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China: One Child Policy
produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2006), 23 mins
In 1980, the Communist Government of China instituted a policy of one child per family as a means of curtailing population growth. Now, the success or failure of this highly controversial social experiment can be assessed. In this comprehensive report, correspondent John Taylor journeyed from the high rise flats o...
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produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2006), 23 mins
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In 1980, the Communist Government of China instituted a policy of one child per family as a means of curtailing population growth. Now, the success or failure of this highly controversial social experiment can be assessed. In this comprehensive report, correspondent John Taylor journeyed from the high rise flats of middle class Beijing to the poor farms of the Chinese countryside to see the effect of this policy. Population growth has been slowed...
In 1980, the Communist Government of China instituted a policy of one child per family as a means of curtailing population growth. Now, the success or failure of this highly controversial social experiment can be assessed. In this comprehensive report, correspondent John Taylor journeyed from the high rise flats of middle class Beijing to the poor farms of the Chinese countryside to see the effect of this policy. Population growth has been slowed, but this success has come at enormous social cost. Many families have suffered greatly under the policy, from forced abortions to political coercion and heavy fines. Liu Shuling, a poor farmer's wife with two children says: "After having one baby, when people tried to have a second one, if you didn't have money, they would pull down your house. If they didn't pull down your house, they would take away your timber and your horse carts." The policy has also given birth to an alarming imbalance between the sexes. For every 100 girls there are 120 boys. Traditionally, Chinese parents have preferred sons - because they support them in their old age and carry on the family name. Many couples have turned to ultrasound machines to guarantee they get the type of child they desire. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of female foetuses have been aborted. China is also becoming a nation of children without siblings. There is now a real concern that the One Child Policy has created a generation of spoilt children - so-called "little emperors and empresses." College Adult
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Demographics, Family, Humanities
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Faces in a Famine
directed by Robert Lieberman; produced by Robert Lieberman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1985), 54 mins
The three-year drought in Ethiopia in the 1980’s caused a famine of biblical proportions that lasted for years. This is a study of the relief workers from the Western world and their quiet heroism in coping with overwhelming human misery. Despite the huge number of victims, they still formed attachments on a per...
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directed by Robert Lieberman; produced by Robert Lieberman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1985), 54 mins
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The three-year drought in Ethiopia in the 1980’s caused a famine of biblical proportions that lasted for years. This is a study of the relief workers from the Western world and their quiet heroism in coping with overwhelming human misery. Despite the huge number of victims, they still formed attachments on a personal level, and grieved over the inevitable deaths. The film succeeds in transforming the media images of starving masses into identif...
The three-year drought in Ethiopia in the 1980’s caused a famine of biblical proportions that lasted for years. This is a study of the relief workers from the Western world and their quiet heroism in coping with overwhelming human misery. Despite the huge number of victims, they still formed attachments on a personal level, and grieved over the inevitable deaths. The film succeeds in transforming the media images of starving masses into identifiable individuals. Images stay with us, such as a mother tending her weakened baby, or a starving teenage boy still eager to play. We also see the efforts of Ethiopians helping their fellow countrymen. The filmmaker has captured some of the bizarre aspects of the tragedy. He shows us the “disaster groupies” who come for a variety of personal reasons. They mean to help, but lack the skills to be useful. With hunger a recurring reality, this film will help people understand the cataclysm. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Robert Lieberman
Author / Creator
Robert Lieberman
Date Published / Released
1985
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Economics, Business & Economics
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1985. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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The Guestworker
directed by Cynthia Hill, fl. 2003 and Charles Thompson; produced by Charles Thompson and Cynthia Hill, fl. 2003 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2006), 53 mins
When President Bush and some members of Congress proposed guest worker programs as part of new immigration reform legislation, it was as though nothing like this had existed before. Yet since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have legally entered the United States to work here, because of the little known H-2A guestw...
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directed by Cynthia Hill, fl. 2003 and Charles Thompson; produced by Charles Thompson and Cynthia Hill, fl. 2003 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2006), 53 mins
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When President Bush and some members of Congress proposed guest worker programs as part of new immigration reform legislation, it was as though nothing like this had existed before. Yet since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have legally entered the United States to work here, because of the little known H-2A guestworker program, put in effect during the Reagan years. Filmed on both sides of the border, the documentary chronicles the life of such f...
