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- Arab Diaries - A five-part documentary series that presents a fresh, insightful picture of contemporary life across the Arab world.
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- Bombay: Our City - 4 million slum dwellers - half of Bombay's population - must battle daily just to survive.
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- Can't Do It In Europe - Some people travel to Bolivia to go down the dangerous silver mines, to see the medieval work conditions. Are they crawling through the contaminated tunnels to learn about a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?
- Celso and Cora - A young couple and their two children living in a squatter settlement in the Philippines' capital, Manila.
- Chain of Love - A film about the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how the international trade in love and care affects the women involved, their families, and families in the West.
- Children of Fate - Thirty years in the life of a gutsy Sicilian woman who battles poverty, crime, and an abusive husband to keep her family together.
- China: Unleashing the Dragon - An in-depth four-part look of the massive economic and social changes in China.
- Choropampa - When a devastating mercury spill by the world's richest gold mining corporation hits a quiet peasant village in the Peruvian Andes, a courageous young mayor emerges to lead his people on a quest for healthcare and justice.
- The Color of Gold - In South Africa's President Steyn Gold Mine, 8000 men live in a compound next to the mine shaft in which they dig, far from their families.
- Compadre - Thirty years after meeting Daniel Barrientos and his family in Lima, Peru, where they eked out survival scavenging in garbage dumps, the filmmaker returns, and re-enters their lives.
- Cul de Sac - An allegory for a working class suburb in decline, this film investigates the story of Shawn Nelson, who stole a tank and went on a rampage through the residential streets of Clairemont, CA.
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- A Day Without Sunshine - A penetrating look at the Florida citrus industry and the workers who harvest its fruit.
- The Devil's Miner - Two young brothers work long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines in Bolivia. They brave deadly conditions, hoping the "mountain devil's" generosity will allow them to earn enough money to attend school.
- Dreamland - Takes a sharp but disarming approach in examining the romance of gambling, and reveals the decidedly unromantic reality.
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- Everything's Fine - Seydou Konaté is a doctor in a remote area in Mali. But he is at the center of a global issue: bringing quality health care to rural people left behind by development.
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- Family Business - A prototypical American entrepreneur struggles to make his pizza business go.
- Finally Got The News - A film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which was, "in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s." - Manning Marable, Prof. of History, Columbia Univ.
- For Man Must Work - A provocative look at the future of labor in the changing global economy.
- 49 UP - The seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man."
- 42 Up - The latest installment in Michael Apted's remarkable documentary series following the lives of 14 people, now 42-years-old.
- From The Other Side - With technology developed for the military, the INS has stemmed the flow of illegal immigration in San Diego. But for the desperate, there are still the dangerous deserts of Arizona, where renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman shifts her focus
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- I Am Somebody - 1969 hospital workers struggle in Charleston, South Carolina.
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- Keeping It Real - A philosophical but often comic investigation of the desire for truly "authentic" experiences, and how the new "experience economy" packages and sells them.
- Knock Off - Juxtaposes the deified position logos occupy in our consumer-culture, with the lives of sweatshop workers who cannot afford the items they create.
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- The La$t Market - Documents the efforts of the multinational corporation Philips to reach the more than five billion potential consumers among the world’s poor, the “bottom of the economic pyramid.” But can profitability fight poverty? (new January, 2008)
- Losers and Winners - Two worlds collide when 400 Chinese workers move to Germany for a year and a half to take apart an entire gigantic modern coke factory—and ship it back to China.
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- Magnitogorsk - The fortunes of three generations living in the shadow of Russia's most breathtaking industrial project of the 1930s. The film was inspired by Joris Ivens' Song of the Heroes. (from the January, 1998 Catalog Supplement)
- Mayan Voices: American Lives - Contrasts the experiences of Mayan families who came to Indiantown, Florida as refugees fleeing the violence in Guatemala in the early 1980s, with the struggles of those continuing to arrive in search of better lives.
- Metal and Melancholy - Roving the city of Lima, Peru, Heddy Honigmann meets teachers, actors, professionals, civil servants and many others who have turned to taxi driving to earn enough to get by.
- Middletown - This classic series, created by Emmy and Academy Award winner Peter Davis, explores both the continuity and the change embodied in the people and institutions of one Midwestern community: Muncie, Indiana.
- A Mobile World - A fascinating and comprehensive look at the current telecommunications revolution and the growing concerns over the ever-widening digital divide.
- Motherland Afghanistan - An Afghan-American filmmaker reveals the extent of the infant mortality tragedy in Afghanistan by documenting the return of her father, an OB/GYN who emigrated to the U.S. in 1972.
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- No Loans Today - Fringe banking in redlined, post-riot South Central Los Angeles.
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- Old Men - An intimate ethnographic portrait of the elderly men living on one street in Beijing, China.
- Our Daily Bread - A spectacular visual essay composed of epic tableaus, a haunting vision of our modern food industry, and the methods and technology utilized for mass production.
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- Perestroika from Below - An unprecedented visit with miners in Donetsk, Ukraine, after they called for the first mass strike in the USSR since the 1920s.
- Philippines: The Price of Power - As a massive dam project threatened to submerge their lands, the Igorots, traditional Filipino farmers, played a role in the events that led to the "People Power" revolution.
- Portraits of Age - A look at the changing nature of the "senior" citizen's role around the world.
- The Price of Aid - An investigation of America's food aid programs for famine-stricken nations, a multi-million dollar business, which asks both U.S. and African government officials whether such aid creates more problems than it solves.
- Profits of Punishment - A critical look at America's booming private prison industry.
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- Rice and Peas - The experiences of a Trinidadian restaurant owner in Brooklyn.
- Rough Shed - Chronicles several weeks in the life of a sheep shearing familty at Budgerygar Station, in one of the remotest parts of the New South Wales outback.
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- Saudi Solutions - Personal profiles of ambitious women in Saudi Arabia, one of the most closed and conservative Muslim societies in the world.
- Seals, Our Daily Bread - A visit with a seal hunting family in Greenland.
- Selling Sickness - Explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as it promotes not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them.
- Simpson Street - History of the decline of New York's South Bronx, and efforts to rebuild it.
- Sociology is a Martial Art - A new documentary about the world famous, highly influential sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, whose 40 books and countless articles represent a brilliant renovation and application of social science.
- Sotsgorod: Cities For Utopia - Uncovers the secret history of Western architects who moved to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s, to design the huge new industrial cities being built across Siberia and the steppes.
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- The Take - Unemployed Argentinian workers take over their closed factories! A compelling political film, a vision of working people forging genuine alternatives to a failed economic model - a story with universal implications.
- Tambogrande - Follows the efforts of a small Peruvian town over five years as they fight government efforts to sell the mineral rights under their homes to a multi-national mining company.
- Taxi to Timbuktu - Men from Mali seek work in New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
- To Be Seen - A lively study of visual culture, and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. What is art's role in the context of public space and urban culture?
- Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Report from a Guatemalan Village - This film provides an intimate look at everyday life in Todos Santos, a village in Guatemala's highlands, before the violence of the 1980s.
- Todos Santos: The Survivors - Demonstrates how the political turmoil of the 1980s affected this once quiet Guatemalan village.
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- Wall Street - On the floor and behind the scenes of the New York Stock Exchange. A revealing and candid look at the people and culture that make up the biggest marketplace in the world.
- The Wild East - An ethnographic rendering of life in Ulan Bator, a city at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, communism and global capitalism.
- Working Women of the World - Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., examines the relocation of factories from Western countries to nations like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Turkey, where low wages are the rule and employee rights are nonexistent.
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