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M & M Smith: For Posterity's Sake

57 min.
In 1937, Morgan and Marvin Smith, African American twins and photographers, opened a studio next to Harlems Apollo Theatre. As artists and community activists they used their still and motion picture cameras to capture the celebrated and common citizens of their community and helped break the medias color barriers for African American models and actresses. With the Smiths and Eartha Kitt.

M.F.K. Fisher

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, who died in 1992 at the age of 83, was America's premier gastronomical writer, whose distinctive gift for the free expression of sensual pleasures defined her life and her art. Once called America's greatest writer by poet W. H. Auden, Fisher was the author of fifteen books of essays and reminiscences, as well as hunderds of articles for The New Yorker. M.F.K. combines interviews, excerpts from Fisher's works, and footage shot both in the U.S. and France tell the story of this most independent and passionate woman.

Participants include renowned chefs Julia Child and Jacques Pepin, editor Judith Jones and many other friends and colleagues whose respect and affection imbue the film with great warmth. M.F.K. is both a tantalizing and delightful introduction to Fisher's unique body of work and a moving and inspiring tribute to a life well lived.

Included on the same tape (not sold separately): Wedding Cake: A True Confection
A short film in which the ingredients for delicious cakes as well as a happy marriage and successful business, are revealed.
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, who died in 1992 at the age of 83, was America's premier gastronomical writer, whose distinctive gift for the free expression of sensual pleasures defined her life and her art. Both a tantalizing and delightful introduction to Fisher's unique body of work and a moving and inspiring tribute to a life well lived.Included on same tape is the short film Wedding Cake: A True Confection.

Macho

A video by Lucinda Broadbent , 2000, 26 min., Color
In 1998, Managua, Nicaragua became host to one of the most publicized and controversial cases of sexual abuse to hit modern day Latin America. At the...

Madame X: An Absolute Ruler

A film by Ulrike Ottinger , 1977, 141 min., Color
"Ulrike Ottinger has a larger body of work than almost any other lesbian filmmaker, and her rarely seen first feature contains most of the elements th...

Made in Brooklyn

55 min.
The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America. Workers reveal how their jobs bring not only regular pay checks, but enhanced self-esteem and pride in themselves and their products. MADE IN BROOKLYN has lessons about the economy for the entire nation.

Made In India

A film by Patricia Plattner , 1998, 52 min., Color
This powerful documentary is a portrait of SEWA, the now-famous women's organization in India that holds to the simple yet radical belief that poor wo...

Made In Thailand

A videotape by Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy Emery , 1999, 30 min., Color
In Thailand, women make up 90 percent of the labor force responsible for garments and toys for export by multinational corporations. This powerful, re...

Madonnalogue

We all have our Madonna stories... So begins Madonnalogue, a quirky and bittersweet narrative about the impact of certain Madonna songs on one man's life. Neither homage nor de-construction, Madonnalogue is a simple story told in four short anecdotes, exemplifying why Madonna is of particular interest to gay men.

Maggie Growls

A film by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater , 2002, 56 min., Color
MAGGIE GROWLS is a portrait of the amazing, canny, lusty, charming and unstoppable Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995), who founded the Gray Panthers (the nation'...

Magical Ride, The

Examines the old magic and the modern dilemmas of wooden carousels, paying tribute to the inspired craftsmen who created them, while demonstrating the techniques used by the dedicated people who restore them. Looking into the collections of museums and private individuals, the film discovers many carousel animals -- no longer riding with the festive, motley teams of old -preserved and valued as works of art. While the carvers of that earlier age are long since gone, the beauty of their handiwork continues to withstand the test of time. The film celebrates the wonder of carousels while encouraging the preservation of the nearly forgotten folk art that created them.
Examines the old magic and the modern dilemmas of wodden carousels, paying tribute to the inspired craftsmen who created them while demonstrating the techniques used by the dedicated people who restore them. Shot at locations across the U.S., The Magical Ride celebrates the wonder of carousels while encouraging the preservation of the nearly forgotten folk art that created them.

Mai's America

A film by Marlo Poras , 2002, 72 min., Color
MAI'S AMERICA is a personal journey that defies all expectations. Mai, a smart, vivacious, and resilient Vietnamese teenager, travels to America for h...

Maid in America

A film by Anayansi Prado , Produced by Kevin Leadingham , 2004, 58 min., Color
They clean other people's homes and raise other families' children?often leaving their own families behind. MAID IN AMERICA is an intimate look into t...

The Maids!

A videotape by Muriel Jackson , 1985, 28 min., Color
Domestic service has long been branded as demeaning work: it involves long hours, menial toil and low pay. Historically, and not coincidentally, it ha...

Making Every Moment Count

Addresses the complex issues surrounding palliative end-of-life care for children. Psychologist Leora Kuttner profiles five children with life threatening illness and the families and health professionals who support them.
Addresses the complex issues surrounding palliative end-of-life care for children. Psychologist Leora Kuttner profiles five children with life threatening illness and the families and health professionals who support them.

Making a Killing

MAKING A KILLING is a powerful organizing tool in the fight for social justice and tobacco control. This half-hour documentary exposes Philip Morris/Altria's deadliest abuses. It reveals the burning truth about how the tobacco giant uses its political power, size and promotional expertise to spread tobacco addiction internationally, leaving in its wake a trail of death and destruction.

Making Grace

Format: DVD Release Year : 2005 Running Time: 86 minutes Color: Color Language: English
Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan want to be mothers together. Ann will carry the baby and Leslie will leave her job to stay at home and raise their child. Choosing the route of the anonymous sperm bank, they hope to match Leslie's vital statistics so that Ann can give birth to a baby with the potential to look like them both. Ann is a worrier, compulsively analyzing and judging their performance at each stage of the process. Leslie is soothing, a quiet counterpoint. Together they ride the menstrual roller coaster, until finally, one year later, Ann is pregnant. At first both women continue to work. Free time is consumed by pre-birth activity: baby shower registration, Lamaze class and design of the baby announcement. Between events they argue with relatives over how to explain two mommies to their nieces and nephews. Month eight, Leslie ends her job to prepare for full time mommy-hood. Ann continues to work all hours, holding her now huge tummy as she shuffles from job site to job site, fretting over everything. But Baby Grace is born on time with bright red hair (a trait known to neither family). Filmmaker Catherine Gund follows the Krsul-Sullivan household during Grace's first year. As Ann and Leslie make their way, we are with them, meeting challenges universal to all families and facing those unique to lesbians.

Making Grace

Format: DVD Release Year : 2005 Running Time: 86 minutes Color: Color Language: English
Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan want to be mothers - together. They complement one another perfectly: Ann's analytical and worrying nature balanced by Leslie's more instinctive and soothing demeanor. Together, they discover the process of creating a family -- from selecting a sperm donor and determining who will work and who will carry the baby, to Lamaze classes, the baby shower, and figuring out how to explain "two mommies" to their nieces and nephews. A year later baby Grace is born, and we experience with Ann and Leslie the challenges and joys of motherhood, including those unique to lesbians.

Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark, The

The excitement of movie-making on an epic scale comes to life in this film, which documents the places, problems and personalities that made Raiders of the Lost Ark such a fabulous and successful adventure.

Conversations with the cast and crew offer an unprecedented view of filmmaking from the inside out in this Emmy Award-winning documentary. Included are interviews with stars Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, Director Steven Spielberg, Executive Producer George Lucas and other members of the cast and crew who discuss the process of making the film, as well as all of the craft, energy and enthusiasm that went into it.
A look at the making of this groundbreaking adventure film from the inside out, with interviews of the filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, as well as the cast and crew.

