An eco-comedy (documentary feature film) that mixes rapid-fire humorwith hard-hitting facts to show the consequences of overshoot: toomany people using up too little planet, much too fast. Gives us anoverview of our situation and 5 surprising ways that regular peoplelike you and me can save civilization, while making our own livesbetter now. DVD 9186 Film […]
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Hot Docs: Immigrant Nation now available in Media Services
This is a documentary combining the story of activist Elvira Arellano with the larger story of the pro-immigrant movement that primarily began in Chicago. DVD 9197 Film website: http://www.immigrantnationfilm.com/
Continue readingHot Docs: Impunity: What kind of war for Columbia? now available in Media Services
“Colombia today: the biggest trial against Paramilitary armies – accused of killing thousands of Colombians – is designed to create “peace and justice”. Instead the process comes to an abrupt halt, when the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are uncovered. Are the victims’ families doomed to stay victims forever or are they […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Our Daily Poison now available in Media Services
According to the World Health Organization, the incidence of cancer has doubled over the last thirty years (after allowing for the population aging factor). Over this period, the increase in leukemia and brain tumours in children has been around 2% per year. The WHO has observed a similar trend for neurological diseases (Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s) […]
Continue readingHot Docs: Mr CO2: Life after Kyoto now available in Media Services
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 […]
Continue readingHot 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 readingOriginal Beats: A film on Herbert Huncke and Gregory Corso
Original Beats is a short documentary film by Francois Bernadi on Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke. Huncke was the original Beat. He coined the term, lived the life and was on the road long before Kerouac. Here he talks about his life as petty criminal, drug user and Beat writer. Corso believed the poet and […]
Continue readingFilmography – Films on Filmmaking and Filmmakers
The Media Services contribution to the Library Subject Guides is a selective list of video holdings in the American University Library. Filmographies are created by doing multiple keyword searches in the ALADIN catalog to capture as many titles on a topic as possible. For complete up-to-date holdings (including VHS tapes) please refer to the library […]
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