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18 Ius Soli: Il diritto di essere italiani
directed by Fred Kuowrnu, fl. 2003; produced by Struggle Filmworks (Rome, Lazio: Privately Published, 2012), 53 mins
18 Ius Soli (the right of soil) is a 2012 award-winning grassroots Italian documentary about the issues of the citizenship for 1,000,000 of kids born in Italy. Officially selected at Black Berlin International Cinema. This documentary “examines” the law that denies citizenship to young people born in Italy of...
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directed by Fred Kuowrnu, fl. 2003; produced by Struggle Filmworks (Rome, Lazio: Privately Published, 2012), 53 mins
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18 Ius Soli (the right of soil) is a 2012 award-winning grassroots Italian documentary about the issues of the citizenship for 1,000,000 of kids born in Italy. Officially selected at Black Berlin International Cinema. This documentary “examines” the law that denies citizenship to young people born in Italy of immigrant parents, because they have no Italian blood. It follows 18 stories of girls and boys born and raised in Italy whose parents a...
18 Ius Soli (the right of soil) is a 2012 award-winning grassroots Italian documentary about the issues of the citizenship for 1,000,000 of kids born in Italy. Officially selected at Black Berlin International Cinema. This documentary “examines” the law that denies citizenship to young people born in Italy of immigrant parents, because they have no Italian blood. It follows 18 stories of girls and boys born and raised in Italy whose parents are originally from African, Asian, and South American countries who moved to and have long-lived in different areas of Italy. They are children of immigrants: go to school in Italy, speak the language and dialects, have never even been to the countries that their parents are from, nor do they speak their parents’ language. Yet they are not recognized Italian citizens. To obtain the Italian citizenship, they have to go through a lengthy and complicated application process and can only do so after they’ve turned 18 years old – a process that doesn’t always end positively for the applicant, resulting in serious and unavoidable problems of social inclusion and identity. There are presently 1,000,000 of young people who were born in Italy, speak Italian fluently, have studied in Italian schools and have lived in Italy all their lives, yet, they are not entitles to Italian citizenship. It is a reality lived by Italian soccer champion Mario Balotelli and countless others.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Struggle Filmworks
Author / Creator
Fred Kuowrnu, fl. 2003
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Privately Published
Topic / Theme
EU and its Borders, Internal and External, Race discrimination, Law, Sociology, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2012 Struggle Filmworks
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24 Days in Brooks
directed by Dana Inkster; produced by Bonnie Thompson, National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa, ON: National Film Board of Canada, 2007), 42 mins
Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to ch...
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directed by Dana Inkster; produced by Bonnie Thompson, National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa, ON: National Film Board of Canada, 2007), 42 mins
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Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to change through the first-ever strike at Lakeside.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Bonnie Thompson, National Film Board of Canada
Author / Creator
Dana Inkster
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Topic / Theme
Labor disputes, Race relations, Current Affairs
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Copyright © 2007 by the National Film Board of Canada
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40 Years Later: Our People
directed by John Washington, Jr., fl. 2009 and Sundog Stovall, fl. 2013 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2013), 49 mins
In the 40 Years since the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., how far have African Americans advanced in American society? This film touches on the socioeconomic status of Blacks in America, the election of Barack Obama and explores the question "does racism still exist?"
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directed by John Washington, Jr., fl. 2009 and Sundog Stovall, fl. 2013 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2013), 49 mins
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In the 40 Years since the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., how far have African Americans advanced in American society? This film touches on the socioeconomic status of Blacks in America, the election of Barack Obama and explores the question "does racism still exist?"
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
John Washington, Jr., fl. 2009, Sundog Stovall, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Speaker / Narrator
Mos Def, 1973-, Bill Cosby, 1937-, Jesse Jackson, 1941-
Person Discussed
Mos Def, 1973-, Bill Cosby, 1937-, Jesse Jackson, 1941-, Barack Obama, 1961-, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
Topic / Theme
Threats of violence, Violence, Black community, African-Americans, Racism, Martin Luther King, Jr., Assassination, Memphis, TN, April 4, 1968, French, Italians
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Copyright © 2013. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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99% Woman
produced by Worldview Pictures Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001), 51 mins
In October, 1998, forty-five year old Benjy Nelson - former high school athlete and United States Air Force airman - had a sex-change operation. During his air force career, he began to dress as a woman - first at home, and then in public. For the last five years before his operation, Benjy dressed as a woman full...