Making Points

Made for the Girls Club of America, this short film points up sex role stereotyping in a clever way. A group of boys are interviewed on a basketball court about their life goals. They respond by repeating answers that girls originally gave to the same questions.
A short film which places women in a dominant position in society, reversing traditional gender stereotypes.

Mama Wahunzi

A video by Lawan Jirasuradej , 2002, 57 min., Color
In Kenya and Uganda, poor healthcare, disease and economic disparity have created an overwhelming shortage of wheelchairs, with more than 200,000 in d...

Man Oh Man

18 min.
Growing up male in America

Man They Call Will James, The

Cowboy. Artist. Cattle rustler. Author. Bronco buster. Movie stuntman. In the 1920's and 1930's, a man who laid claim to all of these callings was among the most famous chroniclers of the American West. Born Ernest Dufault in Quebec, he struck out on his own while still a teenager and, as Will James, began living the cowboy life he dreamed of. A natural artist, he recorded in drawing the vigorous world of the working ranch. After a bronco threw him head first into a railroad tie, he was forced to give up cow punching, and turned instead to the endeavor that would earn him great fame. James the cowboy-novelist produced more than twenty illustrated books. many of which were made into movies. Yet at the height of his popularity, the strain of city living and of fighting Hollywood's sugary adaptation of his works wore him down. Alcoholism took its toll on is personal life. But he continued to turn out book after book for his fans until his death at the age of fifty. The Man They Call Will James is an intimate view of an enigmatic and colorful man who created a life and lived it -- first on a horse and then, vicariously, through his writing -- with vigor. Shot on location in Nevada, Montana, and California with narration by actor Richard Farnsworth, the film presents an intriguing view of a self-made cowboy legend who helped shape the world's view of the American West.
Offers and intimate for of the engimage and colorful man -- cowboy, author, and chronicler of the American West, Will James.

The Man Who Planted Trees

The rich language of French author Jean Giono combines with the breathtaking artistry of illustrator/animator Frederic Back to tell this triumphant tale in which one man's indomitable spirit transforms a desolate land into a thriving garden of trees. Back's delicate pastels sweep readers into the solitary world of Elzeard Bouffier, a world in which one individual, undeterred by great wars and other setbacks, and without thought of reward, makes a significant difference. The Man Who Planted Trees is an inspiring parable for all ages.

Man Who Planted Trees (BOOK), The

Man Who Planted Trees, The

The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face

A film by Cathy Henkel , produced by Jeff Canin & Cathy Henkel , 2003, 59 min., Color
Sexual assault remains the most hidden and the fastest growing crime in the world, and in South Africa the statistics are staggering. Two days before ...

A Man, When He Is a Man

Chile, 1982, 66 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm, Subtitled
Set in Costa Rica and touched with dark humor, this stylistically imaginative documentary illuminates the social climate and cultural traditions which nurture machismo and allow the domination of women to flourish in Latin America. "An amazing work that successfully reveals the genuinely funny elements of male posturing and its potentially serious con-sequences. It will be appreciated by general audiences as well as teachers interested in stimulating discussion on sex roles." -Malcolm Arth, Margaret Mead Film Festival

Mangas

In Mangas, a Costa Rican orphan is adopted by an American family. Isolated in a new home, the boy's loneliness prompts his magical stuffed monkey to transform his suburban bedroom into a magical rainforest. But can this magic world stay confined to a single room?

The Manhatitlan Chronicles

vhs, 7 min., 1999
The Manhatitlán Chronicles is an animated flight of fancy that transposes elements of Mexican culture onto the cityscape of Manhattan. A humorous view on how Mexican and American cultures playfully intertwine. The Manhatitlán Chronicles celebrates New Yorks great ethnic diversity, paying homage to the people who constitute its ever changing population. The film consist of 5 humorous segments that underscore ethnic tradition in this era of multiculturalism and globalization.

Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind

2001, 90 min.
In death I shall be a terror to the foes of Negro liberty. Look for me in the whirlwind or the song of the storm; look for me all around you." - Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant, who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. It explores Garvey's dramatic successes and failures before his fall into obscurity. Among the film's most powerful sequences are interviews with people who were part of the Garvey movement decades ago. These interviews communicate the appeal of Garvey's revolutionary ideas to a generation of African Americans, and reveal how he invested hundreds and thousands of black men and women with a newfound sense of pride.

Margaret Sanger

A videotape directed by Terese Svoboda and Steve Bull , 1992, 28 min., Color
MARGARET SANGER: A PUBLIC NUISANCE highlights Sanger's pioneering strategies of using media and popular culture to advance the cause of birth control...

Mark of the Maker, The: The Fine Art of Papermaking at Twinrocker

Set in the small town of Brookston, Indiana, The Mark of the Maker introduces papermakers Kathryn and Howard Clark, who began work as a printmaker and mechanical engineer, respectively. In 1972, they built Twinrocker, a hand paper mill, on the family farm -- the first hand mill in America since 1929. Through Kathryn and Howard's tenacity, Twinrocker became the foundation of contemporary hand paper making, with thousands of sheets of Twinrocker paper being shipped across the U.S. and Europe.
Set in Brookston, Indiana, this film introduces papermakers Kathryn and Howard Clark, who build a hand paper mill (Twinrocker) on their family farm in 1972 -- the first such mill in American since 1929. Through their tenacity, Twinrocker became the foundation of contemporary hand papermaking, with an incredible booming business in the U.S. and abroad.

Marx Brothers in a Nutshell, The

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell presents a fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews with those closest to the brothers supplement this collection of highlights from their film, theater, and television appearances and offer a compelling look at their lives both on and off-screen. The generous use of rare and unreleased film clips provides new insights for even the well-versed Marx Brothers fan.

This definitive documentary begins its study with the Marx family vaudeville act and follows through to the their final television work, including clips from Groucho?s popular TV show You Bet Your Life. Fellow comedians and collaborators including Woody Allen, Dick Cavett, George Fenneman, Robert Klein, and David Steinberg, examine the hard work and perfectionism that put these comic masters at the top of their game. Using rarely-seen footage derived from their original Broadway hit I?ll Say She Is, and highlights from their best films, home movies and newsreels, this film enlightens as it entertains.

A tribute to Hollywood?s funniest brothers, The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in these remarkable forerunners of modern screen comedy.

Also from Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Bob Weide:
W.C. Fields Straight Up
A biography of the Marx Brothers, from their early vaudeville days to Groucho's TV show, You Bet Your Life.

Marx Brothers in a Nutshell, The

A tribute to Hollywood?s funniest brothers, The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in these remarkable forerunners of modern screen comedy.

Also from Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Bob Weide:
W.C. Fields Straight Up
A biography of the Marx Brothers, from their early vaudeville days to Groucho's TV show, You Bet Your Life.

Mary Lou Williams

A film by Joanne Burke , 1990, 60 min., Color
Pioneering Black American composer-arranger-pianist Mary Lou Williams is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of jazz. In this authorit...

Master Smart Woman

A film by Jane Morrison in collaboration with photographer Peter Namuth , 1984, 28 min., Color
From the award-winning director of THE WHITE HERON and THE TWO WORLDS OF ANGELITA, this loving portrait is a much deserved re-evaluation of Sarah Orne...

The Match That Started My Fire

A film by Cathy Cook , 1991, 19 min., Color
The telephone rings and the girl-talk begins: secrets emerge and confessions build. An exciting experimental comedy in which the joy of sexual pleasur...

