Videos on Class, Race, and Ethnicity

American dreaming Atlantic City's casino gamble 2014

Discusses the rise, the fall, and the current attempt to revitalize Atlantic City. Raises public policy questions about the attempt to use casino gambling as a panacea for deep-seated urban problems. 1 videodisc (51 min.)

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Atlantic City 2002, 1980

A smalltime, aging Mafia hood falls in love with a clam bar waitress, and they share the spoils of the big score against the backdrop of a changing Atlantic City. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

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Atlantic crossing a robot's daring mission 2011

Dena Seidel, Scott Michael Glenn, Writers House (Firm), and Rutgers University

"Visionary oceanographer Scott Glenn leads a team of passionate and daring scientists as they race against time to launch the first autonomous underwater robot across the vast and dangerous Atlantic Ocean."--Container. 1 videodisc (71 min.) :

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Best kept secret 2012

"JFK High School, located in a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate, they will leave the security of the public school system forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world--a job or rare placement in a recreational center--so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets"--Container. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

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The Camden 28 c2006

Anthony Giacchino, ECC Media (Firm), and First Run/Icarus Films

In 1971 eight anti-Vietnam war protesters broke into the offices of the Camden draft board and shredded Selective Service records for two hours before they were captured by FBI agents. These protesters and twenty co-conspirators were placed on trial in 1973. This documentary examines their case through archival footage, U.S. government films, interviews with many of the defendants, the FBI informant as well as prosecution and defense lawyers and witnesses. 1 videodisc (83 min.)

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City of promise 1995

The context for the war on poverty shifts after 1965.  Urban rebellions provoke a sense of urgency for some, while others now see the war against poverty as hopeless.  Increasingly, the media and the public equate poverty with inner-city black communities.  This program looks at the anger and despair of the poor and the powerless, and the anger and frustration of the middle class at having to pay for "others' mistakes."  It also examines attempts made in Newark, New Jersey, to reclaim the inner city through public/private partnerships. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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The D & R 1974

Presents a history of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, once the busiest and most valuable waterway in the United States. Tells of its construction, life along the prosperous canal, its abandonment, and its subsequent recreational use. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

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Delivered vacant 2006

Documentary about Hoboken, N.J., a city that had become a giant slum located just across the river fron New York City. During the 8 year period of filming the viewer is shown how the city was transformed, its old buildings were torn down and replaced by new condominiums and inhabited by out of state yuppies. Interviews were made with old and new inhabitants. An insight was gained into the local government, which had to issue permits and make new laws for the rehabbing to be undertaken. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

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Dreams deferred the Sakia Gunn film project c2008

Charles Bennett Brack, Eamonn Simone Films, and Newsreel (Firm)

A documentary on  the events surrounding the death of Sakia Gunn, a 15-year old African American lesbian who was fatally stabbed in gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. The film includes the court hearing, arguments presented by both sides regarding the victim and the accused, and the sentencing. 1 videodisc (54 min.)

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Famous tiller sharks boating across NJ on the Old Morris Canal with Jim Lee: Boating across NJ on the Old Morris Canal with Jim Lee c1976

The history, folk music, and poems of the Old Morris Canal are seen and remembered by a few of the remaining people who lived and worked along its banks. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

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Fortunes in furs c1992

Survey of the settlement of New Jersey from the founding of the Dutch colony of New Netherland to the establishment of English power in 1664. Covers the significance of the fur trade, relations with Delaware Indians, political events and social life of the colony. 1 videocassette (27 min., 33 sec.)

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Haven from shame 2009

Interview with present and past Seabrook residents at the 50th reunion of their relocation to southern Jersey. 1 videodisc (16 min.)

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How do you spell murder? c2004

Filmed on location at New Jersey State Prison, a literacy program called L.I.F.E. is spotlighted. It asks to what degree illiteracy adnd undiagnosed learning disabilities contribute to a drift toward delinquency and crime. 1 videodisc (40 min.)

