PLACES IN
FILMS
Documentary films for
regional geography courses, CSULB
(GEOG) -- Video
Collection, the Department of Geography
(Library) -- Media
Collection, the Main Library
(MCC) -- MultiCultural Center
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
Library has been changing some of the codes recently).
-- Videos from GEOG
(the Department's video collection): please do sign the sheet if you
check out any item. Some videos may be on permanent loan, ask the
faculty indicated (e.g.,
c/o Dmitrii). Please contact the department's library
laiason if you see mistakes/have suggestions, or want your video to be
included into the catalogue,
or inform the library
liaison about any video films you
have acquired using university funds. Donations of
geography-related films or
information about videos you
are willing to share upon request are welcome. Let's keep
our video
collection expanding!
Structure:
Videos in each of the following regional sections are ordered in the
following
way:
-- 1. GEOG,
departmental videos, come first;
-- 2. the Main Library's
easiest and shortest videos, most commonly used in our 100 level intro
classes, are listed second;
-- 3. towards the end of each regional
section, are groupped the Main Library's
more advanced/lengthier/artsy
films useful more for our specialized regional classes or upper
division classes / seminars.
-- beyond that I include some exceptional feature motion pictures from
the Library
that are made as documentaries or have such the documentary
quality; might be useful for individual projects.
NEW
(October 28, 2011)
00.
Major Series
jump
The
regions:
For convenience, the films are
organized regionally into several blocks
00. Multiple Locations / Globalization / Global geopolitics jump
00.
Cities:
general/global issues
00. Physical
Geography / Technical Skills jump
01. Sub-Saharan Africa jump
02.
The Greater
Middle East (excl. Central
Asia/Transcaucasia) jump
03. Europe (excl. the f. Soviet Republics)
jump
04.
Russia (+
all the former Soviet Republics)
jump
05. Mid-America jump
06.
The Caribbean jump
07. South America jump
08. East Asia jump
09. South Asia jump
10.
South-East Asia
jump
11. Australia/Oceania/Antarctida jump
12. US/Canada (excl. California/LA) jump
13. California/Los Angeles jump
00.
Major Series
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 (GEOG) VHS
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, Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, London,
The Towers of London, Holland/Luxemburg/Belgium, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, France, Paris, Mediterranean, Portugal,
Spain, Italy, Rome, Greece, Scandinavia, Sweden,
Norway, Finland, Denmark, Baltic States, Hungary, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Russia)
SuperCities
(GEOG) VHS
"SuperCities brings the world's best-loved cities to life in all their
breathtaking grandeur and vibrant detail. The people, the history, the
architecture are here; more than that, you can feel the pulse and
passion that only truly great cities possess. Narrated by Kathy Tayler,
the series transports the viewer to the very heart of each teeming
metropolis, each one unique, absorbing, brimming with life and vigour."
Life GEOG (Life I
series) VHS
30-part series that
looks at
the effect of globalization on individuals and communities around the
world.
www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ls.html
City
Life GEOG
(Life II City Life series) VHS
22-part series examining the
effect of globalization on people and cities worldwide.
www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/cl.html
Life III
GEOG (Life III
series) VHS
A 12-part series about Globalization and its effect on ordinary people
and communities around the world.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/l3.html
Soviets: The True Story of Perestroika
GEOG
VHS
This series
represents an unparalleled documentary
record.of the rapid and profound transformations within the U.S.S.R.
that have reverberated
throughout Eastern Europe and since led to the dissolution of the
Soviet
Union itself. The programs include accounts from survivors of Chernobyl
and moving sequences of the survivors of the Armenian earthquake, and
look
at changing attitudes toward religion, disillusioned Afghan war
veterans,
and various nonconformist groups. "Only rarely do films attain a
place
in the history of the conflicts which they depict, and this achievement
makes
Soviets as close to a masterpiece as any documentary I have seen
recently."
—The London Observer.
Winner, Prix
Italia for best documentary. (5 x 58 minutes, color)
Glasnost Film
Festival GEOG
VHS
The Glasnost Film Festival is a 12-video collection featuring 22
Soviet documentary films produced in the "Glasnost Era." Many of the
films remain definitive
and timeless documents of previously unexplored aspects of Soviet
history and culture. All were produced originally on 35mm film and are
subtitled
in English.
Tales
from
the Map Room GEOG VHS
Series
which explored
the
nature and role of mapping in various historical and social contexts
(six
films).
"A six-part history of maps and map-making
which is stunning
to look at and fascinating to listen to." - The London Times
"Like many BBC projects, the six-segment series
received wide acclaim
when it was broadcast. It has a definite British slant...but it is
intelligently
presented and accessible to virtually all who have an interest in the
way
maps have mirrored and shaped our world...Each of the six half-hour
episodes
stands alone as a study of a particular aspect of mapping...Perhaps
public
networks around the world will one day consider rebroadcasting this
delightfully
informative series. Why not suggest it to your local public television
station?"
- Mecator's World
"This distinctive series with a decidedly
international flavor
is perfect for both high-school and community college students as well
as
history enthusiasts." - Booklist
X doesn't
always mark the spot. Still maps can
unlock the past and
illuminate the present. This lively new BBC series explores the huge
variety
of maps, ancient and modern and the related themes of history and
politics
that dictate the map-maker's art.
The Shape
of
the World GEOG VHS
"These
sophisticated,
well-edited programs
combine exploration, science, math, religion, economics, politics and
philosophy in a manner that
will intrigue both students and general audiences." - Booklist
"The most interesting
presentation of the history of
cartography you could
ask for." - Washington Times
For thousands of years,
man has searched for understanding
by charting
the lands, the seas, the skies, the story of how the world was mapped
is
the essence of discovery... in science, math, religion and
philosophy.Now
a major production from PBS and IBM provides an interdisciplinary
series,
aimed at science and social studies instructions. Beginning with
ancient
European, African, Egyptian and Asian civilizations, the story moves
through
time to today, and the minute mapping of the DNA in our bodies. (Six
55-min episodes)
We have a donated
copy on 3 VHS tapes as well.
Empire
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.
Heaven And
Earth
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.
Pictures of
the Invisible
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.
Secrets of
the Sea
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
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.
The Writing
On The Screen
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.
Fighting the Tide:
Developing
Nations and Globalization 2004 5-part series,
26 min. each. (GEOG)
DVD
Many
Westerners embrace globalization—but do they grasp how profoundly their
consumption and spending habits affect people thousands of miles away?
Filmed
entirely on location in Malawi,
Ecuador,
Nicaragua,
India,
and Guatemala,
this five-part series illuminates what globalization means for citizens
of
those nations. Emotional and informative interviews with farmers,
school
teachers, community activists, and others reveal the human side of
situations
too often assessed only in terms of business and profit.
Portions are in other
languages with English subtitles.
Long Search, The 676 min 2001
DVD, 5 disks GEOG
This
sound and picture enhanced series has served as the basis of successful
religious philosophy courses around the world. An American Film
Festival Red Ribbon winner, the series gives a balanced treatment of a
force that is sadly neglected in most educations, the basic beliefs of
the major religions in the world today. Ronald
Eyre takes the viewer on a pilgrimage beginning in London and spanning
150,000 miles including India, Japan,
Israel, Rumania, Sri Lanka, Hong
Kong, The United States, Egypt, and South Africa.
WorldFrontline: Stories
from a small planet 57 min. each (Library)
VHS 2002-3
Cambodia
- Pol Pot's shadow; Romania
- My old haunts; India - The hole in the wall;
D857
.S767 2002 no.102
Iraq
- Truth and lies in Baghdad; Colombia - Pipeline war
D857
.S767 2002 no.103
North
Korea-Suspicious Minds; Nigeria-The Road North; Iceland-The
Future of Sound D857
.S767 2003 no.104
[a
CD-ROM with 10 films from the series is provided to instructors
adopting the Pulsipher's World Regional Geography textbook; the India,
Nigeria, and Cambodia films are there too]
Power of place: world regional geography (Library)
G128
.P69 1996
VHS
An older version of The
Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century series
(see above). 13 videocassettes (ca. 60 min. ea.) Annenberg/CPB Project,
c1996.
Produced by Cambridge Studies in collaboration with
ABC-TV Open Learning, Australia ; series advisors, H.J. de Blij
and Peter O. Muller.
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
A video
instructional series on geography for college and high school
classrooms and adult learners; 10 half-hour video programs and
coordinated books Human
Geography combines economic and cultural geography to explore
the relationships between humans and their natural environment, and to
track the broad social patterns that shape human societies. Featuring
communities around the world that are grappling with major
socioeconomic change, the programs help students understand present-day
events within the scope of clearly recognizable trends, and realize the
impact that government, corporate, and individual decisions may have on
people and places near and far.
This series may serve as an introductory course for students of
cultural
or economic geography, or as a resource for sociology, anthropology, or
social science departments.
1.
Imagining new worlds -- 2. Reflections on a global screen -- 3.
Global firms in the industrializing East -- 4. Global tourism -- 5.
Alaska: the last frontier? -- 6. Population transition in Italy -- 7.
Water is for fighting over -- 8. A migrant's heart --
9. Berlin: changing center of a changing Europe -- 10. The world of
the dragon.
Engineering an
empire (Library) DVD disc 1-6
(44 min. each film)
D21.3 .E54 2006
disc
1 Greece: age of Alexander
/ The Aztecs /
disc 2 Carthage; China; Russia
disc 3 Britain: blood and
steel; The Persians; The Maya: death empire
disc 4 Napoleon: steel
monster; The Byzantines; Da Vinci's world
discs 5 & 6. Rome:
engineering an empire; Egypt:
engineering an empire (91 min. each).
00. Multiple
locations/Globalization
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.
14. The Cost of
Living - GEOG (Life I series)
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. .
Federalism
Facism
Capitalism vs.
Interventionism
Communism
& Socialism
Liberalism vs.
Conservatism
Colonialism
vs. Imperialism
Peace One
Day Promotional Film (GEOG)
8 min. VHS
No details
Geography:
A Voyage of Discovery (GEOG) VHS
42 min.
Produced by Todd
A. Gipstein in collaboration with
the National Geographic
Society. 1987
Shape of the
World series (GEOG) VHS
Blue Planet
(GEOG) DVD
Originally filmed
in the IMAX format, this video reveals the Earth to
us as only few people have ever seen it: from space.
Mystery of the
Megaflood 56 min
DVD GEOG
National
Georaphic: World's Most dangerous Drug 52 min 2007
DVD GEOG
Methamphetamines
affect the brain in
numerous ways. The drug tricks the brain into thinking that extra
dopamines are released. Eventually, the brain shuts down. Looks at the worldwide epidemic of
methamphetamine abuse, including why it is so addictive and the
problems it creates within society.
Read more:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/2592/Overview#tab-Videos/05499_00#ixzz0zGN13kxG
Reflections on the Long Search
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 05, 156 min total; vol. 13), GEOG
In
this episode Ronald Eyre asks himself some questions. It is not a film
in which he hands out diplomas to believers of the religion that
pleased him best. The search, for him, began long before this series
got off the ground and will continue long into the future. There are no
winners and no losers. There is an element of personal stocktaking,
however, and before doing so, Eyre reveals his own background, the
mental furniture that he of necessity packs whenever he goes on search.
The
Ascent of Money: a Financila History of the World (DVD 2009, 240
min)
Among the places Ferguson visits are Bolivia, where Spain established
vast gold and silver mines — still in operation — and enslaved the
indigenous people to create so much currency for the Spanish crown that
it eventually became worthless; Italy, where the Medici family
transformed the sinful practice of usury into the banking system we
know today and in the process became as powerful as monarchs; Paris,
where Scotsman John Law created a Ponzi scheme tied to the Louisiana
territory that brought France to its knees; London, where bonds trader
Nathan Rothschild and his family nearly went bankrupt by helping to
finance the British army’s war against Napoleon, then achieved enormous
wealth through the buying and selling of war bonds; Scotland, where two
ministers established the first life insurance fund, and New Orleans,
where the shortcomings of their calculations would be demonstrated to
tragic effect in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; and New York, where
Ferguson interviews financial wizard George Soros about the concept he
introduced of short selling derivatives based on a prediction that they
will lose value.
From Harmony to
Revolution: The Birth and Growth of Socialism
58 min. 2006
(Library) DVD HX36 .M873 2006 Part 1 of Heaven on earth: the
rise and fall of socialism 3 disk set
As a movement,
socialism thrived in Europe—but America was its cradle. This program
explores the origins of socialist principles and how they evolved into
military revolution in Russia and political strife in the United
States. Recounting Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment, the program
details the intellectualization of socialism by Marx, Engels, and
Bernstein, followed by the rise of Lenin and the creation of the U.S.S.R. The video also dissects
Marx’s predictions about when and where revolution could be expected,
studying the careers of Samuel Gompers and Eugene Debs and the
successes and failures of American socialism. (57 minutes)
Unstable
Utopias: The Global Spread of Socialism 58 min. 2006
(Library) DVD HX36 .M873 2006 Part 2 of Heaven on earth: the
rise and fall of socialism 3 disk set
At the end of the 19th century,
socialism was an idyllic dream among intellectuals. Sixty years later
it had become a reality for much of the world. This program describes
the expansion of socialist and Communist rule into Asia, Africa, the
Middle East, and western Europe—showing the weaknesses that developed
in the practice of socialism even as it reached the apex of its
popularity. Documenting the ascendancy of Clement Atlee in Britain and
the challenges of democratic socialism, the program also surveys Mao’s
brutal reign in China, Julius
Nyerere’s slide into dictatorship in Tanzania,
and a problematic socialist experiment in Israel. (58 minutes)
Tearing Down the
Wall: The Decline of Socialism 58 min. 2006
(Library) DVD HX36 .M873 2006 Part 3 of Heaven on earth: the
rise and fall of socialism 3 disk set
Did the Soviet Union collapse under external
pressure or its own weight? What enabled free market forces to assert
themselves in China? Is
socialism dead, or has it simply evolved? This program addresses these
and other questions, focusing on the political, cultural, and economic
factors behind the fall of the iron curtain regimes. Outlining the
Cultural Revolution and its consequences, the emergence of the Reagan
and Thatcher administrations, and the backfiring of the Soviet coup in
1991, the program demonstrates in detail how governments across the
world abandoned socialism—some entirely, while others have maintained a
tenuous façade. (58 minutes)
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.
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 Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Mexico and Morocco.
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 Philippines,
Bolivia
and Haiti.
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 87 min.
(Library) DVD
E184.S77
L67 2004
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 45 min. + 24 min.
(Library) DVD
HD59.6.U6
T69 2003
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.
(Library) DVD
HB501
.G5493 2005
"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."
Explaining
globalization 56 min.
(Library) DVD HF1359
.E96 2007
experts
from the U.S. and abroad speak their minds on a shrinking world and an
expanding global economy. Episodes include…
• Globaphobia—One
World,
One Market: Is
globalization good or bad for Americans? Paul Solman takes a walk
around his neighborhood with Harvard University’s Robert Lawrence, one
of the world’s top trade economists, to think it through.
• Gergen
Dialogue—Thomas
L. Friedman and the World Market: David
Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S.
News & World Report, talks with New York Times columnist Thomas L.
Friedman, author of The
Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization.
• Conversation—The
Mystery
of Capital: Elizabeth
Farnsworth and Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto discuss his book The Mystery of Capital:
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Segment also sold as a part
of Microeconomics in
the Global Marketplace.
• A World Without
Borders: Ray Suarez
is joined by
Thomas L. Friedman, author of The
World Is Flat,and Moisés Naím, author of Illicit: How Smugglers,
Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy, to examine globalization
and resulting changes in economics.
• Conversation—The
Effects
of Globalization: Jeffrey
Brown moderates a debate between Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), author of Take This Job and Ship
It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America, and Thomas L. Friedman,
author of The World
Is Flat, on the
effects of a globalized economy.
Scream
Bloody Murder
DVD
123 min MCC
CNN's
Christiane Amanpour traveled to the world's killing fields to
understand the world's indifference, even as courageous voices tried to
"Scream Bloody Murder." A worldwide investigation and two-hour
documentary on CNN. Genocides
around the world.
00.
Cities: general/global issues
The
City and the Environment
23 min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
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.
Metropolis
(GEOG) 30 min. VHS
Cities have an insatiable appetite
for maps. Transportation, building
maps,
fire risk maps, they preserve history amid an ever-changing scene.
Part of Tales
from the Map Room series.
Mega-Cities:
Innovation for Urban Life (GEOG) 56
min. VHS
Mega-Cities
illustrates nine different creative solutions for urban
problems, led by the Planning Group of the Los Angeles Mega-Cities
Project. By the year 2000 more than half of the world¹s population will
live in cities. It is projected that 23 of these cities
will be "mega-cities" with more than 10 million people each. Despite
their varying political, economic, social and cultural characteristics,
all of them face a common problem. Cities must be viable for the
predicted unprecedented numbers of citizens, yet live within limited
budgets and severe environmental constraints.
Urban Leadership
Programs enable innovative
neighborhood leaders to replicate their approaches in other
neighborhoods, expand them to serve a larger area, share them with
their peers in other cities, or incorporate them into urban policy.
Megacities has fieldsite teams set up in twenty cities on five
continents and is a leader in innovative solutions to
urban problems. 1999.
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.
Ancient
splendors
59 min. (Library) N5334
.A525 1996
Filmed on location
at Luxor, Egypt;
Tikal, Guatemala;
the Acropolis, Greece;
and Angkor Wat,
Cambodia.
Understanding
cities VHS 51 min. (Library) HT151
.U52 1997
Shows how
cities live and die from the ground up-and down. Explores the
transportation, water and sewer systems, and architectural landmarks of
5 great cities. Historians, urban planners, architects and social
scientists assess the past, present and future of the crowded, crowning
symbols of civilization. Profiled cities include New York, Washington,
D.C., Portland, Ore., Seaside, Fla., Miami, Teotihuacan, and Brasilia.
Babylon to
Bombay, the city through time VHS 56
min. (Library) HT111
.B339 2006
Cities are one
of the most conspicuous features on our planet. They are
so much the bustling centers of commerce, industry, politics,
communication and creativity, we can hardly imagine a world without
them. Yet there was such a time, and program 10 begins by exploring
what it was that led people to begin living in larger, concentrated
settlements. This program discusses factors that contributed to the
formation of early urban places and examines the form and function of
these places. It investigates the impact of industrialization on cities
and how the immigration of large numbers of displaced rural people
seeking work changed the nature of cities. We then explore the major
features and spatial pattern of cities from ancient times to the 19th
century. This survey includes the cities of the hydraulic
civilizations, ancient Sumeria, Greece, Rome, Medieval and Renaissance
Europe, and the Industrial Revolution.
Trouble in
Utopia (v. 4 of Shock of
the New) 8
videocassettes (416 min.)
(Library) VHS
N6490
.S486 1980
The series focuses
on modernism in art as a reflection of changing social history in the
20th century. Includes interviews
with Matisse, Picasso, Dali ... [et al.]. This film
discusses successes
and failures of utopian architectural schemes.
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.
Designing for
Disaster VHS
26 min. 1993 (Library)
00. Physical Geography /
Technical Skills
(this
section is not
comprehensive; it represents mostly GEOG the
departmental tapes; the Main Library has many
titles which are not included here)
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.
We Are Still Here
(C.M. Rodrigue's
copy) ? min. GEOG
VHS
The video is by Ben Wisner and a filmmaker friend of his. The
film is about the multiharardousness of Los Angeles and community
response. Truly unique!
There Are Worse Things Than Earthquakes
(C.M. Rodrigue's copy)
? min. GEOG
VHS
The video is by Ben
Wisner and a filmmaker
friend of his. The film is
about multiple harazds in Mexico and community self-organization (the
narrator is a Day of the Dead skeleton). Truly unique!
Why Geography? GEOG
Puts the viewer in the
passenger seat for a twelve-day field
trip throughout the American Southwest.
Places included: Ely, Nevada,
Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, The Grand Canyon,
Monument Valley,
Mesa Verde, Santa Fe, and Denver.
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 – Colorado River
Power of Water (complete
video)
GEOG
Columbia River salmon case
Watershed 1996 Conference 1 of 2 GEOG
Several case studies of
watershed management
Watershed 1996 Conference 2 of 2
30 min GEOG
Seco
Creeks, Texas watershed groundwater,
game fish
County Sanitation
Districts “Water for a Dry Land” 9:53
GEOG
Global Change
83
min GEOG
Scientific Overview a National
Videoconference
Sanitation Districts of L.A. Country
“Puente Hills
Landfill” 12:30 GEOG
Sanitation Districts of L.A. County
“Water for a Dry Land” 7:00 GEOG
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 c/o
Dmitrii
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.
Altered
oceans 36 min.
(Library) DVD
GC1085
.A473 2006
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.
01. Sub-Saharan Africa
19.
Strength To Overcome GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 20]
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.
17. Regopstaan's
Dream - GEOG (Life I series)
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.
26. A-OK?
- GEOG (Life I series)
Examines
prospects for Vitamin A distribution programs in Guatemala and Ghana
necessary for children's health.
29. The Debt
Police - GEOG (Life I series)
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
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
'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. Nigeria
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 Johannesburg.
Diamond
Protocols and
Miners
10:32 DVD
[Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii,
Christine or Angela
Sierra Leone, West
Africa, tried to halt illegal export of diamonds
that fund rebels.
Africa: Who is to blame? 2005 (60
minutes) GEOG
A BBCW Production. Corporate greed and vestigial
colonialism
are Africa’s worst enemies—or is
homegrown
leadership responsible for the continent’s troubles? This program
explores that
dichotomous question from the vantage point of former Ghanaian
president Jerry
Rawlings and Kenyan law student June Arunga, who undertake a voyage of
discovery through Ghana,
Tanzania, and Rwanda.
Visiting a struggling
fishing village, a tribal hunting ground, an AIDS treatment center, an
African-owned gold mine, and an eerily preserved site of genocidal
slaughter,
the program eloquently documents Rawlings’ and Arunga’s interaction
with the
socioeconomic dilemmas and everyday realities of African life.
Malawi: A Nation Going Hungry
(Fighting the Tide:
Developing
Nations and Globalization series) 2004 26 min. (GEOG)
DVD
Poverty, unstable government, and disadvantages in trade have virtually
eliminated food security in Malawi. This program explores the African
country’s struggles on both a personal and national level, interviewing
frustrated civil servants and impoverished citizens, and reflecting
widespread despair over WTO policies and the government’s inability to
subsidize the agriculture of its own people. Highlighting the
additional problems of environmental degradation and AIDS, the program
offers a moving glimpse into human lives that revolve around one
constant challenge: getting something to eat.
Vintage
African Safari Travel Films (1936) Total 48 min 2007 DVD GEOG
The storied history
of Africa is rich with culture and beauty. The Wheels Across Africa
travelogue documents an African safari during the 1930's. An
exciting adventure that covers almost the entire map of African
geography, this historically important piece of work offers an
inside look at the beautiful landscape of the continent of
Africa. This film does contain some nudity.
AIDS in Africa, Part I -
The Depth of the Crisis (ABC NEWS/Prentice Hall
Video Libary, Cassette 2) 2000
VHS 19:37 min GEOG
In and Out
of Africa (1993) 59
min DVD GEOG
http://www.berkeleymedia.com/catalog/berkeleymedia/films/arts_humanities/in_and_out_of_africa
One of the most intelligent,
perceptive, and engaging films ever made on African culture and art. It
explores with irony and humor issues of authenticity, taste, and racial
politics in the transnational trade in African art. Interweaving
stories of Western collectors, Muslim traders, African artists and
intellectuals, and the filmmakers themselves, the film focuses on a
remarkable art dealer from Niger named Gabai Barre. It follows him all
the way from the rural Ivory Coast to East Hampton, Long Island, where
he bargains for a sale. The film shows how (through occasionally
hilarious and frequently fantastic tales about the art objects) he adds
economic value and changes the "meaning" of what he sells by
interpreting and mediating between the cultural values of African
producers and Western consumers. For Baare and the other African art
traders, the animist "fetishes" they sell are simply commodities,
bought and sold like any other. Or so they say. For Western collectors,
the best, most "authentic" pieces are considered Art (with a capital
A), and their economic value is purely coincidental. Or so they
say.
"In and Out of Africa" is a classic work that will richly repay viewing
in a variety of courses in African studies, cultural anthropology, and
art.
Niger.
African Religions: Zulu Zion
(part of:
Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 04, 156
min total; vol. 10),
GEOG
The Zulu Independent Churches
in South Africa. When Christian missionaries took the Gospel to Africa
they also tried to suppress African religion and subvert African
culture with their own. But since World War I, and with increasing
vigor in the last 20 years, Africans have been rediscovering their lost
religious identity and have been forming independent churches with
their own festivals, prophets and rituals and greater or lesser
devotion to Christ.
African
World (part pf Wonders of the World with Henry Louis Gates,
Jr.) 3set VHS 120 min each
GEOG
Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he takes you on a journey to discover a
wealth of African history and culture in Wonders of the African World.
Click on an icon above to explore each episode, or explore specific
themes by using the menus at left or below. Films:
Black
Kingdoms of the Nile - The term "Nubia" means many things to
many people. In America it has come to be virtually synonymous with
blackness and Africa. To ethnographers and linguists, it refers to a
specific region straddling southern Egypt and northern
Sudan, where black-skinned Nubians
have traditionally lived. To archaeologists in the 1990s it is an
ever-widening area of the Middle Nile Valley and surrounding deserts
that extends approximately from Aswan in Egypt south to modern
Khartoum, Sudan, and beyond.
The
Swahili Coast -- The Swahili Coast, an 1,800-mile stretch of
Kenyan and
Tanzanian
coastline, has been the site of cultural and commercial exchanges
between East Africa and the outside world - particularly the Middle
East, Asia, and Europe - since at least the 2nd century A.D.
The Road
to Timbuktu - It is perhaps surprising that a place as
comparatively close to Europe as
West
Africa should remain more or less unknown long after the
colonization of the Americas. Indeed, it was not until 1828 that the
first European saw Timbuktu and lived to tell the tale.
Lost
Cities of the South - When European settlers discovered ruins of
great civilizations at Mapungubwe in
South Africa and Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe (then the British
colony Rhodesia), they concluded that these marvelous stone cities
could not have been built by black Africans. In order to justify their
oppression of the black majority population, the white imperialists
created a grossly distorted history that denied African civilization
and culture
The Slave
Kingdoms - Historically,
West
Africa is associated with the slave, gold and ivory trades,
perhaps most often the former. West Africa is also the place of origin
of vodou, the only indigenous African religion to survive the
trans-Atlantic slave trade and remain in practice in the Americas
today. The historical roots of racial discrimination in the United
States today can be traced back to North American slavery and the
kidnapping of more than 20 million Africans.
