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Showing videos filed under: GOT DOCS?
Got Docs: Mountains that Take Wing
December 24, 2010Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama are renowned activists, scholars, and friends. The documentary Mountains That Take Wing is a story of a friendship, captured in conversations between women who have taken part in nearly every major social movement of the 20th century. C. A. Griffith and H. L. T. Quan spent over a decade on this film, and we're happy to share a selection from it with you.Got Docs: Lasting Scars
December 18, 2010Kelly Anderson is a longtime Brooklyn resident, but when she found herself being priced out of neighborhoods, she decided to take a closer look at the forces of gentrification, and their impact on the city's race and class makeup. Zeroing in on the Fulton Mall, a historically black shopping district in Downtown Brooklyn being eyed by developers for a "renaissance," Anderson and her crew examine the forces reshaping the city.Got Docs: Strange Things: Children of Haiti
December 11, 2010The term for street kids in Haiti is "Sanguine," which translates to "Soulless." But this week's Got Doc shows they're anything but. Filmmaker Alexandria Hammond, the woman behind Strange Things: Children of Haiti spent three years filming the inner lives of a couple of these children. Estimates right now suggest there are as many as a million disenfranchised youth living on the streets in Haiti.Got Docs: The Economics of Happiness
December 4, 2010What is the key to happiness? How about "community"? This new film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick and John Page looks at the crisis caused by globalization, and suggests that maybe the solutions to our problems lie in the local economies, local culture and local communities that have been pushed aside to make way for corporate progress.Got Docs: Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
November 20, 2010"At that time, a Bank of America was something that you burned down. You didn't want to be designing banks." Those are the words of Chip Lord of Ant Farm, a radical architects collectivewith a "South Park sensibility," whose work during the 1960s and 1970s redefined what architects do. Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is a new documentary by Laura Harrison and Beth Federici that looks back on the escapades of Ant Farm, including their most famous work, Cadillac Ranch.Got Docs: (Astro)Turf Wars
November 13, 2010(Astro)Turf Wars is a new documentary from Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham that looks into the corporate funders behind the “grassroots” uprising against health care reform and the Obama presidency in the U.S. What he found was not a citizen movement, but a “Free Market” movement sponsored by groups like FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity.Got Docs: The Best Government Money can Buy
November 6, 2010We've talked a lot here about the influence of Citizens United on our elections, but now that the election is over most of that corporate cash will be going to influence Congress through lobbyists--there are an average of 26 of them per member of Congress! With the cost of elections skyrocketing, Francis Megahy's documentary The Best Government Money Can Buy, an investigation into the secret world of Washington lobbyists. This look at the influence of lobbyists on the decisions the government makes couldn't be more timely.Got Docs: Mamachas del Ring
October 30, 2010Bolivia had never seen an indigenous woman take up professional wrestling before Carmen Rosa. Along with three other cholitas, Rosa became an instant star in 2004. But by 2006, where this new documentary by Betty Park starts out, jealousy and a conflict with the league commissioner have sent the "Mamachas del Ring" out on their own, organizing their own shows, media appearances and more. The film follows the women and their struggles to support their families while continuing to pursue their sport.Got Docs: Ella Es El Matador
October 15, 2010Ella Es El Matador, or "She Is The Matador", is a documentary film directed by Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco. Using as a launching pad a 1908 Spanish law barring women from bullfighting, Ella Es El Matador tackles the history of women in the ring, as well as the dangerous dance with Spanish ideas of masculinity that woman bullfighters engage with everytime they spin their cape.Got Docs: Race to Nowhere
October 1, 2010What's all this talk about being in a "race" when it comes to education? Does the "Race to the Top" framing change anything? And what's all of this racing really doing for our kids? This week's featured documentary, Race to Nowhere, takes a look at just what's going on with our schools, and whether putting a lot of pressure on kids to ace constant tests and load themselves with work is actually producing happy, well-educated people.
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