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The Tailenders

72 minutes DVD 72 minutes VHS 52 minutes VHS
THE TAILENDERS is a captivating look at a missionary groups use of ultra-low-tech audio devices to evangelize indigenous communities facing crises caused by global economic forces. Global Recordings Network, founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and aims to record in every language on Earth. The film traces their journeys in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India and the United States, where they distribute the recordings, along with hand-wind audio players, to the Tailenders the last people to be reached by worldwide evangelism.

A Tajik Woman

1994, 20 min., Color
A picture of an unknown Tajik woman found in a Russian book on Tajikistan encourages videomaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa to reflect on issues of exile and cultural conflict for Muslim women from Afghanistan and Iran living in the United States. Moving interviews with four women (including the directors mother) are interwoven with personal observations, images of the Tajik woman and fascinating footage of Iran and Muslim culture in the US. A TAJIK WOMAN touches on many issues familiar to Muslim immigrants: war and revolution, loss of homeland and conflict with fundamentalist Islamic values. Sharing these stories begins a much-needed dialogue for Muslim women; it also provides a better understanding of Muslim women who now live in the US.

Take a Ride on the North Shore Line

main program 90 minutes, approx. 30 min. extras, mostly color
Interurban Legends From the hustle of Chicago's Loop, along the shores of Lake Michigan to the streets of Milwaukee, The North Shore Line was a legend - for many, the very definition of the interurban railroad in America. Widely acclaimed as America's 'best known' interurban, the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee was the perennial recipient of well earned speed and safety awards. For over sixty years, until its premature demise in 1963, the line served both commuters and through passengers, as well as carrying a significant amount of freight. The crown jewel of Samuel Insull's electric railway empire, the North Shore legend is secure in the annals of interurban lore. This cinematographic history of the line's last 25 years thoroughly covers the physical plant and equipment, with many exciting shots which dramatically illustrate the speed and precision of its operation. Truly everything you remember or want to know about the era of the "World's Fastest Interurban" can be found in this superlative film. This new edition of Don Olsen's classic tribute to The North Shore Line features a digitally remastered sound track.

Take it from Me

TAKE IT FROM ME is the story of four women struggling against great odds to raise themselves and their families out of poverty in New York City. It is also an in-depth look at the human impact of the 1996 Personal Responsibility Act and its five-year limit on public assistance. Has welfare reform been successful? Are former public assistance recipients better off once they leave welfare? Shot over a two year period, TAKE IT FROM ME lets these women speak for themselves. Iyoka and her husband Louie applied for welfare after a fire rendered them homeless. Less than a year later, they are cut off from the benefits that had been helping Iyoka pursue an education. Twenty-year-old Abby, a single mother of two, is in despair over her inability to afford decent housing or obtain public assistance. Unable to pay for an apartment, she loses her children to foster care. Middle-aged Teresa contends with mental illness while struggling to negotiate the job world. As welfare time limits loom and steady work continues to elude her, Teresa's sense of panic grows. Valentina is a tough, reflective survivor of drug addiction and welfare dependency. A self-described "welfare reform success story," she nonetheless strains to support herself and her three children on a cafeteria worker's wage. For all the determination Iyoka, Abby, Teresa and Valentina show, they have certain long odds against them. Since the passage of welfare reform laws, the number of Americans who receive public assistance has plunged from 12.2 million in 1996 to 5 million in September 2004, a decline of 59 percent. Yet while the Bush Administration regards welfare reform as an overwhelming success, poverty and unemployment rates in the US are at a 20 year high. As tax cuts for the wealthy remain in tact, 41 million Americans live without healthcare and homelessness is on the rise. A recent study by the Brookings Institute on Public Policy found that while the national welfare caseload has decreased dramatically, many cities are still struggling to help welfare recipients move into and stay in the workforce. Minimum wage work pays below the poverty line and an ex-welfare recipient's median income of $12,324 a year is hardly likely to allow her to climb out of poverty. Childcare grows more, not less, expensive. With welfare reform reflecting a hardening of political and social attitudes toward the poor, the system is less and less responsive to individual needs and circumstances - and more and more capricious in its exclusions. Directed by a former caseworker, TAKE IT FROM ME eschews easy answers and asks disturbing questions about the human impact of America's current welfare policies.

Taken for a Ride

52 min.
The tragic story of a secret auto/oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle Americas streetcars. Across the nation, tracks were torn up and buses took their place. The highway lobby then pushed through Congress an urban freeway system, which increased auto dependence and elicited passionate opposition. Seventeen city freeways were stopped by citizens who would become the leading edge of a new environmental movement. With sharp investigative journalism and vintage archival footage, TAKEN FOR A RIDE presents a revealing history of our cities in the 20th century that is also a meditation on corporate power, citizen protest and the social and environmental implications of transportation.

Taken For A Ride (Home Use)

52 minutes - DVD
Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways? Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets. The highway lobby then pushed through Congress a vast network of urban freeways that doubled the cost of the Interstates, fueled suburban development, increased auto dependence, and elicited passionate opposition. Seventeen city freeways were stopped by citizens who would become the leading edge of a new environmental movement. With investigative journalism, vintage archival footage and candid interviews, Taken for a Ride presents a revealing history of our cities in the 20th century that is also a meditation on corporate power, city form, citizen protest and the social and environmental implications of transportation.

Taking Good Care

The daily life of a pediatric hospital is seen through the stories of three children and the many staff who care for them.
The daily life of a pediatric hospital is seen through the stories of three children and the many staff who care for them.

Taking a Sexual History

Actual patient interviews demonstrate techniques for evaluating HIV risk as well as other risks associated with sexuality and drug use.
Actual patient interviews demonstrate techniques for evaluating HIV risk as well as other risks associated with sexuality and drug use.

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

DVD, 80 Min.
Planting trees for fuel, shade, and food is not something that anyone would imagine as the first step toward winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet with that simple act Wangari Maathai, a woman born in rural Kenya, started down the path that reclaimed her countrys land from 100 years of deforestation, provided new sources of food and income to rural communities, gave previously impoverished and powerless women a vital political role in their country, and ultimately helped to bring down Kenya's twenty-four-year dictatorship.

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

DVD (Home Use)
Planting trees for fuel, shade, and food is not something that anyone would imagine as the first step toward winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet with that simple act Wangari Maathai, a woman born in rural Kenya, started down the path that reclaimed her countrys land from 100 years of deforestation, provided new sources of food and income to rural communities, gave previously impoverished and powerless women a vital political role in their country, and ultimately helped to bring down Kenya's twenty-four-year dictatorship. HOME USE ONLY

Taking The Heat

54 minutes DVD Closed Captioned
In 1982, one woman took on the New York City Fire Department in a landmark lawsuitand won. As a result, for the first time in the history of FDNY, women could become firefighters. Of the few who joined, one woman was knifed, one was beaten up and several received death threats from male firefighters. Someone had drained my air-tank, and I was in a burning building, recalls one woman firefighter. This is the captivating story of how these women survived over twenty years in a department that did not want them.

