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Stretching Out From Shaolin

from Ostara Prods./YDT Media Shanghai PRO on April 2, 2015 1 video

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A documentary film that explores the hidden world of Shaolin kung fu. Qin Guang Cheng and Nie Shi Heng, although only 21 years of age, are both master-practitioners of the Shaolin Martial Arts. Their lives began in the poverty of rural China. Through hard work, dedication, and self-discipline, they have…

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Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists

from Pentimenti Productions PRO on May 12, 2015 1 video

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“Electric, lovely film-making. Must be seen by...anyone who wants to feel superbly inspired.” - Chicagoist "Illuminating...Helps fill a yawning gap in the conventional telling of American modern art’s story." - Hyperallergic "Far from a dry litany of talking heads...A…

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Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power

from California Newsreel PRO on April 2, 2015 1 video

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In the 1950s Robert F. Williams was the militant leader of the Monroe, North Carolina NAACP who advocated armed self-defense against racist terror against the Civil Rights Movement and the local African American community. In the early 1960s, Williams went in to exile and became the forefather of the…

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February One

from California Newsreel PRO on April 1, 2015 1 video

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In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. February One tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins against racial segregation that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example of student militancy for the coming…

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Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

from California Newsreel PRO on April 1, 2015 1 video

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On November 20, 2013, Bayard Rustin was posthumously awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Who was this man? He was there at most of the important events of the Civil Rights Movement - but always in the background. BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN…

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At The River I Stand

from California Newsreel PRO on April 1, 2015 1 video

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Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with…

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Mapping the Future: The Power of Algorithms

from Java Films [Old] PRO on April 1, 2015 1 video

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In the last few years, the data stream flowing through the internet has turned into a tsunami: Ninety percent of the information sitting on the world’s servers was created in the last two years. This total digitization opens up completely new possibilities. Suddenly, our entire lives can be modelled…

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Sweatshop: Deadly Fashion

from Java Films [Old] PRO on April 1, 2015 1 video

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See Series 2: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sweatshopii It started off as a web-series, charting the experiences of three young fashion bloggers, who spent a month living the life of Cambodian garment workers in Phnom Penh. But following headlines and articles all over the world, more than a million…

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FIRST FAGIN, THE

from Ronin Films PRO on April 1, 2015 1 video

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Directed by HELEN GAYNOR and ALAN ROSENTHAL. Produced by VERONICA FURY, ALAN ROSENTHAL and STEPHEN THOMAS. When Charles Dickens created the character of Fagin in his novel, Oliver Twist, he gave birth to one of the most infamous rogues in English literature. Few people know that Dickens' portrait…

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THE PRICE OF SAND: Silica Mines, Small Towns and Money

from Green Planet Films PRO on March 31, 2015 1 video

$3.99 - $9.99

“The Price of Sand” is a documentary about the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Due to a rapid increase in demand, pure silica sand has become a valuable commodity, and mines are opening here at a rapid rate. The silica used in hydraulic fracturing (aka : “fracking”),…

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Tender

from Documentary Educational Resource PRO on July 13, 2015 1 video

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FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/tender-p310.aspx by Lynette Wallworth produced by Kath Shelper color, 73 min, 2013 In Port Kembla, Australia, a feisty and resilient community group is determined to take back the responsibility that most…

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