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Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. Left without options or entrance visas, a beacon of hope materialized for them on the other side of the world, and in the unlikeliest of places: Japanese-controlled Shanghai. Fleeing for their lives, these Jewish refugees journeyed to form a settlement in the exotic city, penniless...
2) Shoah
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. Those interviewed include Jewish survivors of the death camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Polish farmers and villagers who lived near the camps and Nazis who worked in the camps and the ghettos.
Publisher
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of how Simone Weil Lipman was able to save thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust is a starting point for an exploration of what it takes to defy genocide. The film focuses on Damas Gisimba, director of a small orphanage in Rwanda that was besieged by militias during the 1994 genocide. Learn how Gisimba, with the help of American aid worker Carl Wilkens, managed to protect, care for, and save some 400 people.
4) Empire
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Making sense of modern Britain is a tough call. But the explanation, more often than not, lies in the British Empire. Jeremy Paxman believes that unless the British come to terms with their Imperial past, theyll never understand who they are and where they're going today. In this five-part series, he cuts through the British national embarrassment, turning his forensic and unapologetic gaze on to this most compelling period of our history and tracing...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The two surviving Bielski brothers explain how they commanded the largest Jewish partisan group in occupied Europe during World War II. Survivors relate experiences and stories from this 1,500 member underground resistance group based in Byelorussia forest.
8) Paper clips
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Struggling to grasp the concept of 6 million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect 6 million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper...
Publisher
K.W. Hoffman
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Photojournalist Karl W. Hoffman moved to Arivaca, Arizona in order to document daily life on the Mexican-American border. His film captures the complexity of issues that exist on the border, including the political whims of two governments, illegal immigration, organized crime and drug trafficking, social change and ethnic conflict.
Series
Publisher
Maxwell's Collection [Distributor]
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As opposed to most global cities, where migrants come from other countries, the face of Mexico City is being changed by millions of Indian migrants who have come from other regions in Mexico. Economic growth in Mexico, at around 6.5 percent a year is strong and attracting foreign investors, but globalization has sharply increased the disparity between rich and poor. Mexico is not a poor country without resources, but has a bad system of distributing...
12) Miss Sarajevo
Publisher
Bill Carter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Documentary that portrays the lives of people in Sarajevo during the seige of 1992-1996.
Publisher
World Trust Educational Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Features the up close and personal stories of white activists and their ongoing journeys of transformation. Participants will talk about being unconscious about their learned and internalized sense of white supremacy. They will share what was required and what actions they took to move through the common first stages of denial, defensiveness, guilt, fear and shame into making solid commitments towards ending racism. The video uses art, theatre, movement,...
Publisher
Dos Vatos Productions
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"While 48 percent of Mexican-American students currently drop out of high school, Tucson (Ariz.) High [School's] Mexican American Studies Program has become a national model of educational success, with 93 percent of enrolled students graduating from high school. However, Arizona lawmakers [state school superintendents Tom Horne and John Huppenthal and Gov. Jan Brewer have] shut the program down because they believe the students are being indoctrinated...
Publisher
Friends of Le Chambon Foundation
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of a village in France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, that took in and sheltered 5000 Jews from Nazis, as told by Jewish filmmaker, Sauvage, who was himself born and protected in that defiantly peaceful community.
17) Ghosts of Rwanda
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors, this documentary examines the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Explores the reasons why the international community and the United States did not intervene as Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Tutsis.
Publisher
Japanese American National Museum
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the World War II-era treatment of Japanese Americans as seen through the contemporary lens of the post-9/11 world. As the U.S. government fights a "war on terrorism" its tactics and policies have caused concern for some Americans of Japanese descent, who were interned in concentration camps during WWII. No new concentration camps have materialized, but mass deportations and detentions, particularly of Arab and Muslim immigrants in America,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.