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August 6, 2007

Featured Video - Free to Dance

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The history of African American dance, with emphasis on the role that African American choreographers and dancers have played in the development of modern dance.

Part One focuses "on the early development of modern dance-and set against the background of the Harlem Renaissance, racial segregation and the Great Depression ... examining how African Americans overcame a 'segregated aesthetic' to become recognized as modern dance artists."

Part Two features Katherine Dunham, whose "priority is to create new choreography with her dancers."

Part Three examines the 1960s through the 1980s.

Watch an excerpt from Bill T. Jones' "D-Man in the Water."

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July 23, 2007

Featured Video - Emmy Nominated Documentaries

Nominations for the 28th Annual Emmy Awards for News & Documentary were announced this past week.

Check out some of these nominated documentaries owned by the Tri-Co libraries on dvd!


THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Eugene O'Neill

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Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity.  more info...  

 

CINEMAX

God Sleeps in Rwanda

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Five women struggle to rebuild their lives and redefine women's roles in a country torn apart by war. more info...


 COURT TV

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

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The film that helped reopen one of history's most notorious cold case civil rights murders is the result of the director's 10-year journey to uncover the truth. more info...
 
 

DISCOVERY CHANNEL

Grizzly Man 

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Acclaimed director Werner Herzog explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell, who lived unarmed among grizzlies for 13 summers. more info...

 

DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire

 
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Lt. General Roméo Dallaire was the commander of the UN peacekeeping troops in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. This film follows Dallaire back to Rwanda ten years after the massacre in order for him to come to terms with the atrocities he witnessed there.  more info...
 
FRONTLINE

The Lost Year in Iraq

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In the first weeks after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, a group of young American bureaucrats led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III set off to establish democracy in Iraq. One year later, the group left behind a thriving insurgency, economic collapse and much of its idealism. Today, as America looks for an exit strategy, FRONTLINE examines the initial, critical decisions of the U.S.-led regime in Baghdad. more info...

 
P.O.V.

My Country, My Country

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 Working alone in Iraq over eight months, American filmmaker Laura Poitras follows Iraqi physician Dr. Riyadh, father of six children and Sunni political candidate, for an unforgettable journey into the heart of war-ravaged Iraq in the months leading up to the January 2005 elections.  more info... 

 

The Boys of Baraka

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Follows a group of 12-year-old boys from the most violent ghettos of Baltimore to the Baraka School, an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, where children live by strict guidelines, yet are given the freedom to grow.  more info...

 

The Fall of Fujimori

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The Fall of Fujimori is a character and interview-driven documentary that explores the volatile events that define Alberto Fujimori's decade-long reign of Peru: his meteoric rise from the son of poor Japanese immigrants to the presidency; his fateful relationship with the shadowy and Machiavellian Vladimiro Montesinos; his self-coup that dissolved overnight both Congress and the Judiciary; and the bloody and dramatic Japanese Embassy hostage crisis.  more info...

 

June 22, 2007

Featured Video - Planet Earth

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David Attenborough's 11-part series of rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive creatures.

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May 7, 2007

Featured Video - Cinderella of the Cape Flats

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Women garment workers form Cape Town's poor Coloured community make clothes that they cannot afford themselves. But each year, the women don glamorous apparel they have made for themselves and parade in a pageant organized by their union for the workers and families in an event of solidarity and fun.

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March 19, 2007

Featured Video - Our Brand is Crisis

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Our Brand is Crisis

A team of American political strategists for-hire launch a presidential election campaign for Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in Bolivia.

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March 13, 2007

Featured Video - Small Fortunes

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Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty

This documentary, produced by the Center for Economic Self-Reliance at Brigham Young University, explores the issues of poverty and microcredit as it features interviews with numerous recipients of small loans (generally under $100) in locales throughout the world. Most of these recipients are women who are unable to secure a traditional loan.

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January 29, 2007

Featured Video - Zizek!

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Zizek!

Follows the eccentric Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek as he travels around the world lecturing.

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January 23, 2007

Featured Video - Tying the Knot

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Tying the Knot

Explores the ferocious political battle in the U.S. over equal marriage rights. It uncovers the meaning of marriage, focusing appropriately on rights, privilege, and love.

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July 14, 2006

Featured Video - Sisters-in-Law

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A female prosecutor and judge in Kumba, Cameroon work to put an end to their community's tacit acceptance of child abuse, wife beating and rape. Winner of the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Festival.  

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May 2, 2006

Featured Video - To Those Born After

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 A film by Haverford professor Chris Pavsek. "Combining Bertold Brecht's 1938 poem... with hypnotic visual collages, this moving avant-garde film is clearly outraged at our current administration's abuses and will leave the viewer profoundly affected. An undeniable work of beauty and a testament to the filmmaker's convictions." Philadelphia Film Festival.  Read More... 

April 17, 2006

Featured Video - The Devil's Miner

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The story of 14 year-old Basilio Vargas and his 12 year-old brother Bernardino as they work in the Bolivian silver mines .
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March 22, 2006

Featured Video - Queen of the Mountain

queen.JPGQueen of The Mountain Theresa Goell started her career as an archaeologist with four strikes against her: she was a female, divorced, a Jew working with Muslims and hearing impaired. Goell worked on Bryn Mawr's excavations at Tarsus in Turkey and went on to lead the excavation of Nemrud Dagh.   Read more...

March 9, 2006

Featured Video - Ballets Russes

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Ballets Russes    From Zeitgeist films: "Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe..." find out more...

Featured Video - Wild Swans

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Wild Swans   The story of Jung Chang, her mother and her grandmother, three generations of Chinese women in China during the 20th century.  find out more...

March 2, 2006

Avant-Garde on DVD

unseen.jpg The current Chronicle of Higher Education features a nice essay by David Sterritt on the exciting recent dvd sets Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941, Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s and By Brakhage: An Anthology.

February 14, 2006

Featured Video - Farmingville

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Farmingville  Documentary on the many issues surrounding immigrant laborers. find out more...

Featured Video - Rize

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Rize  How a South Central dance community rises above adversity. find out more...

February 2, 2006

Featured Video - Street Fight

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Street Fight "When a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad takes on the four-term mayor of Newark, N.J., he gets an education in the politics of the streets." Nominated for the 2006 Academy Awards for Best Documentary. read more...

January 15, 2006

Featured Video - Layer Cake

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Layer Cake  Matthew Vaughn's stylish ganster thriller. find out more...