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Dispatches, Dispatches 03
produced by Big Noise Films, in Dispatches (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2008), 1 hour 40 mins
Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity. Wars crush our humanity. Defeats splinter our movements. Corporate media turns a blind eye to our mounting crises, and a cynical one to the people who stand up against...
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produced by Big Noise Films, in Dispatches (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2008), 1 hour 40 mins
Description
Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity. Wars crush our humanity. Defeats splinter our movements. Corporate media turns a blind eye to our mounting crises, and a cynical one to the people who stand up against them.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Big Noise Films
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Dispatches
Topic / Theme
Mass media, Crisis management, War casualties
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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Dispatches, Dispatches 05
produced by Big Noise Films, in Dispatches (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 13 mins
Big Noise Dispatches takes you around the world to look war and crisis in the face. A Groundbreaking anti-propaganda news from the Middle East to the American Midwest.
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produced by Big Noise Films, in Dispatches (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 13 mins
Description
Big Noise Dispatches takes you around the world to look war and crisis in the face. A Groundbreaking anti-propaganda news from the Middle East to the American Midwest.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Big Noise Films
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Dispatches
Topic / Theme
Broadcast news, War casualties, Crisis management
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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Fields of Sacrifice
directed by Donald Brittain, 1928-1989; produced by Donald Brittain, 1928-1989, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 38 mins
A film of dignity and beauty - memorable tribute to more than 100,000 Canadians who gave their lives in the service of their country on foreign battlegrounds. The film visits battlefields of the first and second World Wars and cemeteries where servicemen are buried. Filmed from Hong Kong to Sicily, this documentar...
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directed by Donald Brittain, 1928-1989; produced by Donald Brittain, 1928-1989, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 38 mins
Description
A film of dignity and beauty - memorable tribute to more than 100,000 Canadians who gave their lives in the service of their country on foreign battlegrounds. The film visits battlefields of the first and second World Wars and cemeteries where servicemen are buried. Filmed from Hong Kong to Sicily, this documentary is designed to show Canadians places they have reason to know but may not be able to visit.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Donald Brittain, 1928-1989, National Film Board of Canada, Douglas Rain, 1928-
Author / Creator
Donald Brittain, 1928-1989
Date Published / Released
1964
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Speaker / Narrator
Douglas Rain, 1928-
Topic / Theme
Soldiers, Battlefields, Cemeteries, Military casualties, World War II, 1939-1945, World War I, 1914-1918, War and Violence, Canadians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
© 1963 National Film Board of Canada
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Finding Kalman
directed by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman; produced by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2010), 27 mins
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried...
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directed by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman; produced by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2010), 27 mins
Description
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her.
Her daughter Roz, an artist, devours the stories and paints his portrait over and over again. A...
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her.
Her daughter Roz, an artist, devours the stories and paints his portrait over and over again. As Kalman's face emerges on canvas, the film travels back and forth in time from archival Warsaw ghetto footage to summers in a Catskills bungalow colony, from vibrant family life before World War II to today.
Four generations grapple differently with their shared history. In spite of parental attempts to shield their children from the horrors, Roz grew up entangled in her mother’s pain. Maya, an Israeli-born granddaughter, expresses her life’s passion by playing the viola. Performing with Arab and Israeli youth, she questions why there has to be war when she finds natural ease in making music with someone she’s told should be her enemy. Maya performs the original music composed for the film. Eleven-year-old great-grandson Roy wonders with concern how the members of his generation will understand the Holocaust when it seems like just another story. Anna, a survivor, lives with her pain, while never losing her commitment to living life to the fullest.
As the loving family that grew from two survivors celebrates together, the film shows how four generations find light even in the darkest of places—with a resiliency that moves viewers to do the same.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000, Laurie Weisman
Author / Creator
Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000, Laurie Weisman
Date Published / Released
2010, 2011
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Fine arts, Blessings, Brothers, War casualties, Family separation, Inner city ghettos, Grandparents, Memories, Paintings, Photography, Portraits, Refugees, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 by The Memory Project Productions, Inc.
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Maria's Story: A Documentary Portrait Of Love And Survival In El Salvador's Civil War
directed by Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011 and Monona Wali, 1955-; produced by Catherine M. Ryan, fl. 2011 and Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 57 mins
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's dai...
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directed by Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011 and Monona Wali, 1955-; produced by Catherine M. Ryan, fl. 2011 and Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 57 mins
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It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensiv...