The Holy
Land - For over 3,000 years
Ethiopia has been a land of mystery and fascination. The Greek
poet Homer thought that the Ethiopians had been blessed by the gods,
while the historians and dramatists who came after him described a
people of immense piety who lived beside the fountain of the sun.
Rivers of sand DVD 85
min. (Library)
DT380.4.H36 R58 2008
Portrays the people called the Hamar who
live in the scrubland of southwestern
Ethiopia. Points out that in this society, men are masters and
women are slaves. Shows how this sexual inequality affects the mood and
behavior of the people.
The devil came on horseback DVD 85
min. (Library)
DT159.6.D27 D48 2007
This powerful and
original film exposes
the tragedy taking place in Darfur as
seen through the eyes of an American witness, former U.S. Marine
Captain Brian Steidle, who has since returned to the U.S. to take
action to stop it
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
Africa: a history denied
48 min (Library)
CB311
.T55 1995 v.2
Because the white
settlers of Africa
couldn't believe that natives were responsible for the once great
kingdoms of Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili
Coast, these ancient
cultures were either credited to wandering Phoenicians, the Queen of
Sheba or other white travelers. Now the place where human history began
is being reclaimed by descendants of those lost cultures, and the
glories of their accomplishments are revealed. (Time Life's lost
civilizations)
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 West
Africa in
the 1950's--a
time when it was possible to travel freely and when there was an
exhilarating sense of opportunity in the air.
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.
Lagos/Koolhaas
55 min. (Library) PN1997
.L33413 2003
DVD
A film that
follows Rem
Koolhaas, winner of the Pritzker
Architecture Prize, during his research in Lagos over a period of two
years
as he wanders through the city, talking with people and recognizing the
problems
of urban life. Lagos is expected to reach 24 million
people by 2020,
which would make it the third largest city in the world. Instead
of judging
the city to be doomed, Koolhaas is able to interpret this 'culture of
congestion'
positively. Urban
The
price of aid 56 min. DVD (Library)
HV696.F6
P75 2004
This video discusses U.S. donations of food for
famine relief in
foreign countries through a case-study in Zamibia, and the complex
relationships between international aid, international media, American
business and politics, and the impact on local agriculture, public
health and international trade relations.
Darfur diaries
55 min DVD (Library) DT159.6.D27
M375 2006
A brutally
honest inside look into the current tragedy befalling the Darfur region. This film seeks to
provide space for the victims of atrocities to speak and to engage with
the world. Amnesty International will use the film to educate its
members. Geopolitics
Abouna = Our
Father (Chad/France
2003) 81 min. (Library) PN1997
.A245 2005 DVD
Feature
film: After two
young Chadian boys discover
their father has abandoned them, they embark on a desperate quest to
bring him home. The film allows to see landscape of this remote
area of the world, esp. useful for showing the settlement there (it is
next to impossible to find any film showing Sub-Saharan
settlements).
Darwin's nightmare
(DVD) 107 min
(Library)
DT448.2 .D37 2005
"Darwin's nightmare
is an essential documentary on the perverse aspects of globalization.
Enter the Nile Perch, a voracious predator implanted into Lake Victoria
in Africa in the '60's which
extinguished native fish species and
multiplied so fast that its fillets are today exported worldwide -
predominantly in exchange for the countless weapons used to wage war in
the dark centre of the continent".--Container.
The Ethiopia
Project (DVD)
Multicultiural Center
Visit 10 villages in need of clean drinking
water. From
wineforwater.org
Darfur
Now
(DVD) 98 min. Multu-Cultural Center
Acclaimed documentary follows the
story of six people who are
determined to end the sufferings in Sudan
war-ravaged Darfur.
02.
The Greater Middle East
17. Sacred Space, Secular
States? GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 17]
Jerusalem: Capital of Two States? — Can the
historical and political geography of this holy city provide clues to a
peaceful resolution between Jews and Palestinians?
Turkey: Fundamental Change — At the edge of
Europe, Turkey hopes to take economic advantage of its
proximity
to the western world.
18. Oil and Water GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 18]
Egypt: Gift of the Nile — This program
investigates Egypt's limited natural resources, focusing on
that nation's dependence on the Nile River.
Oman: Looking Beyond Oil — Having benefited
greatly from its relatively modest oil reserves, Oman looks to
diversify its economy for future growth
21. In the Name
of Honour - GEOG (Life I series)
Kurdish women
fight for their rights in Northern Iraq.
23. Without
Rights - GEOG (Life I series)
Palestinians
are denied human rights.
10. Gaza Under
Siege - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
The Gaza
Strip has been a virtual prison for Palestinians for over fifty
years.
11. Waiting to
Go - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Palestinian
refugees in Lebanon are denied human rights.
Marrakesh/Fez
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Istanbul
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Cairo
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
World Geography 1: North
Africa
2002 26
min GEOG
“Standard Deviants
School
is an educational and entertaining, lesson-based learning supplement
based on
the award-winning Standard Deviants teaching style.”
Explore land and development of North
Africa.
A
Cyber-Tale of Three Cities:
Improving the Urban Landscape
29 min GEOG
In this program, three teenagers use the Internet to
discuss the poor
living conditions in their home cities of Manila, Beirut, and
Fortaleza, Brazil, and what is being done to improve them. Among the
challenges being faced are extreme pollution, severe war damage, and
urgent housing shortages. As a result of their chat sessions, they go
into their communities to investigate the problems firsthand. With more
than half the world’s population now living in urban centers, the need
for creative city planning and citizen participation in community
issues is greater than ever before. A United Nations production.
Vintage
Middle East Films (1930s - 1950s) 2006 DVD GEOG
Desert
Venture
(1948) - 28 minutes
- Desert Venture
may be the greatest oil propaganda film ever made. This film
explains why venture capital in Saudi
Arabia is crucial to the fuel
America's "nation on wheels."
Iran:
Between
Two Worlds (1954) - 14 minutes
- Iran is
portrayed immediately before the 1953 coup d'etat. This film covers
some great aspects of the history of Iran, including art, religion and
day-to-day life. There's great historical footage of weaving, silver
plate making and food preparation.
Screen
Traveler: Damascus (1936) - 11 minutes
- This is a 1930s
travelogue of Damascus, Palestine
and Jerusalem with terrific footage
of the markets and streets of these holy cities. Included in the film
is footage of the Wailing Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the
Jaffa Gate, Mount of Olives and more...
Labor
of Thy
Hands (1950s) - 14 minutes
- This 1950s film
is aimed toward American audiences, and tries to link the similarities
between Israel and the United States. It's an informational piece
focusing on how Israel is a
democracy, so the ideals of the country
match up with those of the US.
Amateur
Film:
Middle East (1933) - 17 minutes
- This movie is a collection of
amateur footage taken of Israel (much of it in Bethlehem) during the
1930s. Excellent first-hand historical documentation!
Vintage
Israel Films (1930s - 1950s) Total App. 1 hour 5 minutes 2006 DVD GEOG
(1) Five
Newsreels
(1955 - 1957) - Variety of (5) newsreels with footage about Israel,
including footage of Israel's war and entry into Egypt and a Tel Aviv
protest. Length:
00:05:29
(2) Amateur
Footage
(1933) - Rare film footage of Israel from the early 30's full of street
scenes and landmarks, including the wailing wall. Length: 00:16:30
(3) Labor
Of Thy
Hands (1950s) - Sponsored by an America Zionist Women's
Organization, this propaganda film aims to build support among
Americans for Israel by showing all the similarities between the US and
Israel. Length: 00:14:07
(4) Sands
Of Sorrow
(1950) - Produced by The Council for Relief of Palestinian Arab
Refugees, an American organization, this film contains some of the
first footage of Palestinian refugees and refugee camps in Israel &
The Gaza Strip. Length:
00:28:32
Historic
Iran Film Length:
00:14:03 2006
DVD GEOG
1) Iran: Between
Two Worlds
(1954) - This wonderful travelogue discusses the daily life and history
of the citizens of Iran with visits to Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, the
Iranian countryside and amazing scenery of The Persian Mountains.
The film also touches on Iranian architecture and the intricate art
created by Iranian artists which include, metal smiths, weavers, rug
makers, and painters. Industrial development, economic
development and daily life are also explored.
Iraq:
The Road to
Kirkuk
[Video
Anthology for
Pulsipher’s textbook]
Ask
Dmitrii
After Saddam's
terror,
can Kurds and Arabs live together?
Ramadan
and Its
Rituals 3:59
DVD [Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii, Christine or Angela
Cairo, Egypt celebrates the holy
Islamic month.
Islam: There is no God but God
(part of: Long
Search, The, 2001, Disk 03, 156 min total; vol. 5), GEOG
It
is said in Islam that every child is born Muslim by nature: he has the
belief in his heart of one God. Over 400 million people profess Islam,
and its numbers are said to be growing. In this program we travel to Egypt
to explore the Islamic experience in an oasis village 50 miles from
Cairo at a wedding, in the market town of El Fayoum for dawn prayers,
and in Cairo itself.
Judaism: The Chosen People
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 03, 156 min total; vol. 7), GEOG
What is it that makes a Jew a Jew? In New York, Elie Wiesel, author and
survivor of the concentration camps, tries to define it. In London, Nobert Brainin and the
Amadeus Quartet carry the argument further, both in words and music.
Inevitably the search takes us to Jerusalem,
where Dr. Pinchas Peli, tenth generation rabbi and fourth generation
Jerusalemite, explains the meaning of prayer and acts as our guide
through the religious schools, the synagogues and a museum for the
survivors of the Holocaust. We also see Western (Wailing) Wall, a place
of prayer and pilgrimage sacred to the Jewish people.
Keeping the Kibbutz
(DVD 2010 54 min) GEOG
Chronicling the changing kibbutz through
the eyes of some of its most devoted members, Keeping the Kibbutz
examines the challenges faced by a community in transition
Jerusalem: Center of the World
(DVD 120 min 2007) GEOG
Explores the founding of the city, and
the birth and convergence of the world's three major monotheistic
religions.
Through the Eastern Gate
(DVD 2007 52 min) GEOG
A documentary
film about the aspirations, practices and beliefs of three young
Westerners who follow three different eastern spiritual traditions.
Filmed in the gorgeous countryside and ancient cities of India
and Turkey, this intimate and
compelling film delves into the worlds of
people who have turned their backs on the material to find new
transcendent meaning in their lives.
To Die in Jerusalem DVD 76 min
2007 MultiCultural
Center
After two 17-year old girls - one an Israeli, the
other a Palestinian suicide
bomber - die in
a Jerusalem market, their mothers confront each other, revealing a
microcosm of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the complexity of
reconciliation. Through the personal stories of the two families'
losses and by contrasting the lives and deaths of these two teenage
girls, TO DIE IN JERUSALEM offers a personal human perspective that is
all too often eclipsed by the political issues.
Byzantium: the
lost empire 120 min. (Library) DF531 .B993 2007
For more than 1,000
years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world. The origin
of great literature, fine art, and modern government, it was also the
first Christian empire. Pass through the gates of Constantinople, explore the
magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia and see the looted treasures of the
empire now located in St. Marks, Venice
Jerusalem:
center of the world 120 min. (Library)
DS109.9 .J456 2009
The story of the world's most incredible city,
capturing the rich
mosaic of the city's Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. Covering
a history of over 4,000 years, the film explores the founding of the
city, and the birth and convergence of the world's three major
monotheistic religions, and the key events in Jerusalem's history as described in
the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Talmud, the Hagaddah, the Koran,
and the Hadith. Highlights include: Mount Moriah, the site of the First
and Second Temples; the Church of the Holy Sepulcher; the Dome of the
Rock; and the Western Wall
Incredible Turk,
1958 28 min. (Library)
DR592.K4
I63 2008
Explains how,
after the close of
World War I, Mustapha Kemal took over the government in Turkey and started to Westernize the
country. Discusses the various projects he untertook, including the
introduction of modern farming methods and the establishment of steel
mills and textile plants
Mystic
Iran:
the unseen world 85 min. (Library) BL2270 .M97 2008
Aryana
Farshad's quest in her
native Iran to explore the religious rituals and traditions that have
fascinated the Western world for centuries. Includes rare glimpses of
the women's chamber at the Great Mosque, the fire rituals in
Zarathustra, and the dance of the Dervishes in Kurdistan. Iran
WorldFrontline:
Stories
from a small
planet 57 min. (Library)
D857
.S767 2002 no.103
VHS 2002
Iraq
- Truth and lies in Baghdad
Colombia -
Pipeline war
Promises
102 min. DVD (Library)
PN1997
.P772 2004
A portrait of
seven Palestinian
and Israeli children. Follows the journey of a filmmaker who meets
these children in and around Jerusalem, from a Palestinian
refugee camp to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Although they
live only 20 minutes apart, these children exist in completely separate
worlds, divided by physical, historical and emotional boundaries.
Explores the nature of these boundaries and tells the story of a few
children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors.
[Excellent film!]
Ancient
splendors 59
min. (Library)
N5334
.A525 1996
Filmed on location
at Luxor, Egypt;
Tikal, Guatemala;
the Acropolis, Greece;
and Angkor Wat,
Cambodia.
The Taliban legacy
35 min. (Library)
Video
Cassette 10715
A
report on
current conditions in Afghanistan. The program focuses on the havoc created
by the
Taliban regime, which has resulted in two million Afghans fleeing the
country.
Remembering
History (The
Battle of Algiers DVD v.3) 69 min. (Library)
2004 PN1997
.B346 2004
This is an
exclusive
documentary that reconstructs the Algerian
experience
of the battle for
independence, featuring interviews with historians and revolutionaries,
including military leader Saadi Yacef.
Remembering
History (The
Battle of Algiers DVD v. 3) 58 min. (Library)
2004 PN1997
.B346 2004
Gillo Pontecorvo, the maker of The Battle of
Algiers, revisits the Algerian
people after three decades of independence. An overview of the
country's post-independence problems such as the rise of fundamentalist
Islamic movement.
Driving an Arab
street
DVD (Library)
DT107.87
.D748 2002
Driving an Arab
street takes
the viewer on a journey along the "Arab street," a monolithic term
pundits use to describe Arab
sentiment, to find out what people are actually saying about the West
and
America. The film follows Egyptian taxi drivers as they navigate the
streets
of Cairo and share their
diverse perspectives on American and Egyptian
society,
culture, politics and the relationship between these two civilizations.
Iraq
in fragments
2 DVD
disks 225 min (Library) DS79.769
.I737 2007
Documentary in three parts.
Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless
11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad
garage; Sadr followers in two
Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic
law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the
U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously
denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years
filming in Iraq
to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary
of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and
Kurds.
Saudi
solutions DVD
77 min (Library)
Profiles several professional Saudi
women in order
to understand what
it means to be a modern woman in a fundamentalist Islamic society. Saudi Arabia, feminism.
My
head is mine: Women in
Istanbul DVD
40 min (Library)
"Kemal Atatürk,
the father of modern Turkey,
proclaimed the republic in
1923 and wanted to completely westernize his country. Thus the
religious turban for men and the veil for women were prohibited. These
clothing regulations are still vadlid today for female students and
civil servants. Using portraits of a variety of women, the current
discussion about headscarves in Turkey is shown from many
standpoints."
The Syrian bride
2004 97 min.
(Library) DVD
PN1997 .S9923 2006
Feature
film: Mona's wedding day may be the saddest
day
of her life. Once she crosses
the border between Israel and Syria to get married, she will never
be allowed back to her family in the
Golan Heights. Keywords: Feminist
geography; geopolitics; social/cultural geography; identities;
transnational marriage; borders; arranged
marriage; Golan Heights
Yellow
Asphalt
82 min (Library)
PN1997
.Y414 2005 DVD
Feature
Film: At the edge of modern Israel
and the ancinet Bedouin way of
life, three
dramatic encounters between two very different societies are brought
forth. The tales are of the human condition - of passion and deceit,
carelessness and love, courage and selfishness, in which no one culture
has a monopoly on virtue or vice. Globalization and its
discontents. A very moving film.
In
This World
88 min (UK 2003) (Library)
PN1997
.I48185 2004
DVD
Feature film: The hazardous
journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan
through Iran,
Turkey, Italy,
France and the UK in search of refuge in
London, revealing the desperate measures people take to escape
persecution and life-threatening conditions. A rare road movie:
the world from the point of view of refugees. Highly recommended
for projects
Turtles
can fly 98
min (Library)
PN1997
.T826 2005
This is a feature film, but it is
shot in Iraq and has some documentary film qualities. Soran is a
13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he
installs an antennae for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall.
Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov
who can seemingly predict the future.
Battle for Haditha
DVD 97 min. (Library)
PN1997
.B3485 2008
This is a feature film, but it has
some documentary film
qualities. On Nov. 19, 2005, Iraqi insurgents bombed a convoy of U.S.
Marines in Haditha, Iraq. This
results in the death of the company's most popular officer. Enraged by
their loss, his comrades carry out a brutal retaliation. This massacre
leaves 24 men, women and children dead in Haditha, Iraq. Follows the
story of the U.S. Marine Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the
insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.
Standard
operating procedure DVD 116 min. (Library) DS79.76 .S68 2008
First revealed to the world through impromptu
photographs taken by U.S.
soldiers stationed within the facility, this documentary investigates
the story and causes behind the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Involving
apparent wide-scale abuse and torture of prisoners, the photos forced
attention on the decisions and actions that turned the once-notorious
Iraqi prison into an even more notorious U.S.-run detainment center.
One of the most dramatic moments in recent U.S. military history is
examined through interviews with participants and dramatic
reenactments. Iraq
Paper Dolls
DVD
80 min. MultiCultural Center
Paper Dolls (Hebrew:
בובות
נייר, Bubot Niyar) is a 2006 documentary by Israeli director Tomer
Heymann, which follows the lives of transgender migrant workers from the Philippines who also perform as
drag queens during their spare time. It also delves into the lives of
societal outcasts who search for freedom and acceptance. Gender, Israel
03. Europe
3.
Supranationalism and Devolution GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 3]
Strasbourg:
Symbol of a United Europe — The
city of Strasbourg is one locus of power in an increasingly
supranationalist Europe.
Slovakia: New
Sovereignty — Since
Czechoslovakia separated into the Czech Republic and Slovakia,
how have
the Slovaks fared?
4. East Looks West
GEOG
(series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 4]
Berlin:
United We Stand — Berlin is now
capital of a reunified Germany and a symbol of a more unified Europe.
But the integration of East Berlin requires urban
reorganization and economic expansion.
Poland: Diffusion
of Democracy — Strategies
for spreading democracy through Poland required a decidedly
spatial approach.
5. The Transforming Industrial Heartland GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 5]
Liverpool:
A Tale of Two Cities — Can
European Union investment and the growth of service industries turn the
tide of economic decline? Liverpool
Randstad:
Preserving the Green Heart — Small,
crowded Netherlands strives to maintain its transportation
connections while preserving dwindling green space.
6.
Challenges in the Hinterlands GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 6]
Andalucia:
Developments in the Hinterlands
— Spanish Andalucia struggles to move beyond tourism and
agriculture to integrate with Europe’s heartland.
Iceland: Edge
of the Habitable World —
At the
borders of the habitable world, Iceland must balance
sustainable
fish harvests with social costs.
28. The
Outsiders - GEOG (Life I series)
Explores the
moral and economic dilemmas that adolescents face in the Ukraine
today.
9. Barcelona
Blueprint - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Barcelona
today is a model of urban planning that may prove sustainable.
4. Kosovo:
Rebuilding the Dream - GEOG (Life III
series)
Assesses the
success of UN efforts in rebuilding Kosovo.
Great
Cities of Europe - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series
Ireland - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
England - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Wales
- GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Scotland - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
London
- GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
The Towers
of London - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Holland,
Luxembourg, Belgium - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Germany - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Austria -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Switzerland -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
France - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Paris - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series
Mediterranean -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Portugal -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Spain -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Italy - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Rome
- GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Greece -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Scandinavia
- GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Sweden - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Norway - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Finland
- GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Denmark - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Hungary -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Poland -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Czechoslovakia - GEOG (
Video Visits: Europe series)
Amsterdam
GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Anne Gregg presents a profile on Amsterdam.
Barcelona
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Berlin
-
GEOG (SuperCities series)
Kathy Tayler presents a video visit to the city of Berlin taking in the
sights of the Tiergarten, Kurfurstendamm, the Bauhaus School Of Design
and
the architecture of Hans Scharoun and Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Berne/Lucerne
- GEOG (SuperCities series)
Kathy Tayler introduces a look at Berne and Lucerne in Switzerland.
Budapest
-
GEOG (SuperCities series)
Kathy
Tayler
introduces a look at Budapest (Hungary).
Florence
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
A video visit
to Florence with Anne Gregg.
Lisbon
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
A video visit to Lisbon.
London
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Madrid
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Munich
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Paris
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Prague
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Rome
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Stockholm
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Venice
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Vienna
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Sinking
City of Venice
60 mins. GEOG
VHS
Is the city of romance destined for
disaster? Overwhelmed by picturesque canals, handsome
gondolas and breathtaking architecture, 15 million annual visitors
don’t realize that Venice
is in deep trouble. Built on a spongy salt marsh 1200 years ago,
Italy’s
renowned romantic city is not only sinking, but also facing rising sea
levels that are rapidly destroying ancient bricks, flooding historic
landmarks and eroding the city’s very foundation. Since a cataclysmic
storm and
raging floodwaters submerged the entire city in 1966, the debate about
how to save Venice has been fierce; with environmental opponents,
confusion
and old-fashioned Italian politics stalling nearly every rescue
proposal.
If something isn’t done, Venice
may become a modern-day Atlantis.
NOVA
travels to the storied city of canals and explores the many problems
facing
Venice as well as a number of intriguing solutions. Tour the
magnificent
city and wade through flooded St. Mark’s Square and 900-year-old St.
Mark’s
Basilica. Examine the natural and manmade forces causing the city to
sink
and the water to rise. And see why the controversial plan to hold back
the sea with massive floodgates has been hotly debated for over 30
years. Those who love Venice and its captivating beauty are
holding their breath, hoping a city that has withstood time and the
elements for so many centuries will somehow manage to endure.
Berlin:
Journey of a City --
VHS GEOG
Modern political history of the city.
Someone
to Watch Over Us 29 min
DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
Our
cities are gripped by fear, the streets increasingly seen as dangerous,
with inadequate security for their citizens. The all-seeing eye of the
surveillance camera seems to offer an answer. But are there hidden
dangers to the rapid rise of mass surveillance? This program follows an
innovative prison warden, Dr. David Wilson, as he traces the
implications of the rise of surveillance cameras in our communities.
From a maximum security prison in England, the program travels to Los
Angeles and London,
confronting us with harrowing real-life violence as
we explore whether the city itself is increasingly becoming a prison.
London (We Built This
City) 46 min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
War,
destruction, fire, disease—London
has fallen victim to numerous crises
over its 2,000-year history. At the center of it all is the River
Thames, whose tidal dangers threaten flooding even to this day. But
thanks to phenomenal feats of engineering and construction, the city
has consistently been able to return to top form. This program examines
how devastation in London has inspired people of vision to
revolutionize the city’s architecture, from Roman settlement to the
center of the British Empire…and beyond. London-based engineering
designer Chris Wise and architecture historians Simon Thurley and
Vaughan Hart, among others, reveal how great edifices helped this small
island nation become a world power. A Discovery Channel Production.
Paris (We Built This City)
46 min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
This
program investigates the crucial role engineering has played in the
2,000-year history of the French capital. Eugene Houseman spearheaded
the evolution of Paris in the
late 18th century, producing the
infrastructure, wide boulevards, and grand buildings that give the city
its singular charm. Top French historians, engineers, and
archaeologists analyze his work as well as the complex feats of the
pre-Houseman years, from the construction of King Philippe’s wall and
the innovative methods of purifying the Seine in the 13th century to
the "revolt of the dead" in 1785. The program also examines the
existing Parisian structures at the time of the French Revolution. A
Discovery Channel Production.
Central City 20
min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
This
program provides an overview of the unique characteristics and the
complexities of the center city and of the central business district. A
comparison is made between Los Angeles, California, and a much older
and very different kind of urban center, Manchester, England. Despite
their differences, these cities share important, basic features.
Aspects
of Central Place 20 min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
This
program studies how one small city with a population of 100,000
functions as a regional center and provides goods and services to that
regional center and to a tourist population of 3 million annual
visitors. The program focuses on the medieval English university town
of Cambridge and its
surrounding areas: industrialization in an
agricultural area and the resulting population influx.
Understanding
Cities 53 min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
For
the first time in civilization’s history, more people live in cities
than outside of them. This program goes around the world to look at
cities past and present with a focus on issues of transportation,
electricity, light, water, sewage, and trash. The program examines
differences between cities that have evolved over time and planned
cities, such as Brazil’s capital and utopian experiment, Brasília, and
Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán, the first planned city in Mesoamerica.
Cameras explore the construction of a new line in London’s Underground
and a new aqueduct in New York City. Portland is presented as a
paradigm of modern urban planning. A Discovery Channel Production.
The City
53 min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
Early
cities emerged from trading posts and fortresses; they were generally
accessible by water and easily defended. This program examines the
metamorphosis of the city from fort and trading post to cultural
epicenter and beyond. Ancient cities are discussed and Athens and Rome
are compared. Modern cities including New York and Paris are also
presented, with a focus on Paris’
attempt to re-create itself in the
19th century by razing slums to build monuments and boulevards. City
planning and public services are examined as well, along with the
middle-class exodus from, and recent return to, many American cities.
Politicized
Space: Florence
and Milan 51 min
DVD GEOG
Filmed
on location and divided into three sections, this program examines how
civic planning was tailored to suit the varying political agendas of
Republican Florence, Ducal
Milan, and Ducal Florence. By taking the
viewer on a detailed tour of urban plazas and buildings, including the
Piazza and Palazzo della Signoria in Florence and the Castello Sforesco
in Milan, the program shows
how architecture, heraldic
imagery,
commissioned artworks, and even religious iconography can be used to
reinforce the public status of governing parties. (51 minutes)
Spain:
The Lawless Sea
[Video
Anthology for Pulsipher’s
textbook]
Ask
Dmitrii
Investigating a notorious
shipwreck
Turkish
Germany
3:23
DVD
[Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii, Christine or Angela
Clash
between two cultures
Kosovo
-- Searching for Reconciliation (ABC NEWS/Prentice Hall
Video Libary, Cessette 2) 1999
VHS 19:44 min GEOG
Classic Germany Travelogue Film
Length: 00:20:37 DVD (1980's) GEOG
(1) Permanent Change
Of Station-Germany
(1980's) - This film is Germany
travelogue from the perspective of the
U.S. Army. Features great footage of Germany mixed with
information about the amenities the Army offers its soldiers, from
education to transportation to art and culture to household appliances.
