H for Hunger

H for Hunger 2009

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Hunger is a real and growing problem in the 21st century, where hundreds of millions of people go to bed without a meal each night and thousands literally die for want of food every day.

2009

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail 1984

9.00

Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distinct cultures or geographic locations.

1984

Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage 2001

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A quest for freedom in the South China Sea. Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy, 100 orphans, all girls, are shepherded by a determined activist, Mrs. Brown (Charlotte De Turckheim) onto a tramp freighter for a harrowing escape from the Chinese authorities.

2001

Birthing at Home

Birthing at Home 2009

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Alexis is a 32-year-old white woman married to Alain, an African from Rwanda. This documentary focuses on Alexis giving birth in her parents home. As her parents and great-grandmother look on, a calm mid-wife delivers ten and a half pound Jazmine. The documentary is Interspersed with interviews with Alexis, her husband, Alexis' parents, the soon to be great-grandmother and the midwife.

2009

Under the Radar: Burma

Under the Radar: Burma 2010

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While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.

2010

Burma: A Human Tragedy

Burma: A Human Tragedy 2012

7.00

In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.

2012

Jim Thompson: The Man & the Legend

Jim Thompson: The Man & the Legend 1970

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When the "Silk King" Jim Thompson came to Thailand at the end of World War 2, he became one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. His disappearance in the Malaysian jungle in 1967 is one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century

1970