politically engaged. In Nova Timboteua, ranchers seized the farmers land illegally, and brutally in some cases. Women resisted and organized against them. Their efforts are part of a growing tide of popular unrest that is driving a profound political and social struggle to restructure the way resources are divided in Brazil. In the Amazon, the conflict with big business is most extreme. The women s groups are inspiring other Amazonians to take action to improve their lives.","stream","[]","['Amazon River Valley', 'Brazil']","['Agriculture', 'Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831037/1003831037-disc001-file001-frame00135-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641374"
"asp1641373-lawv","","Dating rites. Gang rape on campus","1993","29 min","[]","This documentary on gang rape and acquaintance rape is a compelling view of what is happening on college campuses. According to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, up to 80% of all rapes are acquaintance rapes, yet victims of rapes by strangers are ten times more likely to report their attack to police. Dating Rites includes an interview with gang-rape survivor Meg Davis, who tells how the attack still affects her life, even eight years later. We also hear from a convicted rapist, who gives compelling and disturbing insights into the psyche of the perpetrator. Included in the program is an eight minute re-enactment illustrating how a gang rape develops. The viewer will see, through the perspective of both men and women, how a party can turn into a tragedy. The documentary also calls upon professionals: rape crisis counselors, psychologists, and sociologists. Dr. Peter Germano, who runs a sexual treatment group at the state correctional institute, declares: ""the college student who commits rape on campus, if not caught, will more than likely continue this behavior and rape again and again."".","stream","[]","[]","['Gang rape', 'Rape', 'College students', 'Acquaintance rape']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831036/1003831036-disc001-file001-frame00045-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641373"
"asp1641370-flon","Burroughs, Jim","Cuba. In the shadow of doubt","1987","59 min","[]","Filmed on location at La Plata, Castro s former guerrilla headquarters- the first time any foreign film crew had been permitted there - the documentary examines the origins of Castro s revolution, and its ultimate successes and failures. It places U.S.-Cuban relations within the context of history, dating back to the Spanish-American War in 1898. The documentary goes on to paint a canvas of everyday Cuban life. It contrasts the successes of Cuba - medical care, education and housing - with the often repressive political measures implemented by the Castro government. We hear from Cuban artists, State Department officials, exiled writers, and Fidel Castro himself. We visit the Psychiatric Hospital, the Women's Prison, and a library to see what books are available. This film does full justice to its complex subject. It is neither a rationale for Communist Cuba nor a political tool for Cuban exiles. It will interest audiences of all political persuasions.","stream","[]","['Cuba']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003831xxx/1003831029/1003831029-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641370"
"asp1641369-flon","Gantz, Harry","Couples arguing","1988","58 min","[]","Arguments between couples are an important aspect of interpersonal relationships. They allow the airing of divergent views so that a compromise becomes possible and violence is avoided. Here is the first documentary to investigate real couples in actual arguments. To capture this with absolute spontaneity, the filmmakers had the couples call them whenever they were about to be embroiled in an argument. They would then go into separate rooms waiting for the documentary crew to arrive, when they would resume their argument. Five couples are shown. They argue about issues such as money, sex, alcohol and children. Differences of opinions are vented humorously, passionately and sometimes venomously. One sees that despite seemingly irresolvable conflicts, couples have positive feelings towards one another. Couples thus argue as a way to be understood.","stream","[]","[]","['Arguments', 'Marriage', 'Interpersonal communication']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831025/1003831025-disc001-file001-frame00305-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641369"
"asp1641368-flon","Burroughs, Jim","Costa Rica. Child of the wind","1988","57 min","[]","In war-torn Central America there is a country with no dictator and no army, a country at peace with itself and its neighbors. It is the oldest democracy in Latin America. This film explores the history of Costa Rica and the reasons it has been able to exist as a neutral country firmly committed to social welfare and free elections. Costa Ricans live without an army, preferring to invest their resources in hospitals and schools rather than machine guns and tanks. The film explores the issue of Costa Rica's neutrality in the face of its dependence on U.S. aid.","stream","[]","['Costa Rica']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831024/1003831024-disc001-file001-frame00260-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641368"
"asp1641367-gltv","Levey, Sylvie","Colonel Jin Xing","2003","52 min","[]","Shanghai s principal dancer, 33-year-old Jin Xing, is a big star. She is the first choreographer to have received recognition in over half a century of national communism. But the most amazing thing about Jin Xing is that, up until 1995, this beautiful young woman was a man, a colonel in the People's Liberation Army. This is a richly cinematic film, combining the colorful imagery of Shanghai's dance world, the panoply of the Chinese People's Army, and the heart-felt expressiveness of the young Colonel who turned his longing to be a woman into a reality. He battled the rigidity of Communist bureaucrats until they relented and allowed the first sex change operation in China. The film interviews his female surgeon, and also follows Jin Xing?s setbacks and recovery. His mother, although troubled by her son s singular urge for a sex change, gives him total emotional support. In fact, she later finds a baby for adoption so that Jin Xing could happily become a mother. Despite Jin Xing s transcendence in the dance world, she is still up against the Chinese bureaucracy which refuses to give her permission to perform on the stages of the Western world. The documentary shows Chinese society in awkward upheaval as this talented artist presses for change.","stream","['Jin, Xing']","['China']","['Dancers', 'Sex change', 'Transsexuals']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831022/1003831022-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LGBT;1641367"
"asp1641366-busv","Valenti, Alexandre","Coffee. A sackful of power","1999","54 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Coffee ranks second only to oil as the most important raw material on the world market. It has shaped the economies, history and social structure of a large part of Latin America. Composed of archival photographs, old newsreels and penetrating interviews, this documentary takes a broad view of the influence of coffee through the ages. First introduced in the eighteenth century, coffee is now the most popular drink in the world after water. South America supplies 66% of the world production, although most of the profits go to traders and speculators outside the region. The film explains the difference between the Brazilian and Costa Rican system of production, and why the Brazilian system has led to such poverty. Mechanization of farms has thrown many rural laborers out of work, an explosive situation in a country where one percent of the population owns 46% of the land. Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias and economist Celso Furtado analyze the market forces that affect coffee prices. An important film for economics and Latin American studies.","stream","[]","['Costa Rica', 'Brazil']","['Coffee']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831021/1003831021-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641366"
"asp1641365-busv","Laurvig, Júrgen","Coffee break!","1999","28 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Next to oil, coffee is the most important commodity in the world. Millions of cups are consumed daily around the world. Yet few people know anything about the cost of the product in human and environmental terms. This documentary was filmed during the coffee harvest on a farm near the border between Nicaragua and Honduras. Here the conditions are almost feudal. The work starts at 12:30 at night and continues until six the next evening. On a good day, the best of the pickers can earn up to three dollars, but most of the women and children earn half that much. Children as young as eight are out in the fields to add to their family's income. In addition to the back breaking labor, the workers are exposed to pesticides that are harmful both to themselves and the environment. Even though coffee prices go higher and higher, it does not change the conditions of the farm workers in their marginal existence.","stream","[]","['Nicaragua']","['Coffee', 'Coffee plantation workers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831020/1003831020-disc001-file001-frame00050-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641365"
"asp1641364-busv","","Coal wars. The battle in Rum Creek","1993","28 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Filmed in an isolated hollow of West Virginia, this stirring documentary shows the violent clash between miners and the two giant coal companies which dominate their lives. Their action was part of a national strike called by the United Mineworkers Association in 1989-90. Rum Creek had a history of militancy going back to the 1920s. The lessons learned back then color the miners ideas and actions today. Wives and daughters have always fought alongside miners. Here, two young women speak passionately about the need to stand firm on matters of wage and benefits, or their very existence will be threatened. A retired black miner, a lifelong union activist, gives his perspective on the decline of the coal industry, sudden layoffs and shrinking union membership. When the strike was settled, the miners felt that both the owners and the unions had gained, but that the workers lost out.","stream","[]","['West Virginia']","['Coal mines and mining', 'Strikes and lockouts']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831019/1003831019-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641364"
"asp1641363-flon","Cantow, Roberta","Clotheslines","1988","33 min","[]","With verve and humor, this film shows the love/hate relationship that women have with the task of cleaning the family's clothes. As we see the clothes flapping in the wind and hear the voices - some proud, some angry, some wistful - we realize that doing laundry calls forth deep feel- ings about one s role in life. Some remember when their mothers and grandmothers tackled the same chores using washtubs and washboards, or even river streams. This engaging film pays homage to the commonality of women s experience.","stream","[]","[]","['Laundry', 'Housewives']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831018/1003831018-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641363"
"asp1641361-flon","Norelli, Gianfranco","City of dreams","2001","45 min","[]","Juarez is often called ""City of Dreams"" because hundreds of thousands of young women have been drawn to this frontier town from the most impoverished regions of Mexico. They aspire to a life free from poverty and free from the male-dominated traditional family and village. Since 1993 over two hundred of these young women have been murdered, and the crimes barely investigated. Many of the victims were assembly-line workers in the over four hundred mostly US-owned factories. This compelling documentary focuses on the social causes at the root of the unsolved murders. The factories, known as ""maquiladoras"" have brought the city jobs and opportunities otherwise rare in Mexico, but also enormous social changes as a result of free trade and globalization. Mexican human rights activists consider these women casualties in a deeper gender conflict caused by rapid changes in the male/female roles. In a country dominated by machismo, the women's independence as breadwinners has fuelled resentment. Sociologists and political scientists worldwide regard Juarez as a microcosm of the emerging global economy, where capital moves freely and labor is trapped by borders.","stream","[]","['Mexico', 'Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)', 'xico']","['Murder', 'Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831015/1003831015-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641361"
"asp1641360-flon","","Christine and Paul","2006","50 min","[]","Christine, a 46-year-old mother of three, with a distinguished career in science, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Recently divorced from an abusive husband, the news sent her into a tailspin, and was emotionally devastating for her daughters, as well. Three years after her diagnosis, she met Paul Bryden, a former diplomat. Despite her diagnosis, they fell in love and married; two super achievers, with one embarking on an inevitable journey of decline. Faced with the prospect of cognitive degeneration, Christine charted the ""progress"" of her disease. Most dramatically, she faced the question, ""Who am I?"" as her memory and cognitive function decline. Hers was an emotional and spiritual journey, accompanied by Paul, a loving and supportive husband. Christine's book, I Am Who I Am, has attracted world wide attention. In it she asserts that people with dementia still have an emotional life, and have an identity. Her insights have contributed to a ""person-centered-care"" movement in which the patient, not the care giver, has final say over treatment. Ten years after her diagnosis she is still articulate and inspirational, having lectured world wide and completed two books based on her own experience. The relationship that evolved with her husband Paul has served as a new model of care giving that preserves a maximum of dignity.","stream","['Bryden, Christine']","[]","[""Alzheimer's disease""]","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831013/1003831013-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641360"
"asp1641359-busv","Coppens, Freddy, 1946","China upside down","2008","54 min","['Global business and economics in video']","In 1992, Deng Xiaoping's infamous slogan ""it is glorious to get rich"" unleashed one of the biggest revolutions in the thousand year-old country of China. Deng threw the ""classless society"" and the"" equal division of the means of production"" to the wind. As the narrator says, ""You can smell money everywhere."" Foreigners are no longer suspect. Since 1992 China's ""socialism"" has adapted to the entrepreneurial spirit. Success stories abound, but in the Chinese cultural tradition, it is often the family, rather than the individual, which achieves success. This film profiles several families who rose from subsistence incomes to fabled luxury through the inventiveness and ambition of the extended family. In 1992, the Li family founded a stone-carving business with a small amount of capital. Three sons and two sons-in-law are involved in the enterprise. After four years one of the sons invented an energy saving bulb; they now employ 1400 people. The families live in close proximity to one another in the city, and have built adjoining homes in a luxury vacation community. Through the stories of several families portrayed in this film, a Westerner gains insight into the unique fusion of capitalism and communism that is becoming present day China.","stream","[]","['China']","['Capitalism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831007/1003831007-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641359"
"asp1641358-blsv","Benitz, John B","Children of the struggle","2001","32 min","['Black studies in video']","Based on real events that took place during the Civil Rights struggle, this short dramatic film will bring to life for the next generation the passion and heroism of the movement. Superbly acted, with Dick Gregory in the role of the aging activist, it tells a story of a friendship between races that took place in the sixties and the commitment of those two young people to the cause of justice in the South. The story line is affecting. When prominent attorney John Glass receives a letter from a dying gentleman in Alabama, he embarks on a journey to discover the truth about this mysterious man's connection to his deceased mother. John's search takes him back to 1964's Freedom Summer and the heart-wrenching truth of who his mother was and why she died, that had been hidden from him by his father. This beautifully crafted story about friendship, love, family and sacrifice set against the turbulent times of the Civil Rights struggle will enable young adults today to realize that the sacrifices made in the sixties paved the way for important changes in this country.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Civil rights']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003831xxx/1003831003/1003831003-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641358"
"asp1641357-flon","Jamison, Gayla","Cheating the stillness. The world of Julia Peterkin","2010","58 min","[]","Cheating the Stillness: The World of Julia Peterkin chronicles the life of a remarkable woman who rebelled against what was expected of a Southern woman in the early part of the 20th century. As a young woman, Peterkin had married and moved to Lang Syne in South Carolina, a 1500-acre plantation in the South Carolina midlands where 400 black workers farmed cotton. At age 40, she began writing startling tales about these struggling black families and their Gullah culture. This was in the nineteen-twenties, the era of Jim Crow, but also of the Harlem Renaissance. These touchstones are brought to life in the film through dramatizations of Peterkin s literature, haunting images of the South Carolina countryside, evocative archival photographs, and through interviews with writers, scholars and those who knew the writer in her later years. Peterkin persistently sent samples of her writing to the critic H.L. Mencken. He introduced her work to the literary world, and in 1924 Alfred Knopf published her first book Green Thursday. The novel met with critical acclaim, and some wondered if the author was black or white. W. E. B. DuBois described her as a Southern white woman who had ""... the eye and the ear to see beauty and to know truth."" Her third novel, Scarlet Sister Mary, won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The gritty tale of a fiercely independent single mother set in a South Carolina black farming community was a bestseller at a time when American readers - white or black - were ostensibly not interested in rural African American life. With fame came a double life, as a sought-after writer at New York cultural events and as the plantation mistress who many in South Carolina felt had betrayed her race, class and gender. She felt she had to choose between these two radically different worlds, and the choice she made tells much about what it meant to be black or white, male or female, in 20th century America.","stream","['Peterkin, Julia Mood']","[]","['Women authors, American']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830998/1003830998-disc001-file001-frame00240-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641357"
"asp1641356-artv","","Carmen Lomas Garza. Looking back","2009","38 min","[]","Carmen Lomas Garza revisits the people and places of her youth and describes growing up in a Mexican American family in Kingsville, Texas, her experiences with the Chicano movement, and the theme of family, community, and cultural identity in her paintings.","stream","['Garza, Carmen Lomas']","[]","['Mexican American art', 'Mexican American artists', 'Mexican Americans', 'Mexican American families', 'Art, American']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830993/1003830993-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641356"
"asp1641354-flon","Bell, Leah","And then there were four","2007","21 min","[]","The incidence of grandparents raising their grandchildren as primary caregivers has increased 30 percent since 2000. This film depicts such a situation as we see the daily life of a frail 77- year-old grandmother who is raising four grandsons aged 5-8. The children are from an interracial marriage and neither parent is involved in their care. They had been parceled out to foster homes and the grandmother wanted to keep them together. When they first arrived, the lively brothers had trouble with authority, were disrespectful of each other and were behind in learning. Love and consistent discipline has made a big difference in their adjustment to school and their new home. Their grandmother has had some help from a network of relatives, but it is clear that she is the main source of strength. She rises at 5 a.m to give them breakfast and often stays up past midnight to do the house work. Yet as she ages, how will she continue to care for them if her health fails and her resources dwindle?.","stream","[]","[]","['Grandparents as parents', 'Families']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830956/1003830956-disc001-file001-frame00555-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641354"
"asp1641353-blsv","Lew-Lee, Lee","All power to the people!","2000","58 min","['Black studies in video']","Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60s civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed. The party struck fear in the hearts of the ""establishment"" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a ""secret domestic war"" of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism. Broadcast in 19 countries abroad and winner of 9 awards, the film is an important look at the turmoils of the 60s and its leading players.","stream","['Black Panther Party']","[]","['Civil rights', 'African Americans']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830948/1003830948-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641353"
"asp1641352-lawv","Wood, Melanie","A stranger in our home","2000","51 min","[]","This gripping documentary exposes the alarming rise of sexual predators on the Internet. In this fast growing criminal arena, one in five young people with Internet access are sexually approached on the web. The predators slip silently into homes, assuming false identites to attract their unsuspecting victims. A Stranger in Our Home tells the disturbing tale of two teenagers. Believing he was exploring sexuality with another 13-year old boy, Daniel shared all his secrets with his online friend. In reality he was talking to a 59-year-old pedophile who eventually persuaded him to leave his family in Canada and meet him in the U.S. In another example, Stephanie agreed to meet her teenage boyfriend in a motel parking lot after establishing an Internet relationship with him. He turned out to be a married man in his 40's with children. These cases become even more frightening when we hear details of such stalking from the confession of a jailed pedophile. The police are having a difficult time catching up with these virtual criminals.","stream","[]","[]","['Online sexual predators']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003830xxx/1003830932/1003830932-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641352"
