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Critical Race & Ethnic Studies

Welcome to Shelbyville 62 mins Set in the heart of America's bible belt, Welcome To Shelbyville follows a small Southern town as they grapple with rapid demographic change and issues…
Welcome to Shelbyville Welcome to Shelbyville
The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America 2 videos Acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise explores how Donald Trump expertly tapped into long-simmering racial tensions and rode an accelerating wave of white anxiety…
The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America 69 mins White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens…
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
Reel Bad Arabs - How Hollywood Vilifies a People 51 mins This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest…
Reel Bad Arabs - How Hollywood Vilifies a People Reel Bad Arabs - How Hollywood Vilifies a People
I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America 13 mins A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers…
I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America
By Blood - Native American Men Fight for Cherokee Citizenship 53 mins A chronicle of American Indians of African descent battling to regain their tribal citizenship. BY BLOOD explores the impact of this battle, which has manifested…
By Blood - Native American Men Fight for Cherokee Citizenship By Blood - Native American Men Fight for Cherokee Citizenship
Young Lakota - A Native American Leader Fights for Reproductive Rights 84 mins In this award-winning documentary, Cecilia Fire Thunder- the first female President of the Oglala Sioux tribe, defies a proposed South Dakota law criminalizing all abortion…
Young Lakota - A Native American Leader Fights for Reproductive Rights Young Lakota - A Native American Leader Fights for Reproductive Rights
bell hooks - Cultural Criticism & Transformation 61 mins bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under analysis, she makes…
bell hooks - Cultural Criticism & Transformation bell hooks - Cultural Criticism & Transformation
Children of the Arctic - A Poweful Portrait of 5 Alaskan Teenagers 94 mins A year-in-the-life portrait of Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age in Barrow, Alaska - the northern-most community of the United States. For these teenagers, growing…
Children of the Arctic - A Poweful Portrait of 5 Alaskan Teenagers Children of the Arctic - A Poweful Portrait of 5 Alaskan Teenagers

Business and Economics

The Startup Kids 57 mins The Startup Kids is a documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. It contains interviews with the founders of Vimeo, Soundcloud, Kiip,…
The Startup Kids The Startup Kids
The Man Who Discovered Capitalism - The Life and Ideas of Influential Economist Joseph Schumpeter 52 mins Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) coined the term "creative destruction" and generations of economists have adopted it as a shorthand description of the free market's messy way…
The Man Who Discovered Capitalism - The Life and Ideas of Influential Economist Joseph Schumpeter The Man Who Discovered Capitalism - The Life and Ideas of Influential Economist Joseph Schumpeter
Banking on Bitcoin - How a Cyber-Currency is Disrupting the Economy 85 mins Bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism. Bitcoin's early pioneers…
Banking on Bitcoin - How a Cyber-Currency is Disrupting the Economy Banking on Bitcoin - How a Cyber-Currency is Disrupting the Economy
Critical Business Skills for Success Series 60 videos What does it take to succeed in business? Critical Business Skills for Success is a comprehensive guide to the five disciplines--strategy, operations, finance and accounting,…
Critical Business Skills for Success Series Critical Business Skills for Success Series
The Economics of Uncertainty Series 24 videos Learn to cope with uncertainty and risk with advice from a master economist. Economic uncertainty is like the weather: you can't stop storms, but understanding…
The Economics of Uncertainty Series The Economics of Uncertainty Series
Floored - The Trading Floors of Chicago 80 mins A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's…
Floored - The Trading Floors of Chicago Floored - The Trading Floors of Chicago
Panama Papers - The Biggest Leak in History 56 mins This is the biggest leak in history: 11.5 million files exposing the most secret world of offshore finance. Under the ICIJ, 378 investigative journalists around…
Panama Papers - The Biggest Leak in History Panama Papers - The Biggest Leak in History
The Art of Investing - Lessons from History’s Greatest Traders 24 videos Business school professor and portfolio manager John Longo conducts you through the life stories of over 30 men and women including Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch,…
The Art of Investing - Lessons from History’s Greatest Traders The Art of Investing - Lessons from History’s Greatest Traders
The Art of Public Speaking - Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History 12 videos Improve and enhance your public-speaking skills with time-tested techniques and strategies used by Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and other great orators. Delivered by…
The Art of Public Speaking - Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History The Art of Public Speaking - Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History

