October Country
October Country is a beautifully rendered portrait of an American family struggling for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse.
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October Country is a beautifully rendered portrait of an American family struggling for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse.
A beautiful portrait celebrates the vitality of a largely Puerto Rican & Dominican community, showing the strength of culture, creativity, and determination to overcome a desperate situation in South Brooklyn of the 1980s.
Three adults with learning disabilities living in the community. Five years after 'Another Way of Life', Simon Heaven returned to Hereford to see what had happened to the three adults with learning disabilities who had moved out of an institution to a flat of their own. Pat now lives with…
Junk food makes children more vulnerable to disease later in life. A survey by the Department of Health has shown that children's meals and snacks consist mainly of chips, cakes and biscuits, which crowd out essential foods. The high fat and sugar content makes today's children more vulnerable…
Meal planning for people with diabetes. A discussion between two people with NIDDM and their spouses ranges over difficulties with food and the outlook on complications. The first section should perhaps be seen by anyone with diabetes planning a meal! It becomes clear that this frank discussion produced…
Amusing cartoon about family planning. This Indian cartoon delivers its message without speech or commentary that a planned family is a happy family. The story of a young couple with one child who decide that they don't want another one just yet is amusingly told. Although now a few years old…
Outspoken and brazenly open, Swedish painter Sara-Vide Ericson makes her most intimate relationships the subject of her art. Filmmaker Jacob Frössén follows Ericson from her first solo exhibition in 2010 through to her second big exhibition at the prestigious Galleri Magnus Karlsson in Stockholm.…
The recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want desperately to make a life together but it proves to be an impossible task. When an Israeli marries Palestinian they are beyond security offered to other members of society at every…
Would you invite a wild animal into your living room? There may be one eyeing you with inscrutable golden eyes right now. The Lion in Your Living Room is a one-hour documentary that casts new light on how our feline friends perceive the world. From the latest genetic research, to the physics of the…
The Birds do it. The bees do it. It seems we all do it. But we like to think we are different from other animals. So are we? DECODING DESIRE unravels the mysteries of sex and desire and explores how sexual diversity and the experience of pleasure itself may be the key to species survival. Traditionally,…
Concerning Violence is a bold and fresh visual narrative from Africa based on archive material from Swedish documentaries 1966-1987 covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule. This powerful footage is combined with text from Frantz Fanon’s landmark book The…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/woman-to-woman-p263.aspx by Amínata Maraësa color, 26 min, 2003 Woman to Woman is a documentary that offers a portrayal of the mainstream medicalized American birthing model and the rise of the…