(GEOG) -- Video
Collection, the Department of Geography
(Library) -- Media
Collection, the Main Library
Availability/location:
-- Films from the Library
(the University Library, the Media Collection) as a rule have
their library codes copied here (click to get
a more detail library record; the
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Structure:
Videos in each of the following regional sections are ordered in the
following
way:
-- 2. the Main Library's
easiest and shortest videos, most commonly used in our 100 level intro
classes
00. Major Series
jump
The
regions: For convenience, the films are
organized regionally into several blocks
00. Multiple Locations / Globalization jump
01. Sub-Saharan Africa
05. Mid-America
08. East Asia
12. US/Canada (excl. California/LA)
The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century (2nd. ed.) (GEOG)
A
staple series for any World Regional Geography class. Each video
film is about 13-14 mins.
A
video instructional series for high school and college classrooms; 26
half-hour video programs, coordinated books, and Web siteThe Power of Place:
Geography for
the 21st Century teaches the geographic skills and concepts
that are
necessary to understand the world. Geography educators and content
experts from around the globe shed light on the physical, human,
political, historical, economic, and cultural factors that affect
people and natural environments. Maps, animation, and academic
commentary bring into focus case studies from 50 sites in 36 countries.
Originally produced in 1996, the entire series has been updated. Each
case study features new interviews, maps, video footage, and graphics
in order to reflect the geographic issues of our world in the 21st
century. A coordinated Web site provides further content information
and connection to the National Geography Standards. Produced by
Cambridge Studios. 2003.
Video Visits: Europe (
A 30-film series
provides a very basic, touristy introduction to Europe's major
countries. Each film is about 50-60 min long. South Eastern
Europe is apparently underrepresented.
(Films: Great Cities of
Europe,
City
Life GEOG
(Life II City Life series) VHS
22-part series examining the
effect of globalization on people and cities worldwide.
Series which explored the nature and role of mapping in various historical and social contexts (six films).
Fighting the Tide:
Developing
Nations and Globalization 2004 5-part series,
26 min. each. (GEOG)
DVD
Human
geography:
people, places and change (Library) GF41
.H86 1996
A BBC production for the
Open University in association with the Annenberg/CPB Project at the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 10
videocassettes (27 min. ea.) 1996
1. One Earth, Many
Scales GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century).
[Older version in the Library:
G128
.P69 1996 Prog.
1]
Lost in Space?
Geography Training for Astronauts — Preparation for a NASA Shuttle
mission provides context for introducing key issues in physical
geography and human-environmental interaction.
Globalization and Revolt — Why do the forces of
globalization seem to draw some places closer together and cause
others to pull farther apart?
1. Life: The
Story
So Far - GEOG (Life I series)
How the globalized world economy affects ordinary
people.
7. The Seattle
Syndrome - GEOG (Life I series)
Were the WTO
protesters right in their effort to protect workers and the environment
from exploitation.
10. The Summit
- GEOG (Life I series)
The UN
General Assembly meets to review progress on social justice worldwide.
11. All
Different, All Equal - GEOG (Life I
series)
Examines
progress in women's rights globally.
13. The Silver
Age - GEOG (Life I series)
Growing
population of elderly worldwide seeks purpose and care.
AIDS drugs
unaffordable in developing countries.
30. The
On-going Story - GEOG (Life I
series)
Final episode
examines the international community's commitment to linking social and
economic development with human rights.
1. City Life
- GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Explores Sao
Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of
globalization on people and cities.
13. Patently
Obvious - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
International
patent regulations only protect multinationals.
1. The Road
from Rio
- GEOG (Life III series)
Questions the
relevance and success of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg.
Isms (GEOG) VHS
From
Colonialism to Communism, these seven programs offer valuable insight
into the various governing styles/ideologies of the world. Students
obtain an inside look as they compare and contrast the different forms
of government and use the information to form their own opinions. Each
program is about 19-minute long. .
2. Reflections on a
global screen
27 min. (Library) GF41
.H86 1996 Human Geography series.
The rapid globalization of the media is a trend that some countries
fear will homogenize culture, forcing out programs that reflect their
own values to make room for Hollywood's. But globalization is a two-way
street; Hong Kong stations can transmit their local
broadcasts to Chinese populations in Europe and the U.S. just as
CNN can offer worldwide coverage from Atlanta.
Journey of man
120 min. (Library)
DVD GN281.4
.J68 2002
How did the human race
populate the world? A group of geneticists have worked on the question
for a decade, arriving at
a startling conclusion: the "global family tree" can be traced to one
African man who lived 60,000 years ago. Dr. Spencer Wells hosts this
innovative series, featuring commentary by expert scientists,
historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. The Namibian
Bushmen, the Kyrgyz nomads, the Chukchi reindeer herders of the Russian
Arctic, Native Americans (Navajo) and Australian Aborigines.
