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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.
- Taking Back Detroit - In the '70s and early '80s Detroit was the site of an unusual development in U.S. urban politics, as voters elected two socialists to citywide office. The film examines these people against the backdrop of a city in extreme economic crisis.
- 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.
- Tango of Slaves - A Holocaust survivor's journey to Warsaw becomes the springboard for a meditative essay about history, memory, and their preservation in imagery.
- Taxi to Timbuktu - Men from Mali seek work in New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
- Tea Fortunes - The history of tea production for western consumers.
- Ted's Evolution - Reputations and careers are on the line as scientist Ted Steele takes on the establishment in a battle that could revolutionize the theory of evolution.
- Teeth - An amusing but informative look at the psychological, social and economic issues surrounding the modern American obsession with straight, white teeth.
- The Temptation of Power - Examines the policies of the Iranian government during the so-called White Revolution, from 1962 to 1978.
- Thank God and the Revolution - Long a major social force in Nicaragua, the Catholic church spoke out against the injustices of the Somoza regime. It is now helping people realize their full potential since the Sandinista revolution.
- That's Why I'm Working - A look at child labor in Bangladesh, a primary school in Dacca, and some of the working children who attend it.
- 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.
- Thin Ice - "To be Canadian and funny is difficult enough. To do it with the style and wit of Bruce McCall is remarkable." - Lorne Michaels, Producer, Saturday Night Live
- 30 Second Democracy - Explores the disturbing relationship between political parties and the advertising industry during election campaigns.
- This Is Not Your Life - Award winning Brazilian director Jorge Furtado chooses an ordinary woman, Noeli Cavalheiro, to tell the world her story.
- Thomson of Arnhem Land - The story of Donald Thomson, a young anthropologist who devoted his life to fighting for Aboriginal rights.
- Three Cheers for the Whale - Noted French documentarian Chris Marker chronicles the history of the whale and, in a more general manner, that of all marine mammals, in the process warning of the imminent destruction of the whale threatened by the fishing industry's ong
- 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.
- The 3 Rooms of Melancholia - An award-winning, stunningly beautiful revelation of how the Chechen War has psychologically affected children in Russia and in Chechnya.
- Through the Consul's Eye - Films shot by a French Consul in turn-of-the-century China. With a camera lent by the Lumiere brothers, he documented the historic events and everyday life he saw around him.
- Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet - The 1970s fiscal crises in New York and Cleveland.
- Tikinagan - Reveals the challenges faced by a native run child care agency in northwestern Ontario.
- Time Immemorial - Presents the case of the Nisga tribe in their long fight for aboriginal rights in British Columbia.
- Time Is Money - Contrasts commodity traders' and speculators' interests with those of producer nations whose commodity dependent economies can be thrown into havoc by price fluctuations.
- Time of the Locust - Critically examines American involvement in Vietnam through a compilation of American, Japanese and Vietnamese combat footage.
- 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.
- The Todos Santos Films
- Todos Santos: The Survivors - Demonstrates how the political turmoil of the 1980s affected this once quiet Guatemalan village.
- The Tooth of the Times - A personal study of the impact the government's decision to end agricultural subsidies had on South African farmers.
- A Touch of Greatness - Regarded as one of the most influential teachers in American history, Albert Cullum, in an era when Dick, Jane and discipline ruled America's classrooms, allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade classroom.
- Tracked Down by Our Genes - Explores the new possibilities and dangers created by the Human Genome Project's decoding of human DNA. (new January, 2008)
- Travis - The inspirational story of a 10-year-old boy with full-blown AIDS.
- Tree Of Survival - Although the drought and starvation suffered by the people on the borders of the Sahara no longer make headlines, the ever-encroaching dunes refuse to go away.
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger - Focusing on his role in events in Vietnam, Indonesia and Chile, this film examines charges that the former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner is also a war criminal.
- Trinkets and Beads - The oil company MAXUS and Huaroni Indians of the Amazon.
- Troupers - A portrait of the world-renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe.
- 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.
- The Tube - Have the physiological effects of watching TV been kept secret for decades? A journalist penetrates the heart of the TV and advertising industries in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. to find out.
- Tupamaros - 62-year-old Pepe Mujica, a founding member of Uruguay's Tupamaros organization and member of parliament, reflects on the groups development over the last 30 years from urban guerillas to legal political force.
- 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.
- 21 Up South Africa - Filmed every seven years since 1992, a varied group of children, black and white, rich and poor, now young adults, offer us a vision of the social and political changes since the fall of Apartheid.
- The Two Lives of Eva - The complicated, traumatic story of a young woman, the filmmaker's mother, a well-off, Polish Lutheran before WWII, who afterwards married a Jewish Warsaw ghetto survivor.
- The Two Rivers - Poet Rashaka Ratshitanga guides viewers through South Africa's history before and during the apartheid era.
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