Frith, Alex

Summary: "Many people will disagree when discussing politics in polite conversation. But understanding it is essential if you're going to understand the world around you. Politics help people decide how to run cities and countries, and how even the simplest decisions in society get made. There are politics involved in almost every aspect of your daily life."

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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2018

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Summary: Renowned as a voice of conscience in apartheid South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu-Nobel laureate and Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)-has spent his life opposing his nation's discriminatory policies. In a powerful interview with prize-winning journalist Bill Moyers, this courageous Anglican prelate discusses his life and work and shares his thoughts on justice,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: As China continues to experiment with Western-style economics, many city dwellers already enjoy the prerogatives of a market economy. But how will China feed itself as more and more farmers flee their land for the allure of urban living? This program seeks to understand the effects of economic reform on Chinese society, from the villages to the cities. Will cultural values and the traditional...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Until I knew I was a Kurd, I didn't know who I was. Now I know who I am and I am willing to die for it.-the words, not of a battle-hardened guerrilla, but of a teenage girl from Australia. This program shows little children singing that the Kurds will live forever as jets roar overhead; it introduces us to warlords and guerrilla camps; and it demonstrates how people who are threatened by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Nationalism is not compatible with the progress of history, says Eric Hobsbawm. In this program, the renowned Marxist historian travels 35 miles on the Pressburg Railway to prove his point-a brief trip from Vienna to Bratislava in 1996 and a century-long journey through a landscape that has seen some of Europe's most turbulent political changes. Using the excursion as a paradigm for the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: South America has tilted to the left, and its socialist governments are forging an economic alliance that places public power, not market dynamics, at the center. The plan? To exploit revenues from the continent's abundant natural resources to build a better future where all will benefit from that wealth-and, in the process, to become free from North American interference. To explore the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: Against the backdrop of another busy day for Nelson Mandela, this program traces his biography up to the point when he was convicted of treason and began serving a life sentence in a South African jail. Among many exclusive interviews are Walter Sisulu, the colleague and African National Congress leader who spotted Mandela's tremendous potential; George Bizos, Mandela's defense lawyer and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Coffee is second only to oil as the world's most valuable traded commodity, but small-scale producers rarely profit from it. This program reveals the hardship and uncertainty faced by coffee farmers in Guatemala, and how many are taking steps to obtain better prices and build better lives. Analyzing the country's traumatic history and the lingering effects of its civil war, the video sheds...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: In December 2003, Afghanistan convened a loya jirga in order to adopt a constitution. This Wide Angle documentary details the experiences of two aspiring Afghan delegates at the gathering, showing them literally risking their lives to participate in the future of their country. The program also examines the frantic preparations of an international and Afghani logistics team scrambling to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: A crystal-clear window into European politics during and following the Cold War, this program presents an intimate portrait of Helmut Kohl-Germany's longest-serving chancellor and the leader largely responsible for reuniting that country. Candidly discussing his extraordinary career, Kohl offers his perspective on many of his decisions, political alliances, and objectives as chancellor, as well...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: What prevents minority communities from joining the European mainstream? Is there an appropriate balance between assimilation and preserving one's cultural heritage? This program wrestles with questions of identity-racial, cultural, and sexual-resulting from the startling new diversity of European society. Depicting daily life in immigrant communities on the Continent and in Great Britain, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Each year, more than one million people try to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, contending with dangerous forces that prey on their hopes and exploit their gullibility. This program exposes the most painful, disturbing, and hidden dimension of illegal immigration: the growing black market trade in human beings. Shedding light on the poverty that causes so many to risk everything by leaving their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: The most brutal European dictator since Hitler or Stalin, Slobodan Milosevic played the trump cards of nationalism and racism to gain and preserve power. This Wide Angle documentary takes viewers inside the regime and inside the mind of Serbia's ruthless despot. The program illustrates how, once in office, Milosevic performed an intricate balancing act, controlling information and the media to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Facing mounting domestic and international pressure for a fair and transparent framework of laws, China is racing to reshape the rules of its Communist society. Hundreds of thousands of judges and lawyers have been trained in the past 25 years, but with senior judges under direct control of the state and citizens taking to the streets in record numbers, this transformation has been anything but...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: Through unfettered access to powerbrokers and ordinary citizens, this Wide Angle report covers Haiti's ongoing struggle to craft a truly representative government from a volatile failed state. Butteur Metayer and Guy Philippe-strongmen of the National Front for the Reconstruction of Haiti Party and former rebels who drove Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power in 2004-and three other Haitians...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Following Iran’s presidential election in June of 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. She became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hardline government’s hold on power. This episode of Frontline investigates the life and death of this woman, and also explores a number of unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest upheaval in Iran...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: This program contrasts indigenous, community-based culture with market economics driven by multinational corporations. The film assesses the growing conflict between Burlington Resources, an American oil company licensed to prospect in regions of Ecuador, and the self-sufficient Achuar people of that country, who believe the oil industry will destroy their environment and non-materialistic way...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: In December 2001, the Argentine government defaulted on

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Hitler's invasion of Russia and Germany's post-WWII partition inspired a great deal of animated Soviet propaganda. This program presents short films that disparage fascist aggression and America's supposed continuation of it. Fascist Boots and Cinema Circus vilify Hitler and the Nazi invaders; A Lesson Not Learned plays on Russian fears of a reunited, vengeful, and American-supported Germany;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: The life of Cuba's Communist leader reveals much about the Cold War, 20th-century Latin American history, and the political and military dimensions of revolutionary movements. This program reaches into all those subjects as it explores the rise and decades-long rule of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. Interviews with Latin American experts-including Argentine columnist Oscar Raul Cardoso, historian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Through coverage of Lebanon's 2005 legislative elections-the first since the end of its 15-year civil war without the presence of occupying Syrian forces-this Wide Angle report explores political change in the oldest democracy in the Middle East. It also provides a solid grounding in Lebanese politics for viewers studying current events in the region. A democracy advocate, a Hezbollah...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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