A Tale of Love

A film by Trinh T. Minh-ha , 1995, 108 min., Color
Portraying the Vietnamese immigrant experience through Kieu, A TALE OF LOVE follows the quest of a woman in love with Love. The film is loosely inspired by THE TALE OF KIEU, the Vietnamese national poem of love which Vietnamese people see as a mythical biography of their motherland, marked by internal turbulence and foreign domination. A free-lance writer, Kieu also works as a model for a photographer who idealizes the headless female body and who captures Kieu sheathed by transparent veils. Voyeurism runs through the history of love narratives and voyeurism is here one of the threads that structures the narrative of the film. Exposing the fiction of love in love stories and the process of consumption, A TALE OF LOVE marginalizes traditional narrative conventions and opens up a denaturalized space of acting where performed reality, memory and dream constantly pass into one another. Sublimely beautiful to watch, A TALE OF LOVE eloquently evokes an understanding of the allusive and powerful connections between love, sensuality, voyeurism and identity.

Tales from Arab Detroit

45 min.
Unique in post-September 11 America, TALES FROM ARAB DETROIT, is an intimate community portrait. American born children, a 7-11 girl, hip hop dancer and rapper among them reconcile social and cultural differences with Arab immigrant parents. Through music, poetry and the ironies of everyday life, young people face up to racial discrimination and cultural challenges.

Talk to Me: Children with Autism

This engaging video takes viewers into the lives of children with Autism at home and at school and profiles the efforts of their parents and teachers to help them achieve their potential.
Takes viewers into the lives of children with autism at home and in public school and profiles the efforts of their parents and teachers to help them achieve their potential.

talk to me: teens speak out about sexual violence

One in six victims of sexual assault are under the age of twelve. Talk to Me allows five brave young women to speak directly about their painful experiences of sexual abuse. The film will be a catalyst for dialogue between students parents teache
One in six victims of sexual assault are under the age of twelve. Talk to Me allows five brave young women to speak directly about their painful experiences of sexual abuse. The film will be a catalyst for dialogue between students parents teache

Tampon Thieves

Zena and Tita are due in court for stealing tampons; they refuse to pay for the privilege of menstruating.  They live in an abandoned warehouse on the edge of Toronto and pay for college by selling phone sex.  Both are on the verge of losing their abuelas (grandmothers)  During a night out with Tita?s two Columbian dark-skinned queer cousins, the foursome is bashed, the cousins assaulted with racial slurs.  Zena assumes guilt over this incident becasue she is white.  Half white and half Latina, Tita is able to reconcile her two racial identities and comfort her friend whom she loves.  Reflective and insightful, Tampon Thieves gently weaves reflections on family with love between friends to tell a rich story of how women and gay men of color are treated in a racist, homophobic culture.

Tangled Roots

66 min.
This compelling film offers a new way for people to look at the complexities of the past as the filmmaker tries to reconcile her dual identity as the daughter of a German father and a Jewish mother. Through intimate interviews with both her Jewish relatives in America and her German Lutheran relatives abroad, she discovers a rich family tapestry spanning three continents, shaped by war, courage, prejudice, and fear.

Tango 73: A Bus Rider's Diary

28 min.
By exploring one bus line and the people who depend on it, this delightful film illustrates the vital importance of public transportation in urban areas. The filmmaker has just moved to the United States from Costa Rica and is still learning how to drive. On board bus line 73, in the San Francisco Bay Area, she meets a feisty nanny, a wheelchairdependent activist, a Mexican grandmother and a politically incorrect bus driver. The women speak about their love-hate relationship with the bus and the consequences of recent service cuts on their daily lives. TANGO 73 is ideal for courses in urban planning, environmental studies, sociology, anthropology, womens studies and American studies.

Taylor Chain I: A Story of a Union Local

33 min.
The gritty realities of a strike at a small Indiana chain factory.

Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

30 min.
Beyond the closed doors of a contract negotiation.

Teachings of the Tree People: The Work of Bruce Miller

58 minutes VHS 58 minutes DVD-R Closed Captioned
Nationally-acclaimed artist and Skokomish tribal leader Gerald Bruce Miller (Subiyay) interpreted the sacred teachings of the natural world for anyone who wanted to learn. A passionate student of traditional culture, Bruce became the bearer of the language, oral history, art, and spirituality of the Twana and Southern Coast Salish peoples. This gentle and generous film is the parting gift of a great teacher, artist and orator.

#431: Teen Immigrants: Five American Stories

This unique program explores the lives of teenagers from the Philippines, Russia, Namibia, Korea, Egypt, India and England. Through meeting teens from other countries, American teens learn about the differences and the common ground shared with their peers. We see them in their homes, in school, at work and just having fun. We hear about the uniqueness of each countrys culture and the common issues teens face such as violence, substance abuse and relationships. The program provides insight into the ways teens of other cultures live, promoting tolerance and understanding of other cultures. Im always on the look-out for resources. I implement training for teachers on how to use effective teaching and support strategies for youngsters who are immigrating. Melodee Zamudio, CA *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.

#401: Teen Solutions To Racism

Teens all across the country and around the world are doing what they can to combat racism. In the Mix travels along with 'Kids to Korea' a program that breaks down stereotypes in which urban teens meet Korean teens and learn about their culture. We see the differences as well as the similarities. We also visit Washington state to check out 'The Seattle Young People's Project' organized by students who are challenging their school board to establish a multicultural curriculum. In New York City, the culturally diverse James Madison High School shows how teens work as peer educators in workshops that fight prejudice and reduce violence. Celebrities David Alan Grier, Henry Rollins and Run DMC also speak out against racism. *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.

The Teen Years: War or Peace

40 min.
The essential video survival kit for every parent of a teenager.

#430: Teens Around The World

This unique program explores the lives of teenagers from the Philippines, Russia, Namibia, Korea, Egypt, India and England. Through meeting teens from other countries American teens learn about the differences and the common ground shared with their peers. We see them in their homes, in school, at work and just having fun. We hear about the uniqueness of each country's culture and the common issues teens face such as violence, substance abuse and relationships. The program provides insight into the ways teens of other cultures live promoting tolerance and understanding of other cultures. *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.

Tell Them You're Fine

Three fairly young people with cancer confront the day-to-day realities of coping with the impact of the disease with therapy and with the attitudes of family friends and co-workers.
Three fairly young people with cancer confront the day-to-day realities of coping with the impact of the disease with therapy and with the attitudes of family friends and co-workers.

Tell Me Something I Can't Forget

The film features the Chicopee Writers' Workshop in Massachusetts, a project designed to give economically disadvantaged women the opportunity to confront their difficulties and develop their talents through creative writing. Using verite footage, interviews and narrative sequences, this moving film reflects the diversity of the group and the direct, honest format of the workshop.

The workshop consists of eigh women; some are young mothers, some are young grandmothers. When the group formed five years ago, most of the women had not finished high school. Now three women have graduated from college, three have earned GED certificates and one writer is enrolled in an M.F.A. program in creative writing.