Maternal PKU

The genetic condition phenylketonuria can cause retardation. It can be controlled by diet during childhood; but women who go off their diets as adults may have affected infants.
Offers valuable guidelines for monitoring and treatment of adult women with phenylketonuria who may be at risk for giving birth to infants with mental retardation.

Matt Kailey: A Conversation

This portrait of Matt Kailey a female-to-male transsexual illuminates issues surrounding sexuality gender and identity in an open accessible way appropriate for all audiences.
This portrait of Matt Kailey a female-to-male transsexual illuminates issues surrounding sexuality gender and identity in an open accessible way appropriate for all audiences.

A Matter of Respect

30 minutes VHS 30 minutes DVD-R
In this stereotype-breaking documentary about the meaning of tradition and change, people speak frankly about the challenges they face balancing their lives in two cultures. A young drummer and dancer guides tourists through a museum; a silver carver/disc jockey talks about his love both of rock and roll and traditional carving; and a Tlingit elder teaches children at a summer fish camp. A MATTER OF RESPECT portrays modern Alaska Natives expressing their culture and identity and honoring their ancestors' way of life through teaching language, harvesting and preparing traditional foods, restoring community cemeteries and dancing, carving and weaving.

Maya

After persistent prodding from her mother, Maya agrees to go on a date with Zach, an eligible young cardiologist. Her mother wants her married, but Maya has other plans.  Using the money her mother gives her for therapy, Maya instead takes dance classes where she meets Sasha.  Her feelings for  Sasha fill Maya with desire, and the courage to stand up to her mother.

Mayor of the West Side

What happens when love gets in the way of letting go? As a teenager with multiple disabilities prepares for his Bar Mitzvah his family and community consider what Mark's life will be like when they are no longer able to protect him.
What happens when love gets in the way of letting go? As a teenager with multiple disabilities prepares for his Bar Mitzvah his family and community consider what Mark's life will be like when they are no longer able to protect him.

Mean Girls: Mind Games

Bullies have traditionally been recognized, in schoolyard lore, as physically imposing and usually male figures. What about the relational aggression and other forms of bullying that take place between junior high and high school aged girls, which has been so long downplayed or overlooked? This form of bullying most often takes the form of verbal abuse or emotional manipulation and affects the lives of girls every day, sometimes with dire consequences in their personal and academic lives. Mean Girls: Mind Games emerges as the first documentary to address this important and timely issue. We follow five groups of girls in highly different school and life situations, all affected by this form of social bullying.

Through rare and candid inside views of the world of adolescent girls and their social interactions, we get a glimpse of the tremendous effects of this type of aggression on all of the girls involved, effects which go beyond the realm of the social and encroaches on academic performance, home life, and even future goals. The girls? individual stories, coupled with the expert commentary of Dr. Nicki Crick, the first researcher to study relational aggression in girls and Rachel Simmons, author of the New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Secret Culture of Aggression in Girls, guide us to understand the scope of the problem and the social and cultural reasons that this type of aggression is peculiar to girls of this age
A study of relational aggression between young teenage women.

Mean Girls: Mind Games

Means of Grace

57 min.
A tribute to the women who were institutionalized in the 1950's

Measuring Up

Should prenatal genetic testing determine who is to be born? Families who have had children with serious genetic conditions discuss their own choices with commentary by several bioethicists and genetic scientists.
Should prenatal genetic testing determine who is to be born? Families who have had children with serious genetic conditions discuss their own choices with commentary by several bioethicists and genetic scientists.

Measures of Distance

A videotape by Mona Hatoum , 1988, 15 min., Color
In this resonant work, Palestinian-born video and performance artist Mona Hatoum explores the renewal of friendship between mother and daughter during...

#502: Media Literacy: Get The News?

Many teens are more interested in the news now than they ever were before 9-11, but too many others are turning off the news due to information overload, cynicism and fear. This program explores how news coverage on TV, on the Internet and in print affects the way teens are coping with their changed world. It also helps them understand how to select, compare and interpret what they see and read in the news. In their search for answers, In the Mix teen reporters interview FOX News Bill OReilly; ABCs Peter Jennings; Barry Gross, chief copy editor of The New York Post; CNNs and MTVs young reporter, Serena Altschul; Janine Jackson, the program coordinator of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). Winner 2002 CINE Golden Eagle Award *DVDs are also available on over 50 other topics of critical interest to teens. For full descriptions, transcripts, video clips, discussion guides, lesson plans and more on this and other topics, please visit our website, inthemix.org. For one day shipping orders or volume discounts please call 800-343-5540. Note: VHS copies are also available for some programs.

#422: Media Literacy: TV - What You Don't See!

By the time the average student graduates from high school he or she will have watched 15,000 hours of television and been hit by approximately 70,000 marketing messages a day. In the Mix reveals the tricks and techniques used by the media to manipulate audiences. Viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at how news stories are chosen and covered along with some personal insights from veteran newsman Peter Jennings. Then we focus a keen eye on the powerful images used in advertising and music videos to learn ways to analyze and evaluate what you see on TV and whether or not to believe it. Winner of Partnership for Media Education's 2000 Award. In the Mix takes a look at how television distorts manipulates and ultimately 'creates' its own version of truth while alerting viewers that what passes for 'truth' on TV is often no more than 'image'... A good reminder to teens to be vigilant not passive receivers of media this is recommended. *DVDs are also available on over 50 other topics of critical interest to teens. For full descriptions, transcripts, video clips, discussion guides, lesson plans and more on this and other topics, please visit our website, inthemix.org. For one day shipping orders or volume discounts please call 800-343-5540. Note: VHS copies are also available for some programs.

Meds

People with mental illnesses discuss the positive and negative impact of their psychiatric medications. For some these drugs may cause such debilitating side effects that they go off their meds - sometimes with tragic consequences. Others are able to fin
People with mental illnesses discuss the positive and negative impact of their psychiatric medications.

Meet Us Where We Are

This vitally important new video focuses on meeting the needs of people with physical and developmental disabilities who have been victims of crime - a problem that has been seriously under-reported even sometimes ignored by government and community agen
People with physical and developmental disabilities are frequent victims of crime but the problem has been under-reported and sometimes ignored by government and community agencies.

Meeting of Two Queens

A videotape by Cecilia Barriga , 1991, 14 min., Color
In this witty, luminous tape Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich star in the roles of their lives?cast as lovers by Chilean video artist Barriga. Queen C...

Mehret

In the South Bronx, where Dr. Mehret Mandefro is a medical resident, black women are becoming infected with HIV/AIDS at alarming rates. For the women Mehret treats here, love and sex are a life-and-death struggle and she believes gender inequity is at the root of the problem. Mehret has created a cutting-edge research project to investigate issues of power and sex in the lives of her female AIDS patients. As her research into her patients' lives deepens, she begins to make discoveries about control and relationships in her own life as well. Mehret's two degrees from Harvard did not prepare her for this. Last summer Mehret returned to Ethiopia, her birthplace, to investigate the epidemic in a place where gender inequality is overt and its effect on infection rates widely acknowledged. There MEHRET showed us the deep links between the struggle of women with AIDS in Africa and her patients in the Bronx. Taken alone, the stories of Mehret and her patients merit attention. Together they form an explosive account of the things most women don't say about sex and the deadly risk of that silence.

