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Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE shows the Tampa, Florida, police responding to domestic violence calls and the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. Sequences with the police include police response, intervention, and attempted resolution of domestic violence calls.. Sequences at the shelter include intake interviews, individual counseling sessions, anger management training, group therapy, staff meetings, conversations among...
62) Titicut Follies
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
The film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. TITICUT FOLLIES documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers and psychiatrists.. "TITICUT FOLLIES is a brilliant work of art…" - Robert Coles, The New Republic. "TITICUT FOLLIES is a great work, a near-masterpiece not just of the documentary form, but of moviemaking...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Beyond the hysteria of Reefer Madness and past the deceptive lessons of "Just Say No", HIGH exposes the true story of America's war on drugs. Using government statistics, expert interviews and a large dose of humor, HIGH takes a fresh look at this hot button issue and asks just how much this "war" costs Americans in money, stress, and even lives.. There's a violent drug treatment program that tortured children; an overbearing drug czar that doesn't...
64) Circles
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A film about justice and community healing, hope and transformation. In the Yukon, an innovative program is bringing together a traditional form of Aboriginal justice--circle sentencing--and the Canadian justice system. Sentencing circles don't focus on punishment. Instead, they bring together the perpetrator of a crime, his or her victims, and peers and family in an effort to bring healing to the community.. For many Aboriginal men in the North,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For the past several years, stop & frisk in New York City has been front-page news. It has stirred passions, sown division, inspired social activism, and led to a monumental change in New York City’s understanding of policing and its vision of itself. The central catalyst for this change was Floyd et al. v. the City of New York et al. (Floyd), a class- action lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 2008. The lawsuit alleged...
66) Miami Manhunt
Publisher
Rumur Films
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a string of disturbing assaults terrorizes Miami in the summer of 2003, the city cries for justice. The police launch a massive investigation, and soon realize they have a serial rapist on their hands. The investigation and apprehension that ensue become one of the most famed manhunts in Miami's history. Now the hunt, capture, and trial of notorious serial rapist Reynaldo Rapalo with some surprising twists and turns along the way are all caught...
Publisher
Odd Squad Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Crystal methamphetamine has roared across the globe, leaving wrecked lives, broken dreams, and death in its wake. Meth use has cost millions of dollars in policing and health expenditures. 'Scathed' analyzes the problem through the eyes of current and recovering users, their families, health-care workers, and police. This hard-hitting documentary demonstrates that using crystal meth essentially poisons the soul; it offers a fast track to a living...
68) Who Took Johnny
Publisher
Rumur Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An examination into the infamous thirty-year-old cold case behind the disappearance of Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch, the first missing child to appear on a milk carton.. WHO TOOK JOHNNY focuses on the heartbreaking story of Johnny’s mother, Noreen Gosch, and her relentless quest to find the truth about what happened that tragic September morning in Des Moines when Johnny never returned from his paper route. Along the way, there have been mysterious...
Publisher
LOGTV
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
BORDERLINE is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of Eunice Baker, a borderline mentally retarded woman who was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for murdering a young child, despite evidence that the death was accidental. After nearly 5 years in prison, The New York State Appellate Court recently reduced Eunice's sentence to criminally negligent homicide, and she was released on time served.. When she was first brought in for...
70) Motley's Law
Publisher
LevelK ApS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Kimberley Motley left her husband and three kids in the US in order to work as a defence lawyer in Kabul, Afghanistan. Today she is the first and only foreign lawyer who litigates in Afghanistan’s courts.. For over five years now, human rights cases and troubled expats have motivated her to stay, but personal threats and general conditions in the country, make it harder and harder for Kimberly to continue her work.. Winner of the Viewfinders Grand...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon shocked the nation when he announced that U.S. troops were invading Cambodia. At college campuses across the country, masses of students took to the streets in protest. Five days later, four Kent State students would be shot dead by National Guardsmen.. The mayhem that followed has been called the most divisive moment in American history since the Civil War.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A companion to New Day's Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America, the 20-minute film explores best practices in three jurisdictions: Duluth, MN, home of the influential "Duluth Model;" Baltimore, MD, home of an infamously high crime rate; and the South Bronx, the nation's busiest domestic violence patrol area.. Seasoned officers responding to tense, actual domestic calls show how to safely approach a fighting couple, interview, determine primary...
Publisher
Odd Squad Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This deeply-impacting short film deals with the highly-dangerous and -destructive criminal act of stealing cars. Far from joy-riding, the RCMP explain that the vast majority of car thieves are those who are addicted to drugs. They steal vehicles so that they can commit other crimes to raise money for more drugs. All too often, innocent lives cut short by drug addled maniacs at the wheel of a stolen car..
74) Grinders
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing Exclusive
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
With a new baby and wife to support, out-of-work filmmaker Matt Gallagher tries his hand - and some would say "luck"- at playing poker for a living. ..This inside journey into the unconventional, often bizarre, underground world of illegal poker clubs finds a world populated by colourful characters, straight out of central casting. A world where the workday starts at midnight, runs strictly on cash, and can change forever with the simple flip of a...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Sacco and Vanzetti brings to life the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. The ordeal of Sacco and Vanzetti came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America. Millions of people around the world protested on their behalf, and now, 80 years later, their story...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of one of the world’s most infamous crimes and notorious killers. At 21 years old, Patricia Krenwinkel callously murdered three people at the command of Charles Manson. Now 66 years old, she continues to be demonized by the public and haunted by the suffering she caused over four decades ago.. Through an exclusive interview with and never before seen footage of Krenwinkel, filmmaker Olivia Klaus frames a historically irreconcilable...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 1988, when director María Fernanda Restrepo was only 10 years old, her life changed in the cruelest of ways: her two brothers—then 14 and 17—vanished without a trace. Only later did the family learn that the boys had been illegally detained, tortured, and murdered by the Ecuadorean police.. Now, decades later, with her brothers’ remains still missing, Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story. In the process,...
79) Noel Field
Publisher
Dschoint Ventschr
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
American Noel Field was a key player in the trials following the World War Two in Eastern Europe. He was secretly imprisoned between 1949 and 1955, but remained in Hungary after his release. What was the secret of Noel Field?
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
SENORITA EXTRAVIADA tells the haunting story of the more than 350 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. Visually poetic, yet unflinching in its gaze, this compelling investigation unravels the layers of complicity that have allowed for the brutal murders of women living along the Mexico-U.S. border. In the midst of Juárez’s international mystique and high profile job market, there exists a murky history of grossly underreported...
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