"asp1784674-fln4","","Place without people. Tanzania","","56 min","['Filmakers library online']","A Place Without People: Tanzania tells the story of the eviction of the indigenous people from their lands in Tanzania, to make way for the creation of the world's most famous nature reserves. In Tanzania, one of the poorest nations in the world, the government, the tourist industry and conservation organizations have advanced the idea that Africans are intruders into what was once a pristine Garden of Eden. The film describes how before World War II the land of the Maasai was seized by British colonialists to set aside for their own sport -- hunting. But as game grew scarce, the British realized they should preserve it and the Serengeti was turned into a vast national park in the 1950's and '60's. This land, possibly the longest-inhabited place on earth, was labelled a 'primordial wilderness' and although there was no evidence that local people threatened wildlife, it was decided that 'no men, not even native ones, should live inside its borders.' The film explores how Western perceptions about nature have evolved through time and how these perceptions radically altered both the East African landscape and society. From the famous wildlife reserves of the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro to the remote mountains of Mahale, the documentary gives voice to the indigenous people who 'shouldn't be there,' who continue to be antagonized and excluded, while the tourist industry is rapidly depleting the area's natural resources, such as water.","stream","[]","['Tanzania']","['Maasai (African people)', 'Rural development']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003830xxx/1003830926/1003830926-disc001-file001-frame00145-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784674"
"asp1641349-hlth","Weisberg, Roger","A matter of life or death. Withdrawing life support","1988","20 min","[]","Focusing on the bioethical decisions involved in terminal care, this program is an extract of Who Lives, Who Dies? (page 127). It asks whether a patient who is dying has a right to say, ""I'd rather die now."" Dr. David Finley, Director of Critical Care at New York s Roosevelt Hospital, believes the patient's wishes should be respected. He acknowledges, however, that it is difficult to prevent doctors, who are dedicated to saving lives, from taking heroic measures to extend them.A Matter of Life or Death not only addresses the bioethical issues as they relate to the individual patient, but to society as a whole. It questions whether the money spent to prolong the dying process should be redirected to patients who are currently denied basic care.","stream","[]","[]","['Terminal care', 'Right to die', 'Bioethics']","[]","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003830xxx/1003830920/1003830920-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641349"
"asp1641343-flon","","731. Two versions of hell","2007","28 min","[]","This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives the perspective of the Chinese government and describes the horrors and atrocities that occurred during World War II at the facility. The second half, using almost the exact same footage, describes Unit 731 from the Japanese revisionist perspective which is largely supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Japan. Although its cruel experiments on living people produced thousands of casualties, this activity is still denied by a number of Japanese historians and politicians. Generational change has contributed to the escalating history problem between Japan, China, and the two Koreas. Not only were the majority of Asians born and educated after the war, as a result of the education they received in their own countries, their memories and ideas of the war have become more divergent. Usage of the same shots in both parts of the film ironically demonstrates the potential to misuse film images for political purposes.","stream","['Japan', 'Butai, Dai 731', 'Kantōgun', 'Rikugun']","['Japan', 'China']","['War']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003830xxx/1003830904/1003830904-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641343"
"asp1641342-flon","Tournancheau, Philippe","1905. Year of light: Einstein's important discovery","2006","52 min","[]","E=MC2. Who really understands what lies behind Albert Einstein s famous formula? This fascinating documentary follows the development of his scientific ideas with great cinematic style. Special effects and beautifully rendered dramatizations illustrate the important discoveries and events in Einstein s early years. Einstein s early fascination with electromagnetism started when he was bedridden with an illness and his father gave him a compass to while away the hours. The magnetic needle stimulated his curiosity about the hidden order that lies behind the surface of various phenomena. By high school he had read the works of the leading physicists of his time. It was not an easy period, however. He excelled at the subjects in which he was interested. In the others, he couldn t be bothered. He dropped out of school for a while, to his parent s dismay, already proving he was going to take his own path. The Polytechnicum in Zurich accepted him despite the lack of a high school degree.Here the doors of the scientific world opened to him and he was finally in his right milieu. It was in 1905, at the age of twenty six, that his doctoral dissertation on the nature of light revolutionized scientific thought. In the film, Dr. Claude Cohen Tannoudji, Nobel Prize for Physics 1997, explains how Einstein developed a unique intellectual approach to problem solving in science. He was able to use his imagination to conduct experiments in his mind that couldn't be conducted in the physical world because they went beyond the technical capacities of the time.This intellectual process helped him to formulate The Special Theory of Relativity about the relationship of time and space. Trying to find the link between energy and light, he overturned the prevailing theories of the most eminent scientists of his time. The documentary deftly combines an appreciation of Einstein s scientific accomplishments, his trials and tribulations in gaining recognition,and his relationships both personal and professional. A rich portrait of a 20th century giant.","stream","['Einstein, Albert']","[]","['Special relativity (Physics)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003830xxx/1003830902/1003830902-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641342"
"asp1784668-huri","","One hundred years of silence. The Germans in Namibia","2007","38 min","['Human rights studies online (video)']","Documentary film about the near extermination of the Herero people of Namibia by German colonial soldiers in the first years of the 20th century. This history is told through the story of a young present-day Herero woman whose great-grandmother was raped by a German soldier, resulting in Georgina's light skin and eyes.","stream","[]","['Namibia']","['Herero (African people)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003830xxx/1003830901/1003830901-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HURI;1784668"
"asp1641340-artv","Rabinovitch, John David","The compassionate eye. Horace Bristol, photojournalist","2007","52 min","[]","Horace Bristol shot some of the most significant photographs of the 20th century, compelling images that have become icons of our past. He captured emotional moments, set against a backdrop of history in the making. Horace was among the first contributors to Life magazine, photographing migrant labor camps in a series that became the basis for The Grapes of Wrath. He circled the globe in World War II with Edward Steichen s Navy photography unit. He spent the postwar decade documenting the changing way of life in Japan and Asia, covering Emperor Hirohito, General MacArthur, Chiang Kai-Shek, Prince Sihanouk, and the wars in Korea. China, and Vietnam. His photographs countered the numerous stereotypes of Asian culture perpetrated at the time. Bristol's photographs were lost for forty years after he destroyed every print he could find in a terrible act of self-recrimination when his wife committed suicide in 1955. Incredibly, three footlockers containing over 3,000 of his negatives were discovered in 1995. Rock superstar Graham Nash, a photographer and collector himself, initiated the restoration of Bristol's life's work. At an advanced age, Bristol was recognized as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, with work in major museums throughout North America.","stream","['Bristol, Horace']","[]","['Photojournalism']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826836/1003826836-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641340"
"asp1641339-busv","","The Indian miracle?","2008","48 min","['Global business and economics in video']","The new India has a high-tech, highly-skilled economy growing at an incredible nine per cent a year. Its universities are churning out thousands of highly qualified science and computer graduates working in software, biotechnology and engineering firms in metropolitan India. Yet underneath the glittering surface of the boom lie some ugly realties of modern day India. The film follows a well-known Indian journalist who questions the social stability of the economic giant. In urban centers there are still millions of homeless who live on the pavement as they have for the last thirty years. In rural areas, where three quarters of the population live, the poverty is more hidden. Farmers are deeply in debt because they cannot overcome the imbalance between the high cost of farming and the low minimum prices the government sets for their crops. Hundreds of thousands of desperate farmers have been driven to suicide. M.S. Swaminathan, the founder of India's original Green Revolution predicts a violent uprising if millions of farmers become landless. Another volatile issue is the widespread discrimination against the Muslim minority which numbers 150 million. Hindu nationalism is on the rise and Muslims struggle for employment and are excluded from buying property. And within the Hindu society the caste system remains a barrier separating the rich and the poor. Despite the government's attempt at affirmative action in education and employment, the age-old discrimination against the untouchables or dalits continues. They are condemned to a life of servitude. India s economy is powering ahead. The ultra rich live behind electrified fences in self-contained communities away from the degradation, poverty and despair of the rest of India.","stream","[]","['India']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826821/1003826821-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641339"
"asp1784664-flon","","Two girls go hunting","1996","50 min","['Hamar trilogy']","The second program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. This film shows Duka and her friend, Gardi, as they prepare to marry men they have never met. The film follows the build-up to the marriages, from the all night vigil with girlfriends, to farewells when the brides are taken away at dawn to the village of their husband's family, the arrival in the villages and the preparation of the prospective brides for the ceremony by the mother-in-law.","stream","[]","['Ethiopia']","['Ethnology', 'Sex role', 'Hamar (African people)', 'Rites and ceremonies', 'Marriage', 'Women', 'Marriage customs and rites']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826819/1003826819-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784664"
"asp1784663-flon","","Women who smile","1996","50 min","['Hamar trilogy']","The first program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. In this film Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe. Their often humorous conversations range from pregnancy and growing old to relationships with men. Although the men are dominant, the women are not servile. Shows harvest celebrations and the blessing ceremony for a new baby.","stream","[]","['Ethiopia']","['Sex role', 'Hamar (African people)', 'Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826818/1003826818-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784663"
"asp1784662-flon","","The Gypsies of Svinia","2000","55 min","[]","Moved by a sense of outrage, David Scheffel, a Canadian anthropologist, is determined to help the impoverished Roma (Gypsies) rebuild their community in Svinia, a village in Eastern Slovakia. So-called ""white"" Svinia is a picturesque, typical Slovak village with well-kept homes, gardens, a store and a school. A little past the last ""white"" home is ""black"" Svinia, where life is characterized by decay and despair. The Roma dwell in squalid tenement blocks or in one-room huts without clean water or sewage facilities and little hope of employment. ""White"" Svinia despises the Roma who, in desperation, regularly burglarize their homes and gardens. Some ""white"" praise Hitler's policy of trying to exterminate the Roma. This powerful film gives an unprecedented look at a degraded ethnic group right in the middle of Europe, and the efforts being made to improve their lot.","stream","[]","['Slovakia', 'Svinia (Slovakia)']","['Romanies']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826817/1003826817-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784662"
"asp1641334-flon","Hill, Cynthia","The guestworker","2006","53 min","[]","When President Bush and some members of Congress proposed guest worker programs as part of new immigration reform legislation, it was as though nothing like this had existed before. Yet since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have legally entered the United States to work here, because of the little known H-2A guestworker program, put in effect during the Reagan years. Filmed on both sides of the border, the documentary chronicles the life of such farm- workers while looking at the issues surrounding the program. The film focuses on a 66-year-old Mexican farmer, Candelario Moreno Gonzales, who works on the tobacco, cucumber and pepper fields of the Western Farms in North Carolina . He has made this annual trip for forty years, initially as an undocumented immigrant for which he was jailed three times. Now too old to risk illegal crossings, he has paid as much as a thousand dollars for his bus fare and other costs of participating in the program. Although he is twenty years older than most of his fellow workers, he puts in the same grueling hours with no hope of citizenship and the benefits that go along with it. The film also shows the troubles of his employer, Len Wester, who may loose his farm because of drought. Wester, like many US farmers, is dependent on foreign farm laborers to sustain his farm. Candelario loves his home and family but the deteriorating condition of Mexico s rural economy leave him little choice but to continue his yearly trek. As he says "" I need to go as long as I can work. I m old. The work has worn me down and made me tired. My family needs me at home in Mexico, but I need to be here too"".","stream","[]","['North Carolina']","['Agricultural laborers, Foreign', 'Foreign workers, Mexican']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826816/1003826816-disc001-file001-frame00070-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641334"
"asp1641333-flon","Rooney, Robert, 1950","The great granny revolution","2009","52 min","[]","The Great Granny Revolution describes the remarkable partnership between black South African grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren, orphaned by AIDS, and a group of grandmothers from North America. It all began with Rose Letwaba, a psychiatric nurse counseling these orphans at a township clinic. She noticed that often their caregivers were Gogos (meaning ""Granny"" in Zulu). She brought the Gogos together for mutual support every Wednesday afternoon. Before long forty Gogos were meeting for comfort, sewing classes and to work in the garden. These women had survived oppression under the apartheid regime and the riots during the struggle for democracy. They endured the isolation that the stigma of AIDS brings to families and the heartache of burying their own children. Now, in old age, with poverty forced upon them, these women had the burden of the next generation. In 2004 Rose Letwaba spoke to a small group of people in Quebec about her concerns for these women, and the next day Norma Geggie, an 80-year-old, decided to do something about it. Twelve women gathered at Norma's home to offer moral and financial support to these Gogos living half a world away. They inspired others to get involved and more groups were formed. Meanwhile, the simple knowledge that women on the other side of the world cared about them brought hope to the Gogos and invigorated their efforts. Eventually there was a meeting in Toronto of women from both continents which sparked an exciting new movement. In Africa the AIDS pandemic continues to rage, but where governments have failed to respond, grandmothers in North America have decided to act.","stream","[]","['Africa, Southern', 'South Africa', 'Canada']","['Self-help groups', 'AIDS (Disease)', 'Grandparents as parents', 'Grandmothers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826815/1003826815-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641333"
"asp1784659-huri","Artinian, Araz","The genocide in me","2008","54 min","['Human rights studies online (video)']","This intensely personal film traces the filmmaker's search for identity within the culture of her Armenian parents and in the context of the larger multicultural society in which she lives. Is it her responsibility to carry on the traditions of her forbears who bear the scars of the Genocide of 1915? Through her story one realizes how the legacy of history has impacted on a people. Those Armenians who survived the catastrophic persecution by the Ottoman Turks became part of a diaspora. The Artinians settled in Canada and fiercely maintained their identity as Armenians. Araz' father started an Armenian school in Montreal, the Armenian language was spoken at home, and the conscience of the people demanded that the Turks acknowledge the brutality with which they killed one and a half million Armenians and drove out an equal number. When Araz journeys to Eastern Turkey to search for evidence of her people's tragic history she finds that the guide books never mention the Armenians who once lived there.The Turks have been educated to minimize and explain away the Genocide. The Genocide in Me weaves together archival footage and moving interviews with elderly survivors to create a deeply felt portrayal of a holocaust that needs universal recognition. NEW, This intensely personal film traces the filmmaker's search for identity within the culture of her Armenian parents and in the context of the larger multicultural society in which she lives. Weaving together archival footage and interviews with elderly survivors of the Genocide, it creates a deeply- felt portrayal of a holocaust that the Turks deny.","stream","[]","['Canada']","['Armenian massacres, 1915-1923', 'Armenians', 'Armenian massacres survivors']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826814/1003826814-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HURI;1784659"
"asp1784658-flon","","The gate of heavenly peace, Tiananmen Square, June 4th, 1989","1991","11 min","[]","With startling immediacy, this short film captures the shock and horror the Chinese students experienced when government troops opened fire on them in Tiananmen Square. We hear students rallying for democracy just moments before they were to be gunned down. Skillfully compiled from still photographs smuggled out of China, eyewitness accounts, and news sound tracks, it recreates this tragic event in Chinese history. This unforgettable document will remind Americans that the dream of democracy does not come without sacrifice. From high school students studying world events to ""Asia watchers"" at universities, this film is a must.","stream","[]","['China']","['Students', 'Student movements']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826813/1003826813-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784658"
"asp1641330-blsv","","The freedom train","1996","30 min","['Black studies in video']","The National Negro Labor Council, formed in 1951, was a forerunner of the civil rights movement that followed in the 60s. It grew out of the auto factories of Detroit, the packinghouses of Chicago and the sweat of black laborers across the country. Its mission was to advance blacks in the workplace and eliminate racism inside the unions. During the red scare of the 50s this was considered a radical agenda and the NNLC came under the scrutiny of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Little has been written about the NNLC and its history can only be found in the collective memory of the surviving members. In this film they recall their first convention for which it was difficult to find a Cincinnati hotel that would house them. At that convention it was decided to fight for black women in the work force as well as men, and to open up jobs currently barred from black workers. Paul Robeson's presence inspired the members. During the course of the next years, the NNLC organized a boycott of Sears, petitioned Truman in behalf of an effective fair employment act, and put pressure on union officials to put blacks on their boards. Although the Council was ultimately disbanded due to pressure from HUAC, its efforts were not in vain. Ten thousand people got jobs as a result of its activities and the torch was passed on to the 60 s activists.","stream","['National Negro Labor Council (U.S.)']","['United States']","['Civil rights', 'African Americans']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826812/1003826812-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641330"
"asp1641329-flon","Gilday, Katherine","The famine within","1990","59 min","[]","This searing documentary looks at the obsession of women with the size and the shape of their bodies. Under the coercive power of consumerism and the mass media, women have come to view their bodies as marketable objects and to judge them according to unrealistic standards. Paradoxically, this anxious quest for the perfect body exists in our culture at the same time that the feminist movement decries the role of woman as a sex object. Using a dramatic visual approach, the film explores the complex causes that lie at the heart of this paradox. Combining the direct testimony of many women who have suffered from the body obsession - dancers, mothers, career women, athletes, models, bulimics, fat women, anorexics, young girls - with the views of leading experts, The Famine Within explores the kind of hunger that cannot be satisfied by food.","stream","[]","[]","['Eating disorders', 'Body image', 'Sex role', 'Femininity', 'Body image in women', 'Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826811/1003826811-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641329"
