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A visually lyrical, experimental documentary about women who cut themselves, this film explores the fine line between self-destructive behavior and self-preserving coping mechanisms.
Added 10/09/2018The Fanlight Collection 1997 21.0 minutes College/Adult/Professional
Through testimonies with four engaging young people, as well as commentary from two psychiatrists and a social worker who work with teens, the film explores the nature, causes, symptoms, and consequences of clinical depression, what makes teenage depression different.
Added 10/09/2018The Fanlight Collection 2000 31.0 minutes College/Adult/Professional
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A mythical universe's existence is threatened by the arrival of unthinking and uncaring visitors.
Added 10/02/2018
Frankenstein is shy, and the good doctor and his not so good assistant try to help him out.
Added 10/02/2018
This tapestry of still photographs, subject-skipping montage and rapid shuttle of wit and philosophy is pure Chris Marker.
Added 10/02/2018
The heart of this journey is the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr in Jasper, Texas. But this is not an anatomy of his murder, rather, it is an evocation of how this event fits in to a landscape and climate as much mental as physical.
Added 10/02/2018
SYSTEM ERROR examines the fundamentals of capitalism and the continuing impact of Karl Marx as an analyst of it.
Added 10/02/2018
A biography of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka, abducted on the streets of Paris and murdered in 1965, the infamous "Ben Barka affair."
Added 10/02/2018
They had little in common in life, but Israeli soldier David Biri and Palestinian Fahmi Abou Ammouneh are linked in death, their fates tied to a Gaza crossroads between an Israeli settlement and Palestinian refugee camp.
Added 10/02/2018
The story of Mozambique's National Institute of Cinema (INC) - a history of the birth and death of local cinema, and the birth and death of an ideology.
Added 10/02/2018
Reclaims an important episode in the history of Congolese popular culture, the Matamata and Pilipili series of colonial-era film comedies, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships and media representations.
Added 10/02/2018
The first in depth look at non-violent revolutions around the world.
Added 10/02/2018
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.
Added 10/02/2018
Republicans in Northern Ireland answer the question "What are you fighting for?"
Added 10/02/2018
Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute
Shohei Imamura profiles a former Karayuki-San who offers frank testimony into her horrific sexual slavery experiences.
Added 10/02/2018
Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait of a working-class Chinese family.
Added 10/02/2018
In Chris Marker's futuristic reverie, game-developer Laura creates a video game based on the WWII Battle of Okinawa.
Added 10/02/2018
Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World
Meet the Oscar-winner behind the ALIEN xenomorph and architect of nightmares.
Added 10/01/2018
Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui
A powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui.
Added 10/01/2018
Four filmmakers travel with guerrillas into combat in El Salvador.
Added 10/01/2018
Brings viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights.
Added 10/01/2018
A visual essay on cultural memory, urban space, and real estate speculation.
Added 10/01/2018
Paraguayan director Renate Costa Perdomo investigates a gay man's persecution and murder.
Added 10/01/2018
Traces renowned, prize winning writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India.
Added 10/01/2018
Unconquering the Last Frontier
Chronicles Native Americans' struggle to survive in the midst of hydroelectric development.
Added 08/29/2018
Sexuality, Intimacy, and Dementia in Residential Care Settings
An exploration of the complex issues surrounding sexuality and dementia, including quality of life, capacity to consent, resident protections, and potential legal issues.
Added 08/28/2018
Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow
The darker side of the Green Revolution.
Added 08/27/2018
A revealing critique of US foreign policy since World War II.
Added 08/27/2018
The story of renowned photographer Tina Modotti, acclaimed for her innovative and impassioned depiction of social issues.
Added 08/27/2018
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
John Pilger alerts the world to the bloody reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia.
Added 08/27/2018
Ranchers and environmentalists team up to protect open space from developers and to learn how to share with wolves this last wild corner of the West.
Added 08/27/2018
Water and the Human Spirit - Program Two
Farmers and communities solving their own water problems.
Added 08/27/2018
Water and the Human Spirit - Program One
Communities solving their own water problems.
Added 08/27/2018
The controversy surrounding the decline of the prairie dog.
Added 08/27/2018
Post-apartheid South Africa is the best example of people struggling to overcome tribalism.
Added 08/27/2018
Chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, VA, to pursue a new vision of prosperity.
Added 08/27/2018
The story of HornAfrik, the first community TV and radio station in Somalia.
Added 08/27/2018
An unflinching look at the persecution of Europe's largest minority, the Roma or 'gypsies'.
Added 08/27/2018
The lasting effects of the civil war in Lebanon.
Added 08/27/2018
Award-winning reporter John Pilger exposes how the British Government expelled the population of a group of islands, including Diego Garcia, so the US could build a military base.
Added 08/27/2018
Sowing for Need or Sowing for Greed?
The connection between multinational chemical companies and the foods they want us to eat.
Added 08/27/2018
John Dobson and his simple telescope mount have revolutionized astronomy.
Added 08/27/2018
The Choco rainforest in Colombia faces development. What is the best option?
Added 08/27/2018
Shocking expose of the hidden downsides of the Internet revolution.
Added 08/27/2018
A discussion-starter on genetically engineered plants and animals.
Added 08/27/2018
John Pilger reveals the shifting morale and open rebellion of Western troops serving in Vietnam.
Added 08/27/2018
Investigates American and Soviet plans to use nuclear explosives for 'geographical engineering.'
Added 08/27/2018
Suzuki travels the world exploring our intimate relationship with water and air.
Added 08/27/2018
Globalization comes to a Philippine seaside community, which has to defend its ancestral lands against golf course development.
