The United States deserves the label "melting pot;" for centuries, immigrants from countries spanning the globe have come to the United States in search of a better life. However, immigration is a deeply divisive political issue. Commentators bemoan our "broken borders," arguing that illegal immigration is threatening the American way of life--by straining public resources, depressing wages, and diluting our culture. Others point to the historic and current contributions to the economy and cultural richness of American life that immigrants bring. These documentaries take a hard look at this enduring political issue.
A divorced mother of two returns to her home and children in Bolivia after 15 years of struggling for a better life in Israel, only to find her family members have become strangers. A WORKING MOM is a story that demonstrates the extremes that individuals will go to in order to save their families--sometimes saving and losing them in the same act.
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Posted 07/08/09 by Jason F.
Sarah Palin, the former Vice Presidential candidate has been making news since the election, most of it not really noteworthy. However, now there’s some Sarah Palin news that’s at least worth a little attention. She has announced that she will resign her post as Governor of Alaska. There hasn’t been a reason given specifically as to why she has resigned the post as Alaska Governor, but it’s rumored that she’s doing it to concentrate on being the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican Candidate, and she’s probably also looking into some instant payday loans for campaign funding. Sarah Palin is loved by some, detested and ridiculed by others, and secured loans for a 2012 Presidential run might not be ill spent.
Through the lenses of cameras, an exploration into the minds - the hopes, dreams, & expectations - of their bearers reminds us of the value that has been so deeply ingrained into the generation.
About Campus Movie Fest
Like the story from a classic Hollywood film, Campus MovieFest (CMF) came from a humble beginning. Seven years ago, a band of friends attending Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, thought it would be fun to give computers, camcorders and training to students to make their own movies and then share the five minute films the teams created. The four Emory students had no idea the project would change the course of their lives and the lives of countless students across the globe as the program grew to become the world’s largest student film festival.
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Posted 04/05/09 by Ret
I can’t get past the 2 commercials =(
It sounds like it would be interesting, but I don’t want to try to get it any more - I’ve had it with dusting and razor blades!
Chahinaz, a 20 year-old student in Algeria, has mixed feelings about the Western world and its values, but she admires the freedom of Western women. Through her curiosity and voyage of self-discovery, Chahinaz begins to wonder what life is like for women in other Muslim countries and around the world and why things are slow to change in Algeria.
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Posted 11/18/09 by Alan Brellis
Chahinaz did a fabulous job of researching cultures and activists to help her own overcome silly dress codes and unfair oppression. All these cultures in which women live in duress and judgement seed from a perspective that God is in favor of dichotomous codes for males and females, although the men promoting these religous tenets cannot logically prove this is the word of the Lord. There is no way a creator would have women wear unnatural costumes blocking their faces from the very sun in the sky needed for skin health because it contraindicates what the creation needs. Did God create faces of women and tell them to cover them? Each religious code claims there’s is the word from God. There are thousands of sects of religion, everyone all thinking they are correct having many diverse viewpoints.
It is not incorrect to challenge what is from God versus what is NOT. What they fight her about is belief she is challenging some ordinances about treatment and dress of women as if she is dissenting against some order of the Lord, but it cannot be rationally proved that she is actually rebelling against customs of God. In both the Quran and the Bible, Adam and Eve were naked, and the Lord was angry that they were ashamed and covered themselves.
How did it go from the Garden of Eden to requirements to dress heavily? The story of Adam and Eve says the Snake started all the problems..hmmm!
Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-pioneers, teenage runaways, war veterans and drop-outs, live on the fringe and off the grid, struggling to survive with little food, less water and no electricity, as they cling to their unique vision of the American dream…
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Posted 11/11/09 by live free or die
54:20 Maine’s philosophy sums up the entire point of this movie…
for posters that believe these people need to be kept under surveillance “lest they move into your community,” they obviously are not interested in your community; it is why they are where they are… they want nothing to do with you, and your plastic society, so why not let them live as they choose, rather than having to conform to your notions of how people should live…
Obsessed with its beauty, humbled by it flaws, humans are covered by a unique ultra-thin shield that instantly defines and shapes the body living inside it. Now, National Geographic invites you on an in-depth adventure revealing not just the science but the vital cultural meanings we attach to this largest of all human organs. A trip back in time explores the evolution of human skin – and the rainbow diversity of skin color today. Cutting-edge research unveils the role skin plays in human sexual attraction. And we go beyond biology to trace the influence of skin on our perceptions of race, our skittishness about nudity and the intriguing riddle of personal identity.
Hart Perry (Director of Photography - HARLAN COUNTY USA), has documented the lives of Mexican-American migrant farm workers in Raymondville, TX since 1979 when the onion workers’ strike broke out. What followed was a fight not only for higher pay but also for equal rights and representation. For 24 years, the county’s Mexican-American residents were determined to fight for what is right. VALLEY OF TEARS is a complex story of the long journey of individuals who endure hardship in order to make a better future for their families.