"asp1641328-busv","Amara, Emmanuel","The Enron scandal","2007","57 min","['Global business and economics in video']","This film highlights the events that led to the bankruptcy of Enron in 2001. It was the first in a series of debacles that included the mammoth corporations Tyco and WorldCom as well as the leading accounting firm Arthur Andersen. Investigators, politicians and victims reveal the incredible story. The film covers the first revelations of colossal losses, the collapse of the stock, the discovery that directors had lied to shareholders and the misappropriation of funds for personal use. The company had been governed by the cash culture of its managers, where forgery and the creation of fake companies were commonly used. While Enron's officers were busy reassuring their employees and the public that everything was fine, they were selling their stocks as quickly as they could before the stock collapsed. Enron s bankruptcy sent shockwaves throughout the country. Many employees lost their pensions, their investments and their jobs while stockholders found their supposedly substantial holdings to be worthless. Even President Bush's mother-in-law owned $6,000 worth of Enron stock. Subsequent to the events described in the film, a number of officers confessed to their deceptive actions. In May 2006 former chief executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty of fraud and conspiracy in a trial held in Houston -- the site of Enron s lavish and once-proud headquarters.","stream","['Enron Corp']","['United States']","['Energy industries', 'Business failures']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826809/1003826809-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641328"
"asp1784654-flon","","The enigma of sleep","2006","53 min","[]","Sleep disorders are little understood although the lives of many people are dramatically affected by them. This fascinating documentary brings us to laboratories in Italy, France, Israel and Switzerland where researchers are trying to untangle the mysterious working of the brain in order to help those who suffer from these disorders. Dr. Peretz Lavie is a sleep researcher and the director of the Technion Sleep Laboratory in Haifa, Israel. His state-of-the-art lab studies 2,000 patients a year, six nights a week. We watch these forlorn, sleep deprived human beings, rigged to scientific instruments, as they try to accomplish in the lab what most people do naturally amidst the comforts of home. Dr. Michel Jouvet in Paris has studied the functions of sleep and dreams for over fifty years. He discusses the interest in dreams going back to early man. One patient we see suffers from narcolepsy; he never knows what activity will be interrupted by a sudden ""fall"" into sleep. Another is a sleep walker whose life is half dream, half reality. One woman has the only documented case of sleep without REM. The result is that she never has the benefit of a restorative rest. One patient from a family afflicted for generations with a rare, lethal form of insomnia, remembers relatives who didn t sleep for months; their fatigue was catastrophic and incomprehensible. Sleep apnea, when the patient may ""forget"" to breathe during sleep, is also treated. The documentary gives an understanding of the pain of sleep deprivation, and the extremes to which it may be manifest. Science can treat and cure some sufferers. For others, sleep disturbances remain incurable because even for the doctors in this film, sleep is still very much an enigma.","stream","['Lavie, P']","[]","['Dreams', 'Sleep', 'Sleep disorders']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826808/1003826808-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784654"
"asp1784653-envv","","Energy conspiracy","1999","60 min","[]","Reveals the war against renewable energy that has been waged to cast doubt on global warming science and ensure the continued reliance on fossil fuels.","stream","[]","[]","['Renewable energy sources', 'Fossil fuels', 'Global warming']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826807/1003826807-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784653"
"asp1641325-artv","Hsia, Lisa","The emperor's eye. Art and power in imperial China","1990","57 min","[]","This spectacular film brings to light the priceless treasures of China's imperial art collection, relating them to the political climate of their time. It is an unforgettable glimpse into another culture and another age. Miraculously, the treasures survived the turbulence of war and revolution. When the Japanese invaded China in the 1930s, the precious works of art were spirited out of the Forbidden City. For years the collection was hidden all over China in caves, temples and school houses. Worth untold millions, it became the symbol of China s cultural survival. The Emperor s Eye is also the tale of a passionate collector, Emperor Chienlung, whose quest to create the greatest art collection in the world was actually a bid for his own immortality. Filmed with the cooperation of the National Palace Museum, the documentary shows the precious artworks - jade dragons, landscape painting, delicate porcelains, ancient bronze urns - that so few Westerners are privileged to see. Here is the definitive film on traditional Chinese art and culture. (An open-captioned version of this film is available. Please specify when ordering).","stream","['Emperor of China', 'Qianlong']","[]","['Art, Chinese']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826806/1003826806-disc001-file001-frame00240-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641325"
"asp1784651-marc","","The day of the dead","","25 minutes","[]","The Mexican character, shaped by the fusion of Christianity and indigenous religion, is perhaps epitomized in the celebration of the Day of the Dead. This fanciful film takes us to the village of Patzcuaro, where, like villages all over Mexico, on October 31 people return home from everywhere to celebrate their ancestors and communicate with their long dead loved ones. This impressionistic pilgrimage takes us to the cemetery where graves are decorated and turned into works of art, with flowers, personal objects, food, offerings and thousands upon thousands of candles. For a twenty-four hour period,we follow Death on a tongue-in-cheek guided tour through the soul of a people.","stream","[]","['Mexico']","[""All Souls' Day"", 'Mourning customs']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826803/1003826803-disc001-file001-frame00630-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?MARC;1784651"
"asp1641322-flon","Julien, Issac","The darker side of black","1996","60 min","[]","Gangsta chic, violence and nihilism, the hard edge of Rap and Reggae increasingly dominates the image of black popular culture. This is an intelligent and provocative investigation of the complex issues raised by the genre, such as ritualized machismo, misogyny, homophobia, and gun glorification. Noted experts on black history, such as Cornel West of Princeton University, and Michael Manly, former prime minister of Jamaica, analyze the phenomenon and give insights into its development and meaning. Filmed in dance halls, hip hop clubs, and using interviews and music video clips, The Darker Side of Black takes us to London, Jamaica and the USA. Directed by award winning filmmaker Issac Julien who made Looking for Langston, the film brings together diverse musicians as Buju Banton, Shabba Ranks, and Britain s Moni Love. It is a long overdue examination of the ""darker"" side of contemporary black music.","stream","[]","[]","['Rap (Music)', 'Reggae music', 'Musicians, Black']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826802/1003826802-disc001-file001-frame01040-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641322"
"asp1641321-flon","Cantor, Karen","The Danish solution","2004","58 min","[]","Sixty years ago the Final Solution was attempted in Denmark. The plan was averted, over 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. How and why Jews escaped the Nazis blueprint for their extermination is the subject of this compelling new documentary film. Through the very human testimony of survivors, the story of the Danish rescue is told with clarity, empathy and humor. Because what happened in Denmark has taken on legendary proportions, the filmmakers have carefully researched the subject, separating the truths from the myths, such as that of the Danish King wearing the Yellow Star. In addition to the survivors stories, the filmmakers have interviewed rescuers and scholars. From members of the resistance to ordinary people who helped when they saw a need, viewers will be introduced to courageous people who took action to save their threatened compatriots. The film points out the reasons why the Danish Jews were not treated as harshly by the Nazis as Jews elsewhere. This story is a fascinating chapter of Holocaust history.","stream","[]","['Denmark']","['Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)', 'World War, 1939-1945', 'Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826801/1003826801-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641321"
"asp1641318-lawv","Curtin, John, director","Islam behind bars","2007","47 min","[]","No religion is growing faster in Western prisons than Islam. In the United States alone, there are more than 200,000 Muslim inmates. They are mainly black converts searching for an alternative to Christianity, which many reject as the slave-master's faith. Islam Behind Bars takes an unflinching look at the disruptive power of poisonous religious demagoguery, but also leaves the viewer with a better understanding of an intriguing new fact of the black experience in the West. The prisoners follow a path first made famous by Malcolm X, who went to jail for pimping and petty theft and came out a fiery Muslim preacher. He had discovered a strict religion which could bring discipline and dignity to men whose lives had been devastated by violence and drugs. In the aftermath of September 11th, authorities fear that terrorist organizations may recruit Muslim prison converts to attack the West. Richard Reid, the ""shoe bomber"" was probably recruited while in a British prison. The film shows that there are some imprisoned Muslims who find peace and a respect for all of God's creations in their new faith, and others who direct their anger at the West.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Muslim prisoners', 'Islam']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826790/1003826790-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641318"
"asp1784646-flon","","Islam & America. Through the eyes of Imran Khan","2002","25 min","[]","Imran Khan travels through Pakistan to survey the sources of resentment of ordinary people toward the United States. Although most Muslims condemned the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many Muslims in Pakistan feel that the United States controls the Muslim world through social and economic imperialism and often ignores injustices committed against Muslims in other parts of the world.","stream","[]","['United States', 'Islamic countries']","['Foreign films', 'Motion pictures, Pakistani', 'Documentary television programs']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826789/1003826789-disc001-file001-frame00095-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784646"
"asp1641316-flon","Puchniak, Tom","Is love enough?","2001","46 min","[]","Can a mentally disabled person be a good parent? A few generations ago, many retarded people were locked up in institutions and sterilized to prevent them from having children. Today, people with disabilities are demanding the same rights as everyone else. But the right to bear children remains highly controversial. Can someone who has the mental age of a teenager safely care for a child? Can a child of normal intelligence thrive intellectually when the parents are retarded? Is Love Enough? provides a remarkable window on this unexplored phenomenon in a balanced fashion. One intellectually disabled mother has her child removed at birth. She fought in court for the change to prove that she could be a good mother. Now she is allowed to visit her child and try her mothering skills. But she is under intense scrutiny and feels she is being judged differently than any other parent. Another case involves a young woman entering college to pursue a music career. She has had to overcome a tremendous handicap; both of her parents are intellectually disabled and could not meet her emotional and intellectual needs. With striking candor, she talks about how she had to be rescued by her grandparents and her aunt. She voices strong feelings against people with intellectual disabilities having children.","stream","[]","[]","['People with mental disabilities', 'Children of parents with disabilities']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826788/1003826788-disc001-file001-frame00100-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641316"
"asp1641315-flon","","Iran. The cyber-dissidents","2006","25 min","[]","Iran, an Islamic republic, has the largest number of internet users in the Middle East. A large dissident population is finding new ways to communicate, risking arrest, prison, torture and even death as they try to organize resistance to the repressive religious government. To be a reformer today is to live dangerously. One leader of the opposition, Farid, is a cyber-dissident whose web site has been on the cutting-age of protest. He knows he is taking serious risks keeping his web site up and running but says if the government destroys it, he will find another way to communicate with the reformers. A recent feature film called The Lizard which is critical of the regime has been very popular. In one chilling scene, a crowd of ticket-buyers outside one of the movie theatres where it s playing is seen being watched by government agents. This is a unique view of Iran to which an American film crew could never have access.","stream","[]","['Iran']","['Internet', 'Internet in political campaigns', 'Dissenters']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826787/1003826787-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641315"
"asp1641314-flon","Peterson, Beverly","Invisible revolution","2001","56 min","[]","This disturbing documentary profiles a chilling subculture among American youth. For over a decade, the clash between racist and anti-racist youth has been virtually invisible, but now, ever younger members are taking control of the white supremacy movement. Rising against them are a group of anti- racist skinheads, punk rockers and mainstream kids who call themselves the Anti Racist Action (ARA). These groups are often indistinguishable as they battle one another. The filmmaker, Beverly Peterson, had extraordinary access to the hate-filled adolescents at war with each other. Their confrontations have led to assaults and even murder, confounding their parents, their communities, as well as the police. While organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Americans for Democratic Action encourage unity demonstrations to counter the Klan s hate rallies, it is the violent kids of the ARA that seem to be most effective in combating the white supremacists. This hard-hitting film, with its strong language and extreme expressions of racism, will awaken audiences to a frightening adolescent phenomenon.","stream","['Anti-Racist Action (Organization)']","['United States']","['Racism', 'Hate crimes', 'Skinheads', 'Youth', 'White supremacy movements']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826786/1003826786-disc001-file001-frame00715-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641314"
"asp1641313-flon","Wu, Gong","Xiao's long march","2003","39 min","['Interesting Times']","China has a standing army of more than one million men. For eighteen year old Xiao Zhenning, a poor boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with life in his parents two room apartment, the Red Army is a place of last resort. As Xiao says ruefully: ""With no college education and no job, there is nowhere else to go."" The film follows Xiao through his last listless days with his nagging parents in their tiny apartment and into his three months basic training with the Red Army. He learns things about himself and his ""place"" in China s so called classless society, which both surprise, upset and ultimately liberate him.","stream","['China', 'Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun']","['China']","[]","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826785/1003826785-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641313"
"asp1641312-flon","Jiang, Yue, 1962","This happy life","2003","59 min","['Interesting Times']","Mr. Fu is head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China s busiest railroad stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life traumatic. His first wife died as a result of a compulsory abortion, enforced by China's one child policy, leaving Mr. Fu to bring up their eighteen month-old baby son himself. His second marriage is an unhappy one and during the filming his son, now fourteen years old, decides to leave him and join the army. This intimate portrait of Mr. Fu and his colleagues is tragic, deeply moving and sometimes hilarious.","stream","[]","['China']","['Working class', 'China', 'Railroads']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826784/1003826784-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641312"
"asp1641311-flon","","The secret of my success","2003","59 min","['Interesting Times']","We meet Lu Guo Hua, a wheeler dealer who uses his position as birth control officer to be the local political power broker. When the village head chastizes him for overlooking a villager's third pregnancy, Lu Guo Hua retaliates by opposing the village head s re-election. The film gives an insider s view of the beginnings of democratic politics in a village in northeastern China.","stream","[]","['China']","['Politics, Practical', 'Birth control', 'Local officials and employees']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826783/1003826783-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641311"
"asp1784639-fln4","","Inside the hermit kingdom. North Korea","","53 min","['Filmakers library online']","North Korea is known as the hermit kingdom because it has been cut off from the rest of the world. Cruelly colonized by Japan early in the 20th century, and split from the south after World War II by cold war politics, it has suffered repressive governments and frequent famines. This film, made by I Sun-Dyung, the daughter of Korean immigrants, was an attempt to understand the country that has been demonized by the West, particularly the US. She was the first western journalist allowed entry. Her film traces the history of Korea in the 20th century and includes fascinating interviews with some of the world's foremost experts on North Korea, including Prof. Bruce Cumings of the University of Chicago, and Donald Rickerd of the Center for Asia Pacific Studies, who give fresh perspective on this enigmatic country. We learn that communist ideology has taken a back seat to the philosophy of 'Juche' Il Sung. Kim Il Sung was revered as 'the great liberator' from Japan's brutal rule. Most North Koreans are loyal to his son, their present leader Kim Jong -IL who succeeded his father in 1994. Despite having suffered severe food shortages, North Koreans have been taught that they can survive on their own. The country feels threatened by America and believes its nuclear weapons are 'chips' in a power struggle with the West. Included are in-depth interviews with a former bodyguard of the 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-IL and testimonies from defectors and survivors of the country's infamous concentration camps. This fascinating film contributes to our understanding of an important player in the geopolitcs of the 21st century.","stream","[]","['Korea (North)']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826782/1003826782-disc001-file001-frame00645-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784639"
"asp1641309-flon","Ponsin, Camille","Inside the campus","2008","55 min","[]","American college students, who enjoy all the freedoms and possibilities provided by university life, may well wonder how students in China fare. This is a frank account of what it is like to be a college student in China, filmed by a French director who was allowed to shoot for one year at Nanjing Normal University, a large university of 40,000 students. On the surface, life is quite different there. Soon after a student settles in, a uniformed Communist party member enters the dorm and instructs to the smallest detail just how one s personal objects are to be placed, from how shoes are to lined up, to where toothbrushes are stored. The first few months are given over to marching in formation, indoctrination into party history and learning to chant military slogans. We see a party secretary lecture a class on the superiority of Chinese students who have ""a soul"" ""a beautiful spirit"" and a ""political conscience"" which he says Westerners lack.The students strive to conform--we even hear of a suicide attempts when one girl gets a low grade in an exam on Communist Party politics. But behind the closed doors of their dorms, these 20 -year- olds talk about boyfriends, cinema, politics and their futures just like their Western counterparts. We follow two students, Miao who is attracted to a Western lifestyle and Kun, who is following the Party line in the hopes of a good career.","stream","['Nanjing shi fan da xue']","['China']","['Education']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826781/1003826781-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641309"
"asp1641308-flon","Janssen, Thimothee","Inside rice. A grain of culture","2006","52 min","[]","From the rice paddies in the country to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, this lively film allows us to view contemporary Vietnam through a unique perspective: the culture of rice. This poor, densely populated country of 84 million has had to recover from the ravages of war, the loss of financial support from the old Soviet Bloc, and the rigidities of a centrally planned economy. From the rice paddies in the country to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, this lively film allows us to view contemporary Vietnam through a unique perspective: the culture of rice. In the breathtakingly beautiful countryside, the hard-working rice farmers are entirely dependent on the single-crop farming of rice and worry incessantly about the fickle weather ruining their crops. Travelling to Ho Chi Minh City, the film shows talented cooks preparing and selling a fabulous variety of rice dishes from pushcarts on the streets and in restaurants. Vietnam s dynamic private sector is exemplified by these cooks working day and night. The history of this small grain is intertwined with rites and customs that are an integral part of Vietnamese life and culture. These rites play an important role in the worship of ancestors during prayer and religious ceremonies. The primary economic resource of the country, rice is seen as the symbol of an entire nation.","stream","[]","['Vietnam']","['Rice']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826780/1003826780-disc001-file001-frame00145-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641308"
