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60 Minutes, America's War Against ISIS
presented by Holly Williams, fl. 2012; produced by Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013; interview by Holly Williams, fl. 2012, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2018), 13 mins
A report on the current state of the war on ISIS (ISIL/Daesh) and the city of Raqqa, Syria, which continues to rebuild since the terrorist group lost control of it last year. With the aid of U.S. weapons and training, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDP), a civilian militia consisting of mostly Kurds and many women, has...
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presented by Holly Williams, fl. 2012; produced by Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013; interview by Holly Williams, fl. 2012, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2018), 13 mins
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A report on the current state of the war on ISIS (ISIL/Daesh) and the city of Raqqa, Syria, which continues to rebuild since the terrorist group lost control of it last year. With the aid of U.S. weapons and training, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDP), a civilian militia consisting of mostly Kurds and many women, has taken back a third of the country. While they protect U.S. forces, and keep the world safe from potentially dangerous extremists by ho...
A report on the current state of the war on ISIS (ISIL/Daesh) and the city of Raqqa, Syria, which continues to rebuild since the terrorist group lost control of it last year. With the aid of U.S. weapons and training, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDP), a civilian militia consisting of mostly Kurds and many women, has taken back a third of the country. While they protect U.S. forces, and keep the world safe from potentially dangerous extremists by holding ISIS detainees, the city struggles in a state of uncertainty, lacking civilian aid. Includes interviews with: Leila Mustafa, head of civilian counsel of Raqqa; General Mazlum Kobane, SDP leader; Senators Jean Shaheen (D-NH) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC ); Adrien Guihal, ISIS detainee.
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Field of Study
Media Studies
Content Type
News story, Interview
Contributor
Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013
Author / Creator
Holly Williams, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Series
60 Minutes
Person Discussed
Jeanne Shaheen, 1947-, Lindsey Graham, 1955-, Leila Mustafa, 1988-2023
Topic / Theme
International relations, Conflict management, Postwar reconstruction, Reconnaissance, Military campaigns, Terrorism, War and Violence, Syrians, Iraqis, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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60 Minutes, March 29, 2015, Bashar Al-Assad
presented by Charlie Rose, 1942-; produced by Katie Kerbstat, 1989- and Nicole Young, fl. 2009, Columbia Broadcasting System; interview by Charlie Rose, 1942-, in 60 Minutes, March 29, 2015 (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2015), 13 mins
An interview with the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who sat down with Charlie Rose in Damascus last week to discuss how the Syrian government has lost control over significant amounts of its territory to terrorist groups like ISIS (ISIL), al Qaeda or Syrian rebel groups during the three-year-old civil war....
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presented by Charlie Rose, 1942-; produced by Katie Kerbstat, 1989- and Nicole Young, fl. 2009, Columbia Broadcasting System; interview by Charlie Rose, 1942-, in 60 Minutes, March 29, 2015 (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2015), 13 mins
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An interview with the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who sat down with Charlie Rose in Damascus last week to discuss how the Syrian government has lost control over significant amounts of its territory to terrorist groups like ISIS (ISIL), al Qaeda or Syrian rebel groups during the three-year-old civil war. The dictator is questioned about: attacks on civilians with chemical and “barrel bomb” weapons, the future of his relationship with...
An interview with the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who sat down with Charlie Rose in Damascus last week to discuss how the Syrian government has lost control over significant amounts of its territory to terrorist groups like ISIS (ISIL), al Qaeda or Syrian rebel groups during the three-year-old civil war. The dictator is questioned about: attacks on civilians with chemical and “barrel bomb” weapons, the future of his relationship with the United States, and his characterization of surrounding countries in the Middle East.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Katie Kerbstat, 1989-, Nicole Young, fl. 2009, Columbia Broadcasting System
Author / Creator
Charlie Rose, 1942-
Date Published / Released
2015-03-29
Publisher
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Series
60 Minutes
Person Discussed
Bashar al-Assad, 1965-
Topic / Theme
Terrorism, Chemical warfare, Syrian people, Syrian Civil War, 2011-, War and Violence, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Belarus unrest explained
presented by Ben Hall; produced by Financial Times (Newspaper) (London, England: Financial Times (Newspaper), 2020), 4 mins
The FT's Europe editor Ben Hall looks at why protesters are putting pressure on Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to step down after 26 years in power - and why neighbouring Russia is key to the country's future.