Taking its structure from the writers' work -- poetry, narrative pieces, short works of fiction and journal entries -- Tell Me Something I Can't Forget examines the role of creativity in everyone's life.
Focuses on the Chicopee Writers Workshop in Massachusetts, a project designed to give economicallly disadvantaged women the opportunity to confront their difficulties and develop their talents through crative writing.

Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press

111 min.
Celebrated correspondent George Seldes became Americas most important press critic. Through Seldess encounters with Pershing and Mussolini, the tobacco industry and the lords of the press, TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN provides a fresh perspective on twentieth century history and raises profound questions about Americas news media. With Ralph Nader, Victor Navasky, Ben Bagdikian

Tell Them Who We Are

29 min.
A Drill Team and Drum Squad in South Central LA

Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax)

A film by Midi Onodera , 1986, 30 min., Color
Onodera's three-part reflection on contemporary sexuality and communication uses a split screen device with a new twist. In the first segment, two wom...

Ten Dollar Horse and a Forty Dollar Saddle

Eighty-four-year-old Monroe Veach is the colorful focus for this guided journey through the myth and reality of the American West. Expert saddlemaker and storyteller, Veach's personal experiences reflect America's fascination with the adventure and values of the Wild West. The zest and variety of Monroe's biography forms a framework through which larger questions about U.S. history, fact, and legend are examined. Using down-home humor and honesty, the film explores the evolving cultural meaning of the cowboy hero and the American West.
Focuses on Monroe Veach (b.1896), former cowboy, saddlemaker and Wild West Show performer. His biography forms a framework through which larger questions about U.S. history, factual and legendary, are examined.

Tender Fictions

A film by Barbara Hammer , 1995, 58 min., Color
Innovative, funny, and historic, TENDER FICTIONS is an autobiographical exploration of the search for and meaning of gay community. From a childhood ...

Tennessee Sampler

Better than a visit down home. Toe-tapping country tunes set the pace for the nonstop journey through the colorful state full of culture, crafts and characters.
Country tunes set the pace for this nonstop journey through a colorful state full of culture, crafts, and characters.

The Tenth Dancer

A film by Sally Ingleton , 1993, 52 min., Color
THE TENTH DANCER provides a rare window on women's lives in Cambodia, a country under cultural and political reconstruction following the brutal Pol P...

Terence Davies Trilogy

Before Distant Voices, Still Lives, Terence Davies spent seven years making three darker films about his working class, Catholic upbringing in Northern England. Part One Children introduces Robert Tucker and flashbacks to scenes from his childhood-- bullying at school; a violent and sick father; early sexual fantasies.  Part Two Madonna and Child is a portrait of Tucker, middle aged and trapped between public and private personae. In Part Three Death and Transfiguration, Tucker revisits his life with a new and less tortured perspective. He seems to accept his sexuality, which is transfigured by the love between his mother and himself.

Terra Nullius

A film by Anne Pratten , 1992, 21 min., Color/BW
TERRA NULLIUS evolved as part of a response by a generation of Australian Aborigines to the government's assimilationist policies which removed childr...

Test

Thank God I'm a Lesbian

A film by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona , 1992, 55 min., Color
THANK GOD I'M A LESBIAN is an uplifting and entertaining documentary about the diversity of lesbian identities. Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Lee Pu...

That Spirit, That Thing Inside

Seven American Indian and Hispanic/Latino nurses - both women and men and at various stages in their careers - describe how their lives led them to nursing careers the educational barriers and successes they experienced and the ways in which they have
Invaluable for nursing recruitment and retention: Hispanic/Latino and American Indian nurses describe how they came to their careers and have used their nursing expertise to serve their families their tribes and their communities.

That Paradise Will Be Mine

A film by Merel Beernink , 2005, 54 min., Color
A frank portrayal of what it means to be a Dutch Muslim, this eye-opening film follows the lives of three women dealing with the consequences of their...

That's a Family!

35 min.
With revealing honesty and a touch of humor, children from over 50 diverse families open the door to their homes and explain things like "divorce," "mixed race," "gay and lesbian parents," "birth mom," "single parent," "guardian," and "stepdad"and get right to the point of what they wish other people would understand about their families. While designed especially for young audiences, THAT'S A FAMILY! stretches the minds and touches the hearts of people of all ages. From the makers of IT'S ELEMENTARY and LET'S GET REAL, this fresh look at the changing American family breaks new ground and lets children lead the way in preventing prejudice and embracing diversity. Part of the Respect For All Project.means today

The Yellow Wallpaper

A film by Marie Ashton , 1977, 14 min., Color
This short dramatic film brings to life the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman story of the same name, which has become an important addition to America...

Theatre Girls

A film by Kim Longinotto and Claire Pollak , 1978, 56 min., BW
In her final piece at film school, Longinotto and her partner take us into the "Theatre Girls Club" in Soho, London?a hostel for elderly and destitute...

Their Own Vietnam

A film by Nancy Kates , 1995, 23 min., Color
A fascinating documentary about American women who served in the Vietnam War. Spirited interviews with five veterans are intercut with rare archival ...

Theme: Murder

54 min.
A real life story of murder, secrets and sexuality, set in the art world of the 50's and 60's, THEME: MURDER takes the viewer on an immersive journey into the struggles of living with an unsolved homicide. The filmmaker's search to make sense of her father's unsolved murder frames a wide-ranging inquiry, ranging from the internal experience of traumatic loss, (the price of) homophobia and the problematic relationship between families and law enforcement. Includes interviews with crime fiction author James Ellroy and the Boston Cold Case Squad.

There Was a Child

Sensitively demonstrates the impact that losing a pregnancy or the birth of a stillborn child has had on three mothers and a father.
Sensitively demonstrates the impact that losing a pregnancy or the birth of a stillborn child has had on three mothers and a father.

There Was An Unseen Cloud, Moving

Leslie Thornton , 60 min.
A deft and intentionally fragmented "biography" of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Victorian traveler who, dressed as an Arab man, became a Moslem and a writer ...

There Were Times, Dear...

Suzanne and Bob are one of those couples who have done everything together. After 30 years, they are more in love than ever. They have plans for the rest of their lives, long trips, classes they want to take. Then it happens, slowly at first. They laugh about it. After all, don't we all go to the refrigerator, open the door, stare inside an forget what we're looking for?It happens to everyone. But for Bob, it is the beginning of a long and slow journey into isolation. For Suzanne, it is a time of tremendous adjustment.

The film follows Suzanne's sturggle to maintain her home, her family, her marriage, her husband and herself. In spite of all the medical and social obstacles, Suzanne prevails. Suzanne admirably and realistically illustrates how to live with a loved one who has Alzheimer's disease by learning about the disease and ensuring proper treatment. The film shows how a combination of extended family support, utilization of community services, participation in support groups activities, proper drug therapy and physician advice can make life with Alzheimer's disease worth living. The objective is to educate people to seek help from a physician when the symptoms begin to appear, because help is available.
Hour-long fictional film about a middle-aged married couple and their experience as they disover the husband has Alzheimer's disease.

