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Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In 1870, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch publishes "Venus in Furs," an erotic novel revealing the author's desire to be dominated by a woman. After the success of the novel, a woman turns up at his doorstep and offers to take on the role of the dominant woman. He submits to her completely and they get married. Years later, Leopold has remarried and lives a quiet life, far removed from the sexual escapades of his first marriage. This is when he learns that...
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Bell Hooks makes a compelling argument for the transformative powers of cultural criticism. She demonstrates how learning to think critically was central to her own self-transformation and how it can play a role in the students' quest for a sense of agency and identity. Includes footage from many films and music videos, and news coverage.
Publisher
New Moon Productions
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Valarie Kaur was a 20-year-old college student when she set out across America in the aftermath of 9/11, camera in hand, to document hate violence against her community. From the still-shocked streets of Ground Zero to the desert towns of the American west, her epic journey confronts the forces unleashed in a time of national crisis--racism and religion, fear and forgiveness--until she finds the heart of America ... halfway around the world"--Container....
122985) Minnesota! the modern day Selma
Publisher
BC Entertainment, MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The murder of George Floyd changed society. As protests erupted around the world, one group traveled to Minnesota to stand in solidarity with the families of those impacted by police violence. They reached out to politicians and invited them to grieve with the community, eventually getting so entangled that one was arrested while trying to keep a protester from attacking an officer.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Few NFL teams measure up in terms of quality or personality to the 1985 Chicago Bears. They were dominant on the gridiron, and omnipresent in the media. The documentary will reveal the full story behind this colorful, storied and arguably greatest team in professional football history.
Publisher
Distributed by New Day Films
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Gaining ground, a follow-up to the award-winning documentary Holding Ground (1996), shows how one diverse Boston neighborhood has stemmed the tide against enormous odds. In the midst of the economic meltdown, Gaining Ground explores the innovative, grassroots organizing efforts of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) in Boston. DSNI was created 25 years ago when the community had been devastated by bank redlining, arson-for-profit and...
122988) Neshoba: the price of freedom
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Neshoba: the price of freedom tells the story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, an event dramatized in the Oscar-winning film Mississippi Burning. Although Klansmen bragged about what they did in 1964, no one was held accountable until 2005, when the State indicted preacher Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old notorious...
122989) Year of the scab
Series
30 for 30 volume season 3, no. 20
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the NFL strike of 1987 and the success of the Washington Redskins replacement team, whose winning season set up the returning strikers for a Superbowl victory.
122990) The Vietnam war
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The latter half of the 20th century was a turbulent time for Vietnam. This small Southeast Asian country once occupied by France found itself divided after nationalist revolutionaries overthrew the colonial government, splitting the country between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north and the Republic of Vietnam in the south. Worse still, tensions between the two territories gave way to a decades-long civil conflict that would ensnare...
Publisher
Neil Tomba Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Listening Road takes you on Pastor Neil Tomba's remarkable 33-day journey cycling 3,000 miles across the United States on a mission to engage and talk, but more importantly, listen to strangers from all walks of life about faith, their stories, and matters of the heart. Throughout this journey, Neil shows that even in a culture of division and antagonism, making genuine connections with others is possible if we are willing to listen with compassion...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Through Anne Simon's irreverent illustrative comics style and Corinne Maier's witty, researched writing, readers can join the fight against capitalism with Karl Marx, meet the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and discover the fundamentals of physics with Albert Einstein. Explore complex scientific, psychological and political ideas in a wryly intelligent graphic novel format!
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.
Join Lucy Worsley on a journey across Europe to visit the incredible locations where royal history...
122994) Xmas without China
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Exploring the intersection of consumerism and immigration in American culture, XMAS WITHOUT CHINA is an intimate portrait of families wrestling with our drive to consume cheap products, but also with our desire for human connection and a sense of who we are in a fast-changing world. Pride and mischief inspire Chinese immigrant Tom Xia to challenge the Americans in his Southern California suburb to celebrate Christmas without any Chinese products....
122995) The wrong light
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This documentary begins as a profile of the Children's Organization of Southeast Asia, which provides shelter to child victims of human trafficking in Northern Thailand, and its leader, Mickey Choothesa. As the filmmakers pursue their subject, suspicions arise as to whether Choothesa and COSA are truly what they represent themselves to be.
122996) Starvation shore
Author
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1881, when the ship that dropped off the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition sailed for home, these twenty-five men could not have known that only a handful would survive their three-year assignment. Commanded by Lt. A. W. Greely, this was the first attempt of the United States to engage in scientific study of the Arctic. Support of promised re-supply never reached them, leaving the men abandoned by the very government that had sent them...
122997) Lady killers
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
British crime writer Martina Cole examines the life and times of six of the most notorious female serial killers, using expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction. Each episode tells the story of one of these women: Myra Hindley, Amelia Dyer, Beverly Allitt, Mary Ann Cotton, Elizabeth Bathory, and Rosemary West.
122998) Betrayal at Attica
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On September 13, 1971, the State of New York shot and killed 39 of its citizens, injured hundreds more, and tortured the survivors. More than 1,200 men were stripped naked, forced to crawl across a muddy cellblock yard, and then run through a gauntlet of state employees who beat them with nightsticks, rifle butts, pickaxe handles, and other weapons. They were forced to run barefoot over broken glass and kicked down stairwells. The horrors of that...
122999) Dino lingo: Cantonese
Publisher
Dino Lingo
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
中文
Description
A Cantonese language learning set where cartoon dinosaur characters introduce the most common 200 words and phrases in Cantonese. Dino Lingo is available for kids in all ages and the program can be effective for ages up to seven.
Publisher
High Octane Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, He-Man arrived on the scene and hit the world with a punch as powerful as the character himself. He-Man's surprising popularity spawned a multi-billion-dollar empire that included toys, comic books, cartoons, live-action movies, and a literal sister spinoff show, and continues to appeal to a ravenous fanbase today. Watch as artists, creators, and collaborators dig deep, tell tales, and share the surprising developments of an unlikely,...
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