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presented by Ben Hall; produced by Financial Times (Newspaper) (London, England: Financial Times (Newspaper), 2020), 4 mins
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The FT's Europe editor Ben Hall looks at why protesters are putting pressure on Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to step down after 26 years in power - and why neighbouring Russia is key to the country's future.
Field of Study
Business & Economics
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Financial Times (Newspaper)
Author / Creator
Ben Hall
Date Published / Released
2020
Publisher
Financial Times (Newspaper)
Person Discussed
Alexander Lukashenko, 1954-
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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
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2006. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Correspondent, The Real Doctor Evil
directed by Rob Lemkin; produced by Rob Lemkin, Old Street Films, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide), 46 mins
With Saddam Hussein gone, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is regarded as the world's most dangerous man. Millions have died of famine and dissidents are sent to labour camps or executed. Now Kim says that he has nuclear weapons - and that he's prepared to sell them to whoever will pay his price. George Bush put North Ko...
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directed by Rob Lemkin; produced by Rob Lemkin, Old Street Films, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide), 46 mins
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With Saddam Hussein gone, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is regarded as the world's most dangerous man. Millions have died of famine and dissidents are sent to labour camps or executed. Now Kim says that he has nuclear weapons - and that he's prepared to sell them to whoever will pay his price. George Bush put North Korea on the 'Axis of Evil' shortlist, but is Kim really plotting to destroy the planet or is the nickname 'Dr Evil' indicative of nothin...
With Saddam Hussein gone, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is regarded as the world's most dangerous man. Millions have died of famine and dissidents are sent to labour camps or executed. Now Kim says that he has nuclear weapons - and that he's prepared to sell them to whoever will pay his price. George Bush put North Korea on the 'Axis of Evil' shortlist, but is Kim really plotting to destroy the planet or is the nickname 'Dr Evil' indicative of nothing more than a battle of words in the Cold War's last frontier? Correspondent charts Kim's progress from lazy student through terrorist mastermind to tough-talking nuclear brinksman.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Rob Lemkin, Old Street Films, Gary Mavers
Author / Creator
Rob Lemkin
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Correspondent
Speaker / Narrator
Gary Mavers
Person Discussed
Kim Jong-Il, 1941-2011
Topic / Theme
Heads of state, Political life, War and Violence, Political and Social Movements, North Koreans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2003 BBC Worldwide
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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
Copyright © 2003. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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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
Copyright Message
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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
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2002. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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L'encerclement : la démocratie dans les rets du néo-libéralisme
directed by Richard Brouillette, 1970-; produced by Richard Brouillette, 1970-, Les films du passeur (New York, NY: Indiepix Films, 2008), 2 hours 41 mins
Drawing upon the thinking and analyses of renowned intellectuals, this documentary sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world. Behind the ideological smokescreen and neat concepts of natural order and the harmony of interests in...
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directed by Richard Brouillette, 1970-; produced by Richard Brouillette, 1970-, Les films du passeur (New York, NY: Indiepix Films, 2008), 2 hours 41 mins
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Drawing upon the thinking and analyses of renowned intellectuals, this documentary sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world. Behind the ideological smokescreen and neat concepts of natural order and the harmony of interests in a free market, beyond the panacea of the "invisible hand," what is really going on?
Featuring Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Normand Ba...
Drawing upon the thinking and analyses of renowned intellectuals, this documentary sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world. Behind the ideological smokescreen and neat concepts of natural order and the harmony of interests in a free market, beyond the panacea of the "invisible hand," what is really going on?
Featuring Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Normand Baillargeon, Susan George, Omar Aktouf, Oncle Bernard, Michel Chossudovsky, François Denord, François Brune, Martin Masse, Jean-Luc Migué, Filip Palda, Donald J. Boudreaux.
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Field of Study
Business & Economics
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Richard Brouillette, 1970-, Les films du passeur
Author / Creator
Richard Brouillette, 1970-
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Topic / Theme
21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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