These Girls

Egypt, 2006, 68 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD, Arabic, Subtitled
Screened to audiences at the Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals, this fresh, irresistibly lively, intensely engaging documentary from widely acclaimed Egyptian director Tahani Rached (SORAÏDA, WOMAN OF PALESTINE and FOUR WOMEN OF EGYPT) follows a band of teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo.

They Don't Come with Manuals

Parents and adoptive parents speak candidly about caring for children with physical and mental disabilities.
Parents and adoptive parents speak candidly of their day-to-day experiences caring for children with physical and mental disabilities. Despite outside resistance and ignorance they offer compassion and hope to new parents facing these issues.

They Are Their Own Gifts

A film by Lucille Rhodes and Margaret Murphy , 1978, 52 min., 3 in series, Color
A three volume set of film portraits--Muriel Rukeyser, Alice Neel and Anna Sokolow. The poetry, painting, and dance of these three women is not artis...

They Call Me Muslim

Italy/France/Iran, 2006, 27 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD, French/Farsi, Subtitled
In popular Western imagination, a Muslim woman in a veil or hijab is a symbol of Islamic oppression. But what does it mean for womens freedom when a democratic country forbids the wearing of the veil? In this provocative documentary, filmmaker Diana Ferrero portrays the struggle of two women one in France and one in Iran to express themselves freely.

The Third Coast

This film captures all the promise and problems of Houston emerging as Americas third most powerful urban center. Premiered at Filmex 1981. Silver Venus Award and a CINE Golden Eagle.

Third Ward TX

One step ahead of city demolition crews, African-American artists establish Project Row Houses. They clean up a row of condemned shotgun houses for a "Drive-by" exhibit. Eventually for very little money, they purchase two full blocks of houses in Houstons left-for-dead Third Ward neighborhood. Then they do the unthinkable. They ask the community what it needsand they listen to the answers.

This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

From the maker of Looking for Langston and Young Soul Rebels comes an impressionistic antidote to the passionless, guilty AIDS awareness campaign conducted in Britain in 1987. This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement blends an imaginative video style with strong political messages for both Black and white, heterosexual and gay audiences.

This is Not Living

A video-essay by Alia Arasoughly , 2001, 42 min., Color
Directed by Alia Arasoughly ? a Palestinian filmmaker living in war-torn Ramallah ? this deeply moving piece explores the lives of eight Palestinian w...

This Unfamiliar Place

10 min.
An award-winning film about secrets, survival and memory

Those Who Stay Behind

Going through the death of a family member can be a very isolating experience. People often wish for an guide as they navigate the health care system, medical decisions and their own grief process. Video consists of interviews with five people who have re
Interviews with five recently bereaved people offer a guide to help others navigate the healthcare system, the medical decisions they must make, and their own grief process.

Those Who Stay Behind

Going through the death of a family member can be a very isolating experience. People often wish for an guide as they navigate the health care system medical decisions and their own grief process. Video consists of interviews with five people who have re
Interviews with five recently bereaved people offer a guide to help others navigate the healthcare system the medical decisions they must make and their own grief process.

Those Who Stay Behind

Thoth

The story of Thoth, a colorful street performer who recites original music inspired by his mythical world he calls the Festad. Born into a musical family, Thoth was stirred in a dream to take up playing the violin, and perform (or prayform, as he puts it) for the world. Garbed in a gold loincloth, chains and ornate headdress, Thoth hopes to initiate a healing process for humanity through his prayformances. The language of his songs and music is also from the mythical land of the Festad. With a performer's intense passion and energy, Thoth combines singing and dancing which draws from musical roots as diverse as Mozart and Jimi Hendrix.

Thoth began his musical career at an early age, learning how to play the piano. He shied away from practice sessions because the piano was in his home's basement, and the thought of descending into the basement filled him with terror. Instead, he learned to play the violin. By his own account, Thoth was a shy child, and uncomfortable with a mixed racial heritage of West Indian ancestry on his mother's side and Russian Jewish on his father's. Feelings of social rejection for his biracial parentage fueled his sense of isolation, and Thoth turned inwards for solace and inspiration. He ultimately learned to accept the duality of his ethnicity, and this fueled his musical creativity. Thoth eventually developed his prayformance routine, incorporating dance and operatic storytelling into his style of presentation.

Thoth currently still performs at his usual venues, his favorite being the Angel Tunnel in Central Park. But, as he points out, his other passionate interests include writing, cooking, dancing and the compilation of an encyclopedia about his world of the Festad.

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Thoth, a street musician and performer, sings for peace in the world, inspired by his mythical land, The Festad.

Thoth

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Thoth, a street musician and performer, sings for peace in the world, inspired by his mythical land, The Festad.

A Thousand Tomorrows

One of the rarely discussed effects of Alzheimer?s Disease is its impact on intimacy and sexuality. In this outstanding video spouses of people with Alzheimer?s speak candidly about the blurring of their roles about changes in behavior that affect intim
The spouses of people with Alzheimer's disease talk candidly about the impact of the illness on intimacy and sexuality.

Thousand Pieces of Gold

DVD, 105 min., 1990
"Thousand Pieces of Gold" is the story of a young Chinese woman brought to America as a slave during the late Gold Rush. Auctioned in San Francisco and transported to Idaho, she becomes involved with three men: a Chinese saloon keeper who owns her (Michael Paul Chan); a Chinese mule skinner who wants to marry her (Dennis Dun); and an American who wins her from her owner in a poker game (Chris Cooper). Lalu's tale begins in drought-stricken China where her father sells her. She is taken to San Francisco's Chinatown, where she is auctioned to a Chinese mule skinner, who is acting as agent for a powerful saloonkeeper in the heart of the northern Rocky Mountains. During the trek through the wilderness, Lalu falls in love with her captor, and he with her. But, true to his word, he delivers her to his master, a soulless Chinese entrepreneur intent on using her as a prostitute. Lalu enters into a deadly war of wills with this man and wins! only to learn she has been lost in a poker game to another man, an American. To her surprise, the American sets her free at a time when the Chinese are being prosecuted by local miners. Now attached by choice not force to this man, Lalu must decide whether to stay or to go. For home use only. For educational or community use, please call: (888) 367-9154

Three English Cathedrals: Norwich, Lincoln, Wells

This fascinating video visits three spectacular English cathedrals representing a ranges of styles: Norwich, Lincoln Cathedral, and Wells. Offering a splendid guided tour, the video moves through the structures accompanied by medieval music, exploring contrasts of dark and colored light, spaces interrupted by delicate columns, and the extraordinary patterns of ribs. Diagrams and aerial views show how the cathedrals house the liturgical and other activities of monks, canons and bishops. Educational and evocative, Three English Cathedrals is a wonderful architectural experience.
Visits three spectacular English cathedrals representing a range of styles. Offers a splendid tour and detailed information about the architecture and construction of the cathedrals.

Thriller

A film by Sally Potter , 1979, 34 min., BW
Since its release in 1980, Sally Potter's rewriting of Puccini's opera, LA BOHEME, has become a classic in feminist film theory. A model for the decon...

