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Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
This fact-based, Emmy-nominated film recounts the August 6,1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima through the eyes of a number of disparate survivors, including Japanese soldiers, citizens, and American prisoners of war. German priest Father Siemes, Japanese physician Dr. Hara, and American soldier Pete Dunham are all prominently featured as they struggle to survive amid the mayhem and ruin.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed filmmaker David Grubin, Bill Moyers tours the Renaissance legacy of Florence seeking sources of our common artistic, architectural and cultural heritage. Guided by historians, Florentine citizens and interviews with novelist Umberto Eco and filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli we explore the roots of key contemporary ideas, like the preeminence of the individual.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Over the course of a year, starting in March 1989, director Kurt Tetzlaff follows Alexander Schulz, an 18-year-old high-school student and son of a pastor. Alexander openly discusses his non-conformist political views. Full of hope, he joins the citizens’ movement in fall 1989; but after the first free elections held in the GDR on March 18, 1990, he realizes that his hopes are in vein.
24) Censored
Publisher
Shelburne Press
Pub. Date
©1993-[1994]
Language
English
Description
Each volume covers news events from the previous year. 2014: presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2012-2013, covering such topics as global warming, hunger in America, GMO's, whistle blowers, human rights, hate groups, fracking, nuclear weapons, and income inequality.
26) Nobody's fool
Author
Series
Nobody's fool volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Language
English
Description
An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.
27) Ballot Measure 9
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Ballot Measure 9 is the starting point for dialogue about the democratic process, offering a valuable window to discussions about the health of the society in which we live. The Sundance-winning feature is a chilling chronicle of an historic gay-rights battle in Oregon. As the anti-gay violence escalates, the film evolves into an expose of hate politics that crosses lines of race, religion, and sexual identity. As the polarizing issue of gay marriage...
Publisher
Nelvana International
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
When Bastian arrives in Fantasia he discovers that some of the citizens have turned into frozen statues. Realizing it's coming from the water, Bastian collects a strange potion from Urgl and travels with Barktroll and Falkor to the Fountain of Life.
29) Taken for a Ride
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways? Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets. The highway lobby then pushed through Congress a vast network of urban freeways that doubled...
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
ROOTS IN THE SAND challenges prevailing impressions of the rugged frontier by enriching the landscape with stalwart Sikh, Moslem and Hindu settlers in this Mexican-Punjabi version of the "taming of the Wild West. Federal laws prevented "non-white Caucasians" like themselves from going home to marry, importing brides, or becoming American citizens. Instead, they married Mexican fieldworkers - women with the same color as themselves - with the blessings...
Publisher
LOGTV
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A Mississippi mother of six sues her local school district to remove intercom prayer and Bible classes from the public schools. Christian community members rally against her to protect their time-honored tradition of religious practices in the schools. Both sides claim they are fighting for religious freedom.. In 1962 the Supreme Court ruled that school-sanctioned prayers and devotional Bible readings in public school classrooms are indisputably unconstitutional....
Publisher
Good Egg Productions
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of Louis Malle’s “Au Revoir les Enfants” and Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” the Emmy Award-winning documentary “The Children of Chabannes” has been called “a moving record of the unassuming, uncompromising heroism of ordinary people” (New York Times) and “one of the most heartening Holocaust films ever made: splendid, informative and emotionally involving.” (Los Angeles Times). “The Children of Chabannes”...
35) Body Wars
Publisher
Longtail Distribution Network
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Something frightening is happening to the citizens of the developed world. Despite major advances in health care, over recent decades we’ve been battling an ever-growing epidemic of once rare allergic and autoimmune diseases...Today, more than 17 million people in the U.S. alone struggle to maintain one of their body’s most basic body’s functions — breathing. Another 50 million are now thought to be coming under regular attack by their own...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When forced to work at city jobs for well below the prevailing wage and deprived of the chance to go to school, these individuals decide to fight back, demanding programs that will actually help them move off of welfare and into jobs. A Day's Work, A Day's Pay traces the personal and political evolution of its three main characters. Juan Galan successfully organizes WEP workers while battling the demons of his own poverty-stricken childhood. Jackie...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Describes the actions of emergency telephone operators, police officers, firefighters, trained dogs, and individual citizens who helped in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
39) Equilibrium
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen [version].
Language
English
Description
In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement officer who tracks down and punishes "sense offenders"...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Thousands of newspapers in 20th-century America, with radio stations, television, and the world's strongest movie industry, informed citizens well about their surroundings and about political and social questions. Media power transformed the nature of politics, lobbying, and even the military, as the armed forces discovered to its detriment in Vietnam.
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