Historic
City of London Films
(1920's)
Length: 00:25 DVD GEOG
(1) Seeing
London (1920) - Amazing silent film featuring the sites of
London, including Big Ben, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Tower Bridge, The
Tower of London, Westminster
Abbey, Fleet Street, Downing Street, St.
James Park, Cleopatra's Needle, Bank Of England, A Baseball game,
Londoners, and the First Big American store in London. Length:
00:13:55
(2) Stillman
Fires Collection: London Fire Services (1928) - This vibrant
silent collection features London firefighters as they try to put out a
fire in downtown London.
Length: 00:11:37
The Brooklyn
Connection - How to Build a Guerilla Army (2005) 00:25 DVD GEOG
A
film festival favorite, THE BROOKLYN CONNECTION takes a gripping look
at the world of "gun running" through the story of Florin Krasniqi and
the guerrilla army he built by transporting weapons from the United
States to Kosovo. The owner of a successful roofing company in
Brooklyn, NY, Krasniqi was focused on the immigrant dream and making a
successful life for his family in America. Everything changes, however,
when his cousin, Adrian, is killed in an attack on the Serb-dominated
Yugoslav army. And as the conflict between Kosovo’s Albanian majority
and its Serbian rulers descends further into war, terrorism and ethnic
cleansing, Krasniqi decides to take matters into his own hands. THE
BROOKLYN CONNECTION reveals how this sta8unch Kosovar nationalist
raised over $30 million to arm and supply the upstart Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), acquired weapons and uniforms, and smuggled them into
Kosovo via Albania. Dedicating himself to bringing about the Kosovo
Albanians’ long-frustrated dream of self-determination, the film
explores how Krasniqi used America’s civil liberties--especially
liberal gun laws--to attain his goal. Based on Stacy Sullivan’s book Be
Not Afraid, For You Have Sons in America, THE BROOKLYN CONNECTION is a
remarkable behind-the-scenes examination of global politics, U.S.
http://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Connection-Build-Guerilla-Army/dp/B000AYEIYU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1284244705&sr=1-2-spell
Catholicism: Rome, Leeds and the Desert
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 02, 104 min total; vol. 4), GEOG
Catholicism, especially since Vatican II,
has undergone many changes. In this episode filmed in Rome, Spain and England, we discover
the diversity and the unity of the religious experience labeled the
Holy Catholic Church.
Orthodox Christianity: The Rumanian Solution
(part of: Long
Search, The, 2001, Disk 03, 156 min total; vol. 6), GEOG
The Orthodox churches in Eastern Europe
seem to be bound to the Communist states in essentially loveless
marriages, except in Rumania.
The Rumanian Orthodox Church is still seen as an important aspect of Rumania's
cultural heritage and ethnic identity. The Orthodox liturgy is one of
the oldest and longest in Christendom, and the spirituality of the
services intensified by the Byzantine splendor of the setting and the
beauty of some of the most inspiring choral music to be heard in any
church in the world.
Judaism: The Chosen People
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 03, 156 min total; vol. 7), GEOG
What is it that makes a Jew a Jew? In New York, Elie Wiesel, author and
survivor of the concentration camps, tries to define it. In London, Nobert Brainin and the
Amadeus Quartet carry the argument further, both in words and music.
Inevitably the search takes us to Jerusalem,
where Dr. Pinchas Peli, tenth generation rabbi and fourth generation
Jerusalemite, explains the meaning of prayer and acts as our guide
through the religious schools, the synagogues and a museum for the
survivors of the Holocaust. We also see Western (Wailing) Wall, a place
of prayer and pilgrimage sacred to the Jewish people.
The Infidel (feature film! DVD
2010) GEOG
An identity crisis comedy centred on
Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End
Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish. Based in a London suburb.
Martin Luther (DVD 110
2002) GEOG
The epic tale of the great Protestant
revolutionary whose belief in his faith would overthrow the
all-powerful Catholic Church and reshape Medieval Europe. Join Luther
as he recalls his life, from his initial crisis of faith in a
storm-wracked forest that led him to become a monk, to his heady
confrontation with the great powers of Europ
Lodz Ghetto
(1989) DVD black and white/color, 118 mins. Directed by
Alan Adelson. History Department
collection, c/o Jeff Blutinger
This innovative documentary about the Nazi occupation of a
populous enclave of Jews in Eastern Europe weaves archival footage with
material shot in the 1980s to evoke the spirit of the trapped
inhabitants and their desperate struggle to survive. The Polish city of
Lodz held the second largest Jewish community in Europe, and the
invading Nazis ringed the Jewish neighborhood with barbed wire. All
Jews in the area, nearly a quarter million people, were forced into
what soon became known as the Lodz Ghetto. The inhabitants of the
ghetto steadfastly endured hunger and other great hardships, and
valiant efforts were made just to maintain normal lives. Factories were
kept in operation under an audacious plan for the ghetto to survive
economically, and to keep some semblance of cultural life, classical
music concerts were held. But as survivors of the ghetto movingly
relate in the narration, the community was doomed. Deportations to the
concentration camps began, and this film presents the drama in
heartbreaking fashion as photographs of ghetto children are shown
against a voiceover of one of the ghetto's leaders painfully explaining
that the Nazis are demanding that the community must hand over 20,000
people. This is a brilliantly conceived film that does a fine job of
making history that should be known come to life in very human terms.
The Rape of Europe
DVD 117 min, 2008.
(Library)
N8795.3.G47 R37 2008
Imagine the world without our art masterpieces. Interviews with
eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how heroic
Europeans, Russians, and Americans worked to save the art of Europe during World War II.
Cities of light: the
rise and fall of Islamic Spain DVD 116 min.
(Library)
PN1997 .C575 2007
Traces
the history of Islamic Spain.
Tells how in Southern Spain the Muslims,
Christians and Jews lived together and thrived, and the seeds of the
Renaissance were sown, but within a few centuries the fragile union
of these people dissipated and the time of tolerance was lost
forever.
London: the
Post-imperial city 26 min. (Library) DA676.9 .A3 2005
Travels
London's increasingly
cosmopolitan neighborhoods, interviewing citizens
offering different perspectives on immigration and resistance to it,
including Islamophobia, and the frustration with foreigners who refuse
to conform. A tour of the city's food markets reflects an astonishing
diversity that is a source of newfound civic pride.
Cities
of Paul: images and interpretations from the Harvard New Testament
Archaeology Project DVD, photos (Library) BR115
.C45 C57 2005
"This monumental and dynamic resource on CD-ROM
includes nearly 900
images from sites in Greece
and Turkey (ancient Asia Minor)
illuminating the religious and civic lives of peoples encountered by
Paul and other leaders in the earliest churches."--P. [4] of cover.
Direct democracy in
Switzerland DVD 54 min.
(Library)
JN8788
.D573 2004
DVD-video
content: The two nuclear
power initiatives -- The Alpine
Initiative -- The referendum in Riehen against the purchase of an
artwork -- Election by simple majority and election by proportional
representation -- Direct democracy put to the test by today's society
-- Women's right to vote and equal rights for women and men -- The
reform of popular rights -- Direct democracy Swiss-style.
DVD-ROM content: Interactive
animation "The political system in
Switzerland" -- The various popular rights -- Federalism and direct
democracy -- Elections and their importance -- The effect of direct
democracy on society, the economy and those actively involved -- What
will the future bring? -- Well-known figures and experts talk about
their experience.
6.
Population Transition in Italy 27 min. (Library) GF41
.H86 1996 v.6 Human
geography: people, places and change series
Although Italy
is the spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church, which opposes
artificial means of contraception, the country has
experienced the fastest and most extreme decline in fertility ever
recorded. Some attribute the decline to consumer materialism; others
blame the underdeveloped welfare system. Whatever the cause, the
consequence is an aging population with fewer young people to support
it.
8. A Migrant's Heart 27 min. (Library) GF41
.H86 1996 v.8 Human
geography: people, places and change series
Jatinder
Verma, a man of Indian descent who was born in East Africa and came to England
at the age of 14, explains through a trip back
to India how he is caught between two worlds, struggling to preserve
his cultural heritage while being acculturated into his adopted
country. His story demonstrates how migrants think about their sense of
place in relation to where they have come from.
9.
Berlin: changing center of a changing Europe
27 min. (Library) GF41
.H86 1996 v.9 Human
geography: people, places and
change
Berlin's emergence as Germany's new political capital symbolizes the
end of communism and a transformation occurring throughout the country
and continent. Many of the issues that Germany now confronts — such as
the shift of considerable resources to rebuild Eastern
Germany and the rise of neo-Nazi sentiments — are seen in microcosm
in Berlin. From
series
WorldFrontline: Stories
from a small planet 57 min. (Library) D857
.S767 2002 no.102
VHS 2002
Cambodia - Pol Pot's shadow
Romania - My old haunts
India - The hole in the wall
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
Ancient splendors 59 min. (Library)
N5334
.A525 1996
Filmed on location at Luxor,
Egypt;
Tikal, Guatemala;
the Acropolis, Greece;
and Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
Target
for tonight total 150
min but consists of conveniently short films (Library)
DVD D785
.T373 2004
A documentary
series with moving emotional personal accounts from both
sides on the strategy adopted by both the Allied and Axis Forces during
World War Two in which cities and civilians became the target. This
includes the destruction of Berlin, Hamburg,
Köln, London, Coventry,
Plymouth, Manchester, Dresden,
Hiroshima and Nuremberg. Three cities covered more are: Koln,
Hamburg, abd Dresden.
The Road to nowhere 50
min. (Library)
DR1313
.R63 1994
Using an untraveled
highway built by Tito to connect Croatia and Serbia as
a metaphor, this documentary examines the breakup of Yugoslavia into
heavily armed and contentious ethnic camps, run by demagogic war lords,
and the bleak prospect for peace to return there.
Akropolis: Athens; Theseion; Eleusis; Delphi
ca. 98 min. (Library)
DF130
.A376 1996 VHS
Presents historical background
and shows views of Athens,
the Acropolis (including Parthenon frieze from the British Museum),
Eleusis, Delphi, and related points of interest
Athens: the
Golden Age 29
min. (Library)
DF285
.A733 1982 VHS
Views the Athenian
civilization during its zenith, discussing the cultural, political and
social aspects of the society
Greece:
a moment of excellence 48 min.
(Library)
CB311
.T55 1995 v.5 VHS
500 years before the birth of Christ, the
small city-states of Greece began a period of cultural excellence, and
none was more advanced than Athens.
Discover
the architectural, intellectual and artistic achievements of the
period,
and the elements that led to the end of the glorious "moment of
excellence."
Customs & traditions in Switzerland 155
min. (Library)
DVD DQ36
.C87 2004
DVD-video content:
"More than 20 documentary films, covering seasons customs such as: St.
Nicholas customs, Christmas in Switzerland, Winter customs,
Carnival customs, Spring and Passion Week customs, Summer Pasture,
Autumn customs and markets, Historical traditions, folklore, games and
sports."-Container.
DVD-ROM content: "In addition to the films on
this DVD
featuring lesser-known Swiss folk customs, the DVD-ROM contains
information
about more than one hundred customs complete with descriptions, images
and links."-Container.
The Fall of the
Berlin Wall 49
min. (Library)
VHS DD881
.F35 1990
Berlin Wall, Berlin,
Germany, 1961-1989.
Berlin,
symphony of a great city 62
min. (Library)
DVD DD860
.B47 1999
Visually overwhelming, this film is a cross
section of life in Berlin from dawn to midnight on a late spring
day in 1922. Uses montage, cutting, and editing to capture the pulse
and tempo
of this city.
Place
de la republique (1974, 95 min) (Library)
DVD DC415
.V58 2007
A
documentary by Louis Malle: An entertaining snapshot of the comings and
goings on one street corner in Paris.
Videograms
of a revolution (Library)
107 min DVD PN1993.5.G3 F3287 2006
An
analysis of the revolution in Romania
in 1989, covering events in the first five days, from December 21 when
Ceaucescu made his last speech to December 26, the day the dictator was
executed. Material from Romanian television broadcasts and footage
taken by amateur videographers provide multiple perspectives of events.
Czech
dream = Český sen DVD 90 min HF5821 .C47 2007
Documents the largest
consumer hoax the Czech Republic
has ever seen. Filip Remunda and Vit Klusack, two of Eastern Europe's
most promising young documentary filmmakers, set out to explore the
psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism by creating an ad
campaign for a super store that didn't exist.
Byzantium:
the lost empire DVD DF531 .B993 2007 2
videodiscs (208 min.)
For more
than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world.
The origin of great literature, fine art, and modern government, it was
also the first Christian empire. Pass through the gates of
Constantinople, explore the magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia and see
the looted treasures of the empire now located in St. Marks, Venice
04.
Russia (+ all the newly independent, former Soviet states)
7.
Northwest Contrast GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 7/8]
St.
Petersburg: Russia’s Window on the West —
What challenges continue to face this Russian port in
post-Soviet society?
Vologda:
Russian Farming in Flux — How have
previously state-owned collective farms changed with
privatization?
8. Holding the Hinterlands GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 7/8]
Dagestan:
Caucuses Disconnect? —
The
ethnically diverse, Islamic republic of Dagestan contrasts with
neighboring Chechnya where rebels fight for independence.
Bratsk: The
Legacy of Central Planning —
Communist ambitions create the world’s largest hydroelectric project
followed by a Russian city in the middle of Siberia.
8. Cheated of
Childhood - GEOG (Life III series)
The
International Labor Organization tries to rescue and rehabilitate the
street children of St. Petersburg.
Russia -
GEOG
Video Visits: Europe series
Ukraine -
GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
Baltic States - GEOG ( Video
Visits: Europe series)
St. Petersburg -
GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Central
Asia -- GEOG
A video
companion
to the popular backpacker series Lonely Planet; a very entertaining
presentation of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Journey
Across Russia
25 min. GEOG
VHS
Russia is home to a
diverse mixture of cultures, traditions, art, and architecture. This
program takes you on a visual odyssey across Russia, from the
palaces of St. Petersburg to the rugged wilderness of Kamchatka.
1999. Study
Guide questions
Study
Guide answers
Post-Soviet
Siberia
28 min. GEOG VHS
A land of
gargantuan
size, Siberia extends from the Ural mountains to the shores of
the Pacific. It is a land of reindeer herders, Buddhist monks, farmers,
and endless forests. Learn more about the region in this introduction
to Siberia's land
and its people. 1999.
Learning Objectives:
1) Students will
become familiar
with the
geography of Siberia.
2) Students will be introduced to the various
cultures that co-exist in
Siberia and they'll learn about the people who contribute to Siberia's
diversity.
3) Students will be given some background
information about Russian and
Soviet history, and they'll learn about changes in government that have
occurred in recent years.
Study
Guide questions
Study
Guide answers
Vladimir
Ilyich Lenin
13 min. GEOG VHS
This visionary who dreamed of a government by the workers was a product
of the Russian middle class and the political conflicts of this period
in
history. While recounting the details of Lenin’s life, this program
presents
an outline of Marxist socialism and the historical forces that brought
the
workers’ government to power and reduced Imperial Russia to
ashes.
Lenin was studying to become a lawyer when his brother was assassinated
for
revolutionary activities. Dismissed from the university, Lenin began to
read
the writings of Karl Marx. Lenin was arrested by the Tsar, sentenced to
exile,
and, after his release, he moved to Switzerland where he joined other
Russians
in their socialist activities during World War I. When the Tsar’s
forces
crumbled on the Eastern Front, Lenin’s group outlasted democratic
rivals
to seize and hold power for the Communist Party. (13 minutes, color)
The October 1917 Revolution and
After
26 min. GEOG VHS
A documentary presentation of the events of the October Revolution,
from the defeat of the czarist armies and famine in Russia, to
the overthrow of Nicholas and the assumption of power by the
Communists, drawn from Russian and Western newsreel footage and from
the famous Soviet propaganda films
that dramatized some of the events of the Revolution. The program also
shows
the effects of the Revolution in Western Europe: innocents and
idealists
cynically goaded and provoked to marches, protests, and strikes that
were—inevitably—met with brutal repression. (26 minutes, b&w)
Against the
Current 27 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
film about ecological crime and how the residents of Kirishi protest a
local chemical plant.
The Wood
Goblin 17 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
For
15 years a former WW II tank commander lived alone in the woods after a
smear campaign removed him from his Communist party position.
The Temple
58 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
strikingly beautiful film about the 1000th anniversary of Christianity
in Russia and the role of religion in Soviet society.
The Tailor
50 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
sobering look at the spiritual void and disillusionment of middle-aged
Soviet adults, many
of whom became aged before their time.
Early on
Sunday
16 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
wonderful portrait of old village women, whose unpretentious
observations about life, love and perestroika evoke laughter and
compassion.
Chernobyl:
Chronicle of Difficult Weeks 54 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
Shevchenko's film
crew was the first in the disaster zone following the meltdown
of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, documenting
both the disaster and the heroic and horrifying attempts to clean
up.
The Bam Zone
19 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
The
uncompleted Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Railroad in Siberia is a
powerful symbol of the stagnation of the Brezhnev years.
Scenes at a
Fountain 28 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
Dramatically portrays the bold, yet primitive efforts to cap the
world's largest natural gas fire on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
The Limit
15 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
horrifying look
at the personal catastrophe of alcoholism on the lives of
a number of people young and old.
And the Past
Seems But a Dream 87 min.
(The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
50-year reunion of former residents of Igarka reveals a time that was a
painful nightmare, and the complicated attitudes of people towards
Stalin.
Theatre Square
28 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
Without any narration or interviews, this film presents the images and
sounds of
a hunger strike staged over the Nagorno-Karabahk dispute.
Black Square
56 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
The
story of Russia's artistic avant-garde from the 1950's to the 1970's,
when their works were condemned or destroyed.
Dialogues
28 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
bacchanal of rock-jazz and new wave music erupts in an abandoned
Leningrad palace, a demonstration of free musical expression.
This Is How
We
Live 30 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
shocking look at young homegrown fascists and self-styled "punks",
revealing the growing alienation among young people.
Homecoming
17 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
In
words reminiscent of Vietnam veterans, Soviet veterans of the Afghan
War describe their anguish upon their return from the battlefield.
Marshall
Blucher: A Portrait Against the Backdrop of an Epoch
70 min.
A sweeping look at the excesses of the Stalin era
through the story of a top Red Army commander, who in 1938 was declared
an "enemy of the people" and perished in Stalin's torture chambers.
Adonis XIV
9 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
"Judas" goat serenely leads a herd of animals to the slaughterhouse in
this short parable which was banned for 9 years.
The Trial
55 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
A
collective meditation on the past and future of the Soviet Union,
including a testament from the wife of Nikolai Bukharin.
Final Verdict
68 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
An
intense personal examination of the motivations of a young man
sentenced to death for killing two people.
The Evening
Sacrifice 18 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
An
experimental film that attempts to capture the spirit of a crowd.
Are You Going
to
the Ball? 28 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
An
unprecedented look at the hardships young girls, including Olga Korbut,
endured to be a part of the famous Soviet Olympic gymnastics team.
Tomorrow is a
Holiday 19 min. (The
Glasnost Film Festival series) GEOG VHS
Young women workers reveal their alienation over poor working and
living conditions and show their inner strength.
Red
Hot (Soviets
series) 51 min. GEOG VHS
This program includes richly emotional scenes of the survivors of the Armenian
earthquake; interviews with angry workers in a Yaroslavl engine
factory where
one of the first strikes in decades took place; a visit to Chernobyl,
where people are illegally returning to their homes in the
still-radioactive
zone around the nuclear reactor; and footage of the bloody unrest among
the
Mhesks in Uzbekistan. (51 minutes, color)
Awakening
(Soviets series)
52 min. GEOG VHS
This program chronicles the Soviet Union’s faltering steps toward
political pluralism. There are startling, shocking images in this
program: Andrei Sakharov, speaking at a meeting of the Supreme Soviet,
cut off in mid-phrase while talking
about the effects of Stalinism on the Soviet conception of truth; an Armenian
video samizdat showing the killings in Sumgait in 1988, an indifferent
soldiery watching Moslem vigilantes carrying out a pogrom. The program
also looks
at the re-emergence of Christianity in the Soviet Union, and talks to
an
orthodox priest who blames the unrest in the nation to the destruction
of
the church; it also examines the fate of the Baltic states. (52
minutes,
color)
Do
you hear us? (Soviets
series) 52 min. GEOG VHS
Young Afghan war veterans talk about life on the front line during the
war in which 60,000 Soviet troops (the official number) died and many
more were maimed. Now they demonstrate because they feel their
sacrifices were not
justified and not appreciated by Soviet society. The program also talks
to
other nonconformist groups—Latvian hippies, the literary
admirers
of the controversial novelist Bulgakov, and the sinister Pamyat
(Memory)
movement, whose leader mutters darkly against the Western press, the
Masonic
movement, against America. (52 minutes, color)
The
Wall
(Soviets
series) 53 min. GEOG VHS
The
infamous Soviet bureaucracy continues to flourish. In Uzbekistan,
a young Moslem
bride attempts to fight corrupt officials to gain legal redress against
her husband’s accusation that she was not a virgin at marriage. Outside
Leningrad, local people risk losing their jobs when they protest
against
the pollution caused by an artificial eggwhite factory. Boris Yeltsin
also
appears in this program, talking in a tone of amiable despair of a
"hungry
bureaucracy...like a huge wheel. The rust had to be removed. Somebody
had
to give the first push," he says. (53 minutes, color)
Face-to-Face
(Soviets
series) 53 min. GEOG VHS
This program revisits the Baltic states to meet the leaders of
the Latvian People’s Front who are fighting to preserve their national
identity. The program features an interview with the revolutionary
leader of the Green Movement, filmed shortly before he felt compelled
to leave the country for his own safety. The program concludes with
footage of demonstrations, strikes, and riots, as the people take
politics into their own hands. (53 minutes, color)
Privatizing
Soviet Collective Farms 26 min. GEOG VHS
In this timely
documentary, the
difficulties involved in Russia’s attempt to privatize its
collective farms are seen through the eyes of a young Canadian
volunteer. Archival footage traces the brutal history of
collectivization under Stalin in the 1920s. Interviews with a farmer
opposed to the breakup of the collective outline the difficulties
involved in reeducating farmers reared under Communism. A farmer who
has prospered under privatization talks about the benefits of land
ownership. This is a fascinating summary of the struggles facing
post-Soviet Russia. (26 minutes, color)
Post-Soviet Russia: Promises Deferred
55 min. GEOG VHS
This program examines how the Russian city of Gorky has adapted
to a free-enterprise system. We see public reaction to the auction of
government property and the opening of private markets. Class divisions
become apparent in interviews with the Russian nouveau riche, the
Mafia, and average citizens. Ordinary people, tired of waiting for
economic benefits promised through
privatization, support Communist political candidates who promise
renewed
state control and a return to traditional Russian values. The city is
shown
as being torn apart by violent tensions and antagonisms that exist
between
advocates of reform and neo-Communists. (With English subtitles, 55
minutes,
color)
Russia
Today: Ten Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union 2-part series, 61-71 minutes each.. GEOG VHS
A decade after
the disintegration of the Soviet Union, what are the true costs
of sexual freedom and a free press in contemporary Russia? What is the
new threat
posed by Russia’s powerful nuclear arsenal? Will business corruption
ever
be stamped out? And have politics really changed all that much? This
incisive
two-part series—hosted by ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and featuring
interviews
with Vladimir Putin and Boris Berezovsky—travels to Russia to search
for
the answers.
I. Russian Revolutions: Sex, Lies,
and Nuclear Weapons
In segment one
of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel reports on issues related
to the new openness in Russia surrounding sexuality, including the
growth of prostitution, resistance to contraception, and the spread of
AIDS. In segment two, Koppel and correspondent John Donvan examine the
ongoing controversy revolving around the political sellout of the
independent Russian media. And in segment three, Koppel and Donvan
analyze the impoverished and demoralized state of Russia’s soldiery,
tasked with fighting the Chechens and presiding over one of the largest
nuclear arsenals in the world. (61 minutes, color)
II.
Russian Revolutions: The Heavy Hand of Corruption
In segment one
of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent John
Donvan investigate the endemic nature of corruption in Russia, where
bribery is commonplace and paying protection money is considered a
business expense. In segment two, Koppel and billionaire Boris
Berezovsky, identified as the unseen force behind Vladimir Putin’s rise
to power, discuss Berezovsky’s recent foray into politics. And in
segment three, after providing detailed background on Putin, Koppel
interviews the man himself, touching upon his plans to fight
corruption, his KGB affiliations, and his surprising sense of humor.
(66 minutes, color)
The Shattered Mirror
(1992) 58
min. GEOG VHS
Marina Goldovskaya's film, Shattered Mirror is an extraordinary personal
journey through ordinary Russian life at a time of great change. The
filmmaker uses her own camera and familiarity with Russian society to
present an intimate and piercing view of her fellow citizens and her
country. At a fast-moving pace, we meet her friends and acquaintances,
from the simple laborer to a newly rich entrepreneur. The filmmaker turns the camera on her own
life as well, providing deeply personal revelations, through scenes of
her own wedding and of her mother's death. While filming a tense street
confrontation between opposing political forces, she remarks through
her tears, "I am shooting and crying!" The Shattered Mirror
is a remarkable look at the new life, opportunities and challenges the
people of Russia face. (Russian with English narration and subtitles).
Lucky to be Born in Russia
(1994) 58 min. GEOG VHS
Marina Goldovskaya's film, a sequel
to Shattered Mirror, relates the human story behind the
October 1993 armed confrontation in Moscow, when the future of the
Russian nation hung in the balance. Rather than chronicle political
events, Goldvskaya uses her personal style of filmmaking to take the
viewer deep into the "inner life" of Russian society during this
extraordinary period. We visit and watch with many of her friends and
acquaintances as the momentous events unfold. Unable to remain inside
while violent confrontations rage, Goldvskaya boldly takes her camera
into the streets to film dramatic street demonstrations and the
attempted rebel seizure of a television station where she worked for
many years.But the film is more than the story of this confrontation of
political forces. It is the story of a nation searching for a new way,
a moral center, as it moves rapidly towards an unknown future, creating
great pain and social division. Yet, as the title reflects,
Goldvskaya's view remains a hopeful one.