Memorial Day

This patriotic sound-and-picture poem captures the emotion and color of one community's Memorial Day celebration. The victories, the bravery, the defeats, and the tragedies of war are brought home in a traditional parade and memorial service seen through the eyes of small-town Americans, both young and old, playful and introspective, who gather to pay tribute. The holiday is both serious and celebratory, and this film beautifully conveys the complex feelings that all Americans share about Memorial Day.
This sound-and-picture poem captures the emotion and color of one community's Memorial Day celebration, evoking all the braveries, defeats and tragedies of remembrance.

Memory Pictures

A videotape by Pratibha Parmar , 1984, 24 min.
A beautifully composed profile of gay Indian photographer, Sunil Gupta, and the way his work portrays issues of sexual and racial identity in relation...

Memory/all echo

A videotape by Yunah Hong , 1990, 27 min., Color
?Based on selections from late Korean-American writer Theresa H.K. Cha's 'Dictee', this work by videomaker Yun-ah Hong gives primacy to her staccato,...

MEMS: MAKING MICRO MACHINES

dvd, 42 min.
MEMS: MAKING MICRO MACHINES is an overview of the manufacture and design of microelectromechanical systems. This video shows the fabrication, testing and packaging, and design of some of our most common MEMS devices. It features the fabrication of Hewlett-Packards thermal inkjet printhead and covers the testing and packaging of Texas Instruments digital micromirror devices. At Freescale Semiconductor we delve into the design process with a look at the creation of their sensors.

Men of Bronze: The Black American Heroes of World War I

Men of Bronze is the definitive story of black American soldiers of the 369th U.S. combat regiment, the 15th Infantry from New York, know as the Harlem Hellfighters, who served with the French army in World War I. The film uses photographs, interviews with veterans, and film from the French and American national Archives to recount the saga of the Harlem Hellfighters, offering an inspiring tribute to these unsung heroes and an unforgettable look at World War I.
Definitive sotry of the African-American soldiers of the 369th U.S. combat regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, who served in the French army in World War I.

Men of Bronze: The Black American Heroes of World War I

Men Talk Sex

Revealing amusing frequently exasperating 20 men from a variety of races ages and backgrounds speak out on sex and sexuality.
Revealing amusing frequently exasperating 20 men from a variety of races ages and backgrounds speak out on sex and sexuality. Contains graphic language.

Men's Lives

43 min.
The definitive film on the American male experience.

Menopause

Examines the myths and misconceptions about menopause as well as its realities; both conventional and alternative therapies are discussed.
Examines the myths and misconceptions about menopause as well as its realities; both conventional and alternative therapies are discussed.

Mental Illness in the Family

VHS - 26 Min
Part 1 - The highly acclaimed Bonnie Tapes present an articulate young woman with schizophrenia in discussions with her family and with mental health professionals. Bonnie, now 27, had her first psychotic break when she was 16. She and her family talk together about the illness as it affected them then, and about living with it since. The discussions examine important questions such as: What happens when mental illness enters the life of a family? How does the person struck by the illness feel? What are some of the steps on the road to recovery?

Merida Proscrita

Merida Proscrita is a sad, sepia-toned love story set in Mexico, with a distinctive scratchy, operatic style. It is a moving account of two lovers and the relationship difficulties caused by machismo and fixed roles.

Mermaid, The

Alexander Petrov, Academy Award-winning maker of The Old Man and the Sea, carefully crafted this animated short using his trademark technique of oil painting on glass. The lavish film tells the stary of pasionate woman who returns from the afterlife to avenge her broken heart. Her estranged lover is now an aged, pious christian living at a shoreside retreat to atone for his sins. Arriving at his shore as a beautiful mermaid, the woman seduces his young apprentice and finally forces the old man to confront her inconsolable rage.

Also by Alexander Petrov: The Old Man and the Sea
Lavish animated adaptation of a Russian fable. Tells of a passionate woman who returns from the afterlife as a mermaid to avenge her broken heart. Academy Award nominee.

Metropolitan Avenue

58 min.
Women fighting for a Brooklyn community

Metropolitan Home Presents: A Dream House

Tom Wolfe, Geoffrey Beene, Alice Waters and other New York culturati contribute style points to a Manhattan town house to benefit AIDS research.
Tom Wolfe, Geoffrey Beene, Alice Waters and other New York culturati contribute style points to a Manhattan town house to benefit AIDS research.

Mi droga Preferida

(My Drug of Choice) explores how addiction can take many forms and have serious consequences for Latina Lesbians who may face extra burdens in confronting the issues that led to addiction. In Spanish with English Subtitles.
(My Drug of Choice: Addiction & Recovery) Explores special factors which may make confronting substance a particular problem among Latina Lesbians. (Nuestra Salud Series: in Spanish with English Subtitles.)

Middle Passage, The

Based on a true story, The Middle Passage features two women -- one white, the other a teenage African American -- as they simultaneously face crossing a city park late at night. They are met by four young African American men who offer to accompany them through the park's wide, dark spaces. For the white woman especially, imagination takes hold in this suspenseful tale, to explore individual perceptions and stereotypes in an everyday occurrence. The essence of The Middle Passage lies in the confrontation of one's own fears -- we never know the true scope of our prejudices until we are forced to confront them.
Based on a true story, The Middle Passage features two women as they simultaneously face crossing a city park late at night and four young African-American men offer to accompany them across. Raises questions of prejudice and tolerance.

Migrations

Confined to a dull office desk job, Anna-Lisa's routine is one day interrupted by an unusual problem - she can't find her pen. Using geographical tables and animated maps and charts, Migrations documents (mock-u-ments) Anna Lisa's whimsical search and ultimately shows that she is only as confined as her own imagination.
Confined to a dull office desk job, Anna-Lisa's routine is one day interrupted by an unusual problem - she can't find her pen. Using geographical tables and animated maps and charts, Migrations hilariously documents Anna-Lisa's whimsical search.

Mikdad: Into the Mind of a Terrorist

This is the story of Hussein Mikdad, a man who is sent to bestow mass death and destruction and becomes the only victim of his own bomb. It is the story of heroism, crime, and punishment.

Hussein Mikdad was a successful accountant in Beirut. His real dream, however, had always been to play a key role among the guerrilla fighers of the Hezbullah. In 1996, he was offered the ideal mission: to wind his way from Beirut through Europe and to be the first to penetrate the borders of Israel -- all the while carrying plastic explosives in his suitcase. Trained by Iranians, his directive was twofold: the first, to recruit future suicide bombers and the second, in the words of his direct superior, to cause a spectacle that everyone will talk about.

The film, through impeccable research, gradually reveals a stunning network of international terrorism operating not only in the Middle East but also in the U.S. and Europe. Mikdad: Into the Mind of a Terrorist exposes the incredible story of a terrorist as told by Hussein Mikdad in an exclusive interview.
Through an unusual interview, the film exposes the terrible mind of Middle Eastern terrorist Hussein Mikdad -- his history, training, and attempts at terrorism in Israel.

Mikdad: Into the Mind of a Terrorist

This is the story of Hussein Mikdad, a man who is sent to bestow mass death and destruction and becomes the only victim of his own bomb. It is the story of heroism, crime, and punishment.

Part of the larger series
Archives of the Mossad: Isreal's Secret Hunt for Terrorists
Includes the following two titles:

Mikdad: Into the Mind of a Terrorist

Shaheed: The Making of a Suicide Bomber

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Through an unusual interview, the film exposes the terrible mind of Middle Eastern terrorist Hussein Mikdad -- his history, training, and attempts at terrorism in Israel.

