He has expanded through the very air we breathe. He’s galvanized activists around the globe to fight him, and stymied the world’s political leaders. Meet Mr. CO2: carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change. This documentary may use whimsical animation to personify carbon dioxide emissions, but its message is dead-serious: if we fail to […]
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Hot Docs: Miss HIV now available in Media Services
This documentary explores the international collision of HIV/AIDS policies while following the journey of two HIV-positive women who entered the annual Miss HIV Stigma-Free pageant in Botswana. Filmed across Africa and at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto this explosive EthnoGraphic film shares both sides of an ideology struggle. What is happening in Botswana, where […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Man who stopped the desert now available in Media Services
Documentary film about Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from northern Burkina Faso who has become a pioneer in the fight against desertification and hunger. His work over a quarter century has resulted in the successful rehabilitation of farmland, the regrowth of forests, the return of former residents to their homeland, and praise from international organizations. […]
Continue readingHot Docs: La Americana now available in Media Services
A documentary following a single mother from Bolivia who has come to work as an illegal immigrant in New York City, in order to support her daughter’s medical needs. The daughter’s life without her mother is also featured, as is the mother’s relationship with her new boyfriend who also an illegal immigrant. DVD 6881 Film […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Chinatown: An attempt at globalization in Sweden now available in Media Services
Kalmar is a small town in the south of Sweden, facing problems of unemployment and a dwindling population. It really needed an economic boost. The local authorities signed an agreement with ambitious Chinese businessman Luo Jingxing, who planned to set up a commercial center in Kalmar. Here is an ideal globalization project, that unfortunately did […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Boyamba Belgique now available in Media Services
On June 30, 1960, the largest African colony Congo became independent of Belgium. The day before, Wednesday, June 29th, as the Belgian King Baudouin was being driven through Kinshasa, standing bolt upright next to the future president Kasavubu in a Cadillac convertible, he saluted the Belgian flag. At this very moment a young Congolese man […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Blood in the mobile now available in Media Services
This documentary shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Billionaire’s Tea Party now available in Media Services
From the tea parties to healthcare and climate change, America’s conservative citizens revolted against President Obama’s reform agenda. But just how real were the roots of this supposedly grassroots uprising? Was it, in fact, an example of ‘astroturfing’, which is the practice of manufacturing citizens groups for the purpose of delivering corporate messages? Curious to […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa now available in Media Services
The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king. Both a reenactment and a documentary. DVD 9201 Distributor description: http://icarusfilms.com/new2011/ber.html
Continue readingSelected New Home Use Titles in Media Services
Check out these titles that were recently added to the Media Services Home Use Collection: Man with a movie camera – HU DVD 32 Tin drum – HU DVD 40 Nanook of the north – HU DVD 209 Little Buddha – HU DVD 253 Aventurera – HU DVD 1304 To kill a mockingbird – HU […]
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