African American Lives
240 min DVD
Cudahy 046-00550
A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
B.A.T.A.M.
33 min DVD
Lewis 046-00758
Follows the contrasting stories of two female migrants--one a factory worker, the other a prostitute--on the Indonesian island of Batam.
30 days
270 min DVD
Cudahy 046-00811
30 days, the intelligent and innovative TV show that dares you to "take a walk in someone else's shoes". Explore some of America's most pressing social issues by following the lives of ordinary people who agree to live well-outside their comfort zones for 30 days: Spurlock and his fiancée try to make ends meet by working minimum-wage jobs, a devout Christian immerses himself in Islamic culture, a homophobic young man goes to live and work in San Francisco's largely gay Castro District, and more. Provocative, poignant and hilarious, 30 days is a true original--often unpredictable and always.
Buyer be fair: the promise of product certification
57 min DVD
Lewis 046-00755
Globalization of world trade seems inevitable, but could lessons learned from fair trade price certification of timber, by the Forest Stewardship Council, and coffee, by Fair Trade, be applied to other products from developing countries?
Enron: the smartest guys in the room
110 min DVD
Lewis 046-00573
The inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's seventh largest company walked away with over one billion dollars, while investors and employees lost everything.
28 women: a chance for independence
17 min DVD
Lewis 046-00317
28 women volunteered to share their experience in this documentary. The scenario unfolds as these single mothers, who decided to enter a shelter, struggle to achieve self-sufficiency in a safe environment. The women describe their individual pursuits to construct a stable foundation for an independent family life.
Voodoo secrets
50 min DVD
Cudahy 046-00812
Explores voodoo's origins and mythology, events attributed to its influence and the many ways in which this ancient faith is kept alive in various parts of the world today.
Paper clips
84 min DVD
Cudhay 046-00565
Struggling to grasp the concept of 6 million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect 6 million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper clips poured in from around the world, 11 million of which are enshrined in an authentic German railcar standing in the schoolyard.
Rx for survival: a global health challenge
336 min DVD
Cudahy 046-00510 A-C
Examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs."
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