Department of the Navy. This is Korea (Parts 1 and 2) from 1951. Covers the United States involvement with Korea and testing of Korean weapons. John Ford directed this film which is the only color documentary made during the Korean War. Producer: Department of the Navy. Creative Commons license: Public Domain
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a 90 minute documentary that challenges one of America’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Premiering February 13 on PBS.
SYNOPSIS (provided by Paramount Pictures)
For a nation that proudly declared it would leave no child behind, America continues to do so at alarming rates. Despite increased spending and politicians promises, our buckling public-education system, once the best in the world, routinely forsakes the education of millions of children.
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying drop-out factories and academic sinkholes, methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.
However, embracing the belief that good teachers make good schools, and ultimately questioning the role of unions in maintaining the status quo, Guggenheim offers hope by exploring innovative approaches taken by education reformers and charter schools that have—in reshaping the culture—refused to leave their students behind.
In this video adaptation of her bestselling book, pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti trains her sights on “the virginity movement” — an unholy alliance of evangelical Christians, right-wing politicians, and conservative policy intellectuals who have been exploiting irrational fears about women’s sexuality to roll back women’s rights. From dad-and-daughter “purity balls,” taxpayer-funded abstinence-only curricula, and political attacks on Planned Parenthood, to recent attempts by legislators to de-fund women’s reproductive health care and narrow the legal definition of rape, Valenti identifies a single, unifying assumption: the myth that the worth of a woman depends on what she does — or does not do — sexually. In the end, Valenti argues that the health and well-being of women are too important to be left to ideologues bent on vilifying feminism and undermining women’s autonomy.
Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet there is no official political recognition for mixed-race people. Multiracial Identity explores the social, political, and religious impact of the multiracial movement.
Features commentary from noted scholars, Dr Rainier Spencer, Dr Naomi Zack, Dr Aliya Saperstein, Dr Aaron Gullickson and Pastor Randall Sanford.
Fifty years ago, the “Jail, No Bail” strategy became a new tactic in the fight for civil rights. Watch an excerpt from a documentary produced by South Carolina ETV documenting the key moment in civil rights history
This clip from Lisa Jackson’s 2008 documentary, “The Greatest Silence,” features a group of young male soldiers from the Mai Mai militia group (which was later absorbed into the Congolese army) talking openly about the acts of rape that they themselves had committed. The men discuss why they decided to do it, half-halfheartedly attempt to justify their actions, and disclose how many women they had raped over the years – seven, two, 18 and probably the more telling response: “It’s hard to keep record.” “We know it’s not a good thing, but what do you expect?” one of them asks. “We spend a long time in the bush and when we meet a woman and she will not accept us, then we must take her by force.” “Before raping them, I made sure that the women were in good health,” another one adds. “I’m just doing like everybody else,” another says.
From the comedy documentary “Fat Head,” a comedian’s reply to “Super Size Me.” Morgan Spurlock wants you think it’s McDonald’s fault we’ve gotten fatter. I think that’s moronic. You can gain weight or lose weight eating any type of food; it’s about the choices you make. So I ate nothing but fast food for a month — including plenty of cheeseburgers and fried chicken strips — and lost weight.
DJ Academe is suspicious of the “Fat Head” guy, but he gets major cred for wearing a shirt from her alma mater: McNeese State University.
Clip from the documentary “Fat Head.” Guess what? Fat and cholesterol don’t cause heart disease. The theory was based on bogus science from the very beginning.
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question ‘CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?’
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