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produced by Worldview Pictures Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001), 51 mins
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In October, 1998, forty-five year old Benjy Nelson - former high school athlete and United States Air Force airman - had a sex-change operation. During his air force career, he began to dress as a woman - first at home, and then in public. For the last five years before his operation, Benjy dressed as a woman full-time. However, Benjy was a family man. His wife Debbie, appears to have been totally supportive of his decision to have a sex change o...
In October, 1998, forty-five year old Benjy Nelson - former high school athlete and United States Air Force airman - had a sex-change operation. During his air force career, he began to dress as a woman - first at home, and then in public. For the last five years before his operation, Benjy dressed as a woman full-time. However, Benjy was a family man. His wife Debbie, appears to have been totally supportive of his decision to have a sex change operation and become Bridget. Their three sons, however, a fourteen year old and twelve-year old identical twins, did not take easily to having their father become a tall blonde with stiletto heels and an almost comic sense of the female. Confused and angry, they start getting into trouble. The film finds no easy answers as it sets the freedom of individual choice against family well being. College Adult
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Field of Study
LGBT Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Worldview Pictures Production
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Transsexuality, Gender roles, Parent-child relations, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Women's & Gender Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2001. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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100% Asphalt
directed by Carol Mansour, 1961-; produced by Forward Film Productions (Beirut, Bayrut: Forward Film Productions, 2009), 26 mins
"100% Asphalt" is about a street that tells its own story. A street that shelters more than 200 million children with only asphalt, noise and rage for a home. “100% Asphalt” is a film from the heart, shot on the streets in the heart of the city, and revealing unspeakable truths. 26 minutes of testimonies from...
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directed by Carol Mansour, 1961-; produced by Forward Film Productions (Beirut, Bayrut: Forward Film Productions, 2009), 26 mins
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"100% Asphalt" is about a street that tells its own story. A street that shelters more than 200 million children with only asphalt, noise and rage for a home. “100% Asphalt” is a film from the heart, shot on the streets in the heart of the city, and revealing unspeakable truths. 26 minutes of testimonies from abandoned children, left to their misery and destitution, and surviving on violence and drugs.
Field of Study
Social Work
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Forward Film Productions, Najwa Kassem, fl. 1993
Author / Creator
Carol Mansour, 1961-
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Forward Film Productions
Speaker / Narrator
Najwa Kassem, fl. 1993
Topic / Theme
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria Borders, Illegal drugs, Children, Anthropology, Lebanese, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2002 Forward Film Production
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100 Years of Silence: The Germans in Namibia
directed by Halfdan Muurholm and Casper Erichsen; produced by Halfdan Muurholm (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 1 hour 8 mins
One hundred years ago, the Herero people of Namibia were nearly exterminated by German colonial soldiers in what has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century. Herero men, women and children were rounded up like cattle and put into Germany's first ever concentration camps. Four years later, three-quar...
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directed by Halfdan Muurholm and Casper Erichsen; produced by Halfdan Muurholm (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 1 hour 8 mins
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One hundred years ago, the Herero people of Namibia were nearly exterminated by German colonial soldiers in what has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century. Herero men, women and children were rounded up like cattle and put into Germany's first ever concentration camps. Four years later, three-quarters of the entire Herero nation had perished at the hands of German colonialists. The Nazis used the experiences from the German conce...
One hundred years ago, the Herero people of Namibia were nearly exterminated by German colonial soldiers in what has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century. Herero men, women and children were rounded up like cattle and put into Germany's first ever concentration camps. Four years later, three-quarters of the entire Herero nation had perished at the hands of German colonialists. The Nazis used the experiences from the German concentration camps in Namibia as well as their experiments in "racial science" when they formulated the Final Solution during World War II a few decades later. Today the Hereros claim billions of euros from the German government in repatriation for the genocide. The experience of one family is described by a descendant, a 23-year-old Herero woman named Georgina. She has a fair complexion and a green tinge to her eyes. Georgina is aware of the fact that her great-grandmother was raped by a German soldier and now wants to confront the demons of her own genetic past. High School College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Halfdan Muurholm
Author / Creator
Halfdan Muurholm, Casper Erichsen
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Herero and Namaqua Genocide (Namibia) (1904-1907), History curriculums, Ethnic cleansing, Internment camps, Genocide, Imperialism, Herero and Namaqua Genocide, Namibia, 1904-1907, History, Documentation of Crimes, Humanities, Germans, Herero
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Copyright © 2007. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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211: Anna
directed by Giovanna Massimetti, 1954- and Paolo Serbandini, fl. 2008-2009 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2009), 1 hour 30 mins
An examination of Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya's death while covering the Chechen conflict and President Vladimir Putin.
