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  1. Burning Question: Propaganda and the Denial of Climate Change, A (2012)

    Director
    Paula Kehoe
    Producer
    Marcus Stewart
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 mins), $195

    Climate change has been hailed as "the biggest challenge to mankind in human history" and has also been called "the biggest swindle". Today many people are confused as to what climate change is and what...

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  2. Agrofuels: Starving People, Fuelling Greed (2012)

    Director
    Matt Feinstein; Loren Feinstein
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 28 minutes), $125

    An account of the downside of alternative, food-based fuel sources. The film explores agrofuels and monocrops, looking at how the increasingly common practice of diverting food crops to the industrial...

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  3. Purity Myth, The: The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women (2011)

    Director
    Jeremy Earp
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 45 minutes ), $250.00

    Video adaptation of feminist blogger Jessica Valenti’s book in which she argues that the so-called ‘virginity movement’ - an alliance of evangelical Christians, right-wing politicians, and conservative...

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  4. Billionaires’ Tea Party: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution (2011)

    Director
    Taki Oldham
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 54 minutes), $250.00 (MEF)

    In the summer of 2009, shortly after Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, a citizens protest movement emerged out of nowhere threatening to derail...

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  5. Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture (2011)

    Director
    Roger Stahl
    Subject
    Media studies; Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 45 minutes), $250.00

    Video games like Modern Warfare, America’s Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The...

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  6. Plunder: The Crime of Our Time (2010)

    Director
    Daniel Schechter
    Subject
    Economics; Finance & Accounting; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 59 minutes), $250.00

    Exposing the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, massive foreclosures and the disappearance of retirement funds, this film investigates the unregulated fraud and theft...

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  7. Mean World Syndrome: Media Violence and the Cultivation of Fear (2010)

    Subject
    Media studies; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 51 minutes), $250.00

    A film based on the late George Gerbner’s groundbreaking analysis of media influence and media violence.For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of...

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  8. Killing Us Softly 4 (2010)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $295.00

    In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive...

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  9. This is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

    Subject
    Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 46 minutes), $250.00

    For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as "the commons" -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most...

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  10. Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports (2010)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $250.00

    A powerful new documentary based on the book by Dave Zirin, The People’s History of Sports, in which he argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the...

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