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Among the Disappeared: A Cambodian Survivor Remembers
produced by Four Square Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 48 mins
As a young child, Kodaim Ear survived the suffering the Khmer Rouge inflicted on Cambodia. He lost his parents and three sisters and was saved by his cunning and determined grandfather who enabled the remaining family members to survive the rigors of forced labor in the countryside. Now thirty, and recently marrie...
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produced by Four Square Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 48 mins
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As a young child, Kodaim Ear survived the suffering the Khmer Rouge inflicted on Cambodia. He lost his parents and three sisters and was saved by his cunning and determined grandfather who enabled the remaining family members to survive the rigors of forced labor in the countryside. Now thirty, and recently married, Kodaim resolves to revisit the land of his childhood, to re-trace his terrifying journey to freedom. He needs to "face the demons" b...
As a young child, Kodaim Ear survived the suffering the Khmer Rouge inflicted on Cambodia. He lost his parents and three sisters and was saved by his cunning and determined grandfather who enabled the remaining family members to survive the rigors of forced labor in the countryside. Now thirty, and recently married, Kodaim resolves to revisit the land of his childhood, to re-trace his terrifying journey to freedom. He needs to "face the demons" by putting the images of terror to rest and restoring the memory of his parents. Along with Kodaim's personal story, this compelling documentary traces the history of Cambodia from the reign of King Sihanouk, to his overthrow, with American support, by Lon Nol, a right wing former police chief. This corrupt regime was toppled by the insurgent Khmer Rouge and the country spiraled downward into mayhem and genocide. We hear first hand how the cities were emptied out, and the professional class forced into rural areas to work the land. People starved, sickened and died. When war broke out between Vietnam and Cambodia, Kodaim and his grandfather fled to safety in Vietnamese-controlled Cambodia. But their odyssey did not end there and we learn how they picked their way through mine fields and trekked through mountains without food or water. The path of escape would lead to Thailand and finally to the safe haven of Canada. This vivid story of survival and human renewal is a memorable addition to audiovisual resources on southeast Asia. High School College Adult
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Four Square Productions
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Cambodia Khmer Rouge Regime (1975-1979), History curriculums, Cambodian Holocaust, 1975-1979, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Current Affairs, Cambodian, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2003. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Brazil: Memories of a Dirty War
directed by Rodrigo Vazquez (Java Films, 2013), 52 mins
In 2012, President Dilma Rouseff created the Truth Commission to investigate human rights abuses committed by the military regime that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Members of the security forces have been called to collaborate but only one has stepped forward: Claudio Guerra. In the 1970s, he was a key player i...
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directed by Rodrigo Vazquez (Java Films, 2013), 52 mins
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In 2012, President Dilma Rouseff created the Truth Commission to investigate human rights abuses committed by the military regime that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Members of the security forces have been called to collaborate but only one has stepped forward: Claudio Guerra. In the 1970s, he was a key player in Brazil's paramilitary repression. His shocking confession reveals how agents of a murderous regime tortured and killed Brazilians for...
In 2012, President Dilma Rouseff created the Truth Commission to investigate human rights abuses committed by the military regime that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Members of the security forces have been called to collaborate but only one has stepped forward: Claudio Guerra. In the 1970s, he was a key player in Brazil's paramilitary repression. His shocking confession reveals how agents of a murderous regime tortured and killed Brazilians for almost 40 years.
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Rodrigo Vazquez
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Java Films
Topic / Theme
Brazil Military Dictatorships (1964-1985), Crimes against humanity, Government, Armed forces, Brazil Military Dictatorships, 1964-1985, Sociology, History, Documentation of Crimes, Transitional Justice, Brazilians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2013 Java Films
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Cambodia: The Betrayal
produced by David Munro, 1942- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1993), 1 hour 8 mins
The world was horrified to learn of the holocaust which had taken place in Cambodia at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. This film exposes the hypocrisy of the Western nations which continue to support Pol Pot, despite the atrocities of his regime. Not only has Pol Pot been allowed to occupy Cambodia's sea...
