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Chapter 1: Issues Overview For Everyone Everywhere; The Making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. United Nations, 1998. 60m. video. Out of the tragedy of World War II, one of the most noble ideals of humankind was born: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This canonical document overcame language and cultural differences to definitively create a standard for human rights. Includes archival footage from four different continents during the drafting of the document.

Human Rights. Thames Television, producer. UK: Media Guild, 1984; 120 min. video. British television documentary traces the development of human rights since the 1948 adoption of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Interviews with diplomats, human rights advocates, and victims of violations around the world who attempt to discuss the concept of universal and inalienable human rights.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Justin Chadwick. UK/ South Africa: 20th Century Fox, 2013. 141 min. DVD. Film adaption of the autobiography of the same name. Chronicles the life of South African President and human rights icon Nelson Mandela.

Memory of Justice. Marcel Ophuts, producer. France: Films Inc, 1976. 278 min., color, French (English subtitles); 16 mm. Landmark documentary of the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg. Filmmaker Ophuls traveled throughout Germany searching for peoples’ attitudes about the past, and about other atrocities of war, probing the questions of guilt and responsibility.

Promises Made. Susan Hogue. USA, 2006. 33m. DVD/video. Documentary. An examination of the racial, economic, and political divides in America.

Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart. John Ferry. USA: PBS, 2006. DVD. Documentary. A recounting of the story of the great Lakota Chief Sitting Bull, told mostly using his own words.

The Shock Doctrine. Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom. UK: Renegade Pictures, 2009. 79 min. DVD. Documentary. Based on the book by Naomi Klein, the film explores the concept of ‘Disaster Capitalism’ which argues that free market economies have taken power via political maneuverings that exploit areas reeling from disaster.

Wall. Simone Bitton. Israel: Lifesize Entertainment, 2004. 96 min. DVD. Documentary. A meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the walls set up to separate.

Chapter 2: Basic Decencies 3 Points. Josh Victor Rothstein. USA: Double Wide Media, 2009. 62 min. DVD. Documentary. Professional basketball star Tracy McGrady travels to Darfur, Sudan to learn about the ongoing mass atrocities in the area.

5 Days in July. Esther Podemski & Chuck Schultz. USA, 2007. 11m. DVD/video. Documentary. Explores the 1967 Newark, New Jersey race riots.

12 Years a Slave. Steve McQueen. USA/ UK: Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2013. 134 min. DVD. Solomon Northup, a free black man in pre-Civil War United States is abducted and sold into slavery. Northup fights for twelve years to survive and regain his freedom.

22 Years from Home. Malachi Leopold. USA: Bennett-Robbins Productions, 2009. 40 min. DVD. Documentary. The journey home of a Kuek Garang, a young man who had been one of the ‘Lost Boys’ of Sudan, twenty-two years after he fled the country as a six-year-old.

A Kind of Childhood. Susan Bissell and Tareque Masud. Canada. Xingu Films/Audiovision, 2003. 51m. video. Documents the harsh realities of child labor in India. Focusing on several children over the course of six years, this documentary shows real examples of child labor ranging from children supporting their parents, dreams of education squashed, and upward mobility perpetually out of reach.

Abuelas: Grandmothers on a Mission. Noemi Weis. Canada: Filmblanc, 2013. 28 min. DVD. Documentary. Thirty years after Argentina’s Dirty War, grandmothers continue to search for their grandchildren who were kidnapped and illegally adopted by families within the regime.

Against the Tide of History: Landmines in Casamance. Moussa Bocoume. Senegal/USA. WITNESS, 2004. 27m. video. documentary addresses the longest lasting danger of Senegal’s civil war: landmines. Told through the voices of landmine victims, community efforts and government programs have done little to help victims or defuse the minefields.

Al Mizbah Ha'zichronot. Tova Beck-Friedman. Germany/Israel/USA, 2006. 27m. DVD/video. Documentary. Telling the story of Bracha Ghilai, who spent her adolescence in concentration camps, in Hebrew with English subtitles.

Amazing Grace. Michael Apted. UK/USA: FourBoys Films, 2006. 118m. DVD/video. The story of William Wilberforce, the crusader who fought for the abolition of slavery in Britain in the late 18th Century.

Anne Frank Remembered. Jon Blair. UK BBC, 1995. 117m. DVD/video. Documentary offers the most complete telling of one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, Anne Frank. Provides a detailed account of the living conditions that Frank and others endured while hiding in an Amsterdam Attic during World War II.

Armed to the Teeth. Niels von Kohl. United Nations, 2000. 55m. video. There are enough small arms on the planet to arm one twelfth of the global population. This UN produced documentary focuses on the world-wide illegal trade of small arms, and pays special attention to small arms use by children.

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. Laurence Rees and Catherine Tatge. UK: BBC, 2005. 300 min. DVD. Documentary. This six-episode documentary presents the story of Auschwitz through interviews of ex-inmates and ex-guards.

Before the Traces Disappear (Ehe Die Spuren Verwehen). Renate Günther-Greene. Germany, 2007. 16m. DVD/video. In German with English subtitles. Documentary. Recounting the story of 6,000 Jews who were transferred from the Düsseldorf, Germany freight station to concentration camps during World War II, told through the memories of survivor Hilde Sherman-Zander.

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Between Two Fires. Agnieszka Lukasiak. Sweden: Hob/Apple Film Productions/Filmpool Nord, 2010. 130 min. Online. A mother and daughter escape child trafficking in Belarus, their home county. They find their way to a refugee camp in northern Sweden, but their vulnerable situation makes them easy targets.

Cambodia: Year Zero. American Friends Service Committee, producer. 1979. 60 min., color. The incredible story of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The brutality of the Pol Pot years is starkly portrayed, but within a sound historical and political context.

Death Squadrons: The French School. Mari-Monique Robin. France. First Run/Icarus Films, 2003; 60m. video. Documentary. In English, French and Spanish with English subtitles. Documentary examines how the French military taught torture techniques to Operation Condor, an international criminal organization formed by South American dictatorships to target political opposition.

Everyman: Iraq, Enemies of the State. John Blake, director. London, England: BBC Enterprises Ltd., John Blake Associates Ltd., 1990. 36 min., videotape. Journalist Charles Glass presents a documentary that reveals the human rights record of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The program was updated on the day of transmission to take into account the execution of British-based journalist Farzad Bazoft.

Eyes of the Birds. Gabriel Auer, producer. France: Facets, 1982. 80 min., color, French (English subtitles); 16 mm. Dramatization of an International Red Cross delegation visit to Libertad Prison, Uruguay, a so-called model prison in which they discover the effects of physical and psychological torture of prisoners.

Face the Wall. Stefan Weinert. Germany: Core Films, 2009. 84 min. DVD. Documentary. Profiles five individuals who were arrested and imprisoned by the Stasi for attempting to flee East Germany during the Cold War.

Fields of Mudan. Stevo Chang. USA: Florida State University of Motion Picture/Television and Recording Arts, 2004. 23 min. DVD. This short film is about a young Asian girl forced into slavery by a brothel owner.

Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda. Greg Barker & Darren Kemp. USA: PBS, 2004. 120 min. DVD. Documentary. Chronicles the Rwandan genocide.

Foreign Currency. Tony Cammarata. USA: Cinema del Capriccio, 2006. 5m. DVD/video. A short film depicting two Mexican sisters sold to a human trafficking operation.

Good Husband, Dear Son. Heddy Honigmann. Netherlands. Ideale Audience Internationale, 2001. 50m. video. During the war in the former Yugoslavia, Serbian soldiers killed every man in the small village of Ahatovici. This film commemorates these men by interviewing their families and examining photos and personal items.

Goodbye Hungaria. Jon Nealon, Director. USA/Hungary. 2003. 56m. video. Documentary. In English & Arabic with English subtitles. A Palestinian refugee and an American volunteer act as translators and advocates in a Hungarian refugee camp. teeming with asylum seekers, the camp is populated by people from all over the world who are trafficked via underground smuggling rings.

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Guantanamero. Vicente Peñarrocha,. Spain: Peace Arch Films, 2007. 89m. DVD/video. The fictional account of Ali, a Guantanamo detainee who finds himself stranded on a deserted beach after a violent storm. He is taken in by local Cubans in Havana where he experiences tormenting nightmares from his time at Guantanamo and other images from his past that haunt his soul.

Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing. Michigan Media, 1970. 28 min., color. One of the best documentations of the bomb’s effects on Hiroshima.

Hiroshima-Nagasaki! August 1945. Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film Program, 1970.17 min., b&w. Uses Japanese film withheld from the public for twenty years, to show the results of the bombing.

Hotel Rwanda. Terry George. South Africa/USA. Lions Gate Entertainment, 2004. 121m. Dramatization of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel owner who refuses to provide shelter to those being slaughtered in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. As the conflict escalates, Rusesabagina is appalled by the senseless violence and transforms his hotel into a make shift refugee camp, saving countless lives.

How Nice to See You Alive. Lucia Murat, producer and director. Brazil: Women Make Movies, Inc., New York, 1989. 100 min., videotape. Blending fiction and documentary, this film provides a searing record of life during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s. Murat interviews women, who, like herself, were imprisoned and tortured because of their political convictions.

Human Trafficking. Christian Duguay. USA: Lifetime Movie Network, 2005. 180 min. DVD. This television miniseries tells the story of several young women who are victims of international sex trade and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the trail of the traffickers.

I Am Slave. Gabriel Range. UK: Altered Image/Blue Sky Films, 2010. 82 min. DVD. Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, a twelve-year-old girl is abducted from her Sudanese village by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery. She is eventually sent to London where her life of slavery continues.

Inside Burma. David Munro. Carlton UK, 1997. 51m. video. In-depth look at the history and brutality of one Burma, home to one of the world’s most repressive regimes. Murder, torture, forced relocations, and slavery are just some of the things that the people of Burma have endured under a military regime.

International. A routine assignment to observe trials in Turkey quickly turns into a hands-on investigation when the lawyer learns about the unspeakable torture that plagues political prisoners in an Istanbul prison.

Interrogation. Richard Bugajski, director. Film Polski. Poland: Kino International Corporation, New York, 1982. 118 min., 16 mm or 35 mm. Originally banned in Poland, Interrogation is a grim but powerful storyabout a cabaret singer detained for interrogation by Polish secret police. A five-year Kafkaesque torture unfolds. Krystyna Janda was named best actress for her performance at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

In the Shadow of the City. Jean Khalil Chamoun, France/Lebanon. Arab Film Distribution, 2000. 100m. 35mm. Drama addresses Lebanon’s decade and a half civil war from the perspective of a 12 year old Lebanese boy. The boy and his family move from the countryside to Buiret, but struggle with unemployment and the disappearance of loved ones.

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Jiyan. Jano Rosebiani. Iraqi Kurdistan. Media Luna Entertainment, 2002. 94m. 35mm. Drama illustrates the lasting physical and emotional effects of Saddam Hussein’s infamous chemical attack on Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. Many of the residents are still scarred, emotionally and physically, by the chemical agents.

Kony 2012. Jason Russell. USA: Invisible Children, 2012. 30 min. Online. Documentary. A short film about warlord Joseph Kony intended to raise support for charities focused on regions impacted by the indicted war criminal’s army. The film became incredibly popular immediately following its release, but has since been the subject of considerable criticism and controversy as well.

La Boca del Lobo. Francisco Jose Lombardi, director. Jose Manuel Espinosa, Dept. de Trafico TVA S.A., Madrid, Spain, 1988. 122 min. Peru’s best known filmmaker, Francisco Jose Lombardi, dramatically explores the horrors of the 1983 massacre of forty-seven men, women, and children in a small Andean village. The film examines the power of paranoia and its effect on the relationship between the soldiers and villagers.

Liberia: An Uncivil War. Jonathan Stack and James Brabazon, USA. Gabriel Films, 2004; 90m. video. Documentary. This film criticizes America’s weak response to preventing a bloody civil war in Liberia during the Summer of 2003. Includes a series of exclusive interviews with Charles Taylor, the corrupt former president of Liberia who was indicted for war crimes.

