Sociology
MIDWIVES: A LIVING TRADITIONWomen's Studies Native American Studies Latino Studies African-American Studies Sociology Directed by Women
This video presents the mission and practice of American midwives, explaining the benefits and advantages of natural childbirth through interviews with midwives and childbirth educators, the testimonies of new mothers, footage and photos of actual births, and many touching stories.
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SISTERHOOD ALIVE AND WELLAfrican-American Studies Women's Studies Sociology
This video documents the Million Woman March in Philadelphia on October 25, 1997, when black women from all over America gathered to demonstrate their concerns for Black America and to express their sense of unity as a movement that can play an influential role in American society.
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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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RUNNING GAYLGBTQ Sociology Directed by Women
Examines the participation of lesbians and gay men in sports, focusing on the homophobia they confront in mainstream sporting events and their recent efforts to organize gay teams, organizations and events.
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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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TO LIVE TO BE 140Latin-American Studies Death & Dying Cultural Studies Anthropology Aging / Gerontology Sociology
This video features an interview with Dr. Alexander lief, a gerontology specialist at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, who discusses his on-location study of the people living in the Andean village of Vilcabamba in Ecuador.
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AGING: THE SEARCH FOR ETERNAL YOUTHAging / Gerontology American Studies Health Psychology & Psychiatry Sociology
Dr. Robert Butler, a psychiatrist and specialist in gerontology, discusses the ways in which American society compartmentalizes people into age groups and discriminates aginst its senior citizens, who often face neglect, a lack of emotional and intellectual stimulation and economic hardship.
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THE STORYTELLERAnthropology Education Children & Young Adult Sociology
This video, produced by the Zimmer Discovery Children’s Museum in Los Angeles, is designed for 4-10 year-olds and aims to promote the history and traditions of different cultures.
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FAREWELL, BARBIANA!Education Europe Sociology Religion & Spirituality Children & Young Adult
Tells the story of Don Lorenzo Milani, a Catholic priest sent in the Sixties to the small isolated village of Barbiana in Tuscany, where the children of the local peasants and farmer workers had been neglected by the state educational system.
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PERSISTENT WOMEN ARTISTSArt History African-American Studies Asian-American Studies American Studies Cultural Studies Women's Studies Native American Studies Sociology
In this video, artist and art educator Betty LaDuke presents the lives and work of three American women artists of diverse heritages—Lois Mailou Jones, Mine Okubo, and Pablita Velarde.
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THE ART OF RESISTANCEArt History Chicano Studies Cultural Studies Latino Studies Media Studies Photography Sociology Directed by Women
Surveys the contemporary Chicano art movement by tracing its development during the height of Chicano political activism in the late Sixties and Seventies, blending archival footage with interviews with the artists and samples of their work, including photographs, murals, graphics, films, paintings, and ephemeral art.
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SEX IN A COLD CLIMATEWomen's Studies Irish Studies Sociology
This historical documentary is a deeply disturbing portrait of Magdalene Asylums run by Catholic nuns in Ireland. For over a hundred years girls and young women were sent to live and work in the Magdalene Asylums’ Laundries after they’d had sexual or 'sinful' contact with men.
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