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The '70s: Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes

Rated: 0 | 97 Views Released Year: 2001

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: Danny Bonaduce takes us back to the golden decade of pet rocks, mood rings, polyester suits and disco music. This engaging documentary (which borders on mockumentary) looks at the people and events that made the 1970s such irreverent fun. Put on those boogie shoes, pick that Afro, and do the hustle!
URL: The '70s: Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes

The '70s Dimension

Rated: 0 | 99 Views Released Year: 2005

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: This video offers a veritable treasure trove of 16mm commercials, public service announcements and TV odds and ends from the decade that brought us leisure suits and smiley faces. Includes such classic iconography as the Marlboro Man and the goofy ads for Jack LaLanne's "Glamour Stretchers." Also features "What the 70s Really Looked Like" and a series of audiovisual "remixes" -- vintage industrial and educational films spliced and diced into sublimely ridiculous collages.
URL: The '70s Dimension

Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: Does Europe Hate Us?

Rated: 0 | 112 Views Released Year: 2005

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign affairs correspondent Thomas L. Friedman examines the ideological gap between America and Europe in this Discovery Channel program. Traveling through France, Germany and England, Friedman talks to politicians, activists and average citizens who discuss their attitudes toward the Bush administration and the culture of the United States. Americans living abroad also contribute interesting insights.
URL: Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: Does Europe Hate Us?

Tie-Died: Rock 'n' Roll's Most Deadicated Fans

Rated: 0 | 116 Views Released Year: 1995

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: Director Andrew Behar interviews an array of Deadheads -- from aging hippies to homeless teens -- during the Grateful Dead's 1994 summer tour to find out why the band means so much to them. Whether they're piloting Volkswagen buses, selling veggie burritos or twirling through "space," the fans' unique stories are told through their own blissed-out perspective. Extras include "A Conversation with Ken Kesey," a short film by Peter Shapiro.
URL: Tie-Died: Rock 'n' Roll's Most Deadicated Fans

The Fabulous '60s

Rated: 0 | 102 Views Released Year: 1986

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: It was the decade when America came of age and nearly tore itself apart. Peter Jennings hosts this in-depth retrospective on the 1960s, examining the Civil Rights movement, the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, the space program, the Cold War, Vietnam and more. Discover the people and events that changed the country forever and still affect our everyday lives.
URL: The Fabulous '60s

Attack of the 80s

Rated: 0 | 96 Views Released Year: 2007

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: Pull on your legwarmers, stick in those hot rollers and prepare for a nostalgic look back at the cinema of the 1980s -- an era of power suits, Jazzercise and some of the best (and worst) movies of all time. This comprehensive collection of 50 theatrical trailers runs the gamut from the realism of The Big Chill (1983) to the ridiculousness of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) … and everything in between.
URL: Attack of the 80s

Rent a Rasta

Rated: 0 | 97 Views Released Year: 2006

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: About 80,000 women flock to Jamaica every year, many for more than its sunny beaches. This provocative documentary examines the island's sex tourism, as women from around the world come to get their groove back. The film also delves into the Rastafarian faith, distinguishing island playboys from the real-life Rastas. J. Michael Seyfert's film about cultural misunderstandings and socioeconomic inequities amplifies voices not often heard.
URL: Rent a Rasta

A Certain Kind of Death

Rated: 0 | 112 Views Released Year: 2003

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: Winner of a Sundance Special Jury Prize, this sobering documentary begs the question, "What happens to people who die without any next of kin?" Filmmakers Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh examine the deaths of three people with no known family members. As the various public employees deal with corpses, finances and property, the film slowly unravels the individuals' life stories through family photos, letters and conversations with caseworkers.
URL: A Certain Kind of Death

A Man Named Pearl

Rated: 0 | 120 Views Released Year: 2006

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: Angered by white residents' racist comments that he wouldn't "keep up his yard," Pearl Fryar teaches himself topiary sculpture and becomes the first African American in his Bishopville, S.C., neighborhood to win the coveted "yard of the month" award. This acclaimed documentary traces Fryar's inspiring story, as he grows into a legendary horticulturist, welcoming thousands of tourists eager to catch a glimpse of his stunning works of art.
URL: A Man Named Pearl

37 Uses for a Dead Sheep

Rated: 0 | 90 Views Released Year: 2006

Genre: Social & Cultural Documentaries
About: Now residents of Turkey for more than 25 years, the once nomadic Pamir Kirghiz people endured an epic journey -- five migrations in all -- to get there. Ben Hopkins teams with a Kirghiz scholar to provide a rare cinematic profile of a stoic people through interviews with tribe members and reenactments of their migrations through Central Asia, the former Soviet Union, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally Turkey to escape Communist oppression.
URL: 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep

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