Miles from the Border

15 min.
Manuela and Ben Aparicio, sister and brother, brought by their parents in search of a better future, arrived in the United States from a rural village in Mexico to an ethnically divided community in California. Twenty years later, they share their stories of dislocation and their determination to succeed. They sensitively portray their struggles to learn English, resist efforts to be pushed into vocational programs, go on to universities, and help other immigrants achieve and find balance in the changing demographics of American society. Their story of claiming a place poses critical questions about identity, adaptation and survival in a multicultural world.

A Mind of Your Own

Learning disabilities can make kids feel lonely confused hopeless and worthless even if they know that they're smart but it doesn't have to be that way. Meet Henry Matthew Max and Stephanie four incredible kids who don't let learning differences ho
It's been estimated that every classroom has two or three kids with learning disabilities. This video profiles four courageous kids who don't let learning difficulties hold them back or get them down.

Mines, Mills, and Metro: The Belgian Vicinal

90 minutes, all color
Mines, Mills, and Metro: The Belgian Vicinal shows highlights of the extensive network of country trolley and light metro routes once operated by the Belgian Vicinal in the vicinity of Charleroi.

A Minor Altercation

A film by Jackie Shearer, 1977, 30 min.
A fight between an African American and a white schoolgirl in Boston is explored in all its complexity in this fact-based drama from one of the producers of EYES ON THE PRIZE.

Mirror Mirror

A film by Jan Krawitz , 1990, 17 min., Color
MIRROR MIRROR provocatively explores the relationship between a woman's body image and the quest for an idealized female form. 13 women, of varying ag...

Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible

50 minutes, Color DVD Video
This film features the up close and personal stories of white activists and their ongoing journeys of transformation. Participants will talk about being unconsciousness about their learned and internalized sense of white supremacy.

MISS INDIA GEORGIA

56:40
Miss India Georgia follows four contestants during the hectic weeks lleading up to Atlanta's annual South Asian beauty pageant. In discussions with their grandparents about arranged marriages, in quarrels with their boyfriends, and in revealing conversations with Indian and non-Indian friends, these young women disclose the complexity of their feelings about growing up in the US as children of immigrant parents. Sometimes funny and sometimes sad, the stories of these resilient teenagers teach us that each individual's experience of "Americanization" is unique.

Miss Universe in Peru

A film by Grupo Chaski , 1986, 32 min., BW
Shot during the Miss Universe contest hosted by Peru in 1982, this documentary juxtaposes the glamour of the pageant with the realities of Peruvian wo...

Mister Spazzman

?My music saved my life? says Robert Goldsborough ?For two years after the accident I wanted to die.? At the age of 40 Robert fell out of a tree and broke his neck becoming a quadriplegic. A professional musician and political activist before the acci
At 40 Robert Goldsborough fell out of a tree and broke his neck becoming a quadriplegic. A professional musician before the accident he expresses his frustrations and passions through the songs he writes using a voice-activated computer. While his fait

Mitchell Block Collection, The

...no lies presents itself as a cinema v?(c)rit?(c) documentary. A film student interviews a friend to fulfill a class assignment. Shot in one day at Park Avenue and 33rd Street in New York, at the home of filmmaker Muffie Mayer, the film features cameraman Alex Hirschfeld and actress Shelby Leverington. It was made by Mitchell Block as hisMFA thesis at NYU, School of the Arts, Institute of Film and Television, Graduate Division in 1972. Block has written about this film in ?_?F is for Phony?__ (Univ. of Minn. Press, Sept. 2006.) Contact Direct Cinema for a poster/study guide, ?_?making of?__ article and a bibiliography. ...no lies is cited in 17 books on cinema productions and studies. ...no lies won over 40 film festival awards and, packaged as ?_?A Woman?_(tm)s Special,?__ won an Emmy for WGBH.
Directed by Mitchell Block
Camera by Alec Hirschfeld
The Woman: Shelby Leverington
Running Time: 16 minutes

..no lies Rehearsal Tapes: A week before the shoot, filmmakers shot a rehearsal at Block?_(tm)s home. On the day of the shoot, they set up in the morning and shot a run through at the location prior to shooting the film. The film was shot in color negative film. Rehearsal Tapes were recorded on a Sony Portapak, using 1/2 inch, black and white reel to reel tape. The tapes were recovered and are now available for the first time, thanks to Alan Bloom, California State University Los Angeles.
Running Time Tape One: 16 minutes
Running Time Tape Two: 15 minutes

Speeding? is a short film for driver?_(tm)s educational classes on speeding and is still widely used. Again, Alec Hirschfeld is the cameraman and Block populates the film with actors from television and Hollywood films (Lucille Benson, Anne Dusenberry, Jeffery Kramer, Dick Miller, Vincent Schiavelli, Ray Sharkey, Jessie White and Gigi Vorgan) and gives directors Martin Brest and Stephen Verona rare onscreen apperances. The Corona, California traffic unit and the California Highway Patrol provide the film with the reality of working traffic officers. A student at UCLA remarked after a screening, ?_?How did you happen to film all of those movie stars after they got a ticket??__ After making ...no lies, a serious work, Block wanted to do something with some comedy that would also continue to explore reality and fiction in a film that would mix actors and real people. What could be better than police in uniforms and speeders? Speeding? was done as a UCLA Project 3 while Block was in the doctoral program. The film received a production grant from the American Film Institute.
A film by Mitchell Block and Alec Hirschfeld
Running Time: 21 minutes
Fictional short film about rape. A male filmmaker casually films a conversation with his female friend, and she soon mentions her recent assault

Mitsuye and Nellie

A film by Allie Light and Irving Saraf , 1981, 58 min., Color
This absorbing documentary examines the lives of Asian Americans through the inspirational poetry of Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong. Interviews, rare ...

Mohawk Girls

Canada, 2005, 53 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD
In MOHAWK GIRLS, filmmaker Tracey Deer intimately captures the lives of three exuberant and insightful Mohawk teenagers as they face their future. Like Amy, Lauren and Felicia, Deer grew up on the Kahnawake Native Reserve, but she left to attend school. Now, she returns to document two critical years in the lives of these teens who are contending with the unwritten rules of their close-knit community. To move away from the reserve means risking the loss of credibility, or worse, rights as a Mohawk. But to stay is to give up the possibilities offered by the "outside world." With insight, humor and compassion, Deer takes us inside the lives of these three teenagers as they tackle the same issues of identity, culture and family she faced a decade earlier.

MOKO JUMBIE

15 min
The name means "dancing spirit" and these 12' high stilt walkers appear at street festivals in New York City , at carnival celebrations in the Caribbean, and during religious ceremonies in West Africa . Because of their great height they are seen as all-powerful figures - to be both feared and revered. This lively film shows the art, craft, dance, and history of the moko jumbie. Filmed in Nigeria , the Virgin Islands, and the streets of New York City .

Moms

Mothers talking about motherhood -- frank and hilarious

Monday's Girls

A film by Ngozi Onwurah , 1993, 50 min., Color
This fascinating documentary, by the filmmaker of THE BODY BEAUTIFUL,, follows two young Nigerian women's different experiences of a traditional rite ...

More than a Failing Heart

The articulate people in this program describe examples both of the best of end-of-life care and of the worst. Their stories convey a vivid sense of the ways inadequate care has contributed to their pain and loss - and of how truly competent and compassi
Family members describe examples of the best of end-of-life care and of the worst and reveal how competent and compassionate physicians and nurses can change the end-of-life experience.