Ancient splendors 59 min. (Library) N5334 .A525 1996
Filmed on location at
Free trade slaves 58 min. (Library) HF1418 .F6 1999
Film discusses free trade zones
and the accompanying human problems that have arisen with human rights,
exploitation of workers and environmental degradation. Filmed on location in
Muslims
120 min.DVD (Library)
DS25.62
.M87 2003
Looks at what it means to be a Muslim in the 21st
century. Filmed in
Egypt, Malaysia, Iran, Turkey, Nigeria and the United States, this
program explores the influence of culture and politics on religion,
looks at the political forces at work among Muslims around the world,
emphasizes Islam's kinship with Christianity and Judaism, and examines
the diverse interpretations of Islam among the Muslim people. Special
features: Basic tenets of Islam; bibliography; weblinks; DVD-ROM content
Remote sensing
56 min. (Library) HQ117
.R35 2001
The sex industry has become a
business without borders. As sex industries expand, they seek out new
global markets, and often new and younger victims. This video essay
discusses the routes and reasons women travel across the globe for work
in the sex industry.
Uprooted: refugees of the global economy
28 min. (Library) JV6471 .U67 2001
Describes how the global
economy has forced people to leave their home countries, focusing on
three stories of immigrants from the
No Logo
DVD (Library)
42 min. HD2755.5
.N646 2003
Using hundreds of media examples, No Logo shows how
the commercial takeover of public space, destruction of consumer
choice, and replacement of real jobs with temporary work (the dynamics
of corporate globalization) impact everyone, everywhere. It also draws
attention to the democratic resistance arising globally to challenge
the hegemony of brands.
Especially useful is Ch. 1, 12 min segment "No
Space: New Branded World"
Lost
Boys of Sudan
The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned
by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer
environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of
contemporary American society. Globalization, refugees,
assimilation, American culture.
Toxic sludge is
good for
you
Tracks the development of the
PR industry from early efforts to win popular American support for
World War I to the role of crisis management in controlling the damage
to corporate image. The video analyzes the tools public relations
professionals use to shift our perceptions including a look at the
coordinated PR campaign to slip genetically engineered food past public
scrutiny.
Sections: The PR industry; Roots in conflict; Not
local, not news; Third party advocacy; Selling wars; Controlling damage
& managing crisis; Silencing debate -- Extra features: Public
relations vs. journalism; More on video news releases; More on
genetically modified food; Co-opting movements; Astroturf; Perception
management; Democracy in a PR world.
Useful for discuss of media and places,
constructedness of places, and corporate manipulation of mass
perceptions of public issues.
Globalization
is good 50 min.
"Controversial writer Johan Norberg argues
forcefully for one side of
the globalization debate. In this program he examines three developing
countries and how they fit into that debate, building a case for
deregulation, the abolishment of subsidies and tariffs, and a long-term
view of industrialization. He frankly defends the use of sweatshop
labor, through which Taiwan has cultivated a vigorous, targeted
manufacturing sector and transformed agrarian poverty into affluence.
Praising Vietnam for following the same path and criticizing Kenya as
an unfortunate example of isolationism, Norberg's assertions compose a
powerful catalyst for classroom discussion."
Trouble in
Utopia (v. 4 of Shock of
the New) 8 videocassettes (416 min.)
Other films in the series: No.
1. The mechanical paradise -- no. 2. The powers that be -- no. 3. The
landscape of pleasure -- no. 4. Trouble in Utopia
-- no.
5. Threshold of liberty -- no. 6. The view from the edge -- no. 7.
Culture as nature -- no. 8. The future that was.
Altered
oceans 36 min.
A five-part series originally published July 30-August 3, 2006 in the
Los Angeles Times. A primeval tide of toxins -- Sentinels under
attack -- Dark tides, ill
winds -- Sea preserves a plastic plague -- A chemical imbalance.
1988 Yellowstone
Fires 1 hr GEOG
VHS
1988 Hazards,
Phys./Environ.
Clean Beaches Clean Ocean 5 min GEOG
VHS
Environment Phys./Environ. 2001
Clouds Messengers of Weather 22
min GEOG
VHS
Climate, Phys./Environ.
