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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buildings Concentration camps Europe Dams China Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Camps de concentration Drame Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures Majdanek (Concentration camp) Buildings San Xia shui li shu niu (China) Yangtze River Gorges (China) Economic conditions Yangtze River Gorges (China) Social conditionsSummary: "Family patriarch Mike Campbell is one of the few white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent land seizure program in 2000. Since then the country has descended into chaos, the economy brought to its knees by the reallocation of formerly white-owned farms to Mugabe cronies, who have no knowledge, experience or interest in farming. In 2008, after years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUGSummary: The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GAR
Summary: Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly changing countryside, while the local people struggle to adapt as their lives are irrevocably altered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UP