Life is Beautiful. Roberto Benigni. Italy. Miramax, 1997. 122m. DVD/video. This tragicomedy follows an Italian husband, wife and child as they are imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II. To shelter his son, the father goes to extraordinary lengths to portray the holocaust as lighthearted contest with prizes at the end of the “game.”

Machine Gun Preacher. Marc Forster. USA: Relativity Media; Virgin Produced, 2011. 129 min. DVD. Ex-criminal and Christian convert travels to South Sudan and Northern Uganda and works to support orphanages for victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), becoming a legend known as “The Machine Gun Preacher.”

Mein Krieg (My War). Harriet Eder and Thomas Kufus, directors. German: Kanguruh-Film, Berlin, Germany, 1990, 90 min. Winner of the Peace Prize in the 1990 Berlin Film Festival. Guns and cameras at the warfront-Six German veterans from World War II recount their mernones of battle through the examination of their own amateur film footage shot during the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Midnight Express. Alan Parker, director. Filmed almost entirely Valletta, Malta after permission to film in Istanbul denied. Recorded at EMI Studios, Borehamwood by Columbia Pictures Corporation Limited 19/23 Wells Street, London, W1 England. Based on the real life story of an American college student caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey, thrown into prison, and subjected to torture and otherwise inhumane conditions.

Missing. Costa-Gavras, director. USA: MCA, 1982. 122 min., color; DVD/videotape. A young American journalist mysteriously disappears during a violent military coup in a South American country. When his wife (Sissy Spacek) and father (Jack Lemmon) attempt to find him, they are confronted with a deeply disturbing political discovery, the horrifying reality of “the disappeared.” A 1982 Cannes Film Festival Award winner.

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Night and Fog. Alain Resnais, director. France: Argos/Como/Cocinor, 1955. 31 min., color & bw; 16 mm, Michigan Media or University of California Extension Media, Berkeley. A documentary film that contrasts color footage of Auschwitz as it appeared in the 1950s with black and white footage of the horrors that took place within its walls during the Holocaust.

No. 4 Street of Our Lady. Barbara Bird, et al. USA/Israel/Ukraine, 2009. 95 min. DVD. Documentary. Profile of Fracisca Halamajowa Catholic Polish woman who rescued sixteen of her Jewish neighbors while her town was under Nazi occupation during the Second World War.

O Dia que Durou 21 Anos. Camilo Tavares. Brazil: Pequi Filmes, 2012. 77 min. DVD. Documentary. The story of U.S. involvement in the Brazilian coup of 1964, which overthrew an elected president and installed a brutal military dictatorship that held power for 21 years.

One Shot. Nurit Kedar, Israel, 2004; 60m. video. Documentary. In Hebrew with English subtitles. Since the beginning of the second intifada, Israeli snipers have been frequently used to perform targeted killings. This documentary shows perceptions of these snipers as both heroes and cold-blooded killers.

Paradise Now. Hany Abu-Assad. Palestine: Warner Independent Pictures, 2005. 90 min. DVD. This film focuses on two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack. When the initial attempt fails and they are separated, the movie explores the beliefs and convictions of the two.

Pinochet’s Last Stand. Richard Curson Smith. UK: BBC, 2006. 77m. TV drama. The story of Spain’s attempt to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet while he was in the UK for medical treatment.

Promised Land. Amos Gitai. Israel: HanWay Films, 2004. 88 min. DVD. This film tells the story of a group of Estonian girls trafficked into Israel as part of the sex trade.

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. Linda Yellin, producer. USA: Yellin, 1983. 100 min., color; videotape. Dramatization of the story of Jacobo Timmerman, exiled Argentine newspaper editor, who was imprisoned and tortured by the military regime for being Jewish and for publishing editorials asking for an account of the “disappeared” in Argentina.

Red Dust. Tom Hooper. UK: BBC Films, 2005. 110 min. DVD. Based on the novel Red Dust by Gillian Slovo, this British drama centers around a human rights lawyer and a political activist who suffered torture during apartheid in South Africa.

Repatriation. Dong-won Kim, South Korea. Indie Story, Inc. 2003; 149m. 35mm. Documentary. During the cold war, North Korean spies captured in South Korea underwent conversion schemes in prison that involved torture. This film follows two such spies that refused to renounce their beliefs.

Romero. John Duigan. USA. Four Seasons Entertainment, 1989. 102m. DVD/video. Oscar Arnulfo Romero was a conservative archbishop of El Salvador who initially supported the corrupt Salvadorian government. After learning of government torture and soldiers shooting into crowds of protestors, Romero denounced the government and became an outspoken advocate of human rights.

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Sex Traffic. David Yates. UK: Big Motion Pictures, 2004. 189 min. TV. This two-part TV series tells the story of two Moldovan sisters that have been kidnapped and trafficked for forced prostitution in Europe and America.

Shadow of the Holy Book. Arto Halonen. Finland: Art Films Productions, 2007. 90m. DVD/video. Documentary An examination of the legitimization of Turkmenistan’s despotic dictator Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006) by powerful corporations seeking to do business in the country. In their efforts to appease the tyrannical Niyazov, the corporations aided the translation of his autobiographical book “Ruhnama” into many languages and provided testimonials to legitimize his despotic rule.

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire. Peter Raymont. Canada: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2004. 90 min. DVD. Documentary. Tells the story of Canadian Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire stationed in Rwanda during the Rwanda genocide.

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait. Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan. France/Syria: Les Films d’ici, 2014. 92 min. Documentary. A documentary of the Syrian Civil War comprised of footage shot on cellular phones and hand held cameras from amateurs inside Syria and posted to the internet.

Slave Warrior: The Beginning. Oliver Mbamara. Nigeria/USA, 2007. 115m. DVD/video. An African travels back in time to 18th Century Africa to battle against slavery in his homeland.

Slavery and the Making of America. Leslie D. Farrell, et al. USA: PBS, 2005. 240 min. DVD. Documentary. A four-part documentary series on African American slaves in the United States.

Sometimes in April. Raoul Peck. USA: HBO Films, 2005. 140 min. DVD. This television film is a historical drama about two brothers and their experience during the Rwandan Genocide.

Sophie’s Choice. Alan J. Pakula, director. USA: CBS/Fox, 1982. 150 min., color; DVD/video. Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for “best actress” for her extraordinary portrayal of a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp.

Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished. Callum Macrae. UK: ITN Productions, 2012. 50 min. Online. Documentary. Uses amateur footage shot during the Sri Lankan Civil War to examine the link between war crimes and the country’s political and military leaders.

Svetlana’s Journey. Michael Cory Davis. Bulgaria: Topform Studio, 2004. 40 min. DVD. This film tells the story of a 13-year-old Bulgarian girl sold into sex slavery by her mother.

Taxi to the Dark Side. Alex Gibney. Brazil: THINKFilm, 2007. 106m. DVD/video. Documentary. Exposes the torture of prisoners at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay at the hands of the United States military. The documentary focuses on the 2002 torture and death of an innocent Afghan taxi driver to provide a salient example of the torture and abuse.

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The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer. Norway/Denmark/UK: Final Cut for Real, 2012. 115 min. DVD. Documentary. Leaders of the Indonesian death squads that participated in mass killings in 1965 and 1966 are challenged to reenact their killings however they see fit.

The Flute Player. Jocelyn Glatzer. USA. Jocelyn Glatzer, 2003, 50m. video. Documentary. The Khmer Rouge’s campaign of death was directed at educated Cambodians and led to the killing of ninety percent of Cambodia’s musicians. Arn Chorn Pond, the subject of this documentary, is an internationally recognized musician and human rights activist that survived the massacre.

The Forgotten Genocide. Michael Hagopian, producer. USA: Atlantic, 1976. 28 min., color; 16 mm. Story of the genocide of the Armenian people in 1915 told with the intent to show that such events do occur and threaten all humanity.

The Genocide in Me. Araz Artinian. Canada, 2006. 53m. DVD/video. Documentary. Traces the personal journey of Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Araz Artinian. The documentary confronts the 1915 Armenian genocide and the filmmaker’s personal struggle to find a sense of belonging.

The Hooded Men. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, producer. Canada: Facets, 1982. 60 min., color; 3/4-in. Beta or VHS videotape. Documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation examines torture in many countries, including Argentina, Nicaragua (pre-1981), Northern Ireland, and South Africa, through the eyes of a sensory deprivation researcher and former torturers and torture victims.

The Killing Fields. Roland Joffe, producer. USA: WHV, 1984.142 min., color; Beta or VHS videotape. An uncompromising film about two men who find themselves caught up in the Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia. Based on a true story and starring Sam Waterston and Haing S. Ngor, the film presents a vivid demonstration of modern- day genocide.

The Last Just Man. Steven Silver, Canada. Barna-Alper Productions, 2001, 70m. Beta SP video. Documentary. Canadian Gen. Romeo Dallaire oversaw the worst human rights disaster since World War II: the massacre of 800,000 Rwandans in 1994. In this documentary, Dallaire questions whether he could have done more to prevent the disaster.

The Look of Silence. Joshua Oppenheimer. Denmark: Anonymous/Making Movies Oy, 2014. 99 min. Documentary. The family of a victim of the mass killings in Indonesia from 1965 and 1966 has the opportunity to confront his killer.

The Mission. Roland Joffé. UK Warner Brothers, 1986. 125m. DVD/video. Set in 18th century South America, idealistic missionaries and greedy slave traders vie for control of the indigenous peoples of South America, backed by the Vatican. Eighteenth century genocide.

The Pianist. Roman Polanski. Poland/UK/France/Germany. Focus Film, 2002. 148m. DVD/video. Dramatization of an affluent Polish Jew living in Warsaw before and during World War II. Film illustrates the rising threat of Nazi aggression and the false sense of security felt by many European Jews. Roman Polanski, the director of this film, grew up in Nazi occupied Poland.

The Widow Colony. Harpreet Kaur. USA: Sach Productions, 2006. 73m. DVD/video. Documentary. An in-depth look into the lives of the widows of the Sikh men who were killed in the anti-Sikh massacre of November, 1984, in India.

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Transmission 6-10. Andrew Moody & Jamie Pearce. UK: Eyris, 2009. 123 min. DVD. Documentary. Makes the case for accepting the Chinese response to the Falun Gong spiritual movement as genocide.

Torture Victims Speak. Amnesty International/USA, producer. USA: Facets, 1984. 30 min., color; videotape. Three victims of torture speak of their experiences in this videotape produced at Amnesty Intemational/USA’s June 1984 meeting. Alicia Portnoy, Argentina; Lee Shin-Bom, South Korea; and Reverend Simon Farisani, South Africa are featured. Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars. Robert Greenwald. USA: Brave New Foundation, 2013. 63 min. DVD. Documentary. Examination of the American drone strategy and its impact abroad, primarily in Pakistan.

¡Viva Chile Mierda!. Adrian Goycoolea. Chile/UK/ France/Spain: Ubermonster Films, 2013. 89 min. Documentary. A story of the filmmaker’s family’s kidnapping and torture in Pinochet’s Chile. The family is helped by a prison guard, who later testifies to the crimes committed under the dictatorship.

When the Storm Came. Shilpi Gupta. USA. Veritas Films/Shilpi Productions, 2003; 24m. video. Documentary shows that in the conflict for Kashmir, civilian women are targeted by soldiers. Using rape as a weapon of war, soldiers violate Kashmiri women to escalate tension.

Women in Shroud. Farid Haerinejad. Canada/Iran: Armati Media Productions, 2009. 73 min. DVD. Documentary. ‘Death by stoning’ is the method of execution for women convicted of adultery in Iran. This film chronicles the activists and lawyers working to forbid the practice.

Zozo. Josef Fares. Lebanon & Sweden: Memfis Films, 2005. 104 min. DVD. Inspired about real events, this film is the story of a Lebanese boy who is separated from his family during the Lebanese civil war. He ends up in Sweden with his grandparents waiting for his family to join him.

