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Agustin's Newspaper - Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile.
Film Clip As a Young Girl of Thirteen - Holocaust survivor Simone Lagrange vividly recounts her experiences in Auschwitz, and the role she played in bringing Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice.
Film Clip At the Breaking Point - Short video excerpts that reflect on several crucial aspects of family caregiving-from the effects of Alzheimer's on the spousal relationship to the right to die with dignity.
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The Battle for the Arab Viewer - A behind-the-scenes look at the rivalry between the Arab world's two main TV networks - Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.
Film Clip The Battle for the Arctic - As the polar ice caps shrink, an international contest for control of the Arctic, is escalating.
Film Clip Battleship Antarctica - An intimate look at the crew of the Greenpeace ship Esperanza as they embark on a journey to save whales from Japanese hunters and are faced with difficult decisions when their expedition takes an unexpected turn.
Film Clip Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa - The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king.
Trailer Bird's Nest - Documents how two Swiss architects negotiated between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems to build Beijing's new National Stadium, just in time for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Film Clip Black Sun - A history of the esoteric ideas and myths that served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideology and inspired Adolf Hiter.
Film Clip A Boatload of Wild Irishmen - The life and work of legendary director Robert Flaherty ("Nanook of the North"), the "father of documentary."
Film Clip Branding Illness - A documentary exposé of how pharmaceutical companies create demand for the drugs at their disposal, and buy the science they need to prove their effectiveness.
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Changing Your Mind - Illustrates new research in nueroplasticity and how the changing brain plays an important role in treating mental diseases and disorders.
Film Clip Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Space & Time - This exploration/homage arrives in the form of a lecture/conversation, breaking some conventions, not unlike the object/subject of the event, Chantal Akerman, filmmaker and video artist. Coincidence in Paradise - Delves into the mystery of our origins, seeking the latest discoveries that may answer the question - What exactly was it that first initiated our genesis, our species' actual birth?
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Disco and Atomic War - A documentary about Cold Wars and hot desires, about how the totalitarian Soviet regime in Estonia went head to head with J.R. Ewing and the heroes of Western television...and lost.
Trailer 1 | Trailer 2 Dust - DUST turns one of the most commonplace subjects imaginable into a vehicle for a new appreciation of how these tiny particles affect our bodies and our environment and can provide a fresh new perspective of the entire world.
Film Clip Dying to Live - Captures a year in the lives of four people waiting for life-saving organ transplants.
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Earth Keepers -A global quest to meet key visionaries working on innovative approaches to building an environmentally sustainable future.
Trailer El Sicario - The story of a hitman for the drug cartels, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Trailer | Film Clip El Velador - From dusk to dawn Martin watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious Drug Lords.
Trailer | Film Clip The Elder Project - An engaging collection of short stories from our diverse community of the elderly.
Trailer Electric Signs - Explores the the effects of new screen-based advertising sign systems on urban environments and public space.
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Fat Chance - Yuka, almost 200 pounds and fast approaching fifty, decides the time has come to lose weight in hopes of becoming healthier and happier.
Film Clip Final Fitting - Showcases the changing cultural styles of Iran and its clerical elite through its portrait of one master tailor and his time-honored craft.
Film Clip Food Design - A look inside the secret chambers where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow.
Film Clip The Future of Mud - This is the story of Komusa Tenapo, master mason and heir to the secrets of Djenne architecture, the traditional use of mud in Malian buildings.
Film Clip Fold Crumple Crush - A powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui.
Trailer The Forgotten Space - An essayistic investigation into the maritime trade at the heart of the global supply chain and 21st-century capitalism.
Trailer Fragments of a Revolution - An insider's view of the Iranian Green Revolution, which followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed 2009 election victory.
Film Clip Freedom of Sexual Expression - Looks at sexuality and intimacy as basic human rights for those living with a decreased cognizance in a nursing home.
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Goodbye Mubarak! - This documentary visits Egypt in the months leading up to the Tahrir Square demonstrations - and finds a revolution already simmering under the surface.
