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1) Dakan
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Français
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The first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa, Dakan (it means "destiny") was met with angry protests and heated debate when it was shot in the director's native Guinea. The film is a contemporary African reinterpretation of the age-old conflict between love and social convention, the story of two men who by coming out become invisible to their society. The men try to deny their sexual orientation to please their families, but eventually...
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English
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This video interrogates masculinity and the ways masculinity is challenged and changed by fatherhood. It explores the lives of four generations of men and includes a discussion of the Harvard Grant Study. The Grant study is the longest running study on human development to date. A recent report on the Grant study (The Triumphs of Experience-Vaillant) proposes that love and warmth are critical to the lives of men and successful lifelong development....
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English
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This program can help teens cope with the experiences and complex lessons of early dating and opens up the definition of dating to match the reality teens face today. Subjects covered include how to define a "date"; choosing who to date; what to do before the first date; dating outside of one's social clique; emotions and dating; the first date; sexual intimacy; dating options; safety and dating; and dating and life lessons. Help your students make...
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English
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An estimated half of all marriages end in divorce-so how is it that people still have faith in the institution? Why do they gamble with their future happiness by getting married? In this documentary, director Anne Stirling takes a fresh look at the social, historical, and emotional aspects of marriage after her divorce. Stirling figures that if she asks enough questions of friends, family members, and experts, she'll be able to solve the puzzle of...
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English
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Without consent, sexual intercourse is nothing less than rape. This program offers insights into sexual victimization through interviews with a young woman who was raped in her own home by an armed assailant and a young man who was expelled from college on a charge of acquaintance rape. Also, a rehabilitation service for sexual offenders is profiled, with an emphasis on the treatment of deviant sexual arousal and the cognitive restructuring, victim...
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English
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Affiliated with the Up series from British director Michael Apted, this film details the lives of 7-year-olds from varying social classes and ethnicities across the United States. Luis lives in New York City's Lower East Side. He lives in a homeless shelter. Lucy, Alexis, and Kate live on the Upper East Side and attend a prestigious private school. Ashtyn lives in a middle-class suburb of Lincoln, Nebraska. LeRoy and Kennisha live in apartments that...
7) 21 Up: Japan
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English
Description
Modeled on the Up series produced in the United Kingdom, which begins with a group of seven-year-olds and revisits them every seven years, the Up: Japan chronicle focuses on 13 youth living in different parts of Japan. In this program, which rejoins the participants at age 21, they are asked to talk about their lives, families, and future with the same honesty and frankness displayed in the original British production. Contradicting the perceived...
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English
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In an era where dual-career couples and single parents have become the norm, mothers and fathers are getting caught in a work-family conflict that pits the "ideal worker" against the "ideal parent." In this timely documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines the impact and implications of a massive shift in our workforce that has buried the traditional father-breadwinner/mother-housewife family model. Incisive case studies,...
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English
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In a world of deepening violence and misunderstanding, we need to explore the forces that hold things together. By expanding our definition of love, we learn to honor equally the many forms of affection and connection that create a healthy life and society. This film examines the many faces of love through in-depth stories of marriage, family, friendship, divine love, altruistic love, brotherly love, the love between parents and children, and love...
10) 14 Up: Japan
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English
Description
Expanding on the Up series produced in Great Britain, which starts with a group of seven-year-olds and revisits them every seven years, the Up: Japan chronicle focuses on 13 youth living in different parts of Japan. In this program, which captures the subjects at age 14, they are asked to talk about their lives, families, and future with the same honesty and frankness displayed in the original British production. Counteracting the percieved homogeneity...
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English
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Might an African nation with a long history of apartheid and one that experienced only a brief period of colonization have different national morés? Could citizens of either type of country hold the same views as second-generation Asian-Americans? Are there beliefs about societal behavior that are common to all peoples? In this program, college students from Ethiopia, South Africa, and the U.S. discuss what Geert Hofstede called "the five dimensions...
12) 21 Up: U.K
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English
Description
Hardly the last or least of the Up episodes, this is nevertheless the final one to include all fourteen of the series' original subjects. Charles, ending his participation, has assumed a long-haired look standard for youthful whites of the 1970s, while Symon, impressive in his afro and mustache, idolizes Muhammad Ali. Jackie and Lynn are both married. Sue is single and employed at a travel agency, but a more stark contrast to working-class matrimony...