Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: Director Oliver Stone visits seven presidents in five countries in South America to gain some understanding about the political and social ideas and the revolutions, and to clear up how people view them. Includes interviews with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Argentinean president Cristina Kirchner, Cuban president Raul Castro.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SOUSummary: Connected By Coffee tells the story of Latin American coffee farmers and how our daily brew is deeply connected to the region's troubled past and hopeful future. Following a 1000-mile journey from Mexico to Nicaragua, the film shows how equitable trading relationships are helping empower communities and take a step towards social justice. On every step of the film s journey we see the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CONSummary: Comprehensive history of six great Indian nations, dramatically filmed on location. Also includes the stories of four heroic Native American leaders: Geronimo, Quanah, Parker Chief Joseph and Crazy Horse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXISummary: A documentary that tells the story of hard-working families who spend each summer traveling from Texas to the Canadian border and beyond, harvesting thousands of acres of wheat. They take risks most of us wouldn't dream of taking so that all of us can have an abundance of food on our tables. Battling high fuel prices, labor shortages, extreme weather, severe drought, and occasionally a fire,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: Examines the myth and reality of Che Guevara including his friendship with Castro, his world travels, his days as guerilla leader and his death at age 39.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHESummary: Follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain these processes. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INHSummary: "Follows the terrifying and horrific abuses instilled upon the indigenous people of North America, and details the genocidal practices of the US government and its continuing affects on present day Indian country"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bastard Fairy Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CANSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUSummary: "This ... collection examines Native North American culture, past and present, and its attempts to halt assimilation and retain native cutlural traditions."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NATSummary: Follows a wayward California brown pelican from her "arrest" on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans' nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration and survival challenges.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PELSummary: The story of 14 year-old Basilio Vargas and his 12 year-old brother Bernardino as they work in the sixteenth century Bolivian silver mines of Cerro Rico (Potosí). Cerro Rico miners believe that Satan, as represented by hundreds of statues constructed in the mines, determines whether they live or die there.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run/Icarus Films [distributor] 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVSummary: Winona LaDuke focuses on Enbridge's pipelines for fracked oil, it's dangers and how the shale oil boom is adversely affecting Indian Country. She gathers musicians, young people and native leadership, puts them on horses, organizes in northern Minnesota lake communities and creates a movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIRSummary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WESummary: Recent stunning discoveries are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished there for centuries. Dense settlements indicate populations in the millions, supported by sophisticated agricultural systems, while huge geometric earthworks and roadways bear witness to complex religious ideas and social networks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANCSummary: 'Beyond the Gates' is a feature-length documentary film experience about the Waodani Indians and the missionary men and women who have given their lives to reach them. An inspiring story of forgiveness and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEYSummary: "Imagine you are a child, taken from your home, your family, taken from everything you know. In 1869, the U.S. government enacted a policy of educating Native American children in the ways of western society. By the late 1960's, more than 100,000 had been forced to attend Indian Boarding School"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rich-Heape Films 2008