The House With
Knights (1993) 58 min. GEOG VHS
Marina
Goldovskaya's film. The story of the people who lived in the
House with Knights is the story of Russia in the 20th Century. Built in
the early 1900's, this grand apartment building on Arbat Street at
first was the residence of rich and privileged families. Then, after
the revolution of 1917, it was turned into a collective housing unit.
People from all backgrounds were brought in and told, "From now on you
will have to cram together." Through historical footage and the
reminiscences of former residents, some now 98 years old, the
incredible story of the House with Knights comes alive. One resident
describes how "every day you could hear doors banging: they had come to
arrest someone." Another muses: "Today I am sure of nothing. There was
so much hypocrisy and lying that everything I thought to be good was
perhaps no more than an illusion. The only truly real thing was the
people." The narrator remarks, "For 70 years all of Russia was like
this building - a strange family indeed."
A Taste of Freedom (1991)
46 min. GEOG VHS
Marina
Goldovskaya's film. The film starts at the beginning of spring
in 1990. It was the dawning of a new era, a time of burgeoning change
which could not be stopped in a country freshly awakened by
perestroika. Although Communist leadership was still clinging to
its stranglehold on the country's fate, the people wanted otherwise.
The people wanted to revoke the sixth section of the Constitution,
which consolidated the Communist Party's monopoly on power. At
the heart of the film is a young family of journalists –Sasha
Politkovsky, his wife Anna, their children, and even their dog. Sasha
was a prominent TV journalist who was the head anchor on "The View"
(the most topical and least censored TV show of the time). Anna was
destined to become a journalist of truly international fame, proving
her courage, and her journalistic integrity, during her coverage of the
Chechnyan conflict. (NOTE: she was murdered in October 2006).
Journalism is a profession which is most keenly involved in the
political life of a nation. By 1990, perestroika had begun to change
the Soviet Union, letting people get a taste of freedom, like a gulp of
fresh air. But it was no longer enough for most people to have this
small measure of Gorbachev's reforms. People wanted to live in a
country free from communism. The film is a unique glimpse into a time
which is already fading from people's memories, a time of amazing
change and urgency as Russia took its first steps after the fall of a
75-year old totalitarian regime
Solovky Power
(1989) 87
min. GEOG VHS
Marina Goldovskaya's film. Solovky Power is a harrowing
documentary about the first Soviet prison camp, established in a 15th
Century monastery on a remote White Sea island in 1923. The camp became
the model for the dreaded gulags that followed. Solovky operated under
the Leninist motto, "With an iron hand, mankind will be driven to
happiness." In the film, aging survivors of the prison camp offer
a devastating account of the brutality and injustice prisoners endured.
One survivor recalls how 300 inmates were shot and thrown into a pit
one day, simply as a warning to the other prisoners. Old newsreels and
recently discovered letters from prisoners further illustrate the bleak
conditions. When Goldovskaya began this groundbreaking
documentary in the mid-1980's, her mother warned her she was
"committing suicide." But her son told her, "If you don't make the
film, I will despise you for the rest of your life."
The Jewish Steppe
(2001) black
and white, 16 mins (DVD) GEOG
This historical video documents the
tragic history of an agrarian commune established in the Soviet Union
during the Twenties. Although the 1917 Russian Revolution abolished
many previous restrictions on Jewish life, Jews remained the victims of
pogroms and other violence during the ensuing Civil War. In 1924,
30,000 Jewish families decided to become farmers but the only land the
new government could make available to them was on the Crimean steppe,
an area notorious for its hot, arid summers, unfertile soil, and slight
rainfall, with the only water located deep underground. Nevertheless,
entire Jewish families, including the elderly and children, made heroic
efforts to settle the area, build housing, and engage in collective
farming. Within two years the area was recognized as the Soviet Union’s
first Jewish District, complete with its own schools and colleges. This
unusual social experiment came to an end due to Stalinist repression in
the late Thirties and, following the devastation of WWII, the Jewish
settlements were never reconstructed. Directed by Valery Ovchinnikov. We
are grateful to the Jewish Studies program for this copy.
Hermitage
masterpieces (DVD, 8h 18 min N3350
.H465 2004)
After a brief history of the
founding of St. Petersburg and a biographical sketch of Peter the
Great, the viewer is taken on a tour of the galleries of the Hermitage
Museum housing masterpieces from ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the 20th Century.
Inside the Soviet Union:
Before Gorbachev. From Stalin to
Brezhnev
50 min. 1990 GEOG
Made for celebration of
the 60th anniversary of
the October Revolution, this ambitious film documents the history of
the USSR
for those
60 years.
Russian around Europe:
Learn World Geography
2001
30 min. GEOG
“The Standard
Deviants,
an exciting troupe of young actors
and comedians, will be your guides for this enjoyable learning
adventure.”
World Geography 2: Russia, the Caucasus
& Central Asia 2002 26
min GEOG
“Standard Deviants
School
is an educational and entertaining, lesson-based learning supplement
based on
the award-winning Standard Deviants teaching style.”
Explore Europe as a world shaper and the
important region that contains Russia,
the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Portrait
of the Soviet Union
1980s 3 volumes 2-3 hour long each GEOG
[donation from Dr. Judith
Tyner]
Stereotypes 1990 25
min. GEOG VHS
As the first U.S./Soviet animated
co-production, Stereotypes blends full-cell animation and live
action in a witty parody of the superpowers' traditional views of one
another.
Sotsgorod:
Cities For Utopia
1995 92 min. GEOG VHS
In the late 1920s and early 30s, well-known Western European architects
were invited to create the workers' paradises in Siberia. The film visits
four of the cities that were built: Magnitogorsk,
Orsk, Novokuznetsk
and Kemerovo. The
success
of these Sotsgorods ("Socialist Cities") is
examined by following a resident in each city as he goes to work,
shops, eats dinner. Nothing spectacular, but by looking at the quality
of day-to-day lives, the film tries to measure the success of the once
robust ideals of the architects.
The Moscow Region (The
New Russia series) (20 minutes)
GEOG VHS
Moscow
and its surrounding region represent the largest population center in
Russia. This program looks at what makes this city of ten million
distinctive as a great capital city, and examines Moscow’s role as the
center of urban and economic development in the new Russia.
Three-dimensional graphic simulations of the city allow viewers to
"fly" across the landscape and into Moscow to understand its network of
roads, railroads, and suburbs. In addition to looking at Moscow’s role
as the seat of the government, the program visits several local
businesses, including a factory, a bank, and the biggest McDonald’s in
the world.
The Kuzbass (The
New Russia series) 20 min 1995 GEOG VHS
This
program travels on the Trans-Siberian Railway nearly 1,000 miles east
of Moscow to Novokuznetsk, in
the center of the Kuzbass. The Kuzbass is
a region deep in Siberia, with bone-chilling winters, bordered by
forests and marshes on one side and mountains on the other. It is also
at the heart of Russia’s heavy industrial heartland. The program
explores the town of Novokuznetsk, which is dominated by a huge steel
mill that can be seen and smelled from anywhere in town. We look at the
old Stalinist center of town and its high-rise suburbs, and visit a
country house (dacha) in the surrounding wooded mountains. The program
also interviews local residents who describe what life is like in the
region.
The Volga River (The New Russia series) 20 min 1995 GEOG VHS
This
program explores the characteristics of a great river system as we
travel its length, from its source between Moscow and St. Petersburg to
its delta on the Caspian Sea. The program examines many of the river’s
characteristics, from the reservoirs formed by a series of huge
hydroelectric dams to the concentration of heavy industry on the river
and the resulting pollution, and explores the river’s vital importance
to commerce. Boatmen, ecologists, marine biologists, and sturgeon
fishermen also contribute their impressions of life on and around the
Volga.
The
Steppes of North Caucasus (The New Russia series) 20 min 1995 GEOG VHS
This
program joins a small group of farmers for the wheat harvest on the
vast plains of the Russian Steppes.
It is some of the best farmland in
the country—flat, fertile, and very hot in the summer—and it’s about as
far south as one can go in the new Russia. The program explores the
impact on farming methods and the way of life for Russian farmers, as
the giant collective farms of the Communist era have given way to
farmers who now own their own land. Using three-dimensional graphics
and aerial photography, the program flies over the region to allow us
to see the region’s geographical relationship to the rest of Russia.
Noril'sk:
Life in the Arctic
(The
New Russia series) 20 min 1995 GEOG VHS
Although
northern Russia is one of the most inhospitable places on earth, over
200,000 people live in the city of Norilsk, which lies inside the
Arctic Circle. This program explores this extraordinary city and its
surrounding tundra. The area is rich in minerals and the program
focuses on how its delicate ecology is affected by open cast mining,
nickel smelting, and oil pipelines. The region can only be reached by
air or through a nearby port. The program visits in midwinter and
observes as an icebreaker clears a channel. The program also travels
into the arctic wilderness to meet the nomadic native peoples and
experience their way of life and to understand the impact that the
industrialization of the area has had on them.
The
Russian Orthodox Church 30 min
DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
This
program captures the sights and smells and other-worldly color of the
revived Orthodox Church in Russia
and traces its history, from
oppression under Stalin to its newfound freedom. Some fascinating and
often deeply moving interviews with families of believers complement
the visual splendor of Church worship. The program also examines the
new challenge to orthodoxy presented by the rival Catholic Church
competing in a free market of souls.
Russian
Orthodoxy: Russian Rites 15 min
DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
This
program examines the rituals of the Russian Orthodox Church. Persecuted
under communism, it is now flourishing and exerting an impact on
Russian life. A young Russian
woman talks about how she incorporates
the religion into her daily life. At an ornate cathedral in Moscow, we
attend the Divine Liturgy, or formal Russian service, and a Baptism, at
which the rituals and the significance of the various religious
symbols, including icons and iconostases, are explained.
The Face
on the Firewood (Part I of
The Face
of Russia series) 60
min. GEOG VHS
Reveals the
spiritual ideas that have animated
Russia for 1,000 years, witnesses recent restorations of churches and
monasteries from Kiev to the Kremlin, and looks at icon painting, the
first Russian art form.
The
Facade of Power (Part
II of The
Face of Russia series)
60 min. GEOG VHS
Explores the
advance of Russian music and cinema,
including the great composer Musorgsky, director Sergei Eisenstein, and
looks at how new media forms are shaping Russia during its current time
of change.
Facing
the Future (Part III of The
Face of Russia series)
60 min. GEOG
VHS
Examines Russian architecture, from the
Eastern-inspired onion domes
on churches to the Western-type palaces of unparalleled splendor. Also
looks at the writings of Gogol, including Dead Souls, which still
influences Russian artists today.
Moscow:
Rich in Russia [Video
Anthology for Pulsipher’s
textbook]
Ask Dmitrii
A
brave new world of
young capitalists and tycoons
Volga:
The Soul of
Russia
5:16 DVD
[Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii, Christine or Angela
Uncontrolled pollution of the river
during the Soviet period.
Silk
Road journey: from China through Central Asia 47 min. DVD (Library) DS10
.S555 2007
A very basic,
descriptive,
touristy intro to the the area. Retraces the route of the Silk Road from
China through Central Asia. China (Beijing, the Great Wall, Xian).
Steeped in history, colored by
centuries of lore, a journey along the ancient route of the Silk Road
is the ultimate travel experience.This exciting program follows the
historic Silk Road across the mountains, oases, and deserts of western
China and Central Asia.Join us on a journey along one of the most
famous routes of history and experience these extraordinary places:
# Starting from
the modern Chinese capital of Beijing,
we travel to the ancient Chinese capital of Xian, head of the Silk Road.
# Dunhang
at the edge of the Gobi Desert,
where ancient Buddhist
treasures dazzled 19th century European explorers.
# The western most
remnants of the Great Wall, and
the low, hot Turpan Oasis, where ancient mud-brick cities are returning
to the sands.
# Across the
fearsome Taklamakan Desert to
Urumqi to Hotan to Kashgar, where silk is still processed in the
centuries old traditional manner.
# Kyrgyzstan,
a country where nomadic
herders spend the summer in yurts. Bishkek to Osh.
# Fergana Valley.
The Uzbek cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukara and Khiva
noted for their stunning Islamic architecture, hand woven carpets and
lively markets.
# Remote and
extraordinary Turkmenistan.
Travels across
Central Asia in
the footsteps of Marco Polo and the silk merchants' caravans from
Beijing to Samarkand, past Magao Cave dwellings, through the Taklamaken
desert and wild mountain passes into Kyrgyzstan, and onward to
Uzbekistan.
The Silk
Road: music, art, and poetry from Istanbul to Samarqand 33 min. DVD (Library) DS33.1 .S556 2006
This is not a video film, rather still image
based presentation
with local music; the geography is also incomplete as China is
excluded. "Traces the Silk Road through Turkey, Iran,
Afghanistan, and Central Asia, where Islam flourished after the 7th
century with an artistic renaissance that reflected the beauty of
Persian culture. The legendary journey of the caravans forms a backdrop
for this region's exquisite legacy of music, poetry, and visual arts.
The DVD features six selections of Persian classical music and Sufi
music recorded up to 40 years ago, with 140 photos of Islamic art and
architecture in historic Silk Road cities of western Asia. From
Istanbul, a choir performs Persian poetry in its traditional form,
through song. Persian classical music of the 6th century unfolds as the
expression of a moment in time, or a state of being. A Sufi call to
prayer is performed on the ney, a reed flute whose tone is the symbol
of the ecstatic, in an order of Dervishes founded in the 13th century
by the poet Jallaludin Rumi. A Sufi melody is performed on the ney in
the mode of nostalgia, bringing the past and present together in a
timeless rhythm. A flute solo from Samarqand improvises on a Sufi
theme, evoking the mystical feeling of this ancient
land"--www.silkroadmusicandart.com
Ukraine:
Birth of a
Nation DVD 4 disks (Library)
DK508.12 .U573 2008
Four films by a Polish director (Jerzy
Hoffman) dedicated to the
cultural and political history of Ukraine.
Crossroads:
Ukraine and the triumph of democracy DVD
62 mins (Library) JN6639.A15 C86 2007
Documentary film about Ukraine's Orange
Revolution in 2004 and the difficult first year of its new
government. The western view.
Bereza Kartuzka
1934-1939 55 min DVD (Library) DK4409.5 .B47 2008
"Bereza Kartuzka tells the story of the infamous
Polish concentration
camp in which thousands of Ukrainian patriots were imprisoned between
1934 and 1939. Former camp prisoners filmed in Canada, United States,
Belarus, Poland and Ukraine
provied first-hand accounts."
Okradena zemlya
= Genocide revealed 75
min DVD (Library) DK508.833 .G46 2009
Genocide Revealed is a historical feature
documentary focusing on the
1932-1933 forced famine in Soviet Ukraine
engineered by Stalinʼs
regime. The film depicts a human tragedy of unparalleled proportions.
Up to to 12 million starved to death. Based on moving testimonies of
survivors; commentaries by historians and writers; rare historical film
and photos of the period; Soviet archival documents; this feature
documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Yurij Luhovy, examines the
genocidal intent in the efforts to destroy Ukrainians as an independent
nation.
Life
expectancy: geography
as destiny DVD
31 min (Library)
HB1335
.L533 2005
Give students a context
in which to study the world’s widely varying life expectancy
statistics. Focusing discussion on economic and cultural factors, this
program examines dramatic discrepancies between life spans in the
United States, Japan, Russia,
and the developing nation of Sierra
Leone—where a high infant mortality rate creates the lowest life
expectancy in the world. The video presents alarming findings at the
opposite end of the economic spectrum as well—in Okinawa and West
Virginia, where links between obesity and mortality rates are growing,
and in Moscow and its suburbs, where the pressures of rapid social
change are lowering life expectancy.
Russia land of the
tsars
2 videodiscs (319
min.) (Library)
DVD DK61
.R87 2003
From the first
settlement of Russe
Vikings to the brutal murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, this
epic program encompasses nearly a thousand years of despair and
rebellion, innovation and conflict. Explores the tumultuous lives of
figures like Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Catherine the
Great. Events include the December Revolution and Napoleon's ill-fated
invasion and how they changed history. Russia
Why we fight V. 5. The Battle of Russia (Library) D743.23
.W49 1998 v.5
In these films,
Frank Capra
directed a series to explain the necessity of the Second World War
to the American people. Often using film footage from enemy sources,
the series
is a compelling contemporary document of how motion pictures can
be used as propaganda for the purpose of arousing a nation to fight.
Russia/USSR
Genghis Blues
90 min. (Library)
DVD ML3680.7.T9
G45 2000
The
story
of a blind blues singer, Paul Pena, and his triumpant
trek
to the forgotten land of Tuva to learn about the
mysterious art of throat singing.
He travels to Tuva to live and compete in
their triennial throat singing contest. Winner: Sundance audience award
(2000); nomination: best documentary Oscar (2000).
Central
Asia: markets at the crossroads 21
min. (Library)
DVD DS328.2
.C46 2006
Travel the ancient
Silk Road and meet
descendants of Alexander the
Great, Genghis Khan, and Tamerlane. Retrace the paths taken by caravans
of camels carrying silks, paper, and gunpowder to the what has been the
greatest trade route in history. Central
Asia, slide show with commentaries by an independent traveller.
[Legko li byt molodym? (romanized
form)] = Is
it easy to be young? 85
min. (Library)
HQ799.L3
I8 1988
Originally
released in the Soviet Union by Riga Kino Studios in
1986 as a motion picture.
Director, Yuri Podniek.
Summary
Alienated youth in the Soviet
Union.
Power
trip 85
min. DVD (Library)
HF1413
.P6947 2006
A comic clash of
cultures that combusts when AES,
an American energy
company, tries to transform the dysfunctional electric system in the
former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
The tragedy of the Soviet Union collapse.
05.
Central America
2. Boundaries and
Borderlands GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 2]
Twin
Cities, Divided Lives — A single Mexican
mother’s daily struggle for survival introduces us to concepts of
relative location and geographic regions.
Operation Hold
the Line — The U.S.-Mexico
borderlands form a unified cultural and economic region with qualities
of both nations.
21. Population Geography GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 14]
Mexico:
Motive To Migrate — A geographer's
research reveals a major source of Mexican migration: the
North-Central “Hollow Core.”
Guatemala:
Population and Conquest — Every
year a greater number of Maya Indian victims of “continuing
conquest” must share inadequate agricultural resources.
6. The Boxer
- GEOG (Life I
series)
Young male
looks to escape Mexican poverty by becoming a boxer in the
United States.
26. A-OK?
- GEOG (Life I series)
Examines
prospects for Vitamin A distribution programs in Guatemala and
Ghana necessary for children's health.
14. The Other
Side - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Poor Mexicans
attempt perilous border crossing to US, often at the expense of family,
traditional culture, and their lives.
2. Danger:
Children at Work - GEOG (Life III
series)
Guatemalan
agencies try to discourage child labor and fireworks production by poor
families.
Mexico City
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Understanding
Urban Sprawl
47 min DVD GEOG
c/o
Dmitrii
In
this program, scientist and environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki examines
the social, economic, and environmental implications of "sprawl," the
low-density development that spreads out from the edges of cities and
towns. For decades suburban housing has carried the promise of
paradise, but the need for
continuous infrastructure development and the intensification of
sprawl-related
ecological issues, which are eroding health and quality of life, are
making
the true impact of suburbia painfully clear in the areas surrounding
Los
Angeles, Mexico City, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
However,
Portland, Oregon, has become a model of what can be accomplished when
administrators, businesses, and residents commit themselves to slowing
sprawl and reestablishing the amenities that make for a happy and
healthy community.
Understanding
Cities 53 min DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
For
the first time in civilization’s history, more people live in cities
than outside of them. This program goes around the world to look at
cities past and present with a focus on issues of transportation,
electricity, light, water, sewage, and trash. The program examines
differences between cities that have evolved over time and planned
cities, such as Brazil’s capital and utopian experiment, Brasília, and
Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán,
the first planned city in Mesoamerica.
Cameras explore the construction of a new line in London’s Underground
and a new aqueduct in New York City. Portland is presented as a
paradigm of modern urban planning. A Discovery Channel Production.
Mexico:
A death in the desert. The fatal journey of a migrant
worker
[Video
Anthology for
Pulsipher’s textbook]
Property
of Dmitrii
Chapter 3 Middle and
South America
Guatemala:
Coffee Country [Video
Anthology for
Pulsipher’s textbook]
Ask
Dmitrii
Can fair trade save the
farm?
Factory
Work in
Juarez, Mexico 3:00 DVD [Video Set for Rowntree’s textbook]
Ask Dmitrii, Christine
or Angela
Maquiladora, young worker
Nicaragua: Turning Away from
Violence (Fighting the Tide: Developing
Nations and Globalization series) 2004
26 min. (GEOG)
DVD
In Nicaragua, a growing awareness of
domestic violence and its consequences has spurred grassroots activism.
This program documents the efforts of two groups, the Xochitl-Acatl
Center and the Association of Men Against Violence, both of which
confront gender and sexual abuse. Arguing that economic and political
oppression influence male tendencies to exercise physical authority
within the home, the video describes educational campaigns that build
financial self-sufficiency and self-esteem in both men and women.
Interviews with participants feature more than one success story.
Guatemala: The Human Price of Coffee (Fighting
the Tide: Developing
Nations and Globalization series) 2004
26 min. (GEOG)
DVD
Coffee is second only to
oil as the world’s
most valuable traded commodity, but small-scale producers rarely profit
from it. This program reveals the hardship and uncertainty faced by
coffee farmers in Guatemala,
and how many are taking steps to obtain better prices and build better
lives. Analyzing the country’s traumatic history and the lingering
effects of its civil war, the video sheds light on the reluctance of
some citizens to organize for fear of persecution and murder. The video
clearly demonstrates that behind every pound of coffee lies a story of
human struggle.
US-Cuban relations 7 months after Elian Gonzalez (ABC NEWS/Prentice Hall
Video Libary, Cessette 1) 1999
VHS 20:01 min (GEOG)
Classic
Mexican American Culture Films DVD (1930s - 1960s) 58 min DVD GEOG
(1) A
Street Of
Memory (1937) - Features the sights and sounds of daily life
from Olvera Street in Los Angeles during the late 30's. Length:
00:08:44
(2) Why
Braceros?
(1959) - Propaganda film about immigrant Mexican laborers, the bracero
program, and the impact on California's working class and economy.
Length: 00:18:53
(3) Good
Friday
Through Cuernavaca (1960s) - Classic travelogue film through Cuernavaca, Mexico. Length:
00:015:19
Vintage
Guatemala Films (1930s - 1960s) 10 min DVD GEOG
(1) Guatemala
Training Base Newsreel Footage From April 19th, 1961, that
discusses the possibility of Cuban Soldiers training in Guatemala.
Length: 00:00:45
(2) Menace
of
Guatemala (1934) - Beautiful black and white travelogue about
Guatemala, which for some reason is focused on the threat of
volcanoes. Features great footage of Guatemalan culture, people,
and places, including weaving, fishing, dress, food preparation, and
more. Length: 00:08:53
Panama:
A Man, a Plan, a Canal (2004, 60 min.) VHS GEOG
A 30-year dream. A 50-mile shortcut.
A timeless achievement.
A 50-mile shortcut to the Pacific lying just north of the equator is
one of the most extraordinary human achievements ever. The building of
the Panama Canal was a massive feat of engineering and ingenuity that
cost millions of dollars and thousands of lives. NOVA offers a unique
opportunity to explore the mind-boggling undertaking through historic
film footage, rare archival photographs and insightful narration from
author David McCullough.
Get an unprecedented look at the Canal's dangerous 30-year construction
and wondrous present-day operation. Meet the persevering pioneers whose
vision and determination overcame tremendous physical—and
fiscal—obstacles. Understand why France abandoned the project after ten
years and 20,000 deaths. Work alongside the builders who turned a
fantastic dream into a fascinating reality. See immense steamshovels
carve the earth. View the amazing "water elevators" that lift huge
vessels 85 feet. Watch high-speed photography capture a lock passage.
And much more!
Tell Me Cuba
88 min, 2006 DVD (Library) E183.8.C9 T45 2010
Beginning with a summary of Cuban
history from the island's 16th-century subjugation by Spanish
conquistadors tot he 20th-century communist revolution, this program
scrutinizes the current state of U.S./Cuba relations through the eyes
of progressives, who want to put the past behind them for the benefit
of Cubans still suffering from the decades-long U.S. embargo, and the
anti-Castro expatriate community, which sees normalization of relations
as a victory for despotism and a repudiation of their deeply held
convictions. The political standoff between America and its communist
neighbor has consistently defied remediation, and filmmaker Megan
Williams does not pretend there is a universally acceptable solution.
1. Imagining new
worlds
27 min. (Library)
GF41 .H86 1996 v.1
Human Geography:
people, places and change
series.
Cancun, Mexico,
looks
remarkably different to the international tourists who come to get
away, to the Mayan descendants who farm their fathers' land, to the
Mexicans who find employment at resorts, and to the global corporations
that see opportunity for investments. These contrasting experiences of
different people in the same region are what geographers call
"geographical imaginations."
Mexico
City: the impossible city 26 min DVD (Library)
HT330
.M48 2005
Defines Mexico
City's globalization in terms
of winners and losers,
examining how, in the world's largest metropolis, immigration
challenges are linked to poverty and population influx from surrounding
rural areas. Contrasting the high-tech facilities and fashionable
neighborhoods with its sprawling slums and struggling inhabitants, the
program outlines the relationship between foreign investment and the
worldwide need for cheap labor, which Mexico and its indigenous peoples
readily supply. Glimpses into a tech-savvy youth culture and the
persistent Zapatista movement reinforce the capital's nickname: City of
Contrasts.
Ancient
splendors 59
min. (Library) N5334
.A525 1996
Filmed on location
at Luxor, Egypt;
Tikal, Guatemala;
the Acropolis, Greece;
and Angkor Wat,
Cambodia.
Chiapas 60
min. (Library)
F1256
.C44 1999
Examines
the 30 year rebellion and conflict between the Mexican
government and the indigenous population in Chiapas.
Todos Santos: the
survivors 58 min. (Library)
F1477.A1
T6 1989
Documents the
changes wrought
by guerrilla warfare and government reprisal in the Indian village
of Todos Santos Cuchumatan, in the Guatemalan
highlands, since the documentary of that name was made in 1979.
