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81) Allendes Enkel
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
For years pupils and students have been protesting in Chile against the privatization of the educational system. Thousands demonstrated for their right to free education. By 2012 the protests began to decrease. Today only one school in Santiago is still occupied. The violent raiding of the school by the police could happen at any time, so who are these pupils and what are they demanding?
Series
How and why volume 10
Publisher
Distributed by MediaPro
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking documentary series for students, encompassing an assortment of diverse scientific fields, presenting knowledge in a fun-to-learn and easy to understand format.
83) The Competition
Publisher
Metrograph
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
La Fémis is one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only forty students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman-esque documentary observes the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process which is revealed to be highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice. THE COMPETITION offers not only a unique...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal (*Y Tu Mama Tambien, Neruda*) gathered 11 award-winning filmmakers to explore the educational crisis in Latin America, where nearly half of all young people never finish high school. Winner of the **UNICEF** Childhood and Adolescence Award, this is a captivating anthology of short films, both narrative and documentary.
85) Spiral Bound
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the unlikely union of eight creative high school students from a youth development program and a group of liberal arts college students over the course of one summer. Together, these education activists are seeking social justice not only in the public school system but also in the higher education arena. On this journey, both groups learn the power of the arts in giving a voice to those who need it the most, including themselves....
86) Therapy Dogs
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the last year of high school as two best friends Ethan Eng and Justin Morrice aim to create the ultimate senior video while also trying to make sense of their empty teenage lives. Shot in a real high school over the course of a year, they embark on a no-brakes adventure through the wastelands of Toronto’s suburbia. Collaging the fears, dreams, and memories of teenage experience. As the year unfolds, pressures on their friendship weigh,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As the daughters of the baby-boom reached adolescence, American schools struggled to educate them on matters of sexual and social development. This fascinating collection contains films on wide-ranging topics as such as the reproductive system, cooking skills, self-defense, and how to appear more pleasing to others.
88) The Rule
Publisher
Bongiorno Productions Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Saint Benedict's Prep, in Newark, New Jersey, is in the heart of one of America's most dangerous cities yet has a near 100% college acceptance rate for its inner city young men. See how the monks' recipe for success follows the Rule of Saint Benedict and how this sixth-century rule can serve as a model for urban schools worldwide.
89) Breach of Trust
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The high-profile sexual assault scandal at the University of Southern California involving Dr. George Tyndall, the only full-time gynecologist in the school’s student health clinic from 1989 to 2016, first made headlines when journalists Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton exposed horrific abuses in a 2018 LA Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative report. USC recently announced it would pay {dollar}1.1 billion to patients, making it the largest...
91) Skeleton
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Takes you beneath the surface to reveal the hidden secrets of an incredible variety of skeletal structures, none more complex than our own. A symbol of our deepest fears, a miracle of engineering--see the skeleton as never before.
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Builds on the story of the original film and includes additional interviews and archival footage. Ana Deborah Mola and Belkis Lescaille, who were among the first of the volunteer teachers who laid the groundwork for the revolutionary National Literacy Campaign that would follow, are featured. The 10th anniversary edition DVD, as well as the Digital Site License, includes both films.
Publisher
The Epidavros Project
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Offers small sets of stories, sharp glimpses into a few intimate relationships, layered to mirror the complex reality: Nadouba and Bintu in their West African village, Taz and Patricia from elite St. Mary's Secondary School in Malawi, Ethel and her mother torn between village and the modern world, a relaxed and riotous conversation among a group of Malinké elders. Through knowing them, the audience grows to understand how deep cultural attitudes,...
94) Admissions
Publisher
Chloe Smolarski
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This film delves into the inherent contradictions and psychological implications of undocumented students trapped at the intersection of education policy and broken immigration system. The stories of four students demonstrate both the dehumanizing effects of marginalization and their determination to receive a higher education. Experimental sound design, unsynchronized imagery, and a sophisticated metaphorical language are used to tell their poignant...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside Boston schools as Black and white students were bused for the first time to comply with a federal court desegregation order. Shocking violence, directed mostly at children, ensued. THE BUSING BATTLEGROUND illuminates the volatile effort to end school segregation, and the decades-long struggle for educational equity that preceded the crisis.
96) The Real Cost
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With a staggering 1.8 trillion dollars in student loan debt, the average American household owes {dollar}39,000, affecting minorities and only expanding the racial gap even wider. A significant percentage of these people have paid their debt by now. Still, it’s the penalties, the uncontrolled interest, and the predatory behaviors of loan companies that keep piling upon them. Are the current efforts from the government enough to make a change?
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With more school shootings in 2021 than any year on record, Code Red: Youth of the Nation exposes the fatal cost of our children's education. The documentary seeks to restore the safety of our schools by providing the tools and solutions to put an end to these tragedies.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Students at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts confront their new president’s underhanded attempt to shut down the school. In the process, they discover that a powerful institution is bullying their inexperienced administration into giving up the independence of one of the most innovative colleges in the United States. This raucous ode to democracy in action will invoke viewers with the courage required to stand up to power.
99) Division rap
Publisher
Distributed by Big Kids Productions
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Cool music and comical characters generate lots of excitement about learning! Kids of all ages enjoy discovering what division is all about, solving story problems, using remainders, and even working long division. Learners rap along with D.J. Doc Roc to practice solving division facts quickly and accurately. Find out what the dividend, divisor and quotient are and how to use multiplication to check your divided answers.
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