When President Bush and some members of Congress proposed guest worker programs as part of new immigration reform legislation, it was as though nothing like this had existed before. Yet since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have legally entered the United States to work here, because of the little known H-2A guestworker program, put in effect during the Reagan years. Filmed on both sides of the border, the documentary chronicles the life of such farm- workers while looking at the issues surrounding the program. The film focuses on a 66-year-old Mexican farmer, Candelario Moreno Gonzales, who works on the tobacco, cucumber and pepper fields of the Western Farms in North Carolina . He has made this annual trip for forty years, initially as an undocumented immigrant for which he was jailed three times. Now too old to risk illegal crossings, he has paid as much as a thousand dollars for his bus fare and other costs of participating in the program. Although he is twenty years older than most of his fellow workers, he puts in the same grueling hours with no hope of citizenship and the benefits that go along with it. The film also shows the troubles of his employer, Len Wester, who may loose his farm because of drought. Wester, like many US farmers, is dependent on foreign farm laborers to sustain his farm. Candelario loves his home and family but the deteriorating condition of Mexico's rural economy leave him little choice but to continue his yearly trek. As he says " I need to go as long as I can work. I'm old. The work has worn me down and made me tired. My family needs me at home in Mexico, but I need to be here too." High School College Adult
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Charles Thompson, Cynthia Hill, fl. 2003
Author / Creator
Cynthia Hill, fl. 2003, Charles Thompson
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Farm workers, Migrant life, Immigration laws, Sociology, Politics & Policy, Ethnic Studies, Mexicans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Interesting Times, 1, The Secret of My Success
produced by TV 2/Denmark, British Broadcasting Corporation and ARTE, in Interesting Times, 1 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 1 hour 5 mins
We meet Lu Guo Hua, a wheeler dealer who uses his position as birth control officer to be the local political power broker. When the village head chastizes him for overlooking a villager's third pregnancy, Lu Guo Hua retaliates by opposing the village head's re-election. The film gives an insider's view of the beg...
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produced by TV 2/Denmark, British Broadcasting Corporation and ARTE, in Interesting Times, 1 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 1 hour 5 mins
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We meet Lu Guo Hua, a wheeler dealer who uses his position as birth control officer to be the local political power broker. When the village head chastizes him for overlooking a villager's third pregnancy, Lu Guo Hua retaliates by opposing the village head's re-election. The film gives an insider's view of the beginnings of democratic politics in a village in northeastern . College Adult
Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
TV 2/Denmark, British Broadcasting Corporation, ARTE
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Series
Interesting Times
Topic / Theme
Politics, Humanities
Copyright Message
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Interesting Times, 3, Xiao's Long March
directed by Wu Gong, in Interesting Times, 3 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 40 mins
China has a standing army of more than one million men. For eighteen year old Xiao Zhenning, a poor boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with life in his parents' two room apartment, the Red Army is a place of last resort. As Xiao says ruefully: "With no college education and no job, there is nowhere...
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directed by Wu Gong, in Interesting Times, 3 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 40 mins
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China has a standing army of more than one million men. For eighteen year old Xiao Zhenning, a poor boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with life in his parents' two room apartment, the Red Army is a place of last resort. As Xiao says ruefully: "With no college education and no job, there is nowhere else to go." The film follows Xiao through his last listless days with his nagging parents in their tiny apartment and into his three m...
China has a standing army of more than one million men. For eighteen year old Xiao Zhenning, a poor boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with life in his parents' two room apartment, the Red Army is a place of last resort. As Xiao says ruefully: "With no college education and no job, there is nowhere else to go." The film follows Xiao through his last listless days with his nagging parents in their tiny apartment and into his three months basic training with the Red Army. He learns things about himself and his "place" in China's so called classless society, which both surprise, upset and ultimately liberate him. College Adult
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Wu Gong
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Series
Interesting Times
Topic / Theme
Armed forces, Humanities
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Interesting Times, 4, This Happy Life
directed by Jiang Yue, in Interesting Times, 4 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 1 hour
Mr. Fu is head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China's busiest railroad stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life traumatic. His first wife died as a result of a compulsory abortion, enforced by China's one child policy, leaving Mr. Fu to bring up their eighteen month-old baby son himsel...
