Recent videos of interest

Our ten most recent videos of interest

• 100% woman: world of sports will never be the same
  A post-operative transsexual, Canadian Michelle Dumares has provoked outrage by entering the sport of women's mountain bike racing.... Explores complex issues of gender identity. Might work well with CBC's Too Fast To Be a Woman
• 5 broken cameras
  A deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Burnat and Davidi.
• 533 statements
  A road trip documentary about queer Canadian women. During the summer of 2004, Tori Foster took her camera across the country to talk to 20 lesbian women about what it's like to be queer where they live. The documentary follows her journey through all ten provinces.
• 8th fire
  A provocative, high-energy journey through Aboriginal country showing why we need to fix Canada's 500 year-old relationship with Indigenous peoples -- a relationship mired in colonialism, conflict and denial. Episode 1 - INDIGENOUS IN THE CITY . Episode 2 - IT'S TIME . Episode 3 - WHOSE LAND IS IT ANYWAY? Episode 4 - AT THE CROSSROADS.
• A history of punishment
  This program looks at the history of punishment, beginning with early compensatory forms of justice, Hammurabi's Code, and the Law of Moses. Contemporary forms of punishment, including the death penalty, are discussed, along with the ways in which these sentences reflect what society values.
• A Question of Madness: The Furiosus
  A documentary on the life of assassin Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who changed the course of South African history.
• A tent on Mars | Une tente sur Mars
  Thirty years after the closing of the Schefferville's mining colony, and after taking over the town abandoned by non natives, the Innus are facing a new challenge: the reopening of the iron mines.
• Afghan women: a history of struggle
  Examines the drafting of the Afghan Women's Bill of Rights. [Looks at] the pivotal role women's struggle for equality has played in the country's tumultuous political history and debunk the myth that current U.S. intervention in Afghanistan has liberated Afghan women from the tyranny of fundamentalism.
• Against a trans narrative
  “Trans filmmaker Jules Rosskam's provocative and personal experimental documentary investigating dominant constructions of trans-masculine identity, gender, and the nature of community.”
• Alanis Obomsawin films
  A collection of Alanis Obomsawin films in DVD, streaming video and VHS format.