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  1. Althusser: An Intellectual Adventure (2017)

    Director
    Bruno Oliviero
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 55 minutes), $390.00

    This film traces the development of Louis Althusse’s thought and his influence on French philosophers like Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes. Featuring footage of the only TV interview he gave (to RAI)...

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  2. Bitter Money (2017)

    Director
    Bing Wang
    Subject
    Anthropology; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 152 minutes), $35.000

    BITTER MONEY documents China’s rapid economic and social transformation by following the rural workers who leave their Yunnan hometown to move to the city of Huzhou, one of the busiest cities of eastern...

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  3. Good Breast, The (2016)

    Director
    Bernadette Wegenstein
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 94 minutes), $298.00

    THE GOOD BREAST explores breast cancer as ritual, presenting the rise of the mastectomy in the U.S. as a modern form of breast sacrifice. Veteran breast cancer surgeon Dr. Lauren Schnaper believes that fear...

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  4. Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews (2012)

    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $298.00

    Two interviews, recorded 16 years apart, illuminating the historic role, personality and thoughts of the novelist, philosopher and political activist who paved the way for Second-Wave Feminism. In the first...

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  5. Battle for the Arab Viewer, The (2011)

    Director
    Nordin Lasfar
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 48 minutes), $375.00

    n early 2011, people around the world tuned into Al Jazeera to watch the Egyptian revolution in real time. Meanwhile, rival broadcaster Al Arabiya was also offering near continuous coverage, with cameras on...

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  6. Syria: The Assad’s Twilight (2011)

    Director
    Vicent de Cointet; Christophe Ayad
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $348

    A portrait of the Assad regime, from its origins to 2011. During the 1970s, Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, turned Syria into one of the world’s most secretive and repressive dictatorships. In 1982, he...

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  7. Banking the Unbanked (2010)

    Director
    Sarah Vos
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $390.00

    Ever since microfinance entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, microfinance projects have played a growing role in international development. For executives like Reliance Financial CEO...

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  8. Syria: Chess Match at the Borders (2008)

    Director
    Amal Hamelin des Essarts
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $348

    Syria is a single-party dictatorship country, ruled since 1970 by Hafez al-Assad and, following his death in 2000, by his son Bashar. Despite the lack of any significant oil reserves, this nation is both a...

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  9. Boy in the World (2007)

    Director
    Jessica Jennings
    Producer
    Penny Kadmon
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 44 minutes), $119.00

    For many children, learning how to live in the world begins in a pre-school classroom. Children with developmental disabilities are no exception. This documentary follows four-year-old Ronen, a boy with...

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  10. Breaking the Ice, The Story of Mary Ann Shadd (2000)

    Director
    Sylvia Sweeney
    Producer
    Peter Raymont; Lindalee Tracey; Maria Pimentel
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 62 minutes), $248.00

    BREAKING THE ICE, THE STORY OF MARY ANN SHADD sheds new light on the remarkable, little known story of the abolitionist, suffragette and integrationist Mary Ann Shadd. Living in Windsor, Ontario, she fought...

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