Film Clip Grand Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to turn Paris into the model super-metropolis for the 21st century, and plenty of world-class architects would like the job.
Film Clip Great Expectations - A journey through the history of visionary architecture, a survey of the most significant architectural movements of the 20th century that challenged conventional concepts.
Film Clip Guañape Sur - A barren rock island off the coast of Peru, where every eleven years hundreds of men come, to dig up by hand guano, the shit the birds leave behind.
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Henry Miller - An intimate and revealing look at Henry Miller, and his life and work through this program from the archives that originally aired on television in Quebec in 1969.
Film Clip The Hidden Face of Fear - Studying the traumatic impact of 9/ll, neuroscientists and psychologists are approaching a common understanding of how the brain's fear circuitry works, and changes.
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I For India - A chronicle of immigration, from the Sixties to the present day, as seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their 40 years worth of Super 8mm home movies.
Film Clip In Search of Memory - The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.
Film Clip The Inheritors - An immersion in the daily life of children in Mexico who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor.
Film Clip An Injury to One - Reconstructs the long-forgotten murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, and draws a connection between the unsolved murder of Little, and the attempted murder of the town itself.
Film Clip The Invisible Frame - A filmic journey starring Tilda Swinton as she traces the former Berlin Wall via bicycle.
Trailer Islam Unknown - A series of eight conversations with unconventional Muslim intellectuals.
Film Clip 1 | Film Clip 2 The Ister - During a journey up the Danube River, this film takes up some of the most challenging paths in Martin Heidegger's thought. With the philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.
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Jack Kerouac - A charming program from Quebec television 40+ years ago. Jack Kerouac talks about his childhood, writing On the Road and the origin of the word "beat."
Film Clip Jaguar - In Jean Rouch's collaborative ethnofiction, three Nigerien men journey to Accra for work.
Trailer Jesus Politics - A personal investigation into the role of religion in American politics, and specifically this year's presidential election.
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Kapitalism: Our Secret Recipe - Twenty years after Ceausescu, Romanian GDP is low and infrastructure poor. Featuring interviews with the oligarchs who control the Romanian economy, this documentary seeks to find out what happened.
Film Clip Kati With an I - In three tumultuous days, the future of one Alabama high school senior is cast into doubt.
Trailer Killed by Care - Explores the tragic consequences of medical error on patients, their families and on health care workers, and asks how medicine can be made safer.
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The La$t Market - Documents the efforts of the multinational corporation Philips to reach the more than five billion potential consumers among the world's poor, the "bottom of the economic pyramid." But can profitability fight poverty?
Film Clip Last Summer Won't Happen - Shot in 1968, one year after the Summer of Love, this is a critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-war movement in New York City.
Trailer Learning to Speak Alzheimer's - Applying the basic concepts of habilitation the video shows how to create a suitable environment in which the person can lead a quality life through proactive adjustments.
Film Clip Lotman's World - The story of Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), little-known - except maybe in Estonia! - pioneer of semiotics.
Film Clip The Loving Story - Oscar-shortlist selection, this documentary is the definitive account of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage.
Trailer | Film Clip 1 | Film Clip 2 | Film Clip 3 Lucanamarca - In the Peruvian Andes, in the town of Lucanamarca, old wounds are re-opened when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrives to investigate a massacre from 20 years ago.
Film Clip Love Limits - Two people with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy are united in their commitment to each other and to living their lives with dignity and grace.
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The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear - A kaleidoscopic view of life for young adults in the contemporary Republic of Georgia.
Trailer Made Over in America - In a culture where bodies seem customizable, how do we perceive body image, and how are desires for a better self influenced by reality television and the makeover industry?
Trailer Malls R Us - From impressive architectural projects to environmental and social concerns, everything you have always wanted to know about shopping malls, and more.
Film Clip 1 | Film Clip 2 A Massacre Foretold - Chronicles the historic events surrounding the 1997 massacre of 45 pacifist supporters of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation who were massacred while seeking refuge in a church.
Trailer Mechanical Love - As modern technology develops, and increasingly life-like robots move from factories into our homes, how will human beings interact with these machines?
