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A Dollar a Day - Bombay Jungle
Bombay is a place for work, opportunities and dreams. People come to work in the city and earn their living which they can’t earn back in their villages. But nothing is free in this metropolis. Read moreYear:
2006
Duration:52min
Categories:
Politics & Economics
Society
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A Dollar a Day - Made in China
With a good sense of humour nurse Wayne Petersen scans the labels at Wallmart; “Made in China”? No thanks! The production jobs this ex-miner sees disappearing to China stand for new opportunities for the young Li-Jieli to improve her and her families living condition.Three people from very different worlds and expectations, show how they struggle to maintain their security in a shifting and uncertain global economy. Read more
Year:
2006
Duration:52min
Categories:
Politics & Economics
Society
Keywords:
globalization
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A Dollar a Day - The New Silver
Against the background of a popular revolt called the “Gas War” we see how the lack of capital represents a heavy chain hanging around the necks of the poor of Bolivia and the Bolivian government alike. Read moreYear:
2006
Duration:52min
Categories:
Politics & Economics
Society
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A Dollar a Day - The Price of Cotton
Cotton farmers Abrahim Coulibaly from West Africa and James Machan and his family from Texas are in competition with each other on the world market. Gradually the differences and similarities between these two farmers become clear. Read moreYear:
2006
Duration:48min
Categories:
Politics & Economics
Society
Keywords:
globalization
agriculture
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Baby Crash
A documentary that explores the declining birth rates prevalent in the G-7 nations. The phenomenon correlates directly to the unprecedented power and freedom that people enjoy in these societies.The statistics are unequivocal. Generally speaking, young couples in the western world, with their unprecedented power over their own lives, have given society its notice. The birth rate in Europe is two million babies short of what is required to sustain the population per year. In Japan, Canada and the US the problem is the same. It seems the more educated the family, the fewer the children they will have. This documentary is about a demographic revolution, a deliberate personal choice that is causing serious problems for these societies. Read more
Year:
2002
Duration:46min
Categories:
Society
Keywords:
declining birth rate
demographic revolution
Battle for our River
On one side of the river, the government wants to build a dam that would provide the whole region wih hydro-electric power. On the other side, a group of women say no, that it would kill the ecosystem and deprive thousands of people of their livelihoods. This documentary is about the battle for the Namada River. For two decades, these women have fought against the armed might of the State, big business and the construction industry. Read moreYear:
2007
Duration:50min
Categories:
Environmental
Society
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Being Married 2 - Episode 1
Part One of Academy Award nominated director, Michael Apted's documentary that candidly lifts the veil on the institution of marriage and what compels people to tie the knot and stay together. Read moreYear:
2006
Duration:88min
Categories:
Society
Leisure & Lifestyle
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Being Married 2 - Episode 2
Part Two of Academy Award nominated director, Michael Apted's documentary that candidly lifts the veil on the institution of marriage and what compels people to tie the knot and stay together. Read moreYear:
2006
Duration:43min
Categories:
Society
Leisure & Lifestyle
Born Female
He had one regret in his life which was being too late to save a young Nepalese girl from prostitution. So he and his brothers decided to make a career out of fighting trafficking, AIDS and female foeticide. Against the apathy of social service agencies and the authorities, the three men went against the tide of conventions to rescue girls from their abductors, teach prostitutes about AIDS prevention and villagers about con-men in the trafficking trade. Read moreYear:
2007
Duration:51min
Categories:
Society
Budhia & Pooja
All of 4 years old and he has already run marathon races of up to 60km in about 6 and a half hours. She was only 3 when she swam one km in the Arabian Sea in less than six hours. Budhia and Pooja are India’s child prodigies in the athletic world but with fame also comes controversy of child exploitation and mismanagement of their lives. This documentary looks critically at these issues especially for Budhia who is caught in the political game between the authorities and his coach. Will his potential and talent be wasted completely? Read moreYear:
2007
Duration:50min
Keywords:
child athletes
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Children of the Cloud
Sung of by poets since ancient times, the Turab al-Bidan or “Land of the White Men”, is the origin of what is today Western Sahara and Mauritania.The inhabitants of these hamada, descendents of the legendary Almorabid warriors, still today lead their herds of dromedares across vast extensions of the Sahara desert, in search of the water wells.
This nomadic style of life, of which the ancient and mysterious caravan cities were witness, produced its own particular customs, folklore and culture.
They are the last “Children of the Cloud”. Read more
Year:
2001
Duration:52min
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Children of the Earth - Cape Town
A video study guide in which children from around the world tell the stories of their worlds. This episode features Cape Town, South Africa. Read moreYear:
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Duration:14min
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Children of the Earth - Delft
A video study guide in which children from around the world tell the stories of their worlds. This episode features Delft, South Africa. Read moreYear:
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Duration:13min
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Claiming the Memory
Who owns Holocaust memory? Who is responsible for carrying it forward? Claiming the Memory uncovers a paradoxical generational battle for the right to pass on Holocaust legacy, through the conflicting responses of three Australian Jewish generations. From this moving, confrontational and unique perspective, the film explores the impact of the past on our contemporary world, questioning the future of this seminal collective memory. Read moreYear:
2004
Duration:40min
Categories:
Society
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Coming to Say Goodbye - Stories of AIDS in Africa
Coming to Say Goodbye vividly recounts the stories of several families grappling with the ravages of AIDS in Kenya and Tanzania, where the problem is so immense that the poor are being left to suffer on their own. Read moreYear:
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Duration:33min
Categories:
Biology & Health
Society
Copy Artists
Imagine buying the works of true masters, like Renoir, Da Vinci, Van Gough, Rembrant, Matisse and Raphael for just thirty US dollars! Welcome to the most prolific copy artists in China. The Dafen Village, in southern China, is best described as the oil painting copy capital of the world. It’s here where the masterpiece meets the mass market, where the world's great and not-so-great oil paintings are copied. Thousands of artists turn out reproductions of famed European masterpieces, and the not so famous, for homes and businesses around the world. Last year Dafen generated about US$35 million in sales. Thousands of painters supply 600 galleries that fill orders from around the world. This documentary talks to the copy artists to find out what in the name of art, is going on. Read moreYear:
2008
Duration:48min
Categories:
Society
Art & Artists
Keywords:
copy artists
Dafen
Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear
Crystal Meth, or "ice" as it is commonly known, is the third most abused drug in the world and has become the drug of choice for many teens. Highly addictive, cheap and easy to get, ice is also an incredibly dangerous drug that can cause psychosis and even death. Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear documents a year in the life of three families affected by this powerful seductive drug. Relationships between parents and children are torn apart. A high school girl moves in with her drug-dealing boyfriend, a young musician grapples with this powerful and seductive addiction, and a teenage girl becomes estranged from her mother.Follow these three courageous families into their world and discover the true impact of Crystal Meth. Read more
Year:
2005
Duration:44min
Categories:
Biology & Health
Society
Dad
A powerful and compelling piece, Dad traces Roger Triffo’s life from a successful family man to a street person convicted of attempting to murder his own mother.Throughout this documentary, Roger is confronted by his son who is hoping to get some answers to questions that have haunted him for most of his life. Read more
Year:
1997
Duration:52min
Categories:
Society
Biographies
Delhi the Dump
It's a fact that we are responsible for the state of our environment today. But what does the 'environment' mean to each of us? In between the lines of the global warming debate are millions of people who are living with the effects of environmental abuse everyday. From the rag-picker to the coin-diver to the industrial worker, this documentary is a realistic and disturbing snapshot of the common man’s story that personalizes the issues of global warming. Read moreYear:
2007
Duration:27min
Categories:
Environmental
Society