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Make a difference at an urban public library c2005

Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative and New Jersey State Library

1 videodisc (8 min.)

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Monopolies and mechanics c1998-c1999

Describes how improvements in transportation and the chartering of corporations transformed the lives of average New Jerseyans. Shows that the "Market Revolution" changed home and workplace as farmers and mechanics responded to its demands. 1 videocassette (ca. 28 min.)

MEDIA 10-3859

 

Paper, rock, scissors 2005

New Jersey Network (Firm) and New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Features digital stone carvers, master paper makers, master paper cutters, pop up book engineers and more. 1 videodisc (27 min.)

MEDIA 10-546

 

A place out of time the Bordentown School 2010

Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards, Ruby Dee, Hudson West Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), and PBS Home Video

The little-known story of the last all-black, publicly funded, coeducational boarding school north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In a segregated society, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia and cultural oasis for black citizens in the northeast and beyond for more than 70 years. Founded in 1886, and forced to close in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the story of Bordentown is also the story of black education in America across three centuries. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

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The Progressive banner c2003

Describes political reforms introduced by Governor Woodrow Wilson to fight political corruption and "Boss" politics as practiced by Frank Hague of Jersey City and others. Shows how work of progressive political activists such as Alice Paul advanced the cause of civil rights. The failure of some progressives, such as Woodrow Wilson, to address the problems of Blacks and women is also covered. 1 videocassette (26 min., 46 sec.)

MEDIA 10-3861

 

Railroads 2011

Lorett Treese, Rutgers University, and Libraries

Lorett Treese, author of Railroads in New Jersey, speaks on the history of railroads in New Jersey and Pennsylvania at the opening of an exhibition on New Jersey railroads at Rutgers University. 1 videodisc (36 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3231

 

Revolution '67 2007

Jerome Bongiorno, Marylou Bongiorno, Independent Television Service, P.O.V. (Firm) , American Documentary, Inc, WSKG Public Broadcasting, and Bongiorno Productions, Inc

"Focuses on the explosive urban rebellion which erupted in Newark, New Jersey, in July 1967; a tragedy caused by similar problems that sparked race riots across America.  The film takes viewers on a daily chronicle of events, including the calling in of the State Police and National Guard, their occupation of the city and use of unnecessary firepower.  Final toll: 26 dead"--Container. 1 videodisc (173 min.)

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Royal rule and religious revival c1993

Explores the political, social, and religious conditions of colonial New Jersey under royal rule, including property disputes between the proprietors and occupants of the newly-unified colony and the effects of the widespread religious revival known as the Great Awakening which swept the colonies at the time. 1 videocassette (26 min., 20 sec.)

MEDIA 10-3858

 

Scared straight! Scared straight! 20 years later 2003

Arnold Shapiro, Peter Falk, Danny Glover, William Moffitt, Jim Arnold, Robert Niemack, Sharon Rennert, John Thomas, Marie Maxwell, Arnold Shapiro Productions, Paramount Stations Group, Inc, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group

Scared straight! profiles a unique juvenile crime-prevention program at New Jersey's Rahway maximum-security prison, recounting the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the prison with the some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. In an attempt to scare the kids out of their criminal ways, prisoners took turns describing prison life, emphasizing it's worst features. Scared straight! 20 years later traces the subsequent lives of the teens and convicts featured in the original documentary. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 10-438

 

Sourlands Looks as a number of individuals engaged in sustainable lifestyles in the part of New Jersey known as the Sourlands. 1 videodisc (approximately 78 minutes)

MEDIA 10-5555

 

A state of many nations c2001

The story of immigrants from many nations who settled in New Jersey in the nineteenth century, in particular German and Irish immigrants. 1 videocassette (26 min., 46 sec.)