Film Clip Milk in the Land - How did milk become so popular, and iconic? An entertaining and innovative history and deconstruction of milk and culture!
Film Clip Mind in Motion - An exploration of the latest scientific discoveries about the human brain, an inner cosmos as complex as the universe itself.
Film Clip Moi, Un Noir - In this landmark documentary, Jean Rouch collaborates with his subjects to produce a complex portrait of Nigerien migrants in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
Trailer A Mother Never Gives Up Hope - Shares the candid and powerful stories of Ruth, Lova, Anne and Rita—four women who are dealing with abuse at the hands of an adult son.
Film Clip The Mothers' Triangle - Mary was 16 when Christina was born; now, at 18, Christina is a mother too.
Trailer Mr. CO2 - Traveling from Copenhagen to China, and from Australia to the US, this documentary looks at the state of carbon emissions and efforts to rein them in.
Film Clip Mustapha Kemal Ataturk - The story of the founder of the Republic of Turkey with archival footage, newsreels and photos, and discussions with Turkish and Western historians.
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A Natural History of Laughter - A lively look at the latest developments in the scientific study of laughter.
Trailer Neither Allah, Nor Master! - An explosive, personal look at secularism in the Muslim country of Tunisia.
Film Clip 900 Days - Unforgettable life stories recounted by survivors of the Siege of Leningrad which caused the deaths of more than 1 million people during World War II.
Trailer The Nine Muses - John Akomfrah's remarkable meditation about chance, fate and redemption.
Trailer North-South.com - In West Africa many young women, who dream of escaping a life of misery by marrying a rich, white foreigner, surf the Internet for marriage proposals.
Film Clip Nostalgia for the Light - Director Patricio Guzmán travels to Chile’s Atacama Desert where astronomers examine distant galaxies, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations, and women dig for the remains of disappeared relatives.
Trailer The Nuclear Comeback - In the face of climate change, the nuclear industry proposes itself as a solution. It says that nuclear power generation produces zero carbon emissions... and people are listening.
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Oblivion - Heddy Honigmann's latest film focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing the contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis and corruption.
Trailer | Film Clip One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich - Filmmaker Chris Marker's homage to his friend and colleague, Andrei Tarkovsky. A unique and intimate portrait of the legendary Russian filmmaker.
Film Clip 108 Cuchillo de Palo - In her powerful and mysterious debut feature, Paraguayan director Renate Costa Perdomo investigates a gay man's persecution and murder.
Trailer Our Daily Poison - Reveals how everyday chemicals—pesticides, Aspartame and plastics—may be slowly poisoning us.
Film Clip Our Newspaper - A couple starts their own newspaper in rural Russia... which lands them in danger.
Trailer Outside In - Spanning nine years, Dr. Kasia Clark's story reveals how the human spirit can combine with medicine, complementary therapies, support, athletics, and art to challenge cancer.
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The Paper - A year in the life of one of the country's biggest college newspapers, Penn State's The Daily Collegian, as it struggles with declining circulation and difficult choices about how to represent its diverse readership.
Film Clip Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands - The Alberta tar sands, the world’s largest industrial, capital and energy project has far-reaching enivironmental impact.
Film Clip Post-Carbon Futures - The world will have to survive without fossil fuels - sooner, rather than later. What are the alternatives?
Film Clip Presumed Guilty - A searing examination of the Mexican criminal justice system through the case of one man, wrongly accused of murder.
Film Clip Prosecutor - Extraordinary inside access to the Chief Prosecutor at the first trials of the newly formed International Criminal Court. Luis Moreno-Ocampo investigates and prosecutes war criminals, and government and militia leaders worldwide.
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Rabbit á la Berlin - 2010 Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Short Subject. The history of the Berlin Wall from the rabbits' point-of-view.
Trailer Rapayan - High in the Andes mountains of Peru, above a small village that scarcely seemed to notice, archaeologists have found the ruins of an indigenous settlement that predates the Incas.
Film Clip Recipes for Disaster - Concerned about the world's addiction to oil, and its disastrous environmental consequences for the planet, the filmmaker convinces his family to live "oil-free" for one year.
