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Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they explore the role of water. Ecosexuality shifts the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover” to create a more reciprocal and empathetic relationship with the natural...
82) Foster
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Oscar-winning filmmakers Deborah Oppenheimer and Mark Jonathan Harris reunite for a revealing first-hand look at the foster care system as seen through the eyes of those who know it best. With extraordinary access to the inner workings of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Oppenheimer and Harris go beyond the sensational headlines and stereotypes.
84) Below Sea Level
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. Rosi spent five years shooting BELOW SEA LEVEL, which documents the hand-to-mouth existence of California flatland squatters.
85) Blind Faith
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This documentary follows the stirring personal journey, both intimate and universal, of a man coming to terms with his disability and struggling with the roles of father, husband, and successful entrepreneur, breaking through the myths of blindness and broadening our understanding of the complex hidden realities facing the blind community.. Official Selection at the NYC Independent Film Festival. “I was especially moved by all the emotional themes...
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary'...It is only now that we are beginning to realise how accurately these words describe the contemporary global society. But it has been fourteen years since Zygmunt Bauman wrote them in his In search of politics. This foresightedness is not unusual for someone...
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Narrated by Kathleen Turner, AMERICA'S DIPLOMATS goes inside the Foreign Service and behind the scenes of American foreign policy, uncovering the origins of the Foreign Service and the dangers diplomats face far from home, featuring some of the world’s most renowned diplomats.. From Ben Franklin to Benghazi, the film highlights the sacrifices made by those working behind the scenes to change the world.
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzheimer's disease. Many know the unique tragedy of this disease, but few know that Alzheimer's is also a major and rapidly growing public health crisis. This documentary powerfully illuminates the social consequences for America unless a medical breakthrough is discovered for this currently incurable disease.
89) Santa Fiesta
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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There are nearly 16,000 fiestas in Spain each year featuring the brutal abuse of animals. Organized around religious observances, these festivals bring together entire towns, including children, and become celebrations of unbelievable cruelty. 60,000 animals estimated to suffer each year during these “Fiestas of Blood”.. Bulls are impaled with gasoline-soaked spikes which are set afire. Some are stabbed, tied, or thrown into the water. Pigeons,...
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Iceland crowd-sourced its constitution online in a rare eruption of optimism among the 2008 financial crisis. Blueberry Soup is a feature length documentary at the epicenter of one of our time’s exciting movements: the Icelandic "People's Movement".. Jaws dropped around the world in October, 2008 as a small collective of bankers brought the global economy to its knees and a small nation’s everyday citizens rose in response by rewriting its constitution....
Pub. Date
1993.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A fascinating look into the conversations of nine women who gather together for a weekend to talk about sex. The women range in age from 21 to 71 and come from diverse racial backgrounds and sexual orientations.. In this intimate video produced, directed and recorded by women, we see the openness and warmth which evolves as the women share their questions, experiences and concerns. The women talk frankly about sexual orientation, menstruation, masturbation,...
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Send in the Clowns follows performers from the organization Clowns Without Borders. Their mission is to travel to areas of crisis and relieve stress and suffering through laughter. The clowns are volunteers, armed with a unique set of skills and an earnest desire to change the world. But is their work any different from all of the other agenda-driven aid organizations? In 2009 the clowns go to Haiti, a country known as the poorest in the Western Hemisphere...
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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54-year-old Sandy Leo Laframboise has led an extremely tough life, beginning prostituting at age 12. This led to drugs and a destructive lifestyle. Once Sandy got clean she could begin healing. Through her first nation culture, she realized she is Two-Spirited, neither male or female. She embraces both genders. She spends her life now helping others full time, paying it forward.
95) Valuing Lives
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A film documenting the social paradigm shift triggered by Wolf Wolfensberger, a professor and change agent who, in the early 1970s, popularized and expanded the principle of normalization of people with disabilities into a framework for community inclusion. .Through archival images and footage, and dozens of interviews, "Valuing Lives"explores the principle of normalization, an idea that challenged our fundamental assumptions about people with intellectual...
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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51-year-old Stefonknee Wolscht risks everything in her life to transition from a man to a woman. This documentary follows the struggles of Stefonknee Wolscht, a transgender woman trying to rebuild her life. In his 40’s Stefonknee risked everything to transition from male to female. In this intimate documentary, learn about her journey, how it shaped her and what she hopes her tomorrow will look like. Follow her path that has been both liberating,...
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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73-year-old Gayle Roberts With the help of her second wife, Gayle is able to transition from male to female, but when she comes out a work, a comment made by one of her students parents overwhelms her.
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A film documenting Havana's vibrant community of underground drag racers and their quest to hold Cuba's first official car race since shortly after the 1959 Revolution. HAVANA MOTOR CLUB tackles how Cuba’s recent reforms have affected the lives of these racers and their families.. One racer enlists the help of a Cuban American patron in Miami to bring in parts for his modern Porsche. His main competitor is a renowned mechanic who uses ingenuity...
Pub. Date
1995.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Carlos Aparicio and Susana Aikin's The Transformation follows one person's journey to reconcile their identity, religion, class, and sexual orientation following harrowing news. In the groundbreaking 1990 documentary The Salt Mines, Sara was one of three female identified sex workers in Manhattan living on the streets. Now, in 1995's The Transformation, Sara discovers that she has discovered she is HIV+, and decides that she is not going to die on...
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