Women's Studies

Miss Representation 91 mins Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, MISS REPRESENTATION uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to…
Miss Representation Miss Representation
Killing Us Softly - Advertising's Image of Women 4 videos In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh…
Killing Us Softly - Advertising's Image of Women Killing Us Softly - Advertising's Image of Women
Political Animals - Pioneering Women Who Paved the Way for LGBT Equality 88 mins The winner of over ten awards including the American Library Associations Notable Video for Adults." POLITICAL ANIMALS tells the story of the civil rights struggle…
Political Animals - Pioneering Women Who Paved the Way for LGBT Equality Political Animals - Pioneering Women Who Paved the Way for LGBT Equality
The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty 2 videos The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the…
The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty
GTFO: Get the F**k Out - Women in Gaming 76 mins Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that…
GTFO: Get the F**k Out - Women in Gaming GTFO: Get the F**k Out - Women in Gaming
Women's Power - Female Leadership Around the World 45 mins This educational documentary offers a panoramic view of female leadership, creativity, wisdom, and courage around the world and over thousands of years. WOMEN'S POWER looks…
Women's Power - Female Leadership Around the World Women's Power - Female Leadership Around the World
The Big Flip - Stories From the Modern Homefront 65 mins What happens when mom has the big job and dad stays home with the kids? Over 18 months and 5 cities--Portland, D.C., Nashville, Seattle and…
The Big Flip - Stories From the Modern Homefront The Big Flip - Stories From the Modern Homefront
Young Lakota - A Native American Leader Fights for Reproductive Rights 84 mins In this award-winning documentary, Cecilia Fire Thunder- the first female President of the Oglala Sioux tribe, defies a proposed South Dakota law criminalizing all abortion…
Young Lakota - A Native American Leader Fights for Reproductive Rights Young Lakota - A Native American Leader Fights for Reproductive Rights
The Purity Myth - The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women 47 mins In this video adaptation of her bestselling book, pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti trains her sights on "the virginity movement" -- an unholy alliance of…
The Purity Myth - The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women The Purity Myth - The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women

Psychology

Building a Successful Career in Counseling and Psychotherapy 44 mins There are many misconceptions about counseling and psychotherapy in popular culture--and that's not even considering the business side of the work. Because our field is…
Building a Successful Career in Counseling and Psychotherapy Building a Successful Career in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Aaron Beck on Cognitive Therapy 51 mins We'd be hard-pressed to find a therapist today who hasn't in some way been shaped by Dr. Aaron Beck. The founder of Cognitive Therapy, and…
Aaron Beck on Cognitive Therapy Aaron Beck on Cognitive Therapy
Reject - Social Rejection and the Science of Belonging 2 videos A scientific and solution-oriented look at the roots of bullying and violent behavior. Using brain imaging (fMRI) and a simple ball-tossing game, researchers demonstrate that…
Reject - Social Rejection and the Science of Belonging Reject - Social Rejection and the Science of Belonging
Mixed Anxiety and Depression - A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach with Donald Meichenbaum 68 mins Clients seeking psychotherapy frequently suffer from both anxiety and depression, making treatment particularly challenging. In this film, internationally renowned therapist Donald Meichenbaum demonstrates a brief,…
Mixed Anxiety and Depression - A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach with Donald Meichenbaum Mixed Anxiety and Depression - A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach with Donald Meichenbaum
Free the Mind: How Meditation Can Heal the Brain  84 mins Free the Mind profiles the pioneering work of renowned psychologist Richard Davidson, who, by studying the practices of Tibetan monks and others, found that it…
Free the Mind: How Meditation Can Heal the Brain  Free the Mind: How Meditation Can Heal the Brain 
Carl Rogers on Person-Centered Therapy 72 mins Don't miss this rare opportunity to get up close and personal with the man named the single most influential psychotherapist of the past quarter-century. In…
Carl Rogers on Person-Centered Therapy Carl Rogers on Person-Centered Therapy
Going Sane - The State of Mental Health Care in America 67 mins A series of cracks in the mental health system makes it almost impossible for parents to find good care for their children. We have a…
Going Sane - The State of Mental Health Care in America Going Sane - The State of Mental Health Care in America
Solution-Focused Therapy - With Insoo Kim Berg 115 mins As the name implies, Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes clients' existing strengths and skills instead of problems and psychopathology. In this video, Berg demonstrates her uniquely optimistic…
Solution-Focused Therapy - With Insoo Kim Berg Solution-Focused Therapy - With Insoo Kim Berg
Unstuck: An OCD Kids Movie - What Do You Do When Your Brain is Your Enemy? 23 mins Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often viewed as a minor annoyance, or worse, something useful. The fact is OCD is a serious mental health issue…
Unstuck: An OCD Kids Movie - What Do You Do When Your Brain is Your Enemy? Unstuck: An OCD Kids Movie - What Do You Do When Your Brain is Your Enemy?

