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Showing 1 - 10 of 21 titles with a criteria of Subject is Urban Sociology
Chinatown
Three senior activists fight for housing rights in DC’s historic Chinatown
GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 26 minutes
Clotheslines
The symbolic and artistic role of laundry in womens' lives.
Buffalo Rose Productions | 1981 | 32 minutes
Cooked
From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, COOKED reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster. This title has one or more clips.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes
Decade of Fire
In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. Abandoned by the city government, nearly a half-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multi-ethnic neighborhood burned, reducing the community to rubble.
GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 75 minutes
E. F. Schumacher...
Summary of Schumacher's economic arguments referring to the world energy situation.
Bullfrog Films | 1979 | 16 minutes
The First Rainbow Coalition
In a city determined to keep them apart, they dared to unite.
GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 55 minutes
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
In Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, the Association "La goumbé des jeunes noceurs" holds regular reunions to host a variety of events, including dance, exhibitions and concerts. A short by Jean Rouch.
Icarus Films | 1965 | 28 minutes
If This Ain't Heaven
An intimate portrait of a ordinary man who fulfills unknowingly his own ideal of the ventriloquist artist.
Buffalo Rose Productions | 1983 | 28 minutes
Mitote / Mexican Ritual
A shaman’s mystical rituals, furious electricians on hunger strike and a euphoric football crowd collide in the Zocalo, Mexico City’s central square, the ancient ceremonial heart of the Aztec empire.
Tecolote Movies | 2012 | 54 minutes
Nature's Cleanup Crew
Examines the lives of the busy scavengers who live among us in our cities, recycling the mountains of waste our consumer society leaves behind.
Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 54 minutes