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- Against My Will - The stories of three women who took refuge at the Dastak women's shelter in Pakistan, founded to help women fleeing abusive and murderous families.
- An American Love Story - An extraordinary 10-hour PBS series about a black man and a white woman who have struggled for thirty years against racial stereotypes and societal prejudice to keep their family together.
- Arab Diaries - A five-part documentary series that presents a fresh, insightful picture of contemporary life across the Arab world.
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- Back to the Soil - A young Korean couple leaves the city to become farmers. They struggle to survive economically from the land, while trying to balance their political activism and family life.
- Be Fruitful and Multiply - How does it feel to have been pregnant or nursing for 25 out of 26 years of your married life? This film puts this and other questions directly to ultra-orthodox Jewish women for the first time.
- Beyond Hatred - After their gay son is murdered by a gang of skinheads, a close-knit family tries to move toward understanding, and even forgiveness.
- Black to the Promised Land - Inner-city teens travel to Israel and work on a kibbutz.
- Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan - The first film about the Kyrgyz tradition of bride kidnapping takes viewers inside families, to talk with kidnapped brides who have managed to escape as well as those who are making homes with their new husbands.
- Bright Leaves - The new film from Ross McElwee, director of SHERMAN'S MARCH. The renowned filmmaker and native Carolinian journeys across the social, economic, and psychological landscapes of tobacco and family in North Carolina.
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- 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.
- Charlotte - Based on the autobiographical series "Life or Theater?" by Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish painter from Berlin, who sought refuge in Nice during World War II.
- Childhood Lost - The war in Lebanon, through the lives of children caught up in the turmoil.
- 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.
- Children's Beirut - Introducing Steve Antar, a 13 year old Beirut resident who has never known his city in peacetime
- Chore Wars - Do you say "I love you" with flowers - or by doing the dishes?! The place of chores in the battle of the sexes.
- Club of the Discarded - Barta's surrealistic animation pokes fun at bourgeois values while teaching a lesson in understanding and social acceptance.
- Constant, Avant le Depart - Filmed shortly before Constant Nieuwenhuys' death, this is an intimate glimpse into the life and work of the painter, urban theorist, and influential member of the European avant-garde.
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- Daily Baghdad - An intimate chronicle of daily life in Baghdad today, one year after the war, as seen through the eyes of an extended Iraqi family.
- Death On Request - Controversial documentary records the last days - and actual death - of a Dutch man who chose euthanasia to end his suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- The Dreamers of Arnhem Land - The two Aboriginal elders who set out to save their community from cultural extinction by combining traditional knowledge and contemporary scientific expertise.
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- Empathy - A blend of documentary and fiction drama, this wry, intriguing deconstruction of psychoanalysis raises playful and provocative questions about trust, power, and understanding.
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- Facing Death - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's seminal book "On Death and Dying," brought her international fame. This intimate portrait was filmed in 2002, when she lived secluded in the desert, awaiting - as she says - her own death.
- Family Business - A prototypical American entrepreneur struggles to make his pizza business go.
- For the Bible Tells Me So - Is it possible to reconcile homosexuality and biblical scripture? How five very average, very Christian, very American families of faith handle the realization of having a gay child.
- 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.
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- Hair Therapy - A Colombian filmmaker questions her friends - in their twenties like her, and caught between maintaining their independence and love, relationships, and the desire to start a family.
- Hats of Jerusalem - Jerusalem can rightfully be called the hat capital of the world, and this colorful and personal trip takes us along the diverse headdresses of the three religions populating the city.
- Heart of the Matter - Examines the frightening growth of the AIDS epidemic among women.
- Hiding and Seeking - Through this complex, personal story of the effects of the Holocaust on four generations, this film becomes a plea for tolerance for non-Jews.
- House of the World - Examines the Holocaust through the eyes of survivors and their descendants.
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- I For India - A chronicle of immigration, from the Sixties to the present day, as seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their 40 years worth of Super 8mm home movies.
- Inside Out - Transsexuals in Iran. Intimate conversations with doctors, religious authorities, and transsexuals about the mind/body conflict, Islamic interpretations, and the impact of sex-change treatments on their lives.
- The Intolerable Burden - One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the pre-1965 time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of resegregation. **Winner, John E. O'Connor Film Award, American Historical Association**
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- Justice - Takes a camera where few have been, a criminal courtroom in Rio de Janeiro, to record the social theatre, the structures of power, what is usually invisible.