More Than Skin Deep

Set against the backdrop of a nursing home beauty shop this video documentary examines issues of self-esteem and aging. Through the stories and insights of six nursing home residents it takes an evocative look at the connections between living well agi
A film about aging self-esteem and hairdressing. Through the insights of six nursing home residents it takes an evocative look at the connections between aging with dignity and looking good

More Than a Thousand Tomorrows

A follow-up to A Thousand Tomorrows this video follows the changes in one couple's emotional and sexual relationship over a period of six years as the wife's Alzheimer's gradually worsens.
A follow-up to A Thousand Tomorrows this video follows the changes in one couple's emotional and sexual relationship over a period of six years as the wife's Alzheimer's gradually worsens.

Morphine on Trial

This provocative documentary explores contrasting experiences in the U.S. and Canada of the use of opioids in managing pain through the views of a wide range of medical and nursing specialists as well as through the eyes of their patients.
Despite evidence of its effectiveness the use of opioids in managing chronic pain remains controversial. Medical and nursing specialists explore experiences in the U.S. and Canada.

Moscow Freestyle

DVD, 51 min.,
For young Westerners, teaching English abroad seems like the perfect opportunity to see the world and find themselves. These fun-loving teachers get a reality check on the streets of Moscow, where they meet greedy policemen, fight with surly locals, and experience Russian nationalism while trying to stay away from terrorist bombings and enjoy the freedom of lawlessness... A must see for anyone considering teaching in a foreign country.

Mosquitoes & High Water

In Spanish and English
In the bayous and swamps east of New Orleans reside members of one of America's least-known ethnic group, the Spanish-speaking "Islenos" of St. Bernard Parish. Their ancestors came to this country over two hundred years ago from the Canary Islands off the West coast of Africa, and today their descendants continue to make a living as fishermen and trappers. This award-winning video documentary examines the Islenos' unique history and culture, which remained isolated from the outside world until recently. El Mosco y el Agua Alta shows how the Islenos have preserved their archaic Spanish dialect and maintained the tradition of the decima,a long, descriptive ballad about events in their lives or notorious local characters. Although some of these songs are sad, many are light-hearted and use comic exaggeration. In addition to the singing of several decimas, the documentary offers a colorful portrait of Isleno life, including an alligator hunt, a discussion of old folk cures and superstitions, work on the shrimp boats, preparation of muskrat pelts, and the annual Blessing of the Fleet.

Mothers of Courage

Bethany has multiple physical and developmental disabilities. Like thousands of dedicated parents her mother has had to fight for years to get Bethany the medical and social services she needs.
Bethany has multiple physical and developmental disabilities. Like thousands of dedicated parents her mother has had to fight for years to get Bethany the medical and social services she needs.

The Mothers' Triangle

Mary was 16 when Christina was born; now at 18 Christina is a mother too. Best friends mother and daughter jealous rivals — will their intense but fragile relationship survive the escalating conflicts triggered by Cristian's arrival?
Mary was 16 when Christina was born; now at 18 Christina is a mother too. Best friends mother and daughter jealous rivals  will their intense but fragile relationship survive the escalating conflicts triggered by Cristian's arrival?

Mother / Country

From the director of the Sundance film Closer comes a moving personal documentary about loss, family and homeland. During the cultural revolution, six-year-old Gharavi was sent from Iran to live with her father in the West, remaining separated from her mother into adulthood. This intense personal documentary follows Gharavi?s return to Iran in an attempt to understand her mother?s decision and to reconnect to her lost past. Choosing not to explain the last twenty years of her life, Gharavi drops the viewer directly into the moment of her return, sharing the immediacy of the event.

Mother Earth

This poetic, evocative film celebrates life on our planet in all its myriad forms. Combining beautiful cinematography with animation, still photographs and historical footage culled from the fifty-year collection of the National Film Board of Canada, the film is a meditation on the recurring patterns of life, death and rebirth in nature and culture. Images of humanity's destructive influence on the Earth give way to manifestations of the creative spirit expressed in dance, art, work and the act of birth itself. Mother Earth speaks in music and pictures to communicate the hope that life may redeem itself through its own re-creation.
A short film on conservation which uses music, dance and dramatic photographs for its theme.

Mother of Many Children

A film by Alanis Obomsawin , 1977, 58 min., Color
Composed of a series of vignettes featuring Native women from different first nations, this classic work by Alanis Obomsawin, an Abenaki, reflects a p...

Mother of the River

A film by Zeinabu Irene Davis , 1995, 28 min., BW
In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their friendsh...

The Mother: Mitos Maternos

A videotape by Marta Bautis , 1994, 69 min., Color
This wry, self-reflective tape explores the mythical figure of the mother from multiple viewpoints-documentary and fiction, Spanish and English, theor...

Motherland Afghanistan

73min. 2006.
An Afghan-American documentary filmmaker follows her father, who specializes in women's medicine, to Afghanistan, where one in seven women dies during childbirth. Beginning his work at Kabul's Laura Bush Maternity Ward in a city where unrest means your life is still very much at risk, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi's father tries to bring hope and make the best of a deplorable situation, with limited medical supplies, archaic equipment and backed up toilets. But their second trip to a newly established rural provincial hospital in the Ghazni province proves to be a completely different and rewarding experience. It is a place where services and training are desperately needed, where women travel for days to get treated while enduring debilitating illnesses and conditions with grace and courage. A rare and moving glimpse of humanity and the power of compassion set against the backdrop of a land in turmoil and transition, the strength of these women and the quiet deeds of those who attempt to heal is utterly inspiring.

Motherland Afghanistan

When the United States invaded Afghanistan in October of 2001, Afghan hopes were high that democracy would bring enormous progress for Afghan women in the arena of health and education. But as of 2006 one of their most fundamental rights adequate health carehas not been met. In MOTHERLAND AFGHANISTAN, Afghan American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi journeys to the heart of this medical tragedy by following her father's return to Afghanistan to battle one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi is an OB/GYN who was forced by political pressures to emigrate from Afghanistan to the U.S. in 1972. In 2003, nearly two years after the Talibans fall, he is invited by the U.S. government to help rehabilitate the largest womens hospital in the country, Rabia Balkhi, now under U.S. sponsorship with a newly re-named Laura Bush Maternity Ward. He returns to his homeland with great hopes that with U.S. funding, he can help set in motion the large-scale changes necessary to stem the epidemic of maternal mortality in the country. But when Dr. Mojadidi arrives at the Laura Bush Maternity Ward in Kabul, a city still plagued with danger and unrest, he finds deplorable conditions, with limited supplies and unsanitary facilities. As he tries to bring hope to the ward and make the best of archaic equipment and an untrained staff, the film introduces the women behind the statistics and exposes how the U.S. government's Department of Health and Human Services has impacted Afghan lives, particularly in terms of the devastating epidemic of maternal mortality. After several months, Dr. Mojadidi leaves the hopeless conditions at Rabia Balkhi in frustration. Despite his disillusionment, he continues to search for ways to make a difference in his homeland. Two years later, he returns to Afghanistan, this time with Shuhada, an Afghan-led non-governmental organization that runs hospitals, schools and shelters in the rural Jaghori district and throughout central Afghanistan. At the Shuhada hospital, Dr. Mojadidi attempts to pass on his knowledge to the over-worked and under-trained doctors and to help the hundreds of women who have traveled days to see him. He encounters patients who will test his ability to make a difference, but also finds that despite their lack of financial and human resources, Shuhada has an encouraging vision for change based on education and prevention. Set against the backdrop of a land in turmoil and transition, this inspiring film reveals the devastating stories behind a reproductive health crisis essentially neglected by the Western media and provides a rare glimpse into the heart of humanity through the quiet deeds of those who attempt to heal.