Through a Glass, Lightly

20 min.
Inner city art and transformation of environment, society, and self

Through Chinese Women's Eyes

A videotape by Mayfair Yang , 1997, 52 min., Color
THROUGH CHINESE WOMEN'S EYES offers an insightful journey into the transformations in the lives of Chinese women over the 20th century. In a fascinat...

Through the Milky Way

A videotape by Yunah Hong , 1992, 19 min., Color
This experimental videotape focuses on a Korean woman's experience of emigrating to Hawaii at the turn of the century and her sense of displacement ar...

Through the Skin

A videotape by Elyse Montague , 2002, 18 min., Color/BW
In this highly personal experimental autobiography, emerging filmmaker Elyse Montague presents a daring meditation on the experience and trauma of gro...

Thunder in Guyana

A film by Suzanne Wasserman , 2003, 50 min., Color/BW
THUNDER IN GUYANA is the remarkable tale of Janet Rosenberg, a young woman from Chicago who married Guyanese activist Cheddi Jagan, and set off for th...

Thwarting the Illicit Drug Seeker

This comprehensive training video offers dentists and their staff simple steps that will help them to distinguish addicts and con artists from legitimate patients and to avoid diversion of controlled drugs to the street market.
This comprehensive training video offers dentists and their staff simple steps that will help them to distinguish addicts and con artists from legitimate patients and to avoid diversion of controlled drugs to the street market.

Tibetan Book of the Dead

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A text unique to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Book of the Dead is an essential teaching that is read aloud to dying persons as they pass from this life into the next. A continual best seller, the book documents a philosophy of living life to the fullest while acknowledging death. This remarkable two-part series explores this ancient wisdom of life and death and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to Tibetan philosophy.

Narrated by Leonard Cohen

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Two-part series explores the ancient Tibetan Buddhist Book of the Dead. Considers the book's wisdom of life and death and visualizes the afterlife according to Tibetan philosophy.

Tibetan Book of the Dead, Part 1

Part 1 of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, A Way of Life documents the history of the Book of the Dead and explores its traditional application in Ladakh, northern India, as well as its use in hospices in Europe and North America. Filmed on location over a four-month period, the film uses remarkable footage of the rites and liturgies performed for a recently deceased Ladakhi elder. It includes an interview with the Dalai Lama, who shares his own views on the book's meaning and importance.

Narrated by Leonard Cohen

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Part 2
Discusses the history of the Book of the Dead and documents its rites and liturgies.

Tibetan Book of the Dead, Part 2

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Part 2 of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Great Liberation presents a vividly detailed account of the contents of the Book of the Dead and of the traditional Buddhist teachings on compassion and the search for truth which are its foundations. The film observes an elderly priest and his young student as they guide the soul of a recently deceased man into the afterlife. The soul's progress is envisioned through the sequence of traditional rituals, interwoven with imaginative animation by Academy Award-nominated animator, Ishu Patel.

Narrated by Leonard Cohen

Also Available:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (full two-part set)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Part 1
A detailed account of the contents of the Book of the Dead, and of its traditional Buddhist teachings of compassion and the search for truth.

Ticket of No Return

A film by Ulrike Ottinger , 1979, 108 min., Color
A portrait of two unusual but also extremely different women. One rich, eccentric, hiding her feelings behind a rigid mask, consciously drinks hersel...

Tiger's Apprentice

57 minutes, video English & Vietnamese (w/ subtitles) © 1998/1999
For years filmmaker M. Trinh Nguyen vacillated between intrigue and dismissal of her grandmother's stories about her great-uncle's ability to treat certain tumors in Vietnam. Some of Nguyen's relatives in the United States dismissed the treatment outright as "voodoo." Unwilling to accept either side without question, Nguyen embarked on a journey to her great-uncle's Mekong Delta village to judge his practice for herself.

The Time is Now

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.

The Time Being

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Time for Justice, A

A Time for Justice is the story of the American civil rights movement as told by those who fought the battle for the right to vote during the 1950's and 1960's. It depicts the struggle through the experiences of its foot soldiers: the men and women who rode where they weren't supposed to ride; walked where they weren't supposed to walk; sat where they weren't supposed to sit; and who stood their ground until they won their freedom.

Produced by four-time Academy Award winner Charles Guggenheim, A Time for Justice recalls the crises in Montgomery, Little Rock, Birmingham and Selma. But more importantly, it reveals the heroism of individuals who risked their lives for the cause of freedom and equality.

Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state troopers during a voting rights demonstration in Marion, Alabama. Opening at the cemetery where Jackson is buried, A Time for Justice used the first-hand testimony of participants and stunning archival footage to present a concise and compelling look at the grass-roots movement that sought to extend the fruits of democracy and return basic human dignity to all of the nation's people.
The story of the American civil rights movenment as told by those who fought the battle for the right to vote during the 1950's and 1960's.

Time Out

Winner of the 2004 HBO Short Film Award, TIME OUT offers a chapter in the life of Lauren Martin, a precocious nine-year old dealing with life after the loss of her mother. After a confrontation with a jealous classmate, a chain of events ultimately pits her face to face with a family secret forcing Lauren to make a decision that will forever change the road on which she chooses to follow.

The Times of a Sign

40 min.
How do two men who were raised with the same fundamental and conservative values part ways and find themselves on opposite ends of the political spectrum? An inquiry into some of the more ironic aspects of the Iran-Contra affair, THE TIMES OF A SIGN provides a unique bridge between the more remote lives of middle Americans and the very center of political power and influence in the federal government. This humorous and anecdotal tale provides perspective on some of the ethical, political and judicial questions raised by the scandal and ultimately questions the accountability for Iran-Contra crimes.

Times of Darkness

A film by Karoline Frogner , 1997, 90 min., Color
A moving and essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and Nazi era, this inspiring film tells the rarely heard story of women's su...

Titanic in a Tub: The Golden Age of Toy Boats

Academy Award-winner Rex Harrison narrates this delightful film about a time when the world was fascinated with the great oceanliners and naval vessels of the 19th and 20th centuries. Titanic in a Tub uses the famous Forbes Magazine collection of over 300 rare toy boats to explore the history of both full-size sailing vessels and their miniature counterparts.

The film juxtaposes recreated scenes of boys and their toy boats with an extensive compilation of archival film and vintage photographs of famous ocean liners, naval vessels and great maritime battles. This creative combination gives the viewer the sense of genuine sea adventure on board the ships as well as the child-like excitement elicited by the fantasy of toy boats.
A charming chronological account of the rapid development of maritime technology from the 1890's to the 1930's make Titanic in a Tub a fascinating history lesson. The technological advances which caused ocean liners to double in size and speed during this period sparked and arms race of the sea. National pride demanded that a nation's naval fleet possess the fastest and most luxurious ships afloat. The advent of submarines and evolution of battleships into giant dreadnought ships furthered this potentialy explosive competition for global preeminence. Public fascination with ocean travel and naval warfare encouraged toy makers in Europe and America to build toy boats of every size and description. Thousands of children played with thousands of different kinds of toy boats. Unfortunately, as with the vessels they emulated, there are few toy boats from that era left today.

