Reel Bad Arabs

how Hollywood vilifies a people

Reel bad Arabs [videorecording]: how Hollywood vilifies a people / a Media Education Foundation production; directed by Sut Jhally; produced by Jeremy Earp.

This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today. Shaheen shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab culture, in the process reinforcing a narrow view of individual Arabs and the effects of specific US domestic and international policies on their lives. By inspiring critical thinking about the social...

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Custer's Last Stand

Custer's last stand [videorecording] / written and directed by Stephen Ives; Insignia Films production.

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Under Fire

Under fire [videorecording] / a Lion's Gate film; an Orion Pictures release; produced by Jonathan Taplin; directed by Roger Spottiswoode; screenplay by Ron Shelton and Clayton Frohman; story by Clayton Frohman.

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

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Frontline Reporting

Frontline reporting [videorecording] / produced by Actuality Productions, Inc. for the History Channel; writer/producer, Mark Rowland; creator/producer, Bruce Nash.

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The Year of Living Dangerously

The year of living dangerously [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Freddie Fields presentation; a McElroy & McElroy production; a Peter Weir film; screenplay by David Williamson, Peter Weir, C.J. Koch; produced by James McElroy; directed by Peter Weir.

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

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Operation Mad Ball

Operation mad ball [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents; a Jed Harris production; screenplay by Arthur Carter, Jed Harris and Blake Edwards; produced by Jed Harris; directed by Richard Quine.

Private Hogan must raise his ability to scheme and plot to a new level to put on a madcap dance to celebrate the closing of an Army surgical hospital in post WWII France while evading the stickler-for-details Captain Locke - and win the heart to the beautiful nurse Lieutenant Betty Bixby.

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Elusive Justice

the search for Nazi war criminals

Elusive justice [videorecording]: the search for Nazi war criminals / a Saybrook Productions production for Thirteen in association with WNET.ORG; produced, written, and directed by Jonathan Silvers; funding provided by the Rita J. & Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation ... [et al.].

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Beyond Our Differences

Beyond our differences [videorecording] / Entropy Films, LLC.; writer/producer/director, Peter Bisanz.

With all of the problems facing the world today -- war, poverty, weapons, environmental degradation, starvation, overpopulation and severe desperation among millions -- people are longing for meaning. Many find answers in religion or spirituality, but as a result faith and religion are often hijacked by those seeking to enhance their own power at the expense of others, often all in the name of God. With this dichotomy in mind, "Beyond Our Differences" calls upon key religious leaders, politicians, and luminaries in their fields to tackle the toughest and most complex issues in the modern age, and it asks what it is that inspires them to affect positive change. "Beyond Our Differences" shares their personal experiences and each person provides a unique perspective on how to support and strengthen compassionate and non-violent activism when resolving difficult disputes...

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Women, War & Peace

Women, war & peace [videorecording] / a production of THIRTEEN and Fork Films.

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Before the Rain

(a tale in three parts)

Before the rain [videorecording]: (a tale in three parts) / Universal; Aim Productions, Noé Productions and Vardar Film with the participation of British Screen and the European Co-Production Fund present; in association with Polygram Audiovisual and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia; a film by Milcho Manchevski; produced by Judy Counihan, Cedomir Kolar, Sam Taylor, Cat Villiers; written and directed by Milcho Manchevski.

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant. She wants permanence with her lover, a prize-winning Macedonian photographer just back from Bosnia, changed by the violence. He leaves abruptly for his village; he's not visited it in 16 years. There he tries to ignore bitter divisions between his Orthodox brethren and local Albanians, then tries to transcend them.

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