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Century of Women Collection
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Wild Man Blues
: :In 1996, with his public image at a low ebb after a messy breakup with Mia Farrow, clarinetist and filmmaker Woody Allen set off on a tour of Europe with his New Orleans jazz band. Accompanying him were his sister, his soon-to-be wife Soon-Yi Previn, and Oscar-winning documentary maker Barbara Kopple. Like Allen says as the beginning of the tour, 'Theoretically, this should be fun for us.' Woody Allen has always been more widely appreciated in Europe than in the U.S., so it's no surprise that the concerts quickly provoke the ...
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A Century of Women 3: Image & Popular Culture
:Description:This innovative film combines documentary and narrative techniques to show how the lives of American Women have changed over the past century. The film tells the story of a fictional family through it's female members, presenting the women's experiences and changing roles along the way.
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American Dream
: essential video:Director Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning rendering of a crippling strike at a Minnesota meat-packing plant may look dated, but the underlying theme of individuals crushed by big business remains all too timely. Using a briskly engrossing combination of first-person interviews, news broadcasts, and fly-on-the-wall encounters, Kopple creates an indelible document of a community's dissolution at the hands of larger forces. (The film is clearly on the side of the workers, but at the same time it refuses to ignore the petty infighting that eventually helped contribute to their ruin.) An ...
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Harlan County Usa
: essential video:A man crouches and pokes at what first appears to be a wad of chewed-up pink bubble gum on the ground. 'That's what a scab will do to ya, by God,' he says, his voice quavering with emotion. The pink wad is brain tissue from a striker shot in the head by a strikebreaker. That's one of the harsh realities of Harlan County USA. Barbara Kopple's documentary camera looks at this forgotten corner of 1970s America, the site of some of the bitterest labor violence in American history. It's ...
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Century of Women 2: Sexuality & Social Justice
:Description:This innovative film combines documentary and narrative techniques to show how the lives of American Women have changed over the past century. The film tells the story of a fictional family through it's female members, presenting the women's experiences and changing roles along the way.
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Fallen Champ - The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
:Description:This innovative film combines documentary and narrative techniques to show how the lives of American Women have changed over the past century. The film tells the story of a fictional family through it's female members, presenting the women's experiences and changing roles along the way.
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Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
:Description:This innovative film combines documentary and narrative techniques to show how the lives of American Women have changed over the past century. The film tells the story of a fictional family through it's female members, presenting the women's experiences and changing roles along the way.
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Harlan County, USA
: essential video:A man crouches and pokes at what first appears to be a wad of chewed-up pink bubble gum on the ground. 'That's what a scab will do to ya, by God,' he says, his voice quavering with emotion. The pink wad is brain tissue from a striker shot in the head by a strikebreaker. That's one of the harsh realities of Harlan County USA. Barbara Kopple's documentary camera looks at this forgotten corner of 1970s America, the site of some of the bitterest labor violence in American history. It's ...
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Wild Man Blues
: :In 1996, with his public image at a low ebb after a messy breakup with Mia Farrow, clarinetist and filmmaker Woody Allen set off on a tour of Europe with his New Orleans jazz band. Accompanying him were his sister, his soon-to-be wife Soon-Yi Previn, and Oscar-winning documentary maker Barbara Kopple. Like Allen says as the beginning of the tour, 'Theoretically, this should be fun for us.' Woody Allen has always been more widely appreciated in Europe than in the U.S., so it's no surprise that the concerts quickly provoke the ...
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