"asp1641307-lawv","","Inside Pinochet's prisons","1999","30 min","[]","In view of the attempt to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice for crimes against humanity, here is an amazing historic document that was secretly filmed by East German journalists who penetrated Chile's concentration camps in 1973. The film was never shown in the West, though it was broadcast in the Eastern-bloc countries. Under Pinochet's orders, doctors, lawyers, trade unionists, students and leftist sympathizers were rounded up and held without trial. One camp we see is in the middle of a forbidding desert, where the extremes of heat and cold intensified misery. Here, prisoners, uncertain of their future and visibly frightened, spoke to cameramen. Some admit they were politically active, while others say they were not engaged in political activity. Some are old; some are women. Young men are forced through ""re-education"". There are telephoto images of beatings and firing squads. The truth of Pinochet's brutal regime is laid bare in this moving and exclusive film.","stream","['Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto']","['Chile']","['Concentration camps', 'Political prisoners']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826779/1003826779-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641307"
"asp1641306-busv","Bricca, Jacob","Indies under fire","2006","57 min","['Global business and economics in video']","This gripping documentary chronicles the devastating effect of giant book chains on the country's independent bookstores. During the golden years of the independents, there were 5,200 members of the American Booksellers Association -- today there are fewer than 3,000. To illustrate this erosion, the film focuses on several leading independent California bookstores, such as Printers, Inc. and Bookshop Santa Cruz, which had flourished for over twenty years. The film depicts their struggles to stay afloat. Traditionally, these stores have offered their customers a wide choice of material, not willing to have their stock selection be governed principally by bottom line considerations. They have represented an outlet for the works of new and unheralded authors. Today, major publishing houses often submit manuscripts by new authors to chain store executives who decide whether the book, if published, would be given shelf space. If the answer is negative, the author may not be published. At a city council meeting in Capitola, citizens voice their opinions on whether to allow a Borders into their town. Representatives of Borders give their point of view. They maintain that consumers should be allowed their choice of shopping venues. Printers, Inc. went out of business during the filming of this documentary, as well as several other small bookstores that appear in the film. By giving bookstore owners, employees, customers, executives, civic leaders and an industry analyst a chance to express their viewpoints, the film allows the viewer to appraise the threat that giant chains pose for American culture and diversity.","stream","[]","[]","['Independent bookstores', 'Bookstores']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826777/1003826777-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641306"
"asp1641305-lawv","Mokko, Kari","Indian revolt","2006","29 min","[]","Bolivia, the poorest of the South American countries, is on the verge of civil war. After centuries of oppression, the Indian people are now demanding their rights. Indigenous people are in the majority, representing 60 per cent of the population. The Aymara and the Quechua in particular are demanding more power, a better living standard and more respect but also the nationalization of Bolivia s natural resources, especially natural gas. Due to a well-organized protest by over one million dissatisfied Indians, the government resigned and the president fled abroad. Plans for selling natural gas to the United States ignited mass riots that took almost seventy lives. The ruling elite of Bolivia has been shocked by the marches and the blockades of big cities.It is unlikely that interest groups in the U.S. will just stand by and watch. ""The worst case scenario is that the unrest in Bolivia will be seen as a threat to the stability of the entire South American continent. And that may lead to foreign occupation of Bolivia,"" says sociologist Alvaro Garcia Linera.","stream","[]","['Bolivia']","['Indians of South America', 'Aymara Indians', 'Quechua Indians']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/frames/1003826xxx/1003826776/1003826776-disc001-file001-frame00180-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641305"
"asp1784633-huri","","In the name of the emperor","1997","51 min","['Human rights studies online (video)']","This is the only American documentary film to examine the Rape of Nanjing, December 13, 1937, when the Japanese Imperial troops marched into this city in China. In just six weeks they murdered 300,000 civilians, and systematically raped and killed thousands of women. Today, the Japanese government continues to deny it ever happened. In the Name of the Emperor is a monument to the suffering of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese during World War II. It weaves together rare footage of the Japanese occupation, diary entries from Americans who were there, and the eye witness accounts of surviving Japanese soldiers. Especially unique is the newly discovered film footage of the massacre shot by John McGee, an American missionary who was living in Nanjing. This footage was part of the testimony at the war crimes trial, but has never been seen until now. The Nanjing Massacre was the impetus for the Japanese system of ""comfort stations"" or military brothels in occupied territories to stem the tide of venereal disease. Included is an interview with a Korean ""comfort women who speaks openly about her sexual servitude. These war crimes continues to disrupt diplomatic relations between Japan, the Philippines, Korea and Taiwan to this day. The horrors captured in this ground breaking documentary reminds us of the exploitation and suffering of women, and indeed all civilians during war time. There are frightening parallels to the atrocities committed in Bosnia and Rwanda today.","stream","[]","['Japan', 'China']","['Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826774/1003826774-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HURI;1784633"
"asp1641303-blsv","Williams, Marco","In search of our fathers","1994","60 min","['Black studies in video']","African-American filmmaker Marco Williams was twenty-four years old the first time he learned his father's name. He had been raised in a closely knit family where for generations, strong, husbandless mothers were the norm and fathers promptly disappeared. This film documents Marco's seven-year search for the elusive father he never knew and his coming to terms with the truth of his origins. Ironically, this quest for his father actually brings him closer to his mother. It was her resourcefulness that enabled them both to improve their lives. She saw to it that Marco received a first-rate education, and later, that she was able to pursue her own ambitions. This portrait of an African-American family shows that even in a ""fatherless"" household, there can be strong family ties that support the younger generation.","stream","['Williams, Marco']","[]","['Children of single parents']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826773/1003826773-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641303"
"asp1784631-fln4","","In search of Lucille. The woman behind the surgeon's mask","","45 min","['Filmakers library online']","This is an inspiring portrait of Dr. Lucille Teasdale, an extraordinary doctor and humanitarian who early in life focused on becoming a surgeon and ended up creating an important hospital in Uganda. The film uses a vivid combination of home movies, interviews, newsreel footage and educational film to convey the times in which Dr. Teasdale lived. When Dr. Teasdale began her medical studies, she was one of only eight women admitted to a class of one hundred and ten at the University of Montreal. After graduation and a grueling five-year internship as a surgeon, in 1955 she applied to twenty hospitals in the U.S.; they all rejected her. When one of her colleagues, Dr. Piero Corti, opened a mission hospital in rural Uganda, he offered Dr. Teasdale a position which she accepted. They later married and had a daughter. For over thirty years Drs. Teasdale and Corti cared for thousands of Africans and enlarged their clinic into a five-hundred bed hospital, St. Mary's-Lacor. Dr. Teasdale handled everything from pediatrics to malaria as well as the surgical needs of thousands of people in the area. When the brutal dictator Idi Amin took power in Uganda in 1971, civil war broke out. The doctors became war physicians and their hospital a frontline facility. Then Uganda was invaded by a new invisible enemy -- the AIDS virus - and Dr. Lucille became infected while operating on a patient. Despite her illness, she continued to save lives for another fifteen years. She died in 1996 and was buried in Uganda among the people she loved and who revere her as a savior. Her wonderful legacy is the generation of doctors and nurses whom she and Dr. Corti had trained. Today St. Mary's-Lacor is one of the most up-to-date hospitals in Africa with teaching staff, shelters for refugees and treatment for injuries, epidemics and AIDS.","stream","['Teasdale, Lucille']","['Uganda', 'Canada']","['Women surgeons']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826772/1003826772-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784631"
"asp1641301-lawv","Rakkenes, Oystein F","In Gandhi's footsteps. Kiran Bedi","2007","49 min","[]","Kiran Bedi, a small woman with a huge mission, has been compared to Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandhi. She is, in fact, a police woman-- and a reformer. Kiran Bedi has worked in the most dangerous and violent parts of Indian society and has found non-violent solutions. She believes that police should help prevent social problems, not wait until the problems worsen.Tens of thousands of police officers, formerly feared for their violence, have been turned into ""welfare police"" as a result of her ground- breaking training while in charge of the police school in New Delhi. Bedi also transformed one of the largest prisons in the world, Tihar Central Jail, from a hell hole to a reformatory. Among her innovations was meditation sessions for the prisoners which helped calm the violence in the jail. She has also initiated treatment for drug addicts and opened vocational trade schools for the slum dwelling poor. She studied law and police education and became India s first female police officer. She became well-known when she had Indira Gandhi s illegally parked car towed, believing the powerful as well as the powerless should respect the law. This led her to be officially ""punished"" by receiving undesirable transfers. She recovered from this and eventually became India s Deputy Police Commissioner. Recently she was appointed to lead the U.N. s Department of Peacekeeping Operations worldwide. This film provides a fascinating window into India today.","stream","['Bedi, Kiran']","['India']","['Women social reformers', 'Law enforcement', 'Policewomen']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826770/1003826770-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641301"
"asp1641300-hlth","Pugina, Renato","In body and soul","2009","41 min","[]","One of the basic needs of human beings is sexual gratification. This is true for the handicapped as well. Yet, able- bodied people find it difficult to accept that the disabled have sexual needs. In this ground breaking film, we learn of an experimental program in Switzerland which has aroused considerable interest and much debate. ""Sex workers"" of both sexes provide sex for a fee to people who are physically or mentally challenged. This documentary explores the motives of both the sex workers and the handicapped individuals who engage in sexual activities with them. Is this prostitution or therapy? For the first time, sex workers have agreed to be filmed as they make love to these individuals. They express strong positive emotions about their work. The doctors who set up the program hope that improving sexual satisfaction will enable the handicapped to achieve other rehabilitation goals.","stream","[]","[]","['People with disabilities', 'Prostitution', 'Sexuality', 'Sex therapy']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826769/1003826769-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641300"
"asp1641299-artv","","Imaginary enemy","2010","22 min","[]","A documentary film about Liao Yibai, a Chinese sculpture artist, who grew up in a top-secret weapons factory during the cold war. Yibai's childhood is depicted in his imaginative and ironic stainless-steel sculptures, turning the complex cultural relationship between China and the U.S. into accessible, humorous stories.","stream","['Liao, Yibai']","['China']","['Cold War', 'Sculpture, Chinese', 'Sculptors']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826768/1003826768-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641299"
"asp1641298-hlth","","I want to die at home","1990","47 min","[]","This is a remarkable portrayal of loyalty and love. Divorced and living apart from her grown children, Elizabeth discovered she had an incurable cancer. Her strongest wish was to die in the familiar surroundings of home, close to the people she loved. Loyal friends and family shared in her care and steadfastly kept her company throughout this critical period. They alternated shifts so that she would never be without a comforter. Elizabeth s choice to die at home helped mitigate the pain of her untimely death for her survivors. They gave Elizabeth the gift of time and love when she needed it most.","stream","[]","[]","['Home nursing', 'Caregivers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826767/1003826767-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641298"
"asp1641297-curv","","Hunting my husband's killer","2006","52 min","[]","""Lesley Bilinda, the Scottish widow of a Rwandan black pastor, returns ten years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide to search for his murderers""--Original container.","stream","['Bilinda, Lesley']","['Rwanda']","['Women missionaries']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826766/1003826766-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1641297"
"asp1641296-flon","Isip, Michael","Hope on the street","2003","56 min","[]","Mental illness is a devastating problem that affects one in five people. In California alone, an estimated 50,000 mentally ill people sleep on the street each night and thousands of others go to jail or a crisis hospital. Stigma, shame and discrimination keep an estimated 80% of the mentally ill from seeking treatment. This film sheds light on this difficult subject, showing how it impacts families, the personal battles it creates, and the resources available to those who suffer from it. We meet several people who have mental illnesses and who are homeless from time to time. One is Ray Guevarra, a Latino who survived an abusive childhood, gang-life as a homeless teen and a constant struggle with his bi-polar disorder. He overcame his illness with the support of his family and proper treatment, and is now an outreach worker and speaker at mental health conferences across the country. African-American Sandra Washington ran away from her family in Mississippi sixteen years ago. With the help of a social worker she recently reconnected with them. John Joseph suffers from schizophrenia and was homeless for five years until a flower vendor took a chance, gave him a job, and got him off the streets. Ken Lim, a mental health care professional featured in the film has focused for thirteen years on the mentally ill homeless population. His consistent relationship-building with his clients has helped him persuade several to seek treatment and get off the street. The film looks beneath the tattered clothes to show that recovery is possible with access to treatment, medication, and quality care.","stream","[]","[]","['Mental illness']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826765/1003826765-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641296"
"asp1641295-busv","","Hong Kong-Shenzhen. The little wall of China","2006","26 min","['Global business and economics in video']","In 1978, Shenzhen was declared a special economic zone by the Chinese government, open to both native and foreign investors. Its development has been spectacular, with its population rising from 30,000 to 5 million inhabitants. When Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, the frontier between the former British territory and Shenzhen theoretically disappeared. However, in actuality the border is still closed and integration is slow to occur. For Hong Kong, the risk of a massive illegal Chinese emigration is viewed as a threat to its economic stability. Also, since Hong Kong remained a free port with no import taxes, the Chinese are controlling the border to prevent those from Shenzhen using it as a way to escape taxes. The low cost of labor and real estate in Shenzhen have persuaded nearly 80% of Hong Kong manufacturers to relocate their factories there. Many successful ""Hong Kongers"" now want to live on the other side as well, in the beautiful new homes being built for them.","stream","[]","['Hong Kong (China)', 'Shenzhen Jingji Tequ (Shenzhen Shi, China)']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826764/1003826764-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641295"
"asp1641293-hlth","Tournadre, Christine","Home delivery","2008","59 min","[]","Most women in the modern world never think twice about the decision to give birth in a hospital. Like their mothers and grandmothers before them, they imagine a time when they'll pack their bags, call their doctors and rush to the fluorescent lights and sterile sheets of their baby's first home. But in a time when health costs are skyrocketing, Caesarean deliveries are on the rise and hospital care can be impersonal, some women are questioning this paradigm. This film documents the lives of three women in New York, who for very different reasons have decided to have home deliveries with midwives. Two are African-Americans and one is French-born. Nadhege and her husband Kameau who are having their first child, decide on a water birth. Several generations of her family sing and pray as she labors, and celebrate when her baby is born. Melle is a single mother with two young children who are very much a part of the anticipation and the birth. She has concerns about having adequate support in the days after the birth. The midwife and her team are loving and supportive. Marine has a very long labor. When asked by her doula if she would do it again that way, she admits she would defer answering until she has recovered. Home Delivery allows the audience a profound and sometimes humorous look at women during an awe-inspiring process. It captures the spiritual as well as the physical side of childbirth.","stream","[]","[]","['Childbirth at home']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826762/1003826762-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641293"
"asp1641292-flon","","Hitler and Stalin. Twin tyrants","2001","52 min","[]","In January 1913 two men disillusioned with the worlds they live in, anonymously walked the streets of Vienna. Josef Stalin was a young revolutionary exiled from his Russian homeland: Adolf Hitler a penniless failing artist. Who could believe that these two misfits would soon decide the fate of the planet? How did these two men manipulate the political climate of their respective countries to reach absolute power? Why did they send millions of innocent people needlessly to their death? This psychological dual biography exposes the chilling parallels--and the glaring differences--of these two dictators. Among the similarities is that both loved their mothers but disliked their violent fathers, both had loved ones who committed suicide. Among the differences was that Stalin feared all his associates, while Hitler trusted his inner circle. The film features exceptional footage from film archives in Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe, Great Britain and the USA including rare footage of Stalin s mother and of his funeral. Among those interviewed are Stalin s niece, Kira Alliluyeva and Wolf Rudiger Hess, son of Hitler s deputy Rudolf Hess. This fascinating documentary provides new insight into these powerful and bloodthirsty men.","stream","['Hitler, Adolf', 'Stalin, Joseph']","[]","[]","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826761/1003826761-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641292"
"asp1641291-flon","","High heels and ground glass","1993","30 min","[]","This fascinating film portrays the life and work of five outstanding women photographers, born around the turn of the century, who perfected their craft in an era when photography was a man s domain. Using examples of their photography with clips from news of the day, their on-camera interviews are woven together to tell a story about life for professional women living in turbulent decades of the middle of the twentieth century. Gisele Freund, a reporter-photographer describes her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany with negatives taped to her body. Fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe recalls her evolution from a young art student to the creator of Harpers Bazaar covers. Maurine Loomis was a little known but highly successful photographer of Hollywood stars. Lisette Model, the teacher of Diane Arbus, reveals her method for making a successful photograph. Eiko Yamazawa practiced her art in Japan for over seventy years with the elegant eye of an abstract painter. These dedicated women share their successes and struggles with candor and warmth.","stream","['Model, Lisette', 'Yamazawa, Eiko', 'Freund, Gisèle', 'Dahl-Wolfe, Louise']","[]","['Women photographers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826759/1003826759-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641291"
