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THOMAS SANKARA: THE UPRIGHT MAN
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 52 minutes, France, 2006, In French with English subtitles |
Thomas Sankara rose to power in Burkina Faso in a popularly supported coup in 1983. To symbolize this rebirth, he renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, "Land of Upright Men" and launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. MORE... |
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TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 86 minutes (with a 51 minute abridged version and extras), 2008, Facilitator Guide Available |
One family's painful confrontation with their ancestor's involvement with the slave trade. MORE... |
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TULIA, TEXAS
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 54 minutes, 2008, |
The story of a small town's search for justice and the price Americans pay for the war on drugs. MORE... |
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UDJU AZUL DI YONTA
(The Blue Eyes of Yonta)
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 90 minutes, Guinea-Bissau, 1991, in Criolo with English subtitles |
Four characters struggle with the disillusionment of the revolutionary generation in post-independence Guinea-Bissau. MORE... |
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UNNATURAL CAUSES
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 7 episodes: 1x56mins, 6x26mins, 2008, , dual language disc - Menus, Audio and Subtitles in English and Spanish Facilitator Guide Available |
UNNATURAL CAUSES, for the first time on film, sounds the alarm about our disturbing socioeconomic and racial inequities in health - and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. There's much more to our health than bad habits, healthcare or unlucky genes. The social conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity. MORE... |
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LA VIE EST BELLE
(Life is Rosy)
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 85 minutes, Congo / Belgium, 1987, in French with English subtitles |
Soukous music legend, Papa Wemba, stars in the rags to riches story of a poor country musician who seeks fame in the vibrant music industry of Kinshasa. MORE... |
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WEND KUUNI
(God's Gift)
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 70 minutes, Burkina Faso, 1982, in Moré with English subtitles |
This retelling of an ancient fable about a mute, memory-less orphan, renamed "God's Gift" by the grateful village which adopts him demonstrates the continuing relevance of traditional African values such as hospitality and communal child rearing. MORE... |
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WHAT'S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 49 minutes, 2006, Facilitator Guide Available |
Ten years after Skin Deep, a new documentary film chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of college students - in this case, led by veteran UC Berkeley facilitators over the course of a semester - as they confront race, diversity, and their own responsibility for making a difference. MORE... |
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WHERE DO YOU STAND? STORIES FROM AN AMERICAN MILL
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 60 minutes, 2004, Facilitator Guide Available |
After a quarter century of struggle, mill workers in Kannapolis, North Carolina won the single largest industrial union victory in the history of the South in this Emmy Award Nominated film. MORE... |
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WHITE SCRIPTS AND BLACK SUPERMEN: BLACK MASCULINITIES IN COMIC BOOKS
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 52 minutes, plus bonus feature THE BLACK AGE OF COMICS, 2012, subtitled in English for the hearing impaired Facilitator Guide Available |
A valuable and colorful examination of 40 years of changing representations of Black masculinity in a significant area of popular culture - comic books. This genre's reach and impact extended into other forms of cultural production such as movies and animated TV series. MORE... |
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