{"id":141,"date":"2016-10-18T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/10\/18\/kanopy-highlights-social-justice-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:29:00","slug":"kanopy-highlights-social-justice-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/10\/18\/kanopy-highlights-social-justice-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanopy Highlights: Social justice documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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About a year ago, we rolled out Kanopy<\/a>, a streaming service that includes hundreds of films from the Criterion Collection and more. We’re happy to see classes and students taking advantage of this great video resource, and we want to spotlight some of the most popular titles from this collection.<\/p>\n

This week, we’re focusing on powerful documentaries for social justice.<\/p>\n

You can click the link on any of these films to watch them instantly, in your browser, for free with your AU login.<\/p>\n


<\/a>5 Broken Cameras<\/b><\/a> \u2013 “5 Broken Cameras<\/i> is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005.”<\/div>\n

Body Typed series<\/b><\/a> \u2013 “Body Typed<\/i> is series of award-winning short films that uses humor to raise serious questions about the marketplace of commercial illusion and unrealizable standards of physical perfection.” <\/p>\n

Concerning Violence<\/b><\/a> \u2013 “From the director of The Black Power Mixtape<\/i> comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late \u201960s and \u201970s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon\u2019s The Wretched of the Earth<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

In Whose Honor?<\/b><\/a> \u2013 “What\u2019s wrong with American Indian sports mascots? This moving, award-winning film is the first of its kind to address that subject. In Whose Honor?<\/i> takes a critical look at the long-running practice of “honoring” American Indians as mascots and nicknames in sports.”<\/p>\n

Screaming Queens<\/b><\/a> \u2013 “Screaming Queens<\/i> tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States – a 1966 riot in San Francisco\u2019s impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York\u2019s Stonewall Inn.”\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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