Motherlove

A film by Midge Mackenzie , 1980, 20 min., Color/BW
This moving film captures with loving detail the emotional power of Tillie Olsen's classic feminist short story I STAND HERE IRONING. Accompanied by ...

Moving Toward the Light

28 min.
The making of a public work of art.

Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife

Based on the James Thurber short story, this outrageous film uses Thurber's style of satiric exaggeration to examine the domestic power struggles between a middle-aged suburbanite and his wife. With its broad acting style and accomplished visual technique, Mr. Preble effectively translates the original story into cinematic terms while remaining true to the spirit of its author.
Based on the James Thurber short story, this outrageous film uses Thurber's style of satiric exaggeration to examine the domestic power struggle between a suburbanite husband and his wife.

Mujeria

A videotape by Teresa 'Osa' Hidalgo de la Riva , 1992, 20 min., Color
?A hip, lively tribute to the Olmeca culture of Mexico. Less well known than the Aztecs, the Olmeca people played an equally important role in Mexica...

Multiple

For six years actor and director Alison Peebles has been keeping a secret: she has multiple sclerosis. MS is an unpredictable but progressive disease of the brain and nervous system which is affecting her speech mobility and eyesight. Having watched
For six years actor and director Alison Peebles has been keeping a secret: she has multiple sclerosis. Now in the midst of working on an important TV series she finds she can no longer hide her symptoms. She's afraid this revelation may destroy her car

Mummies, Tombs & Various Pieces of Ancient Egypt

There is no curse of the mummy's tomb. But there are warnings in the heiroglyphs to anyone who would defile a burial place

The facts about Ancient Egypt can be as incredible as any myth or horror movie. Mummies, Tombs, and Various Pieces of Ancient Egypt reveals rare and beautiful treasures at The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Some of these releics now rest in an exact replica of an Ancient Egyptian burial chamber.

A revealing look at the rare and beautiful treasures at The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Some of these relics now rest in an exact replica of an Ancient Egyptian burial chamber.

Conserving these artifacts is the job of a rare breed of museum specialists whose meticulous work is also captured in this compelling video tour.

From huge and wondrous pyramids to delicate pieces of jewelry, the Ancient Egyptians created a way of life that continues to influence and intrigue us. Through the efforts of museums like The Carnegie, these mummies, tombs, and various pieces of Ancient Egypt will survive so that future generations may marvel at them.
Reveals rare and beautiful treasures at The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Also considers the meticulous work of the museum specials who conserve these artifacts.

The Murder of Emmett Till

2003, 60 min.
In August of 1955, a 14 year-old black boy from Chicago, unschooled in the racial customs of the south, traveled to Mississippi to visit relatives. With adolescent bravado, he whistled at a white woman. Three nights later, Emmett Till was abducted, beaten, and shot through the head. His mangled body later surfaced in the muddy waters of the Tallahatchie River.

Murder On A Sunday Morning

On May 7, 2000, Mary Ann and James Stephens, white tourists, were confronted at gunpoint by a black man who demanded Mrs. Stephens' purse. He then shot her point-blank in the face, killing her instantly. Less than two hours later, Police picked up 15-year old Brenton Butler, on his way to apply for a job at a local Blockbuster store. Later that day, he signed a confession which he soon recanted.

Murder On A Sunday Morning begins after Brenton Butler has been imprisoned for over six months, and commences with his headline-making trial. The dogged persistence of Defense Attorneys Patrick McGuiness and Ann Finnel begins to pay off when evidence mounts of police improprieties, including a coerced confession and unreliable eyewitness testimony.
This Oscar-winning film depicts the story of Brenton Butler, unjustly accused of a homicide, a charge which unravels during his trial when evidence mounts of police improprieties.

Murita Cycles

To Murray Braverman, It is not important to be a successful businessman, but rather to live each day and do what makes him happy. In Murita Cycles, filmmaker Barry Braverman paints a complex picture and colorful portrait of his father, an eccentric and sometimes abrasive philosopher/junk collector/bicycle repairman.
A biographical portrait by filmmaker Barry Braverman of his eccentric father, a complex and colorful philosopher, junk collecter and bicycle repairman.

Murray Avenue

28 min.
A tender portrait of an old, vital, Jewish neighborhood.

My America..or Honk if You Love Buddha

1997 dvd/vhs, 87 min
In My America Renee Tajima-Peña (Who Killed Vincent Chin?) recalls her childhood, back in the days when her vacationing family crossed five state lines without ever seeing another Asian face. Tajima-Peña hits the road again to explore just how much the racial and cultural landscape of America has changed. Driving coast-to-coast and stopping in New York and San Franciscos Chinatowns but also in Duluth, Minnesota, New Orleans, and Arkansas, she seeks out what it means to be Asian American in our rapidly-changing society. The film chronicles an eclectic group of offbeat and distinctive people from Chinese American debutantes and eighth generation Filipinos in New Orleans to the entrepreneur Chung Y. Choi with his fortune cookie factory, fish business, and security job, and Cambodian telehuckster Tom Vu. Tajima-Peña also explores the challenge for Asian Americans now that they are no longer the invisible minority.

My Feminism

A film by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert , 1997, 55 min., Color
In an era of anti-feminist backlash, this articulate documentary by the makers of THANK GOD I'M A LESBIAN forcefully reminds us that the revolution co...

My Filmmaking, My Life

A film by Patricia Diaz , 1990, 30 min., Color
Matilde Landeta entered the flourishing Mexican film industry in the 1930s, working her way up from script girl to direct 110 shorts and, in the late ...

My Heart is My Witness

A film by Louise Carr? , 1996, 56 min., Color
MY HEART IS MY WITNESS, by renowed French-Canadian filmmaker, Louise Carr?, investigates the status of women in Islam through interviews with men and ...

My Home, My Prison

A film by Erica Marcus and Susana Blaustein Mu?oz , 1992, 66 min., Color
MY HOME, MY PRISON is an uplifting and informative documentary based on the autobiography of Palestinian peace activist and journalist, Raymonda Hawa ...

My Khmer Heart

In 1993, Geraldine Cox, a milkman's daughter from Australia, decided to devote her life to the children of Cambodia. Three years in the making, My Khmer Heart, documents Geraldine's fight to save her orphanage both during and after Prime Minister Hun Sen's bloody coup in 1997.

Despite the dangers to her own life, due to her friendship with Hun Sen's bitter enemy, ousted Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Geraldine remains in Cambodia during the fighting. But later she is forced to leave and is separated from her children for five months. There is only one person who can help Geraldine remain in Cambodia: Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen.

Click here to visit the Geraldine Cox orphanage.
A poignant view of Pol Pot?s legacy through the eyes of a Geralding Cox, an Australian expatriate who, during a bloody coup, is fighting to keep open a government-owned orphanage in Cambodia.

My Khmer Heart

My Land Zion

A film by Yulie Cohen Gerstel , 2004, 57 min., Color
From Yulie Cohen Gerstel, a sixth generation Israeli and director of the controversial 2002 release MY TERRORIST comes this courageous and provocative...

My Left Breast

A videotape by Gerry Rogers , 2000, 57 min., Color
?Every once in a while someone comes up with a film that sends us a clear signal that it's time to re-evaluate our lives. The film MY LEFT BREAST is n...