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directed by Jiang Yue, in Interesting Times, 4 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 1 hour
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Mr. Fu is head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China's busiest railroad stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life traumatic. His first wife died as a result of a compulsory abortion, enforced by China's one child policy, leaving Mr. Fu to bring up their eighteen month-old baby son himself. His second marriage is an unhappy one and during the filming his son, now fourteen years old, decides to leave him and join the army...
Mr. Fu is head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China's busiest railroad stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life traumatic. His first wife died as a result of a compulsory abortion, enforced by China's one child policy, leaving Mr. Fu to bring up their eighteen month-old baby son himself. His second marriage is an unhappy one and during the filming his son, now fourteen years old, decides to leave him and join the army. This intimate portrait of Mr. Fu and his colleagues is tragic, deeply moving and sometimes hilarious. College Adult
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Jiang Yue
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Series
Interesting Times
Topic / Theme
Employment, Family, Humanities
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Islam & America: Through the Eyes of Imran Khan
produced by Journeyman Pictures (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 27 mins
Why do so many Muslims hate the United States? What has America done to alienate so many people in the Muslim world? Imran Khan, a Pakistani celebrity cricket player turned politician, tries to answer these questions in this provocative documentary filmed in locations throughout Pakistan. He examines the political...
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produced by Journeyman Pictures (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 27 mins
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Why do so many Muslims hate the United States? What has America done to alienate so many people in the Muslim world? Imran Khan, a Pakistani celebrity cricket player turned politician, tries to answer these questions in this provocative documentary filmed in locations throughout Pakistan. He examines the political, social and economic causes of the schism between the Islamic world and the West. The film takes us to Islamabad's Women's College, wh...
Why do so many Muslims hate the United States? What has America done to alienate so many people in the Muslim world? Imran Khan, a Pakistani celebrity cricket player turned politician, tries to answer these questions in this provocative documentary filmed in locations throughout Pakistan. He examines the political, social and economic causes of the schism between the Islamic world and the West. The film takes us to Islamabad's Women's College, where the students are mainly from privileged, middle class backgrounds. But even here, the underlying feeling is that the United States only cares or acts when its own people are at risk and that many American policies are determined on racial grounds against "black or brown people". In Peshawar, anti-war demonstrators believe that the war on Afghanistan following September 11th, was not justified because the West did not provide proof of the Taliban's culpability. In this part of the world, the spectre of the IMF looms large. Khan notes that as the services provided by the Pakistani government diminish under the pressure of its debts, the vacuum created has been filled by others. The poor turn to religious schools, often breeding grounds for a more intolerant version of Islam. Unsurprisingly, their influence is strongest where poverty is most pronounced. This fascinating and highly resonant report goes a long way towards explaining the problematic nature of the relationship between Islam and the West. It is a schism that developed long before the bombing of Afghanistan, and is likely to take even longer to heal. College Adult
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Journeyman Pictures
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
International relations, Politics, Religion, Humanities
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Copyright © 2002. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Our Land: The Struggle for Land Rights in Nicaragua
directed by Felix Zurita de Higes (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2009), 56 mins
The struggle for ownership of land in Nicaragua has been particularly bitter. This film takes an in-depth look at the history of agrarian reform policies since they were first instituted by the Sandinista administration in 1979. In 1979, about 20 percent of the country's rich farm land formerly owned by the Somoza...
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directed by Felix Zurita de Higes (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2009), 56 mins
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The struggle for ownership of land in Nicaragua has been particularly bitter. This film takes an in-depth look at the history of agrarian reform policies since they were first instituted by the Sandinista administration in 1979. In 1979, about 20 percent of the country's rich farm land formerly owned by the Somozas was turned into state farms. Eleven years later, the Sandinistas lost power and President Violeta Chamarro dismantled the cooperative...