MEDIA 10-3860

 

Three days on big city waters 1974

Michael Aaron Rockland

Records an actual trip taken Labor Day Weekend 1973 by Rockland and Woolfolk, who traveled by canoe from Princeton, N.J. to Manhattan. Includes pictorial and verbal comments on shore-line pollution and on Ellis Island, former reception center for immigrants entering the U.S. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)

MEDIA 10-3557

 

Ajayu c1996

Francisco Ormachea G., Reynaldo Yujra Quispe, Celia López, Praxis Antara (Firm), and Latin American Video Archives

Death in the Aymara culture is an experience in which the mourners, the community, the souls participate together. Age-old rituals mixed with Catholic symbols assimilated by the people frame the story of Andres and his young daughter Leonora, who upon drowning in Lake Titikaka, must find their way to Korimarca (the Aymara Heaven) with help from the members of the community to which they belonged. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA 2-7253

 

Ajishama the white ibis 2003

John Dickinson and Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

Details the life and work, over a 30 year period, of José Maria Korta a Jesuit Missionary working with the indigenous people of the Amazon. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-6428

 

Amazon journal 1995

Geoffrey O'Connor and Nathaniel Kahn

This documentary chronicles recent political events in the Brazilian Amazon. Beginning with the assassination of Chico Mendes in 1988 and ending with the massacre of Yanomami Indians in 1993, this five year journey provides an illuminating perspective on the volatile changes of this era. Besides documenting events, O'Connor analyzes the complex interaction between semi-isolated indigenous societies and "outsiders." This new release from a veteran observer of the Amazon scene sheds new light on cultural confrontation. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-2757

 

At play in the fields of the Lord 1992

Peter Matthiessen, Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Hector Babenco, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Saul Zaentz, Tom Waits, Kathy Bates, Saul Zaentz Company, Universal Pictures (Firm), and MCA Universal Home Video (Firm)

The tale of two men's experiences with a native Indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest. One is an American mercenary hired to drive the Niaruna Indians off their land, who joins forces with them instead. The other is a missionary sent to convert the natives to Christianity. 2 videocassettes (186 min.)

MEDIA 2-7348-7349

 

Autocracy and rebellion in Mesoamerica a video documentary] /by Alfonso Moises ; Media Arts, University of Arizona c1996

Alfonso Moises, Martha Moises, University of Arizona, Media Arts, and Cinema Guild

Documentary film with dramatized segments describing the political behavior of Mesoamericans through a historical and cultural analysis of the cultural traits of autocracy and rebellion. 1 videocassette (42 min.)

MEDIA 2-7625

 

The Ax fight 1978-?, 1975

Timothy Asch and Napoleon A Chagnon

A four-part analysis of a fight in a Yanomamo Indian village between local descent groups. Includes an unedited record of the event; a slow-motion replay of the fight; a discussion of the kinship structure of the fight; and an edited version. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

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Between light and shadow Maya women in transition 1997

Kathryn Vigesaa Lipke, John McKay, and Marielle Nitoslawska

Interviews with Mayan women artists who work to preserve Mayan culture, improve the lives of the Mayan people and promote a Maya presence in their community. Includes Mayan folk art in the form of woven textiles and embroidery and contemporary paintings. 1 videocassette (26 min.)

MEDIA 2-5723

 

The Buried mirror reflections on Spain and the New World 1991

Carlos Fuentes and Annie Dodds

For American Indians, the mirror symbolized power, the sun, the Earth, its four corners, and its people. Now, a "mirror" is being held up to the Old and New Worlds to reflect the diverse cultures of a Spanish-speaking countries and peoples, together with the themes, institutions, beliefs, and symbols that have endured or changed through time. 5 videocassettes (ca. 59 min. each)

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Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopo 1993,1991

Bruce MacDonald and Tracy Bachrach Ehlers

The Tunecos of San Antonio Palopo speak Cakchiquel, one of more than twenty Mayan languages still extant in Guatemala. As development encroaches, these people must decide whether the loss of their culture is too high a price to pay for incorporation into the world beyond their lakeside village. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-3918

 

Caminos del Silencio 1987

Félix Zurita

Documents the civil war in Guatemala and shows the effects it has had on Indian farmers. Focuses on a group of people from the Ixcan region who have had to flee as government soldiers have destroyed their houses and crops and killed thousands of villagers. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

MEDIA 2-2699

 

Centinelas del silencio las ruinas del Mexico prehispánico 1990

Explores seven archeological sites in central Mexico, highlighting their variety of monuments, pyramids, and carvings. 1 videocassette (18 min.)