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directed by Giovanna Massimetti, 1954- and Paolo Serbandini, fl. 2008-2009 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2009), 1 hour 30 mins
Description
An examination of Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya's death while covering the Chechen conflict and President Vladimir Putin.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Giovanna Massimetti, 1954-, Paolo Serbandini, fl. 2008-2009
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Topic / Theme
Journalists, Political violence, Russian people, Egyptians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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731: Two Versions of Hell
produced by James T. Hong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 28 mins
This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives t...
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produced by James T. Hong (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 28 mins
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This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives the perspective of the Chinese government and describes the horrors and atrocities that occurred during World War II at the facility. Th...
This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan's secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese Occupation. The film uses the same footage as seen from two points of view. The first half gives the perspective of the Chinese government and describes the horrors and atrocities that occurred during World War II at the facility. The second half, using almost the exact same footage, describes Unit 731 from the Japanese revisionist perspective which is largely supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Japan. Although its cruel experiments on living people produced thousands of casualties, this activity is still denied by a number of Japanese historians and politicians. Generational change has contributed to the escalating history problem between Japan, China, and the two Koreas. Not only were the majority of Asians born and educated after the war; as a result of the education they received in their own countries, their memories and ideas of the war have become more divergent. Usage of the same shots in both parts of the film ironically demonstrates the potential to misuse film images for political purposes. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
James T. Hong
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Prisoner of war camps, Prisoners of war, Propaganda, Torture, War crimes, History curriculums, War, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Great Leap Forward, China, 1958, War and Violence, Medicine, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Chinese, Japanese, 20th Century in World H...
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Prisoner of war camps, Prisoners of war, Propaganda, Torture, War crimes, History curriculums, War, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Great Leap Forward, China, 1958, War and Violence, Medicine, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Chinese, Japanese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2007. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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42nd Street: River To River
directed by Gary Keys, fl. 2011 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 1 hour 27 mins
42nd STREET: RIVER TO RIVER is an impressionistic, graphic history of one of the world's most infamous streets: Manhattan's 42nd Street. Likened to a DNA strip of New York City, the street has ranged from the glamorous to the derelict, housing everything from peep shows to such international institutions as the Un...
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directed by Gary Keys, fl. 2011 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 1 hour 27 mins
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42nd STREET: RIVER TO RIVER is an impressionistic, graphic history of one of the world's most infamous streets: Manhattan's 42nd Street. Likened to a DNA strip of New York City, the street has ranged from the glamorous to the derelict, housing everything from peep shows to such international institutions as the United Nations.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Gary Keys, fl. 2011
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Topic / Theme
Cities, City life
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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The Accidental Hero: Oskar Schindler
directed by David Haggie; produced by David Haggie and Anna Laura Malago, CTVC and British Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1999, originally published 1997), 31 mins
This documentary on Oskar Schindler, the wartime rescuer of 1200 Jews, grapples with the moral ambiguity of a flawed hero. Schindler had joined the Nazi party early on and sympathized with their expansionist views. Personally, he was a gambler, adventurer, womanizer and drinker. How does such a person become the m...
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directed by David Haggie; produced by David Haggie and Anna Laura Malago, CTVC and British Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1999, originally published 1997), 31 mins
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This documentary on Oskar Schindler, the wartime rescuer of 1200 Jews, grapples with the moral ambiguity of a flawed hero. Schindler had joined the Nazi party early on and sympathized with their expansionist views. Personally, he was a gambler, adventurer, womanizer and drinker. How does such a person become the most significant savior of Jews during the war? High School College Adult
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Haggie, Anna Laura Malago, CTVC, British Broadcasting Corporation, Joan Bakewell
Author / Creator
David Haggie
Date Published / Released
1997, 1999
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Joan Bakewell
Person Discussed
Oskar Schindler, 1908-1974
Topic / Theme
Character traits, Infidelity, Internment camps, Jewish people, Refugees, Spies, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Religion and Belief Systems, Family and Culture, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1999. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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