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26022) America Divided Season Two
Publisher
Divided Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a moment of great political and cultural turmoil, AMERICA DIVIDED, the docu-series executive produced by Norman Lear, Gretchen Carlson and Jussie Smollett, returns in its second season to investigate many of the most pressing stories of inequality and injustice facing our society: sexual harassment in Congress; equality for Native Americans; the future of Coal Country; the hidden victims of US immigration policy and truth and reconciliation around...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ju/'hoan farming communities multiply during the 1980s only to face a new threat. The Department of Nature Conservation wants to create a game reserve on Ju/'hoan territory. People will be forbidden to raise livestock or crops. Instead, Ju/'hoansi will be encouraged to act like "Bushmen" and hunt for the amusement of tourists. Urgent grass roots organizing ensues as the people seek to control their traditional lands.
26024) Seeking Asylum
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
During one of the most uncertain times in United States history, filmmakers Rae Ceretto and Kelly Scott follow one woman's journey as she searches for protection for her and kids. SEEKING ASYLUM bears witness to the endless deterrents migrants face when petitioning for asylum in the United States and examines why asylum is an integral part of the American Dream.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Legend has it that the triumphal march of television began in the United States in the 1950s but in reality its origins hark back much further. Nazi leaders, determined to beat Great Britain and the U.S. to be the world's first television broadcaster, began Greater German Television in March 1935. German viewers enjoyed their TV broadcasts until September 1944, as Allied troops closed in. Making use of 285 reels of film discovered in the catacombs...
26027) Akhenaten: dweller in truth
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Naguib Mahfouz brings us the story of Akhenaten, or the "sun king," whose monotheistic beliefs eventually earned him a reputation as the most infamous ruler of ancient Egypt and the epithet "heretic pharaoh."" "Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who sets out to question Akhenaten's contemporaries, including his closest friends, his worst enemies, and finally, his wife, Nefertiti, years after the king's death in an effort...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
John Marshall is reunited with Toma's family in 1978. Like a majority of Ju/'hoansi, they have settled at Tjum!kui, an administrative post run by the South African government. They came looking for water, jobs and an easier life, but found poverty, malnutrition and violence. Desperate for a more stable existence, the family heads back to their traditional water hole, /Aotcha, with shovels, cattle, and plans to start farming.
26039) The Colvin Run Mill
Author
Publisher
Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning : available from Fairfax County Administrative Services
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
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