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?
Shakespeare behind bars
93 min DVD Cudahy 046-00703
Convicted felons at Kentucky's Luther Luckett Correctional Complex rehearse for the Shakespearean production, The Tempest, as part of the Shakespeare Behind Bars Program. The play's underlying theme of forgiveness parallels themes of transformation and redemption in the lives of the prisoners.
Balseros
120 min DVD Cudahy 046-00514
The heartrending yet triumphant account of seven Cuban refugees who risked everything in pursuit of the American Dream. Follows a lively group of rafters, many of whom were detained at the Guantanamo naval base.
The collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer
162 min DVD Cudahy 046-00584
Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live action, Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty and perversely visceral. This is a collection of shorts.
Deep jungle
180 min DVD Cudahy 046-00749
This three-part series follows scientists and explorers who are on the trail of the jungle's most deeply held secrets. Equipped with an arsenal of high tech tools, they encounter the fantastic web of life that makes up a jungle ecosystem.
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The execution of Wanda Jean
88 min DVD Lewis 046-00383
In 2001, Wanda Jean Allen was given a lethal injection by the state of Oklahoma, making her the first black woman to be executed in America in fifty years. Chronicles the methodical way the criminal justice system proceeds to execute Wanda Jean, a convicted murderess with a low IQ bordering on retardation. While pleas for clemency are exhausted, she faces her inevitable death.
Java jive
27 min DVD Lewis 046-00759
Examines the coffee industry from the plantations in Central America to consumers' cups in the cafés of North America. Looks at the environmental impacts of growing coffee, the marketing and economics of the industry and includes interviews with coffee lovers.
Murderball
88 min DVD Cudahy 046-00572
A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled.
Wal*Mart: the high cost of low price
97 min DVD Lewis 046-00702
Wal-Mart: the high cost of low price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners, and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel and shop.
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