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Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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New technologies are being implemented as teaching tools, combining traditional teaching methods with more self-directed learning. Consider efforts such as the One Laptop per Child organization, and see why even when such technology does exist, its use is not always sustainable..
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Many business and industry leaders say there is no connection between formal school education—which teaches information, but not skills—and what is needed in the world of work. Investigate renewed global efforts to test whether vocational training can better prepare youth to participate in the emerging technology-driven knowledge economy..
63) The A.I. Race
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This documentary explores how Artificial Intelligence will change your job as new research shows how much of what you do could be done by robots. From drivers to lawyers to doctors, we bring affected workers face to face with A.I. experts.
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This touching documentary chronicles the long and colorful life of Lily Yeh, an artist who has committed herself to creating community-based art projects in some of the world's most troubled areas.. Beginning with the creation of an unprecedented sculpture garden in the projects of North Philly that became known as "The Village of Arts and Humanities," THE BAREFOOT ARTIST also shows Yeh working in various far-flung locations, such as Kenya and Rwanda,...
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This is a feel good story out of Africa. For more than 20 years, an amazing permaculture project has been working in Zimbabwe. Where once the people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger, malnutrition and high rates of disease, this community of seven thousand has turned its fortunes around. During this period they have built what is probably the biggest continuous permaculture site in the world today. Complementing permaculture strategies, they...
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2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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One of the most ancient cultures on our planet is undergoing a major change. The Ju'Hoansi Bushmen in Namibia are not allowed to hunt anymore and need to converge with our so called "civilized" lifestyle. For the first time the Ju'Hoansi Bushmen travel through the Kalahari and then right into the heart of Europe.. What starts as a look at their fascinating culture becomes an even more fascinating look at our Western lifestyle. A warm and humorous...
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2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In 2007, four teenagers from disparate backgrounds are voted “MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED” during their senior year of high school. Filmed over a ten-year period and directed by award-winning photographer Pamela Littky, we watch as they each chart their own version of success and navigate the unpredictability of American life in the 21st Century.
69) Counting
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, COUNTING merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. COUNTING measures street life, light and time, noting not only surveillance and overdevelopment but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals and everyday magic Winner of Best Cinematographer at **DOC LA**. Official Selection...
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Since 1977, Sam Klemke has filmed his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and the **Hot Docs Film Festival**. "*Adventuresome, unclassifiable.*" - ***Variety*** "*...a rather interesting tale about a compulsive personality*." - ***Film International***
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all – every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge. It's a five-borough journey that stretches from the barbershops of the Bronx to the forests of Staten Island, from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, with Matt amassing a surprisingly detailed knowledge of New York's history and people along the way. Something of a modern-day...
72) 306 Hollywood
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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When siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind. 306 HOLLYWOOD transforms the dusty fragments of an unassuming life into an epic metaphor for the nature of memory, time, and history. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of an Emerging International...
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2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In AMERICAN STREET KID, filmmaker Michael Leoni takes you on a journey into a world that most people don't know exists. A world where in order to survive, kids are forced to sell drugs, beg for money or sell their bodies. Their powerful stories are heartbreaking and their unrelenting hope and determination to create a better life shines through, in this true tale of love, friendship, and the triumph of the human spirit.
74) Fattitude
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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FATTITUDE is an eye-opening look at how popular media perpetuates fat hatred that results in a cultural bias and a civil rights issue for people living in fat bodies. Fat people are paid {dollar}1.25 less an hour than their thin counterparts and can still legally lose jobs just because they’re fat. Additionally, 1 in 3 doctors associates fat bodies with hostility, dishonesty and poor hygiene. FATTITUDE looks at how this systemic cultural prejudice...
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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With humor and heart, award-winning filmmaker Michelle Boyaner shares her complex and devastatingly tender journey, as well as those of several other families, into the challenges and joys of adult children caring for their aging parents.
76) Welcome to Unity
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In a sleepy mountain town nestled in rural America, seven foreign exchange students set out to tackle the 'American Dream.'
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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For nearly four months, Linda Bishop, a prisoner of her own mind, survived on apples and rain water, waiting for God to save her, during one of the coldest winters on record. As her story unfolds from different perspectives, including her own, we learn about our systemic failure to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three men fight to build something lasting for themselves and future generations.
Shot over three years in the neighborhoods of Detroit, STREET FIGHTING MEN is a story of hard work, faith and manhood in a community left to fend for itself. The film takes a deep, observational dive into the lives of three African American men: retired
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2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Five experts (Frans de Waal, David Goldberg, Nile Green, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Carol Padden) examine the notion of "community" from different perspectives, and the role it plays in our day-to-day lives.
80) Getting Over
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A man discovers a box of interviews with his father, a heroin addict who died of AIDS in 1997. What he finds will uncover generations of family secrets, forcing him to redefine his own past, doubt his present, and question his future. Winner of the Award of Merit for Documentary Feature at the **Impact Docs Awards.** Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival.** *"An often raw, plaintive filial cry of pain over wasted changes and lost parents..."...
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