"asp1641290-flon","Sandberg, Oyvind","Hearts","2008","60 min","[]","This inspiring love story from Norway follows Kare Morten Watne and his girlfriend Maybritt Stusdal Matre, both of whom are affected with Down syndrome. They go on dates, fall in love and become engaged, much to the despair of Kare's loving but meddling mother. One day Maybritt discovers that Kare isn't wearing his engagement ring and believes Kare has broken up with her. The course of true love is never easy, but this has a happy ending. Through the peacemaking skills of Kare's best friend Per Erling Grindstein, who also has Down Syndrome, the loving couple is brought back together. The delightful quality of the film is in showing how people with disabilities are accepted and welcomed in this society. Kare and Per Erling are rabid fans of their local soccer team and help out with the practice games and matches. The soccer players display warmth and acceptance towards the two men who are fully assimilated into their society. One sees the exceptionally high level of care those with Down syndrome in Norway receive. Indeed, Norway's highly developed system of social organization has attained the highest level yet achieved in the world. For the past four years, the U.N. has ranked the country as the best place in the world to live. When the film was awarded the Grand Prix for the best film of the international competition at the Ukrainian Documentary Film Festival in Kiev in April, 2007, the judges wrote, ""We praise the courage of the director in following his subjects bravely wherever they led him, in having faith in ordinary heroes and breaking common stereotypes by touching our hearts"".","stream","[]","[]","['Down syndrome', 'Down Syndrome']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826758/1003826758-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641290"
"asp1641289-lawv","","The heart broken in half","1992","57 min","[]","Challenging stereotypes, this documentary gives voice to the street youths and reveals their underground culture. Here is an intricate web of symbols and passions, territory and brotherhood, honor and, all too often, death. Images of street bravado are counterpointed with scenes inside laundromats where gang members are folding clothes and playing with babies. The violent death and funeral of a Guatemalan street youth stir up the deepest feelings and most haunting questions about both the vulnerability and the heroic ethic of gang life.","stream","[]","['United States', 'Chicago (Ill.)', 'Illinois']","['Gangs', 'Street life', 'Hispanic American gangs']","['Non-fiction films', 'Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826757/1003826757-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641289"
"asp1641287-hlth","","Health care on the critical list","1985","60 min","[]","A survey of the rising cost of health care and the question of who is entitled to treatment.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Medical care, Cost of', 'Medical care']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826755/1003826755-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641287"
"asp1641285-curv","","Google's deep impact","2008","50 min","[]","The film examines the tremendous influence the communication company Google is having on the corporate world as well as on our entire culture. The number of businesses, large, small and start-ups, using Google's services has skyrocketed. The service Google has developed called Search Engine Marketing has enabled many companies to increase the power of their advertising and boost sales by marketing through Google. Several advertising executives explain why and how they alter their marketing plans, sometimes on a daily basis, in order to raise their rankings in the Google listings. If they are not placed within the first five entries in the Google Search listing, ""they are dead."" Those businesses using Google are raising their profits by designing better web sites and constantly looking for new ways to entice users to their sites. The film also takes us to Google's colorful corporate headquarters where several employees discuss the innovative programs they have come up with, such as Google Search, Google News, and Google Books which are digitalized and affiliated with libraries. Google's influence also extends to individuals pursuing their daily life needs. Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, says, ""Google was founded to organize the world's information."" There are those who now question Google's reach, revealing too much information about our private lives to anyone who can access the web.","stream","['Google (Firm)']","[]","['Web search engines']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826747/1003826747-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CURV;1641285"
"asp1641284-busv","Van Soest, Landon","Good fortune","2010","74 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Are international aid programs in Africa undermining the very communities they aim to help? Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations. Both communities believe the aid projects will devastate their lives and are organizing to fight back. Part I: Jackson and Dominion Farms. In the rural countryside, an American company is threatening to flood Jackson's family farm. The company has invested over $21 million in a commercial rice farm in the region that they say will stimulate the economy, create employment, and provide infrastructure. But to irrigate its farm, the company is planning to flood over 1100 acres of local farmland, including the homes of 500 families like Jackson's. As water reaches his doorstep, Jackson organizes his community and vows to fight to protect his land. Part II: Silva and the Slum Upgrading Project The successful midwife Silva Adhiambo lives in Kibera, Africa's largest squatter community. Her home and business are being being demolished as part of a United Nations slum-upgrading project. The government and the U.N. insist the evictions will be temporary but the residents do not believe them. Silva, her husband and her neighbors organize to stop it. The film suggests that poor people should not be passive recipients of well-intentioned international aid programs that affect their lives Part 1: 35 min. Part 2: 39 min. (the educational version).","stream","['Slum Upgrading Facility', 'Dominion Farms Limited', 'United Nations Human Settlements Programme']","['Kibera (Kenya)', 'Kenya']","['Poor', 'Slums', 'Economic development projects']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826746/1003826746-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641284"
"asp1641282-flon","Rothman, Paul","Full circle","1996","56 min","[]","Full Circle is the first and only film to have ever been made on the most revolutionary social experiment of the century - the attempt to create sexual equality between women and men on the Israeli kibbutz. Through archival footage and interviews with several generations of kibbutz members, the film follows the evolution of family life and work roles from pioneering days to the present. The original utopian goal was total gender equality. Children lived apart from their parents in a special children's community. Freed from daily child care, women participated fully in all economic sectors of the community by working alongside men as equal partners. In the 1960s, when the rest of the Western world began to embrace feminism, the new generation of kibbutz women began to return to more traditional gender roles. Rejecting the achievements of their grandparents, the women returned to their traditional role: cooking, cleaning and taking care of children. Today, with women no longer participating in the productive economic sectors of the community, the original egalitarian ideology has been compromised. Full Circle raises many questions about the permanence of social reform, the adaptability of human nature and the goals of sexual equality. This is a groundbreaking film for use in sociology, women's studies, Jewish studies, Middle East studies, anthropology and gender studies. Note that it has recently been revised with new material inserted.","stream","[]","[]","['Sex role', 'Kibbutzim']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826739/1003826739-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641282"
"asp1784611-fln4","","From Mao to money","","27 min","['Filmakers library online']","This is a colorful, ironic look at Chinese society as it is being transformed by burgeoning capitalism. After Deng Xiaoping first allowed private enterprise into new industrial zones, untold wealth has accrued to those who once followed Mao's dictates. We meet a former Red Guard who has become a billionaire, and a family in an old Mao commune which is now quoted on the stock exchange and provides each resident with an income without working. Once undreamed-of luxuries are shown off with pride. What does one call the new system? Market communism or communist capitalism? One thing is certain --there is a growing gap between rich and poor. The super rich worry that the government will raise taxes, while the poor worry about how to feed themselves, get health care and an education for their children. As capitalism spreads from Beijing and Shanghai to the provinces, entrepreneurs strive for the greatest profit.","stream","[]","['China']","['Capitalism', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Free enterprise']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826737/1003826737-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784611"
"asp1641280-busv","","Follow the money","2008","76 min","['Global business and economics in video']","Introducing himself as a middle aged, middle income man, Timo Harakka is a Finnish Michael Moore, though less abrasive. He sets out to track a small investment he made in a Far East Fund. He travels to Copenhagen to meet with the portfolio manager who acts as his amused guide through the morass of global investment. He learns he is invested in 55 companies in the 'digital universe'. Timo decides to discover where his money has gone and what effect it has made in different areas of the world. Timo's first stop is Seoul, where his investments include Samsung electronics. Here he finds a massive corporate city where thousands work in production lines, no unions are permitted, and smaller enterprises have been driven out of business. The fund has also invested in gigantic discount chains that have put ""mom and pop stores"" out of business. In China he notes that the Beijing airport is privatized. He travels to one of many industrialized zones where he is proudly shown plans for a gigantic Underwear City, which will supply the world with undergarments. In all the manufacturing plants he visits, Timo notices that unions are not allowed, and employers bear no responsibility for industrial injuries, which are plentiful. A trip to India shows him that India's manufacturing is going to be bigger even than China's. When all the manufacturing is done in the ""underdeveloped countries,"" what will the West contribute, he wonders? The answer that is offered is ""research and development"" and intellectual property rights. From this follows a discourse on the importance of ""branding."" In Mozambique Timo sees factories closed down because the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank found it more profitable to invest in Asia. The unstable political situation makes investment in Mozambique too risky. Timo's tour around the globe leads him to conclude ""money is managing us ... the global financial system is beyond control; everything has a price"".","stream","[]","[]","['Finance', 'Investments']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826732/1003826732-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1641280"
"asp1641279-hlth","","Final call","2007","46 min","[]","The seniors in this film swim, dance and play golf. They are devoted to families and grandchildren, they read and engage with the world. Muriel and June lead rich, full lives but they intend to deliberately end their lives when they think the time is right. Dr. Opie, a retired surgeon who is now incapacitated, has prepared himself to end his life in two years when he thinks his life will no longer be worth living. They are among an increasingly activist minority of elderly Australians who say they want to end their lives before they are overtaken by frailty, illness or dependence. Such a radical step, they claim, is a final act of self-determination and a human right. ""This is about the dignity of the end of my life,"" says Muriel. ""I just don t want to end up as a vegetable. I don t want to be locked up in a nursing home where all you get is bingo,"" says June. Most of the elderly people in the film are supported in their fateful decisions by spouses or adult children. But in some cases there is intense anguish. We meet a father and son who love each other deeply but are completely at odds on this issue. The father thinks life should end when quality leaves it. His son, a committed Christian, would do anything to change his father s mind. Some doctors and ethicists are disturbed by what they see as the extremism of elderly people who take courses to learn how to commit suicide and even travel to Mexico to buy Nembutal, the recommended drug. Dr. Philip Nitschke, author of Exit Australia, teaches some of these courses. Dr. Rosanna Capoliagra asserts that depression is also a big factor. Professionals worry that the phenomenon reflects a growing view that to be old and in need of care is to lack dignity and to be a burden on society.","stream","[]","[]","['Older people', 'Right to die', 'Suicide']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826724/1003826724-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641279"
"asp1641278-lawv","Paul, Rod, 1948","Failing Haiti","2006","57 min","[]","Haiti, a nation forged by a slave rebellion 200 years ago, still carries the scars of its independence and abandonment. Subjected to an endless stream of tyrannical regimes, Haiti appeared to emerge from oppression and dictatorship with the return of a charismatic young priest who defied a brutal military regime, only to be swallowed once again in despair and dependency. This is a nation caught in a tragic, downward spiral. Its economy broken, its land denuded, its children hungry. Through the perspective of two administrations handling of Haiti, one can see why the U.S. has difficulty in exporting democracy, and building respect for human rights. From sources working in Haiti with the government, and rebel insurgents, and convicted drug smugglers, the film follows the violent events leading to the departure of President Aristide. Many participants in his ouster in February 2004 appear in the film. Failing Haiti is not only a story about the continuing tragedy of Haiti, but is also a story of America s attempt to impose western democratic values on a society steeped in profoundly distinct traditions and culture. Events in Afghanistan and Iraq mirror the errors in Haiti. The film provides a brief history of Haiti, followed by events of the past year, using news footage and stills.","stream","[]","['Haiti']","['Dictatorship', 'Violence']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826721/1003826721-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641278"
"asp1641277-flon","Deuber, Walo","Fading traces","2001","54 min","[]","The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces artfully weaves the words of writers such as Rose Auslander, Isaak Babel, Martin Buber, David Kahane, as well as others, with the accounts and experiences of those still living. The film seeks out the traces of this lost world and brings it to life. Since the opening of the Soviet Union, this historic land is once more accessible. Fertile countryside, ancient tombstones, austere synagogues, train stations, markets, cobble stone streets - the fabric of daily life, as well as the dark forbidding sites of mass graveyards. Here is a past that is all but wiped out, except when excavated deftly and respectfully in Fading Traces.","stream","[]","['Ukraine']","['Jews']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826720/1003826720-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641277"
"asp1641274-hlth","Roemer, Michael, 1928","Dying","1998","154 min","[]","Dying is a personal, profound and poignant memoir of three people and how they faced their deaths. When it was first broadcast twenty years ago it was universally acclaimed. Unavailable for several years, Filmakers Library is proud to re-release this classic cinema verité documentary. The film focuses on three people with terminal cancer. Sally, a 46-year-old with brain cancer, comes home to her mother s house to die. In a rare study of shared grief, the elderly mother and the dying daughter are connected by the daily tasks of caretaking. The middle story is about Bill, dying in his early 30 s, and his wife, Harriet. Bill is stoic but his wife rages against her fate of being left alone with their two growing children. The third is the story of Reverend Bryant, a thin black preacher whose unassuming manner shows his courage as his life slides to an end. On learning he has no chance of a cure, he preaches a sermon on dying, returns south with his family for one last look around, and at the end, with grandchildren playing at his bedside, dies with dignity. Filmed over a two year period, the film shows how each human being lives and dies as an individual, with deep personal needs and attitudes. It will sensitize health care professionals and counselors to the human factors that mitigate the anguish of both the patients and those who care for them. Also on the same DVD is Cortile Cascino, the award-winning feature-length documentary on Sicily by Michael Roemer and Robert Young.","stream","[]","[]","['Terminally ill', 'Death']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826706/1003826706-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641274"
"asp1641272-flon","Yerushalmi, Ophra","Chopin's afterlife","2007","54 min","[]","The filmmaker of Chopin's Afterlife is a pianist who explores the ways Chopin's music seems to connect people everywhere. The director, Ophra Yerushalmi, for whom Chopin has been a constant source of inspiration, is joined by musicians and non-musicians, dancers, poets and visual artists. They are young and old, masters and students, all with special affinity to the composer. Together they investigate different layers hidden under the seeming simplicity of the music and its sheer beauty. Among those participating are composers Lukas Foss and John Eaton, pianists Abbey Simon, Arie Vardi and Frederic Chiu, as well as Jerome Lowenthal and Pavlina Dokovska of the Julliard and Mannes schools of music. Also included are two rare solo dances choreographed by José Lim?n and Jerome Robbins, danced by Carla Maxwell and Helgi Tomasson. Chopin's Afterlife shows a surprising variety of ways in which Chopin remains meaningful in our contemporary world, so different from Chopin's own. The film is an attempt to create a bridge between the ""romantic"" and the ""revolutionary"" Chopin and to challenge viewers to look at Chopin in new ways.","stream","['Chopin, Frédéric']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826676/1003826676-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641272"
"asp1641271-flon","Radomsky, Marc","Choosing exile","2002","55 min","[]","Filmmaker Marc Radomsky is third generation South African. His grandfather emigrated from Lithuania to escape pogroms. The family established their roots in Johannesburg and prospered. However Marc and his wife see that growing lawlessness and crime in post-Apartheid South Africa has driven the white community into gated communities where armed guards, attack dogs and barbed wire are the brutal signs of the need for increased security. Marc and his wife Vivianne have made the painful decision to emigrate to Australia. Their close-knit family, threatened with separation, tries to prevail upon the couple to reconsider. The camera captures the painful unravelling of their interconnected lives. Their parents will now be deprived of participating in the lives of their grandchildren, and their sobbing seven-year old tries to grasp why he must leave his dog behind. But leave they do, to an apparently welcoming new country, and hopefully a brighter future. Choosing Exile is a portrait of some of the current conditions in South Africa, as well as an intense portrait of the pain of emigration.","stream","[]","['South Africa']","['Crime']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826675/1003826675-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641271"
"asp1641270-flon","Joani, Tang Yuen Mei","Chinese foot binding. The vanishing lotus","2004","53 min","[]","A pair of small feet -- three-inch golden lilies -- were once the male-designated yardstick for feminine beauty in China. A young girl s feet were broken and bound inwards along the instep, a process that caused excruciating pain. Systematically bound, day after day, the stunted feet began to take on the coveted look of that profoundly sensuous image, the lotus bulb. Today there are fewer than 400 women with bound feet among the 1.25 billion people of China. Most of them are over 80 years old. Some of these women tell us of the event that branded their lives with its singular mark. Once an erotic symbol of beauty and eligibility, the bound foot confronts us with a custom that subjugated women to a brutal beauty myth.","stream","[]","['China']","['Footbinding']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826674/1003826674-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641270"
"asp1641269-artv","Jokel, Lana","Chinese contemporary art comes to America","2006","56 min","[]","This is the companion film to Chinese Contemporary Art: Artists Working in China. It focuses on the ground-breaking Chinese art being exhibited in the US that has excited Western curators and collectors alike. Often ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, this work reflects the unprecedented changes in China's economic, social and cultural life over the past decade. Included are photography, video art and installations. Insightful comments from curators, historians collectors and the artists themselves give a historical perspective to the works.","stream","[]","[]","['Art, Modern', 'Art, Chinese']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826673/1003826673-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641269"
"asp1641268-flon","","China. One child policy","2006","23 min","[]","In 1980, the Communist Government of China instituted a policy of one child per family as a means of curtailing population growth. Now, the success or failure of this highly controversial social experiment can be assessed. In this comprehensive report, correspondent John Taylor journeyed from the high rise flats of middle class Beijing to the poor farms of the Chinese countryside to see the effect of this policy. Population growth has been slowed, but this success has come at enormous social cost. Many families have suffered greatly under the policy, from forced abortions to political coercion and heavy fines. Liu Shuling, a poor farmer s wife with two children says: ""After having one baby, when people tried to have a second one, if you didn t have money, they would pull down your house. If they didn t pull down your house, they would take away your timber and your horse carts."" The policy has also given birth to an alarming imbalance between the sexes. For every 100 girls there are 120 boys. Traditionally, Chinese parents have preferred sons - because they support them in their old age and carry on the family name. Many couples have turned to ultrasound machines to guarantee they get the type of child they desire. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of female foetuses have been aborted. China is also becoming a nation of children without siblings. There is now a real concern that the One Child Policy has created a generation of spoilt children - so-called ""little emperors and empresses"".","stream","[]","['China']","['Family policy']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826672/1003826672-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641268"