MEDIA 2-1198

 

Central America the burden of time 1992

Michael Wood and Peter Spry-Leverton

Discusses how, isolated from the rest of the world, the Aztecs, Maya and Inca created sophisticated civilizations that in many ways paralleled ancient Mediterranean empires.  Also discusses how the arrival of the Conquistadores caused near obliteration of their culture and how parts of it survive today in the mountains of Central America. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

MEDIA 2-5899

 

The Chaco legacy 1988

Examines archaeological theories about the rise and fall of Chacoan culture, which flourished 900 years ago in the area of Chaco Canyon, N.M. 1 videocassette (59 min.)

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Children of Zapata 1994

Frances-Mary Morrison

Looks at the Zapatista National Liberation Army's struggle to attain justice for the Maya Indians of Chiapas, who have been ruthlessly marginalized by the Mexican government and live in grinding poverty.  A 1994 revolt by Zapatista guerrillas briefly succeeded in occupying four towns and focusing world attention on the abuses of power in Mexico. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

MEDIA 2-2550

 

City of the gods 1994

John Rhys-Davies, Bertrand Morin, Tom Naughton, and Nicolas Valcour

Fifty miles north of modern Mexico City stands the ancient site of Teotihuacán.  Built more than 2,000 years ago, the city's colossal pyramids of the sun and moon are the largest pre-Columbian monuments in the New World.  Murals found there provide archaeologists with information about this ancient metropolis. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-2447

 

Common table in Bolivia 1989

Michael Lavery, Rosemary McCormack, and Don Doherty

Taped entirely on location in Bolivia, the program looks at the traditional rite of passage ceremony of the Aymara people, and at the struggle of Aymara women who have migrated to the capital city of La Paz.  Two missionaries who work with the Aymara join hosts Don Doherty and Rosemary McCormack to discuss the life and culture of this important ethnic group. 1 videocassette (28 min., 30 sec.)

DANA 404

 

The Conquest of Mexico 1991

Caroline Laure, Franco Lecca, Henri de Turenne, and Robert Lanchester

This program provides a portrait of Cortez and his world; of the New World as seen by a handful of Spaniards; and of the civilizations of mesoamerica before they were "discovered"--the world of the Mayas and Aztecs, the nature of Aztec religion and politics. It describes the Battle of Mexico and how and why Montezuma lost--and why the descendants of the Aztecs speak Nahautl today. 1 videocassette (ca. 35 min.)

DANA 231

 

Conquistadors 2001

Michael Wood, David Wallace, and Rebecca Dobbs

Four part series on the discovery of the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors and the subsequent fall of the Aztec and Inca empires. 4 videocassettes (240 min.)

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Contact the Yanomami Indians of Brazil  1990

Geoffrey O'Connor and Roy Scheider

This documentary, shot in one of the most remote corners of the Brazilian Amazon, graphically depicts the devastating impact of contact with the outside world on an isolated indigenous tribe, the Yanomami Indians, who are considered to be the last major Stone Age people in the Amazon. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-1812

 

Danzante the living tradition 1992

Miguel Grunstein, Guillermo Chávez Rosete, Dorotea Martinez Minera, Pat Garza, Larry Sargent, and  Norberto Zamundio

Explores the importance of dance to the culture of the native peoples of the southwestern United States, with emphasis on northern New Mexico. Five dancers (danzantes) are interviewed, each expressing desire to perform native dance in order to keep it a living tradition. 1 videocassette (ca. 28 min)

MEDIA 2-2066

 

Democracia indigena 1999

Bruce Lane and Gerardo Avila Garcá

Examines the indigenous rights revolution sweeping Mexico through the municipal elections in Huehuetla, Puebla. 1 videocassette (ca. 36 min.)