Chapter 3: Participatory Rights A Better Life. Dan Kolen. USA/Mexico: Heng Dai Films, 2009. 61 min. Online. Documentary. The impact of US immigration policy is explored through the eyes of Mexican immigrants in the Chicago area.

A Better Life. Chris Weitz. USA: Summit Entertainment, 2011. 97 min. DVD. The story of a father trying to maintain dignity and shepherd his son through gang-dominated Los Angeles while constantly living in fear as an illegal alien. He continually yearns for security, stability and a future for his family.

A True Lesson in Humanity. Wolfgang Busch. USA, 2007. 83m. DVD/video. Documentary. Follows the Special Needs Color Guard of America, the first special needs color guard and dance program in the world. Their incredible talents illustrate just how truly special and talented that they are.

Abilities Unlimited. Robert Hess. USA, 2007. 34m. DVD/video. Documentary exploring the fragility of life and posing the question “How would we want society to react, if we were severely disabled?”

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Africa Rising. Paula Heredia. USA: Vivendi Entertainment, 2009. 62 min. DVD/Online. Documentary. The story of African activists battling to end the brutal practice of female genital mutilation (“FGM”).

American Harvest. Angelo Mancuso. USA: White Hot Films, 2008. 100 min. DVD. Documentary. The relationship between immigration and migrant farm labor in the United States is examined.

American History X. Tony Kaye. USA. Turman-Morrissey Company, 1998. 118m. Gripping story of an American white supremacist family and the effects of hatred. Imprisoned for killing a black man, Edward Norton plays a bigot who realizes the nuance of race while serving time in prison.

An Evening of Forbidden Books. PEN American Center, producer (USA: PEN, 1982). 60 min., b&w; VHS or 3/4-in. videotape. Selected readings by well-known authors from forbidden books, those not allowed to be used or distributed in the U.S. at various points in recent history; includes a short history of book banning in America presented by Nat Hentoff.

Balsaro. Carles Bosch and Josep M. Domenech. Spain. Seventh Art Releasing, 2002. video. Documents seven Cuban economic refugees as they flee to the US via homemade rafts. Rescued at sea and temporarily sent to a refugee camp, the asylum-seekers eventually get to America, only to discover the standard of living is not what they had hoped.

Banaz: A Love Story. Deeyah Khan. Norway/ UK: Fuuse Films, 2012. 69 min. Online Documentary. Chronicles the honor killing of Banaz Mahmod, a woman of Kurdish descent living in London who left a violent marriage that had been arranged for her as a teenager.

Better Mus’ Come. Storm Saulter. Jamaica: Firefly Films, 2011. 104 min. The film follows warring political factions in 1970s Jamaica as they use gangs to enforce their authoritarian policies and agendas.

Beyond Borders: The Debate Over Human Migration. Brian Ging. USA: Camborne Productions, 2007. 51m. DVD/video. Documentary. Explores the psychology behind the American immigration debate and whether migration is a basic human right.

Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie. Canada: TRANSMISSION, 2009. 87 min. DVD. Documentary. The role of gay pride festivals in different nations is explored. The film asserts that, beyond celebrating gay pride, the events also serve a purpose in the battles for equality and against homophobia.

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids. Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman. India: Red Light Films, 2004. 85 min. DVD. Documentary. Tells the story of a group of children who live in Calcutta, India where their mothers work as prostitutes.

Breaking Barriers. Simone di Bagno, director. United Nations Films, 1989. 28 min., color; 16 mm. There are more than five hundred million people in the world with disabilities. For many societies they are an untapped resource, or even considered a burden. But throughout the world people with physical and mental disabilities have a great deal to give to their societies. They are demanding equal rights and equal opportunities. Filmed in China, Ivory Coast, Thailand, Austria, and the United States, the UN

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film shows how disabled people everywhere are breaking down the barriers that have prevented them from enjoying the rights and duties, hopes and dreams, that are common to us all.

Chain of Tears. Central Independent TV producer. California Newsreel, 1988, 52 min., color; videotape. Documents the effects of apartheid politics and civil war on the children of Angola, Mozambique, and South Africa.

Citizen Bishara. Simone Bitton. France. Cineteve, 2001. 52m. video. Documentary focuses on Azmi Bishara, a Palestinian member of Israel’s Knesset. Bishara is a brilliant political figure who has fought for the equality of Israel’s Arab citizens.

Citizen Nawi. Nissim Mossek. Israel: Biblical Productions, 2007. 80m. DVD/video. In Hebrew or Arabic with English subtitles. Citizen Nawi documents the life of Israeli plumber and political activist Ezra Nawi, who confronts racism and homophobia.

Deadline. Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson, directors. USA Big Mouth Productions, New York, 2003. 90 min., videotape. After a group of Northwestern University law students uncovered evidence that exonerated some death row inmates, long time conservative governor Jack Ryan communed the death sentences of the entire Illinois death row. This documentary reports on this incident and questions the credibility of capital punishment in the United States.

Dol. Hiner Saleem. France: Novociné, 2007. 90m. DVD/video. In Kurdish or Turkish with English subtitles. The fictional story of a man who must flee Kurdistan on his wedding day.

Eddie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement. Susan Muksa and Greta Olafsdottir. USA: Bless Bless Productions, 2009. 61 min. DVD. Documentary. After 42 years of engagement, a lesbian couple get married. The story involves Edea Windsor, who would later become the plaintiff in a key case on marriage equality before the United States Supreme Court.

Farmingville. Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini. USA. Camino Bluff Productions, Inc., 2004. 78m. DVD/video. As more economic migrants illegally enter the US, tension builds within communities. Reports on the killing of two Mexican immigrants in an average American suburb and the community activism, and vigilantism, that followed.

Fish Out of Water. Ky Dickens. USA: Yellow Wing Productions, 2009. 60 min. DVD. Documentary. The film uses original animation and interviews with LGBTQ community members and clergy, to explore the history and alternative understandings of Biblical passages often cited as condemning homosexuality.

For a Place Under the Heavens. Sabiha Sumar, Pakistan. Women Make Movies, 2003; 53m. video. Documentary. In English and Urdu with English subtitles. tracing the role of Islam in Pakistan since its formation in 1947, this film examines how Pakistani women cope with Islamic fundamentalism and the struggle toward liberalism.

For This is My Blood. Roland Javornik. Belgium/Spain: Cinearte, 2009. 30 min. DVD. Documentary. The policy of forbidding gay men from donating blood in Belgium is examined.

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Get a Life. Joao Canijo. France/Portugal. Gemini Films, 2001. 115m. 35mm. This drama is one of the first to address the three million Portuguese immigrants living in France. Extremely conservative and alienated from present day Portugal, these immigrants have a rocky relationship with French culture.

God Loves Uganda. Roger Ross Williams. USA: Variance Films, 2013. 83 min. DVD. Documentary. An exploration of the involvement of American Evangelical Christians in the establishment of anti-homosexual laws and culture in Uganda.

Immokalee U.S.A. Georg Koszulinski. USA: Substream Films, 2008. 77 min. DVD. Documentary. Examines the lives and working conditions of migrant workers across the United States. The impact of the undocumented status of many of the workers is explored in particular. Imagining Emanuel. Thomas Østbye. Norway: Medieoperatørene; Thomas Østbye PlymSerafin, 2011. 52 min. Online. Emanuel’s identity is unknown and for eight years, his life has been put on hold. He came to Norway as a refugee claiming to be from Liberia, but Norwegian authorities believed him to be from Ghana and sent him there two times, however Ghana has sent him back claiming he is not Ghanaian. Without an identity his life remains in limbo

In My Genes. Lupita Nyong’o. Kenya: Lupita Nyong’o, 2009. 77 min. DVD. Documentary. Tells the story of eight Kenyan albinos, and the prejudices they face in the almost entirely black country.

In This World. Michael Winterbottom. United Kingdom. Sundance Channel, 2002, 89m. DVD. Drama. This film follows two young Afghan refugee that put themselves at the mercy of undergrounds smugglers. Their journey takes them through Iran, Turkey, and France as they try to reach the United Kingdom.

Incendies. Denis Villeneuve. Canada: micro_scope/TS Productions/Phi Group, 2010. 139 min. DVD. Following the death of their mother in Canada, siblings intend to honor their mother’s will by returning to her homeland in the Middle East. Through their journey they discover the many atrocities and human rights abuses suffered by their mother on her journey that led her to North America.

Inside Me (Ich erzähl dir von mir). Petra Hinterberger. Austria, 2006. 83m. DVD/video. In German with English Subtitles. Documentary. Provides insight on how people with mental and physical disabilities perceive the world.

Iran: Voices of the Unheard. Davoud Geramifard. Canada/Iran: Ecstatic Truth Media, 2009. 67 min. DVD. Documentary. Depicts a day in the life of three different groups repressed by the Iranian regime.

Juvies. Leslie Neale, Director. USA: Chance Films, 2004. 66 min., videotape. This documentary questions the validity of sentencing American youth to decades long prison sentences for crimes they may or may not have committed. Objections are also made to the growing trend of sentencing juvenile offenders in the adult court system.

La Vita non Perde Valore. Wilma Massucco. Italy: Bluindaco Productions, 2012. 53 min. DVD. Documentary. Chronicles the reintegration of former child soldiers into society Sierra Leone. The films focuses on the efforts of Italian missionary Giuseppe Berton.

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Land of fear, Land of courage. NBC News, producer. USA: CC Films, 1983. 60 min., color; videotape. Documentary filmed in South Africa features Bishop Desmond Tutu, leader of the nonviolent struggle against apartheid, who discusses the time bomb of racial politics and the fears behind both sides of the color-bar. Narrated by Edwin Newman.

Las Mujeres de la Caucus Chicana. Linda Garcia Merchant. USA, 2007. 95m. DVD/video. The story of six Latina women who formed the National Women’s Political Caucus-Latina Caucus, who represent Latinas across the nation working towards liberation.

Leila. Dariush Mehrjui, director. Iran. First Run Features, New York, 1999. 129m, 35mm, drama. In Farsi with English subtitles. Story of a young Iranian couple examines changes in Iranian society and the role of women.

Little Immigrants. Sonia Fritz, et al. Puerto Rico/Mexico/USA, 2007. 54m. DVD/video. The story of Abi and Eliezer, a Mexican boy and girl who cross the U.S.-Mexican Border to reunite with their mother, who left them 10 years earlier to escape poverty.

Making the Boys. Crayton Robey. USA: 4th Row Films; Crayton Robey Productions, 2011. 90 min. Online. Documentary. This Documentary film focuses on the drama, struggle, and legacy of the first-ever gay play and Hollywood movie to reach a mainstream audience.

Mickey B. Tom Magill. UK, 2007. 62m. DVD/video. An adaption of Shakepeare’s Macbeth, written and performed by prisoners serving in Maghaberry Prision in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Milk. Gus Van Smart. USA: Focus Features, 2008. 128 min. DVD. A Hollywood profile of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist who became the first openly gay elected official in the state of California.

Mississippi Burning. Alan Parker, director. DVD. (Orion Pictures Corporation, 1988). Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the 1964 disappearance of civil rights activists Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner.

Mr. Dial Has Something to Say. Celia Carey. USA, 2007. 60m. DVD/video. Documentary. Examination of classism and racism in the art world through the story of Thornton Dial, an African-American artist.

Namibia: A Trust Betrayed. United Nations, producer. UN IL Films, 1974. 27 min., color; 16 nun. Namibia, previously known as South-West Africa, instead of progressing toward independence was swallowed up into South Africa in defiance of the United Nations and the International Court of Justice. Despite the termination of the mandate, South Africa refused to relinquish the mineral rich country. The South African race system’s “apartheid“ was applied in the territory where ninety percent of the population is black.

Nobody Listened. Nestor Almendros and Jorge Ulia, producers and directors. USA: Direct Cinema Limited, Santa Monica, CA, 1988. 117 min., 35 mm or videotape. (Two versions, one at 117 min. and one at 60 min.) Direct, humorous, and moving testimonies by twenty-five Cubans on the human rights

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situation in their country during the past thirty years. Many of them were imprisoned by the Castro regime; many also fought the previous Batista dictatorship.