Literature

Beat Hotel 83 mins 1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of…
Beat Hotel Beat Hotel
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen - The Friendship of a Writer and an Actor 139 mins Ernest Hemingway: Writer, war correspondent, international adventurer, lover, drinker, brawler. The tabloid reputation -- filled with truths, half-truths and flat-out untruths -- grows ever wider.…
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen - The Friendship of a Writer and an Actor Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen - The Friendship of a Writer and an Actor
Al Purdy Was Here - Portrait of a Great Canadian Poet 93 mins What does it take to carve out a career as a poet? Why on earth would anyone attempt it? AL PURDY WAS HERE is the…
Al Purdy Was Here - Portrait of a Great Canadian Poet Al Purdy Was Here - Portrait of a Great Canadian Poet
How to Read and Understand Shakespeare Course 24 videos Shakespeare's plays are masterworks, but they can be hard to understand for a modern English speaker. Gain direct insight into Shakespeare's writing in this course…
How to Read and Understand Shakespeare Course How to Read and Understand Shakespeare Course
Heroes and Legends - The Most Influential Characters of Literature Series 24 videos Heroes hold a special place in our imagination. Names such as Odysseus, Beowulf, and Queen Guinevere summon up mythic legends, while Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and…
Heroes and Legends - The Most Influential Characters of Literature Series Heroes and Legends - The Most Influential Characters of Literature Series
A Late Style of Fire - Larry Levis, American Poet 93 mins When the brilliant writing and troubled life of Californian Larry Levis came to an abrupt halt at age 49, his death posed a question: is…
A Late Style of Fire - Larry Levis, American Poet A Late Style of Fire - Larry Levis, American Poet
Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, the Road is All 88 mins Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, the Road is All is an in-depth documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors. This compelling…
Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, the Road is All Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, the Road is All
The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction 36 videos Great mystery and suspense writers have created some of the most unforgettable stories in all of literature and they continue to grow in popularity. How…
The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets - Exploring the Influence of the Beat Generation's Most Influential Voices 58 mins This engaging documentary explores the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through candid interviews with William…
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets - Exploring the Influence of the Beat Generation's Most Influential Voices Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets - Exploring the Influence of the Beat Generation's Most Influential Voices
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The Mask You Live In
The Mask You Live In
The Representation Project
THE MASK YOU LIVE IN follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America's narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our…
Race - The Power of an Illusion
Race - The Power of an Illusion
California Newsreel
The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet,…
3 videos
Miss Representation
Miss Representation
The Representation Project
Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, MISS REPRESENTATION uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contributes…
Killing Us Softly - Advertising's Image of Women
Killing Us Softly - Advertising's Image of Women
Media Education Foundation
In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals…
4 videos
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
Media Education Foundation
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy…
Helvetica - Typography, Graphic Design and Global Visual Culture
Helvetica - Typography, Graphic Design and Global Visual Culture
Film First Corp.
An independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. HELVETICA looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An…
The Codes of Gender - Identity & Performance in Popular Culture
The Codes of Gender - Identity & Performance in Popular Culture
Media Education Foundation
Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance. Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores…
2 videos
The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
Media Education Foundation
Acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise explores how Donald Trump expertly tapped into long-simmering racial tensions and rode an accelerating wave of white anxiety and grievance straight to the White House. Rejecting the notion that Trump's racial appeals to…
2 videos
Digital Disconnect - Fake News, Privacy and Democracy
Digital Disconnect - Fake News, Privacy and Democracy
Media Education Foundation
In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, the essential film DIGITAL DISCONNECT trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy. Tracing the internet's history as a publicly funded government project in the…
Precious Knowledge - Fighting for Mexican American Studies in Arizona Schools
Precious Knowledge - Fighting for Mexican American Studies in Arizona Schools
Dos Vatos
Precious Knowledge reports from the frontlines of one of the most contentious battles in public education in recent memory, the fight over Mexican American studies programs in Arizona public schools. The film interweaves the stories of several students enrolled in…
Consuming Kids - The Commercialization of Childhood
Consuming Kids - The Commercialization of Childhood
Part of the Series: MEF Debt & Consumerism Collection
Media Education Foundation
With virtually no government or public outcry, the multi-billion dollar youth marketing industry has been able to use the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics…
The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty
The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty
Media Education Foundation
The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard to the halls of the…
2 videos
GTFO: Get the F**k Out - Women in Gaming
GTFO: Get the F**k Out - Women in Gaming
Collective Eye Films
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny. Although half of all gamers are women, females are…
Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity
Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity
The Global Touch Group
Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? Did…
Tough Guise - Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Tough Guise - Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Media Education Foundation
While the social construction of femininity has been widely examined, the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction…
2 videos
Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality
Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality
New Day Films
Out in the Night is a documentary that tells the story of a group of young friends, African American lesbians who are out, one hot August night in 2006, in the gay friendly neighborhood of New York City. They are…
I Learn America
I Learn America
New Day Films
In I Learn America , five resilient immigrant teenagers come together at the International High School at Lafayette and struggle to learn their new land. The International High School is a New York City public school dedicated to serving newly…
2 videos
In Whose Honor? - American Indian Mascots in Sports
In Whose Honor? - American Indian Mascots in Sports
New Day Films
The Cleveland Indians. Washington Redskins. Atlanta Braves. What's wrong with American Indian sports mascots? This moving, award-winning film is the first of its kind to address that subject. In Whose Honor? takes a critical look at the long-running practice of…
Gen Silent - Discrimination Against LGBT Seniors
Gen Silent - Discrimination Against LGBT Seniors
Interrobang Productions / Stu Maddux Films
The generation that fought hardest to come out of the closet is going back in to survive. What would you do if you were old, disabled or ill - and the person feeding you put down the spoon and said…
2 videos
Hip Hop - Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Hip Hop - Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Media Education Foundation
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, long-time hip-hop fan, and gender violence prevention educator, conceived the documentary as a "loving critique" of…
2 videos