Wetback:
the undocumented
documentary 139
min.DVD (Library)
HD8081.N52
W47 2005
Follows several
migrants from Central America
and Mexico on their
journey to North America. The film begins in Nicaragua and takes the
viewer through five borders. Border control tightens as the migrants
move North. Gangs in Mexico and vigilante groups in the USA are some of
the perils the migrants might have to face on their way to the American
Dream. Features include director interview.
Maquilapolis
= City
of factories DVD 68 min. (Library)
HD6101.Z6
T55 2006
Explores the
environmental
devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana's
assembly factories and the female laborers who have organized
themselves for social action. Maquiladora workers produce televisions,
electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave
the very fabric of life for consumer nations. They also confront labor
violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos -- life on the
frontier of the global economy. Carmen and her colleague Lourdes reach
beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change: Carmen
takes a major television manufacturer to task for violating her labor
rights. Lourdes pressures the government to clean up a toxic waste dump
left behind by a departing factory. Incorporates video diaries by the
women. URBAN
06.
Caribbean
4. Together
Against Violence - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Poor Jamaican
community overcomes violence.
Historic
Puerto Rico History Films
31 min
DVD GEOG
(1) Democracy At
Work In Rural Puerto Rico (1940) - Propaganda piece
showing how
democracy has brough peace and prosperity to Puerto Rico. Full of
scenes of the life and times of Puerto Rican farmers and laborers with
excellent footage of agricultural landscapes, hand made products, and
the wonderful scenery of Puerto Rico. Length: 00:20:03
(2) Report
On Puerto Rico (1955) - Another propaganda film about how
industry and agriculture are thriving in Puerto Rico and bringing good
jobs to the masses. More great footage of manufacturing, mining,
and farming from across the island. Length: 00:11:41
Vintage
Haiti Films 9 min DVD GEOG
Introduction to Haiti (1942)
Belize
Coral Reef 5:07
DVD [Video Set for Rowntree’s
textbook] Ask Dmitrii,
Christine or Angela
Belize
The Greening of Cuba 38
min. DVD (Library)
This video
profiles Cuban
farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture,
based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported
agricultural inputs. In their quest for self-sufficiency, Cubans
combine time-tested traditional methods with cutting-edge
biotechnology. Cuba
Vieques:
worth every bit of struggle 55
min. DVD (Library)
F1981.V5
V55 2005
Discusses the
people's protest
against the U.S. Navy's controversial
use of Vieques, a municipality of Puerto Rico, as a military training,
exercise and deployment base. Uses interviews with residents, military
spokespeople and leaders, scenes of military maneuvers, naval bombings
and protest demonstrations to explore what the naval presence has meant
for Vieques and its people. It looks at the issues that led up to the
referendum on the future of U.S. involvement on Vieques.
Great day in Havana DVD 73 min//Spanish and English
dialogue, English subtitles. 2001 (Library)
PN1997
.G68395 2003
A
vibrant
celebration of artists and musicians in Havana, Cuba's capital. Musicians, painters, sculptors,
writers, and filmmakers reveal and reflect on Cuba's
precarious political climate, its African heritage, the ironies of
tourism, and how to live with dignity in the face of the United
States
embargo.
Life and debt
86 miin (Library)
VHS HC154
.L54 2001
Set in Jamaica,
this film is a case study of how contemporary free trade policies and
global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund,
World Bank and World Trade Organization affect the economies of
developing nations. Includes interviews with IMF
Deputy Director Stanley Fischer, Haitian president Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, Jamaica's former Prime Minister
Michael Manley as well as
tourists, farmers, Rastafarians, factory workers and others.
Life and debt
86
min. DVD (Library) HC154
.L54 2003
Jamaica
became an independent country from Great Britain in 1962. It is the
land of sea, sand and sun ... but it is also a prime example of the
complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing
countries. Effectively portrays the relationship between Jamaican
poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while
driving home the devasting consequences of globalization.
Waiting for Fidel 58
min. DVD (Library)
F1788.22.C3
W347 2004
An unlikely trio -
filmmaker
Michael Rubbo, Geoff Stirling, a millionaire Canadian broadcaster and
higher consciousness seeker - and Joey Smallwood, a former Premier of
Newfoundland, travel to
Cuba in a private jet. Their
goal is to meet with Fidel Castro and
create a dialogue between him and the United States. But Fidel never
shows up. Michael Rubbo records each step of this wayward quest to meet
the leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro. A groundbreaking film, inspired
Michael Moore (Roger and Me).
Of
men
and gods
52 min. DVD (Library)
HQ76.2.H3
O35 2002
Through interviews with several openly gay Haitian
men, this film
examines Haitian society's attitude towards homosexuality. Although
homosexuality is considered taboo, gay culture is allowed to flourish
within the context of the Vodou religion. As "children of the Gods" gay
men find an outlet for theatrical expression through exhilarating
performances in which they embody the gods. The film also deals with
how the daily lives of gay men in Haiti are affected by AIDS. Haiti
07. S America
22.
Dynamic Pacific Rim GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 15/16]
Ecuador:
Orange Alert —
When scientists
monitoring the Tungurahua Volcano see dangerous signs, they have to
advise
the government: evacuate or remain? Ecuador
Chile: Pacific
Rim Player —
Bordered to the east
by the towering Andes Mountains and to the west by the Pacific Ocean, Chile
enjoys continued economic growth.
23. Brazil: The Sleeping Giant GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century) [Older
version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 15/16]
Sao Paulo:
The Outer Ring —
The sprawling
mega-city of Sao Paulo is evidence that Latin America is among
the most rapidly urbanizing regions.
A Second
Chance for Amazonia? —
An American
scientist discovers new possibilities for sustainable development in
the Amazon basin.
2. Geraldo
Off-Line - GEOG (Life I series)
Globalized
economy affects Brazilian factory worker.
15. The Posse
- GEOG (Life I series)
Rap group
in Sao Paulo, Brazil, expresses social problems.
27. Bolivian
Blues - GEOG (Life I series)
Explores the
success of new initiative to reduce widespread poverty. Bolivia?
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.
7. Doing the
Right Thing - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Porto Alegre,
Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization.
6. Pavements of
Gold - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Increase
in urban poverty and population, caused by globalization, threatens Peruvians.
16. Brazil:
Winning Against AIDS - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Brazil
has developed generic antiretroviral drugs to care for those afflicted
with HIV/AIDS.
Hidden
Internment:
The Art Shibayama Story 30 min. GEOG
During
World War II, the US government kidnapped and interned over 2,000
Japanese Latin Americans to be used for hostage
exchange with Japan.
Winner Berkeley
Video &
Film Festival, 2004. "Probably 90-95% of Americans do not even
know...that the United States went hostage shopping in Latin America
and took Latin American citizens." -Karen Parker, Human Rights
Attorney. The film reveals the lesser-known
history of the Japanese-Latin American internment. The half-hour film,
which received funding from the California Civil Liberties Public
Education Program, centers on the life story of Art Shibayama, who, at
age 13, was forcibly removed from Peru with his family and interned in
Crystal City, Texas. Despite this internment, Art was denied
redress equal to that provided to Japanese Americans. Art
is currently pursuing a lawsuit for equal reparations and an apology
and full disclosure of the violations committed by the U.S. during
World War II.
Rio
de Janeiro - GEOG
(SuperCities series)
A Cyber-Tale of
Three Cities:
Improving the Urban Landscape
29 min GEOG
In this program,
three teenagers use the Internet to discuss
the poor living conditions in their home cities of Manila, Beirut, and
Fortaleza, Brazil, and what is being done to improve them. Among
the challenges being faced are extreme pollution, severe war damage,
and urgent housing shortages. As a result of their chat sessions, they
go into their communities to investigate the problems firsthand. With
more than half the world’s population now living in urban centers, the
need for creative city planning and citizen participation in community
issues is greater than ever before. A United Nations production.
Slum Cities
46 min DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
Each week, in countries
around the globe, nearly a million people say goodbye to their homes in
impoverished rural regions—and move to even worse conditions in cities.
This program explores the tragic results: illegal slums filled with
some of the poorest people in the world, lacking water, sanitation, and
other resources needed to support exploding populations. Viewers are
shown the lives and homes of those who struggle in the slums of Mumbai,
India, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and who face the threat of eviction,
the spread of disease, and rampant drug dealing and gang violence on a
daily basis. Slum residents, as well as those who have broken out of
the cycle of poverty, share their personal insights and frustrations
regarding this urgent international issue. (46 minutes)
Colombian
War on
Cocaine
8:24 DVD
[Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii, Christine
or Angela
Ecuador: Divided over Oil
(Fighting the Tide:
Developing
Nations and Globalization series) 2004 26 min. (GEOG)
DVD
`This
program contrasts indigenous, community-based culture with market
economics driven by multinational corporations. The film assesses the
growing conflict between Burlington Resources, an American oil company
licensed to prospect in regions of Ecuador,
and the self-sufficient Achuar people of that country, who believe the
oil industry will destroy their environment and non-materialistic way
of life. Underscoring the Ecuadorian government’s tendency to
accommodate U.S. interests, the video portrays a country divided by
incompatible definitions of wealth and happiness. (Portions have
English subtitles)
Understanding
Cities 53 min DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
For
the first time in civilization’s history, more people live in cities
than outside of them. This program goes around the world to look at
cities past and present with a focus on issues of transportation,
electricity, light, water, sewage, and trash. The program examines
differences between cities that have evolved over time and planned
cities, such as Brazil’s capital and utopian experiment, Brasília, and
Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán, the first planned city in Mesoamerica.
Cameras explore the construction of a new line in London’s Underground
and a new aqueduct in New York City. Portland is presented as a
paradigm of modern urban planning. A Discovery Channel Production.
Historic
Uruguay Films DVD GEOG
(1) Uruguay
(1949) - This is a solid educational film about the culture,
agriculture and lifestyles of people in Uruguay and includes good
vintage footage of the country, its landscape, and its inhabitants.
(2) Young
Uruguay (1943) - This quaint video from the 1940s shows a slice
of life for a young person in Uruguay. It explores many different
topics and offers great footage.
Historic
Chile Films 58
min DVD GEOG
(1) Housing in
Chile: One Government's Plan to Provide Better Homes (1943)
- A
spectacular film about life, poverty, urban growth and government in
Santiago, Chile. This documentary film follows, Emanuel Blanco, a
barber and father of three, whose family is forced to live in a slum
due to a lack of affordable housing. The film focuses on housing
developments and the importance of affordable housing in developing a
healthy and happy working class society. The Office of the
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and Julien Bryan presented this
film, which was the eight in a series of films on Latin America.
Length: 00:18:11
(2) South
Chile (1945) - This beautiful film features the magic and
mystique of The Andes, Patagonia and the mountainous lake district of
southern Chile. Documenting Chile's rich cultural history this
film focuses on the agricultural and sheep industry which is vital to
Southern Chilean life. The film also appears to have an obsession
with the idea that there is so much uncultivated and unexplored land in
Patagonia, seemingly drooling over the possible tourist
opportunities. This film was produced by the Office Of The
Coordinator Of Inter-American Affairs directed by Julien Bryan. Length:
00:20:18
(3) Fundo
in Chile (1949) - "This is a story about the fertile central
valley of Chile. It is a tale of contrasts, of the old life and
of the new." This film documents fundo, or plantation farm
culture in Chile, where most land is owned by a small wealthy minority,
while being worked by the poor minority. The film follows two
sons, whom recently inherited pieces a fundo from their father.
One son chooses to take an active role in farming and developing his
land and largely increases yields. The second son stays with
conventional practice of letting the laborers do all the work.
This propaganda film lobbies for a move to smaller farms and more
owners to improve the lives of the workers and the production of
Chilean farms. This film was produced by the Office Of The
Coordinator Of Inter-American Affairs. Length: 00:20:07
Historic
La Paz, Bolivia Films Length: 00:16:39 min DVD GEOG
(1) La
Paz (1943) - A
beautiful look at the
city and citizens of La Paz, Bolivia. This film presents the
culture and people of La Paz and then the narration switches to focus
on the development of La Paz's natural resources and economy.
Features amazing footage of landscape scenery, streets markets,
industrial factories, food preparation, sports, and
architecture.
Historic
Peru Films Length:
33 min
DVD GEOG
(1) Lima
Family
(1944) - Explores a day in the life of a wealthy Peruvian family that
resides in an upper-class neighborhood in Lima. Length: 00:18:09
(2) Lima
(1944) - In depth look at the capital of Peru, Lima. Length: 00:15:21
Historic
Venezuela Films 24
min DVD GEOG
(1) Assignment:
Venezuela (1956) - This film follows an American oil
executive
and his family as they relocate to Venezuela. What a great historical
film about the Venezuelan oil industry in general and how it was built
from the ground up. A Sound masters production. Length: 00:24:18
The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of
Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon, the infamous
“Amazon Chernobyl” case. Ecuador
Cocalero
PN1995.9.D6 C6335 2006 94 min DVD 2006.
(Library)
An Aymara Indian coca leaf
grower named Evo Morales travels through the Andes and Amazon in jeans
and sneakers, leading a historic bid to become Bolivia's first
indigenous president. The filmmakers capture the intimate moments and
Morales' rise to power.
Understanding
cities VHS 51
min. (Library)
HT151
.U52 1997
Shows how
cities live and die from the ground up-and down. Explores the
transportation, water and sewer systems, and architectural landmarks of
5 great cities. Historians, urban planners, architects and social
scientists assess the past, present and future of the crowded, crowning
symbols of civilization. Profiled cities include New York, Washington,
D.C., Portland, Ore., Seaside, Fla., Miami, Teotihuacan, and Brasilia.
WorldFrontline:
Stories
from a small
planet 57 min. (Library)
D857
.S767 2002 no.103
VHS 2002
Iraq -
Truth and lies in Baghdad
Colombia - Pipeline war
Quilombo
country
73 min DVD .
(Library)
HT1128
.Q844 2006
Provides a
portrait of rural
communities in Brazil that
were founded by
runaway slaves or begun from abandoned plantations. This type of
community is known as a "Quilombo", from an Angolan word that means
"encampment." As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today.
Bride service
10 min. (Library) Video
Cassette 10144
A film
about the Yanomamö Indians near the headwaters of the Orinoco
river in
Southern Venezuela.
Bus
174 120
min. DVD (Library)
HV6604.B7
B87 2004
A powerful,
award-winning examination
of the tragic series of events
that followed a desperate bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro in 2000 that
turned deadly when a SWAT team took evasive action against the
drug-addled hijacker.
Favela
rising 80
min. (Library) HV4075.R53
F38 2006
Favela Rising is a
documentary about
the slums of Rio, the favelas,
specifically the most violent one, Vigário Geral. A real-life
version of City of God. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro favelarising.com
08. E
Asia
9.
Changes on the Chang Jiang GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 23]
Shanghai:
Head of the Dragon — Shanghai
enters the 21st century on a wave of development, ready to
reclaim its
legacy as China’s commercial center.
Sijia: Small
Town, Big Change — The steady
growth of a township enterprise illustrates three great contrasts in
modern China: rural vs. urban, agricultural vs. industrial,
coastal vs. interior.
10. The Booming Maritime Edge GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 24]
Guangdong:
Globalization in the Pearl River Delta
— This program explores globalization and the effects of
modernization
on Chinese society.
Taiwan:
High-Tech Tiger —
What factors
contributed to Taiwan’s emergence as a high-tech powerhouse?
11. A Challenge for Two Old Cities GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 22]
Lanzhou:
Confluence of Cultures — We travel
to the frontiers of Han and Muslim China in the city of
Lanzhou.
Shenyang: Hope
for China’s Rust Belt? — A
previously dynamic industrial city continues to struggle with
modernizing its manufacturing infrastructure. China
12. Small Farms, Big Cities GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 12]
Northern
Japan: Protecting the Harvest — Japanese
rice farmers battle destructive weather in order to save their crops.
Tokyo: Anatomy
of a Mega-City — The continuing
expansion of the Tokyo megalopolis leads to ever-longer
commutes and demand for suburban housing.
19. Because
They're Worth It - GEOG (Life I
series)
Micro-credit,
education, health information, and hope provided to impoverished
Chinese.
2. The Long
March - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Community
in Chengdu, China has organized to clean-up polluted river.
Hong
Kong -
GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Hong
Kong:
Chasing the Virus
[Video
Anthology for Pulsipher’s textbook]
Ask
Dmitrii
Trying to stop the
deadly
SARS epidemic. Hong Kong
Mongolian
Traditions 2:30
DVD [Video Set for Rowntree’s textbook]
Ask Dmitrii,
Christine or Angela
Nomads of Mongolia
vs. modernity
Basketball
Diplomacy:
From Mao to Yao
7:57 DVD [Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii, Christine or Angela
The transition of Shanghai
to a free market economy (China)
To Have and to Have Not:
Wealth and Poverty in the New China
2002 56 min GEOG
DVD
Every year this
nation’s economy struggles to absorb millions
of the unemployed, while the rich move to gated communities with
private
schools and tennis courts. That might sound like America,
but it isn’t. This Wide
Angle documentary studies the new China, once the home of Mao’s
rigidly
imposed social equality—and today, a member of the World Trade
Organization
containing both staggeringly wealthy and tragically destitute citizens.
The
country’s commitment to private enterprise and free markets may reshape
China more in a
single year than most countries change in a decade. This eye-opening
program
illustrates the effect of that dynamic on the people of China.
In
addition, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky discusses China with anchor Daljit
Dhaliwal.
China’s Prosperity:
Behind the Scenes of Progress 31
min DVD GEOG
China may
be the world’s next superpower, but its wild economic growth doesn’t
tell the whole story. This program reveals the widening gap between
Chinese urban and rural lifestyles and the escalating pressure for
government action to increase educational and career opportunities in
remote areas. Interviews with city dwellers whose affluence surprises
even them—and with villagers struggling for basic necessities—combine
with data-mapped GDP analysis to create an accurate economic portrait
of the country. Abstaining from political judgment, the video raises
questions about competing in the global marketplace without adequate
domestic support systems. (31 minutes)
Imagining the
Pacific: Global Trade and Geopolitics 30
min DVD GEOG
The decades since the
Vietnam War have been a time of economic growth in the Far East, as
freer trade and shared goals bring East and West closer together. Shot
on location in the Asia-Pacific region,
this insightful program
explores key issues and events in the area’s transition from
18th-century isolation to integration within the global community. The
Pacific Rim’s encounters with Captain Cook and Commodore Perry and the
impact of World War II are presented as a historical springboard for
understanding the region’s postwar dynamism, its growing sense of
identity, and its strengthening alignment with the West. (30 minutes)
China from the Inside
4 episodes, 4 hours DVD GEOG
(1)
Power and the People This
episode films patrols along China's
border with Kazakhstan,
Party meetings, officials in Tibet trying to impose authority at the
grass-roots, a village election, and a corrupt embezzler in prison,
reprieved from a death sentence. Chinese people throughout, from farmer
to Minister, speak frankly about the problems the country faces and the
ways forward.
(2)
Women of the Country
Xiao Zhang has lived in Beijing for 14 years, cooking and cleaning.
This episode follows her home to her village 600 miles away for Chinese
New Year, where she is reunited with the children she hasn't seen for a
year. The film also explores the discrimination suffered by Xinjiang's
Muslim women, the hardships of life in Tibet, and China's tragic
suicide figures: China has one of the highest suicide rates for women
in the world: 150,000 a year. One every four minutes.
(3)
Shifting Nature
Along the Huai's main tributary, 50,000 people suffer from cancer. In
one village alone, 118 people have died. The Deputy Minister of the
Environment accepts that many cancer cases are related to environmental
pollution, but says he is powerless to shut down polluting
companies. Other stories explore northern China's dire water
shortage, which is being remedied by channelling water from the south
in what will be the biggest hydraulic project in world history. A
project in the arid Ningxia region has benefited nearly half a million
people, but elsewhere relocation from dam areas, like the Three Gorges,
is causing huge social upheaval.
(4)
Freedom and Justice
Tibetan Buddhism has long been feared as a rallying point and cover for
Tibetan independence. Worship is permitted on the Party's strict terms
-- neither government employees nor students are allowed to practice. A
study in contrasts, official Catholicism -- administered not by the
Vatican but by the Communist Party -- is far from China's unofficial
churches with 40 million adherents who want nothing between them and
their God. The film also explores Falun Gong and the threat it posed to
the Chinese government as well as examining the limits on the right to
assembly and press freedom.
The second half looks at popular grievances: forced evictions,
government cover-up of the AIDS problem, corruption and land grabbing.
Discovery Atlas:
China Revealed
120 min DVD GEOG
In one of the few
times in its
5,000-year history, the oldest, most populous nation on earth has
opened its doors to the rest of the world. Coupling insightful
storytelling with spectacular and groundbreaking photographic
techniques, Discovery Atlas: China Revealed brings to life the
fascinating and complex contemporary life of this extraordinary
country. In today's
China, the economics of feudalism and communism are out, while
capitalism is in ... with a Chinese twist. Old walls are being torn
down, and a futuristic landscape of glass and steel is shooting up in
their place. Leading the construction frenzy is Vincent Lo, China's
answer to Donald Trump. Exploring where tradition meets modernity,
viewers will follow the dreams of a 12-year-old Olympic hopeful, then
join rice farmers tilling land their ancestors have worked for 18
centuries and monks teaching a 500-year-old discipline. Discovery
Atlas: China Revealed promises to be a visual delight, delving deep
into the people and places of the oldest civilization on the planet.
Vintage
Chinese Culture Films (1920s - 1960s)
50
min
DVD GEOG
(1) Red
Chinese
Battle Plan (1964) - This American propaganda film shows the
rise of the communist party in China starting around 1920 and has a lot
of material, footage and information about Mao Tse-Tsung. Despite the
negative light it casts on the Chinese communist powers, this film has
wonderfully valuable documentary of China and its citizens in the early
20th century. Length: 26
minutes
(2) Parade
Celebrating Chinese Republic (1912) - This is a short collection
of footage from 1912 San Francisco, where some were celebrating the new
Chinese Republic. Length: 3
minutes
(3) People
of
Western China (1940) - This film is centered around the life and
work of a community in Western China, and shows how advancements in
technology and science are both changing and intermixing with many of
the ancient ways of China.
Length: 11 minutes
(4) Chinese Lion
Dance: Marysville, California (1925) - This is awesome
footage
from a Chinese New Year Bok Kai festival, with lots of shots of the
parade dragon and fireworks. An interesting slice of immigrant life in
early 20th century California.
Length: 10 minutes
China in the Red
(120 min) 1983-2004
VHS GEOG
China
in the Red is a
compelling documentary that explores the country's economic reforms,
the decline and problems of state-owned enterprises, and unemployment
in the city and countryside. Through the eyes of families in Beijing,
Shenyang, and rural areas, viewers will see how a modified socialism
blended with capitalism allows some people to become very successful
while others fall into poverty.
Activities/questions: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/red/
Buddhism: The Buddhism: The Land of the
Disappearing Buddha-Japan (part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 04, 156 min total; vol. 9), GEOG
If
the Buddha of India met the Buddha of Japan, would they recognize each
other? To find out, this program talks to the staff in a Tokyo restaurant
who keep regular Zen meditation schedules as part of their job, then on
to the classical Zen calligraphy, swordfighting, archery and tea
ceremony.
Taoism: A Question of Balance-China
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 05, 156 min total; vol. 11), GEOG
In our search for Chinese religious
experience, we go to Taiwan.
A whole pantheon of gods both local and imported from the mainland are
worshipped in thousands of Buddhist and Taoist temples. Several strands
make up the religious life of the village: a Confucian respect for past
and the ancestors, the cosmic pattern of the Tao that permeates all
levels of existence and manifests itself through oracles, the local
gods who dispense justice and favors, and the hungry ghosts of the dead
who have to be placated.
Up the Yangtze
DS793.Y3 U7 2008 93
min. 2008 DVD (Library)
Life surrounding the Yangtze
is changing due to the Three Gorges Dam. Filmmaker Yung Chang goes on a
farewell cruise that traverses the gargantuan waterway.
Silk
Road journey: from China through Central Asia 47 min. DVD (Library) DS10
.S555 2007
A very basic,
descriptive,
touristy intro to the the area. Retraces the route of the Silk Road from
China through Central Asia. China (Beijing, the Great Wall, Xian).
Steeped in history, colored by
centuries of lore, a journey along the ancient route of the Silk Road
is the ultimate travel experience.This exciting program follows the
historic Silk Road across the mountains, oases, and deserts of western
China and Central Asia.Join us on a journey along one of the most
famous routes of history and experience these extraordinary places:
# Starting from
the modern Chinese capital of Beijing,
we travel to the ancient Chinese capital of Xian, head of the Silk Road.
# Dunhang
at the edge of the Gobi Desert,
where ancient Buddhist
treasures dazzled 19th century European explorers.
# The western most
remnants of the Great Wall, and
the low, hot Turpan Oasis, where ancient mud-brick cities are returning
to the sands.
# Across the
fearsome Taklamakan Desert to
Urumqi to Hotan to Kashgar, where silk is still processed in the
centuries old traditional manner.
# Kyrgyzstan,
a country where nomadic
herders spend the summer in yurts. Bishkek to Osh.
# Fergana Valley.
The Uzbek cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukara and Khiva
noted for their stunning Islamic architecture, hand woven carpets and
lively markets.
# Remote and
extraordinary Turkmenistan.
Travels across
Central Asia in the footsteps of Marco Polo and the silk merchants'
caravans from Beijing to Samarkand, past Magao Cave dwellings, through
the Taklamaken desert and wild mountain passes into Kyrgyzstan, and
onward to Uzbekistan.
The Silk Road:
music, art, and poetry from Istanbul to Samarqand 33 min. DVD (Library) DS33.1 .S556 2006
This is not a video film, rather still image
based presentation
with local music; the geography is also incomplete as China is
excluded. "Traces the Silk Road through Turkey, Iran,
Afghanistan, and
Central Asia, where Islam flourished after the 7th century with an
artistic renaissance that reflected the beauty of Persian culture. The
legendary journey of the caravans forms a backdrop for this region's
exquisite legacy of music, poetry, and visual arts. The DVD features
six selections of Persian classical music and Sufi music recorded up to
40 years ago, with 140 photos of Islamic art and architecture in
historic Silk Road cities of western Asia. From Istanbul, a choir
performs Persian poetry in its traditional form, through song. Persian
classical music of the 6th century unfolds as the expression of a
moment in time, or a state of being. A Sufi call to prayer is performed
on the ney, a reed flute whose tone is the symbol of the ecstatic, in
an order of Dervishes founded in the 13th century by the poet
Jallaludin Rumi. A Sufi melody is performed on the ney in the mode of
nostalgia, bringing the past and present together in a timeless rhythm.