Titanic in a Tub is narrated with great affection by Academy Award winning actor Rex Harrison. The film captures the romanticism of a world intrigued by the oceans while also providing an historically accurate account of the development of maritime technology in the early 1900s. It is a delightful film for all ages from intermediate through adult and is particularly useful in History Science, Social Studies, Geography and Crafts classes as well as for general interest audiences.
Explores the history of both full-size sailing vessels and their miniature counterparts.

Titanic in a Tub: The Golden Age of Toy Boats

To Choose No Harm

Two healthcare teams must resolve conflicts between the wishes of their dying patients and their own beliefs and clinical judgements. The cases are also discussed by panels of caregivers administrators and ethicists.
Two healthcare teams must resolve conflicts between the wishes of dying patients and family members and their own beliefs and clinical judgements. The cases are also discussed by the hospital ethics committee.

To Die For Ireland

60 min.
The film explores the relationship between the British Forces in Northern Ireland and The Irish Republican Army and questions the methods used by both sides to fight an urban guerrilla warfare. News and Documentary Emmy Award for Best Cinematography, News and Documentary Emmy Nomination for Best Documentary, Chicago International Film Festival Bronze Plaque and Cine Golden Eagle.

To Have And To Hold

20 min.
Men who batter women

To Live Until I Die

Most Americans die in the hospital often alone and in pain. These six terminally ill individuals are facing what lies ahead with anger humor insight and honesty — determined to have a good death.
Most Americans die in the hospital often alone and in pain. These six terminally ill individuals are facing what lies ahead with anger humor insight and honesty  determined to have a good death.

To My Women Friends

In To My Women Friends, revealing interviews with six Russian lesbians convey the joys and hardships of being a lesbian in the former Soviet Union. The six women are interviewed separately, but splices of party/meeting scenes show a vital and strong community. While Tatjana speaks hesitantly about her sexuality, believing it to be a private matter, Muchabat charmingly flirts with the filmmaker. This fascinating documentary touches on a range of issues including women's prisons, transsexuality, lesbian and gay community organizing (the Wings Association, a lesbian group), coming out and homophobia. Under article 121 (which criminalizes homosexuality) lesbians and gay men in the former Soviet Union faced the threat of imprisonment, blackmail, government harassment and family rejection.

TO SERVE THE GODS

33 Min
In a week-long religious ceremony, a rural Haitian family honors its ancestral spirits with songs, drumming, food preparation, animal sacrifice, and spirit possession.

To Taste a Hundred Herbs

(58 min., 1986)
To Taste a Hundred Herbs explores themes of religion and medicine by examining the life of Dr. Shen, a Catholic village doctor. To Taste a Hundred Herbs "raises the filmmakers' investigation of rural China to a metaphysical level. Here, the directors salute the traditional Chinese spirit as embodied by a traditional Chinese doctor... The movie starts with Dr. Shen singing 'O Come All Ye Faithful' in Chinese (clip available in QuickTime or MP3). As a practicing Catholic, he's part of a Long Bow minority. Yet as a medical practitioner he's a focal point of village life." Michael Sragow, San Francisco Examiner Sept. 14, 1986

To The Other Side

2005, 66 Min.
An aspiring corrido composer from the drug capital of Mexico faces two choices to better his life: to traffic drugs or to cross the border illegally into the U.S.

To You Sweetheart, Aloha

57 minutes VHS Closed Captioned 57 minutes DVD Closed Captioned
After losing his wife and only daughter, Bill Tapia, the colorful 94-yearold Hawaii-born ukulele master, finds his muse in 26-year-old manager Alyssa. Through their unconventional friendship, Bill arrives unexpectedly at the pinnacle of his career, forging ahead after outliving nearly everyone he loves. This intimate film addresses the taboos of cross-generational relationships and challenges the traditional notion of graceful aging with an entertaining yet poignant portrayal of a passionate elderly artist who continues to love, to grieve, and to live life to its fullest well beyond societys expectations.

Tom's Flesh

Exploring body image, self-perception, eating disorders and plastic surgery, Tom's Flesh is informed by the intersection of a late 20th century gay male body aesthetic, gender and childhood trauma.  Shot with Pixel Vision, Super 8 and Hi-8, the video weaves dark, distant memories with humorous detailing of recent invasive surgical procedures.

Tomboy

A girl?s determination to follow her own hoop dreams makes her a college basketball star and the publisher of the first ever women-in-sports magazine. Using personal narrative, still photography and stop animation,  Tomboy is an imaginative autobiographical account of an African American tomboy?s journey to success and self-acceptance.

Tomboys!

A film by Julie Akeret & Christian McEwen , 2004, 28 min., Color
Are tomboys tamed once they grow up? This lively and inspiring documentary explodes that archaic myth with the stories of proud tomboys of all ages: A...

Tongues Untied

This is the acclaimed account of Black gay life by Emmy Award-winning director Marlon T. Riggs. Using poetry, personal testimony, rap and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others), Tongues Untied describes the homophobia and racism that confront Black gay men.

Tonight's the Night

Three senior couples describe the evolution of their sexual relationships while experts stress the importance of more accepting social attitudes about sexuality and aging.
Three senior couples describe the evolution of their sexual relationships while experts stress the importance of more accepting social attitudes about sexuality and aging.

Too Little, Too Late

Family members and friends of people with AIDS share their pain as well as the solace derived from helping their loved one to a peaceful death.
Mothers and fathers sisters and brothers lovers and friends of people with AIDS share their pain as well as the solace they have derived from being able to help loved ones to a peaceful death.

Toro Negro

2005, 87 Min.
Toro Negro gives deep insight into the life of Fernando Pacheco, a bullfighter in the Mayan Region in southeast Mexico. Fernando is heart-warming and honest, but also an alcoholic, violent and impulsive. Pedro González-Rubio and Carlos Armella follow, almost from the characters inside, and sometimes with a disturbing closeness, Fernando Pacheco, a.k.a El Suicida (The Suicide), a young bullfighter who fights not in big arenas but at popular parties of small Mayan communities in the Yucatán Peninsula.

Total Eclipse

A young adult girl learns to deal with divorce and her own sense of identity. Following her parents' divorce, shy but inquisitive Alex is confronted with the problems that come with being new in the neighborhood, particularly the challenge of making new friends. She accepts an invitation to an eclipse party, where she learns the importance of following her own heart, and outshines everyone by standing up for herself.
Short fictional film about a six-year old girl who learns how to stand up for herself when her peers make cracks about her divorced parents.

A Touch of Greatness

In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled Americas schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in is fifth grade public school classroom. Through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play, Cullum championed an unorthodox educational philosophy that spoke directly to his students needs. Many of Cullums projects were recorded on film by then novice filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. Weaving stunning black and white footage and rare archival television broadcasts together with interviews of Cullum and his former students, this is a portrait of a maverick teacher who transformed a generation of young people by enabling them to discover their own inner greatness.

