World History
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MILISUTHANDO2025 African Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Family Relations Political Science Sociology Women's Studies World History
An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Milisuthando is a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging from a woman who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.
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VOICES OVER THE WATER2024 American Studies Anthropology Cultural Studies Directed by Women Education Immigration Performing Arts Political Science Sociology World History Across the United States, thousands of people celebrate their ancestral heritage. They sing. They dance. Dressed distinctively, they make merry. Many are homesick for a land they never knew. Voices over the Water looks at Scottish identity in America and asks, who can claim this identity. How Scottish do you have to be to wear the tartan and march in a parade, or dance at a ceilidh? |
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RICHLAND2024 American History American Studies Anthropology Cultural Studies Directed by Women Education Environmental Studies Family Relations Political Science Sociology World History Cinema Studies A U.S. nuclear company town stakes its identity on its little-known atomic origin story in this timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. |
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A VERY FRAGILE THINGAfrican Studies Peace & Conflict Political Science World History Short Films 2024 What happens when we choose to define ourselves according to our differences? "A Very Fragile Thing" offers a cautionary tale for any society wracked with distrust and division via a first-person journey into the origins of a civil war that has claimed the lives of half a million Ethiopians since 2020. |
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UMBERTO ECO: a library of the world2023 Aging / Gerontology Art History Cinema Studies Europe Literature World History
A documentary immersion into all things Umberto Eco, Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of Eco’s private library, guided by the author himself. Combining new footage with material he shot with Eco in 2015
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HOUSE SPECIAL2023 Asian Studies Cultural Studies Education Gastronomy Immigration Indigenous Studies Family Relations Sociology Women's Studies World History
A five-part docu series that chronicles the Chinese Canadian experience through the lens of small-town Asian food joints and the families that run them. Ride the rails with chef and author, Jackie Kai Ellis, as she explores Canadian Chop Suey cuisine.
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A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING2022 Anthropology Asian Studies Cinema Studies Directed by Women Political Science Sociology World History Director Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage with student protest videos to create a vital tapestry of the personal and the political. With its dreamlike editing rhythms and a revelatory use of sound, A Night of Knowing Nothing is both an essential document of contemporary India and a nostalgic look at youth fighting the injustice of their time. |
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THE ACCUSED: Damned or Devoted2021 Criminal & Law Cultural Studies Economics Education Islamic Studies Middle Eastern Studies Religion & Spirituality World History 2022 There is a divide in Pakistan over its blasphemy law, which if broken can lead to a death sentence for those accused. Cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, has one mission: to preserve Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and now he’s running for the highest office in the country. Now everyone, those that oppose him and even his followers, are just pawns in his quest for absolute power. |
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EXPEDITION CONTENT2021 Anthropology Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Education Indigenous Studies Political Science Sensory Ethnography Lab Sociology World History 2022
An immersive marvel of sonic ethnography, Expedition Content draws on audio recordings made by recent college graduate and Standard Oil heir Michael Rockefeller as part of the so-called Harvard-Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea in 1961
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AMERICAN REBELS IN CUBA2019 American Studies Cuban Studies Chicano Studies Latino Studies Latin-American Studies Peace & Conflict Political Science World History American Rebels in Cuba follows the unusual life of “rebels” Neill and Nancy Macaulay and their involvement with the Cuban Revolution, providing an inside look at one of the most important historical events of the 20th century. |
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DESALAMBRANDO: THE DOCUMENTARY2019 American History Chicano Studies Cultural Studies Latino Studies Political Science Puerto Rican Studies World History
Desalambrando examines the history of Puerto Rico’s squatter movement, also known as rescates de terrenos and its current relevance in a post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.
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OCCUPATION 19682019 Anthropology Cinema Studies Directed by Women Eastern Europe Europe Peace & Conflict Russia Short Films World History An anthology documentary consisting of five short films on the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, each by a different director from the five countries that participated in the occupation. |
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THE CALL2019 Cultural Studies Cinema Studies Europe World History Sociology
The Call is an inside look at the turbulent jury selection process in Italy. In Italy, citizens can be summoned at a day’s notice for potential jury duty. 60 common citizens are randomly selected by a computer and notified by the police in person to appear in court—by the end of the day, 6 people are selected to be jurors.
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WHEN PIGS COME2019 Aging / Gerontology Cultural Studies Directed by Women Eastern Europe Women's Studies World History
A retired teacher in Serbian province, devotedly monitors elections believing that all individuals could and should make a difference in building democracy.
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I AM GAGARIN2019 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Music Russia World History Urban Studies A deeply personal exploration of post-Soviet Russia, I am Gagarin examines the Moscow rave scene, and the influential trendsetters at the forefront of the subculture. |
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ALSO KNOWN AS JIHADI2019 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Flaherty Collection Middle Eastern Studies World History Urban Studies Terrorism Studies
Pulling from real events and court documents in the wake of the 2015 Paris terror attacks, Also Known As Jihadi follows a young man's journey to radicalism not through his actions, but through his surroundings.
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TIP OF MY TONGUE2018 World History Media Studies Cinema Studies Twelve New Yorkers born in the early 1960s across several continents “visit” every year of their lives in a brash, self-reflexive experiment about what it’s meant to live in America over the last half century. |
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RESOLUTE2017 Cultural Studies Environmental Studies Family Relations Indigenous Studies Loud Roar Productions Political Science World History Short Films
Zipporah was a girl when her family was among the eighty Inuit to be sent to the high arctic by the Canadian government.
Through haunting interviews, archival footage and experimental animation, Resolute tells a story familiar to thousands of indigenous families in Canada and beyond.
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CONVERSATIONS WITH A DEAD PRIME MINISTERWorld History Religion & Spirituality Political Science Loud Roar Productions 2017 Short Films
An engaging cinematic portrait of one of Canada’s most eccentric prime ministers, Mackenzie King, who led a secret life conducting séances and speaking with the dead.
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BECAUSE I WAS A PAINTER2015 Art History Jewish Studies World History Europe
In 1945, when the Allies liberated the concentration camps, they discovered thousands of secretly created artworks. These drawings, hidden from the Nazis, offer an unparalleled understanding of life in the camps. Featuring interviews with surviving artists, this fascinating documentary considers the ability of art to capture, reflect and survive under unimaginable conditions.
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