A flute solo from Samarqand improvises on a Sufi theme, evoking the
mystical feeling of this ancient land"--www.silkroadmusicandart.com
Marco Polo's Silk
Road 30
min. DVD (Library)
G370.P9 M37 2006
The
explorer Marco Polo
traveled the Northern and Southern Silk Road (also known as the Tea
Road). This travel video follows in his footprints through China.
Marco Polo's
Shangri-La 90 min. 2006 DVD (Library) G370.P9 M373 2006
The famous,
Venetian explorer,
raved about the exotic beauty of the imaginary, remote idyllic
hideaway, where life approaches perfection. Yunnan remains an enigma to
many and China is doing
everything to preserve the epic culture.
Confucius,
Confucianism, and Confucian Temples 30 min. DVD (Library)
G2306.E635
C346 2006
v.1 Series Chinese
Archives of World Heritage Sites
Great
Wall 30 min. DVD (Library)
G2306.E635
C346 2006
v.1 Series Chinese
Archives of World
Heritage Sites
Forbidden
City
30 min. DVD (Library)
G2306.E635
C346 2006
v.3 Series Chinese
Archives of World Heritage Sites
A
state of Mind ca.
94 min. DVD (Library)
GV464
.S7384 2006
Following a
strict routine,
which involved several hours of daily
workouts and gymnastic instruction, two young girls practice through
exhaustion for the 2003 Mass Games, the world's largest choreographed
performance. This spectacle, which takes place twice a day for 20 days,
is a mass celebration of nationalism, athleticism and ideological
unity. North Korea!
Life
expectancy: geography
as destiny DVD
31 min (Library)
HB1335
.L533 2005
Give students a context
in which to study the world’s widely varying life expectancy
statistics. Focusing discussion on economic and cultural factors, this
program examines dramatic discrepancies between life spans in the
United States, Japan, Russia, and the developing nation of Sierra
Leone—where a high infant mortality rate creates the lowest life
expectancy in the world. The video presents alarming findings at the
opposite end of the economic spectrum as well—in Okinawa and West
Virginia, where links between obesity and mortality rates are growing,
and in Moscow and its suburbs, where the pressures of rapid social
change are lowering life expectancy.
3. Global
firms in the
industrializing East 27
min. (Library)
GF41
.H86 1996 v.3
Human Geography
series.
Singapore has
transformed
itself into an economic powerhouse along the Pacific Rim. In the early
1960s, multinational companies attracted by a highly skilled and cheap
labor force turned Singapore into a major manufacturing center.
Just a generation later, companies in Singapore delegate
labor-intensive work to Malaysia and Indonesia while bringing in new
business in research, development, and finance.
10.
The World of the Dragon
27 min. (Library)
GF41
.H86 1996 v.10
Human Geography
series.
What is happening
in the East today, especially
in China and Japan, disrupts simple notions of East
vs. West and challenges Western accounts of globalization. This
concluding program draws attention to developments in the East that
have potential consequences for the West and examines the role that
"overseas Chinese" play in the transnational network of the Chinese
business world.
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
Japan: tarnished
miracle
19 min. (Library)
Video
Cassette 10691
Describes
the rise and fall
of the Japanese economic miracle which has triggered a financial crisis
which has global ramifications.
Examines
the
factors that will shape Japan's future: a changing work
ethic; a rapidly aging
population; a changing role of women in the workforce and shifting
loyalties since firms can no longer guarantee lifetime job security.
Makiko's new
world 57
min. (Library)
Video
Cassette 10010
Portrays the
changes largely
due to western influences in the urban lifestyle of early 20th century Kyoto,
based on the diary of a merchant's wife, Makiko Nakano. Includes dramatizations of
diary passages, historical
photographs and motion pictures, and recent interviews with family
members, scholars, and the translator of the diary, Kazuko Smith.
Tibet 48
min. (Library)
CB311
.T55 1995 v.10
Isolated by the Himalayas,
Tibet
has developed a culture centered on lives of altruism, the worship of
the Dalai Lama as the manifestation of god on earth, and a perception
of life as a repeating cycle. Now, however, modern life is intruding
and the Tibetans' quest for peace, inner knowledge and nirvana may
cease to exist.
Tibet: cry of
the snow lion 103
min. (Library)
DVD
DS786
.T494 2004
A snow lion is a
mythic beast
of Tibetan legend. As a protector of the nation, the
snow lion
is emblazoned on the Tibetan
flag. Today the Tibetan flag is outlawed in its own homeland. Ten years
in
the making, filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet,
India
and Nepal, the dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are powerfully
chronicled
through riveting personal stories and interviews, and a collection of
undercover
and archival images never before assembled in one film. Special
features:
Sakya masked dances; journey to Lhasa; Khamba horse races; another year
in
exile; Nagchu festival; additional interviews with the Dalai Lama and
Robert
Thurman; music video; theatrical trailer.
Red
capitalism:
China's Economic Revolution 60 min. (Library)
DVD HC427.92
.R42 1999 VHS HC427.92
.R42 1994
This documentary
focuses on the
municipality of Shenzhen
which was turned into a special economic zone in Southern China. Cheap
labor
and liberalized trading practices attracted a myriad of western
corporations
eager to do business in this future third largest consumer market in
the
world. Making money became an obsession with the growing population.
Professionals
from other parts of China were flocking to this booming economic zone
looking
for better paid manufacturing jobs.
Koppel on
Discovery: the People's Republic of capitalism 180
min. DVD (Library) HF1604.Z4 K67 2008
Join Ted Koppel and his team of producers as they
take an in-depth look at modern-day China
in Koppel: The People's Republic of Capitalism. In the wake of the
catastrophic earthquake in Sichuan province and on the eve of the
Beijing Olympics, this comprehensive two-disc, four-part series
explores America's economic relationship with China as well as
capitalism's effect on the Chinese people.
The story of
the weeping camel DVD 87
min
PN1997
.S735 2005
Mongolia. In
the Gobi Desert, a family of
nomads, who assist in the birth of its camel
herd, face a crisis when one white calf is rejected by its mother. With
all hope lost, the family sends its two young boys on a journey to a
far-off village to fetch a musician capable of performing a magical
ceremony.
Hutong: alleyways of change in contemporary
Beijing
DVD 53 min. PN1995.9.D6
H87 2004
"As Beijing
prepares for the 2008
Olympics, most of the hutong --
the city's small traditional dwellings and the network of lanes and
alleys formed by them-- are being demolished to make room for
skyscrapers. This program explores social and cultural changes in
historical Beijing, as seen in the life of a few ordinary citizens who
still live in the hutong.
The program includes computer models of the designing of ancient Beijing City." China
Transnational
tradeswomen DVD 62
min. (Library)
Former
construction worker Vivian
Price spent years documenting the
current and historical roles of women in the construction industry in
Asia. She discovered that women
in many parts of Asia have been doing
construction labor for centuries, but development and the resulting
mechanization are pushing them out of the industry. Beijing, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, India,
Pakistan
16. Urban
and
Rural Contrasts
GEOG
(series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 21]
Delhi:
Bursting at the Seams — The
ever-expanding capital of India continues to act as a magnet, pulling
millions of Indians away from the hardships of the rural countryside. Delhi
Dikhatpura:
Help Through Irrigation — In rural India,
creating sustainable agricultural development proves a challenging
proposition.
3. From
Docklands to Dhaka - GEOG (Life I
series)
English MD
travels to Bangladesh to improve community health.
9. At the End
of a Gun: Women and War - GEOG (Life I
series)
The
devastating effect that the civil war in Sri Lanka is having on
women
12. India Inhales
- GEOG (Life I series)
Activists
combat tobacco companies that target India.
16. Credit
Where Credit is Due - GEOG (Life I
series)
Micro-credit
organization in Bangladesh provides loans to village poor.
18. Untouchable?
- GEOG (Life I series)
The caste
system and bonded labor are still alive and well in India.
24. Lost
Generations - GEOG (Life I series)
Poor health
and poverty condemn people in India to sub-standard lives.
3. The Health
Protestors - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Health care
advocates demand universal health care for the world's population at
international convention in Dhaka.
12. A Fistful
of Rice - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Protein
deficiency threatens generations of children in Nepal.
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.
6. It Takes a
Village - GEOG (Life III series)
A cyclone in
Bangladesh results in the construction of an experimental
community health center.
9. Patents and
Patients - GEOG (Life III series)
India
battles HIV/AIDS using generic drugs.
10. The
Doctor's Story
- GEOG (Life III series)
The US debate
over abortion has severe consequences for health care in rural Nepal.
Bangladesh: Living With Flooding 20
min GEOG
1996 Films for Humanities. Bangladesh.
The Other Side of
Outsourcing 44 min. DVD GEOG (c/o
Christy Jocoy)
Why are
so many high-tech jobs going to India?
You might be surprised at what started it all. Join New York Times
columnist Thomas Friedman
as he explores the growing trends of outsourcing American
jobs. The film is mostly located the city of Banghalore,
showing its glass-and-steel high-rises and squatters. The very
end -- the Untouchables. Discovery Channel.
India:
Hole in the Wall
[Video
Anthology for Pulsipher’s textbook] Ask
Dmitrii
Opening the door to
cyberspace
Bhutan:
The Last Place
[Video
Anthology for Pulsipher’s
textbook]
Ask
Dmitrii
Television arrives in a
Buddhist kingdom
Afghan
Education
3:25 DVD
[Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii,
Christine or Angela
Water
Shortages in
India 4:03
DVD [Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii, Christine or Angela
New Delhi
and NW India
The Rock Star and
the Mullahs: Cultural Tensions within
Pakistan
2003 57
min GEOG
Salman Ahmad, charismatic lead
guitarist for the Pakistani
rock group Junoon, has publicly advocated peace
with India.
Ahmad is also UNAIDS Special Representative. But a coalition of
fundamentalist
Islamic parties has made unexpected gains in Pakistani
elections—evoking
contrasts between liberals like Ahmad and hardliner mullahs who want to
ban
music. This Wide Angle report follows the artist as he journeys
to the
tolerant, ancient city of Lahore and
the
fundamentalist stronghold of Peshawar,
revealing religious and political conflicts within the nuclear-armed
Islamic
republic. From this trip emerges a rich portrait of modern-day Pakistan,
a
pivotal nation in the war against terror. In addition, anchor Mishal
Husain
interviews Christina Rocca, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia.
India: Working to End Child Labor
(Fighting the Tide:
Developing
Nations and Globalization series) 2004 26 min. (GEOG)
DVD
This program examines India’s
immense child labor problem and the fight against it. The video
contrasts this nation’s status as the world’s largest democracy with
the fact that, inside its borders, 80 million children work physically
exhausting jobs for minuscule wages. Incorporating interviews with
Shanta Sinha, founder of the organization known as MVF, the video
illustrates how the group coordinates community action against the
exploitation of young people and creates bridge schools that help
children with the transition from work to education. It also makes a
strong case that child labor increases poverty levels.
Slum Cities
46 min DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
Each week, in countries around the globe, nearly a million people say
goodbye to their homes in impoverished rural regions—and move to even
worse conditions in cities. This program explores the tragic results:
illegal slums filled with some of the poorest people in the world,
lacking water, sanitation, and other resources needed to support
exploding populations. Viewers are shown the lives and homes of those
who struggle in the slums of Mumbai, India, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
and who face the threat of eviction, the spread of disease, and rampant
drug dealing and gang violence on a daily basis. Slum residents, as
well as those who have broken out of the cycle of poverty, share their
personal insights and frustrations regarding this urgent international
issue. (46 minutes)
Destination:
Tourism (2007) 20
min DVD GEOG
http://www.berkeleymedia.com/catalog/berkeleymedia/films/global_and_development_studies/destination_tourism
Bodh
Gaya, the world's most popular destination of Buddhist pilgrimage, is
located in one of India's poorest states. Visitors to this UNESCO World
Heritage site are typically shocked by the extreme poverty there, and
the Buddhist tradition of alms-giving motivates them to donate money.
As a result, Bodh Gaya has developed a sophisticated charity "industry"
which caters to and depends on tourists and tourism. This
thought-provoking documentary explores the complex, interconnected
effects of tourism, globalization, culture, philanthropy, and religion
in Bodh Gaya. India
Partition of India (personal
video of Vin / GEOG) VHS 51
min
1998
In 1947, Pakistan became a
separate Muslim nation amid the bloodshed following the partitioning of
India.
Hinduism: 330 Million Gods
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 01, 104 min total; vol. 2), GEOG
Traces
the Indian religious experience in two highly contrasting locations:
the bustling city of Benares where millions come to bathe in the holy
waters of the Ganges, and the
small village of Bhith Bhagwanpur, unvisited except by professional
story tellers and itinerant priests. The film concentrates its
attention on the Hindu approach to God. But which God? For there are
330 million of them.
Buddhism:
Footprint of the Buddha-India
(part of: Long
Search, The, 2001, Disk 02, 104 min total; vol. 3), GEOG
To Sri
Lanka (Ceylon) and India to
discover the type of Buddhism practiced throughout southeast Asia.
Among those we meet are Buddhist monks-including one American, school
children, novices and housewives. Each offers something from his own
experience to help us come to grips with a religion that has high moral
standards but does not believe in God.
Jesus
in India (DVD 97 min.) GEOG
Quest across
4000 miles of India in search of answers about where Jesus was during
the “Hidden Years” from ages 12 to 30.
Through the Eastern Gate
(DVD 2007 52 min) GEOG
A documentary
film about the aspirations, practices and beliefs of three young
Westerners who follow three different eastern spiritual traditions.
Filmed in the gorgeous countryside and ancient cities of India and Turkey, this intimate and
compelling film delves into the worlds of people who have turned their
backs on the material to find new transcendent meaning in their lives.
Forest of bliss
215 min. (Library)
DS486.B4 F67 2008
A film without
voiceover commentary, involves the viewer in an intense encounter with
daily life in Benares, India's most
holy city, from one sunrise to the next. It looks at specifics,
and but also opens itself to larger concerns such as the eternal cycles
and metamorphoses of water, earth, flesh wood and fire, wind and the
spirit. Originally released in 1985. Awarded 1st prize
Florence Film Festival, 1st prize USA Festival and numerous other
prizes.
WorldFrontline: Stories
from a small planet 57 min. (Library) D857
.S767 2002 no.102
VHS 2002
Cambodia - Pol Pot's shadow
Romania - My old haunts
India - The hole in the wall
Holy
city of life and death: Varanasi, India DVD 53
min. (Library)
BL1214.72
.H65 2004
Situated by the bank of the holy Ganges, Varanasi,
also known as Kashi or Benares, is one of the oldest living cities in
the world. Founded approximately 3,000 years ago, the city is the
religious and cultural capital of India - considered by many to be the
holiest place on earth. Every year Hindus in great numbers go there to
die, believing that cremation in that place of renewal provides an
immediate entry to heaven. Shot on location, this program celebrates
life and death, examines the Hindu beliefs and rituals about life and
death, and discusses how those forces have sustained Varanasi
through history. India
A
Living Goddess in Kathmandu
DVD 53 min. (Library)
BL1226.17.N46
L58 2004
The Kumari, a flesh-and-blood goddess, is revered
by both Hindus and
Buddhists in Nepal as a protector of the land and defender of all
living beings. This program traces the mythological underpinnings of
the Kumari and presents the living tradition of Kumari worship,
including the Kumari selection, the secret preparation rituals, and
kumari related festivals and ceremonies. It also discusses the
relationship between the Kumari and the King. Nepal
Ancient futures: learning from Ladakh 59
min. Video
Cassette 10412
Ladakh,
in the western Himalayas, is a place of
few resources and an extreme climate. After centuries of living in
harmony with the environment, recent trends in development and
modernization threaten to disrupt traditions of ecological balance and
social harmony. Examines the root causes of environmental, social, and
psychological problems, and provides valuable guidelines for the future
LadЇakh as well as the West.
The courtesans of Bombay 74
min HQ1745
.B65 C687 1987
A documentary film about the Bombay
called Pavanbul, with the sprawling
compound where young girls learn the art of seduction. There are no
palaces, no maharajas, except the men who can pay for their pleasure. A
film made by Ismail Merchant and James
Ivory.
Nalini by day, Nancy by
night 52
min. DVD (Library)
HF5415.1265
.N35 2005
A documentary about the outsourcing of American
jobs to India. From the
perspective of an Indian immigrant living in the United States, using
humor and satire to capture the lives of Indian telemarketers who
undergo voice and accent training to speak to US customers with an
American accent. A complex look at life as per Eastern Standard Time in
India. Globalization.
1-800-INDIA
DVD 53 min.
HD9696.67.I42
A115 2005
Over the
past decade, India has
emerged as the leader in the global
market for white-collar "outsourcing" jobs-- a notable component of
India's rapid economic growth. This documentary explores the experience
of young Indian men and women who have been recruited into these new
jobs requiring long hours, night shifts, and westernized work habits.
Also reveals the human and cultural effect on Indian family life, the
evolving cities and towns, and on the aspirations and daily lives of
young Indians, especially women, entering the work force.
Afghanistan
unveiled DVD 52
min. (Library) DS371.3
.A34 2003
In November and December of 2002,
14 young women, trained as video
journalists and camera operators, traveled to rural regions of
Afghanistan to interview their
countrywomen. In the span of two months,
they met and spoke with women eking out an existence in caves, women
risking punishment by daring to appear on film and women whose lives
and families had been destroyed by years of bombing and oppression.
Transnational tradeswomen DVD 62
min. (Library)
Former
construction worker Vivian
Price spent years documenting the
current and historical roles of women in the construction industry in
Asia. She discovered that women
in many parts of Asia have been doing
construction labor for centuries, but development and the resulting
mechanization are pushing them out of the industry. Beijing, Taiwan,
Thailand, Singapore, India, Pakistan
Calcutta:
réalisation, Louis Malle DVD 99
min. (Library) DS486.C2 C35 2007
"When he was
cutting PHANTOM INDIA, Louis
Malle found that the footage shot in CALCUTTA was so diverse, intense,
and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released
theatrically, is at times shocking - a chaotic portrait of a city
racked with social and political turmoil"
L'Inde fantome:
réflexions sur un voyage DVD
363
min. (Library) DS414
.P436 2007
"Louis Malle called his gorgeous and
ground-breaking PHANTOM
INDIA the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary
journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European
television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as
occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy
Sita, a girl from
Jambu
DVD 47
min. (Library) PN1997
.S59945 2007
Reveals how uneducated, rural Nepalese
girls are tricked and lured into sexual slavery. Focusing on one girl's
journey into the brothels of Mumbai, the film is an adaptation of a
street play performed by rural Nepalese girls, whose performance is
also featured in the film. This innovative blend of documentary and
fiction both expands our notion of cinematic genre and extends the
broader social message that people can make a difference in their
communities. Nepal Docudrama,
blend of documentary and fiction
Calcutta Calling 17
min DVD (Library) HF5438.3.I42 C35 2005
A snapshot of
globalization at work in the 21st century. This documentary follows
Vikeel Uppal, a young man who works in a busy calling
center, as he gets tutored in the English language, learns
pronunciation from commercials and movies, and watches English soccer
matches to gain insight into the people he calls on a daily
basis. India, globalization
10.
SE Asia
13. The
Mainland GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 25]
Laos:
Isolated Heart — Laos is
emerging from isolation to join the global economy as an exporter of
hydroelectric power.
Vietnam:
Fertile Dreams — As the world’s second
largest rice exporter, Vietnam’s booming economy is evident in the
explosive growth of Ho Chi Minh City.
14. The Maritime Connection GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 26]
Indonesia:
Tourist Invasion — Their culture
once imperiled by hordes of tourists, Balinese residents
have developed strategies to profit from the tourist industry while
maintaining cultural integrity.
Multi-Cultural
Malaysia — Amidst growing
pressures from Islamic militants, social and economic programs seek to
build tolerance among Malaysia’s diverse cultures.
15. Global Interaction GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 13]
Singapore:
Gateway to Southeast Asia —
High-tech infrastructure, a well-educated workforce and strict
government
repression have all helped Singapore become a pre-eminent port
and one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
Australia: New
Links to Asia — Australia shifts
its trade from Europe to the Asian “economic tigers.”
20. For a Few
Pennies More - GEOG (Life I
series)
Iodine
deficiency causes health problems in Indonesia.
18. Stop the
Traffick - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Investigates
horror of child sex industry in Cambodia.
19. My Hanoi
- GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Tour of
rapidly urbanizing Hanoi, and the effect on citizens and
culture.
22. Holy
Smoke:
Cambodians Fight Tobacco - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Buddhist
monks lead anti-tobacco campaign in Cambodia.
Bangkok
- GEOG
(SuperCities series)
A
Cyber-Tale of Three Cities:
Improving the Urban Landscape
29 min
GEOG
In this program, three teenagers use the Internet to
discuss the poor
living conditions in their home cities of Manila, Beirut, and
Fortaleza, Brazil, and what is being done to improve them. Among the
challenges being faced are extreme pollution, severe war damage, and
urgent housing shortages. As a result of their chat sessions, they go
into their communities to investigate the problems firsthand. With more
than half the world’s population now living in urban centers, the need
for creative city planning and citizen participation in community
issues is greater than ever before. A United Nations production.
Cambodia:
Pol Pot's shadow: Searching for a mysterious executioner
[Video
Anthology for Pulsipher’s textbook]
Ask
Dmitrii
Borneo
on the Brink
6:20 DVD [Video
Set for
Rowntree’s textbook]
Ask Dmitrii,
Christine or Angela
Illegal logging in a
Borneo national park (Indonesia)
Singapore: Industrialization and Migration 2002
25
min GEOG
DVD
A hub of trade for centuries, Singapore
is
now an economic powerhouse. This student-hosted video explores factors
that
have enabled Singapore
to thrive, including its location, its high-tech labor force, and its
wide
variety of cultural groups and nationalities. Interviews with the
deputy
manager of the nation’s port, conversations with young citizens from a
spectrum
of ethnic backgrounds, and colorful displays of traditional Malay dance
and
dress reflect Singapore’s
balance of indigenous and immigrant influences. A viewable/printable
teacher’s
guide—including geographical background information, extension
activities,
vocabulary handouts, and more—is available online.
DAT KHO - Land of
Sorrows 102
min 2007 DVD GEOG
This foreign,
English-subtitled film dramatizes the effect of the Vietnam War on a
single South Vietnamese family, the inner conflict of decisions by each
member of the family whether to remain in Vietnam or leave with the
imminent advance and fall of Hue and eventual fall of Vietnam. Dat Kho, who's cast
includes the beloved Vietnamese inconic anti-war songwriter/poet/artist
Trinh Cong Son (1939-2001) who posthumously won the World Peace Music
Award in 2004, is a story of the love of family, love of homeland, love
of the culture and language of Vietnam and the ethereal love of the
ingenue daughter for her fiance, foiled by the antagonistic forces of
the ever-present war. A thought-provoking film.
http://www.amazon.com/DAT-KHO-Trinh-Cong-Son/dp/B000P2A5AS/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1284244542&sr=1-1
S21 The Khmer Rouge
Killing Machine 101 min
2007 DVD GEOG
In 1975-79, almost two million Cambodians
lost their lives to murder and famine when the Khmer Rouge forced the
urban population into the countryside to fulfill their ideal of an
agrarian utopia. The notorious detention center code-named 'S21' was
the schoolhouse-turned prison where 17,000 men, women and children were
tortured, interrogated and executed, their "crimes" meticulously
documented to justify their execution. In this award-winning
documentary and astonishing historical document, Rithy Panh and his
team undertook a three year investigation involving not only the
survivors, but also their former torturers. They persuaded both groups
to return to the actual site of what was formerly S21, now converted
into a Genocide Museum, to face their past. One survivor, Vann Nath
confronts his captors, some of whom were as young as 12 years old when
they committed their atrocities. Human Rights Watch, widely
regarded as one of the most influential and important human rights
organizations in the world, and First Run Features, which for 25 years
has distributed films that confront human rights issues, formed a
collaboration to bring awareness to films that shed light on human
rights abuses throughout the world. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing
Machine is the first title in the HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SELECTS DVD
series.
http://www.amazon.com/S21-Khmer-Rouge-Killing-Machine/dp/B0007TKORS/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1284244857&sr=1-1
Anonymously
Yours (2002) 90
min DVD GEOG
This
documentary is the outcome of a daring filmmaking operation on
sex-trafficking in a military state where nothing is as it seems. Four
Burmese women's strikingly different life experiences come together to
reveal an institution that enslaves them and as many as forty#million
women worldwide in the fastest growing industry on earth: human sales.
Clandestinely shot deep in the uncharted world of Southeast Asian sex
trafficking, the film chronicles the merchandising of women commonplace
in a land afflicted with staggering poverty and widespread corruption. Myanmar (Burma)
Stolen Generations: Genocide and the
Aborigines (personal
copy of Vin / GEOG) VHS 53
min
2001
Starting in the 1930s, thousands of
children across Australia were
forcibly taken from their families simply because they were Aboriginal.
In this award-winning program, the tragic story is told of a
state-sanctioned attempt to assimilate and, thereby, eradicate a race
by segregating its full-blooded members and marrying its “half-castes”
into the white population for “biological absorption.” Fueled by
eugenics theories, the Australian government transported “half-caste”
children to far-flung missions for eventual adoption, leaving those
behind to die out. Personal accounts, along with newsreel footage,
provide a history of one of the 20th century’s most shameful legacies.
Trading women
GEOG
DVD 2003 77 min
http://www.der.org/films/trading-women.html
Trading Women enters the worlds of brothel
owners, trafficked girls,
voluntary sex workers, corrupt police and anxious politicians. Filmed
in Burma, China, Laos, and Thailand,
this is the first film to follow
the trade in women in all its complexity and to consider the impact of
this 'far away' problem on the gobal community. Narrated by
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie, the documentary
investigates the trade in minority girls and women from the hill tribes
of Burma, Laos and China, into the Thai sex industry. Filmed on
location in China, Thailand and Burma, Trading Women follows the trade
of women in all its complexity, entering the worlds of brothel owners,
trafficked girls, voluntary sex-workers, corrupt police and anxious
politicians. The film also explores the international community's
response to the issue.
