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African American boys Maryland Baltimore Social conditions Baraka School. Boarding schools Kenya Children and war Sudan Chuor, Santino Majok Dut, Peter Nyarol Problem youth Education (Middle school) Qaida (Organization) Sudanese Cultural assimilation United States Sudanese United StatesSummary: Follows the 2002 race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between 32-year-old Cory Booker and four-term incumbent Sharpe James. Fought in Newark's neighborhoods and housing projects, the election pits the young challenger against an old style political machine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
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
Summary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OAT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OAT
Summary: Follows a group of 12-year-old boys from the most violent ghettos of Baltimore to the Baraka School, an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, where children live by strict guidelines, yet are given the freedom to grow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ThinkFilm 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOYSummary: The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2004