Conjunctive Use: A Comprehensive Approach to
Water Planning 11 min GEOG
VHS
1999 Water Issues, Phys./Environ.
Data for Decision (ESRI) 22 min GEOG
VHS
GIS, Geospatial
Earth Revealed: Earthquakes 3 hrs GEOG
VHS
(in Educational Video Network
Box) Hazards, Phys./Environ
Explore Your World (ESRI): GIS in K-12
Education 17 min GEOG
VHS
1998 GIS Geospatial
GIS (URISA): Government's Information Solution
GEOG
VHS
GIS Geospatial
GIS in Libraries (ESRI): Public Access to GIS,
17 min GEOG
VHS
1998 GIS Geospatial
Groundwater Quality: Managing the Resource 15 min GEOG
VHS
1999 Water Issues Phys./Environ.
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
60 min GEOG
VHS
Before global positioning systems, modern map making--even before
America was America--finding longitude was just a dream. Without its
guidance, navigation in the
1700s was both unpredictable and deadly... until one man solved the
mystery. Richard Dreyfuss narrates this dramatic recreation of
longitude's difficult discovery, and the remarkable history-making life
of a humble, ingenious country carpenter named John Harrison.
(NOVA)
1998 Mapping Geospatial
Luna: The Stafford Giant Trees 20
min GEOG
VHS
1998 Environment
Phys./Environ.
Modern Marvels: Map Making 50 min GEOG
VHS
1999 Mapping Geospatial
Planet Earth: 1: The Living Machine
58 min GEOG
VHS
1996 Plate
Tectonics Phys./Environ.
Planet Earth: 7: Fate of the Earth
57 min GEOG
VHS
1995 Environment
Phys./Environ.
A Tissue of Lies (ser.
Tales from the
Map Room: Volume 1) 30 min GEOG
VHS
1993 Mapping
Geospatial
Mapmakers, can never
show it exactly as
it is, if only to overcome the difficulty of representing the earth's
curved
surface on a flat sheet of paper. A look at the confines and
conventions,
as well as the imagination and politics employed in mapping.
Plumb Pudding in
Danger (ser. Tales from the Map Room: Volume 2)
30 min GEOG
VHS
1993 Mapping
Geospatial
A famous cartoon shows France and Britain carving
up the plumb pudding of the world. Similar maps were popular throughout
the
Victorian era.
Paths of Glory (ser.
Tales from the Map Room: Volume 3)
30 min GEOG
VHS
1993 Mapping
Geospatial
In war, maps mean the
difference between
Victory and defeat. From Machiavelli to Windsor Castle, the great war
maps
of the world.
On the Road (ser. Tales from the Map
Room: Volume 4) 30 min GEOG VHS
1993 Mapping
Geospatial
From medieval pilgrims
to car atlases, travelers
rely on maps. Also, how parents can help their children with map
reading
skills.
Metropolis (ser.
Tales from the Map Room:
Volume 5) 30 min GEOG VHS
1993 Mapping
Geospatial
Cities have an
insatiable appetite for maps.
Transportation, building maps, fire risk maps, they preserve history
amid
an ever-changing scene.
On the Rocks (ser.
Tales from the Map Room: Volume 6) 30
min GEOG
VHS
1993 Mapping
Geospatial
Even if X doesn't always mark the spot, maps can
illuminate both the past
and the present. This series explores the enormous variety of maps both
ancient and modern, and includes the related history and politics that
shaped
mapmaking. Each of the six half-hour programs focuses on a single
theme.
For centuries navies lost more ships on the rocks offshore than
they did
to enemies. In Normandy before D-Day there was a plot to chart the
beaches
of this vital coastline. Maritime maps are still vital as the sea
continually
shifts its beds and shorelines.
The American Experience: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring 1
hr GEOG
VHS
1992 (PBS)
Environment Phys./Environ.
The Great Ships: High Tech, High Seas,
Navigation 50 min GEOG
VHS
1998 Navigation
Geospatial
The Greening of Planet Earth
N/A 27 min GEOG
VHS
N/A Environment
Phys./Environ.
Heaven and Earth (ser. The Shape
of
the World: 1) 55 min GEOG
VHS
1991 Mapping
Geospatial
This program reveals how our first ideas of the world
emerged in contrasting
and conflicting ways-sometimes from the imagination, sometimes from
science,
and sometimes from the more basic need for rulers to know their domain
better.
Secrets of the Sea (ser. The Shape of the World: 2)
55 min GEOG
VHS
1991
Navigation/Mapping Geospatial
Seamen of many nations and civilizations had sailed long
distances from
their homes, but none had managed to grasp the link between all the
different
lands and seas. For whoever did succeed in charting the seas, though,
the prize would be untold wealth, power and empire.
