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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Viewing Disney without rose-colored glasses," as the Boston Globe put it, Mickey Mouse Monopoly takes a close and critical look at the world of Disney's animated films, and the stories they tell about race, gender, and class. The video reaches disturbing conclusions about the values being propagated under the veneer of childhood innocence and fun. Featuring interviews with media experts, cultural critics, child psychologists, kindergarten teachers,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This fascinating documentary will give anyone who works with or is interested in children, an insight into children's social lives. Filmed over the summer holidays, the result is a revealing study of the street play of young children (3 to 7 years) living in a cul-de-sac in a North-East town. Through their games, fantasies and interactions we get a revealing and unsentimental view of children's society, showing the importance of the peer group in...
4) Motherland
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Six grieving mothers from the United States who have suffered the death of a child take a physical and emotional journey to South Africa to deal with their loss and try to heal their wounds, thousands of miles from home, by volunteering to work with impoverished children. The women all share a desire to make sense of their tragedies and to move forward with their lives.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1211
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Persian
Formats
Description
Childhood takes on mythic dimensions in one of the defining works of postrevolutionary Iranian cinema. Inspired by director Amir Naderi's boyhood, The Runner is lit from within by Madjid Niroumand's electrifying performance as a young orphan fending for himself on the streets of a port city, determined to rise above his circumstances working odd jobs, passing time with friends, learning to read and running, always running, toward the future. Water,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We produced this film over twenty-five years ago, at a time, when most people with disabilities were excluded from education and often warehoused in such institutional settings as hospitals for the mentally ill, adult residential centers and large group homes. Allowing people with disabilities into regular school classrooms, job sites and other community activities is known as mainstreaming or inclusion. Regular Lives, portrays early, successful...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Most high school students in the United States are required to pass a series of exams in order to earn a high school diploma. From coast to coast, more and more states are using these high stakes tests in an effort to reverse the supposed rising tide of mediocrity in our public schools and close the achievement gap between socioeconomic and racial groups. The film, Children Left Behind, is about the well-intended purposes that are driving this movement...
8) InRealLife
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
It takes us on a journey from the world of Silicon Valley to the bedrooms of British teenagers in order to ask an important question: What exactly is the internet doing to our children? This revealing documentary examines how children are adapting to the technological world we live in, and how free and open connectivity can have alienating and addictive side-effects, especially on the youngest minds using it.
10) Play again
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
One generation from now most people in the U.S. will have spent more time in the virtual world than in nature. At a time when children play more behind screens than outside, Play again explores the changing balance between the virtual and natural worlds. This moving and humorous documentary follows six teenagers who, like the average American child, spend five to fifteen hours a day behind screens. Play again unplugs these teens and takes them on...
Series
Publisher
National Film Preservation Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
48 films, produced between 1900-1934 and digitally mastered and restored by the National Film Preservation Foundation, the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage.
12) Life in a day
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
People from 192 countries submitted more than 80,000 videos to YouTube of personal events that happened in their lives on 24 July 2010. Over 4,500 hours of contributed footage was sifted through to create this motion picture event.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Given the wild popularity of violent video games, it has never been more urgent to encourage dialogue about how virtual killing might shape attitudes about real-life violence. Game Over examines the nature and consequences of simulated violence, and encourages high school and college students to think critically about how gender and race are depicted in the video and computer games they play. It is sure to spark lively debate about the complex and...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As one of America's most beloved children's show hosts, Mr. Rogers remains one of the most iconic television figures for families worldwide. This documentary takes a closer look at the person behind the show, persona, and personality that helped define what it meant to be a good person and be a part of a healthy community. Through his children's show, Mr. Rogers would go on to inspire a generation by not skirting real world issues, confronting issues...
15) A dangerous son
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One in 10 American children suffers from a serious emotional disturbance and over 17 million have experienced a psychiatric disorder. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus, A Dangerous Son focuses primarily on three families in crisis, each struggling with a child's severe mental illness and desperately seeking treatment in the face of limited resources and support. Interspersed with interviews with mental-health experts and advocates --...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. As each character and each relationship is tested, and shows the variety of roads people choose; some tragic, some hopeful.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The quality of early attachment relationships is of central importance to children's social and emotional development. It is vital to their all round development. Shot over the first three years of an infant's life, the film shows the development of attachment behaviour. By observing the interactions between infants and their carers we see the attachment stages unfolding, giving a real understanding of how it works in practice. While the film focuses...
18) Why Me?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This documentary is one of the most compelling films on this subject that we have yet seen. We are confident that it will become a landmark film in the fullness of time. Much of its power comes from its beautifully staged re-enactments of key moments in the lives of the individuals who tell their stories in the film. Why me? contains the stories of five stolen children who are now adults trying to get on with their lives. The stories are told using...
20) Devdas
Publisher
Yash Raj Films
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Hindi
Description
"Devdas (Dilip Kumar) and Parvati (Vyjayantimala) had been inseprable [sic] as children, and as they grew older, love blossomed. Devdas is sent away for studies by his parents ... events lead to Parvati being married off to someone else and Devdas drowns his sorrows in alcohol. When Devdas is pronounced critical due to his drinking, he remembers the promise he had made to Parvati, of coming to see her before he dies. Devdas is a film about how hearts...
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