My Man Bovanne

Theresa Merritt, Bill Cobbs, and Angela Bassett star in this gently satiric drama based on a short story by Toni Cade Bambara. Haxel Peoples (Merritt), a 60-year-old woman, meets her neighbor Bovanne (Cobbs), an elderly blind man, at a political fundraising party. They hit it off...but Hazel's grown children (including Bassett) are scandalized by the behavior of the venerated elders. The only problem is that the kids are no match for the woman who reared them! Possessed of a long memory and a hard-won sense of self, Mama does exactly what she started out to do: seduce Her Man Bovanne. With great wit and sensitivity, My Man Bovanne looks at the difference between growing up and growing wise, and advises living life to the fullest -- at any age.
Short, fictional film based on a short story. A 60-year-old woman meets an elderly man and pursues him, much to her grown children's dismay. Considers aging and age differences.

My Mother, My Father

Portraits of four families caring for aging parents; their choices include care at home use of a variety of support services and nursing home placement.
Moving sometimes troubling portraits of four families caring for aging parents. Their choices include care at home the use of a variety of support services and nursing home placement.

My Mother, My Father - 7 years later

Revisits each family seven years later to explore changes in family dynamics and the caregivers' thoughts about their own aging.
Revisits the families first seen in My Mother My Father to explore changes in family dynamics and the caregivers' thoughts about their own aging.

My Mother, My Father Series

This two-part series portrays four families caring for aging parents; their choices include care at home use of a variety of support services and nursing home placement. The follow up video revisits each family to explore changes in family dynamics and
This two-part series portrays four families caring for aging parents. Their choices include care at home use of a variety of support services and nursing home placement. The follow up video revisits each family after a period of seven years to explore

My Name is Kahentiiosta

A film by Alanis Obomsawin , 1995, 30 min., Color
This affecting film from acclaimed director of KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTEANCE, Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki), profiles a young, courageous Kahnawa...

My Neighbor My Killer

DVD-R, 80 min/color/2009
When peace comes, how do you make it right again? An epic emotional journey in search of coexistence in Rwanda. By award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion. Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the countrys Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village, local patrols massacred lifelong friends and family members, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. Announced in 2001, and ending this year, the government put in place the Gacaca Tribunalsopen-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. As part of this experiment in reconciliation, confessed genocide killers are sent home from prison, while traumatized survivors are asked to forgive them and resume living side-by-side. Filming for close to a decade in a tiny hamlet, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has charted the impact of Gacaca on survivors and perpetrators alike. Through their fear and anger, accusations and defenses, blurry truths, inconsolable sadness, and hope for life renewed, she captures the emotional journey to coexistence. Winner of the Human Rights Watch 2009 Nestor Almendros Prize, Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and 2009 Gotham Award nominee. My Neighbor My Killer is the culmination of ten years of documenting Gacaca justice in Rwanda. This feature length documentary film spans the trilogy. My Neighbor My Killer is a production of Gacaca Productions (2009). Directed and produced by Anne Aghion and edited by Nadia Ben Rachid. 80 minutes. Stereo. DVD-R. NTSC or PAL. English or French subtitles. Educational sales include public performance rights. Visit http://www.gacacafilms.com/store.html for licensing agreements.

My Neighbor My Killer & The Notebooks Of Memory

Complete the series with these two recently released documentary films, and save $145. Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha), which literally means "justice on the grass", is a form of citizen-based justice which Rwandans decided to put into place in an attempt to deal with the crimes of the 1994 genocide. Filming for over a decade in a tiny rural hamlet, director Anne Aghion has charted the impact this experiment in transitional justice has had on survivors and perpetrators alike. My Neighbor My Killer is the culmination of ten years of documenting Gacaca justice in Rwanda. This feature length documentary film spans the Gacaca trilogy. An Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, winner of the 2009 Human Rights Watch Nestor Almendros Award, and a Best Documentary Nominee at the 2009 Gotham Awards. (80', 2009). The Notebooks of Memory The third film focuses exclusively on the Gacaca trials, with citizen-judges weighing survivor accounts of the massacres against the testimony of perpetrators. (53', 2009)

My Niagara

A film by Helen Lee , 1992, 40 min., Color
Grasping the texture of half-expressed desire, this beautifully drawn drama evokes the complex dislocations of an Asian American woman. Shadowed by th...

My Sister is Mentally Ill

VHS - 22 Min
Part 3 - The highly acclaimed Bonnie Tapes present an articulate young woman with schizophrenia in discussions with her family and with mental health professionals. Bonnie, now 27, had her first psychotic break when she was 16. She and her family talk together about the illness as it affected them then, and about living with it since. The discussions examine important questions such as: What happens when mental illness enters the life of a family? How does the person struck by the illness feel? What are some of the steps on the road to recovery?

My Sister, My Bride

A film by Bonnie Burt , 2004, 26 min., Color
As the issue of gay marriage grips the country, this touching documentary follows the heartwarming and historic journey of two Jewish lesbians as they...

My Terrorist

A videotape by Yulie Cohen Gerstel , 2002, 58 min., Color
In 1978, filmmaker Yulie Cohen-Gerstel was wounded in a terrorist attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. A stewardess for the Is...

Myriam's Gaze

Directed by Clara Riascos , 1987, 28 min., Color
An inspirational portrait of a woman living on the outskirts of Bogota. ?Through Myriam's eyes, we get a glimpse of her strength, dignity and tenderne...

Mysterious California: Four Authors

38 minutes, DVD
Mysterious California: Four Authors, invites viewers on a rich visual journey through the distinctive California landscapes of four crime novels and on an intimate exploration of universal themes: the love of land, the importance of knowing personal and social history, the desire for truth and justice, and the power of place to inspire story.

Mystery of the Blue Whale, The

The Blue Whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on the planet. It grows up to 100 feet and weighs upwards of 140 tons at maturity. Over the centuries, it has fired the imagination and become a legendary beast, the Leviathan. Despite its colossal side, the blue whale remains elusive. It is rare and nomadic, spending 90% of its life underwater, surfacing only briefly to breathe, then diving back into its own mysterious world.

The film tracks the efforts of dedicated researchers equipped with new scientific techniques, who are significantly increasing our knowledge about the behavior of these largest of whales. Filmed in the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, Mexico`s Sea of Cortez, and off the coast of Iceland, the film allows viewers to share in a great scientific adventure, while witnessing unique images of this mesmerizing marine mammal.

Part of the Discover Nature Series
Includes titles: The Cry of the Beluga and The Mystery of the Blue Whale.
Tracks the efforts of researchers who are significantly increasing our knowledge about the blue whale -- the largest creature that has ever lived on the face of the planet.

Mystery of the Blue Whale, The

The film tracks the efforts of dedicated researchers equipped with new scientific techniques, who are significantly increasing our knowledge about the behavior of these largest of whales. Filmed in the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, Mexico's Sea of Cortez, and off the coast of Iceland, the film allows viewers to share in a great scientific adventure, while witnessing unique images of this mesmerizing marine mammal.

Myth of Father

Director Paul Hill?s father, Jodie, is a transsexual woman.  When she came out to Paul a few years ago, he began a journey to learn about who his father is.  This stunning video documentary contrasts Paul?s relationship to his father with the relationship of his father and her own dad.  Candid interviews provide reflections on Jodie?s youth: "He seemed to live the normal life. He was into cars, he was into rock bands, he went into the Army?married?child?"  But no one really knew Jodie, as she explains, "No one knew who I was.  I trashed relationships with everyone I knew, including my own son."