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Mapantsula
01:40:04

Mapantsula

After he is jailed, a small-time hoodlum in South Africa named Panic comes to realize that there is more to life than panhandling. Panic is a mapantsula, a Zulu term for a petty crook. He is imprisoned with Anti-aparthei..

Maquilapolis: city of factories
01:08:20

Maquilapolis: city of factories

Explores the environmental devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana’s assembly factories and the female laborers who have organized themselves for social action. Maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables..

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
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Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle

In telling the story of the organizing of the first black trade union—The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters—this program provides an account of African-American working life between the Civil War and World War II. ..

Monday's girls
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Monday's girls

A grandmother named Monday Moses in the island town of Ogoloma, Nigeria is responsible for taking the young girls of the village through the rites of passage from girlhood into womanhood so that they will be ready for ma..

Money Driven Medicine - Advocacy Version (18 minutes)
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Money Driven Medicine - Advocacy Version (18 minutes)

Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to better understand and address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform during the coming decade. Effective Care, or Just Expensive ..

Money Driven Medicine - Complete version (86 minutes)
01:22:03

Money Driven Medicine - Complete version (86 minutes)

Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to better understand and address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform during the coming decade. Effective Care, or Just Expensive ..

Money Driven Medicine - Educator's version (50 minutes)
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Money Driven Medicine - Educator's version (50 minutes)

Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to better understand and address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform during the coming decade. Effective Care, or Just Expensive ..

Money Driven Medicine - Practitioner's Version (38 minutes)
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Money Driven Medicine - Practitioner's Version (38 minutes)

Money-Driven Medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to better understand and address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform during the coming decade. Effective Care, or Just Expensive ..

Mortu Nega (Those Whom Death Refused)
01:32:06

Mortu Nega (Those Whom Death Refused)

In 1973, independence was proclaimed [in Guinea Bissau], ending five centuries of Portuguese colonization and a decade of armed struggle. [This film], Gomes' first feature-length film, portrays this critical period in hi..

Nat Turner : A Troublesome Property
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Nat Turner : A Troublesome Property

Nat Turner's slave rebellion is a watershed event in America's long and troubled history of slavery and racial conflict. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property tells the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways th..

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