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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The women's suffrage movement was decades in the making and came with many harsh setbacks. But it resulted in a permanent victory: women's right to vote. How did the suffragists do it? One hundred years later, an eye-opening look at their playbook shows that some of their strategies seem oddly familiar. Women's marches at inauguration time? Check. Publicity stunts, optics, and influencers? They practically invented them. Petitions, lobbying, speeches,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story.
First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie-the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But, until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words.
For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, women have struggled to change the workplace, change government, change society. So what's next? It's time for women to change the world! Whether on the job, in politics, or in their community, there has never been a better time for women to make a difference in the world, contends author, mentor, and corporate pioneer Susan Bulkeley Butler in Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World. Through her experience as the first female...
84) Wild Daze
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Featuring conservation experts ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall to wildlife trophy hunters, WILD DAZE explores the relationship between international crime cartels, child soldiers, colluding government officials, and the illegal wildlife trade.
85) Generation Greta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
They are aged between 12 and 24. They have grown up in a world with increasing droughts, floods, fires. And they share a common fight: the climate emergency. In spite of their cultural and geographical differences, nine young female activists are united under the same struggle: raising awareness about the climate emergency, fighting against the inaction of politicians, and promoting radical societal change, so that nature and social justice become...
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Civil rights activist Hu Jia was held under house arrest from 2004 to 2008 in the upscale eastern suburbs of Beijing. One day Hu picked up a video camera and began to document things outside the window: his watchers, shepherds tending their flocks, spiders in the rain, and his fellow activist and wife, Zeng Jinyan, going to and from work under the unnervingly close watch of plainclothes police. "*PRISONERS IN FREEDOM CITY documents Hu Jia and Zeng...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING is the inspiring story of Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter/activist Harry Chapin ("Cat's in the Cradle"). Chapin sold over 16 million albums and was one of his generation's most beloved artists and activists before his tragic passing. The film features Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Pete Seeger, Sir Bob Geldof, Kenny Rogers, Graham Nash, Pat Benatar, Darryl"DMC" McDaniels, Robert Lamm, Richie Havens,...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan County in northern Sichuan Province, devastating a vast area of mountainous terrain and killing some 70,000 people, including thousands of children who were in school when it hit. Around the country, concerned citizens began to question why the government-built school buildings collapsed so easily, burying thousands of children alive, when other edifices had withstood the strike....
89) Breaking Habits
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the town of Merced, CA, a commune of activist nuns run an illegal cannabis farm. They use it to make medicine for everything from epilepsy to cancer, fighting against the authorities, the sheriff and local cartels. This is the story of Sister Kate, the Weed-Growing Nun. Nominated for Best Documentary Film at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival**. *"It's a stirring, unusually inspiring tale." - Gary Goldstein, **Los Angeles Times***
90) Rebel Citizen
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Documentary Director Pamela Yates met master cinematographer Haskell Wexler in Nicaragua in 1984 on the set of Wexler's film Latino, about U.S. intervention aimed at crushing the Sandinista revolution. He became Pamela's mentor and life-long friend and together they've explored what it means to be a committed documentary filmmaker. When Haskell asked Pamela to represent him this year at the Cinéma du Réel festival in Paris, which held a week-long...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 2020, the End SARS movement mobilised against police brutality in Nigeria, sparking protests around the nation. Their focus: the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad, famed for their abuse of power and brutality. Following weeks of "#EndSARS" protests against police brutality that had burst onto the streets of cities across Nigeria, on the night of 20th October 2020 the Nigerian Army opened fire on peaceful protesters at the Lekki toll gate in...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Taylor Stein was a jet-setting party girl who became one of the most popular figures in the '90s New York social scene. Taylor could get anything - and anyone - she wanted. All that changes when she discovers, in the process of adopting her son Ren, that his birth is part of an international baby trafficking ring. To stop the ring and win legal custody, Taylor goes undercover for the FBI. But her happy ending is turned upside down when 9 months after...
94) Allendes Enkel
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
For years pupils and students have been protesting in Chile against the privatization of the educational system. Thousands demonstrated for their right to free education. By 2012 the protests began to decrease. Today only one school in Santiago is still occupied. The violent raiding of the school by the police could happen at any time, so who are these pupils and what are they demanding?
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This is a profile of the legendary activist and journalist Robert Scheer, who reminds us that journalism, at its best, is about pursuing the truth at all costs. The film traces Scheer's career trajectory across dramatic shifts in journalistic practice and platforms, offering a glimpse into the myriad pressures that confront journalists who refuse to compromise their principles and instead commit themselves to speaking truth to power. At a time when...
96) To the Moon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen college students bicycle from California to Massachusetts in order to spread awareness about cooperatives, a business model they believe to be a solution to the volatile global economy. They confront frustrating realities while discovering their place in the world, and the results are at once chaotic, enlightening, and unforgettable.
97) WAR / PEACE
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A documentary re-introducing the radical student activists from the late 60s, ex-leaders of The Weather Underground movement Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. For decades the government and press have tried their best to silence them. WAR / PEACE serves as an historical reminder of what happened the last time a group of young minds planned to take over an unpopular government in Washington. WAR / PEACE asks how can we make a change if peaceful demonstration...
98) Parkland Rising
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
PARKLAND RISING documents the 2018 teen-led gun reform movement which followed the mass shooting at a Florida high school. With exclusive footage and intimate access to students survivors and victims' parents, the film shows how ordinary citizens rose up to create the March For Our Lives movement and inspired millions of people around globe to fight for positive change through protest.
100) 15 M
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
A documentary on the current Spanish fiscal crisis and the 15M movement, which influenced popular protests around the world, including the USA's own Occupy Wall Street. On May 15th, 2011, tens of thousands of citizens occupied streets and squares in Spain for what was going to be the beginning of the biggest social change in Spanish society. 15M offers a complex portrait of a movement whose affects can be seen throughout the world.
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