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FIVE POPULAR TITLES
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Two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities, and create a more positive future for their youth. By addressing the root causes of crime, they are providing models of restorative justice that are working. Mainstream courts across the country are taking notice.
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WE STILL LIVE HERE (Âs Nutayuneân) tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. Their ancestors ensured the survival of the Pilgrims in New England, and lived to regret it. Now they are saying loud and clear in their Native tongue, "Âs Nutayuneân— We Still Live Here." |
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RAIN IN A DRY LAND follows two Somali Bantu families as they journey from Africa to America. The film tells an intimate, human story about two extraordinary families who managed to keep their spirits intact through years of mayhem and deprivation, and whose astonishing, open-hearted resilience enables them to make a new life in America. |
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COMING TO LIGHT chronicles the dramatic story of Edward S. Curtis, his creation of his monumental work, and his changing views of the people he set out to photograph. More importantly, interviews with Hopi, Navajo, Cupig, Blackfeet, Piegan, Suquamish and Kwakiutl people, many descended from Curtis’s photographic subjects, tell stories about the people in the photographs, and discuss the meaning of the images from their own perspectives. |
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COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
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In BABY IT'S YOU, filmmaker Anne Makepeace takes us on an intimate journey through the Kafkaesque world of fertility clinics, into the home of lesbian parents, to Christmas among Utah polygamists and New England Puritans, to her brother’s Appalachian goat farm, and on a time trip back to the dark age of illegal abortion. Woven throughout the program is the story of Makepeace's attempts to conceive a child with her husband, and the emotional roller coaster of anticipation, disappointment, and hope that carries them along. |
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| BUILDING CHINA MODERN, THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM OF I.M. PEI |
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Known the world over for his controversial glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris, renowned architect I. M. Pei returns to his ancestral home of Suzhou, China, to design a new museum. I. M. Pei: Building China Modern looks at Pei's attempt to build modern architectural forms in the heart of this 2500-year-old Chinese city.
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COMING TO LIGHT chronicles the dramatic story of Edward S. Curtis, his creation of his monumental work, and his changing views of the people he set out to photograph. More importantly, interviews with Hopi, Navajo, Cupig, Blackfeet, Piegan, Suquamish and Kwakiutl people, many descended from Curtis’s photographic subjects, tell stories about the people in the photographs, and discuss the meaning of the images from their own perspectives. |
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Close to Home encapsulates the life of an extraordinary American. Eleanor Roosevelt fought for civil rights all her life, was a constant humanitarian adviser to her husband during his four terms in the White House, drafted the first Universal Bill of Human Rights, and devoted her life to the causes of peace, civil rights, and human rights throughout the world. |
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This widely acclaimed film recounts one of the most extraordinary stories in American history with power and eloquence. The sudden appearance in northern California in 1911 of Ishi, "the last wild Indian in North America," stunned the nation. At anthropologist Alfred Kroeber's invitation, Ishi lived out the remaining four years of his life at the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco.
Written by Anne Makepeace, Directed by Jed Riffe, Narrated by Linda Hunt |
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The Making of "Lewis and Clark: The Great Journey West"
With a two-person crew, filmmaker Anne Makepeace followed thirty actors, twenty equipment trucks, and a a gigantic National Geographic IMAX crew, from the headwaters of the Missouri River to the mouth of the Columbia. This making-of film captures the crew’s difficulties and triumphs in recreating the perils and adventures of the intrepid explorers escaping grizzlies, falling over cliffs and running dangerous rapids. |
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Chris Carlson, a former Moonie, plays himself in this riveting drama about Sun Myung Moon’s insidious cult. After accepting an invitation from an attractive young woman, he finds himself in a remote camp in Northern California. An unsettling story of the exploitation of idealism and the perversion of spiritual values, Moonchild is a cautionary tale that reveals the fluidity of identity and the vulnerability of the human heart.
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NIGHT DRIVING stars William Sadler (“Shawshank Redemption,” “Hawaii 5-0”) and Elsie Sniffen (“Basic Instinct,” “Exit to Eden”) as a drifting Vietnam veteran and an Amerasian girl he has taken under his wing. At night they gaze at families through suburban picture windows as if watching foreign television. Tam dreams of being part of a real family, but when fundamentalist Christians take her into their home, the dream turns into a nightmare. |
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RAIN IN A DRY LAND follows two Somali Bantu families as they journey from Africa to America. The film tells an intimate, human story about two extraordinary families who managed to keep their spirits intact through years of mayhem and deprivation, and whose astonishing, open-hearted resilience enables them to make a new life in America. |
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In Thousand Pieces of Gold, Rosalind Chao (The Joy Luck Club, The Last Emperor, Star Trek) plays a young woman brought from China to Idaho as a slave during the Gold Rush. In a remote town’s thriving saloon, Lalu pays a terrible price for her fight against racism and sexism. Wagered as a piece of property, Lalu is finally handed over to her new owner Charlie (Chris Cooper: Adaptation, American Beauty), who opens the door to a whole new life for her – and for himself.
Written by Anne Makepeace, Directed by Nancy Kelly. |
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Two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities, and create a more positive future for their youth. By addressing the root causes of crime, they are providing models of restorative justice that are working. Mainstream courts across the country are taking notice.
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WE STILL LIVE HERE (Âs Nutayuneân) tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. Their ancestors ensured the survival of the Pilgrims in New England, and lived to regret it. Now they are saying loud and clear in their Native tongue, "Âs Nutayuneân— We Still Live Here." |
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WILDEST DREAMS is a love triangle starring Rebecca Jenkins (Bye Bye Blues, Cowboys Don’t Cry) as a young singer/songwriter trying to find her way in Los Angeles with her boyfriend Robby (William Peterson: CSI, Manhunter). When country star Alexis (Victoria Catlin: Twin Peaks) arrives on the scene, Julie is smitten. Out of passion, confusion, and pain, Julie finds her voice and her song. |
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Set high in the Andes mountains and based on a Bolivian myth,
Whistle in the Wind is a short film that tells the story of
Gonzalo, an Aymara Indian boy, and his favorite llama, Mayta.
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