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Locked-Up Time. by Schönemann, Sibylle,film director.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1990.After documentary filmmaker Sibylle Schönemann applied to leave the GDR and go to West Germany, in 1984 she was arrested by the Stasi and imprisoned for the alleged crime of “interfering with state activities.” One year later, she was released to West Germany after their government bought her freedom. A few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, Schönemann returned to the East to confront the people responsible for her arrest and imprisonment: fellow workers, prison guards, a judge, and members of the Stasi. Not all of them were willing to talk.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; History, Modern.; German language.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; History.; Prisoners.; Germany.;
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Commander Arian: A Story of Women, War and Freedom. by Sotorra, Alba,film director.; DogWoof (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DogWoof in 2018.Hit by 5 bullets, Commander Arian experiences the cost of war in the flesh as she is forced to redefine her role in the struggle for women’s freedom.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Military history..; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Middle East.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; War.; Syria.; Women social reformers.;
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Under the Sky of Damascus. by Wajeeh, Ali,film director.; Khaled, Heba,film director.; Derki, Talal,film director.; Journeyman Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Journeyman Pictures in 2023.A tight-knit group of young Syrian women embark upon on a radical project: producing a play that lays bare the culture of misogyny and sexual abuse that has blighted the lives of females in their country for generations. Farah, Eliana, Inana, Souhir and Grace want to blow the whistle on women's oppression, though they know their production will make it even harder for them to get work.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Literature.; Arts.; Criminal law.; Social sciences.; Foreign study.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Middle East.; Women's studies.; Artists.; Current affairs.; Theater.;
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The Padilla Affair. by Giroud, Pavel,film director.; Castro, Fidel,actor.; Garcia, Gabriel,actor.; Padilla, Heberto,actor.; Sartre, Jean-Paul,actor.; Pragda (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Fidel Castro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Heberto Padilla, Jean-Paul SartreOriginally produced by Pragda in 2022.A startling documentary about the poet Heberto Padilla that opens a window into the past and offers insights into Cuba’s current crisis.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; Latin America.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; History.; Revolutions.; Cuba.; Prisoners.; Authors.; Latin America--Politics and government.;
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The Torres’ Spanish Guitar. by López Montoro, Fran,film director.; Enrique Navarro, Raúl,film director.; ConUnPack (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by ConUnPack in 2020.THE TORRES' SPANISH GUITAR tells the story of the unknown inventor of the modern guitar, Antonio de Torres Jurado. A carpenter born in Almería in 1817, he achieved universal fame in the mid-19th century in Seville, changing the construction model for national guitar schools all over the world and perpetuating it to the present day.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Social sciences.; Music.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; History, Modern.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Current affairs.; History.; Guitar.; Spain.; Musical instruments.; Performing arts.;
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Children of Memory. by Smith Pyle, Kathryn,film director.; Teresa Rodriguez, Maria,film director.; Women Make Movies (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2012.Hundreds of children disappeared without a trace during the Salvadoran civil war. Many were survivors of massacres carried out by the U.S.-trained Salvadoran army. Taken away from the massacre sites by soldiers, some grew up in orphanages or were "sold" into adoption abroad, not knowing their true history or identity. The film follows Margarita Zamora, an investigator with human rights organization Pro-Búsqueda as she traverses the Salvadoran countryside probing memory, swabbing DNA samples, and searching for disappeared children - including her own four siblings.In the United States, Jamie Harvey, adopted from El Salvador in 1980, dreams of locating her birth family; but with no information, no contacts and no access to the Salvadoran military war archives, she is losing hope. CHILDREN OF MEMORY weaves together separate yet intertwined journeys in the search for family, identity and justice in El Salvador.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; Human rights.; Latin America.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; History.; Children.; Central America.; El Salvador.; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.;
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Luchadoras. by Calvo, Paola,film director.; Jasim, Patrick,film director.; Pragda (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Pragda in 2021.An intimate portrait of three courageous female Luchadoras (wrestlers) from Ciudad Juárez. Despite being surrounded by machismo, they redefine the image of women in Mexico.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Social sciences.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Latin America.; Physical education and training.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; Mexico.; Women athletes.;
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Luchadoras. by Calvo, Paola,film director.; Jasim, Patrick,film director.; Pragda (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Pragda in 2021.An intimate portrait of three courageous female Luchadoras (wrestlers) from Ciudad Juárez. Despite being surrounded by machismo, they redefine the image of women in Mexico.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Social sciences.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Latin America.; Physical education and training.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; Mexico.; Women athletes.;
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Nu Shu. by Yang, Yue-Qing,film director.; Women Make Movies (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 1999.In feudal China, women, usually with bound feet, were denied educational opportunities and condemned to social isolation. But in Jian-yong county in Hunan province, peasant women miraculously developed a separate written language, called Nu Shu, meaning "female writing." Believing women to be inferior, men disregarded this new script, and it remained unknown for centuries. It wasn't until the 1960s that Nu Shu caught the attention of Chinese authorities, who suspected that this peculiar writing was a secret code for international espionage. Today, interest in this secret script continues to grow, as evidenced by the wide critical acclaim of Lisa See's novel, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", about Nu Shu.NU SHU: A HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF WOMEN IN CHINA is a thoroughly engrossing documentary that revolves around the filmmaker's discovery of eighty-six-year-old Huan-yi Yang, the only living resident of the Nu Shu area still able to read and write Nu Shu. Exploring Nu Shu customs and their role in women's lives, the film uncovers a women's subculture born of resistance to male dominance, finds a parallel struggle in the resistance of Yao minorities to Confucian Han Chinese culture, and traces Nu Shu's origins to some distinctly Yao customs that fostered women's creativity.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Asians.; Foreign study.; Second language acquisition.; Sociology.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; History.; China.; Language and languages.;
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Manicouagan. by Beaudet, Nadine,film director.; Spira (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Spira in 2025.A driven but intimate work, this film recounts the history of Manicouagan (North Shore, Quebec) a legendary territory shaped by the impact of an asteroid 215 million years ago. From the St. Lawrence River to north of the 51st parallel, the legendary Route 389 brings us to the heart of this meteor crater to meet some extraordinary individuals (astrophysicists, geologists, truck-stop manager, hikers). Digging deep into their memories, the Innu of Pessamit tell of the dispossession of their ancestral lands, which were flooded by the construction of the big hydro dams, leading to the disorientation of the young people from their community. After choosing to live in the boreal forest at the feet of the Uapishka Mountains, a guide and a hermit reveal their powerful connection with nature. In this non-linear narrative with many faces, the land speaks out and questions the traces we humans leave behind us.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Social sciences.; Agriculture.; History, Modern.; Human rights.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Indigenous peoples.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; History.; Indians of North America.; Canada.; Earth sciences.;
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