"asp1641267-flon","Jokel, Lana","China revisited","2006","57 min","[]","Lana Jokel, the filmmaker, was born in Shanghai to a privileged family that lived an enviable life style. When the Communists came to power the family fled, ultimately to Brazil where her father became a successful industrialist. Lana eventually was educated in America, where she now lives, but her search for roots brought her back to China. This beguiling film records her first visit back to the land of her birth and the relatives she left behind. With her camera in hand she embarks on a personal odyssey to rediscover China. Lana reunites with her sole surviving Auntie, who at 90 lives in a rundown apartment that she does not want to leave since her neighbors watch out for her. Lana finds cousins she never met, some who led difficult lives under the Communists, but others who are now affluent. They show her the new China, a mingling of old traditions, such as tea tasting, with today s predilection for a western life style. We follow Lana as she visits old haunts, like the former French Club now transformed to the plush Garden Hotel. As she tours the country the viewer is given a quick history lesson of China s past by this insightful guide, infused with personal poignancy.","stream","[]","['China']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826671/1003826671-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641267"
"asp1641265-flon","Jury, Dan","Chillysmith farm","1981","57 min","[]","This remarkable film, ten years in the making, documents the aging and death of Gramp in the bosom of his family. Grandsons Mark and Dan Jury shared in caring for him at home so that he could live and die among the people he loved. They recorded their experience in the photo essay ""Gramp,"" and eventually in this multi-award winning film. Their grandmother Nan continued to live on Chillysmith Farm, aging gracefully. She died peacefully, surrounded by her family, including her great grandchildren. When Dee and Mark Jury expect their third child, they believed all family members should share in the joy of birth and they had in the sorrow of death. Kristen is born at home with the whole family attending. The four generations are bound with loving ties.","stream","[]","[]","['Childbirth', 'Aging', 'Death', 'Families', 'Intergenerational relations']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826669/1003826669-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641265"
"asp1641264-ahiv","Araneda, Cecilia, 1970","Chile. A history in exile","2000","28 min","['American history in video']","Cecilia Aranada returned to Chile years after her family had escaped the bloody Pinochet regime. Her own mother had been held and tortured in the Estadio Nacional, the infamous stadium from which many never emerged. She was shocked that in Chile today, many did not know of the horrors of the Pinochet regime. Instead, they attribute today s prosperity to progress under the dictator. Interviewing Chileans who escaped at that time, including one of Allende's guards, she records the powerful memories of those who were torn from their families, beaten, raped and subjected to electric shock. With deep emotion, they speak of the friends and relatives they lost. They recall the promise of the Allende regime, the first Marxist democracy in Latin America, where there seemed to be new opportunities for peasants and workers. On September 11, 1973 Allende was killed in a military coup and the reign of terror began. A generation has grown up in Chile with no knowledge of this history. But voices from exile provide irrefutable testimony. A Spanish version is available.","stream","['Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto']","['Chile']","['Chile', 'Political refugees', 'Victims of state sponsored terrorism']","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826668/1003826668-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1641264"
"asp1641263-flon","Wearne, Melinda","Children of Tibet. The exile generation","2006","54 min","[]","Each year hundreds of Tibetan children risk their lives fleeing Tibet in search of a freer life and an education in India. The Tibetan Government has established schools for young refugees throughout India to provide them with a chance to learn about their own culture and religion and to be educated in their own language. Children of Tibet tells the remarkable story of three of these determined children who make the perilous journey across the Himalayas to India. Told in their own words, the children journey in the care of guides who take them by foot in the winter, leaving their families behind. Many others who went before them died in snowstorms in the mountains; others lost toes or feet to frostbite. Upon arriving in India not everything is as easy as the children expected. They do not all fit into the carefully organized school system. The film follows their lives as they prepare to leave the refugee center in Dharamsala and enter the school system.","stream","[]","['Tibet', 'India']","['Education', 'Refugee children']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826667/1003826667-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641263"
"asp1641262-lawv","Betancor, Juan S","Children of the silver mountain","2007","53 min","[]","The mines of Bolivia date back to 1545 when the Spanish conquerors who discovered pure silver in an Inca region dominated by a mountain they named Cerro Rico. At its base the city of Potosi grew, along with the largest mining industry of its time. Four centuries later the mines still produce silver, zinc and lead while the miners work in hazardous conditions that have changed little over the years. The film gives a brief history of COMIBOL, the multi-mineral corporation controlled by organized labor which failed to keep pace with modern technology. In 1985, when the tin market collapsed and Bolivia faced hyperinflation, COMIBOL shut down most of its activities. In its place miners formed small cooperatives and continued to earn a meager livelihood. The film shows the difficulties of the miners lives--long hours that can only sustained by the chewing of coca leaves. Much of the labor is done by hand-- even women crush rocks with hammers in search of silver. Silicosis is rampant for the miners breathe air laden with silicon particles. Despite these hardships, the miners feel a pride in their profession and in the tradition they are maintaining. Like their ancestors they put their faith in an ancient demon god known as ""El Tio"" and curry his favor with offerings. The extraordinary cinematography brings the viewer close to the people and the breathtaking landscape that is their home.","stream","['Corporación Minera de Bolivia']","['Bolivia']","['Miners', 'Mineral industries', 'Collective labor agreements']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826666/1003826666-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641262"
"asp1641261-lawv","Kramer, Karen (Karen Susan)","Children of shadows","2003","54 min","[]","In Haiti, many parents are forced by destitution and desperation to give away their children. The children - who may be as young as four years old - then go to live and work for other families as unpaid domestic servants, or slaves. They are known as restavek children. Children of Shadows follows the children as they go through their daily chores - the endless cycle of cooking, washing, sweeping, mopping, going to the market, or going to run errands. In heartbreaking interviews the children speak openly and shyly about the lives they are forced to lead. Their ""aunts"" (adoptive caretakers) speak openly and proudly of the vast mountain of work that ""their"" restavek does for them. The camera goes deep into the countryside to interview the peasant families as to what kind of situation would force them to give away one or more of their children. Narrated entirely by the people themselves in their native Creole (English subtitles) and with original Haitian music laced throughout the film, this affecting documentary is the first film to be made on a subject which until recently has never been talked about.","stream","[]","['Haiti']","['Human rights', ""Children's rights"", 'Child labor']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826665/1003826665-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1641261"
"asp1641260-hlth","","Children and asthma","2003","59 min","[]","The Center for Disease Control estimates that 15 million children are predisposed to asthma. Rates of acute asthmatic attacks have more than doubled in the past decade. At highest risk are poor children of color living in inner cities. But even in rural areas, asthma is rising as children are exposed to farm chemicals. This informative film seeks to explore all aspects of this debilitating illness. It includes the personal stories of children and their parents who have to cope with the daily threat of an asthma attack. We hear from leading scientists who are trying to understand this new epidemic and develop preventive measures. The irritants that cause asthma are manifold-mold, fungus, pesticides, air pollution from moving vehicles, to name but a few. These are all products of our technological society and, interestingly, children in under developed countries have a much lower rate of asthmatic-like reactions. We go into the classroom of Veronica Lightfoot, who teaches her young charges to carry their medicine and to be aware of how their lungs work. We learn how parents can cooperate by identifying toxic sites in their neighborhood. Most importantly, we gain an understanding of the environmental factors that have changed the health of our children over the past 25 years.","stream","[]","[]","['Asthma in children']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826664/1003826664-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641260"
"asp1641259-flon","","Charles DeGaulle. A profile","1997","25 min","[]","In June 1940, a junior general in the French army escaped to London determined to save France after its surrender to the Germans. Charles DeGaulle became the leader of the Free French, and the embodiment of their hope for the future. Arrogant and abrasive, through sheer force of will, he asserted France s position with the Allied powers. When the Allies were ready to recapture Paris, Eisenhower held back his troops to allow DeGaulle to liberate Paris. After the war, DeGaulle was the outstanding figure in France and the natural choice to lead the new government. But the infighting among the political parties was distasteful to him and he retired from public life in 1947. In 1958, when France was torn apart by the Algerian independence movement, DeGaulle emerged from seclusion to form the Fifth Republic. Though initially he hoped to retain Algeria as part of France, in the end he realized it must gain its independence. By 1968 a new post war generation had come of age and rebelled against his authoritarianism. He resigned in 1969 and died the following year. Archival films together with commentary by journalists and colleagues bring the career of this remarkable leader alive.","stream","['Gaulle, Charles de']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826663/1003826663-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641259"
"asp1784589-envv","","Changing the way the world works","1991","52 min","[]","Changing the Way the World Works concentrates on the ""end-use philosophy."" Instead of asking how much energy the world will demand, it asks how can less energy be used to give consumers the things they want - lighting, central heating, air conditioning, automobiles, etc. Member of a series: The Energy Alternative series.","stream","[]","[]","['Energy conservation']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826662/1003826662-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784589"
"asp1641257-flon","Chala, Samie","Chahinaz. What rights for women?","2008","53 min","[]","Chahinaz is a young Algerian college student studying architecture who loves her country but feels suffocated by the weight of its tradition and religion, specifically as spelled out in the government's stringent Family Law. How can you change society in a country where the law officially sanctions inequality between men and women? The filmmakers chose her to explore this issue. She questions women across several continents, using her computer, comparing her situation with theirs. Online, Chahinaz meets a formidable Indian feminist and journalist as well as a conservative young American woman. To further explore the gap that exists between East and West regarding the status of women, she arranges a dialogue with Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She also talks with the president of the General Assembly of the UN, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, who comes from Bahrain. Chahinaz brings a fresh and intelligent view to the condition of women in the developed and less developed world. In the process she challenges some widely prevalent cliches about Muslim women. It is clear to her that legislation is needed to enhance the rights of women.","stream","[]","['Algeria']","[""Women's rights""]","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826661/1003826661-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641257"
"asp1641255-blsv","Kramer, Karen (Karen Susan)","Celebration","1992","30 min","['Black studies in video']","This joyous, upbeat film explodes with the color, music, and pride of Carnival in America's largest Caribbean community. Modeled after the one held ""back home"" in the islands, this has become an annual event in New York, bringing together Caribbean immigrants from virtually every island in the West Indies. It is filled with striking visual displays of costumed performers, infectious calypso music, steel bands, a mosaic of tropical food, and rocking and jumping crowds. But the film shows more than simply the Caribbean capacity for celebration. It captures the thoughts and feelings of expatriate West Indians, as they are interviewed during preparations leading up to the Carnival. As we go behind the scenes to watch the step-by-step making of the elaborate (and enormous) sculpture-like costumes, we learn how the Carnival is a way of maintaining a sense of identity and continuity of cultural tradition.","stream","[]","['New York (State)']","['Festivals', 'Caribbean Americans']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826659/1003826659-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641255"
"asp1641254-flon","Hamermesh, Mira","Caste at birth","1991","52 min","[]","Few Westerners realize the grave situation of India s ""untouchables."" There are 150 million of them who live a segregated life. They cannot own land or get an education and are condemned to the most menial jobs, such as sweeping streets, cleaning toilets, or butchering animals. In the villages they are subject to abuse, sometimes killed for minor slights to the landowners. From birth, all alternatives are closed to them. While the government has tried to improve the condition of the untouchables, these attempts have been met by strong resistance. Upper caste Hindus profit from this source of cheap labor. In addition, the Hindu notion that the untouchable is impure is deeply ingrained. However, a few leaders have arisen from their ranks, who work for change.","stream","[]","['India']","['Caste', 'Dalits']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826658/1003826658-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641254"
"asp1641252-hlth","Weisberg, Roger","Can't afford to grow old","1990","57 min","[]","As you age you probably will want to live with the familiar comforts of your home, but you d better be healthy and wealthy. The reality of aging in America is that there is no help in paying for a nurse or a housekeeper if you become disabled and need assistance. All your family can do is place you in a nursing home, and only after your money runs out will the government pay the bills. The cruel irony is that the cost of a nursing home is often much greater to the American taxpayer than subsidized home care. This film features several families eager to keep their elderly relatives at home, who have simply exhausted their physical and financial resources. Every year, up to one million Americans are forced into poverty by the cost of long-term care, and only then do they qualify for Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance program for the very poor. This cogent analysis of the impact of the aging of America on our strained health-care system combines poignant human stories with informed testimony by law makers and public policy experts. The debate centers around whether the government or the private sector should ultimately pay for long-term care. We are shown innovative programs, one private and one publicly funded, that give seniors some options as they experience frailty in old age. This landmark film clearly illustrates the crisis facing all Americans as they and their parents age. It should be seen by students and professionals in health care, gerontology, social service, public policy, as well as the general public.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Older people', 'Medical care, Cost of']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826656/1003826656-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1641252"
"asp1641251-flon","","Cambodia. The betrayal","1993","48 min","[]","The world was horrified to learn of the Holocaust which had taken place in Cambodia at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. This film exposes the hypocrisy of the Western nations which continue to support Pol Pot, despite the atrocities of his regime. Not only has Pol Pot been allowed to occupy Cambodia s seat in the United Nations, but the Western nations have been secretly selling them weapons for use in their civil war. Despite the loss of a fifth of their population, the resilient Cambodians have made significant strides to rebuild their society. But they fear the threat of a second Holocaust.","stream","[]","['Cambodia']","['Cambodia']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826655/1003826655-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641251"
"asp1641250-flon","Gottschau, Jakob","Cambodia. Land of silence","2004","29 min","[]","In the mid-1970s, Cambodia was the victim of a brutal genocide, when the communist Pol Pot regime exterminated every fifth inhabitant. In less than four years, hundreds of thousands were murdered, and over a million died as a result of starvation and disease. We hear from those who lost their families as well as from former guards who perpetrated the crimes. A guard who beat prisoners claims he was forced to commit torture; the alternative would have been his own murder. He feels terribly guilty now and has confessed to his family. Sorya Sim of the Documentation Centre says ""The purpose of documenting is justice and memory."" The Centre collects material to prosecute the Khmer Rouge and to educate the younger generation about the events. Recently, a peace treaty paved the way for the first real evaluation of the Pol Pot regime - and perhaps for reconciliation. This process is difficult in a country like Cambodia, where it is seen as ""wrong"" to talk negatively about the past. The Institute for Social Development organized several peace marches and four reconciliation meetings and at one of these, a number of Khmer Rouge leaders apologized. For many people, and for the media, saying ""I am sorry"" was not enough. Kassie Neou of Cambodia's Institute for Human Rights, believes the peace marches promote the possibility of ""... living together in understanding, and that way people can focus on harmonious ways of living."" But many carry mental and physical wounds, too fearful to speak out about the atrocities of that tragic time.","stream","[]","['Cambodia']","[]","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826654/1003826654-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641250"
"asp1641249-flon","","Buying the spirit","2004","53 min","[]","This powerful documentary presents a sympathetic view of Voodooism in Haiti delving into the hidden world of Voodoo practitioners and offering unique insight into a frequently misunderstood religion. Haitians turn to secret Voodoo societies for support and protection and some to gain wealth and power. The stories offered here present an objective view of a religion that is important to so many and often maligned.","stream","[]","['Haiti']","['Voodooism']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826653/1003826653-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641249"
"asp1641248-flon","Brousmiche, Guy","Busy forever","2006","55 min","[]","Recent demographic studies show that the aging of the Japanese is occurring at a much faster rate than anticipated. By the year 2025 there will be only two working people for every retired person, and within the next fifty years, one out of every three Japanese will be over 65. The particular Japanese response to this phenomenon is to stay in the workforce long after the normal retirement age. There was little debate when the Japanese parliament changed the minimum age of retirement from 60 to 65. This bill was met with popular approval; three quarters of workers aged 55 expressed their desire to keep working for another ten years. Today, more and more Japanese continue to work into their seventies. After retirement many continue doing odd jobs called ""arbeito"" to supplement their meager retirement benefits and to feel useful. They feel it will stave off senility, which they particularly dread. Busy Forever shows us some of these older people in their seventies and eighties. Dr. Ayakaoua, a geriatric physician , expects to continue his practice until aged 80. There is Mrs. Tanaka, the smiling 83-year-old vegetable seller; Mrs. Ishimi 75, an active fishmonger; Mr. Sakai an 80-year old taxi driver; and Mr. Chow who is passionate for karate yet still finds time to work as an engineer. There are even employment agencies specialize in finding work for older Japanese who are determined to remain busy forever.","stream","[]","['Japan']","['Old age']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826652/1003826652-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641248"