MEDIA 2-5812

 

Discovering the music of Latin America  1987

Bernard Wilets

Traces the history of Latin American music, pointing out the incorporation of many traditions, particularly Indian and Spanish. Presents some of the modern derivatives, such as popular dance rhythms of the tango and the rhumba. 1 videocassette (21 min.)

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El Charanguero 1995

Jaime Torres, Jeffrey Lynn Briggs, and Simona Briggs

A documentary tribute to the Argentinian Indian musician, Jaime Torres, the world's foremost performer on the charango (a stringed Andean instrument). Includes live performances of charango music and a ritual to Pachamama (Mother earth) by the indigenous people of the Quebrada in Northern Argentina along with dances and music, as well as dramatic concert footage. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MUSIC 326

 

El Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlán 1991

Emilio Larrosa

Explorers the ancient ruins of the temple of Tenochtitlan and the surrounding area.  The hosts speculate about the life and culture of those who once inhabited that city. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

DANA 704

 

The Fall of the Maya 1993

Marianna Edmunds, Francois Valcour, Pierre Charbonneau, John Rhys-Davies, and Albert Jordan

The mystery of the Maya civilization is explained through the archaeological findings of the ancient city of Cop n in the Honduras' jungle. 1 videocassette (23 min.)

MEDIA 2-3110

 

The Feast 1970

Timothy Asch and Napoleon A Chagnon

Examines the first stages of alliance formation between two mutually hostile Yanomanö Indian villages in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Describes in detail the preparations for a feast involving the inhabitants of the villages and presents scenes of chanting, dancing, and trading at the feast. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

DANA 200

 

Five centuries later 1992

Jacques Vallee, German Gutierrez, and Bob Harding

Presents a look at the native Indians of Latin America, their social and economic struggle for dignity and the right to live better lives. Describes the farming methods, crops, and the recent attempts at acquiring more land. 1 videocassette (ca. 54 min.)

MEDIA 2-2219

 

From the heart of the world the Elder Brothers warning 1993

Alan Ereira

"Deep in the mountains of Colombia, the descendents of an ancient Tairona priesthood still rule.  In cities more than a thousand years old, the ascetic Kogi tribe has preserved the culture and spirituality of an advanced civilization wiped out by the conquistadors."--Container. 1 videocassette (88 min.)

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The Garifuna journey c1998

Andrea E Leland, Kathy L Berger, Barbara Flores, Leland/Berger Productions, and New Day Films

Presents the history, the language, food, music, dance and spirituality of the Garifuna culture. 1 videocassette (46 min., 30 sec.)

MEDIA 2-6683

 

Hacia la montaña "Towards the mountain" : Chiapas : prayer for the weavers 1999

Judith Illsley Gleason

"Gripped by painful memories of the civil war in Chiapas, Mexico, twenty-four indigenous women weavers gather for a festival. Musicians, including a Rezador, or prayer expert, accompany them to town. The music, prayer, and weaving interwine in a homage to those who have suffered and died resisting oppression"--Container. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-5696

 

Home of the brave 1984

Helena Solberg and Burton C Gershfield

The social conditions of Native American peoples today and their conflicts with modern civilization and governments. 1 videorecording (54 min.)

MEDIA 2-904

 

How tasty was my little Frenchman 1995

Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Arduino Colasanti, Ana Maria Magalhães, Eduardo Embassahy, and Ital Natur

In the coastal wilds of 16th-century Brazil, a French soldier is captured by a tribe of man-eating Indians. He strives to learn the ways of the tribe, hoping to figure out a way to avoid his prescribed fate of being the main course of a ceremonial dinner. 1 videocassette (80 min.)

