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Showing 1 - 10 of 59 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is 21st Century
The Activists
The story of activists who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including their lives, the tactics they used, and the historical context.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 60 minutes
Backfired
Investigates the largest auto scam in the world, tracing VW's deliberate installation of defeat devices in their diesel cars to circumvent California and US vehicle emissions standards.
Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 61 minutes
Beethoven's Nine
When director Larry Weinstein is pulled into his own documentary about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, his film about war, hope and music's relevance to our society today becomes a deeply personal exploration.
Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 83 minutes
Belfast Girls
BELFAST GIRLS is a quiet, powerful story of two young women growing up in a city where neighbors are cut off from each other by permanent concrete and corrugated iron screens. These so-called “peace walls” have also become mental walls, dividing one community from another. Living in different worlds within the same city, Mairéad Mc Ilkenny and Christine Savage share the legacy of 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland. With insightful clarity, Swedish director Malin Andersson reveals how, in their daily struggles and triumphs, these two strong women have more in common with each other than they have differences.
Women Make Movies | 2006 | 58 minutes
Blowback
BLOWBACK is a dynamic exploration of the representation of the wars in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) in world cinema which argues that films function as resonant cultural artifacts that shape how the conflicts come to be understood and remembered by audiences at the time, and those of generations to come.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 30 minutes
Boom Boom
In voiceover, filmmaker Laurie Lassalle questions her desire to be part of the "Gilets jaunes" (Yellow vests) protest movement in France.
Andana Films | 2022 | 110 minutes
Chasing Evil
Dissects the terror-attacks since Paris Bataclan in November 2015 and looks for common patterns.
Collective Eye Films | 2017 | 52 minutes
Choice Thoughts: Reflections on the Birth Control War
A look at 100 years of the fight for birth control and legalized abortion.
Women Make Movies | 1996 | 10 minutes
A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan
Based on 14 trips to Afghanistan between 1994 and 2010, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is the work of photojournalist Seamus Murphy. His work chronicles a people caught time and again in political turmoil, struggling to find their way.
MediaStorm | 2011 | 27 minutes
Dissent Poem
An anonymous young protester, The Narrator, recounts the protest and trials of what became known as J20,
Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 22 minutes