Not My Living Self. Jet Homoet and Simon Wilkie, directors. Beaconsfield, England: The National Film and Television School, 1991, 68 min. This film interviews Somalis, Sri Lankans, and West Africans who have fled their homelands in search of freedom and a better life in Holland. The result is a dramatic look at life in exile.

One of Us. Uri Barbash, director. Israel: Israfilm, Ltd., 1990. 110 min. An Israeli soldier investigates the death of a Palestinian in an Israeli detention center. Through his investigation, he uncovers the real causes behind the death and new truths about his friends and fellow soldiers.

One! The Garry Davis Story. Richard Crawford & Arthur Kanegis. USA: One Films, 2007. 5m. DVD/video. Documentary. Profile of Garry Davis, the Broadway star turned World War II bomber pilot who abandoned his U.S. citizenship to become a world citizen and attempt to unite the planet.

Out in the Silence. Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson. USA: Garden Thieves, 2009. 56 min. DVD. Documentary. Homosexuality in the small town America is explored from a number of angles, including the filmmakers own same-sex marriage and the bullying of a local gay teenager.

Persons of Interest. Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse, Directors. USA: First Run/Icarus Films, 2003. 63 min., videotape. Since September 11th, secret detentions, arbitrary arrest and prisoners held incommunicado have drastically increased among Muslim immigrants in the United States. This documentary uses interviews with these targeted immigrants to expose how the U.S. legal system has changed.

Prisoners of Conscience. Noel Fox, producer. Great Britain: Facets/Cinema Guild, 1980. 30 min., color; 16 mm. Film that illustrates the work of the human rights organization Amnesty International by tracing efforts to achieve the release of two prisoners, a Russian and an Argentine. Follows Al’s actions on behalf of each from the London research department to an adoption group working to obtain the prisoner’s freedom.

Rory O'Shea Was Here. Damien O’Donnell. Ireland: Working Title Films, 2004. 104 min. DVD. In this comedy-drama, two disabled young men struggle against society’s standards and attitudes toward disability.

Sahid. Hansal Mehta. India: UTV, 2012. 129 min. DVD. An account of the life of murdered Indian human rights lawyer Shahid Amzi, who defended Muslims accused of terrorist acts in India.

Saints and Sinners. Abigail Honor and Yan Vizinberg, directors. USA Avator Films, New York, 2004. 71m., videotape. Documents a gay couple’s attempt to be married in a Catholic church in America.

Selma. Ava DuVernay. USA: Paramount, 2014. 124 min. DVD. The story of the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965.

Skins. Chris Eyre. USA. First Look Media, 2001. 86m. DVD/video. Dramatization of a Native American policeman trying to shed the stereotype of Native Americans being apathetic alcoholics, an image that his brother flaunts.

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Stonewall Uprising. Kate Davis & David Heilbroner. US: PBS American Experience, 2010. 80 min. DVD. Documentary. Documentary examining a police raid on a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City in 1969 and the violent protests that erupted afterwards. These riots came to mark a major turning point in the gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

Storm from the South. Walid Al-Awadi & Jehane Noujaim. Kuwait: Desert Door Productions, 2006. 50m. DVD/video. In Arabic with English subtitles. A documentary of the 2006 Kuwaiti elections, the first elections that allowed women to vote or run for office in Kuwait.

Tapestries of Hope. Michealene Cristini. USA: Freshwater Spigot, 2009. Online. Documentary. Exposé on the virgin cleansing myth (that a man can cure his HIV/AIDS by raping a virgin) in Zimbabwe. The film focuses on the work of human rights activist Betty Makoni, who works with women girls who have been victimized by the practice.

The Help. Tate Taylor. USA: Dream Works SKG/Reliance Entertainment, 2011. 146 min. DVD. A young southern woman aspiring to become a writer joins with a group of African-American domestic workers in Mississippi in the 1960s to expose the degrading mistreatment of African- American domestic workers. Throughout their efforts, they face discrimination, termination from their jobs, and even threats.

The Heretics. Joan Braderman. USA. 2009. 95 min. DVD. Documentary. The Heresies, a publication and feminist art collective in New York City in the 1970s are profiled. Particular attention is paid to the group’s role in the ‘Second Wave’ of feminism.

The Least of These. Clark Lyda and Jesse Lyda. USA: La Sonrisa Productions, 2009. 62 min. DVD. Documentary. An examination of the U.S. policy of family detention, in which families of undocumented immigrants are held prior to immigration and asylum hearings.

The Migrants. Films, Inc., 1980. 52 min., color. Documents the fact that the plight of America’s itinerant farm workers has improved very little since 1970.

The Naturalization of Munkács László. Gabe Munitz-Alessio. USA, 2007. 27m. DVD/video. Munkács László comes to the U.S. dreaming of becoming an astronaut. The reality of his life in America falls much short of his dreams.

The Other Side of Immigration. Roy Germano. USA: Ray Germano Films, 2009. 55 min. DVD. Documentary. Mexican communities where as much as half of the population has left to work in the United States are examined, along with the families that the immigrants have been left behind.

The Other Side of Istanbul. Dondu Kilic. Germany: Deutsche Film-Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), 2008. 80 min. DVD. Documentary. The challenges for gay men and transsexuals in modern Istanbul are examined amidst the country’s growing conservative movement.

Through the Wire. Nina Rosenblum, producer, director. USA: Daedalus Productions, Fox/Lorber Home Video, 1990. 77 min., color; VHS videocassette. Documents the shutting down of the Female High

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Security Unit in Lexington, Kentucky following Amnesty International and ACLU investigations of mistreatment of three women inmates.

To Kill A Mockingbird. Alan Pakula, producer. Universal, 1962. 130 min. videotape. A widowed attorney with two young children accepts the significant challenge of defending a black man wrongly accused of rape in their racially divided Southern US town.

Training Rules. Dee Mosbacher, Fawn Yacker. USA: Wolfe Video, 2009. 62 min. DVD. Documentary. Homophobia and discrimination in American women’s college athletics are examined through the lives of those impacted.

Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War. Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler. William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, 2002. 26m. The small rural community of Tulia, Texas was hit hard by a federally funded sting operation. Over ten percent of the African-American population was questionably imprisoned.

Turtles Can Fly. Bahman Ghobadi. France/Iran/Iraq: Mij Film Co., 2004. 98 min. DVD. This war drama tells the story of refugee children living near the Iraqi-Turkish border as the U.S. invades Iraq in 2003.

Umoga: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden. Jean Crousillac, Jean-Marc Sainclair. France: Backpack Productions, 2009. 52 min. DVD. Documentary. A profile of a female-only village of the Samburu people in Kenya. The village is home to women who were abandoned by their husbands and communities after being raped.

Una Vida Mejor. Andrew James. USA/Mexico: Beachfire Pictures, 2008. 74 min. DVD. Documentary. A profile of three Mexican families that have immigrated to the United States, two without documentation. The film takes place during the height of American cries for the building of a wall to separate the two countries.

U.S./U.S.S.R. Peace Walk in Ukraine: Interview with Ukrainian Dissidents. Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU), 1989. videotape. This videotape was made during the U.S./U.S.S.R. Peace Walk in Ukraine, which took place from August 16 to September 16, 1988. It consists of interviews with Ukrainian dissidents in Kiev, members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, who discuss the impact of “russification” on Ukrainian society and the emergence of protest since the beginning of glasnost.

Venus Priests and Superwomen. Deborah Monuteaux. USA, 2007. 39m. DVD/video. Documentary. Examines the banning of Eve Ensler’s play, “The Vagina Monologues,” at Providence College within the context of the larger struggle for gender equality.

Voices from Gaza. British: First Run/Icarus Films, New York, 1989. 51 min., color; 16 mm or videotape. Living conditions for Palestinian refugees on the Gaza strip are documented. Aspects of the Israeli occupation, confrontations between both sides, and the refugees’ efforts to obtain rights and services are described.

Voices Unveiled: Turkish Women Who Dare. Binnur Karaevli. Turkey/USA: 2009. 73 min. DVD. Documentary. A profile of three women living in Turkey, where Islamic tradition meets Western liberalism. The topics explored include, religion, politics, men and gender roles.

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Welcome to Womanhood. Charlotte Metcalf. TVE and BBC, 1998. 14m. In the remote Kapchorwe region of Uganda, female circumcision ceremonies occur among the Sabiny people every two years. This documentary illustrates how the United Nations Population Fund’s “REACH” efforts are trying to end this barbaric practice.

What Right Has A Child. United Nations, producer. Univ IL Films, 1968. 15 min., color; 16 mm. Classic film of children’s art from around the world; commentary is by children talking about the Universal Declaration of Rights of the Child.

When the War is Over. Francois Verster. South Africa. Seventh Art Releasing, 2002. 52m. video. Bonteheuwel Military Wing (BMW), a militant teenage self-defense unit, fought to end Apartheid in South Africa during the 1980s. Interviews with surviving members illustrate the lasting effect of war and racism on South African freedom fighters.

Who will Cast the First Stone? Ahmed A. Jamal and Sabiha Sumar, directors. Cinema Guild, New York,1989. 52 min., videotape. Filmed secretly in Pakistan showing how General Zia al-Haq’s regime manipulated the legal system and devalued Pakistani women. This film focuses on three women accused of adultery, which is considered a crime against the state, punishable by stoning. Year of the Underdog. Graeme McNab. UK, 2007. 87m. DVD/video. A year in the life of exiled Tibetans. Profiles a group of Tibetan students who cycle across India to protest the award of the 2008 Olympics to Beijing.

Z. Costa-Gavras, producer. USA: RCA-COL, 1969. 128 min., color; Beta or VHS videotape. An Oscar- winning foreign film based on actual events of political repression during the time of the Greek junta in the late 1960s. Reveals details of the political assassination of a deputy, “Z,” and the shocking aftermath of the crime. Stars Yves Montand, Irene Papas, and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Chapter 4: Basic Human Needs as Security Rights 9 Star Hotel. Ido Haar. Israel, 2007. 78m. DVD/video. In Hebrew or Arabic with English subtitles. Documentary. Tells the story of Palestinian construction workers who sneak into Israel’s occupied territories to work each day, under constant threat of discovery and arrest.

A Blooming Business. Ton van Zantvoort. Netherlands: Syndicado, 2009. 52 min DVD. Documentary. The harsh realities of the international flower industry are exposed. The film focuses on the working conditions at commercial flower farms in Kenya.

Addressless: Homelessness, Problems and Solutions. Gino Salerno. USA, 2007. 60m. DVD/video. Interviews with people who are or who have been homeless to explore how they got to where they are and discuss potential solutions to some of the everyday problems the homeless face.

And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon. Christopher Laird & Anthony Hall. Banyan Limited/BBC, 1992. 49m. video. By contrasting Caribbean poetry and music with imported sitcoms, this documentary shows Caribbean cultures that are saturated with American and French television. Viewing the world through television has created distorted perceptions of the world and alienated people from their native cultures.

And Who Shall Feed This World? Films, Inc., 1975.47 min., color. Does the United States have an obligation to provide food for the rest of the world? This film tries to answer that question.

Argentina - Hope in Hard Times. Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. Moving Images Video Project, 2005. 74m. video. An economic meltdown in Argentina wipes out peoples’ savings and jump starts a

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grassroots democracy movement. This documentary illustrates how economic downturn can effect all levels of society.

Bottle Babies. Peter Krieg, producer. USA: New Time/Ecufilm, Michigan Media/CC Films, 1976. 26 min., color; 16 mm. Film explores the alarming increase in malnutrition in Third World infants due to consumption of imported powdered formula. Investigates one probable causethe massive advertising campaigns of multinational companies that sell these products.

Celso and Cora. Gary Kildea, producer. Australia: Philippine Resource, 1983. 109 min., color, Tagalog dialog (English subtitles); 16 mm. Portrait of a young couple with children living in a squatter settlement in Manila; follows their attempts to survive economically and as a family unit as they face daily life and confront the greater sociopolitical forces surrounding them.