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Imagining new worlds 1996

Eleanor Morris and Dane Hahn

Examines contrasting ways of viewing the city of Cancun, Mexico and Mayan ruins as seen through the eyes of tourists, Mayan descendants, and business investors. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

MEDIA 2-5752

 

In the shadow of the Incas 1990

Gottfried Kirchner

The history of ancient Andean Indian cultures in Peru and northern Bolivia is revealed by examining the archaeological evidence which remains at various sites. Sites visited include Machu Picu (Peru), Tiahuanaco (Bolivia), and Cerro Sechín (Peru). 1 videocassette (43 min.)

DANA 230

 

The Incas 1988

Anna Benson Gyles, Tony Kahn, and Frank Marreno

Examines the history, culture and technological achievements of the Incas, the 16th century South American civilization. Includes the work of three archaeologists currently excavating in Peru for clues to the Incas way of life. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

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The Indian experience in the 20th century 1993

Michael Wood and Brian Moser

From Mohawks protesting the use of their sacred lands as a golf course to Cree fighting the construction of a hydroelectric dam, Native Americans are fighting back.  In Latin America, murder and suppression of Native peoples is the rule, as in Guatemala and Columbia.  The bright example is of the Kuna in Panama, who refused to abandon their traditions and after a successful revolt in 1925 have been permitted to live as they choose. 1 videocassette (28 mins.)

MEDIA 2-5984

 

Invasion 1993

Michael Wood and Brian Moser

As a modern-day analogue of white exploration and settlements centuries ago, this film tells of the Panara of Brazil, whose first contact with whites came in 1971. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-5985

 

The Kayapo 1994, 1987

Terence J Turner and  Mike Beckham

Documents life among the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil, a fiercely independent tribe, some of whom were forced to become "businessmen" or see their traditional way of life destroyed when gold was discovered on their land in 1982. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

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The Kayapo out of the forest 1991

Mike Beckham

Documents the opposition of the Cayapo Indians of central Brazil to the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Altamira. Includes the demonstration by 600 Cayapo against the proposed dam and their success in stopping its construction. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-1405

 

Kiarasa yo sati The agouti's peanut c2005

Vincent Carelli, Kamoi Panará, Paturi Panará, Video nas Aldeias (Project) , and Latin American Video Archives

Examines the everyday work and recreation of the Panar`people, who blend their traditional ways with the influences of official Brazilan culture. This documentary encourages viewers to question the simple dichotomy of tradition vs. modernity. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7238

 

Kings of the jungle the story of Claudio and Orlando Villas Boas 1992

David Munro and Chris Christophe

In 1943 the Boas brothers journeyed into the unexplored region of the southern Amazon. Their mission was to build a web of airstrips, connected by roads, to open up the jungle. Later they spent 30 years trying to defend the native people's rights and to save their land. 1 videocassette (51 min.)

MEDIA 2-2233

 

The last of the hiding tribes c1999

Adrian Cowell, Universidade Católica de Goiás, Nomad Films, Channel Four (Great Britain), and Bullfrog Films, inc

Fate of the kidnapper: Tells of the search for a young white settler who was kidnapped by members of the Uru Eu Wau Wau tribe, and the fate of the tribe facing invading civilization. Return from extinction: Chronicles the efforts of Claudio Villas Boas to first save the remnants of the Panara tribe by removing them to the safety of a national park and then returning them to their ancestral lands. Fragments of a people: Highlights the efforts of a government agency to locate the remnants of the nearly extinct Ava-Canoeiro tribe. 3 videocassettes (150 min.)

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Legacy of the Incas 1990

Gottfried Kirchner and C Bauer

An exploration of the ruins left behind by the Incas, and of ideas on what their civilization was like. 1 videocassette (42 min.)

MEDIA 2-3104

 

The Living Maya 1999?

Hubert Smith

A four part series which chronicles the everyday life of a present-day Mayan family as it tries to cope with modern society. Shows the stresses induced by the fact that farming is no longer the only male occupation available. Includes traditional rituals and actual conversations. 4 videocassettes (232 min.)

