Summary: A collection of extraordinary plaques, seized as loot during the colonial aggression that ended the powerful Benin Empire in 1897, depict life in the African kingdom's royal court at its height. In this program art historian Gus Casely-Hayford travels to legendary Timbuktu, the Great Mosque of Djenn, the Oba Royal Palace, and Dogon country to learn more about how the plaques were made and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Mental images of storybook adventures and stereotyped people, on the one hand, and genocides and pandemics, on the other, make it practically impossible for Westerners to see Africa as it really is: a place with generational conflicts, cultural misunderstandings, and power struggles-just like anywhere else-plus the added dilemma of how to deal with the tension between tradition and modernity as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Based on recent statistics, 90 percent of the world's orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa; 40 percent of African children work seven days a week; and many support themselves by prostitution or are subjected to enslavement. This program highlights the work of the Terre des Hommes Oasis Center, in Benin, which rescues, rehabilitates, and returns exploited children to their families; the Jinja...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In Africa, views on sex vary widely from conservative to liberal and from traditional to progressive. Topics covered in this program include gay rights, protected under the law only in post-apartheid South Africa; the practices of female genital excision and "dry sexual intercourse"-each described in detail-as they relate to severe female health issues and the violation of a woman's right to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In post-apartheid South Africa, one in two children die of AIDS, one in two women are raped, and 20,000 homicides occur annually-the world's highest murder rate. Against these appalling statistics and a disintegrating social fabric, this program presents examples of South Africa's greatest hope, the spirit of its people, such as Garra, who feeds 400 children a day out of her tiny apartment's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In Africa-where infant mortality is sky-high, tens of millions have AIDS, and life expectancies can be as meager as 39 years-death is an all-too-frequent presence. This program presents sub-Saharan perspectives on the end of life: lavish Ghanaian funerals involving caskets shaped into whatever is most emblematic of the deceased; funeral rites of the Dogon, in Mali, where alcohol fermentation is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Geographically, Muslim countries cover approximately 50 percent of Africa. This program travels around the continent to inquire into Islamic history and the Muslim way of life, making stops in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zanzibar, South Africa, Senegal, Algeria, Sudan, and many other destinations. The experiences of two particular groups-those sent by Muhammad himself to Ethiopia, during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: As Africa continues to modernize, the influence of the media in daily life is growing ever larger. This program examines the importance of the press, radio, the Internet, and TV via segments involving the Sowetan, a widely circulated South African newspaper that has its roots in the anti-apartheid struggle; KKC Kagadi, a rural community radio station in Uganda; Kenya-based Africa Online, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Historically, the arts in Africa were largely communal and unrecorded. But much has changed over the past century, and this program takes a look at art in sub-Saharan Africa as it exists today through profiles of Senegalese rap groups Alif and Wageble and the rap collective Fight and Forget, who use their music as a form of political activism; Senegalese sculptor Babacar Niang, whose workshop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Speaking in broad sociocultural terms, the overall Western attitude toward Africans has been one of race-based condescension. This program addresses that historically conflicted relationship and ways in which it is changing in sub-Saharan Africa through the stories of an idealistic young French-born woman involved with the Yeredeme project, which supports and educates single mothers in Mali; a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: How did an 89-year old grandmother turn a chance encounter into a revolution? In a small country town in Canada in 2004, ex-pat Australian Norma Geggie had a glimmer of an idea-a plan to support grandmothers in South Africa who had lost their children to AIDS and struggled to support their grandchildren. The idea took off and soon grew to involve thousands of grannies who combined efforts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Summary: Women form the backbone of sub-Saharan Africa and consistently exert some measure of control alongside men, whether it is as a local ruler, a witch, an activist, a wage earner, a laborer, or a caregiver. This program examines female, male, and mixed power structures, with a focus on the Bijagos Islands, where three queens and a king still rule autonomously even as the state government in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Kruger Day in South Africa. Story of apartheid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Summary: World War II - experiences of newsreel cameraman North Africa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1944
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Summary: With millions dead of AIDS and millions more infected with HIV, Africa is in danger of becoming little more than a graveyard. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Dave Marash deliver three successive reports on the AIDS epidemic currently spinning out of control in Zimbabwe. Together they address the hardships of a society composed of mostly the very old and the very...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The world is slowly awakening to a disturbing reality-that the diamond trade is a major source of financing for warfare and brutality in Africa. But diamonds are only one natural resource among many that feed bloody conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Congo, and other countries. This program explores the role of international business interests in fomenting rebellion and arming renegade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Apartheid - Johannesburg slum clearance; narrator says this black section is poor and squalid, hopeful that new housing will make the black residents' lives better. Racism, poverty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1937
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Summary: William Sydney Porter in his colorful lifetime became a licensed pharmacist. He would also become a bank teller, a bookkeeper, a clerk, an illustrator, a draftsman in the General Land Office, a newspaperman, an editor, a reporter, a columnist, and a cartoonist. He also learned to break a stubborn bronco, lasso cattle, and shear sheep, and he could rope and ride and shoot a gun. “Will,” as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: Nelson Mandela spoke of the past haunting the present. This program explores the rebirth of South Africa, demonstrating that a national history racked with oppression can guide and instruct those working for a better future. Studying the moving and provocative art of the apartheid era, the program also visits Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned, and examines Cape Town's historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Ten years after the O. J. Simpson trial, this edition of Frontline examines the trial's unprecedented reflection of troubled race relations in America, the media's role in the year-long saga, and what its lasting impact will be on the American justice system. Through extensive interviews with the defense, prosecution and journalists, this video explores the verdict, which, more than any other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A small New York apartment was a favorite location for an O. Henry story. He is reported to have said, “I would like to live a lifetime in each street in New York. Every house has a drama in it.” Here, just around the corner from the turn of the century, in Greenwich Village, we find two young struggling artists who’ve become the best of friends only to have one stricken with deadly pneumonia....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: Throughout Africa, democracy has long been touted as the cure for the continent's ongoing unrest. But can such a form of government flourish in countries where extreme poverty is the norm and violence is the chief tool of statecraft? Spanning the continent from Libya to South Africa, this program seeks to understand Africa's complex political situations, addressing the "Big Man" syndrome and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Out of the great cradle of Africa came several waves of prehistoric hominid populations, some venturing into the Middle East while others crossed land bridges into Spain. This program shows how, over millennia, these nomads laid the groundwork for a permanent human presence in Europe. From La Caune de l'Arago in France to Britain's Boxgrove Cliffs to a Hungarian riverbank where Neanderthals and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010