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Kansas vs. Darwin

DVD, 82 min.
Even before they took place, the 2005 Kansas school board hearings on evolution were recognized as a pivotal battle in America's ongoing war over teaching evolution in the public schools. Organized by believers in Intelligent Design and convened by creationists, the hearings provided a testing ground for the successful legal and political tactics that drive today's ongoing actions by anti-evolution organizations in the US and around the world. On the pro-evolution side, they inspired a worldwide boycott of the event by mainstream science.

Kathleen Shannon: On Film, Feminism & Other Dreams

A film by Gerry Rogers , 1997, 50 min., Color
This inspiring portrait depicts the life of film pioneer Kathleen Shannon, the founder of Studio D at the National Film Board of Canada. Founded to f...

Katrina Tails

Katrina Tails follows a group of New Orleans residents inf their effort to be reunited with their pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Katydid

In this short comedy, young Skye just wants to have a date for once without twin brother Leif getting in the way.  When Leif manages to lure the girl away once again, Skye finally confronts his brother, and they learn that all is not as it appears when it comes to matters of the heart.

Keep Not Silent - Ortho-Dykes

A film by Ilil Alexander , 2004, 52 min., Color
Winner of the Israeli Oscar for Best Documentary, as well as eight international awards, Ilil Alexander's stunning debut film boldly documents the cla...

Keep Your Laws Off My Body

Video. 12 min. 1990.
Lesbians at home and in bed intercut with cops and legislation against privacy and the body. (Originally presented as a video installation: bed, sheets w/silk-screened laws governing the body, surveillance camera. 14 min. 1989).

Key Changes

Profile of a successful and talented jazz singer who is also a wheelchair activist and advocate for disability rights.
A profile of a successful and talented jazz singer who is also a wheelchair activist and advocate for disability rights.

Key Concepts for Mental Health

VHS - 50 Min
Part 1 - Creating Wellness Series This three-part videotape series - based on a workshop with renowned author Mary Ellen Copeland - presents simple, effective, and non-invasive self-help strategies for anyone dealing with emotional, behavioral or psychiatric challenges. Used separately or together, these videos provide useful information about how to get well and stay well. They are invaluable for in-service trainings or self-help and support groups.

The Key Of G

59 minutes DVD Closed Captioned
THE KEY OF G is an award-winning documentary about disability, caregiving and interdependence. The film follows Gannet, a charismatic 22-year-old with physical and developmental disabilities, as he leaves his mother's home to share an apartment with a close-knit group of artists and musicians who support him, not only as paid caregivers, but also as friends.

Khush

A film by Pratibha Parmar , 1991, 24 min., Color
KHUSH means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. For South Asian lesbians and gay men in Britain, North America, and India (where homosexuality is still illegal...

Kicking High...In The Golden Years

58 min.
Intimate portraits of African American "seniors" illustrate how family, community, and personal goals contribute to each individual's life. Filmed in NY and NC during private times, celebrations, and on stage, the film creates a positive and credible view of aging into the "Golden Years."

The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt

A film by Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes , 2003, 76 min., Color
In February 2002, in the midst of her controversial campaign for president, Senator Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces ...

Killing Time/Fannie's Film

Two films by Fronza Woods , 1979, 15 min., BW
Part of the mediamaking movement that first gave centrality to the voices and experiences of African American women during the late Seventies and earl...

Kinaalda

A film by Lena Carr , 2000, 56 min., Color
The Kinaalda ceremony is an intricate four-day event performed to guide a young girls' ascent to womanhood. In this unique documentary, Navajo filmma...

Kind of Childhood, A

This is a film which challenges our notions of child labor. It peeks into a world where the concept of childhood as we know it has no meaning, where children support their parents, and where work is just another part of growing up.

This is Dhaka, Bangladesh. Following several children over a period of six years, A KIND OF CHILDHOOD is an attempt to focus on the realities of child labor, with real children, their struggles and dreams.

Idris is one of thousands of children who earn their living on the busy streets of Dhaka. Although he had to work from an early age to support his ailing father, he tries to hold onto his dream of an education, even while working long hours as an assistant on a public transportation vehicle. When circumstances force him to drop out of school, his desire for an education is replaced by new dreams of urban success. Eventually, the harsh realities of city life begin to close in on Idris, forcing him to reconsider his goals as he enters adulthood.

A KIND OF CHILDHOOD follows the path of Idris' life over a period of six years, documenting the complexities of balance and survival in a unique and personal story of 'childhood' experience.
A documentary filmed over six years about working children in Bangladesh.

Kind of Childhood, A

Kindness of Strangers, The

An intimate journey into the lives of four transplant patients at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and two organ donor families in Philadelphia. The film follows the families on both sides of the experience for 3 years. Each family is in a different stage of the process and confronts different issues while attempting to move on with life. A touching and, at times, heart- wrenching exploration of the medical miracle where one person's life is dependent on the death of another.
An intimate journey into the lives of four transplant patients at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and two organ donor families in Philadelphia.

Kindness of Strangers, The

King of the Jews

18 minutes 16mm color/B&W 2000
King of the Jews is a film about fear and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and religious films spanning the history of cinema, the filmmaker depicts his childhood fear of Jesus Christ. These childhood recollections are a point of departure for larger issues, including the roots of Christian anti-Semitism and the need for forgiveness and healing.

