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1) Law & Order
Pub. Date
1969.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
LAW & ORDER surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general social services. The incidents shown illustrate how training, community expectations, socio-economic status of the subject, the threat of violence, and discretion affect police behavior.. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in News Documentary Programming at the Primetime Emmy Awards.. "LAW & ORDER was the most powerful...
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 32 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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With the fastest growing economy in the history of the world, China is the workshop of globalisation. But are workers paying the price for a manufacturing revolution? This unique fly-on-the-wall documentary uncovers the hard realities of working conditions in a Chinese factory. The film focuses on a German-owned company in Shenzhen, China, which makes the chargers for Nokia's mobile phones. Nokia sends in a two-woman team to carry out an ethical audit...
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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[Amos, Hosea] Discover how the prophets Amos and Hosea shattered the idea of spiritual indifference. First, learn how Amos portrayed a God committed to social justice and a society where people were treated decently. Then, learn Hosea’s views on a rejected, angry God who wants to be reconciled with the people he loves.
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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In 1923 when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk rebuilt modern Turkey on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, the Treaty of Lausanne ordered that all Muslims of Turkish decent who were living in Greece be exchanged with any Greek Christians living in Asia Minor. This population exchange of nearly two million people has left deep traces, many of which are still perceptible today. Fortunately one thing soothed the resulting pain and resentment: both Greeks and Turks...
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 47 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Sons of Namatjira examines the relationship between a community of Aboriginal artists and the outside world. Keith Namatjira is the son of the celebrated artist Albert Namatjira, and emulates his father's distinctive style. He lives with his family in the same camp that his father had established on the outskirts of Alice Springs in Central Australia. One of Curtis Levy's finest documentaries, Sons of Namatjira, follows Keith and his wife, Isabel,...
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 93 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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The fable of an old African king and his wayward daughter is updated to present day Brussels to make provocative points about racism, tradition, class struggle, cultural identity and corruption. More than a decade ago Mweze Ngangura delighted the cinema world with one of the most accessible and entertaining African films ever made, La vie est belle, the rags to riches story of a Congolese musician played by soukous super star Papa Wemba. Now he returns...
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