Bendum GEOG
DVD 29 min 2001
This documentary is about the homeland and daily
life of an indigenous
tribal community in the tropical uplands of central Mindanao,
Philippines. In this small
village called Bendum, the local community
has successfully struggled, after decades of commercialized logging and
deforestation, to gain control over their ancestral lands. Suitable for
teaching Anthropology, Globalization, Environmental Studies, Economics
and Asian Studies. http://www.der.org/films/bendum.html
Mercy (med-dah)
GEOG
DVD 50 min 2002
Filmed over two years at a community
hospice in Klong Toey, Thailand,
the story unfolds as a
thirteen-year-old girl, Luk Nam, recalls the loss of her family to
AIDS. Mercy is an unsettling document of another side to the growing
AIDS crisis – the future of the children whose parents are HIV-positive
or have died from AIDS-related illnesses. Surrounded by orphaned
children who have inherited the disease, the filmmakers witness both
Luk Nam’s sister and her best friend gradually fade away. Despite the
horror of their circumstances, young Luk Nam and the hospice patients
and workers show incredible compassion, strength, and hope. Luk Nam’s
brave composure is as admirable as it is distressing, as when she
assures the viewer: “Right now, I’m alive.” http://www.der.org/films/mercy.html
The
Diplomat: José Ramos Horta and
East Timor’s Fight for
Independence GEOG
DVD 58 min 2004
For 24 years, José Ramos Horta,
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, campaigned to secure independence for
East Timor, a Portuguese colony
invaded by Indonesia in 1975. This
program takes up Ramos Horta’s story in the final dramatic stages of
his journey, including the fall of President Suharto, the referendum to
determine East Timor’s future, the overwhelming vote for independence,
the carnage that ensued, the intervention of UN peacekeepers, and Ramos
Horta’s triumphant return to his beloved homeland. An in-depth
interview with Ramos Horta, a detailed examination of the independence
movement, and extensive war footage enhance this comprehensive
retrospective. (58 minutes) http://ffh.films.com/id/1703/The_Diplomat_Jose_Ramos_Horta_and_East_Timors_Fight_for_Independence.htm
Religion In Indonesia: The Way of the
Ancestors
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 04, 156 min total; vol. 8), GEOG
There
are almost 200 million people scattered across the world who belong to
tribal religions that are local, exclusive and frequently animist -
i.e., they believe that inanimate objects and natural phenomena possess
a soul. Though no single group can be chosen as typical, this episode
is devoted to primal religion-that of the Torajas who live in a
mountain fortress on an Indonesian
island.
4. Global tourism
27 min. (Library)
GF41
.H86 1996 Human Geography series.
The experiences of visitors to Hawaii, Malaysia,
and Borneo are shaped by the tourist industry. Hawaii has the
most mature industry, the product of decades of development that
preserved little of its indigenous culture; Malaysia is following a
similar path. Borneo is developing "ecotourism," catering to more
intrepid travelers. The paradox of tourism offers opportunities for
local development yet can destroy native cultures and environments.
WorldFrontline: Stories
from a small planet 57 min. (Library) D857
.S767 2002 no.102
VHS 2002
Cambodia - Pol Pot's shadow
Romania - My old haunts
India - The hole in the wall
Ancient splendors 59
min. (Library)
N5334
.A525 1996
Filmed on location at Luxor,
Egypt;
Tikal, Guatemala;
the Acropolis, Greece;
and Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
In the shadow of Angkor Wat
55 min. VHS (Library)
DS554.98.A5
S48 1997
Highlights the ancient ruined
city of Angkor and the nearby temple of
Angkor Wat. Details the architecture, emphasizing the extensive bas
reliefs found on the temple.
Merciful
kingdom in the heart of Java: Jogjakarta, Indonesia 53 min. (Library)
DVD DS646.29.Y63
M47 2004
"The Sultan of Jogjakarta,
regarded by his people as the divine representative and intermediary
between themselves and the supreme being, rules one of the last
remaining kingdoms in Asia. This program explores the emotional bond
between the sultan and the people as well as the cultural and religious
traditions in Java through history" Indonesia
The Angry Skies
55 min. DVD (Library)
DS554.8
.A537 2005
[An independent filmmaker,] Dr. Blake Kerr
investigates the genocide of the Cambodian people by Pol
Pot and the Khmer Rouge government of Cambodia from 1975-1979. He
interviews both survivors of the torture and Khmer Rouge soldiers and
officials.
Hearts
and Minds 112
min. (Library)
DVD DS558
.H436 2002
Examines the American involvement
in Vietnam, and is a chronicle of the war from a psychological
perspective. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland,
former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright,
Walt Rostow, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam
veterans and Vietnamese leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson,
and Nixon
are shown in rare footage. Peter Davis' landmark documentary
unflinchingly confronts the US' involvement in Vietnam. A
powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war.
Winner of the 1974 Academy Award for
best documentary.
Transnational
tradeswomen DVD 62
min. (Library)
Former
construction worker Vivian
Price spent years documenting the
current and historical roles of women in the construction industry in
Asia. She discovered that women
in many parts of Asia have been doing
construction labor for centuries, but development and the resulting
mechanization are pushing them out of the industry. Beijing, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, India, Pakistan
Burma:
a forgotten war DVD 27
min. (Library)
DS530.65 .B87 2008
"Armed with
a spy camera and
posing as a school teacher, filmmaker Lea Rekow secretly crossed the
border of Thailand into Burma to document the startling resilience of
the Burmese people who live under the rule of a corrupt junta. Burma: A
Forgotten War documents the impact of landmines and the government's
use of forced labor, torture, rape and drugs on the various ethnic
minorities that continue to survive in the South East region of Burma.
Traveling through the jungle, sometimes perilously close to enemy fire,
Rekow has collected the stories of everyday people inside Burma - an
all but lost people who are rarely able to talk to the ouside world"
11. Australia/Oceania/Antarctida
15.
Global Interaction GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 13]
Singapore:
Gateway to Southeast Asia —
High-tech infrastructure, a well-educated workforce and strict
government repression have all helped Singapore become a
pre-eminent port and one
of the wealthiest cities in the world.
Australia: New
Links to Asia — Australia
shifts its trade from Europe to the Asian “economic tigers.
5. Paradise
Domain - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Pacific
islanders are not benefiting from digital windfall or World Wide Web.
Gharu
Tree 5:18
DVD [Video Set for Rowntree’s textbook]
Ask Dmitrii,
Christine or Angela
Indigenous people (Papua
New Guinea) vs.
globalization
The Diplomat: Jose
Ramos Horta and East Timor’s Fight
for Independence
2000
58 minutes GEOG
DVD
For 24 years, José Ramos Horta, winner of
the Nobel Peace
Prize, campaigned to secure independence for East Timor, a Portuguese colony
invaded by Indonesia
in 1975. This program takes up Ramos Horta’s story in the final
dramatic stages
of his journey, including the fall of President Suharto, the referendum
to determine
East Timor’s future, the overwhelming
vote for
independence, the carnage that ensued, the intervention of UN
peacekeepers, and
Ramos Horta’s triumphant return to his beloved homeland. An in-depth
interview
with Ramos Horta, a detailed examination of the independence movement,
and
extensive war footage enhance this comprehensive retrospective.
Cane Toads:
an unnatural history
ca. 47 min. (Library)
QL668.E227
C36 1987
Documents
the history of the Cane Toad in Australia. The cane toad - Bufo
marinus - was imported to Australia
in 1935 in an attempt to rid the country of the greyback
beetle, which was devouring the sugarcane crop. Problem was, the beetle
could fly, and the cane toad couldn't. What the cane toad was unusually
proficient at, however, was making more cane toads. A
true story of a battle between man and beast.
Whale
rider 101
mins. DVD (Library) PN1997
.W4588 2003
A feature film but with
the
documentary qualities. New
Zealand, maori people.
The Whangara people believe their
ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a
whale.
The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the
first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then
a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His
twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by her
grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai shows
that she possesses a natural leadership ability.
March
of the penguins 80 min. DVD (Library)
QL696.S473
.M37 2005
In the Antarctic,
every March since the beginning
of time, the quest
begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will
begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of
miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They
will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through
deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by
dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to
find true love. Special features: "Crittercam: Emperor penguins"
documentary; "Of men
and penguins" documentary; "8 ball Bunny": a classic WB animation short
with Bugs Bunny and a penguin.
12. N
America
(excluding
specifically California-focused films)
24.
Cityscapes, Suburban Sprawl GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 9]
Boston:
Ethnic Mosaic — How has federal
empowerment zone funding helped Boston's diverse but poor
neighborhoods?
Chicago:
Farming on the Edge — As in many areas
of the U.S., suburban Chicago just keeps expanding into the
surrounding countryside.
25. Ethnic Fragmentation in Canada GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 10]
Vancouver:
Hong Kong East — Prior to the
Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, thousands of wealthy businessmen
moved their families to Vancouver, causing a collision of cultures.
What has happened since 1997?
Montreal: An
Island of French — Trying to
preserve their culture, Quebec welcomes immigrants and pays to
teach them French.
26. Regions and Economies GEOG (series The Power of
Place: Geography for the 21st Century)
[Older version in the Library: G128
.P69 1996 Prog. 11]
Oregon: A
Fight for Water — Native Americans
and farmers compete for a scarce resource: water. Oregon
U.S. Midwest:
Spatial Innovations — In the U.S.
Midwest, an influx of Japanese automakers has brought more than
just new factories to this once-declining manufacturing region.
5. The
Philadelphia Story - GEOG (Life I
series)
Globalized
economy affects American jobs.
6. The Boxer
- GEOG (Life I series)
Young male
looks to escape Mexican poverty by becoming a boxer in the United
States.
22. God Among
the Children - GEOG (Life I
series)
Community
organization works with at-risk youth in Boston.
14. The Other
Side - GEOG
(Life II City Life series)
Poor Mexicans
attempt perilous border crossing to US, often at the expense of
family, traditional culture, and their lives.
New
York
-
GEOG
(SuperCities series)
Beyond the
Border: Mas Alla de la Frontera 57 min GEOG
VHS
(Dir. Ari Luis Palos, 2001,
Documentary, USA). Over
the past decade,
thousands of Latinos seeking a better life have migrated to
Kentucky,
finding low-paying jobs in the tobacco, manufacturing and horseracing
industries. However, as these Latino communities have swelled, so too
has the xenophobia and discrimination they face. BEYOND THE
BORDER
- Más Allá de la Frontera traces the painful transition made by four
sons in a Mexican family as they leave behind their parents and sisters
and struggle to overcome cultural, class and language barriers in
Kentucky. By following the Ayala brothers as they leave their
home
in Michoacan, Mexico, and relocate to the Bluegrass Region, the story
explores a range of complexities surrounding the immigration
experience,
including responsibility to family, community and culture. The
documentary
traces each man's individual and collective journey. Initially, the
film
focuses on the two younger brothers, Marcelo and Horacio, and their
adjustment
to living in Kentucky. The second part focuses on Gonzalo, the eldest,
who has had what he calls "a very hard life" and whose sense of
self-worth has been strained by alcoholism. The documentary is rounded
out by Juan,
who left at age14 in order to support his parents and younger brothers
and sisters, and now has his own children. Avoiding pathos and
victimization,
BEYOND THE BORDER humanizes the immigrant experience. The way the
U.S.-Mexico
border is policed and the effects of economic and racial discrimination
on Mexican immigrants are other themes explored in the program.
Latin America
Human/Cultural 2001
Understanding
Urban Sprawl
47 min DVD GEOG
c/o
Dmitrii
In
this program, scientist and environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki examines
the social, economic, and environmental implications of "sprawl," the
low-density development that spreads out from the edges of cities and
towns. For decades suburban housing has carried the promise of
paradise, but the need for
continuous infrastructure development and the intensification of
sprawl-related
ecological issues, which are eroding health and quality of life, are
making
the true impact of suburbia painfully clear in the areas surrounding Los
Angeles, Mexico City, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
However,
Portland, Oregon, has become a model of what can be accomplished
when administrators, businesses, and residents commit themselves to
slowing
sprawl and reestablishing the amenities that make for a happy and
healthy
community.
Reinventing the City: New York and Los
Angeles 50 min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
On
the surface, New York and Los
Angeles are quintessentially American
cities, and although each is recognizable by its media image, both are
little understood. This program transcends that superficial imagery
through the fascinating story of how both cities responded to, and were
reshaped by, the pervasive forces of economic and social change that
characterized late-20th-century America. The program explores both
cities’ major urban redevelopment projects during the early 1990s and
seeks to provide a balanced investigation of the complex interaction
between those local and global forces of change that were involved in
the restructuring and the reinvention of both cities.
Building Chicago: The First Hundred Years
30 min DVD
GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
Using
maps, diagrams, paintings, rare photographs, and archival film clips,
this program examines the settlement and growth of Chicago during the
19th and early 20th centuries. Monumental projects designed to offset
the city’s high water table, remedy the chronic traffic congestion of
the Loop, divert sewage to the Mississippi River, and beautify the
waterfront areas are discussed by Robert Bruegmann, of the University
of Illinois at Chicago; Harold Platt, of Loyola University Chicago; and
William Cronon, of the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Housing
America: Demographics and Development 64
min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
As
the 21st century unfolds, how are Americans adapting to urgent issues
involving sustainable growth, quality of life, and community planning?
Segment one of this NewsHour program examines the effect of urban
sprawl on Atlanta’s
population, job and housing markets, the
environment, and commuters. Segment two addresses the need for
affordable housing in Burlington,
Vermont, where the disparity between
wages and real estate prices is on the rise. Segment three assesses
urban renewal efforts in the old neighborhoods of Philadelphia. And
segment four studies an experimental community system in Virginia known
as co-housing.
The
Good Society: Atlanta 60 min
DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
The
groundbreaking book by sociologist Robert
Bellah, The Good Society,
forms the backbone for this two-part program with Bill Moyers, which
looks at two American cities uniquely struggling to make a better
society. The first program looks at Atlanta.
Often cited as America’s
most livable city, it is also one of the poorest cities in the nation.
In spite of the divisions within the city—rich and poor, black and
white—Atlanta is a place where people are coming together to work for a
better community. Among those appearing in the program are former
President Jimmy Carter, Mayor Maynard Jackson, as well as civic and
community leaders.
The City
53 min DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
Early
cities emerged from trading posts and fortresses; they were generally
accessible by water and easily defended. This program examines the
metamorphosis of the city from fort and trading post to cultural
epicenter and beyond. Ancient cities are discussed and Athens and Rome
are compared. Modern cities including New
York and Paris are also
presented, with a focus on Paris’ attempt to re-create itself in the
19th century by razing slums to build monuments and boulevards. City
planning and public services are examined as well, along with the
middle-class exodus from, and recent return to, many American cities.
Decaying Cities:
Reclaiming the Rust Belt 31 min DVD GEOG
This program features
data-mapping techniques that shed light on inner-city conditions in
America and England. With an overview of manufacturing declines that
took place during the 20th century and their effect on densely
populated urban centers, the video compares and contrasts situations in
Philadelphia and Birmingham, England. Studying these cities from a
human angle, the program delves into Philadelphia’s struggling urban
core and showcases Birmingham’s grassroots and municipal efforts to
assist the elderly, the unemployed, and the victims of crime. The
result is an informative catalyst for class discussions on severe
economic shifts and how cities cope with them. (31 minutes)
It’s a Mall World
47 min DVD GEOG
An ideal
discussion-launcher for sociology courses, this program examines
cultural and psychological aspects of what is now an archetypal
suburban experience: shopping at the mall. Visiting “cathedrals of
consumerism” throughout North America—from the Southdale, Minnesota,
progenitor of the enclosed retail mall to the absurdly spectacular
Grand Canal Shoppes and Desert Passage in Las Vegas—the video raises
fundamental questions about consumer identity and diversity. Evoking
“experience retail” as a conceptual counterpoint to Internet-driven
home shopping, the program also catalyzes inquiry into the relationship
between economics, architecture, and human interaction. (47 minutes)
World Geography 3: The United States
and Canada
2002
VHS 26
min GEOG
“Standard Deviants
School
is an educational and entertaining, lesson-based learning supplement
based on the
award-winning Standard Deviants teaching style.” Explore
America’s
major regions and go on a journey through the home of hockey, Canada.
Hoover/Boulder
Dam Construction & History Films DVD
(1930s) 1
h 10 min DVD GEOG
(1) Boulder
Dam (1931) - Three part
film that
follows the beginning stages of construction of the Hoover Dam.
This is a Silent Film with picture boards. Length 00:34:30
(2) Boulder
Dam
- Amateur Documentary with excellent narration that follow the
construction of the Hoover Dam. Length 00:34:50
Historic
Columbia River Films
DVD (1940-50s) 30
min DVD GEOG
(1) The
Mighty
Columbia River (1947) - This documentary explores the
importance of the Columbia River the economy of the Northwestern United
States. The Columbia River is home to several dams, namely the
Grand Coulee Dam and Bonneville Dams. The film details the rivers
importance to the shipping industry and salmon fishing industry, as the
river produced a majority of the salmon caught in America at the
time. This film was produced by Coronet and Clifford M Zierer
Ph.D. (UCLA Professor of Geography). Length: 00:09:58
(2) Rivers
of the
Pacific Slope (1947) - This film documents The Columbia,
Sacramento, San Joaquin and Colorado river systems of the Western
United States. The film discusses the economic importance of
rivers to farming and fishing industries as well as major sources of
electricity generation. Length:
00:10:38
(3) Hanford
Science
Forum (1957) - A fascinating scientific discussion with Dr.
Richard F. Foster, manager of the Aquatic Biology Division at the
Hanford plant, about the effects of effluent on aquatic plant and fish
life in the Columbia River. This film was produced by General
Electric and The United States Energy Commission in Richland,
Washington. Length:
00:09:46
Mardi
Gras Parade & Float Films DVD (1941)
DVD GEOG
This is a
terrific compilation
of amateur film captured from Mardi Gras in 1941, during the WWII
era. Included is approximately 10 minutes of rare footage from the
Parade of Nor and approximately 10 minutes of footage from the Parade
of Krewe of Rex. There is no sound with these recordings, as the
amateur equipment of the day did not record sound. This is a
great look at how the New
Orleans Carnival Week has changed over the last 65 years. See how New
Orleans partied right before WWII! Mardi Gras enthusiasts,
Carnival historians, educators around the world and those who love to
learn with appreciate this rare documentation of the festival events.
Historic
Southwest US Films DVD (1940 - 1952)
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
This is a special DVD compilation of five great films focusing on the
Southwestern United States. Included are two Southwestern Native
American films, two Southwest travelogues and a classic fashion film
all about Southwestern fashion.
#1: The
Southwestern US. This
educational film
characterizes the lifestyles of the people who live in the southwestern
states of the U.S., including their history, farming techniques, and
more.
Date: 1942 Running Time: 10
minutes
#2: The
Pueblo
Heritage. This is a
fantastic film about
the history of the Pueblo people. There is wonderful, invaluable
footage of Indian jewelry, pottery, weavings and other crafts being
produced. There is also footage of a Native American celebration and
ceremonial.
Date: 1950. Time:
10 minutes
#3: Navajo
Canyon
Country.
Glorious footage of Navajo
Nation country in New Mexico and Arizona abounds in this movie,
including great shots of the daily life of the Native Americans
inhabiting the area. Date:
1954 Time: 12 minutes
#4: Fashion
Horizons.
An interesting
fashion and travelogue film that shows some beautiful women and their
clothes as they vacation.
Date: 1940 Time: 19 minutes
#5: Roads
to
Romance: The Santa Cruz Trail and Land of the Giant Cactus. This quant little travelogue
shows a slice of Southwestern life, including first-hand footage of the
Santa Cruz Trail and the many reasons to vacation in the great state of
Arizona. Date: 1950 Time: 3
minutes
Protestant Spirit USA
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 01, 104 min total; vol. 1), GEOG
In the 1100 churches of Indianapolis,
we see bewildering multiplicity of Protestantism. Churches with the
seating and styling of deluxe first-run theaters. Services conducted
with the professionalism of television spectaculars. And congregations
that occupy every seat at four staggered services every Sunday. All are
features of the US
church-going boom. We discover that religion is not in a state of
apathy in America; in some quarters it is decidedly big business.
Judaism: The Chosen People
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 03, 156 min total; vol. 7), GEOG
What is it that makes a Jew a Jew? In New York, Elie Wiesel, author and
survivor of the concentration camps, tries to define it. In London, Nobert Brainin and the
Amadeus Quartet carry the argument further, both in words and music.
Inevitably the search takes us to Jerusalem,
where Dr. Pinchas Peli, tenth generation rabbi and fourth generation
Jerusalemite, explains the meaning of prayer and acts as our guide
through the religious schools, the synagogues and a museum for the
survivors of the Holocaust. We also see Western (Wailing) Wall, a place
of prayer and pilgrimage sacred to the Jewish people.
Immigrants
to the US
5:00
DVD
[Video Set for
Rowntree’s textbook] Ask Dmitrii, Christine
or Angela
An overview of immigration to the US.
New Orleans is Sinking (ABC NEWS/Prentice Hall
Video Libary, Cessette 1) 1999
VHS 4:03 min GEOG
Understanding
Cities 53 min DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
For
the first time in civilization’s history, more people live in cities
than outside of them. This program goes around the world to look at
cities past and present with a focus on issues of transportation,
electricity, light, water, sewage, and trash. The program examines
differences between cities that have evolved over time and planned
cities, such as Brazil’s capital and utopian experiment, Brasília, and
Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán, the first planned city in Mesoamerica.
Cameras explore the construction of a new line in London’s Underground
and a new aqueduct in New York City.
Portland is presented as a
paradigm of modern urban planning. A Discovery Channel Production.
Arranged
(feature film! DVD 2007)
This feature film centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish
woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public
school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share
much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through
the process of arranged marriages.
Picturing a
metropolis: New York City unveiled (152 min.) disk 5 of Unseen
cinema: early American avant-garde film, 1894-1941 DVD (Library)
PN1995.9.E96
U674 2005 v.5
Avant-garde films from 1894 to 1941.
The
DVD depicts dynamic images of New York City and scenes of New Yorkers
among the skyscrapers, streets, and night life of America's greatest
city during a half century of progress, while at the same time showing
changes in film style and the history of cinema experiments.
Avant-garde moments pop up in the most unlikely of places including
turn-of-the-twentieth-century actualities, commercial and radical
newsreels, and Busby Berkeley's "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers
of 1935. Included are spectacular prints of Charles Sheeler and Paul
Strand's Manhatta (1921), Robert Flaherty's Twenty-four-Dollar Island
(c. 1926), Robert Florey's Skyscraper Symphony (1929), Jay Leyda's A
Bronx Morning (1931), and Rudy Burckhardt's Pursuit of Happiness (1940).
26
FILMS:
The
Blizzard (1899)-creators unknown
Lower
Broadway (1902)-Robert K. Bonine
Beginning
of a Skyscraper (1902)-Robert K. Bonine
Panorama
from Times Building, New York (1905)-Wallace McCutcheon
Skyscrapers
of NYC from North River (1903)-J.B. Smith
Panorama
from Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge (1903)-G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
Building
Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre (1902)-Frederick Armitage
Coney
Island at Night (1905)-Edwin S. Porter
Interior
New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)-G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
Seeing
New York by Yacht (1902)-Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
2
Looney Lens: Split Skyscrapers (1924) and Tenth Avenue, NYC (1924)-Al
Brick
4
Scenes from Ford Educational Weekly (1916-24)-creators unknown
Manhatta
(1921)-Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
Twentyfour-Dollar
Island (c. 1926)-Robert Flaherty
Skyscraper
Symphony (1929)-Robert Florey
Manhattan
Medley (1931)-Bonney Powell
A
Bronx Morning (1931)-Jay Leyda
Footnote
to Fact (1933)-Lewis Jacobs
Seeing
the World (1937)-Rudy Burckhardt
Pursuit
of Hapiness (1940)-Rudy Burckhardt
Gold
Diggers of 1935 - "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935)-Busby Berkeley (excerpt)
Autumn
Fire (1930-33)-Herman Weinberg
Brick city
(2 DVD disks) 260 min (Library)
A provocative and eye-opening
documentary that fans out around the city of Newark, New Jersey to capture the
daily drama of a community
striving to become a better, safer, stronger place to live.
America's
immigration debate DVD 26 min (Library)
E184.A1 A6385 2005
Examines the pro
and con views of
the American immigration debate. Studies the isolation of ethnic
communities, the shifting of racial definitions, and America's lack of
an infrastructure to support immigrant integration.
Trouble the
water DVD 96 min (Library)
HV636
2005 .N4 T76 2009
"This astonishing
powerful
documentary takes you inside Hurricane
Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable
home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist
trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin
and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating
protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water takes
audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping, infuriating,
inspiring and empowering. It's not only about the tragedy of Hurricane
Katrina, but about the underlying issues that remained when the flood
waters receded-failing public schools, record high levels of
incarceration, poverty, structural racism and lack of government
accountability"--Container. New
Orleans
The Civil War
in four minutes DVD 4
min. (Library)
E470
.C58 2008
To inform
and illustrate the scale, scope and tragedy of the Civil War. It is a large animated map which plays out the
progress of the war with
continuously shifting battle lines and flare-ups that mark specific
major battles.
Welcome to
poverty, USA!: the 51st state DVD 60
min. (Library)
HC110.P6
W44 2008
"Combining
scholarly analysis with a human-centered approach, this two-part series
looks at the causes and effects of economic hardship in the United
States while suggesting ways for society to combat the cycle of
poverty. Situational, multigenerational, elder, and child poverty are
all addressed through conversations with those who know hunger or
homelessness firsthand. Leading socioeconomic experts and frontline
activists are also interviewed, including David Broder of the
Washington Post, Alan Berube of the Brookings Institute, and Jessica
Bartholow, a community food bank administrator. The United States
continue to be the wealthiest country in the world, yet one in eight
Americans--approximately 37 million people--live below the poverty
line. This program analytically and sympathetically discusses the
effects and implications of poverty, examining factors such as
illiteracy, insufficient job skills, substance abuse, and crime. The
phenomenon of multigenerational poverty is also addrressed underscoring
the disturbing pattern of poverty begetting poverty. Interviews with
impoverished people and those who reach out to them put a human face on
a demographic group that lives below the radar of wealthy and
middle-class Americans"--Container.