Kiss My Wheels

This spunky documentary follows the Zia Hot Shots a nationally ranked junior wheelchair basketball team through a season of training and tournament competition.
Through an exhilarating season of training and competition the members of a junior wheelchair basketball team deal with difficult issues from gender conflicts to injury illness and thoughts of death.

Kiss in the Snow, A

Teenagers can be experts at talking circles about what?s really on their minds, and usually it is the weighted spaces between those words that speak volumes. In A Kiss in the Snow, Mosvold?s young characters pull the common teen angst of sexual awakening and establishing oneself within a social circle into the less-familiar territory of same-sex attraction.

A Kiss on the Mouth Beijo na Boca

Directed by Jacira Melo , 1987, 30 min., Color
From the Lilith Video Collective comes this sensitive and sympathetic examination of female prostitution in urban Brazil. Frank, intimate and politically astute, the women discuss experiences of racism, poverty, police harassment, and violence as well as their relationships with their families, children, lovers and clients.

Klan: Legacy of Hate in America

From Charles Guggenheim, four-time winner of the Academy Award,comes this vivid, disturbing portrait of the oldest and most violent terrorist army ever to operate on American soil - The Ku Klux Klan. This incisive half-hour documentary traces the Klan's 130-year reign of terror from its birth in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War through its resurgence in the 1920's, to its modern incarnations during the Civil Rights era and beyond. Dedicated to an America free of non-White, non-Christian influence, the Klan's calculated appeal to ordinary folk is echoed in the rise of the paramilitary, the assault on Affirmative Action, the festering of anti-Semitism (Greensboro, North Carolina) and the attack on immigration policies (Galveston, Texas). Nominated for an Oscar, the film tells the Klan's bloody saga of murder and mayhem through profiles of its leaders, foot soldiers, victims and even its infiltrators. The result is a compelling examination of organized hate in America by a master filmmaker.
From Academy Award-Winning filmmaker Charles Guggenheim comes this vivid and disturbing portrait of the oldest and most violent terrorist army ever to operate on American soil -- the Ku Klux Klan.

A Knock Out

2004, 53 minutes, Color, VHS
Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl. Thanks to her tenacious spirit and an uncanny talent for combat sports, she put her difficult past behind her and managed to sign a contract with the biggest boxing promoter in Europe. She won all 21 fights, 18 of them with a knockout an exceptional achievement in womens boxing. But despite her spectacular record in the ring, her career came to a sudden halt when her promoter broke her contract under the belief that she was not promotable. Refusing to vamp up her image and pose naked in magazines, this undefeated world champion was abandoned by an industry more interested in selling sex than sport. A KNOCK OUT interweaves Aboros personal story with interviews with boxers whose wild success strikes a painful contrast with Aboros struggles. Searching for logic behind Aboros case, this poignant documentary captures a universal story of fighting for ones identity and offers a probing look at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and the increased commercialization of womens sports.

Knocking

53 minutes DVD Closed Captioned
KNOCKING opens the door on Jehovah's Witnesses. While protecting their own rights, they have won a record number of U.S. Supreme Court cases expanding freedoms for all Americans. In Nazi Germany, they chose the concentration camps over fighting for Hitler. They refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds but support the science of bloodless medicine. They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics and the Culture War. KNOCKING follows two families who stand firm for their often controversial and misunderstood faith. Their stories reveal how one unlikely religion helped to shape history beyond the doorstep.doorstep.

Knowing Her Place

A videotape by Indu Krishnan , 1990, 40 min., Color
A moving investigation of the cultural schizophrenia experienced by Vasu, an Indian woman who has spent most of her life in the U.S. Vasu's relationsh...

Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish

When Knute Rockne died in 1931 at the age of forty-three, the President of the United States described his passing as a national loss. His funeral was broadcast live to Europe, South America and Asia. And, as one newspaper wrote, the boys of the country were numbed. Their hero had been taken from them.

With one eye on the scoreboard and the other focused clearly on the historical record, Knute Rockne and his Fighting Irish explores the entanglement of fact and myth that was Knute Rockne. A Lutheran by birth who became the symbol of Catholic pride in the 1920's; a self-created super salesman who was one of the first media stars; a garrulous and funny p.r. man who obligingly recreated his legendary pep talks for the newsreel cameras, Knute Rockne was responsible for transforming the game of football from an obscure and innocent pastime into the colorful amalgam of passion, spectacle, and big business we know today. Along the way he turned the University of Notre Dame into the most famous Catholic school in the country, leading to confrontations with the Ku Klux Klan in 1924 and, in our own time, to multi-million dollar contracts, for football game broadcasts.

Knute Rockne and his Fighting Irish evokes a post-World War I world in which optimism was rampant, a time when consumer culture was born and the media achieved a position of prominence. Offering illuminating insights on both the genesis of the forward pass and the nature of ethnic pride, it chronicles the rise of the sports industry in America, and the life and legend of the man who brought football into the modern world.

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Examines Knute Rockne -- the man who transformed the game of football from an obscure pastime into the colorful amalgam of passion, spectacle and big business we know today.