"asp1641247-flon","Kirkenslager, Julie","Buried stories","2009","35 min","[]","Buried Stories reveals the life story of a Native American (Ohlone/Esselen) Ella Rodriguez, who, in her seventies, still resents that she was taken from her rural California home at age thirteen and sent to an Indian boarding school. After running away from the school and becoming ensnared in the juvenile justice system, she was forced into marriage by a parole officer at eighteen, then labored as a migrant worker. In the 1970s, when Ella was 44, she protested for weeks to stop the destruction of a Native American cemetery site and dedicated her life to preserving her heritage. After two decades of working on endangered construction sites to oversee and protect Native American burial grounds, Ella obtained an informal but comprehensive education about her ancestors. Ella's later years bridged her Native American past and modern archaeological research. A resilient and wisecracking woman in a hard hat, Ella fought to preserve her ancestors' history. In the process, she connected with her painful personal past as she unearthed troubling official documents relating to her youth. Told through Ella's charismatic and poignant lens, her story incites curiosity about the historical and cultural forces that shaped her destiny and identity. A closed-captioned version is available. Please specify when ordering.","stream","['Rodriguez, Ella']","['North America']","['Indians, Treatment of']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826651/1003826651-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641247"
"asp1641246-flon","","Burden on the land","1992","53 min","[]","Filmed in the face of enormous political and geographical obstacles, Burden on the Land is a comprehensive look at Africa's future as it faces the 21st century. It addresses the root causes of famine and suggests reasons why development efforts in Africa have been so disappointing. Examining the sub-Saharan countries - Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Mali, Ethiopia and Uganda - the documentary clarifies the conflicts and interrelated issues of politics, health, environment, and culture. When the colonial powers left Africa, the political vacuum was filled by authoritarian regimes whose armies continue to keep them in power. Frequent tribal wars keep countless people refugees, fleeing from one nation to another. Despite the efforts of international relief agencies, the vast number of refugees have depleted the host countries of resources. The film shows that despite the overwhelming problems there are small successes that improve the quality of life - dams, food processing, reforestation, road building, irrigation, and animal husbandry. But basically, it proposes that Africa s future depends on developing an infrastructure while maintaining the integrity of village life.","stream","[]","['Africa']","['Famines', 'Agriculture and state']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826650/1003826650-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641246"
"asp1641245-flon","Graef, Roger","Breaking the cycle","1997","50 min","[]","This film looks at families struggling with pre-schoolers who have serious behavior problems. Tantrums, rages, persistent disobedience, whining, hyperactivity -- these are the traits that drive both parents and teachers to distraction. Many children with early anti -social behavior grow up to be persistent offenders in later life. Once they get into the criminal justice system, it is often too late to rehabilitate them. The video demonstrates how early interventions at a special needs pre-school can help parents learn positive reinforcement tactics to break the cycle of oppositional behavior. Parents learn the techniques to control their children and teach them to control themselves. We watch the unflappable teachers interact with these difficult children, putting boundaries on their disruptive behavior. While filmed in Great Britain, the emotions of the parents, behaviors of the children, supports offered by professionals, and behavior modification tactics are universal.","stream","[]","[]","['Behavior disorders in children', 'Behavior modification', 'Preschool children']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826649/1003826649-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641245"
"asp1641243-flon","Howard, Janet","Breaking ground. Men against rape","1999","31 min","[]","The men in this film have one thing in common. They are committed to training men and women in rape prevention techniques. They feel that rape is not just a woman s problem, but a human problem of our violent culture. We see a variety of programs in which men play a major role, from in-school education to public service ad campaigns, to community self-defense programs. Several of the men express outrage at the abuse suffered by women they have known. Intercut with their call for action are the voices of women who have been victims. Breaking Ground dispels the stereotype of the male, often black, being abusive towards women.","stream","[]","[]","['Rape', 'Sex crimes']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826647/1003826647-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641243"
"asp1641242-flon","Grabsky, Phil","Brazil. An inconvenient history","2001","48 min","[]","While everyone knows of the history of slavery in the USA, few people realize that Brazil was actually the largest participant in the slave trade. Forty percent of all slaves that survived the Atlantic crossing were destined for Brazil, while only 4 % were sent to the U.S. At one time half of the population of Brazil were slaves. It was the last country to officially abolish slavery (1888) and one of the ex-slaves is still alive today. This well- researched BBC production charts Brazil s history using original texts, letters, accounts and decrees. From these original sources, we learn firsthand about the brutality of the slave traders and slave owners, and the hardship of plantation life. With the Portugese colony of Angola acting as a ""factory"" supplying Africans to Brazil, it was cheaper to replace any slave starved and worked to death than to extend his life by treating him humanely. Few plantation owners sent for their wives to live in this hot climate, so the softening effect of family life was absent among the rough white settlers. Historians Joao Jose Reis, Cya Teixeira, Marilene Rosa Da Silva, anthropologist Peter Fry, and others recount the effect of centuries of slavery on Brazil today. This is an important documentary for Black history, African history and Latin American studies.","stream","[]","['Brazil', 'Africa']","['Slave trade']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826645/1003826645-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641242"
"asp1641241-flon","","Boys alone","2001","49 min","[]","Boys Alone is a riveting film of an English social experiment in which 10 eleven-year old boys are invited to be ""home alone"" without adult supervision for a week in a suburban house. The boys came in a variety of shapes, sizes, and backgrounds. They had different previous experiences in being away from home. The film tests the common belief that a pack of boys left together in a house for a long period of time, will self-destruct, as they did in Lord of the Flies. In any group of boys, it is thought, fierce hierarchies will quickly form. The strongest and most assertive will survive; the most sensitive and vulnerable will suffer. But is it true? And if it is, how exactly does that process happen? What about the practicalities of daily life, like preparing meals or keeping themselves clean? The cinema verite camera allows us to observe their behavior up close. After a week together, when the experiment is finished, they return to their parents who are incredulous at what happened. The house has been trashed and the boys are physically and emotionally exhausted. Sociology and psychology students will find fascinating material in this film.","stream","[]","['Great Britain']","['Boys', 'Psychology']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826644/1003826644-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641241"
"asp1641240-flon","Halton, David","Bolivia. On the brink","2004","21 min","[]","Bolivia, one of the most troubled countries in the region, is fractured by language, race and class. The poorest country in South America, its society is divided into the rich and the very poor. Now, there is a new fault line --globalization. In a recent referendum, voters decided to allow more exports of the country s lucrative natural gas reserves, which will earn the country much needed foreign revenue. The exporting of natural gas is an explosive issue in Bolivia, where public anger at proposals to ship the gas out of Chilean ports toppled the government in October, 2003. Native Indians reinforced the anti-globalization movement when they organized against the privatization of water by the multi-national corporation Bechtel. As Professor Roberto Fernandez, Cochabamba University, points out: ""It was theft. Bechtel was stealing from people what they had invested in their small neighborhoods. The water war ... opened a broad path for the popular movement.""","stream","[]","['Bolivia']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826642/1003826642-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641240"
"asp1641238-blsv","Reynolds, Debbie, director","Black like who?","1997","26 min","['Black studies in video']","In this painfully honest documentary, filmmaker Debbie Reynolds explores themes of assimilation, internalized racism and self hatred. Debbie is a black student who grew up in a white neighborhood, went to white schools, had white friends, and did not think about being black. As she grew older and left home, her new friends at college noticed her inability to relate easily to other blacks. Debbie realized she had a troubling identity problem and she searched for its origins within her family. Interviewing her parents, she learns that her father's middle class aspirations led him to a tidy white suburb, safe from drugs and crime. Yet he recalls his amazement when six-year-old Debbie did not realize she was black. In retrospect, her mother mourns that they did not instill black pride in their children. Debbie questions her fellow black students about what it means to be black. ""We are all searching,"" they say. Even those who grew up with a strong black identity are still not clear how they fit into the larger society. They each struggle to understand how their race and ethnicity shape their sense of self. This is a unique film to spark discussion on racial identity.","stream","[]","['Race identity']","['Racism', 'African Americans']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826640/1003826640-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641238"
"asp1641237-blsv","Renato, Barbieri","Black Atlantic. On the Orixas route","2001","54 min","['Black studies in video']","The waters of the Atlantic brought the slaves from Africa to Brazil, their bodies in chains but their souls inexorably tied to mother Africa. This Brazilian- made film takes us to both shores, to show how spiritual life, dance and song came with the captive people and took root in the new soil. Among the many traditions were the language and gods of Yoruba and Jejes from the Republic of Benin. When a group of freed slaves returned to Africa to rediscover their roots they were looked upon as outsiders. They became tradespeople - tailors, accountants and builders- and they actually brought Portuguese culture to Africa. Today, when Brazilians revisit Africa, they teach the Africans the culture that these descendants of slaves keep alive in Brazil. The documentary is a testimony to some of the ironies of the diaspora.","stream","[]","['Benin', 'Brazil']","['Slave trade', 'African diaspora', 'Africans']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826638/1003826638-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641237"
"asp1784570-fln4","","Black and white in colour","","60 min","['Filmakers library online']","Vera Bila does everything in a big way. Her body is oversized. Her dark hair billows untidily. Her temperament is fiery. She chain smokes. She belts out songs with gusto in a hoarse, earthy voice. In fact, this singer from the Romany tradition is on her way to being a cabaret star in Europe. Surrounded by the husband she adores, and a loyal entourage of amateur Gypsy musicians who began as manual laborers, she tours the capitals of Europe in a caravan that frequently breaks down. Here is a portrait of a Gypsy diva who is viewed with indifference and suspicion in her own country, even as she gains acclaim elsewhere. The age-old discrimination against Gypsies has shaped Bila's character. She must constantly battle for acceptance. 'I sing about the troubles I have. I just put everything into my songs. Sometimes when I sing I cry--'.","stream","['Bila, Vera']","['Czech Republic']","['Romanies', 'Folk music', 'Singers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826637/1003826637-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784570"
"asp1784568-fln4","","Beyone the veil. New cold war. 3","","52 min","['Filmakers library online']","Is the gap between the West and moderate Muslims widening? Is the West determined to impose its value system on Islamic nations without regard to national preferences, thus radicalizing local patriots? Are all Western motives self-serving? When both cultures accept - and honor - that their definitions of democracy and human rights differ, there is a firm basis for dialogue now, and peaceful co-existence in the future.","stream","[]","['Islamic countries']","['Islam and politics', 'Human rights', 'Muslim women', 'Women']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826633/1003826633-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784568"
"asp1784567-fln4","","Beyond the veil. Holy warriors. 2","","53 min","['Filmakers library online']","The Holy Warriors examines the reasons for more radical interpretations of the Quran in Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Analysis of the jihad helps Westerners perceive why some Muslims believe that they can escape Westernization only through violence, how one man's terrorism may be another man's patriotism. How then can differing cultures find a common basis for mutual respect?","stream","[]","['Islamic countries']","['Terrorism', 'Islam and politics', 'State-sponsored terrorism', 'Islam']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826632/1003826632-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784567"
"asp1641230-flon","","Between two worlds. The Hmong shaman in America","1996","28 min","[]","Documentary on the beliefs and practices of the Hmong shamans who settled in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin after fleeing their native Laos.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Hmong (Asian people)', 'Shamanism', 'Shamans', 'Medicine']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826630/1003826630-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641230"
"asp1641229-blsv","","Between black & white","1994","26 min","['Black studies in video']","Between Black & White explores the impact society and history have on the perception of color in the United States, and questions whether race can be determined on face value. Are the categories of ""black"" and ""white"" still relevant in our evolving society? Four men and women, each with a black and a white parent, are featured in this film. Each has been identified by society as being one race or the other, but rarely celebrated as being part of both. And each has his or her own definition of who and what they are. The issues of personal and social identity are examined through interviews, family photos and contemporary footage. Several of the young people interviewed have gone on to prestigious careers where issues of race have played a part. Omar Wasow is executive director of Black Planet.com, an internet company that enables the community of the African diaspora to form meaningful business and personal relationships. He is also an internet analyst for WNBC. Danzy Senna, now a best selling novelist, explores in her book Caucasia the complexity of racial identity in an interracial family.","stream","[]","['United States']","['Race relations', 'Racially mixed children', 'African Americans', 'Identity (Psychology) in children', 'Interracial marriage']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826629/1003826629-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1641229"
"asp1641148-artv","Arthur, Karen","Artists of the Bahamas. A tribute to African roots","2009","92 min","[]","Artists of the Bahamas is a unique film that brings to light the rich artistic talent flourishing on these islands. The artists profiled are acknowledged amongst their peers as well as internationally. The camera follows them at work in their studios where we see their vibrant creations, as well as in their homes and communities. They speak of their early influences. Max Taylor remembers the powerful matriarchs who held his community together. Jackson Burnside, who wanted to be a doctor, was inspired by his art teacher to follow his artistic bent. Their works display a range of styles from the versatility of formally trained Brent Malone to the brilliantly simple paintings of Amos Ferguson, often referred to as ""the grandfather of Bahamian art."" These artists were influenced by their island's history. Some grew up under Colonialism and others came of age after Independence. Several, like Stan Burnside, express their pride in Bahamian culture by participating in Junkanoo, the vibrant African/Bahamian festival. Sacred spaces such as Antonius Roberts series of outdoor sculptures on historical sites honor their African ancestry. Sidney Poitier, raised on Cat Island in the Bahamas, introduces his fellow Bahamian artists. Their work crosses the spectrum, from the abstract of Kendal Hanna to the neo realism of Dave Smith; from the installations of John Beadle and John Cox to the naturalism of Eddie Minnis. The musical score is by Tony Silva, Peanuts Taylor and Ruppa Pum Pum.","stream","[]","['Bahamas']","['Artists']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826607/1003826607-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1641148"
"asp1641147-flon","Róźański, Adam","A griot's story","2008","55 min","[]","What is a griot? Historically, they are wandering African musicians considered to be a repository of the oral tradition. This film focuses on a master drummer, Adame Drama of Burkina Faso, a descendant of a long line of griots. He is a contemporary griot whose mission in life is to preserve his heritage and pass it on to the next generation. Resisting the lure of monetary rewards of an artistic career in Europe, Adame has elected to remain in his country and for forty years has pursued his music there. This colorful film is filled with music and dance as we see him perform on stage with other musicians and in celebrations on the streets and in courtyards. He reveals the secrets of his instrument and of his style of playing. Above all, he is a proud African who had rejected cultural colonialism in favor of maintaining his identity and that of his art.","stream","['Dramé, Adama']","['Burkina Faso']","['Percussion music']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826587/1003826587-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641147"
"asp1640989-flon","","Chelyabinsk. The most contaminated spot on the planet","1995","62 min","[]","The whole world was horrified by the Chernobyl disaster, especially as it threatened to contaminate Europe. In the backwoods of Russia, however, there is a city with an atomic weapons complex which has endured no less than three nuclear disasters in the last forty-five years. In 1957, there was an explosion of the cooling system. Ten years later, a storm spread radi oactive dust. For six years, the complex systematically dumped radioactive waste into the only river that supplied water for twenty-four villages. Until now Chelyabinsk has been shrouded in secrecy. In 1992 when the area was opened up to foreigners, the filmmaker began recording the details of ordinary life in this deadly environment. A kitchen Geiger counter is necessary to guard against radiation in food. The countryside looks deceptively beautiful, but the Techa River, which beckons to children on warm summer days, is contaminated. Life expectancy is between fifty and fifty-five years and ninety percent of the children suffer from chronic illnesses. As one listens to the farmers, teachers, doctors and factory workers who live in Chelyabinsk, one is struck by the inhumanity of governments whose priorities put military advantage above people s well-being.","stream","[]","['Cheli͡abinsk (Russia)']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826833/1003826833-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1640989"
"asp1631001-hlth","Rooney, Brenda","Condoms, fish and circus tricks. The A.I.D.S. pandemic in sub-saharan Africa","2003","48 min","[]","Shot in Malawi, South Africa and Zambia, this is a compelling documentary on the HIV/AIDS epidemic that is ravaging Southern Africa. It takes an intimate look at the people who are dying, those who are caring for them, and why this disease has had such a devastating impact on African society. In a remote village in Malawi, the struggle against AIDS is led by local volunteers who care for the orphan children and those that are dying, without the medicines, clean water, or even rubber gloves. In a fishing village on Zambia?s Kafue Flats the local fishermen earn their livelihood by selling their catch. When women don?t have the money to pay, the men often trade their fish for sex. The result has been a huge surge of AIDS patients, overwhelming the local hospital which has only three doctors and three hundred beds. The film reveals a ""quiet revolution"" is underway as young people are talking about sex and challenging traditional concepts of sexuality. Through performances in a street circus young people are spreading the message of AIDS prevention. It is these young people that offer hope for Africa?s future.","stream","[]","['Africa, Sub-Saharan']","['AIDS (Disease)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826832/1003826832-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1631001"
"asp1631000-blsv","","A child shall lead them","2008","23 min","['Black studies in video']","Eleven African-American first-grade children initiated the desegregation of previously all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee on Sept. 9 and 10, 1957. Nashville was one of the first cities in the South to act on the Supreme Court 1954 decision, Brown vs. The Board of Education. The film compares the Nashville story with events that took place the same week at Little Rock High School. Some of their parents discuss the events of those first two days, including the bombing of one of the schools, and the courage required to respond to the Court's landmark decision. The story is told through the use of first-person narratives, and archival photos and footage. A closed-captioned version is available. Please specify when ordering.","stream","[]","['United States', 'Tennessee']","['Discrimination in education', 'Documentary films', 'School integration', 'Segregation in education']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826830/1003826830-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BLST;1631000"
