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21) The Last Clan
Publisher
Empty Mind Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
They are a model of socialism. Living as a collective and as equals in a family-based commune. They are the Hakka from the mountainous region of South East China. Their home is a fortress-like structure called the Tulou, where as many as five hundred family members share an ancient way of life. “We all live in the same Tulou and we have the same ancestors” says one 82 year old resident of one of the most beautiful of the Tulous called Tianluokeng...
22) My Name Is Salt
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Year after year, Sanabhai brings his family to a seasonal saline desert in Gujarat India, where they harvest what they proudly proclaim to be the world's whitest salt, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Hardship and exploitation loom large in this film, but director Farida Pacha lets this speak for itself, instead fixing her gaze on the poetry and ritual of Sanabhai and his family's existence. Exquisite camerawork...
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An urban and social Geography program that looks at what makes cities liveable and what impacts on liveability. Includes Melbourne which was rated the World’s most liveable city in 2015. Criteria for liveability are discussed using Australia’s capital cities and a selection of small towns as case studies. A good way to compare and contrast other Western cities such as those in the USA and Europe with one of the World’s most highly urbanised...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At the end 2015 the United Nations, while celebrating their 70th anniversary, will announce the results of the Millennium Development Goals initiated in 2000, and the new agenda for the coming years. Foremost among the objectives was the eradication of poverty. Mozambique: a country which embodies the dilemmas and contradictions of the development policies implemented. Through this case study, we will carry out a critical examination of the concepts...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Kuma, a young Kazak man, retraces the steps of his grandfather who was formerly eagle master back to the remote mountainous region of his family's origin. There, in extreme western Mongolia, he fulfills his dream of trapping and training his own eagle. Under the tutelage of a local eagle master named Khairatkhan, Kuma learns not only the ways of hunting with eagles, but also the ways of his own people.. Set against the staggering and exotic beauty...
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Extension 11 - one of many districts in the Mamelodi township in South Africa. Welcome to the "shack side”. Running water, electricity and paved roads are nowhere to be found. But even here there is of course daily life, which the Mtsweni family masters with routine and ingenuity. Father Steven puts all his energy into his small kiosk located in the township, thus keeping his family afloat and enabling his children an education. His daughter "Mosquito"...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Of marriage and loyalty: “Daughter, she obeys her father/ Wife, she obeys her husband/ Widow, she obeys her son.”. Vietnamese-born Trinh T. Minh-ha’s profoundly personal documentary explores the role of Vietnamese women historically and in contemporary society. Using dance, printed texts, folk poetry and the words and experiences of Vietnamese women in Vietnam—from both North and South—and the United States, Trinh’s film challenges official...
28) Yolngu Homeland
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Yolngu Homeland explores how a community in Arnhem Land, Australia, is connected with other beings - ancestors, animals and plants.. Aboriginal people have lived in Arnhem Land for over 45,000 years. Over time they have developed a deep, spiritual connection with the land. Totemic beings of significance include the saltwater crocodile, crows, dogs, crabs, sea eagles, turtles, and yams. The film follows 'Yolngu time’ where the pace is measured and...
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Included are the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen as well as the World ‘s most densely populated city of Hong Kong. A vast floating population from rural areas migrates to and from these cities. Rural villages are visited to show why people leave for work and lifestyles in cities and why others are anxious about the future of villages. The government is planning a major shift in population from the villages to existing and new cities...
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Remembering Yayayi reflects on a pivotal moment in the history of Pintupi people through a body of archival film...In 1974, filmmaker Ian Dunlop visited Yayayi, a remote community in Central Australia. The Pintupi people had recently moved there to get away from the difficulties of living at the larger permanent government settlement of Papunya. Dunlop had come to Yayayi to follow up on the lives of people he had photographed ten years earlier as...
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This program visits this North African developing country of about 34 million people to see the contrasts between urban and rural areas and the way of life of the people. A number of ways of measuring development and wellbeing are discussed and ways of improving these are covered. Problems related to development and social issues are shown in variety of locations from large cities to small towns and villages in rural areas. Contrasts in landscapes...
Publisher
Renegade Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster. ‘Black Saturday’ claimed 173 lives, left more than 7,000 homeless and destroyed close to half a million hectares of Victorian bushland. One year on, this is the story of what happened Inside the Firestorm. This documentary will be a film of record - a film that commemorates a catastrophe as seen through the eyes of those who were there..
Publisher
The Phoenix Learning Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Fokwele, Liberia, conflicts often arise as a result of differing lifestyles. Cattle have divided the people into two classes: the rich cattle owners who can sell their stock for profit, and the poorer rice farmers whose crops are often ruined by the cattle. In this film, such an incident is followed through the proceeding of justice in the community with the “hot-knife ordeal” becoming the test of guilt or innocence..
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Collects more than one hundred classic recipes for meals, snacks, desserts, and small plates, including chicken pot pie, asparagus and fontina quiche, overnight French toast, and fried chicken with sticky poppy seed jam.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this, her third cookbook, Joanna shares the recipes--old and new--that she's enjoyed the most over the years. The result is a cookbook filled with recipes that are timeless, creative, and delicious! Just as in her past books, within each recipe Joanna speaks to the reader, explaining why she likes a recipe, what inspired her to create it in the first place, and how she prefers to serve it"--
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style. With millions of copies sold worldwide in multiple languages, it is the style manual of choice for writers, researchers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, nursing, communications, education, business, engineering, and other fields. Known for its authoritative, easy-to-use reference...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the space of just a few years, Chechnya has undergone a remarkable transformation. Gone are the minefields and piles of rubble, replaced with broad avenues, luxury boutiques and glass-fronted skyscrapers. It’s virtually impossible to see there was ever a war. Award-winning journalist, Manon Loizeau, spent the past 20 years covering the Chechen conflict. She returns to the places she knew so well, filming undercover in Chechnya, to reveal how...
40) I'm with Phil
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a New Yorker named Phil Campbell discovers a rural town in Alabama that shares his name, he invites Phil Campbells from all over the world to join him there. The town starts preparing for the hoedown and the arrival of the Phil Campbells, but then a tornado strikes the town; an unimaginably horrible tornado, killing 27 people. And in a town of barely 1,000, everybody knew the victims. Nobody in the area has ever seen anything like it. Hailing...
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