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The Docuseek Asian Studies Collection includes the following titles:

Building Visions - India - imageBuilding Visions - India

In southern India, the architect Anupama Kundoo deals with the question of how to save resources with traditional and modern building materials.

Autlook | 2022 | 26 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Burma VJ - imageBurma VJ

Beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker Anders Østergaard, brings us close to Burma’s video journalists who insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Armed with small handycams they make their undercover reportages, smuggle the material out of the country, and broadcast back into Burma via satellite or offered as free usage for international media.

First Hand Films | 2009 | 85 minutes
Chain of Love - imageChain of Love

A film about the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how the international trade in love and care affects the women involved, their families, and families in the West.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 50 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
China 2000 BC - The Rise and Fall of Dynasties in Ancient China - imageChina 2000 BC - The Rise and Fall of Dynasties in Ancient China

Remarkable new archaeological discoveries provide clues about the rise of Chinese culture.

National Film Board of Canada | 2013 | 47 minutes
China 2000 BC - Unearthing the Truth Behind a Myth: The Xia Dynasty - imageChina 2000 BC - Unearthing the Truth Behind a Myth: The Xia Dynasty

The nation of China is more than 4000 years old, and recent discoveries are shedding new light on its origins. In our common knowledge Chinaᄊs earliest…

National Film Board of Canada | 2013 | 46 minutes
China Blue - imageChina Blue

A clandestinely shot, deep-access account of how the clothes we buy are actually made.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 88 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adult
China Concerto - imageChina Concerto

An observational essay shot in the southwestern city of Chongqing, CHINA CONCERTO probes the uses of public spectacle in contemporary China.

dGenerate Films | 2012 | 50 minutes | 9-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
My Hanoi - imageMy Hanoi
Tour of rapidly urbanizing Hanoi, and the effect on citizens and culture.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
City Life - Stop the Traffick - imageCity Life - Stop the Traffick

Investigates horror of child sex industry in Cambodia.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
The Long March - imageThe Long March
Community in Chengdu, China has organized to clean-up polluted river.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

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