Added 08/27/2018
Portrait of Alan Chadwick, inventor of the Biodynamic French Intensive Method of gardening.
Added 08/27/2018
Women's contribution to the battle to save the rainforest at Clayoquot Sound.
Added 08/27/2018
The human hand, and its use, in different cultures.
Added 08/27/2018
Economics and its relation to social change and our lifestyles.
Added 08/27/2018
Summary of Schumacher's economic arguments referring to the world energy situation.
Added 08/27/2018
Toxic chemicals are the greatest threat to the survival of indigenous peoples.
Added 08/27/2018
Looks at the lives of three Tibetan exiles, and at the recent history of their country, which forced them to flee.
Added 08/27/2018
Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to Vietnam to examine the state of the country.
Added 08/27/2018
A Canadian woman leads the fight against unjust corporate globalization, and for social justice.
Added 08/27/2018
John Pilger's horrifying expose of the West's complicity in the twenty-year genocide in East Timor.
Added 08/27/2018
The terrible aftermath of dropping cluster bombs during the secret air war in Laos and the international campaign to ban them.
Added 08/27/2018
Biomimicry: Learning from Nature - Part 2
Advances in materials and medicine based on research into natural processes.
Added 08/27/2018
Biomimicry: Learning from Nature - Part 1
Using natural processes as the model for agriculture and business.
Added 08/27/2018
The Dani and the Asmat come face to face with the modern world in Irian Jaya.
Added 08/27/2018
A tight-knit group of friends travel to Cumberland County, North Carolina - 2016 'posterchild' for voter suppression - intent on proving that the big idea of American democracy can be defended by small acts of individual citizens.
Added 08/27/2018
Part II of Wang Bing's powerful film of survivors of the Chinese Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957 reeducation camps.
Added 08/21/2018Part III of Wang Bing's powerful film of survivors of the Chinese Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957 reeducation camps.
Added 08/21/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Philosophy, or the Triumph of the Owl
Episode 13 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Philosophy, or the Triumph of the Owl".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death
Episode 12 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Misogyny, or the Snares of Desire
Episode 11 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of sexuality, desire and marriage.
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Mythology, or Lies Like Truth
Episode 10 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Cosmogony, or the Ways of the World
Episode 9 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Cosmogony, or the Ways of the World".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Music, or Inner Space
Episode 8 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Music, or Inner Space".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Logomachy, or the Dialect of the Tribe
Episode 7 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Logomachy, or the Dialect of the Tribe".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Mathematics, or the Empire Counts Back
Episode 6 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Mathematics, or the Empire Counts Back".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Amnesty, or History on the March
Episode 5 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Amnesty, or History on the March".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Nostalgia, or The Impossible Return
Episode 4 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Nostalgia, or The Impossible Return".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Democracy, or City of Dreams
Episode 3 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Democracy, or City of Dreams".
Added 08/17/2018
The Owl's Legacy: Olympics, or Imaginary Greece
Episode 2 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Olympics, or Imaginary Greece".
Added 08/17/2018
Taking Stock Traces the history leading up to the collapse of the cod fishery in the North Atlantic Added 08/17/2018
Twixt Heaven and Earth A profile of the amazing Swainson's hawk, a bird that migrates almost 7000 miles every autumn, and is now threatened by widespread pesticide use. Added 08/17/2018
Worst Case Scenario How much environmental risk is too much? Citizens and industry debate the issues surrounding gas well development. Added 08/17/2018
A Map of the Mind Fields: Managing Adolescent Psychosis Understanding psychosis in teens, and possible solutions. Added 08/17/2018
Climate on the Edge The scientific context of climate change. Added 08/17/2018
In Pursuit of Peace The case for unarmed civilian peacemaking and mediation as a response to violent international conflict. Added 08/17/2018
Writing the Land A meditation on language, culture, and tradition couched in the bustle of modern-day Vancouver. Added 08/17/2018
Yuxweluptun A profile of artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and his very political work Added 08/17/2018
The Great Adventure A five-month, 13,000 mile journey to record the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Added 08/17/2018
Horses of Suffield A chronicle of the emotional story of the environmental factors and decisions that spelled the end for Canada's largest herd of wild horses. Added 08/17/2018
Hubert Reeves Star Teller A conversation with astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, who has the special talent of combining science, humanism, and a deep affection for our planet and universe. Added 08/17/2018
My Park, my Plains A lively, humorous, and moving account of defining historical moments and various uses over the years of Quebec City's Plains of Abraham. Added 08/17/2018
People of the Ice A look at climate change through the eyes of several generations of Inuit. Added 08/17/2018
Perspectives in Science 2 Discussion-starters about ethical dilemmas in managing natural resources. Added 08/17/2018
Shipbreakers The rusting hulks of thousands of the world's largest ships are driven onto the remote beaches of Alang, off the Arabian Sea, to be dismantled, piece by piece. Added 08/17/2018
A wake-up call about Prince Edward Island: Monoculture, increased reliance on pesticides, an invisible cloud of deadly poision, the highest rate of hospital admissions for asthma in Canada.
Added 08/17/2018
Okimah Filmmaker Paul M. Rickard takes us along with his family on a traditional goose hunt, revealing the rich role that it plays in Cree culture. Added 08/17/2018
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer A unique portrait of photographer George Johnston, who documented Native life and culture in the first half of the 20th century. Added 08/17/2018
Redskins Tricksters and Puppy Stew This look at several Native comedians overturns the conventional notion of the 'stoic Indian' and shines a light on an overlooked element of Native culture--humour and its healing powers. Added 08/17/2018
Spudwrench A profile of Randy Horne, a high steel worker and a Native leader during the 1990 Oka crisis. Added 08/17/2018
