Asian Studies
SOUL OF THE SAMURAISociology Asian Studies Animation
The time of the Samurai in ancient Japan was unique and violent; a life filled with tradition, honor, and legend. This is the story of their life and of a culture unfamiliar to most of the Western world.
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BRAVE NEW MENScience Health Biology Asian Studies
Brave New Men is an extraordinary triple-portrait of charismatic, top-notch geneticists from the wildly different “gene cultures” of Europe, the U.S. and Asia.
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SHIPBREAKERSSociology Labor Studies Health Environmental Studies Economics Asian Studies
Welcome to Alang , India, the site of a gargantuan scrap yard where oceangoing ships come to die. Forty thousand Indians live and work here, dismembering and scavenging the hulks of 400 vessels every year.
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THE ANGRY SKIESSoutheast Asian Studies Sociology Asian Studies
The Angry Skies is a compelling documentary which follows Blake Kerr-a New York based doctor, author, and human rights activist –as he travels to Cambodia to uncover the truths behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and its legacy that remains today.
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HER CHINA TODAYWomen's Studies Asian Studies Sociology Economics Directed by Women
This documentary is about five women in China from different age, social and economic groups whose lives reflect the lives of many women all over China today.
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THE PEACEMAKERPeace & Conflict Asian Studies African Studies Sociology
Chronicles the efforts of international mediator Dr. Dudley Weeks to negotiate a peace process between warring factions of Indian (Sikh) and Pakistani (Muslim) youths in West London, showing how peacemaking skills utilized in South Africa and Bosnia can be applied at a community level.
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MAKING DOEconomics African Studies Asian Studies Criminal & Law Latin-American Studies Sociology Spanish Language
Faced with widespread conditions of mass unemployment, poverty, urban crowding, and governmental crisis, more than a billion people in some 100 underdeveloped nations throughout the Third World have developed their own 'informal economy,' a parallel lifestyle operating on the margins of the society's formal economy and legal system, which provides them with a means of survival.
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GOOD FORTUNEAmerican Studies Asian Studies Cultural Studies Family Relations Sociology Children & Young Adult Directed by Women
Examines the adoption of Chinese children by U.S. parents, profiling six diverse families who share their adoption stories, meeting a parent who worked inside an orphanage before ever planning to adopt, one who lived through China's Cultural Revolution, and another who has spent over twenty years researching adoption in China. It is a video about building families, as well as overcoming cultural myths and misunderstandings.
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RUSHING TO SUNSHINE (SEOUL DIARIES)Asian Studies Political Science Sociology Directed by Women
This video looks at South Korea's uncomfortable but growing acceptance of North Korea over a two-year period.
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FREEDOM FIGHTER: THE STORY OF LIAN SHENGDESociology Political Science Asian Studies Directed by Women
Offers a remarkable first-person account of the life of Lian Shengde, who was born during the Cultural Revolution in China, a time, as he says, "when millions of the people were organized by the Chinese Communist Party and its leader Chairman Mao to fight and kill each other.
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BANGKOK ZIGZAG
This documentary portrays the lives of motorcycle taxi drivers who live and work out of a courtyard in a working-class neighborhood of Bangkok.
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ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENTAsian Studies Environmental Studies Political Science
Examines UN efforts to encourage governments to develop policies supporting
sustainable development and the improvement of the quality of people's lives without
destroying natural resources.
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