Children of the Pyre. Rajesh S. Jala. India: 2008. 74 min. DVD. Documentary. A profile of seven children working at India’s largest crematorium. The children steal and resell cremation shrouds to try to help support their impoverished families.

City of God. Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles. Brazil. Miramax, 2002. 131m. DVD/video. Gripping story of impoverished Brazilian youths that grow up to become ruthless gangsters. Driven by violence, drugs, and wealth, these hoods battle to control the lucrative drug racket of Rio de Janeiro.

Exit: Una Storia Personale. Massimiliano Amato. Italy: Massimiliano Amato, 2010. 85 min. Online. A young man travels to Holland for an assisted suicide, convinced that this was the only way of ending an existence he considered to lack any dignity.

Field of Genes. Janet Thomson, CBC, 1997. 44m. video. Genetically-altered crops offer an opportunity to increase production and feed more of the world’s starving population. But citing expensive modified seed and lackluster yields, this Documentary questions how well this optimistic forecast happens in practice.

For Export Only. Richter Productions, 1982. 112 min., color. This film shows how products banned or restricted in the West, because of their danger to humans, are knowingly exported to the Third World by multinational corporations.

Fragile Harvest. Robert Lang. Canada. National Film Board of Canada, 1987. 49m. video. Documentary examines a growing crisis in world agriculture: genetically-altered crops that are successful in one area fail to produce in another area. This results in farmers driven from their land, increased dependence on agrichemicals, and the elimination of indigenous adapted varieties of food crops.

Growing Up in Amman’s Suburbia. Hazim Bitar. Jordan: Amman Filmmakers Cooperative, 2006. 9m. DVD/video. In Arabic with English subtitles. Documentary. An examination the life of children in Jordan’s sprawling suburbs.

Hablemos. Charlene Music & Jorge Calderón. Costa Rica, 2007. 16m. DVD/video. Documentary. Explores poverty, drug use, and crime in the Red Light District of San José, Costa Rica. Narrated by Koki, who lived in the district and was transformed after serving 15 years in prison.

Mistreated Minds. Brian Cohen & Brandon Kraines. USA, 2007. 9m. DVD/video. Documentary. Examines the discrimination and stereotyping of those with mental health conditions.

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Mother Jones, America’s Most Dangerous Woman. Rosmary Feurer. USA/Canada, 2007. 24m. DVD/video. Documentary. Tells the story of labor organizer Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), who was instrumental in the fight for labor rights in America.

No Place for You at This Workplace (Na Ovom Radnom Mjestu Nema Mjesta Za Vas). Slaven Zimbrek. Croatia: Zimbra Film, 2007. 51m. DVD/video. In Croatian with English subtitles. Documentary. Exposé on workplace discrimination of vulnerable groups in Zagreb, Croatia.

Sicko. Michael Moore. USA: Dog Eat Dog Films, 2007. 123m. DVD/video. Documentary. A comparison of the health care system in the United States with health care systems in other nations. The documentary highlights the financial and medical plight of those unable to afford healthcare in the United States.

In the Light of Reverence. Christopher McLeod. USA. Sacred Land Film Project of Earth Island Institute, 2001. 73m. DVD/video. Across the USA, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Strip mining, disrespectful tourists, and new developments are threatening the culture of Native Americans. This documentary questions to what degree the US government follows through on its promise to protect the religion of its people.

Life by the Tracks. Ditsi Carolino. UK/Philippines. Ditsi Carolino, 2002. 70m. video. Illustrates one family’s struggle to live in makeshift housing located dangerously close to railroad tracks. The landlord threatening eviction only adds to the family’s other problems of poverty and alcoholism.

Poison. Giuseppe Petitto, Enrico Pizianti, and Gianluca Pulcini. Italy/Thailand. Karousel Films, 2001/2002. 27m. Documents the questionable sport of Thai kickboxing, in which contestants are as young as seven years old. The sport is touted as a means to keep kids out of trouble, but is also surrounded by a seedy gambling racket.

Seeing is Believing. Christopher Walker. Television Trust for the Environment, 2002. 27m. DVD/video. This film explains Zambia’s multi-pronged plan to increase the vitamin A intake of it’s malnourished citizens. Genetically modified palm oil and vitamin supplements are just some of the methods being used to increase the health of the nation.

Shelter for the Homeless. United Nations Films, 1987. 27 min., color; 16 nun. Roughly one quarter of the world’s population has no adequate housing and lives in appalling conditions. The film describes the One Million Homes Programme in Sri Lanka which enables families living under the poverty level to build their own homes with the minimum of government spending. It also focuses on a new policy of land tenure in Rio de Janeiro to help shanty towns (favelas) become functioning neighborhoods, and looks at the change in attitude toward homeless children in Brazil.

Social Genocide. Fernando E. Solanas. Argentina: ADR Productions, 2004. 120 min. DVD. Documentary. Explores the events and causes of the economic catastrophe in Argentina, hitting big topics like corporations, poverty, and politics.

South Africa Belongs To Us. C. Austin, P. Chappell, and R. Weiss, producers. USA: Icarus/So. Africa Media/Ecufilm/Michigan Media, 1980. 57 min., color; 16 mm or videotape. Portrait of five Black women in South Africa depicts their struggle for human dignity in the face of apartheid, for homes and food for their children, and for the liberation of the Black people; an in-depth focus on the economic and emotional burdens home by Black women in South Africa.

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State of Denial. Elaine Epstein. USA. California Newsreel, 2002, 86m. video. Documentary. Documentary examines how South Africans are dealing with the AIDS epidemic, without the help of the government of South Africa.

Stolen Childhoods. Len Morris-Producer and Robin Romano. Kenya/Indonesia/Brazil/India/Mexico/USA. Galenfilms, 2003. 86m. DVD/video. Examining child labor on a global scale, this documentary explains why child labor happens and how it contributes to global insecurity. Education is presented as a means to liberate child laborers from toiling in mines, fields, and brothels. Includes interviews with Senator Tom Harkin and leading human rights advocates for children.

Super-Companies. Boyce Richardson. Canada. The National Film Board of Canada, 1989. 57m. video. A scathing look at the effects the aluminum industry has on its workers. From Jamaica to Australia, Pollution and the world market lowers aluminum industry workers’ standard of living.

The Big Village. United Nations, producer. Barr/Univ IL Films, 1979. 25 min., color; 16 mm. A view of the relations between the “rich” and the “poor” nations from a Third World perspective; film questions why there are persistent inequities and how the resources and bounty of the earth can be shared.

The Cost of Living. Toni Strasburg. Television Trust for the Environment, 2000. 24m. video. Documentary exposes the high cost of HIV/AIDS drugs due to patent protection; examines how Thailand and South Africa legally make their own generic forms of patent-protected HIV/AIDS drugs.

The Face of Famine. Films, Inc., 1982. 75 min., color. This film shows how enormous quantities of grain are used to feed livestock in the West and the repercussions of such a system on starving people all over the world.

The First Grader. Justin Chadwick. UK/USA/Kenya: BBC Films/UK Film Council, 2010. 103 min. DVD. True story of an 84-year-old ex-Mau Mau veteran in Kenya who wants to learn to read and write. To achieve his dream he enrolls in elementary education after the Kenyan government announces universal and free education in 2003. He faces many obstacles and resistance but ultimately wins his right to go to school and get the education he could never afford.

The Navigators. Ken Loach. UK First Look Media, 2001. 96m. 35mm. Drama illustrates how rail workers must take cuts in pay and benefits during the privatization of British Rail. The options are slim: lose the benefits or lose your job.

The Seattle Syndrome. Steve Bradshaw. USA. Television Trust for the Environment, 2000. 25m. video. Questions the validity of liberal and protectionist protestors that view free trade as exploitation. Includes footage of protestors that rioted in during the WTO summit in Seattle.

The Sixth Section. Alex Rivera, director. USA. Subcine, Los Angeles, 2003; 26m, video. Documentary. This film examines a positive aspect of the global economy; Grupo Union, a transnational labor union created by Mexican immigrants now living in upstate New York, collectively send American dollars to Mexico to rebuild their home town.

The Sugar Babies. Amy Serrano. USA: Siren Studios, 2007. 95m. DVD/video. Documentary. An illustration of the plight of the children of Haitians working in the Dominican Republic sugar fields.

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The Water of Ayole. United Nations Development Program, 1988. 28 min., color; 16 mm or videotape. Documentary film about the efforts to bring clean water to the villages of Togo, West Africa, where the water supply is threatened by the guinea worm.

Welcome to Hadassah Hospital. Ramón Gieling. The Netherlands. Netherlands Public Broadcasting, 2002, 50m. video. Documentary. Victims and perpetrators of suicide attacks in Israel are treated with equal care (and sometimes in the same room) at Hadassah Hospital. This documentary focuses on the hospital staff and their compassion for human life.

Witches in Exile. Allison Berg. Ghana/USA. Satellite Pictures, 2004. 79m. video. In Ghana, woman accused of practicing witchcraft are banished from their communities and forced to live in isolation. This documentary shows the Ghanaian government unsuccessfully trying to abolish these “witch camps,” but the age-old tradition continues.

Chapter 5: Community or Group Rights—Solidarity Rights Banking on Disaster. Adrian Cowell. Nomad Films, 1988. 78m. video. This hopes of promoting economic growth, the World Bank financed a road that cut through the Amazon rainforest. This road caused great disruptions to the environment and the indigenous people. The planners intended the road to allow farmers to prosper from access to new land, but ironically, even they have not benefited due to poor soil and dense jungle that cannot be cleared. This poor planning resulted in an expensive lose-lose situation.

Barizogon. Watanabe Fumiki. Japan. Malpaso Productions, 1996. 114m. video. Dramatization of a whistler-blower who exposes corrupt campaigning that results in the cover up of an unsafe nuclear plant. Crony politics endangers the lives of everyone in the town.

Big Spuds, Little Spuds. Christoph Corves and Delia Castiñeira. Germany. SHK, 1999. 52m. BetaSP. Documents the correlation between climate change and food production; Rising temperatures, genetically modified foods, and the spread of disease and wildlife can have extremely detrimental effects on communities that depend on food production.

Black Sea: Voyage of Healing. Peter Davis. 1998. 54m. video. Documents the Black Sea region’s difficult situation: polluted by European rivers, a depleting food source depended on by many, and ideologically bankrupt since the fall of the Soviet Union. Includes interviews with environmentalists and religious leaders.

Black Triangle. Nick Davidson, director. London, England: Central Television Enterprises, 1990. 60 min., videotape. Interweaving interviews with mine workers and environmental experts, this documentary examines the daily life and culture of the people who work and live in the “black triangle,” the most polluted region in Europe where Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany meet.

Children of Fire. Mai Masri and Jean Chamoun, producers. Great Britain: American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee, Washington, DC, 1990. 70 min., videotape. The story of the Israeli occupation on the West Bank through the eyes of Palestinian children.

Chemical Weapons: A Monster Tamed. United Nations, 1994. 47m. video. Tracing chemical weapons from their birth in World War One to the present, this UN film documents the proliferation and destruction of these lethal weapons. Following the UN ban on chemical weapons in 1993, there is now a worldwide ban on the creation and stockpiling of chemical weapons. Includes rare footage of a Soviet chemical weapons lab, Japan’s chemical weapons program, and the destruction of such weapons by UN personnel in Iraq.

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Crapshoot: the Gambling with our Wastes. Jeff McKay. Canada/India/Italy/Canada/USA. National Film Board of Canada Production, 2003. 52m. DVD/video. Documentary questions whether modern sewers systems protect communities or just condense waste. Shows examples of poor sewers systems leading to health problems and environmental degradation.

Crude Impact. James Jandak Wood. USA: Vista Clara Films, 2006. 97m. DVD. Documentary. Examines the environmental impact of the petroleum industry.

Crossroads: Ukraine and the Triumph of Democracy. Paul Tremblay. USA/Ukraine: Alaya Productions, 2006. 60m. DVD/video. Documentary. The story of the Orange Revolution of 2004, a protest of the disputed Ukrainian presidential election, told through the eyes of six participants.

