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Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the building and development of the W.I.S.O.R. machine, a unique system designed to operate independently through the tunnels of New York, searching for breaks in the miles of tunnels and repairing them. W.I.S.O.R. represents the practical future of robotic technology, performing jobs too dangerous for human operators.
Series
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Every year the U.S. hires 250,000 new teachers. On September 7, five teachers will begin their new journey. These five young teachers fight the real fight: educating our children, one child at a time. Shows the human side of the story, revealing all the determination and commitment it takes to survive in America's toughest school systems.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Returns to West Memphis, Arkansas. to re-examine the controversial story of the child murders at Robin Hood Hills, the most notorious murder case in the state's history, revealing startling new evidence and exploring the ironies and ambiguities of a mystery that refuses to go away.
9) Go Tigers!
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1999 high school football season of the Massillon Tigers.
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Filmed at the peak of his career, this serves as perhaps the most revealing and intimate portrait of the artist ever recorded. Gives an unobtrusive look inside the colorful and transient world of the American jazz legend, exposing the key elements that characterize and define him. Ellington as the artist performing, composing and ruminating about his life and career.
Series
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
"Directed by award-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy, this theatrical version of the HBO series takes us from Uganda to India, Brazil, Thailand, and Russia to reveal five remarkable stories of people who have been touched by AIDS. From James, a seven-year-old Ugandan orphan who is taking care of his little sister Jessica, to Lek, a former sex worker in Thailand, these stories are both heartbreaking and uplifting. Ultimately, Pandemic is a film about...
Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Shot by an independent filmmaker, this documents the first 24 hours at "ground zero" in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. It begins with the fall of the twin towers, travels through the smoldering site showing people on the site working in a fervor, then dazed and trance-like. The images speak for themselves intentionally devoid of commentary and music.
Series
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at the lives of 11 unique individuals, all living with HIV. Ranging in age from 17 to 60, the group represents a wide variety of lifestyles, ethnicities, and risk groups - attesting to the ever present reality that AIDS spares no one.
Series
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, forced one of the gravest racial confrontations of the 20th century. Despite a federal court order, Alabama Governor George Wallace vowed he would prevent 2 black students from entering the all-white University of Alabama. Watch as the crisis unfolds, capturing the story from all sides up until the dramatic end.
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Laughing club of India (35 min.): Explores the power of laughter through the strangely popular phenomenon of laughing clubs in contemporary Bombay.
Why can't we be a family again? (27 min.): Chronicles the plight of two brothers in foster care, as they attempt to reunite with a mother who abandoned them for drugs over a decade ago.
We got us (25 min.): Captures four elderly, Jewish women during their weekly game of Mah Jong, as they reminisce about...
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
John Lee was a teenage runaway who never went to school and who spent years working in a factory before becoming one of the most prolific blues artists of all times. An inside look at the life and times of this legend and the music that influenced a rising generation of rockers.
20) Jupiter's wife
Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Follows a homeless woman in New York's Central Park for two years, trying to uncover the truth behind her cryptic stories.
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