Touched

Touched -- A Blind Dog Films Production Featuring John E. Mack, M.D., Karin Peter and Arnold Relman, M.D.
What happens when the unexplained intrudes into our lives, and how do lives and relationships respond when credulity is strained to a breaking point? This is the leading question I set out to explore. This is a film about the human experience about longing for connection and fear of separation.

Tough On Crime, Tough On Our Kind

30 minutes
YO-TV producers examine the inequities in the criminal justice system and its treatment of youth. They highlight the societal problems that cause youth crime while identifying a range of resources that youth need. Interweaving the personal stories of incarcerated youth with accounts from lawyers, community activists and social workers, these students show what can happen when youth enter the maze of the juvenile justice system.

Trade Secrets

A videotape by Stephanie Antalocy , 1985, 23 min., Color
Perfect as a training tape or as an historical look at labor issues in the 1980s, TRADE SECRETS has been purchased by hundreds of colleges, libraries,...

Tramways of South America

112 minutes
Tramways of South America is a comprehensive look at the continent's highly varied tramways, showing big-city systems and rambling country trolleys, suburban commuting and interurbans. Car types range from tiny single-truckers (closed and open, even horsecars) through trains of double-truck ex-Pacific Electric interurbans (as well as many other secondhand cars from the US and Europe). The backdrops include crowded city streets (filled with vintage US-built autos), sleepy small towns, mountains, and jungle.

Transformation,The

The Transformation is a video documentary that explores the changes that Ricardo (Sara in The Salt Mines), former homeless prostitute transvestite, undergoes after discovering that he is HIV+ and deciding that he is not going to die on the streets. In order to move out of his street life he accepts help from a group of Born Again Christians who in exchange demand his complete transformation: that of homosexual to heterosexual. Ricardo is taken to Dallas where he tries very hard to transform himself: inside and out. During this process he becomes a Christian and ends up marrying Betty, a woman he meets through the chuch. Together they try to start a new life away from his past.

Transit Archives

129 minutes, mostly B&W
Over the years, various transit properties have produced films for public relations or employee training. They show fascinating aspects of transit operations, both behind the scenes and on the streets, interspersed with often painfully amateurish staged sequences which give them an unintended humorous quality. We have made brand new transfers to DVD of each of these films for this series, but in some cases the quality of the result was limited by the quality of the prints we had to work with. Unless noted, all films have their original soundtracks, and are in black & white.

Transnational Tradeswomen

2006, 62 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD, Thai, Chinese, Tamil, Urdu, Japanese, Subtitled
Inspired by organizers at the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, former construction worker Vivian Price spent years documenting the current and historical roles of women in the construction industry in Asia discovering several startling facts. Capturing footage that shatters any stereotypes of delicate, submissive Asian women, Price discovers that women in many parts of Asia have been doing construction labor for centuries. But conversations with these women show that development and the resulting mechanization are pushing them out of the industry. Their stories disturb the notion of progress that many people hold and show how globalization, modernization, education and technology dont always result in gender equality and the alleviation of poverty.

transparent

Pink or blue. Male or Female. Mommy or Daddy. Categories that we all take for granted are broken apart in transparent, a documentary about 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few stories, gone on to raise their biological children.

The Treatment of ADD in Adults

Several adults discuss the impact of ADD on their lives and families and the treatments including both medication and behavioral changes which have helped them cope. This video is not available for rental.
Several adults discuss the impact of Attention Deficit Disorder on their lives and families and the treatments including both medication and behavioral changes which have helped them cope.

Tree Shade

A film by Lisa Collins , 1998, 29 min., Color/BW
Shame and embarrassment propel Savannah, a gifted high school student, to embark on a journey through space and time to witness the prison convictions...

Treyf

A film by Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky , 1998, 55 min., Color
TREYF ??unkosher? in Yiddish? is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover ?seder?. With pers...

Trials of Alger Hiss, The

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In November of 1996, Alger Hiss died. For almost half a century, he had worked to clear his name, once as synonymous with Cold War conspiracy as was the Rosenbergs. Russian officials announced in 1992 that not a single document had been located that implicated Hiss as a Soviet spy. With today's CIA scandals involving Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson, the case of Alger Hiss remains an object of controversy.

Through contemporaneous newsreels and present day interviews with surviving participants, the film re-examines the case in historical contxt -- the Great Depression, Roosevelt's New Deal, the Spanish Civil War, the Yalta Conference, Truman's Loyalty Program, and the Cold War. The focus then is shifted to the case itself: The hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, the dramatic testimony of Whittaker Chambers alleging Hiss's spy activities, the trials and the conviction, and the appeal. Evidence obtained under the Freedom of Information Act is presented to jurors who voted to convict Hiss, with startling conclusions. And then the film ends, with the McCarthy era and Hiss's latest move to set aside his conviction.

Also included is an interview taped on October 15, 1992 with Colonel-General Dimitri Antonovich Volkogonov, Counselor of the President of Russia and the Chief of the Intelligence Archives of the former Soviet Union.
Account of the Cold War/espionage/perjury that catapulted Rep. Richard M. Nixon into national prominence, imprisoned a former State Department officer, and aroused intense political passions.

Tricia's Story

A breast cancer patient confronts difficult moral and spiritual issues as she comes to grips with the fact that her illness is terminal. One in a series of brief one-character dramas created by two nurse-educators.
A breast cancer patient confronts difficult moral and spiritual issues as she comes to grips with the fact that her illness is terminal. One in a series of brief one-character dramas created by two nurse-educators.

Tricia's Wedding

The world-famous Cockettes enact Tricia Nixon?s wedding to Edward Cox on June 11, 1971. Hurtme O. Hurtme, television correspondent, covers the wedding and interviews celebrities in attendance such as Golda Mier, Indira Ghandi, Jaquelyn Onassis, Queen Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Taylor. Coretta King sings. During the reception, Eartha Kitt puts LSD in the punch. All hell breaks loose.

Trick or Drink

A videotape by Vanalyne Green , 1985, 20 min., Color
Vanalyne Green's childhood world, growing up with alcoholic parents, is recreated through crayon drawings, family albums, excerpts from her adolescent...

The Trickle Down Theory of Sorrow

A videotape by Mary Filippo , 2002, 15 min., Color
Veteran experimental filmmaker Mary Filippo tackles issues of work, class and gender roles in this visually captivating and provocative autobiographic...

The Tricycle Solution

30 MINUTES, COLOR, DVD
Shot over the course of a school year, The Tricycle Solution portrays the daily experience of a cooperative preschool where parents are as much students as their children. The normal events and emotions of a preschoolers dayplaying, creating, discovering, crying, fighting, and resolving disagreementsare seen in intimate detail, as the teacher, Effie Kuriloff, elucidates her provocative approach.

Trinidad

dvd, 2008
Trinidad uncovers Trinidad, Colorado's transformation from Wild West outpost to "sex-change capital of the world," and follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the "transsexual mecca."