Dancing in Amdo. Cari Cimini. China/ India/ Canada: Wobblimind Media, 2008. 93 min. DVD. Documentary. The relationship between China and Tibet is explored from multiple perspectives, including those of the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama.

Discordia. Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, Canada. National Film Board of Canada, 2004; 71m. Video. Documentary. News that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to speak at Montreal’s Concordia University sparks heated debate between the schools pro-Israel and pro- Palestinian students. Documentary addresses how race, religion and world politics affect college students’ lives.

Drying Up Palestine. Rima Essa & Peter Snowdon. UK, 2007. 29m. DVD/video. In Arabic with English subtitles. Documentary. Illustrates the strains imposed on Palestinian society by Israel’s military occupation and control of water in the West Bank.

Farming the Seas. Steve Cowan and Barry Schienberg. USA. Bullfrog Films, 2003. 56m. video. Argues that the seas are being over fished for short-term gains; Film also addresses debate between communities and fisheries experts regarding the socio-economic, environmental, and food safety concerns of “farm fishing.”

Hawaii: A Voice for Sovereignty. Catherine Bauknight, et al. USA: Vivendi Entertainment, 2009. 84 min. DVD. Documentary. Group rights are the theme as Hawaii’s history and future are examined. The film pays particular attention to Hawaii’s traditional, and once environmentally sustainable, culture and the connection between the people and the land and sea around them.

In the Reign of Twilight. Kevin McMahon. Primitive Features, 1994. 87m. video. The Inuits of Alaska were untouched by the US government, at least until the cold war began. To counter a potential Russian missile attack, the US government built an array of military installations that forced the Inuits from the stone age to the space age. Now with their old way of life destroyed, the Inuits are finding ways to cope with the intrusions of the modern world.

Kurdistan, the Last Colony. Great Britain: Independent Filmmakers. Landmark Films, Falls Church, VA, 1990. 40 min., videotape. A vivid documentary examining the plight of the Kurdish people during and after the Iran/Iraq war. Includes interviews with refugees in Turkey and other countries.

Last Yoik in Saami Forests?. Hannu Hyvönen. Finland, 2006. 58m. DVD/video. In Finnish with English subtitles. Documentary. Chronicles the impact of logging in the Finnish Lapland over the past 50 years and its effect on the indigenous Saami people.

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Pascua Lama: A Contemporary Quest for El Dorado. Gloria Loyola & Carolina Loyola-Garcia. USA: Oasis Media, 2007. 64m. DVD/video. Documentary. An exploration of the Chilean mining industry. The documentary illustrates how corruption fosters corporate colonization that fails to consider sustainable development or the interests of the local populations affected by large-scale mining.

Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands. Andrea Torrice. Independent Television Service and Pacific Islanders in Communications, 2000. 57m. video. For the seven million people living on thousands of tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean, global warming is a very real threat. This documentary shows the cultural and environmental effects already being caused by global warming.

Secret Ballot. Babak Payami. Iran. Sony Pictures Classics, 2001. 123m. 35mm. A female election pollster is sent to a remote region of Iran to encourage voting but is escorted by an Iranian soldier determined to prevent voter registration. With a sense of humor, the film shows how Iranians are adapting to democracy.

The 10 Conditions of Love. Jeff Daniels. USA: Arcimedia, 2009. 54 min. DVD. Documentary. A profile of Rebiya Kadeer, a political and civil rights leaders of the Uyghur people (China’s oppressed Muslim minority), living in exile in the United States.

The Golf War. Jen Schradie and Matt DeVries. Anthill Productions, 2000. 39m. video. Conflict begins when the Philippine government tries to convert ancestral farmland into a tourist resort. Contrasting economic development with community rights, this documentary includes the opinions of the natives, the developers, and even Tiger Woods.

The Lady. Luc Besson. France/UK: EuropaCorp/ Left Bank Pictures, 2011. 132 min. DVD. The story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris, as they fight for democracy and human rights through a dangerous environment and a hostile Burmese regime.

The Night of Truth. Fanta Regina Nacro. France: Acrobates Film, 2004. 100 min. DVD. After ten years of civil war, the government and rebels of a fictional African country hold peace negotiations.

The On Going Story. Steve Bradshaw. Television Trust for the Environment, 2000. 24m. video. questions how strong the international community’s commitment is to link social development with economic development and human rights. Includes interviews with the World Bank president, Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, and Noam Chomsky.

The Palestinian People Do Have Rights. Icarus Films, 1979. 48 min., color. Presents a comprehensive examination of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Point of Origin. Eric Grinda. New Zealand, 2006. 52m. DVD/video. Documentary. A look into the world of Australian aborigines, a civilization dating back 50,000 years.

The Road from Rio. Steve Bradshaw. Television Trust for the Environment, 2002. 27m. DVD/video. The World Summit on Sustainable Development opened on August 26, 2002 with a broad question: what can be done to raise the standard of living of the poor. Includes footage from the summit and interviews with prominent guest speakers.

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The Summit. Steve Bradshaw. Television Trust for the Environment, 2000. 24min. video. The UN’s 1995 Copenhagen Social Summit and the 2000 “Justice Summit” both had aspirations of reducing poverty and inequality, but have seen little progress. This documentary examines both summits and includes interviews with UN representatives from both developed and developing nations.

The Eye of the Day. Leonard Retel Helmrich. Netherlands. Scarabeefilms, 2001. 92m. 35mm. In 1998, a political and economic crisis forced the Indonesian ruling government of 32 years to step down. This documentary focuses on the transition to democracy and political prisoners, including the director of this film.

The Trade Trap. Steve Bradshaw. Television Trust for the Environment, 2002. 27m. DVD/video. Documentary illistrates the effects of free trade on rural Ghanaian farmers. Includes interviews with those that feel free trade is rigged in favor of developed nations and those that see free trade as a means to reduce poverty.

The Tree That Remembers. Masoud Raouf. Canada. National Film Board of Canada, 2002. 50m. video. Iranians overthrew the Shah with hopes that an Islamic Republic would offer a more humane government. This optimism was dashed when the new regime turned out to be equally repressive and murderous. Using interviews with Iranian dissidents and archival footage, this documentary shows how the Iranian Diaspora cope with exile and express hope for the future of Iran.

The West Bank: Whose Promised Land? Esti Marpet, producer. USA: Electronic Arts, 1984. 30 min., color; videotape. Documentary looks at the strained and often volatile day-to-day life of Israelis and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; residents of the region, Jewish and Arab, express a range of sentiments and political views on the status of the territory.

Thirst. Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman. Bolivia/India/USA. Bullfrog Films, 2004. 62m. DVD/video. By showing examples of water privatization plans that turn communities against corporations, this documentary questions whether water is a human right or just another commodity to be sold.

Ticket to Development. United Nations Films, 1990. 24 min., 16 mm or videotape. Ticket to Development, the third in the series of Developmental Magazines, was filmed on location in Costa Rica, at a fish farm where Brazilian fish are being cultivated; in Nairobi, Kenya, at a women’s cooperative that is being visited by urban planners; and in Jaipur, India, where a group of Nicaraguan technicians learn the art of making low-cost prostheses. These are but a few of the projects taking place in the ever-increasing exchange of technical expertise among developing countries.

Unconquering the Last Frontier. Robert Lundahl. Evolution Film, 2002. 57m. video. Documents how a hydroelectric dam was illegally built on the Olympic River and destroyed the food source of the Elwha Klallam, the native people of the area. After 90 years of lobbying the government, the Elwha Klallam got the dam removed.

Undercover in Tibet. Tash Despa & Jezza Neumann. UK/ Germany: True Vision Productions, 2008. 48 min. Online. Documentary. An undercover exposé on the oppressive Chinese rule over Tibet.

Up In Smoke. Martin Otanez and Christopher Walker. Television Trust for the Environment, 2003. 27m. DVD/video. Malawi’s number one money maker is tobacco, but the majority of tobacco farmers live in poverty. This documentary questions whether the tobacco industry is really helping these people.

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Uranium. Magnus Isacsson. Canada. The National Film Board of Canada, 1991. 48m. video. Filled with unforgettable images, this film documents the lasting health effects on communities that mine uranium. Since much of Canada’s uranium is located on land belonging to indigenous peoples, the mining operations trample the rights of Canada’s native population.

Utopia. John Pilger. Australia: Network Releasing, 2013. 110 min. Online. Documentary. Austria’s relationship with the nation’s Aboriginal population is examined. The film considers the politics, history, and contemporary realities of the situation.

Vajont. Renzo Marinelli. Italy: Rai Cinema, 2001. 116m. DVD/video. In Italian with English subtitles. The story of the Vajont dam disaster, which decimated the town of Longarone, Italy, killing almost 2,000 people. Geologists warned of the dangers of damming the river below Mount Toc, but officials ignored the warnings.

Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution. Rosemary Rawcliffe. USA: Frame of Mind Films, 2008. 57 min. DVD. Documentary. The story of the nonviolent 1959 Tibetan Women’s Uprising in opposition to Chinese occupation is told through three generations of Tibetan women and the Dalai Lama.

Yindabad. Rajendra Singh & Kamla Yadav. Spain: Intermedia Productions, 2007. 57m. DVD/video. Documentary. An exposé on the Narmada Valley Development Project’s impact to the environment and indigenous people. The proposals includes plans for the construction of more than 3,000 dams along the Narmada River, in India.

Chapter 6: International Human Rights: Action Overviews One Peace at a Time. Turk Pipkin. USA: Monterey Video, 2009. 83 min. DVD. Documentary. A journey through twenty countries that explores fundamental problems, and approaches to remedying them, in each one along the way. Special insights provided by a number of Nobel Prize winners.

Preventing Genocide. Eric Hamburg. USA: 2009. 109 min. Online. Documentary. A critical examination of what can be done to prevent genocide. The film includes interviews with world leaders such as Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu.

Chapter 7: Public Sector Approaches to International Human Rights Implementation About the United Nations: Decolonization. United Nations, 1992. 18m. video. Documentary addresses how the United Nations has influenced decolonization and provides examples of indigenous people living under colonial rule.

A Place to Stand. United Nations, 1995. 15m. video. Examines the history and accomplishments of the United Nations in regards to global security, peacekeeping, refugee assistance, sustainable development, and environmental protection. Over half a century after the drafting of the UN charter, this organization continues to address global issues.

Black Hawk Down. Ridley Scott. USA. Columbia Pictures, 2001. 144m. DVD/video. Dramatization of a failed operation during the US intervention in Somalia in 1993. While trying to kidnap a warlord, American forces are pinned down in urban street fight, leaving 18 Americans and hundreds of Somalis dead.

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Bolivian Blues. Rosalind Bain, Television Trust for the Environment, 2000. 24m. video. Amongst the poorest nations in Latin America, Bolivia has extremely low per capita incomes and a very shoddy education system. Efforts by the International Monetary Fund and the International Development Fund have substantially reduced inflation and better coordinated foreign aid to reduce poverty. This film illustrates that foreign aid organizations can do great good for the poor.

El Barco de la Paz. E. Katz, D. Halleck, and H. Kipnis, producers. USA: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1984. 28 min., color; 3/4-in. or VHS videotape. Documentary about the 1984 sailing of the Peace Ship to Nicaragua, sponsored by Norway and Sweden to provide humanitarian aid and demonstrate the potential for nonviolent alternatives to the threat of war in Central America; includes interviews with Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and Nicaraguan people to emphasize the importance of international attention to the issues of peace.

Exxon in the Dock. Hazel Chandler. UK: Al Jazeera, 2007. 30m. DVD/video. Documentary. The story of the eleven Acehnese villagers who brought a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil accusing the corporation of funding human rights abuses in Indonesia.

Forgive Us Our Debt. Karen Pascal. Canada. Canadian International Development Agency, 2001. 50m. DVD/video. The IMF and World Bank aim to reduce poverty by giving loans to nations. Some argue that debt-wracked nations can never get ahead, and the only remedy is to drop the current debt. This documentary addresses advocates that endorse dropping the debt as a means to fostering economic development.