"asp1630999-flon","","Allahs Børn","2003","60 min","[]","Documentary about a fundamentalist Islamic school, or madrassa, in Pakistan. Shows the everyday lives of the students, some as young as five, as they learn the Koran. Also shows an anti-Western rally and the schooling of the students to be prepared to fight to defend Islam against the West.","stream","[]","['Pakistan']","['Islamic religious education of children', 'Madrasahs', 'Jihad']","['Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826829/1003826829-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630999"
"asp1630998-flon","Gordon, Clive","Children of Chernobyl","1993","52 min","[]","This disturbing film reveals for the first time the true depths of the tragedy at Chernobyl through exclusive archival film and eyewitness accounts. It is a story of deception and cover-up on a grand scale. The true legacy of the disaster can be seen on the children's wards of hospitals. Total hair loss is one of the more visible signs. Sadly for the children, the number of cancer diagnoses is growing alarmingly. We learn that thousands of men from all over the Soviet Union were dragged from the streets and drafted for the clean-up operation. Those working in the area of highest radioactivity received, in a single 90-second-shift, the maximum dosage of radiation allotted for a whole lifetime. It is believed that half of these men have died. Ordinary people were placed in danger through lack of information, while officials quickly evacuated their own families. It is estimated that 280,000 people worldwide will contract cancer because of the disaster.","stream","[]","['Ukraine']","['Radioactive pollution', 'Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chernobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826828/1003826828-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630998"
"asp1784556-flon","Haggie, Avid","The accidental hero. Oskar Schindler","1999","31 min","[]","This documentary on Oskar Schindler, the wartime rescuer of 1200 Jews, grapples with the moral ambiguity of a flawed hero. Schindler had joined the Nazi party early on and sympathized with their expansionist views. Personally, he was a gambler, adventurer, womanizer and drinker. How does such a person become the most significant savior of Jews during the war? In presenting the details of Schindler s life, we hear from survivors, researchers and noted author, Thomas Keneally. Some of the survivors feel that his talent for bribery and deception enabled him to save lives. He embarked upon his rescue mission when he realized that little children were being deported to Auschwitz. The Nazis he had initially admired, turned out to be barbarians. After the war Schindler s life fell apart, although the ""Schindler Jews"" tried to save him from alcoholism and poverty. When he died at the age of sixty six, he was buried in Israel, eulogized by those he had saved.","stream","['Schindler, Oskar']","[]","['Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826825/1003826825-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1784556"
"asp1630996-hlth","","Amchis. The forgotten healers of the Himalayas","2001","53 min","[]","Zanskar is a valley tucked between the steep mountains on the border of the Himalayas, at an altitude of 3,700 meters. In each village in this remote area of the world, there is a traditional Tibetan medicine man named the ""Amchi."" Since the beginning of time, the Amchi has passed his knowledge down from father to son, or from teacher to student. With the construction of a new road, however, the valley was left vulnerable to the outside world. Since then, the younger generation has rejected the age-old wisdom and practices of the Amchi, embracing more modern, lucrative activities instead. As a result, these forgotten healers of the Himalayas are perhaps the last to practice Tibetan medicine.","stream","[]","['Himalaya Mountains', 'China']","['Medicine, Tibetan', 'Medicine, Traditional', 'Shamans']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826824/1003826824-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1630996"
"asp1630995-lawv","Trombley, Stephen","Project X - the castration experiment","2000","51 min","['Eye for justice']","Since 1996, six American states have voted in legislation to castrate sex offenders, either physically or chemically. Is it treatment, or punishment? Or is it both? Castration has been tried many times in Europe and the United States over the past century. In the present experiment, states are trying to save money. To reduce prison bills, castrated rapists and pedophiles are being released back into the community. Will the public be safe? Many doctors, rape survivors and prosecutors think not. If rapists are motivated more by power than sex, then castration may lead them to commit even more violent sexual assaults, including mutilation and murder. This uncompromising documentary takes a tough look at a tough subject. Member of a series: Eye for Justice (Series).","stream","[]","['United States']","['Involuntary sterilization', 'Eugenics']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826822/1003826822-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1630995"
"asp1630994-flon","","The cyborg revolution","2008","57 min","[]","Cyborg technology is a revolutionary development in rehabilitation medicine. It allows the brain and nervous system to manipulate specially engineered devices that help people regain the use of impaired body function. Once a dream of science fiction, this revolutionary technology is now becoming a reality. Getting the most attention is ""neuro-engineering,"" which enables messages from the brain to be transmitted to machines. Cochlear implants for the deaf have been developed for children, and even for adults who have lived in the deaf culture all their lives. Prosthetic arms can now replace lost limbs and artificial eyes can help the blind. We meet a man from Tennessee who lost his arms but can now perform activities using his bionic arms. A blind man wears glasses that are connected to a computer which he wears on his waist, allowing him to see the shapes of objects. Directly connected to the brain, these prosthetics and devices are truly life-enhancing. Deep brain stimulation can help stop the violent shaking of victims of Parkinson's Disease. One of neuro- engineering's future goals is to control emotions and feelings. It is already being used to treat brain disorders such as pathological depression. We hear from two professors from the State University of New York and Duke University who discuss their cutting-edge research.","stream","[]","[]","['Prostheses and Implants', 'Neurophysiology', 'Biomedical Technology', 'Electrodes, Implanted']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826800/1003826800-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630994"
"asp1784552-fln4","","Continent that overslept. Africa","","60 min","['Filmakers library online']","Why is Africa lagging farther and farther behind the rest of the world economically? Despite a wealth of natural resources, Africa still suffers from poverty, disease, corruption, tribal warfare and exploitative dictatorships. The award-winning investigative team of Heilbuth and Bulow (Battle of the Titans) produced this thoroughly researched program with a bold disregard for political correctness. They met with a new generation of African businessmen and intellectuals who addressed the appalling lack of progress. These Africans are outraged at the widening gap between the rich heads of state and poor subjects; the lack of a work ethic among African workers; and the fact that famine still claims so many lives when Africa could easily feed itself. The film shows that Africa is a rich area: it has 70% of the world's cobalt reserves; 46 % of its diamonds; 44% of its chrome; and great hydroelectric power potential. Contrary to popular belief, Africa is not densely populated. The young, educated Africans feel that colonialism and the rich countries of the world can no longer be blamed for all the ills of Africa. As one African journalist says, 'It is unfortunate and shameful to see Africa with all her potential, always turning to the West and saying 'Give us this, give us that.'' A young Kenyan businessman says he is embarrassed by an economy built on aid. Yet, he believes that a change is taking place across Africa and 'we have to take our place amongst the nations.'","stream","[]","['Africa']","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826798/1003826798-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLN4;1784552"
"asp1630991-artv","Borenstein, Joyce","The colours of my father","1992","29 min","[]","This dazzling Academy Awards nominee tells the story of a Lithuanian immigrant, who left the stetl to escape the virulent anti-Semitism there and became a recognized painter in the New World. Sam Borenstein endured hardships in the old country and financial insecurity in his new life, but never gave up on his dream of capturing life s beauty on canvas. His daughter pays tribute to her father by recreating his dazzling painting on film using innovative animation techniques. This film glows with love of family, love of art, and an appreciation of life s possibilities. Note: The DVD version now includes interviews by both the filmmaker (also his daughter) Joyce Borenstein and his wife Judith.","stream","['Borenstein, Sam']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826797/1003826797-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1630991"
"asp1630990-ahiv","Fahnley, Joy","The call to glory. Chennault and the flying tigers","1989","52 min","['American history in video']","The Call to Glory is the first documentary to tell the complete story of the American Volunteer Group, nicknamed the Flying Tigers. Under the leadership of Claire Lee Chennault, the A.V.G. was meant to bolster Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression, to keep the United States from having to fight a two-front war. It was America s first covert operation. Due to the Freedom of Information Act, material has been uncovered giving a new perspective on the origins of the war in the Pacific. In flying missions in defense of China, the A.V.G. established standards of performance that have never been surpassed. The film includes archival footage(never available before), interviews with A.V.G. veterans, radio broadcasts of the era, and an original musical score. It captures the sense of drama that made the Flying Tigers an enduring American legend.","stream","['China', 'Kong jun', 'American Volunteer Group', 'Chennault, Claire Lee']","[]","[]","['Documentary films', 'Nonfiction films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826796/1003826796-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;1630990"
"asp1630988-artv","Bauman, Suzanne","The artist was a woman","1988","59 min","[]","The history of Western art has few examples of great women artists. This documentary uncovers the works of some gifted women, while exploring why talent such as theirs was overlooked. We learn that women were denied admission to art school, or if admitted, not allowed to study the human figure. Also, male art historians did not take their work seriously, denying them the recognition they deserved. Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt and Georgia O Keeffe bear witness to the fact that talent knows no gender. Jane Alexander reads from letters and diaries and Germaine Greer provides wry social commentary.","stream","[]","[]","['Women artists']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826793/1003826793-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ARTV;1630988"
"asp1630987-flon","Larimore, Victoria","The Amish. Not to be modern","1985","57 min","[]","The Amish do not generally permit photography because of their interpretation of the biblical commandment against the making of graven images. This film is an exclusive portrait of a rarely-filmed religious community that separates itself from the world. Photographed over four seasons, the film captures the day-to-day life of a people who have preserved their rural traditions. Rather than use a narrator to comment on this unusual lifestyle, the Amish speak for themselves. Stirring Amish hymns, composed in the 1500 s and handed down orally, complete the soundtrack. See also the Filmakers Library film Amish Riddle, giving more views of Amish life.","stream","[]","[]","['Amish']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826792/1003826792-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630987"
"asp1630986-flon","Lindwer, Willy","D'vekut. Hasidism & Jewish mysticism","2000","50 min","[]","This colorful, lively documentary depicts the various sects of Hasidism which embody ""D'vekut"" in Israel. ""D'vekut"", the Hebrew term for the mystical union between man and God, is the essential element of Hasidism. This Jewish movement began in eighteenth century Eastern Europe and lives on in Israel, the only country where all fifty of the Hasidic groups are represented. The filmmaker Willy Lindwer (winner of the International Emmy Award for The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank) had special personal relationships with the leaders and members of the Hasidic sects. Thus he was able to penetrate their world and to participate in their special ceremonies and festivals in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. By sheer coincidence, the first Hasid Lindwer met in Jerusalem, Rabbi Shaya, turned out to be the great-grandson of his father's rabbi.  Rabbi Shaya agreed to be filmed and encouraged others to do the same, giving this film a special insider s view. As Lindwer looked beyond the singing and dancing, the meditation and the ecstasy, he slowly gained an understanding of the nature of Jewish mysticism. He experienced the sense of devotion and surrender that lead the Hasidim to emphasize emotion and piety over traditional Judaic study and prayer.","stream","[]","[]","['Mysticism', 'Hasidism']","['Documentary']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826705/1003826705-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630986"
"asp1630985-lawv","","Drug mules","1995","31 min","[]","There are many women languishing in jail for carrying drugs into the United States. While some of these women voluntarily trafficked in drugs, others were inadvertent carriers. Drug Mules exposes the plight of this latter group: poor, uneducated women who are victimized by both the drug dealers and the criminal justice system. In a typical situation, drugs are planted in the belongings of women without their knowledge. Other times women are coerced by threats of violence to themselves or their families. If apprehended by U.S. Customs, they are particularly vulnerable because they do not speak English well. Unable to raise bail, they may spend months in jail awaiting trial. These women face impossible choices. They can defend their innocence at trial and risk fifteen years to life imprisonment due to mandatory sentencing as specified by the Rockefeller Law. Or they can plead guilty to a crime they have not committed in exchange for significantly reduced sentences. Drug Mules shows that the law must be changed to distinguish between hardened druglords and the naive women they exploit.","stream","[]","[]","['Drug traffic', 'Female offenders']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826704/1003826704-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?LAWV;1630985"
"asp1630984-flon","Trombley, Stephen","Drancy. A concentration camp in Paris, 1941-1944","1996","54 min","[]","Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944 is a startling new film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz. Only 2,500 survived. Drancy explores the structure of the Holocaust in France: how the Nazis brought the French police and gendarmerie under its control, ordering them to conduct massive round-ups of Jews in Paris and other cities; how the Vichy government instituted anti-Semitic laws, without pressure from the Germans; and how French authorities acted to divide the Jewish community, undermining resistance and streamlining the work of the Final Solution in France. Drancy includes interviews with survivors as well as with bystanders who were witnesses. Rare archival footage and photographs round out the documentary. After a 50 year silence, France is beginning to acknowledge its role in the fate of the Jews. This timely film shows why such re-examination is in order.","stream","['Drancy (Concentration camp)']","[]","[]","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826703/1003826703-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630984"
"asp1630982-busv","","Diverted to Delhi","2003","56 min","['Global business and economics in video']","This film explores a new phenomenon in the global economy. The toll-free telephone numbers used to place orders or get information are often answered thousands of miles away, by Indians impersonating local operators. Whether a New Yorker calls American Express or an English housewife calls Harrods, the calls may be re-routed, answered by Indians trained to speak and even think like Americans, or Brits or Australians. Diverted to Delhi follows a group of university graduates through a rigorous crash course which they hope will prepare them for prestigious, well paying positions in these call centers. Over a three- week period, they will attempt to improve their English language and presentation skills, change their names, modify their accents and put aside their own cultural identities as they learn to speak and think like their international callers. This adds a new cultural dimension to ""globalization."" Over 200 of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies choose to service their clients via Indian call centers. This has ramifications on the Western economies. These service jobs have left their countries of origin, contributing to unemployment in the West. But to the businesses who use them, it is an increasingly attractive proposition-- the technology is instantaneous and the labor and set-up costs are low, yet the staff is keen, highly educated and available around the clock.","stream","[]","['India']","['Call centers']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826700/1003826700-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?BUSV;1630982"
"asp1630980-flon","DeWitt, Mike","Delta Jews","2000","56 min","[]","For over a century, the largely rural region of the Mississippi delta has been home to a thriving Jewish community, rooted generations-deep in its rich soil. Jews became an integral part of delta life, forging a hybrid identity that was deeply Jewish and distinctively Southern. Their numbers have dwindled in recent years, but a small number of Jews have stayed on, determined to maintain a Jewish presence against all odds. Through the eyes of those who remain, Delta Jews traces the history of the community and its relationship to its white Christian and black neighbors. We meet families who as merchants and farmers have taken on many characteristic speech patterns and social attitudes of their neighbors. Yet the families maintained their traditions, even if it took importing rabbis and traveling miles for services or seders. These families developed an active social network to reinforce their identity and keep the younger generation ""in the fold."" Their greatest challenge was the civil rights movement, however, when northern Jewish freedom riders looked to them for support. This is a unique film, not only for Jewish and Southern studies, but for anthropology and sociology courses dealing with cultural identity and assimilation.","stream","[]","['Mississippi']","['Jews']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826698/1003826698-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630980"
"asp1630979-flon","O'Connor, Geoffrey","Defying death in Brazil","1994","17 min","[]","This gripping documentary is a portrait of one of the unsung heroes of the Brazilian Amazon. Father Ricardo Rezende's work defending the poor has so enraged cattle ranchers in the region that there have been several attempts against his life over the past two decades. In 1992 Father Rezende received the first annual ""Chico Mendes Award."" This in-depth profile explores the convictions of this dedicated priest while analyzing the larger questions of land conflicts and human rights abuses in the southern part of the state of Para, an area where slavery, land evictions and political murders have become a way of life. Clandestine sequences, shot at great risk, reveal the desperate feudal conditions faced by millions of landless peasants. This startling documentary provides a vivid depiction of a people struggling to survive some of the most oppressive human rights conditions in the world. A Study Guide is available at http://www.coacrews.com/amazon.","stream","['Figueira, Ricardo Rezende']","['Brazil']","['Human rights']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826697/1003826697-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1630979"
"asp1630978-hlth","","Defining life","1992","27 min","[]","What does one do when a terminally-ill loved one asks for help in committing suicide? This is one of the issues this thought provoking film addresses through the stories of people who had to make difficult choices. Defining Life goes beyond the debate of withdrawing life support in a hospital. Dr. Jack Kevorkian is shown speaking about his views on euthanasia. The film then focuses on the case of Bernard Harper and his terminally ill wife, Ginger. She begged to have her life ended so she would not have to suffer. For abetting her suicide, Harper was charged with murder. After an emotional trial the court found him innocent. On the other hand, we see the case of Luane, who was left helpless and in a vegetative state after a car accident in 1954. Her family never considered ""letting her die."" Sixteen years later she recovered enough to permit the removal of her feeding tubes and to sit in a wheel chair. Despite severe physical limitations, she lives each day fully. John, an AIDS victim, states his case for the right to have a ""good death."".","stream","[]","[]","['Euthanasia']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826696/1003826696-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;1630978"
"asp1784540-envv","Hering, Richard","Death on the silk road","2001","27 min","[]","This extraordinary undercover report from China exposes the suffering of thousands of Chinese whose lives have been destroyed by nuclear testing. It presents exclusive evidence from inside China of spiraling levels of cancer and birth deformities among the population of Xinjiang province - part of the Great Silk Road - which was opened to tourists in 1985. Up until 1996, China had carried out extensive nuclear tests in the Zinjiang province, which is in the northwest corner of China, bordering Kazakhstan. But Xinjiang is not unpopulated and isolated, as was Bikini Atoll. The filmmakers interviewed both victims and the doctors who are struggling to cope with their medical problems in the region s hospitals. The documentary reveals that the tests were carried out under highly dangerous conditions, which could have consequences beyond China s borders.","stream","[]","['China']","['Nuclear weapons', 'Nuclear Warfare']","['Documentary films']","https://d3crmev290s45i.cloudfront.net/content/1003826xxx/1003826695/1003826695-size-exact-570x350.jpg","https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ENVV;1784540"