TROLLEY: The Cars That Built Our Cities

54 minutes
TROLLEY: The Cars That Built Our Cities is our most popular video. It brings to life the history of the streetcar and its influence on urban life. With a fast-paced mixture of rare and unusual footage from the 1890s through the 1990s, it shows urban rail transit in all its forms: horsecars, cable cars, steam elevateds, electric trolleys, subways, interurbans, and light rail - in the US and abroad.

Troop 1500

A film by Ellen Spiro & Karen Bernstein , 2004
Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers and marine biologis...

Troubled Harvest

A videotape by Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco , 1990, 30 min., Color
This award-winning documentary examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherr...

Troubled Partnerships

Running Time: 34:30 Minutes
Labor-management partnerships have been compared to marriages. It takes hard work to make them succeed. Even good partnerships struggle through hard times. If future partnerships are to succeed, it is important to learn from those that have run into trouble. Troubled Partnerships is about crises and failures in labor-management partnerships. It includes case studies of two companies, Bridgestone and Polaroid, one unionized, the other not. Bridgestone had a good working relationship with the United Rubber Workers that collapsed after tough financial times and a change in management. Polaroid developed an Employees' Committee that operated for 40 years as an illegal company union but was so popular that no one wanted to shut it down. However, the committee did not provide an independent voice for the employees and became an obstacle to changes management wanted to make. Examples from four other companies and commentary by consultant Carl Harshman round out this 35-minute video's coverage of troubled partnerships.

Tube Babies

35 minutes
Youth producers who grew up watching television take a closer look at the tension between viewing pleasure and the more negative aspects of television including cartoon violence, the representation of women and girls and the ways in which TV launches children into a lifestyle of consumerism

Tuberculosis in America: The People's Plague (Part I: The Captain of All These Men of Death)

Tuberculosis in America chronicles a history that has influenced much of our modern public health policy. It is the story of a disease that, although highly curable and almost entirely preventable, has today returned to catch our country's health care system off guard. This timely film informs every aspect of today's health care debate, from delivery of service to cost containment, from disease prevention to social control. Part One follows the history of tuberculosis and its cure in the early part of the century.

Tuberculosis in America: The People's Plague (Part II: The Gospel of Health)

Tuberculosis in America: The People's Plague chronicles a history that has influenced much of our modern public health policy. It is the story of a disease that, although highly curable and almost entirely preventable, has today returned to catch our country's health care system off guard. This timely film informs every aspect of today's health care debate, from delivery of service to cost containment, from disease prevention to social control. Part Two presents facts about the disease that survived its own death to confront us again at the close of the twentieth century.

Tuberculosis in America: The People's Plague (Parts I & II)

Tuberculosis in America: The People's Plague chronicles a history that has influenced much of our modern public health policy. It is the story of a disease that, although highly curable and almost entirely preventable, has today returned to catch our country?s health care system off guard. This timely film informs every aspect of today?s health care debate, from delivery of service to cost containment, from disease prevention to social control. A two-part series.

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Two part documentary tells the compelling story of the greatest germ hunt in history, the triumph of modern science and the ultimate resurgence of a deadly epidemic.

Twisted

At age 17, filmmaker Laurel Chiten was in a terrible car accident. Months later, her neck began jerking out of control. Doctors finally figured out that Chiten had dystonia a neurological disorder that forces your muscles to twist into abnormal, often painful, movements or postures. When you have dystonia, you tell your body to do one thing, but your brain tells it to do something else, as if your brain has a mind of its own.

#407: Twisted Love: Dating Violence Exposed

When loves turns ugly, you have to learn to walk away. Neve Campbell joins In the Mix reporters for a powerful and emotional look at something that more and more teens are facing: dating violence. We meet young women who have been emotionally and physically abused by the guys they loved -- and survived to get out of the relationship. We also talk to young men who have been abusers, and visit with teens teaching other teens about sexual stereotypes. Next, we visit a program in New York where teens attack the issue of dating violence with a unique weapon: theatre. The District Attorney of Westchester County tells teens about their legal rights, and we learn about the signs of abuse and where you can go for help. Appropriate for a classroom, youth group, or peer counseling programs, teens will gain an understanding of the issue and be better equipped to deal with it effectively.-Video Librarian Used in an educational session, your video was well received and the group benefited from it immensely. --Rebecca Zwart, domestic violence advocate *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.

Twitch and Shout

People with the sometimes startling symptoms of Tourette Syndrome must contend with a society which often sees them as crazy or bad and with bodies and minds that won't always do what they are told.
People with the sometimes startling symptoms of Tourette Syndrome contend with a society which often sees them as crazy and with bodies and minds that won't always do what they're told.

Twitch and Shout

Twitch and Shout provides an intimate journey into the startling world of Tourette Syndrome (TS), allowing the viewer to start to make contact with, and ultimately to understand, some of the people living with it.

Twitch and Shout

59 min.
TWITCH AND SHOUT provides an intimate journey into the startling world of Tourettes syndrome (TS) told through the eyes of a photojournalist with TS. An emotionally absorbing, sometimes unsettling, and ultimately uplifting film about people who must contend with a society that often sees them as crazy or bad and a body and mind that wont do what its told. Tourettes Syndrome (TS) is a genetic disorder that can cause a bizarre range of involuntary movements, obscene vocalizations and compulsions.

Two Dollars and A Dream

Two Dollars and a Dream is a biography of Madame C.J. Walker, the child of slaves freed by the Civil War, who became America's first self-made woman millionaire of any race. By tying together social, economic and political history, the film also offers a view of black America from 1867 to the 1930's. Mrs. Walker's fortune was built on skin and hair care products. She parlayed a homemade beauty formula into a prosperous business, marketing her products from coast to coast. Her daughter, A'Leilia Walker, was an important patron of the Harlem Renaissance. The two women lived in royal style, complete with a mansion and chauffeured limousines. This little known story is both entertaining and informative. It combines interviews, historical stills and unique film footage including scenes from Harlem's famous Cotton Club. The film is punctuated with the music of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and other masters of that era.

Two Encounters

Armed with hidden buttonhole cameras two gay men, one black and one white, go to two gay bars in New York, one predominantly black and one predominantly white, to uncover the "racialized geographies of New York's gay bar scene".

Two Films On End-Of-Life Issues

Help Me Die explores the controversial subject of euthanasia and the issues involved when terminally ill loved ones ask a physician or family member for help in dying (48 minutes.) A Fate Worse than Death? follows several families wh
Help Me Die explores the controversial subject of euthanasia and the issues involved when terminally ill loved ones ask a physician or family member for help in dying (48 minutes.) A Fate Worse than Death? follows several families

Two Lies

A film by Pam Tom , 1989, 25 min., BW
Doris Chu, a recently divorced Chinese American woman, has plastic surgery to make her eyes rounder. From her teenage daughter Mei's perspective, her ...

Two-Spirit People

An overview of historical and contemporary Native American concepts of gender, sexuality and sexual orientation. This documentary explores the berdache tradition in Native American culture, in which individuals who embody feminine and masculine qualities act as a conduit between the physical and spiritual world, and because of this are placed in positions of power within the community.