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led the FMLN into the historic peace pact of 1992. Skirting bullets and mortar attacks, recounting a childhood of poverty and abuse by government troops, suffering the tragic loss of her daughter to enemy fire, and spending precious moments with her husband and surviving daughters, Maria brings viewers to the heart of the fight for a more just society. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the film is available for the first time on DVD. Included is an update of Maria Serrano and her family twenty years after the end of the civil war.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Catherine M. Ryan, fl. 2011, Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011
Author / Creator
Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011, Monona Wali, 1955-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Topic / Theme
Civilian war casualties, Civil war, Guerrilla warfare
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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Protection Force, Part 2, In God's Command
directed by Garth Pritchard; produced by Graydon McCrea and Jerry Krepakevich, fl. 1968-2012, National Film Board of Canada, in Protection Force, Part 2 (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1995), 48 mins
This documentary introduces us to Captain Mark Sargent, chaplain to the Canadian peacekeepers (soldiers of the First Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) stationed in former Yugoslavia. It offers an intimate look at the work of this remarkable man as he travels from bunker to bunker and from vil...
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directed by Garth Pritchard; produced by Graydon McCrea and Jerry Krepakevich, fl. 1968-2012, National Film Board of Canada, in Protection Force, Part 2 (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1995), 48 mins
Description
This documentary introduces us to Captain Mark Sargent, chaplain to the Canadian peacekeepers (soldiers of the First Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) stationed in former Yugoslavia. It offers an intimate look at the work of this remarkable man as he travels from bunker to bunker and from village to village, ministering to soldiers and civilians caught in the bloody conflict that has torn apart the Balkans. This film is part...
This documentary introduces us to Captain Mark Sargent, chaplain to the Canadian peacekeepers (soldiers of the First Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) stationed in former Yugoslavia. It offers an intimate look at the work of this remarkable man as he travels from bunker to bunker and from village to village, ministering to soldiers and civilians caught in the bloody conflict that has torn apart the Balkans. This film is part of the 3-part Protection Force Series about Canadian peacekeeping in former Yugoslavia.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Graydon McCrea, Jerry Krepakevich, fl. 1968-2012, National Film Board of Canada, Gwynne Dyer, 1943-
Author / Creator
Garth Pritchard
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Series
Protection Force
Speaker / Narrator
Gwynne Dyer, 1943-
Topic / Theme
Peacekeeping, Armed forces, War casualties, International relations, Diplomatic missions, War and Violence, Canadians, Yugoslavs, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1995 National Film Board of Canada
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The War Of 33: Letters From Beirut
directed by Richard Rowley, fl. 1999; produced by Big Noise Films (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2008), 35 mins
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman - a mother living through the war in Beirut-carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. What emerges is a universal story - a complex pict...
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directed by Richard Rowley, fl. 1999; produced by Big Noise Films (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2008), 35 mins
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The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman - a mother living through the war in Beirut-carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. What emerges is a universal story - a complex picture of love, pain, resistance and survival in the face of uncertainty and violence.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Big Noise Films
Author / Creator
Richard Rowley, fl. 1999
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Topic / Theme
War casualties, War crimes
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2013. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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A World Beneath the War: The Secret Tunnels of Vietnam
directed by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013; produced by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 56 mins
In 1965, the villagers of one district of Central Vietnam found themselves on the front lines of an increasingly brutal war. For these villagers, the war became a struggle for survival. They would choose a remarkable course of action. Rather than flee their ancestral village, they dug a series of tunnels and moved...
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directed by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013; produced by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 56 mins
Description
In 1965, the villagers of one district of Central Vietnam found themselves on the front lines of an increasingly brutal war. For these villagers, the war became a struggle for survival. They would choose a remarkable course of action. Rather than flee their ancestral village, they dug a series of tunnels and moved their entire communities underground. Through the personal stories of tunnelers, as well as one American former P.O.W. held in the tun...
In 1965, the villagers of one district of Central Vietnam found themselves on the front lines of an increasingly brutal war. For these villagers, the war became a struggle for survival. They would choose a remarkable course of action. Rather than flee their ancestral village, they dug a series of tunnels and moved their entire communities underground. Through the personal stories of tunnelers, as well as one American former P.O.W. held in the tunnels, we are transported into this subterranean world.Rare archival footage, much of which has never been seen in the West, reveals miles of catacombs where as many as 2,000 people took shelter. We follow an artist who takes his son back to Vinh Moc village, and explains how markets, theaters, hospitals, and schools were created in those war years. An American Air Force historian gives his perspective. This extraordinary film contains a capsule history of the war, a war which the Vietnamese call "The American War." High School College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013
Author / Creator
Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Fine arts, Bombardment, Civilian war casualties, Physical health, Prisoners of war, Towns, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1997. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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