Staking a Claim (ser. The
Shape of the World: 3) 55 min GEOG
VHS
1991 Mapping
Geospatial
The race was now on to find an alternative route to the
Spice Islands
Via the West. Christopher Columbus left Spain in 1492, and landed on
the
coast of the New World, but it would be another 15 years before it was
christened America.
Empire! (ser. The
Shape of the World: 4) 55 min GEOG
VHS
1991 Mapping
Geospatial
The Age of Reason saw science elevated to the level of art.
At the center of this was France, where, for example the magnificent
palace
at Versailles was designed according to the new principles of
perspective
and geometry.
Pictures of Invisible (ser. The
Shape of the World: 5) 55 min GEOG
VHS
1991 Mapping
Geospatial
By the mid 19th century man had succeeded in mapping and
measuring most
of the Visible world-now the race was on to discover and map what had
been
invisible.
The Writing on the
Screen (ser. The Shape of the World: 6)
55 min GEOG
VHS
1991 Mapping
Geospatial
Today maps are tools; they are not there simply to guide
us, but to save
lives, and to alert us to dangers and risks that threaten both man and
the
earth.
The Wonderful Planet 45 min GEOG
VHS
1991 World
Phys./Environ.
The World in a Box: Geographic Information
Systems 1 hr GEOG
VHS
2001 GIS
Geospatial
Tracks in the Sand: Saving the Catalina
Island Fox 28 min GEOG
DVD
2002 Wildlife
Issues Phys./Environ.
What's Up with the Weather? (NOVA)
2 hrs GEOG
VHS
2000 Climate
Phys./Environ.
There Are Worse Things Than Earthquakes
Why Geography? GEOG
Puts the viewer in the
passenger seat for a twelve-day field
trip throughout the American Southwest.
Places included:
Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift 20 min GEOG
EVN video
Intro to Remote Sensing 1996 30 min GEOG
UCSD program
Soils: Profiles and Processes 1992 20 min color GEOG
This program looks at the way soils
can vary within a small area of a forest
Water of Ayole GEOG
UN Development Programme
Planet Earth: 1. Plate Tectonics. 2. Blue Planet. 3. Climatology. GEOG
First 20-25 min – on
plate tectonics
Earthquakes: Understanding the Hazards GEOG
Excellent content;
terrible copy quality
Power of Water (except) GEOG
Water in the West –
Power of Water (complete video) GEOG
Watershed 1996 Conference 1 of 2 GEOG
Several case studies of
watershed management
Watershed 1996 Conference 2 of 2 30 min GEOG
County Sanitation Districts “Water for a Dry Land” 9:53 GEOG
Global Change 83 min GEOG
Scientific Overview a National
Videoconference
Sanitation Districts of
Sanitation Districts of
Commerce Refuse-to-Energy 9:48 1992 GEOG
Green Means Part I 1993 GEOG
A series of television
mini-documentaries (3-6 minutes each)
featuring inspiring solutions to environmental problems around the
world (e.g.,
Prairie Prophet; Salmon Habitat; Big City Greens)
Green Means Part II 1993 GEOG
A series of television
mini-documentaries (3-6 minutes each)
featuring inspiring solutions to environmental problems around the
world (e.g.,
46:42 – 50:30 The Recyclers of Cairo; Tackling Texas Toxics; Seattle
Spokes;
The Buffalo Return)
TLC video: Storm Force: Tsunami 1999 GEOG
Discovery Channel
The
City and the Environment
23 min DVD GEOG Christie
Jocoy (2006-7)
This
program focuses on three facets of the urban ecosystem: the underground
infrastructure that enables a city to function; traffic and the
increasingly complex technologies required to manage it; and the trees
in the city and the ongoing effort to protect city trees from the
effects of urban pollution.
Security threat :
terrorism, surveillance, and civil liberties
45 min (Library)
DVD HV6432
.S438 2004
"This program weighs the pros
and cons of real-time profiling systems, closed circuit cameras in
public places, smart ID
cards, thermal imaging polygraphs, and other anti-terror technologies."
Last 5 min -- discussion of how GPS could be used for
surveillance and
restrict civil liberties.
South Africa: This Land Is My Land — South
Africa continues to face many challenges in redressing the land
inequities under apartheid.
Kenya: Medical Geography — AIDS has become one
of the biggest killers in Kenya. How can geography help understand
disease?
20. Developing Countries GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 19]
Cote d’Ivoire: Cocoa and Change — Cote
d’Ivoire has long been the world’s largest producer of cocoa, but has
recently faced economic downturns and loss of its historically stable
government.