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- Kaddish - A riveting profile of the children of Boro Park, New York, the largest Orthodox Jewish survivor community in the U.S.
- Kaplan Family and the Black Demon, The - The impact an interracial, interclass relationship has on an Israeli family, and what the parents try and do about it.
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- Letters From Home - The filmmaker delves into a startling family secret: her grandfather, a successful Chinese immigrant, was also husband and father to a second family in China.
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- Making Grace - This candid look at the daily challenges faced by two lesbian mothers attempting to have their first child offers unique insight into the nature of families and how we make them.
- 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.
- Mother - The story of a Hungarian woman who fled with her six-year old son after the uprising in 1956 while her husband, accused of being a leading "counter-revolutionary," is executed by the new Communist government.
- Ms. Conceptions - Dually profound and amusing, delves into the "family values" debate via an exposé of women who are single mothers by choice.
- My American Family - 70-year-old Gaetano Merenda and his son (the filmmaker) travel to America for a reunion with relatives whose ancestors came from their small town in southern Italy more than a century ago.
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- Once Removed - A young woman's trip to China to meet her relatives for the first time. Combining historical footage with life stories, an intriguing investigation into a family history inextricably linked with China’s tumultuous past.
- Osaka Story - A very intimate diary of a Korean/Japanese filmmaker's strained relationship with his family.
- Our House - A groundbreaking documentary that explores what it's like to grow up with gay or lesbian parents, as Americans struggle to re-define family values.
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- The Perfumed Garden - An exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society.
- The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover - A complex tale of art world profit, deception and crime, framed by O. Winston Link's stunning iconic photographs of the last of the American steam locomotives.
- Prince Cinders - From Babette Cole's bestselling book, an hilarious twist on the classic Cinderella tale.
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- Red Hook Justice - Profiles an innovative court in a Brooklyn neighborhood plagued by poverty and crime that is at the center of a legal revolution - the community justice movement.
- Robert, Mary, and Katrina - The astounding story of how one elderly couple faced and survived Hurricane Katrina. "[Their] story of struggle and survival from the wrath of Katrina grips the audience's emotions." - Educational Media Reviews Online
- Ross McElwee DVD Collection - This new collection includes six of McElwee's best films, four of which have never been available on DVD.
- 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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- Second Time Around - The complexities of contemporary American marriage.
- The Secret Life of Babies - A two-part examination of the psychological development of babies, from intrauterine life to the first months after birth. How do fetuses and babies perceive their worlds, and ours?
- Seventeen - High school seniors hurtling toward maturity experience joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency.
- SOS in Tehran - What is on Iran's mind today? To find out the film goes inside an Iranian psychological telephone hotline, government sex education courses, and group psychotherapy sessions for Tehran's elite.
- Stepping Out - A look at gay life in South Africa.
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- There's No Room For So Many People - If Edgar doesn't find work by the end of the week, he and his wife will leave Bogota, Colombia and move to the coast, leaving their daughter behind. But, only after selling everything they have...
- They Chose China - Academy Award-nominated documentarian Shuibo Wang tells the controversial story of American POWs who after the Korean War refused repatriation, and stayed in China.
- 3 Cm Less - The parallel stories of two very different Palestinian women who attempt to heal the rifts in their families, probing into the "invisible hunger" for love and security, amidst the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
- Tikinagan - Reveals the challenges faced by a native run child care agency in northwestern Ontario.
- Try to Remember - A mother returns to her home village Yantang, in China, with her son, to show him where she grew up, and to talk for the first time about the days of the Cultural Revolution.
- 20 Years Old in the Middle East - Filmed after the fall of Saddam Hussein, this film traverses the region - from Jordan to Syria, Iran, and Lebanon - to take the pulse of Arab and Iranian youth.
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- Valencia Diary - A record of Philippine life in a small village at a time when the national climate is charged with the tension of Marcos' impending downfall.
- The Virgin Diaries - Two young women journey through Morocco in search of answers to their questions about virginity, sex and Islam.
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- Wandering Souls - Thirty years after the end of the war against the United States, two Vietnamese veterans continue to search for the remains of their dead comrades.
- The Wild East - An ethnographic rendering of life in Ulan Bator, a city at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, communism and global capitalism.
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