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THE DEBT OF DICTATORS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 45 minutes, 2005, English |
| The first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world. MORE... |
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ETHNIC NOTIONS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Referral and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 1987 |
| Scholars shed light on the origins and consequences of anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the Antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. MORE... |
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EVERYONE'S CHILD
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 90 minutes, Zimbabwe, 1996 |
| A feature film examining the plight of Africa's 10,000,000 children orphaned by AIDS. MORE... |
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FACES OF THE ENEMY
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 57 minutes, 1987,  closed captioned on DVD only
Middle East DVD supplement provided with institutional orders only |
| How do individuals and nations dehumanize their enemies? Using documentary footage, interviews, political cartoons, and examples of propaganda, this powerful documentary examines the universal images used in mass persuasion and analyzes the psychological roots of enmity. MORE... |
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FEBRUARY ONE
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 61 minutes, 2004
Facilitator Guide Available |
| In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. February One tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example for student militancy of the coming decade. MORE... |
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FURIOUS FLOWER II
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Three-Year Site/Local Streaming - files provided and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 3 Episodes, 180 minutes total, 2005,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Provides a teaching tool for exploring the world of today's Black poetry. A follow-up to the 1994 Furious Flower conference, Furious Flower II presents outstanding critical scholarship on Black contemporary poetry's origins and trends, its conflicts and consonances. MORE... |
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GOIN' TO CHICAGO
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 71 minutes, 1994
Facilitator Guide Available |
| The migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and West during and after World War II is retold through personal stories of a group of Chicagoans born in the Mississippi Delta. MORE... |
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THE HERO
(O HEROI)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 97 Minutes, Angola, 2005, In Portuguese with English subtitles |
Winner, best foreign feature, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
The Hero (O Herói) tells the story of Angola, a nation attempting to reconstruct itself after 40 continual years of anti-colonial and civil warfare, through the story of a veteran who has lost his leg, a prostitute who has lost a child and an orphaned boy. MORE... |
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HOXIE: THE FIRST STAND
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 2003, |
| Documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas. MORE... |
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HUGHES' DREAM HARLEM
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 61 minutes, 2002 |
| This cine-poetic experience celebrates the spirit and work of Harlem's poet laureate Langston Hughes. Contemporary writers, slam poets and arts supporters star. MORE... |
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