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produced by David Munro, 1942- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1993), 1 hour 8 mins
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The world was horrified to learn of the holocaust which had taken place in Cambodia at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. This film exposes the hypocrisy of the Western nations which continue to support Pol Pot, despite the atrocities of his regime. Not only has Pol Pot been allowed to occupy Cambodia's seat in the United Nations, but the Western nations have been secretly selling them weapons for use in their civil war. Despite the loss o...
The world was horrified to learn of the holocaust which had taken place in Cambodia at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. This film exposes the hypocrisy of the Western nations which continue to support Pol Pot, despite the atrocities of his regime. Not only has Pol Pot been allowed to occupy Cambodia's seat in the United Nations, but the Western nations have been secretly selling them weapons for use in their civil war. Despite the loss of a fifth of their population, the resilient Cambodians have made significant strides to rebuild their society. But they fear the threat of a second Holocaust. College Adult
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Munro, 1942-
Date Published / Released
1993
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Cambodia Khmer Rouge Regime (1975-1979), History curriculums, Cambodian Holocaust, 1975-1979, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, International Response, Humanities, Cambodian, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1993. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Convictions: Prisoners of Conscience
directed by Robert Richter, 1929-; produced by Robert Richter, 1929-, Richter Productions (New York, NY: Richter Productions, 2004), 22 mins
Profiles some of the 200 civil disobedience activists who collectively have spent more than 80 years in federal prison for their nonviolent actions to close the School of the Americas.
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directed by Robert Richter, 1929-; produced by Robert Richter, 1929-, Richter Productions (New York, NY: Richter Productions, 2004), 22 mins
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Profiles some of the 200 civil disobedience activists who collectively have spent more than 80 years in federal prison for their nonviolent actions to close the School of the Americas.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Robert Richter, 1929-, Richter Productions
Author / Creator
Robert Richter, 1929-
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Richter Productions
Topic / Theme
Political demonstrations, Student activism and activists
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Copyright © 2004 Richter Productions
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Crossing the Line
directed by Robert Richter, 1929- and Avram Ludwig, 1962-; produced by Robert Richter, 1929- and Avram Ludwig, 1962-, Richter Productions (New York, NY: Richter Productions, 1999), 24 mins
The grassroots campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), with Martin Sheen and 7,000 others.
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directed by Robert Richter, 1929- and Avram Ludwig, 1962-; produced by Robert Richter, 1929- and Avram Ludwig, 1962-, Richter Productions (New York, NY: Richter Productions, 1999), 24 mins
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The grassroots campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), with Martin Sheen and 7,000 others.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Martin Sheen, 1940-, Robert Richter, 1929-, Avram Ludwig, 1962-, Richter Productions, Susan Sarandon, 1946-
Author / Creator
Robert Richter, 1929-, Avram Ludwig, 1962-
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
Richter Productions
Speaker / Narrator
Susan Sarandon, 1946-
Topic / Theme
Political demonstrations, Civil disobedience
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1999 Richter Productions
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Finding Mercy
directed by Robyn Paterson, fl. 2012; produced by Leanne Pooley, fl. 1991, Spacific Films (Java Films, 2012), 44 mins
At the age of eight, filmmaker Robyn Paterson greeted Comrade Robert Mugabe with flowers as he stepped from a plane at a Zimbabwe air-force base. She and her best friend, Mercy, were poster children for the new Zimbabwe. Robyn as pale skinned as Mercy was dark, the girls were a symbol that all was well in the inde...
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directed by Robyn Paterson, fl. 2012; produced by Leanne Pooley, fl. 1991, Spacific Films (Java Films, 2012), 44 mins
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At the age of eight, filmmaker Robyn Paterson greeted Comrade Robert Mugabe with flowers as he stepped from a plane at a Zimbabwe air-force base. She and her best friend, Mercy, were poster children for the new Zimbabwe. Robyn as pale skinned as Mercy was dark, the girls were a symbol that all was well in the independent nation. But it was not. Only a few miles away, Mercy's Matabele tribespeople were being massacred by Mugabe's special forces....