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Magical death 1973

Napoleon A Chagnon

Relates the religious activities of a political leader and shaman from a village in Venezuela to the political and social organization in a Yanomamo Indian group. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.):

MEDIA 2-1981

 

The Maya collection 1996

Series of videos featuring Maya architecture in Mesoamerica. 10 videocassettes (ca. 600 min.)

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Maya lords of the jungle 1988, 1980

John Angier

Visits ancient sites on the Yucatan Peninsula where new findings are forcing a reappraisal of the past of the Mayans. Researchers display and interpret their findings, setting aside the errors of the past, and quietly working a revolution in pre-Columbian archaeology. 1 videocassette (59 min.)

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Mayan voices American lives 1994

Olivia Lucia Carrescia

Mayan refugees from Guatemala, escaping political repression at home, have fled to the United States.  In the last 10 years, 5,000-6,000 Mayas have settled in a small town of 3500 residents, Indiantown, Fla.  Presents a picture of the adjustment problems to a new country and a different culture through interviews with the Indian refugees and other townspeople. 1 videocassette (55 min., 36 sec.)

MEDIA 2-2573

 

The mission 1991

Robert Bolt, Roland Joffé, Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam, Robert De Niro, and Jeremy Irons

This film is a powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjegation by 18th century colonial empires. 1 videocassette (125 min.)

MEDIA 2-5566

 

The Music of the devil, the music of the bear, the music of the condor spirits of the Andes 1989

Mike Akester and Edgar Villarroel

Documents the religious rituals and daily lives of the contemporary descendants of the Incas in the Andes Mountains of South America, and includes performances of their traditional music. 1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.)

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A place called Chiapas a film 1998

Nettie Wild

Focuses on the human dimensions of th 1994 "postmodern" Mexican revolution when the Zapatista National Liveration Army made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico.  The Zapatista Army led by charismatic, guerilla poet subcommandante Marcos, started sending their message to the world via the internet. 1 videocassette (93 min.)

MEDIA 2-3912

 

Popol Vuh sacred book of the Quiché Maya 1989

Patricia Amlin and Larry George

Portrays the creation myth of the Quiché Maya of ancient Guatemala through animation. This myth and the story of the hero twins survived the Spanish Conquest in the Maya's sacred book known as the Popol Vuh. 1 videocassette (59 min.)

MEDIA 2-3269

 

Rebellion 1993

Michael Wood and Brian Moser

This film shows footage of the now extinct Ona of Tierra del Fuego (filmed in 1913) and reviews the events of  Wounded Knee, its causes and consequences down to the present day. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-5986

 

The right to their own lands 1993

Brian Moser and Michael Wood

As these once-free peoples are restricted, either to reservations on the poorest land in regions rich in resources or to areas continually shrinking as roads are built and rivers channeled and forests destroyed, they still find it difficult to believe that the white man wants to own the land. It is a conflict that remains alien to native peoples. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-5988

 

Rigoberta Menchú broken silence 1993

Félix Zurita and Rigoberta Menchú

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchú, speaks about her efforts to unite indigenous people, attain rights, fight discrimination, and integrate the Guatemalan parliament with indigenous and non-indigenous people. 1 videocassette (25 min.)

DANA 547

 

The Roar of the gods 1978

Angel Hurtado and José Gómez Sicre

Examines various pre-Columbian stone monoliths found in the area of San Agustín, Colombia, and explains their anthropological meaning. 1 videocassette (20 min.)

MEDIA 2-982

 

Ruins a fake documentary = Una pelicula documental falsificada 1999

Jesse Lerner, Brígido Lara, John Eric Sidney Thompson, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Maria Elena Gaitan, and Lightning Dubbs (Firm)

Counterfeiting is a practice with broad implications, from the merest of fake objects to entire histories shaped as facsimile. Here filmmaker Lerner collates early colonial misconceptions of the Mexican populace, a jumble of ethnographic and political distortions. From there he charts the process that recontextualizes archeological objects as art. At the center of the film is master forger Brigido Lara, whose pre-columbian objects have been exhibited in major museums throughout the U.S. and Europe. 1 videocassette (78 min.)