Gabon: Sustainable Resources? — In one of
Africa's wealthiest countries, oil revenues have declined, putting new
pressure on the country's timber resources.
4. An Act of
Faith: The Phelophepa Health Train - GEOG (Life I
series)
A group of
health professionals tours the most deprived regions of South Africa
providing care.
8. The Right to
Choose - GEOG (Life I
series)
Women are
denied human rights in Ethiopia and northern Nigeria.
Bushmen fight
to live on ancestral land in South Africa.
25. Educating
Lucia - GEOG (Life I series)
The odds are
against girls getting an education in Zimbabwe and throughout
much of Africa.
Examines
prospects for Vitamin A distribution programs in Guatemala and Ghana
necessary for children's health.
Uganda
seeks external debt relief and fights internal corruption.
8. My Mother
Built This House - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Large
homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build
houses for each other.
15. The
Miller's Tale: Bread Is Life - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Efforts are
underway in Egypt and Yemen to fortify flour with
iron to wipe out needless malnutrition.
17. Missing Out
- GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Anemia
threatens the population of Niger and Tanzania.
20. Lines in
the Dust - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
In
revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, gender
roles are challenged, and illiterate adults educated.
21. Paying the
Price - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Pharmaceutical companies block generic drugs, threatening the lives of
millions of Africans with AIDS.
3. The Trade
Trap - GEOG (Life III series)
Ghanaian
farmers struggle to get a foothold in the international market.
5. The Perfect
Famine - GEOG (Life III series)
Examines the
causes of, and solutions to, severe famine conditions in Malawi.
7. Seeing is
Believing - GEOG (Life III series)
Zambia
begins a nationwide program to deliver Vitamin A to its population.
11. Sowing
Seeds of
Hunger - GEOG (Life III
series)
The AIDS
epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has crippled the agricultural
community while forcing children to undertake the responsibilities of
farming.
12. Up in Smoke
- GEOG (Life III series)
Dependence on
tobacco crops and manipulation by the tobacco industry has stunted the
economy of Malawi.
Johannesburg
-
'Touristy' profile of the city.
Nigeria:
The Road
North
[Video
Anthology for
Pulsipher’s textbook]
Ask
Dmitrii
What the Miss World riots
reveal about a divided country
Dichotomies
of Wealth
and Poverty in South Africa
7:56 DVD
[Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii, Christine or Angela
Rich and poor in the post-apartheid
Diamond
Protocols and
Miners
10:32 DVD
[Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii,
Christine or Angela
A BBCW Production. Corporate greed and vestigial colonialism
are
God sleeps in Rwanda DVD 28 min. (Library) HQ1797.5 .G64 2004
Five women struggle to rebuild their lives and
redefine women's roles in a country torn apart by war.
WorldFrontline: Stories
from
a small planet 57 min. (Library)
D857
.S767 2003 no.104 VHS 2003
North
Korea-Suspicious Minds
Nigeria-The Road North
Iceland-The Future of Sound
Because the white settlers of
Their
brothers' keepers DVD 56
min. (Library)
HV1351.5
.T43 2005
Looks at two child-headed
families living in Chazanga Compound, a
shantytown in Lusaka, Zambia.
Orphaned by AIDS, they must scramble for
necessities and education. Local aid workers and the community try to
help, but they also have meager resources. Includes excerpts from a
speech given by Stephen Lewis, the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in
Africa.
Jaguar 99 min. (Library) DT471 .J338 1980
Portrays a condition and state
of mind that existed in
Female circumcision: human rites 41 min. (Library) Video Cassette 11090
Documents
the ritual of female genital mutilation (female circumcision),
practiced among some
African groups. This video also explores its roots
in myth; and discusses movements underway to ban the practice.
Masai Women 52
min. (Library) DT433.545.M33
M372 2003 DVD
An ethnographic view of Masai
culture and society, focusing on the preparation of young Masai
girls for marriage and life in their society. Probes, through a candid
interview with an older woman, the feelings of the Masai women about
polygamy and their inability to own property.
The Diamond Life (part of
Ammo for the info-warrior DVD) ~ 6 min. HQ799.2.M35
A456 2002
This DVD is a collection of nine news videos created
by Guerilla News Network (GNN), an independent news organization
devoted to exposing young people to global news and information. The
videos cover a range of stories, from the diamond trade in Sierra
Leone to the public relations industry practices to spoken word
poetry about the business of hip-hop. The Diamond Life is a
brutal look at the atrocities committed by Sierra Leone rebels and the
complicity of the international diamond cartels, cut to the haunting
music of Peter Gabriel.