Understanding
cities VHS 51
min. (Library)
HT151
.U52 1997
Shows how
cities live and die from the ground up-and down. Explores the
transportation, water and sewer systems, and architectural landmarks of
5 great cities. Historians, urban planners, architects and social
scientists assess the past, present and future of the crowded, crowning
symbols of civilization. Profiled cities include New York, Washington,
D.C., Portland, Ore., Seaside, Fla., Miami, Teotihuacan, and
Brasilia.
Mohawk
girls DVD 53
min. (Library)
E99.M8
M64 2005
Quebec
province, social conditions of Mohawk girls. In English with
option of English/French subtitles.
Far
from home DVD 40 min. LC214.523.B67
.F37 2005
Kandice is an
African-American
teenager who participates in METCO, a
voluntary school integration program in Boston. Ever since kindergarten
she has been bused to the public schools of Weston, a predominately
white and affluent neighborhood. She shares her conflicted feelings
about traversing these two different worlds.
5. Alaska: The
Last
Frontier? 27 min. (Library)
GF41
.H86 1996 v. 5
Human
Geography
series.
Those who
don't call Alaska home often perceive the
49th state as a pristine wilderness, not considering the indigenous
peoples who have inhabited the area for centuries. Ongoing conflicts in
Alaska highlight the difficulties of balancing
the needs of
indigenous peoples and the wilderness with economic development and
modern life.
Life expectancy: geography
as destiny DVD
31 min (Library)
HB1335
.L533 2005
Give students a context
in which to study the world’s widely varying life expectancy
statistics. Focusing discussion on economic and cultural factors, this
program examines dramatic discrepancies between life spans in the
United States, Japan, Russia, and the developing nation of Sierra
Leone—where a high infant mortality rate creates the lowest life
expectancy in the world. The video presents alarming findings at the
opposite end of the economic spectrum as well—in Okinawa and West
Virginia, where links between obesity and mortality rates are growing,
and in Moscow and its suburbs, where the pressures of rapid social
change are lowering life expectancy.
Oil
on
ice DVD 90 min (Library)
HD9567.A4
O55 2005
A documentary
connecting the fate of
the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge to decisions America makes about energy policy, transportation
choices, and other seemingly unrelated matters. Caught in the balance
are the culture and livelihood of the Gwich'in people and the migratory
wildlife in this fragile ecosystem. Discusses the conflict between the
oil industry
and environmentalists over the future of the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. Alaska
7. Water Is for
Fighting
Over 27 min. (Library)
GF41
.H86 1996 v. 7 Human Geography
series.
Along the parched California-Nevada border,
various groups with compelling yet competing interests claim the
water of the Truckee River Basin. The burgeoning Reno-Sparks area needs
water to sustain the community, but high levels in a local reservoir
are destroying the cui-ui fish of a local Paiute tribe. Farmers need
irrigated water for crops, but the government seeks water further
downstream
for a wetlands area. These conflicts illustrate how scarce natural
resources
can shape a community.
Chicago:
city of the century 4 videodiscs
(ca. 345 min.) (Library)
F548.3
.C55 2003 [DVD]
"City of the
century tells how
in just 60 years
Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town
into one of the
most explosively alive cities in the world". -- Container. Chicago by 'L" is part travelogue,
part history, and part tour
of Chicago's neighborhoods by 'L', Chicago's
elevated train.
The
aesthetics of urban
places 27 min. (Library)
NA9052
.A32 1994
A
conversation with
Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary, U.S. Dept.
of Housing
and
Urban Development.
"Secretary
Henry Cisneros speaks with Jane Slate Siena about the role of the arts
in
urban revitalization and development. Secretary Cisneros describes his
efforts to restore San Antonio while Mayor and talks about his
unique involvement with other cities in America since his appointment
by President Clinton in 1993 as the country's foremost community
development official. The Secretary discusses historic preservation,
the need for a human dimension in urban design, and his commitment
to making art an integral part of the public environment"--Container.
The Social life
of small urban spaces 60
min. (Library
HT153
.S63 1988
A small group of
observers, the "Street
Life Project", sets out to study how people use the parks and plazas of
the city. With the help of time-lapse filming they find that what makes
a place work are the basics--a place to sit, for example, food, sun, a
passing show. New York City
and elsewhere
Broken rainbow 70 min. (Library)
E99.N3
B764 1986
Academy
award winning documentary about the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo
Indians currently
taking place in Arizona.
Although the Federal
government claims to be
settling a land dispute between the Hopi and Navajo tribes, this film
clearly illustrates that the relocation will only serve to facilitate
energy development.
Cadillac
desert: water and the transformation of nature 4 videocassette (250
min.) (Library) Video
Cassette 10107
Cadillac desert
relates the
story of the epic quest for water and the role it has played in the
vast transformation
of the American West and many parts of the world. Contents v.1. Mulholland's dream (85
min.) -- v. 2. An American Nile (55 min.) --
v. 3. The mercy of nature (55
min.) --
v. 4. Last oasis (55 min.)
The cruise
76 min. (Library)
Video
Cassette 9917
Join Timothy
"Speed" Levitch as your guide through Manhattan
aboard a Gray Line Tours double-decker bus. More than a tour, the
documentary is part of an ongoing search for perfection.
Trouble behind
54 mins. (Library) E185.61
.T768 1990
Uncovers
the origins of today's racism in the history of a seemingly typical
American small town, Corbin, Kentucky.
The West
9 videocassettes (732 min.) (Library) F591
.W47 1996a
"...the definitive
account of
the hope, heartbreak and mythic adventure of America's
move west through the unforgettable personal
stories of those
who lived it."--Box for each container. 1.
The people (84 min.) -- 2. Empire upon the trails
(87 min.) -- 3. The speck of the future (87
min.) -- 4. Death runs riot
(87 min.) -- 5. The
grandest enterprise under God (87 min.) -- 6. Fight no more
forever (87 min.) -- 7. The geography of
hope (87 min.) -- 8. Ghost dance (59 min.)
--
9. One sky above us (67 min.)
Grey
Gardens
95 min.
(Library) DVD
E843
.G739 2001
Portrait of the
relationship
between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once
an aspiring actress in
New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East
Hampton home, and never left
again. The aunt and cousin of
Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts
behind
the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens. 1974.
Our
daily bread 74
min. (Library) DVD
PN1997
.O86 2005
The main film on
this disk is a depression-era
feature drama in which a young couple leads a group of
unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes an
introduction to the movie by King Vidor. However, the disk
contains also a number of documentary filks of the period, such as a
notorious fake newsreels, California
Election News; a documentray about the stripping of the Mississippi River Basin and the
effort to restore the region; a film about the ecological and human
tragedy of the Dust Bowl;
electricity effects on Ohio.
The
Architecture of Frank
Lloyd Wright
(75 min.)
(Library)
VHS
NA737.W7
A72 1983
The film profiles the
major American architect of the 20th century.
New
York. Episode eight:
1946-2003. The center of
the world
F128.3
.N595 2003
Chronicles
the history of New York from 1945 down to the present, emerging from
the Depression and the Second World War as a powerful city. Ends with
the distruction of the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001.
Food, Inc.
DVD 91 min 2008 (Multi-Cultural Center)
http://www.foodincmovie.com/
In Food, Inc.,
filmmaker
Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing
the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American
consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA
and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of
corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the
livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own
environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop,
herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but
we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes
illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with
widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level
of diabetes among adults. USA
13. California/LA
Los
Angeles: The Making of a City 29 min
DVD GEOG c/o
Dmitrii
Los
Angeles will soon be America’s most populous city. This program traces
its history and cultural roots, showing the elements that comprise both
the myth and the reality of the "City of Angels."
Understanding
Urban Sprawl
47 min
DVD
GEOG
c/o Dmitrii
In
this program, scientist and environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki examines
the social, economic, and environmental implications of "sprawl," the
low-density development that spreads out from the edges of cities and
towns. For decades suburban housing has carried the promise of
paradise, but the need for continuous infrastructure development and
the intensification of sprawl-related ecological issues, which are
eroding health and quality of life, are making the true impact of
suburbia painfully clear in the areas surrounding Los Angeles,
Mexico City, and Vancouver, British Columbia. However,
Portland, Oregon, has become a model of what can be accomplished when
administrators, businesses, and residents commit themselves to
slowing sprawl and reestablishing the amenities that make for a happy
and healthy community.
Reinventing the City: New York and Los
Angeles 50 min DVD
GEOG
c/o
Dmitrii
On
the surface, New York and Los Angeles
are quintessentially American
cities, and although each is recognizable by its media image, both are
little understood. This program transcends that superficial imagery
through the fascinating story of how both cities responded to, and were
reshaped by, the pervasive forces of economic and social change that
characterized late-20th-century America. The program explores both
cities’ major urban redevelopment projects during the early 1990s and
seeks to provide a balanced investigation of the complex interaction
between those local and global forces of change that were involved in
the restructuring and the reinvention of both cities.
Someone
to Watch Over Us 29 min
DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
Our
cities are gripped by fear, the streets increasingly seen as dangerous,
with inadequate security for their citizens. The all-seeing eye of the
surveillance camera seems to offer an answer. But are there hidden
dangers to the rapid rise of mass surveillance? This program follows an
innovative prison warden, Dr. David Wilson, as he traces the
implications of the rise of surveillance cameras in our communities.
From a maximum security prison in England, the program travels to Los
Angeles and London, confronting us with harrowing real-life
violence as
we explore whether the city itself is increasingly becoming a prison.
Central City 20
min DVD GEOG c/o Dmitrii
This
program provides an overview of the unique characteristics and the
complexities of the center city and of the central business district. A
comparison is made between Los Angeles,
California, and a much older
and very different kind of urban center, Manchester, England. Despite
their differences, these cities share important, basic features.
Classic
Mexican American Culture Films DVD (1930s - 1960s) 58 min DVD GEOG
(1) A
Street Of
Memory (1937) - Features the sights and sounds of daily life
from Olvera Street in Los Angeles
during the late 30's. Length:
00:08:44
(2) Why
Braceros?
(1959) - Propaganda film about immigrant Mexican laborers, the bracero
program, and the impact on California's
working class and economy. Length:
00:18:53
(3) Good
Friday
Through Cuernavaca (1960s) - Classic travelogue film through
Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Length: 00:015:19
Vintage
Chinese Culture Films DVD (1920s - 1960s)
50
min
DVD GEOG
(1) Red
Chinese
Battle Plan
(1964) - This American propaganda film shows the rise of the communist
party in China starting around 1920 and has a lot of material, footage
and information about Mao Tse-Tsung. Despite the negative light it
casts on the Chinese communist powers, this film has wonderfully
valuable documentary of China and its citizens in the early 20th
century. Length: 26 minutes
(2) Parade
Celebrating Chinese Republic (1912) - This is a short collection
of footage from 1912 San Francisco, where some were celebrating the new
Chinese Republic. Length: 3
minutes
(3) People
of
Western China
(1940) - This film is centered around the life and work of a community
in Western China, and shows how advancements in technology and science
are both changing and intermixing with many of the ancient ways of
China. Length: 11 minutes
(4) Chinese Lion
Dance: Marysville, California
(1925) - This is awesome footage from a Chinese New Year Bok Kai
festival, with lots of shots of the parade dragon and fireworks. An
interesting slice of immigrant life in early 20th century California. Length: 10 minutes
Sin,
Fire and Gold: The Days
of San Francisco Barbary Coast (66
min, 2001) VHS GEOG
Since its beginnings, San Francisco
has been home to an eclectic array of characters drawn not only to the
city's spectacular surroundings but also to the vibrant spirit of
independence the area seems to foster. San Francisco can boast of both
striking physical beauty and a colorful history replete with
swashbuckling drama and Gold Rush fever. Much of this history seems to
have been largely forgotten, buried with the rubble of the great 1906
earthquake. KQED's new documentary, broadcast in HDTV, celebrates the
people, places and events that have shaped the city over the years.
Host Greg Sherwood joins tour guide and historian Daniel Bacon
(BarbaryCoastTrail.org) in sifting through the present to uncover some
of San Francisco's fascinating past.
Alternative Lifestyles in California: West
Meets East
(part of: Long Search, The, 2001, Disk 05, 156 min total; vol. 12), GEOG
The
spiritual impulse of the time steps beyond the boundaries of religious
tradition - so wrote Theodore Roszak, spokesman for the
counter-culture, who is Ronald Eyre's guide to the new religious
concerns of people living in the San
Francisco
Bay area. Here religious ideas and life styles of East and West mingle
and people brought up in a largely Christian cultural climate look East
to Taoism and Hinduism for inspiration.
A Better Life
(Feature Film!) (DVD 2011) GEOG
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to
keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to
give his son the opportunities he never had.
Crips and Bloods: made in America
99 min. (Library)
DVD HV6439.U7
L717 2009
A cluster
of neighborhoods lies in the heart of Southern California, streets that
form a grid between concrete ribbons of freeway. Nearly a quarter of
its young men will end up in prison. Many other will end up dead. These
neighborhoods in South Los Angeles are home to two of the most infamous
African-American gangs, the Crips and the Bloods. On these mean streets
over the past 30 years, more than 15,000 people have been murdered in
an ongoing cycle of gang violence that continues unabated. Here is
where America's most bloody and costly outbreaks in civil unrest
erupted - not once, but twice, 27 years and just three miles apart.
Combines archival footage with in-depth interviews.
The
new Los Angeles
55 min. (Library) DVD F866.2
.C337 2005
(MultiCultural Center also has a copy)
Paints a racially,
economically, and politically
complex portrait of Los Angeles from 1973 through 2005.
The price of renewal
55 min. (Library)
DVD F866.2
.C336 2005
Examines the
renovation of an ethnically, culturally, and economically
diverse neighborhood (City Heights) in San
Diego.
7. Water Is for
Fighting
Over 27 min. (Library)
GF41
.H86 1996 v. 7 Human Geography
series.
Along the parched California-Nevada border,
various groups with compelling yet competing interests claim the water
of the Truckee River Basin. The burgeoning Reno-Sparks area needs water
to sustain the community, but high levels in a local reservoir are
destroying the cui-ui fish of a local Paiute tribe. Farmers need
irrigated water for crops, but the government seeks water further
downstream for a wetlands area. These conflicts illustrate how scarce
natural resources can shape a community.
The
lost village of Terminal Island 27 min. DVD
(Library)
F869.L89
L67 2007
The story of the
Japanese American nisei of Terminal
Island in Los
Angeles Harbor during the
decades prior to World War II. The
nearly
3000 Japanese immigrants and their families prospered as pioneers in
the California fishing industry.
Las Vegas
[videorecording] : an unconventional history 180 min. (Library)
DVD F849.L35
L47 2005
Trace the
city's development from its humble beginnings as a remote frontier way
station
to its mid-century florescence as the gangster metropolis known as 'Sin City'
to
its recent renaissance as the fastest growing city in the United States.
Las Vegas
Special features: Making-of 'Las
Vegas: an
unconventional history"; "Let's face it" a 1950's federal civil
defense administration film of nuclear testing.
Farmingville
78 min. (Library)
DVD
F128.9.M4
F37 2004
Documentary film
about the next
group of immigrants, the Mexicans, that
are following in our long history of immigration. It looks at the
people of Farmingville,
New York,
and at how they are dealing with the
influx of about 1,500 Mexican workers. An excellent film for
discussion on globalization's effects on American cities/communities.
Mixed feelings DVD
26 min., 46 sec. (Library)
HT384.M49
M59 2003
A
documentary about the San Diego/Tijuana region and its
inevitable transnational future.
Conversations with scholars,
planners and architects from both cities open a window into an
unprecedented dialogue now occurring on the U.S./Mexican border. The
film reaches into issues including architecture, urbanism and rapid
globalization. It also offers a rare and insightful meditation on the
future impact that Latino civilization will have on U.S.
cities.2002
Colors
straight up (Library)
VHS 10714
"In the ghetto of
South
Central, L.A., where
Latino-and African-American kids struggle against a myriad of
destructive influences, there is an option for a better life. Troubled
teens discovered their talents and self dignity through "Colors
United", a performing arts group created for inner city youth. This uplifting and emotional
documentary offers powerful
insights into the thoughts and feelings of these "at risk"
children"--Container.
Concert
of wills (Library)
VHS 9786
This program
traces the
building of the Getty
Center,
one of the most ambitious cultural undertakings of the twentieth
century.
Culture
Clash's bowl of beings VHS
10369
Humorous
presentation of the situation of Mexican Americans in modern society.
Fear and
learning at Hoover Elementary (Library) VHS
8064
A
documentary by Los
Angeles teacher Laura Angelica Simуn,
exploring the impact of California's Proposition 187 on the
immigrant community.
The
subject is Hoover
Street
Elementary School, where Simуn candidly explores the attitudes and
emotions of teachers, students and parents, focusing on a ten year old
Salvadorian girl.
First
Interstate fire (Library) VHS6469
Shows films
of the First Interstate Bank high-rise building fire in Los
Angeles, Calif.
on May
4, 1988.
From Sleepy
Lagoon to Zoot
suit (Library) VHS
8061
A profile of the
life and work
(in civil rights) of Alice Greenfield McGrath, including interviews
with McGrath
herself, with emphasis on her work in defending the rights of young
Mexican American men in the Los
Angeles
area, who were
often (and, in many cases, mistakenly) perceived as tough gangsters and
hoodlums, in the early 1940's.
Going
to school (Library)
VHS
10606
A
documentary film about empowering children with disabilities in Los
Angeles.
The Great San
Francisco earthquake, 1906 58
min. (Library)
VHS 6746
Presents
the accounts of people who lived in San
Francisco before
and after it was
destroyed by the devastating
earthquake and fire in April 1906. Archival footage and rare
photos
depict the event that killed thousands of people and left tens of
thousands
homeless.
GV2 (Library)
VHS
10464
A
follow-up
film to the award winning documentary Graffiti Verite.
Includes interviews with more graffiti artists and street scenes
with over 400 tags, throw-ups and pieces of "street art" all presented
to a backdrop of Hip Hop music. Includes coverage
of the winning artwork of the First International Graffiti Art
Competition.
The Hollywood film production
community (Library)
Odyssey Series Oct.28,
1999
Panel discussion
held October
28, 1999 at a meeting of University 300I, a course given as part of the
California State University, Long Beach Odyssey theme year project for
1999-2000: The Community - Spatial, Cultural, and Virtual.
Imagenes de Los Angeles Mexicano (Library)
VHS
7230
Describes
the history of Mexican Los
Angeles from 1781 to the present. In
Spanish.
In her own
time (Library)
VHS
6537
Focuses on
cultural anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff's
study of the community of Hasidic Jews in Los
Angeles's Fairfax neighborhood. Tells also how, after exhausting
medical treatment for cancer, she found strength among the traditions,
faith, and caring of these Orthodox Jews.
International
logistics (Library) VHS 11102
An
introduction to the importance of logistics to global trade. Examines the operation of the American President Lines
Terminal in Los
Angeles.
Join
the Los Angeles Police Department (Library)
VHS
7663
Shows how
to get started in
a career as an LAPD officer.
Judy Baca (Library)
VHS
7352
Judy Baca,
muralist, discusses
her work, including "The Great wall of Los
Angeles".
"The Great Wall" is a narrative depicting California's
multi-cultural history.
L.A. disaster
preparedness (Library)
Odyssey
Series Oct. 4, 1999
Lecture given
October 4, 1999
at a meeting of University 300I, a course given as part of the
California State University, Long Beach Odyssey theme year project for
1999-2000: The Community - Spatial, Cultural, and Virtual.
The last
stand: the struggle for the Ballona
wetlands 56:46
min. (Library)
HD266.C22
L67 1999
"A spirited film
which covers
the controversial
land use struggle near LAX related to the Playa Vista
development
which includes the proposed DreamWorks Studio"--Container.
The least
remembered city (Library)
VHS
10791
Features
the critic and historian of mass culture, Norman Klein, who leads
viewers on an "anti-tour" of the hidden, forgotten, and completely
erased Los
Angeles.
Living on the
edge: California's
coastal erosion dilemma 32
min. (Library)
VHS
10842
Video footage and
interviews
with scientists and coastal homeowners illustrate the problems and
possible solutions to storm damage and erosion on California's
coast
Living
with earthquakes (Library)
Odyssey Series March
31, 1998
Lecture given March 31,
1998, at a meeting
of University 300I, a course given as part of the California
State University,
Long Beach Odyssey theme year project 1997-98: The Earth-Origins,
Evolution and The Search for Meaning.
Los Angeles
history project (Library)
VHS
6313 guide
Explores
the history of Los
Angeles, California. Contents Valor -- Ode to Central
Avenue
--The big Orange
-- William Mulholland : the dream
builder.
Lost Angeles (Library) VHS 6195
Discusses an area
set up for
the homeless in Los
Angeles, California
from June 14 to September 25,
1987 and some of the
people involved.
The
Perception of the American city: Long
Beach-Los
Angeles and other U.
S. global cities (Library) Odyssey
Series Sept.10, 1996
Lecture given
Sept. 10, 1996,
at a meeting of University 300I: The American City, a course given as
part of the California State University, Long Beach Odyssey theme year
project 1996-97: The City.
Por la vida (Library)
VHS 7831
Some 7,000 street
vendors in Los
Angeles County,
most of whom are undocumented immigrant Latin Americans or Hispanic
American citizens, face economic loss and criminal status under a
pending Los
Angeles
vending ordinance.
Racial
conflict in the modern city (Library)
Odyssey
Series Nov. 5, 1996
Lecture given Nov. 5, 1996, as part of the
California
State
University, Long Beach
Odyssey theme year project 1996-97: The City. Prof. Torres discusses
media coverage of the '92 riots, the increase in Latino population in L.A.,
and the post-industrial and globalized L.A.
economy calling for a new politics.
The Rodney
King incident (Library)
VHS
9965
Presents the unedited version
of the Rodney King videotape as well as new evidence ignored by the
major media at the time. All
of the key participants are
interviewed, including Rodney King, the police officers, the state
trial prosecutor, and former L.A. Police Chief Daryl Gates.
All parties offer their divergent points of view about these tumultuous
events.
Sa-i-gu
(Library)
VHS
7937
Explores the
embittering effect
the Rodney King
verdict and riot had on Korean American women shopkeepers who suffered
more
than half of the material losses in the conflict. Film underscores the
shattering of the American dream while taking the media to task for
playing up the "Korean-Black" aspect of the rioting.
A sad flower
in the sand (Library)
VHS
10904
A Sad flower in
the sand is a
documentary based
on John Fante's masterpiece,
Ask the dust, which illustrates Fante's
deep-rooted love of the city of Los
Angeles.
It is a film about a dream and about a city of dreamers. It unfolds as
a road trip through Fante's Los
Angeles
which unravels the dreams, hopes and deceptions of which the town is
made.
South Central
Los Angeles (Library) VHS
9334
Discusses
the Los
Angeles riots of 1994 from the view
of the people who lived in
the areas affected.
Participants of the film were given video
recorders so that they could show their lives and record their
feelings.
Venice, lost and found
(Library)
VHS
11230
A
vivid
portrait of Venice, California, through historical
footage, and interviews with
residents, artists, and writers.
Violence by
and against Latinos (Library)
VHS
7260
Looks at a
recent drive-by shooting and the subsequent efforts to help young
school-age victims of
crime to learn to understand their fear and insecurity in their often
unpredictable surroundings.
Traces the effects of the Los
Angeles
riots on various immigrant groups and the African-American community,
and looks at the kind of violence that may be the hardest to
combat-that which takes place against Latina
women in the seclusion of their homes.
Why riots happen (Library) VHS
11085
"On April
29,
1992, the Rodney King
court
decision unleashed
some of the worst riots in American history. Focusing on the Los
Angeles
riots, the program uses dramatic footage from around the world to look
at the psychology and causes of these brutal yet fascinating
upheavals."--Container.
The wonderful
Towers of Watts
(Library) VHS
7694 no.111
Describes how an
Italian
immigrant built three unusual towers in his backyard in the Watts
neighborhood of Los
Angeles.
Zoot Suit Riots (Library)
VHS
10971
Racial tensions
between the
Anglo and Mexican American communities in Los
Angeles,
California
erupted into violence after the conviction of Henry "Hank" Leyvas and seventeen other Mexican American
youths for the murder of Josй Dнaz in what was perceived as an unfair trial
in
1943. Lorena Encinas, a witness to the
murder, kept the real killer's identity a secret until the end
of her life. Prominent members of the Los
Angeles
community worked to fund an appeal for the defendents,
even as battles between unruly US Naval personnel and Mexican Americans
rocked L.A.'s barrios.
Surviving family members of the seventeen convicts, riot witnesses and
members of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee tell the story of the
riots, which is highlighted by photographs of the riots, the trial and
their participants.
Building
safer communities: community oriented
policing
and problem solving 17
min. (Library) AT10
B2
California
Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General. Host Ron Jones
explores how various communities throughout California
have adopted the COPPS program to assist in solving neighborhood
problems and making their communities safer.
Butterfly 80 min. (Library) VHS
9875
Julia "Butterfly"
Hill, a
twenty-four year old has spent two years living in a tree. She's
protesting lumbering of redwood forests in California.
Wolens' interviews over two years,
including six nights with Hill on her 180-foot high platform, reveal an
intensely spiritual and articulate woman determined to accomplish her
goal.
Dollar a day,
ten cents a dance: a
historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers
in
America
29 min. (Library)
E184.F4
D64 1984
An
historic
portrait of Filipino migrant farmworkers
in California, focusing on the immigrants
of the 1920's and 1930's,
and documenting how they survived on low salaries and without many
women of their own nationality to accompany them. The racial
prejudice and discrimination they suffered led to the Watsonville
Riot of 1930 and to the formation of farm labor unions.
The Exiles
72 min. (Library)
E98.U72
E944 1983
An
account
of the problems that are encountered by American Indians who live in
urban areas and
are caught between two conflicting cultures, by showing 12 hours
in the lives of a group living in Los Angeles.
A Sea of
trouble 33 min.(Library)
VHS
10846
This is a dramatic
and
fascinating documentary on the rise and fall of the West Coast tuna
fishing industry in San
Diego, California.
There is also an untold story of the efforts of tuna fishermen to save
dolphins and minimize their entrapment in tuna nets.
South Central
Farm: oasis in a
concrete desert 24 min. DVD
2007
(Library)
SB457.3 .S68
2007
"The true story of the high profile
controversy involving poor farmers and their supporters, celebrity tree
sitters, the developer and the city of Los
Angeles over the South
Central Farm, the largets and most bio-diverse urban farm in the
U.S."