MEDIA 2-6705

 

The story of civilization: the Americas 2001

Penny Mahon, Kate Harper, Sophie Mulphin, Elizabeth Baquedano, Vanessa Tovell, and Ruth Wood

Profiles the Aztecs, refers to the Mayans of Mexico and summarizes the history of native Americans. Explores both society and culture as well as the myths and legends surrounding these civilizations. 1 videocassette (50 min.)

DANA 1664

 

Svokolik vatz'i viniketik sventa Mut Vitz The strength of the indigenous people of Mut Vitz 2000

Documentary showing the lives and work of the organic coffee producers of the Mut Vitz Cooperative in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

DANA 1451

 

Swidden horticulture among the Lacandon Maya 1986

R. Jon McGee and Michael Kruse

The film demonstrates the subsistence cycle of the Lacandon Maya who live in the rainforest of southern Chiapas, Mexico.  Focusing on one family, the film traces each step of the swidden (slash and burn) cycle through the successive stages of a horticulture season. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA 2-2448

 

Taking aim 1993

Monica Frota

Shows how the Cayapo tribe of the Metuktire Group in the Brazilian rain forest appropriated and adapted modern videotape technology for filming their way of life from their own perspective to preserve it for future generations and also to defend themselves against illegal miners in their territory. 1 videocassette (41 min.)

MEDIA 2-5351

 

Temples into churches 1993

Michael Wood and Brian Moser

All the native religions in North and South America share a belief in the bond between human beings and nature. Many of the conquerers saw no contradition between enslaving the Indians and bringing their souls into Paradise. This film shows how, though the emblems are Christian, the native people still pray to the old gods. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-5989

 

Tinku kamayu reunidas para trabajar 2008

Mabel Maio, MG Producciones Documentales, and Newsreel (Firm)

"This inspiring documentary tells the story of a group of indigenous women who responded to Argentina's economic crisis by rediscovering the ancestral traditional of spinning and weaving wool. They call themselves 'Tinku Kamayu,' which means in the Quechua language 'working together.'"--Third World Newsreel website. 1 videodisc (30 min.)

MEDIA 10-1564

 

Tour '99 [videorecording] 1999

Introduction contains a short description of the Chiapas Media Project including interviews with its students. Colectivo de la Cańa de Azucar: Illustrates the production of sugar in the region of El Trabajo by men, women and children using hand-made tools. Ańo Nuevo 1999: Documents New Year's Eve festivities in the region of San  Andrés Sakamchén de Los Pobres. 1 videocassette (33 min.)

DANA 1452

 

Transnational fiesta, 1992 1993

Paul H Gelles, Wilton Martinez, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Media and Independent Learning, and Berkeley Media

Until recently, it was widely assumed that Native communities throughout the Americas would be absorbed into the mainstream or otherwise disappear. But 500 years after the beginning of the Conquest, indigenous peoples are asserting their presence and identity with renewed vigor. This remarkable video illustrates this by exploring the multicultural and transnational experiences of a family of Peruvian Andean immigrants living in Washington, D.C. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1180

 

The World, a television history 1984

David Wright and Robert Powell

Describes the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations of Central and South America, and the cities, places of worship, roads that they built, and their intellectual achievements. Relates the destruction of these empires by the Spanish conquistadores. 1 videocassette (26 min.)

MEDIA 2-3036

 

The Xinguana aborigines of South America 1971

Herbert Raditschnig

An ethnographic study of the Xinguana, farmer-fishermen of the Xingo River watershed whose culture remained unchanged until recently. Explores the horticulture, fishing techniques, weapon making, transportation, architecture, bodily ornamentation, puberty rites, and the Kwarup ceremony. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA D-438