Going Home. Emily Marlow. Television Trust for Environment, 1998. 31m. video. This film evaluates the success of the Guinean government and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in protecting the rights of children that were forced to fight in Sierra Leone’s and Liberia’s bloody civil wars. Children as young as 10 were forced to carry heavy equipment, act as servants to adult soldiers, and torture other children soldiers that stepped out of line.

In Whose Interest. David Kaplowitz. USA. 2002. 27m. Using eye witness accounts, photographs, and archive footage, this documentary examines the dark side of US foreign interventions over the last fifty years.

Judgment at Nuremberg. Stanley Kramer, director. USA: CBS/Fox, 1961; 178 min., color; DVD/video. A powerful dramatization of the trials of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg following World War II. Reveals the extent of the atrocities committed, which, in turn, set in motion the movement to draft the international Bill of Rights. Stars Marlene Dietrich, Burt Lancaster, Maximillian Schell, and Spencer Tracy.

Kosovo: Rebuilding the Dream. Chris Jeans. Television Trust for the Environment, 2003. 27m. DVD/video. The Albanians and Serbs of the former Yugoslavia broke out in brutal fighting several times during the 1990s, resulting in a NATO intervention. This documentary examines the success of the NATO in stopping the ethnic violence and bringing the nations back to normalcy.

Legacies of War. Ingrid Kasper. United Nations. 43m. video. When a war ends, the effects are still felt for years to come. This UN documentary addresses the lasting effects of wars, ranging from landmines to psychological trauma. Efforts by the UN and other organizations are documented in this film.

McLibel: Two Worlds Collide. Franny Armstrong. UK One-Off Productions Ltd., 2003. 53m. DVD/video. Struggling to defend themselves in the longest trial in English history, two activists take a stand against McDonalds in regards to the environment, labor, advertising, and freedom of speech. The

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pair must deal with corporate spies, clandestine meetings with executives, and a visit from Ronald McDonald.

Mugabe and the White African. Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson. UK: Arturi Films, 2009. 90 min. DVD. Documentary. The story of one of the few white farming families in Zimbabwe. The family endeavors to hold on to their farm despite government efforts to redistribute white-owned land. The family eventually takes the government to court for violating their human rights.

Namibia: Independence (The Elections). United Nations Films, 1990. 28 min., videotape. The citizens of Namibia can, for the first time in their country’s history, exercise the right to vote. The United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) was sent to supervise a fair and free election process. This documentary reviews the historic events leading to Namibia’s independence “from voter education, to registration, to elections.

Namibia: Independence (The First Phase). United Nations Films, 1989. 27 min., videotape. Namibia, formerly South-West Africa, the last colony on the African continent, became an independent nation in 1990. The United Nations Security Council created the UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) to ensure Namibia’s independence through UN-supervised free and fair elections. This operation, one of the largest of its kind, is captured in this historic film, which shows the arrival and deployment of the initial contingent of UNTAG personnel in Namibia and describes the operation through the eyes of the participants, the military, the police, and the civilians. It concludes with the return of the first group of excited Namibians.

NATO Today. NATO, 1997. 20m. video. Documentary outlines the basic structure and goals of NATO. This is a useful introduction to the institution that was the bulwark of the free world during the cold war, and that currently performs humanitarian interventions.

No Place to Hide. United Nations, 1995. 50m. Betacam. There is much ambivalence in regards to the role of UN peacekeepers. Addressing both the history and future of the blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers, this documentary includes archival footage and interviews with diplomats, journalists, and peacekeepers.

Original Intent: The Battle for America. Anthony Sherin. USA, 2006. 55m. DVD/video. Documentary. An exploration of the judicial philosophy of original intent promoted by Supreme Court Justices Anthony Scalia and Clarence Thomas. The documentary questions whether original intent is a cover to impose conservative values or a fair and neutral way to interpret the U.S. Constitution.

Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq. Alan Lowery. Carlton International, 2000. 74m. video. The UN sanctions on Iraq did not unseat Saddam Hussein, but they did contribute to the death of millions of undernourished Iraqi children and diminished the nation’s standard of living. Documents the visit of Denis Halliday, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, as he assesses the crippled nation.

Presumed Guilty. Pamela Yates. USA. Skylight Pictures, 2002. 115m. video. Documents three lawyers in the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office that are driven to promote justice.

Red Wedding. Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon. Cambodia/France: Bophana Productions, 2012. 58 min. DVD. Documentary. The story of a Cambodian teenager forced to marry a Khmer

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Rouge soldier during the regime’s rule in the 1970s. Some thirty years later she brings her case to an international tribunal dedicated to trying former Khmer Rouge officials.

The Fog of War. Errol Morris. Sony Pictures Classics, 2003. 105m. DVD/video. Gripping interview with former Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara, the architect of the Vietnam War. With pride and regret, MacNamara explains the successes and failures throughout his career as both Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank. This is moving documentary that puts a human face on a very controversial American leader.

The Long Shadow of War. United Nations, 2001. 56m. video. Decades of war in Afghanistan have crippled development and forced families from their homes. But for the last fifteen years, aid workers from several UN agencies - UNHCR, UNICEF, and WFP - have been trying to rebuild the nation. This documentary includes eighteen segments that show persistent problems, such as landmines and refugee camps, but also optimism, such economic development.

The Trials of Henry Kissinger. Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki. US/UK/Chile. First Run/Icarus Films, 2002. 80m. DVD/video. This documentary labels Henry Kissinger a war criminal for his involvement in world affairs ranging from Chile to Cambodia. Holding American foreign policy to standard justice, Kissinger is portrayed as the architect of policies that have no regard for human rights.

The United Nations: Working for Us All. Ingrid Kasper. USA. United Nations Films, 2004. 14m. video. Narrated by Michael Douglas, this documentary shows the vast scope of the United Nations Agencies: including weather forecasting, humanitarian relief, and fighting the AIDS epidemic. Also includes interviews with prominent UN officials, including Kofi Annan.

Total Denial. Milena Kaneva. Bulgaria/Italy: MK Productions, 2007. 92m. DVD/video. Documentary. The story of the Karen villagers from the jungles of Burma who sue petroleum titans Unocal and Total for human rights abuses in the lawsuit Doe v. Unocal.

Watchers of the Sky. Edet Belzberg. USA: Propeller Films, 2014. 120 min. DVD Documentary. The story of Rafael Lemkin’s efforts to pass the Genocide Convention at the United Nations, and four individuals inspired by his work.

World Action Against Apartheid. Richard Sydenham, producer. United Nations Films, 1990.27 min., color; videotape. This film begins with a brief history of apartheid in South Africa and then documents the actions that the world community and the United Nations have taken to put pressure on the South African government to abolish apartheid and free all political prisoners. Footage reveals solidarity demonstrations around the world, consumer boycotts, a UN oil embargo, economic sanctions, and boycotts by members of the arts community.

The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court. Pamela Yates. USA: Skylight Pictures, 2009. 96 min. DVD. Documentary. A profile of the early years of the International Criminal Court and its first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina.

Rule of Law: Justiz im Kosovo. Susanne Brandstätter. Switzerland: Envision Films, 2006. 99 min. DVD/video. Documentary. Explores the approach to justice in Kosovo that favors reconciliation over punishment.

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The Whistleblower. Larysa Kondracki. Germany: Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2010. 112 min. DVD. Based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her desire of contributing to rebuilding a country devastated by war is met with the reality of corruption and attempts by the UN to cover up a sex scandal.

Three Kings. David O. Russell. USA. Atlas Entertainment, 1999. 115m. DVD/video. Dramatization of U.S. soldiers involved in the 1991 UN sanctioned Iraq war. After seeing a civilian shot in cold blood, the group take a stand to protect Iraqi civilians from the Iraqi army.

Traffic. Steven Soderbergh. USA. USA Films, 2000. 147m. DVD/video. Award-winning dramatization of America’s international war on drugs. The US government ineptly deals with treating drug addicts, is unknowingly allied with violent drug cartels, and fails to prevent the proliferation and transport of illicit drugs. Creates the impression that policy makers are out of touch with the reality of drug abuse.

Triumph Over Terror: Where Truth Lies. Mark J. Kaplan. New Vision Production, 1998. 30m. video. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission aims to end the impunity of Apartheid-era human rights abusers. This documentary examines the commission’s investigation of the brutal slaying of two youths at the hands of South Africa’s notorious security police.

Under Rich Earth. Malcolm Rogge. Canada: Rye Cinema, 2008. 91 min. DVD. Documentary. The story of family farmers in Ecuador’s Intag Valley who stand up to a foreign mining corporation that intends to install a copper mine in the region.

Zero Dark Thirty. Kathryn Bigelow. USA: Columbia/Universal, 2012. 157 min. DVD. Story of the US government’s ten-year hunt for Osama bin Laden. Notable for its depiction of highly controversial interrogation tactics used on prisoners.

Chapter 8: Private Sector Approaches to International Human Rights Implementation A Tribe of His Own: The Journalism of P. Sainath. Joe Moulins. Moulins Media, 2002. 50m. DVD/video. Documents how journalist Palagummi Sainath aggressively and consistently reported on the poverty of India in an attempt to bring about action. Sainath aims to make journalism “for people, not shareholders.”

A Shout into the Wind. Katja Gauriloff. Finland: October, 2007. 56m. DVD/video. In Finnish/Saami with English subtitles. Documentary. Exploration of the Saami people and their fight to keep traditions alive in the face of encroaching industrialization.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Alison Klayman. USA: MPI, 2012. 91 min. DVD. Documentary. A biography of Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei, one of contemporary China’s most compelling and controversial figures.

American Justice: War Crimes. A&E/The History Channel. One volume set. VHS. Unflinchingly documents American war crimes tribunals, including when Americans are being tried. Coverage includes World War II and Vietnam era tribunals.

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstien. David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier. USA: Baraka Productions, 2009. 84 min. DVD. Documentary. Profile of the highly controversial Jewish American academic who is noted for his powerful criticisms of Israeli policy.

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Americans in Pyongyang. Ayelet Hellet. Germany/ North Korea: EuroArts Music International, 2008. 53 min. Online. Documentary. The story of the 2007 New York Philharmonic concert in North Korea.

A Question of Conscience. Ilan Ziv, director. USA: Icarus Films international, New York, 1990. 47 min., videotape. In 1989, six Jesuit priests were brutally murdered in El Salvador. This film looks at the political climate at the time of the murders and examines actions and reactions of the United States.

Beyond Right and Wrong. Roger Spottiswoode and Lekha Singh. USA: Article 19 Films, 2012. 80 min. DVD. Documentary. A story of restorative justice efforts told through victims and perpetrators of violence in Rwanda, Palestine, and Northern Ireland.

Brownstones to Red Dirt. Dave LaMattina; Chad N. Walker. USA/Sierra Leone: Snagfilms, 2010. 85 min. Online. Documentary. This Documentary shows the lives of children from the housing projects of Brooklyn and war orphans in Sierra Leone who are brought together through a pen pal program that changes their lives.

Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land. Anders Ostergaard. Denmark: Kamoli Films, 2008. 84 min. DVD. Documentary. The story of protests in Burma by thousands of Buddhist monks through the use of footage smuggled out of the country.

Camión de Carga. Juan Sebastián Jácome. USA: Florida State University, 2007. 9m. DVD/video. In Spanish. A short film about a Central American single mother who risks her life to give her son a stable future in the United States.

Che. Steven Soderbergh. USA: Wild Bunch, 2008. 257 min (sum of parts I and II). DVD. A biography of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. Part I focuses on the Cuban revolution, while Part II follows Guevara to Bolivia.

Conviction. Tony Goldwyn. US: Omega Entertainment/Longfellow Pictures/Oceana Media Finance, 2010. 107 min. DVD. A single mother works tirelessly and puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and cannot appeal his case through public defenders.

Exit: Una Storia Personale. Massimiliano Amato. Italy: Massimiliano Amato, 2010. 85 min. Online. A young man travels to Holland for an assisted suicide, convinced that this was the only way of ending an existence he considered to lack any dignity.