At the age of eight, filmmaker Robyn Paterson greeted Comrade Robert Mugabe with flowers as he stepped from a plane at a Zimbabwe air-force base. She and her best friend, Mercy, were poster children for the new Zimbabwe. Robyn as pale skinned as Mercy was dark, the girls were a symbol that all was well in the independent nation. But it was not. Only a few miles away, Mercy's Matabele tribespeople were being massacred by Mugabe's special forces.
A generation later, Robyn begins a high-risk ground search across Zimbabwe - desperate to know what has happened to her friend. Along the way she faces the dangers of filming in a country hostile to media, the shock of what is still going on behind closed doors, and the stark differences that she and Mercy have come to symbolize. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and very different look at the Mugabe era.
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Leanne Pooley, fl. 1991, Spacific Films, Robyn Paterson, fl. 2012
Author / Creator
Robyn Paterson, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Java Films
Speaker / Narrator
Robyn Paterson, fl. 2012
Person Discussed
Robert Mugabe, 1924-
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Government policy, Political events, Sociology, History, Origins, Zimbabweans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of Java Films
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Operation Condor
produced by SW Pictures (London, England: SW Pictures), 59 mins
Operation Condor was a covert Latin American Military Network conducted in the seventies and eighties in South America. It was created to facilitate the seizure and murder of political opponents in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Today former victims and organizations are seeking to bring justice to those...
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produced by SW Pictures (London, England: SW Pictures), 59 mins
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Operation Condor was a covert Latin American Military Network conducted in the seventies and eighties in South America. It was created to facilitate the seizure and murder of political opponents in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Today former victims and organizations are seeking to bring justice to those who took part in the tortures and those who took part in the political organization of Operation Condor.
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
SW Pictures
Publisher
SW Pictures
Person Discussed
Henry Kissinger, 1923-, Augusto Pinochet, 1915-2006
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Military intelligence, Terrorism, Chile, Coup d'Etat, September 11, 1973, Argentine Dirty War, 1976-1983, Politics & Policy, History, Origins, Transitional Justice, Current Affairs, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of Scott White Pictures.
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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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Yesterday in Rwanda
directed by Davina Pardo; produced by Davina Pardo (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2005), 15 mins
Yesterday in Rwanda is a haunting film that focuses on one survivor of the genocide and her experience of trauma, displacement and hope. Claire Wihogora emigrated to Canada in 1998, four years after her father, brother and countless other family and friends were killed. The film portrays Claire carrying on with he...
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directed by Davina Pardo; produced by Davina Pardo (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2005), 15 mins
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Yesterday in Rwanda is a haunting film that focuses on one survivor of the genocide and her experience of trauma, displacement and hope. Claire Wihogora emigrated to Canada in 1998, four years after her father, brother and countless other family and friends were killed. The film portrays Claire carrying on with her life today in Toronto, while inevitably haunted by terrible memories of Rwanda. On film she recounts how she and her sister hid in th...
Yesterday in Rwanda is a haunting film that focuses on one survivor of the genocide and her experience of trauma, displacement and hope. Claire Wihogora emigrated to Canada in 1998, four years after her father, brother and countless other family and friends were killed. The film portrays Claire carrying on with her life today in Toronto, while inevitably haunted by terrible memories of Rwanda. On film she recounts how she and her sister hid in the brush while all around her people were massacred. Nothing can help her forget the hundred days when 800,000 members of the Hutu and Tutsi tribes were slaughtered. Yet she finds comfort in telling her story in schools "to share it to make sure it never happens again." Also, she has founded Women in Rwanda, which links female genocide survivors now living in North America in a support system. The film achieves a fascinating interplay of past and present, as images from Claire's everyday life in Toronto (grey tones) are differentiated from the images of Kigali rendered in color. College Adult
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Davina Pardo
Author / Creator
Davina Pardo
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994), History curriculums, War, Rwandan Civil War and Genocide, April 7–July 15, 1994, Sociology, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, Current Affairs, Hutu, Tutsi, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2005. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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