Film Clip Red Persimmons - A visually elegant paean to the cultivation and harvesting of the sweet red fruit, and the disappearance of a traditional way of life in rural Japan.
Trailer A Road to Mecca - The spiritual journey of Leopold Weiss, a Viennese Jew who converted to Islam in the 1920's and became the Muslim scholar Muhammad Asad.
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Salvador Allende - Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile) tells Allende's story, from his youth in Valparaiso and his early career, to his presidency of Chile and death during the coup of September 11, 1973.
Film Clip Secret Museums - For millenia erotic art has been created, often by some of the world's best-known artists. But it is rarely on public display.
Film Clip Seeds of Hunger - A global investigation into the evolving nature of food production, and the crisis it may portend.
Film Clip Seven Songs for Malcolm X - An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader.
Trailer The Siege - The story of the siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, Colombia in 1985. 35 armed guerrillas take hundreds hostage. Almost the entire Supreme Court ends up dead.
Film Clip Song of the Soul: Stories of Hospice in South Africa - An inside look at urban and rural hospice centers across South Africa that provide community-based compassionate care in the face of widespread poverty.
Film Clip Stolen Art - In New York City in 1978, an unknown Czech artist by the name of Pavel Novak held an exhibit entitled Stolen Art.
Film Clip The Strange Disappearance of the Bees - A world-wide investigation into the latest science on the endemic decline of bee colonies, implications for agriculture and life on earth, and what might be done about it.
Film Clip The Substance - Chock-full of rare footage and LSD-celebrity interviews, an informative and enteraining historical and scientific "trip."
Trailer The Sugar Curtain - An intimate portrait by Camila Guzmán Urzúa about growing up in Cuba during the "golden years" of the Cuban Revolution.
Film Clip Svetlana About Svetlana - A rare filmed interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter.
Film Clip Syria: the Assads' Twilight - A lively documentary history of Syria's Assad regime, tracing its origins and influence, even as it clings to power in the face of the Arab spring.
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Tagged - Playful, smart and engaging, TAGGED stealthily taps into a widespread sense of unease raised by the technological development of human implanted microchips.
Film Clip Tahrir: Liberation Square - Director Stefano Savona lived and filmed on the front lines in Tahrir Square, Cairo, to make this film from the heart of the protests that overthrew Mubarak in Egypt last year.
Trailer 10th Parallel - A voyage deep into the Brazilian Amazon to explore the implications of the National Indian Foundation of Brazil's policy on uncontacted indigenous tribes.
Trailer This Way Up - Near Jerusalem, the construction of the separation wall continues, a few feet from a senior citizens' home.
Film Clip Three Songs about Motherland - A film about collisions between the past, present, and future in three Russian cities today.
Film Clip Tracing Aleida - Thirty years after being separated when their parents "disappeared" during Mexico's "Dirty War" in the '70s, Aleida embarks on a search to uncover the truth, and to find her brother.
Film Clip Tracked Down by Our Genes - Explores the new possibilities and dangers created by the Human Genome Project's decoding of human DNA.
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Views on Vermeer - 10 contemporary artists and writers invite us to discover or re-discover the painter's work, and to appreciate it in new ways.
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The Way Things Go - 100 feet of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos worthy of Rube Goldberg or Alfred Hitchcock - a discussion starter for sure.
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We All Fall Down - The rise and fall of the mortgage system and the damage in the wake of its collapse: How did it all happen?
Trailer | Film Clip Where Are You Taking Me? - Employing an observational style, this contemplative documentary reveals multifaceted portraits of Ugandans in both public and private spaces.
Trailer The World's Next Supermodel - Asia, Brazil or Western Europe - which will be the world's next economic superstar?
Film Clip The Written Face - Offers an insight into the Japanese Kabuki star Tamasaburo Bando, one of the last defenders of this ancient and disappearing performing tradition.
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Young Freud in Gaza - Ayed is a young psychotherapist in Gaza. The film shows his consultations with a variety of patients, and the challenges he and they face.
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