The Constant Gardener. Fernando Meirelles. USA: Focus Features, 2005. 129 min. DVD. A British diplomat, who works at a Kenyan Embassy, investigates the murder of his wife, a human rights activist.

Encounter Point. Ronit Avni & Julia Bacha. USA: Just Vision, 2006. 89m. DVD/video. The story of an Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother, and a Palestinian bereaved mother who sacrifice their safety to press for a grassroots movement for nonviolence and peace between Israel and Palestine.

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Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files. Robert Greenwald, director. Los Angeles, California: Turner Network Television/Washington, DC: Amnesty International USA, 1990. 93 min., color; videotape. A contemporary, political thriller about a volunteer lawyer working for Amnesty.

Devils Don’t Dream! Andreas Hoessli. Switzerland. First Run/ Icarus Films, 1996. 90m. video. Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was a wildly popular and fairly elected president of Guatemala in the 1950s. This documentary reports how the US mistook Arbenz for a communist, used military force to overthrow the Guatemalan government, and installed a puppet regime.

Full Metal Jacket. Stanley Kubrick. UK/USA. Warner Brothers, 1987. 116m. DVD/video. Dramatization of a group of marines tragic experience in boot camp and Vietnam. Raising serious questions about the validity of the Vietnam war, these men are torn down in boot camp and later sent into a chaotic war in Vietnam that involved killing civilians.

GACACA, Living Together Again in Rwanda? Anne Aghion. France/US. First Run/Icarus Films, 2002. 55m. video. Documents GACACA, a citizen-based justice tribunal that aims to bridge the gap between Hutus and Tutsis since Rwandan genocide; A bold experiment in reconciliation.

Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters. Ban Zhongyi. China: dGenerate Films, 2007. 80m. DVD/video. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Documentary. Tells the story of Hou Dong-E’s (known as Gai Shanxi) ordeal being enslaved as a “comfort woman” for the Japense Army during World War II. Fifty years later she joined with other women to seek justice and reparations, but died before her demands could be answered.

Landless: The Plight of South Africa’s Informal Settlements. David Yim & Marymichael D’Onofrio. USA: Independent, 2007. 16m. DVD/video. Documentary. Profiles the movement to combat forced evictions from informal settlements in the Johannesburg area.

Norman 68616. Peter Marullo. USA, 2007. 18m. DVD/video. Documentary. Ecplores the life of Norman Frajman, a Holocaust survivor living in Boynton Beach, Florida. Frajman has dedicated his life to educating youth on the dangers of hatred.

Not the Numbers Game: Fight Back. Nadja Mehmedbasic. Television Trust for the Environment, 1996. 9m. video. The civil war in Bosnia and NATO intervention devastated the entire population, but women especially. After her two sons were killed during a bombing, Hilada coped with her lose by forming an organization of bereaved women. These women provide support for each other by sharing their stories of losing loved ones and caring for maimed family members.

Para la Comunidad, Desde la Comunidad. Mark Kendall. USA/Costa Rica, 2007. 14m. DVD/video. Documentary. Follows indigenous Bolivian filmmakers as they travel across the country hosting screenings and staging debates on how best to reform the country.

Prayer of Peace: Relief & Resistance in Burma’s War Zones. Matt Blauer. Thailand: Front Films, 2007. 28m. DVD/video. In Burmese with English subtitles. Relief workers aid oppressed villagers inside Burma’s war zones.

Prisoners of the Cold War: Campaigning for the Grenada 17. David Grey. UK: Silver City Films, 2006. 60m. DVD/video. Documentary. The story of the decades long struggle to free

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the 17 former members of the Grenadian Government, who were imprisoned for their part in the overthrow of the Maurice Bishop government following the U.S. invasion in 1983.

Rainmakers: Season Two - Tina Machida in Zimbabwe. Robbie Hart. Adobe Productions, 1999. 26m. video. Tina Machida is a gay-rights advocate who, despite death threats, pushes for social reform in Zimbabwe. Tina’s parents attempted to “cure” her homosexuality by having her raped, a violent act that only emboldened her struggle for the fair treatment of homosexuals. These reforms are slow going considering that Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, characterizes gays and lesbians as “dogs and pigs.”

Rebuilding Hope. Jen Marlowe. USA: Cinema Libre Distribution, 2009. 78 min. DVD. Documentary. Three young men return to South Sudan for the first time since they fled as “Lost Boys” twenty years before.

Sarah’s Key. Gilles Paquet-Brenner. France: Hugo Productions, 2010. 111 min. DVD. An American journalist and her French husband plan to move into a new apartment. The journalist discovers that the former occupants were rounded up in the Vel d’Hiv roundup of Jews by French authorities in 1942. In her endeavor to discover more about the events she becomes linked with a member of the family that was rounded up during the events almost seventy years earlier.

Shooting Dogs. Michael Caton-Jones. USA: Renaissance Films, 2005. 115. DVD. A Catholic priest and a young idealistic English teacher must choose whether to help the victims of the Rwanda genocide or flee for safety.

Sing Your Song. Susanne Rostock. Australia: Thought Engine Media Group, 2011. 103 min. Online. Documentary. Focuses on Harry Belafonte’s significant contribution to and leadership of the civil rights movement in the United States, as well as to social justice globally.

Sweet Dreams. Lisa Fruchtman. USA: Liro Films, 2012. 86 min. DVD. Documentary. The story of Ingoma Nshya, a Rwandan women’s drum corps made up of both Hutus and Tutsis in the years after the Rwandan genocide. The women also cooperate to open the nation’s first ice cream parlor.

Tales from the Margins. Kavita Joshi. India: Impulse, 2006. 23m. DVD/video. Documentary. Tells the story of women using their bodies to protest and demand justice for Manipuri women in India.

Tales from the Organ Trade. Ric Esther Bienstock. Canada: Associated Producers, 2013. 82. min. HBO. Documentary. An examination of the black market for human organs. The documentary considers both the impoverished men and women who sell their organs, and the individuals in need of organ transplants to save their lives.

The Hand that Feeds. Robin Blotnick & Rachel Lears. USA: Jubilee Films, 2014. 85 min. Online. Documentary. The story of undocumented immigrants who form an independent union in order to stand up to unfair and illegal working conditions in the New York City food service industry.

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The Red Tail. Melissa Koch and Dawn Mikkleson. USA/China: Emergence Pictures, 2009. 87 min. Online. Documentary. While thousands of aircraft mechanics wage a strike to protest against the outsourcing of their jobs, the film’s director and her father, one of the mechanics, follow the trail of outsourcing to China.

The Redemption of General Butt Naked. Daniele Anastasion, Eric Strauss. USA; Georgia; Liberia: Part2 pictures, 2011. 85 min. Online. Documentary This documentary tells the story of Joshua Milton Blahyi (popularly known as General Butt Naked), a warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia’s civil war. Today, the General has renounced violence and converted to Christianity. He is now attempting to reconcile with his past, his victims, and former child soldiers who fought for him.

The Shape of Water. Kum-Kum Bhavnani. USA: Kum-Kum Ghavnani Productions, 2006. 70m. DVD/video. Documentary. An inspirational documentary that interweaves the stories of women living in Senegal, Brazil, India, and Jerusalem who stand up against female genital mutilation and military occupations, and stand up for the rainforest and biodiversity.

The World Stopped Watching. Peter Raymont and Harold Crooks, Canada First Run/Icarus, 2003; 56m. video. During the 1980s, Nicaragua experienced a media circus surrounding the Sandinista/Contra struggle. This film shows how the world press stopped reporting on Nicaragua in the 1990s, even though the same problems continued.

To Touch the Soul. Ryan Goble. USA: Cut Loose Productions, 2007. 70m. DVD/video. Documentary about the California State University, Long Beach pilot project led by Professor Carlos Silveira to bring hope and joy to impoverished children in Cambodia who are affected by HIV/AIDS through working with them on drawing and painting.

Três Irmãos de Sangue. Angela Patricia Reiniger. Brazil, 2006. 102m. DVD/video. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Documentary. Tells the story of three Brazilian brothers who got AIDS through blood transfusions. They became symbols of hope by dedicating their lives to fight for human rights, speaking out against dictatorship and AIDS.

Waking Up the Nation. Agostino Imondi. Australia: Tondar Film, 2006. 48m. DVD/video. Documentary. Tells the story of Australian human rights activists who travel on the “freedom bus” to visit asylum seekers imprisoned in immigration detention centers across Australia.

Where Do We Go Now?. Nadine Labaki. France/Lebanon/Egypt/Italy: Les Filmes des Tournelles/ Pathe/Les Films de Bayrouth, 2011. 110 min. DVD. A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christian and Muslims in their village.

Chapter 9: Global Trajectories, Global Futures Chroniques Afghanes. Dominic Morissette. Afghanistan/Canada, 2007. 52m. DVD/video. Documentary. Explores the many struggles Afghanistan faces to create a better future after being subjected to decades of war and the rule of the Taliban.

It Takes a Village. Ashley Bruce. Television Trust for the Environment, 2002. 23m. DVD/video. Documents how a devastating cyclone spurred the construction of an experimental health clinic in

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Bangladesh. For the first time, this conservative Muslim community was forced to pull together and control their own health administration.

Justifiable Homicide. Jon Osman and Jonathan Stack. USA. Reality Films, 2001. 86m. video. Documents the murder, corrupt investigation, and public outcry over the murder of two Puerto Rican men at the hands of the New York City police. The event turned the mother of one of the men into a community activist who vowed to hold the police accountable.

Missing Young Woman. Lourdes Portillo. Mexico/U.S. Women Make Movies, 2001. 75m. video. Addresses the vast number of unsolved murders of Mexican woman working in factories across from the U.S. border. Who is responsible? Multinational corporations, street gangs, American nationals, and narco-traffickers are all suspect.

My Mother Built this House. Toni Strasburg. Television Trust for the Environment, 2002. 27m. DVD/video. Homelessness in South Africa is out of control: nearly one million people in Cape Town live is squatter communities. The Homeless People’s Federation was formed by homeless people to build housing for the homeless. This documentary focuses on three woman squatters and how the Homeless People’s Federation helped them.

Promises to Keep. Durrin Productions, USA, 1988. 57 min., color; 16 mm or videotape. Documents the efforts of the late Mitch Snyder, homeless activist, to establish a shelter for the homeless in Washington, D.C.

Rainmakers: Season Two - Tsuyoshi Inaba in Japan. Luc Côté. Adobe Productions, 1999. 26m. video. Documents how Japan, a nation without homeless shelters, has homeless populations living near the busiest subway stations. Tsuyoshi Inaba works to empower the homeless to get jobs and homes instead of freezing on the streets of Tokyo.

Super-Companies. Boyce Richardson. Canada. The National Film Board of Canada, 1989. 57m. video. A scathing look at the effects the aluminum industry has on its workers. From Jamaica to Australia, Pollution and the world market lowers aluminum industry workers’ standard of living.

Talk Mogadishu. Judy Jackson. USA. Judy Films, 2003. 50m. DVD/video. Following the disastrous US intervention on Somalia, three Somali-Canadians created HornAfrik, the first TV and radio station among war and chaos. Documentary illustrates how popular and provocative this station is.

The Arab and the Israeli. Steve York, producer. USA: PBS Video, 1984. 60 min., color; videotape. Documentary on 1984 speaking tour of (expelled) Palestinian mayor Mohammed Milhem and Israeli Knesset member Mordechai Bar-On, former army officer and activist in the peace movement, who traveled together to the United States to speak publicly about mutual recognition and the dialogue for peace in the Middle East.

The Corporation. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbot, directors. Canada: Zeitgeist Films, 2003. 145 min., 35mm. Winner of the Documentary Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, this documentary traces the growth of corporations and their effect on the welfare of their workers. Includes interviews with Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and Howard Zinn.

The New Rulers of the World. Alan Lowery. UK Bullfrog Films, 2004. 53m. video. Documentary presents a case a study on globalization: foreign investment in Indonesia creates sweatshops and eventually an economic meltdown. Multinational corporations are singled out as being greedy, heartless, and extremely influential.

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