Summary: Young thugs brag about their "raskol" gang ritual of raping women and girls. A truck driver picks up a teenage prostitute out on the highway-just part of his routine. A "hostess supervisor" at a Port Moresby brothel explains that he might tell clients to use a condom with his girls, but that sometimes he's too tired to bother. Such are the human tragedies in this look at Papua New Guinea's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In Papua New Guinea, a local man asked Jared Diamond a question that penetrates to the very heart of the issue of global inequality: "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [material goods], but we black people had little cargo of our own?" In this program, Diamond traces the trail of history and proposes that a society's potential for advanced development lies not in race or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Will standard English, as it was known in the 20th century, disappear? Will English continue as the global tongue, or will its numerous varieties become, as offshoots of Latin did, a host of mutually unintelligible languages? This classic PBS program features new varieties of English that have transcended British and American influence. The program focuses on some of the most successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Democratic political principles have finally reached the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Tanim-"to change" or "to turn"-is the story of how the Apulin people, the ruling tribe of Enga province, are struggling to balance this alien electoral system, with all its implicit values and practices, with the secure familiarity of their traditional approaches to rule, land ownership, and systems of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: One of the last of the renowned imperial adventurers, Frank Hurley captured the first images ever seen of some of the world's most inhospitable and uncharted territories. But historians now know that some of "Captain Hurley's" photos were elaborate concoctions-and a few were outright fakes. This stimulating program follows Hurley's footsteps in the early 1900s to the Antarctic, Belgium, Papua...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006