The struggle for ownership of land in Nicaragua has been particularly bitter. This film takes an in-depth look at the history of agrarian reform policies since they were first instituted by the Sandinista administration in 1979. In 1979, about 20 percent of the country's rich farm land formerly owned by the Somozas was turned into state farms. Eleven years later, the Sandinistas lost power and President Violeta Chamarro dismantled the cooperative movement and established a commission to adjudicate the land claims. Farmers lost title to the land and much of the best farm land was sold to rich private individuals. Protests against the government by impoverished farmers continue to this day. An informative film for classes in the politics and economics of Latin America. College Adult
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Felix Zurita de Higes
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Nicaraguan Revolution, 1962-1990, Economics, Politics, Politics & Policy, History, Humanities, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Red Lines
directed by Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002 and Oliver Lukacs, fl. 2013; produced by Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002, Spark Media (District of Columbia: Spark Media, 2014), 1 hour 39 mins
The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012 as two young, unlikely Syrian activists launch a radical plan for bringing democracy to their country. Under threat of death, they organize when no one else will. Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, of...
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directed by Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002 and Oliver Lukacs, fl. 2013; produced by Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002, Spark Media (District of Columbia: Spark Media, 2014), 1 hour 39 mins
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The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012 as two young, unlikely Syrian activists launch a radical plan for bringing democracy to their country. Under threat of death, they organize when no one else will. Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict taking us from the trenches to geopolitical jockeying and becoming, along the way, a sear...
The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012 as two young, unlikely Syrian activists launch a radical plan for bringing democracy to their country. Under threat of death, they organize when no one else will. Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict taking us from the trenches to geopolitical jockeying and becoming, along the way, a searing exposé of an ongoing inhumane crisis.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002, Spark Media
Author / Creator
Andrea Kalin, fl. 2002, Oliver Lukacs, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Spark Media
Person Discussed
Bashar al-Assad, 1965-
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Political violence, Political demonstrations, Revolutions, Syrian Civil War, 2011-, Sociology, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Syrians, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Whose Children Are These?
directed by Theresa Thanjan, fl. 2004; produced by Theresa Thanjan, fl. 2004 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2006), 33 mins
This film examines the harrowing experiences of three Muslim-American teenagers affected by Special Registration, a post-9/11 security measure. Initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice, the measure required male non-citizens from twenty-five predominately Muslim nations to register with the government. Although...
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directed by Theresa Thanjan, fl. 2004; produced by Theresa Thanjan, fl. 2004 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2006), 33 mins
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This film examines the harrowing experiences of three Muslim-American teenagers affected by Special Registration, a post-9/11 security measure. Initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice, the measure required male non-citizens from twenty-five predominately Muslim nations to register with the government. Although none were charged with a terrorist-related crime, nearly 14,000 Muslim men were put into deportation proceedings after 83,000 register...
This film examines the harrowing experiences of three Muslim-American teenagers affected by Special Registration, a post-9/11 security measure. Initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice, the measure required male non-citizens from twenty-five predominately Muslim nations to register with the government. Although none were charged with a terrorist-related crime, nearly 14,000 Muslim men were put into deportation proceedings after 83,000 registered.The hardship imposed by this ruling, denounced by the American Civil Liberties Union, can be seen on the lives of the three teenagers profiled. Mohammad, 18, was born in Pakistan, but has lived in the U.S. since the age of seven. A typical American teenager, he faced the possibility of being sent back to a country he scarcely knew. Fortunately, his congressman intervened at the last minute and he was granted permission to stay. Navila,19, from Bangladesh, carries on a futile struggle to save her father who was deported back to the very country from which he had fled. Sixteen-year-old Hagar Youssef, who has dealt with slurs and prejudice because she wears a headscarf, has mobilized groups to combat bias crimes in New York City. She discusses her experiences as well as the ramifications faced by immigrant communities of the Special Registration program. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Theresa Thanjan, fl. 2004
Author / Creator
Theresa Thanjan, fl. 2004
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Demographics, Ethnic groups, Politics, Ethnic Studies
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