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New! The Battle for the Amazon: The Xingu vs. the Belo Monte Dam
Item# 52415
© 2013
58 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-858-2
What will potentially become the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam-and a symbol of the destruction of the last remaining significant rainforest on Earth-is currently under construction in the he...
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New! China's Stolen Children
Item# 52417
© 2012
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-860-5
Kidnapping and selling children is big business in China, where every year more than 20,000 are stolen. In the majority of cases, the birth parents lack the resources or connections to find their miss...
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New! Hijacking the Arab Spring? The Rise of the Islamists
Item# 52412
© 2012
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-855-1
For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood was an outlawed organization, marginalized and persecuted. Today, along with the Salafists and other Muslim groups, they are the principal winners of the Arab revol...
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New! A Time to Fight: HIJOS Speaks Out for the Disappeared of Argentina
Item# 52414
© 2012
47 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-857-5
In 1976, a military coup in Argentina triggered the mass persecution of political dissidents, and tens of thousands of people were killed or disappeared. Two decades later, children of the disappeared...
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New! India: Two Hearts-A Struggle to Save Conjoined Twins
Item# 52187
© 2012
29 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-701-1
In many parts of India, particularly its most poverty-stricken corners, life for girls can be difficult indeed. So what hope was there for Stuti and Aradhana-conjoined newborn sisters with two tiny he...
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New! Vietnam: The Wandering Souls
Item# 52186
© 2012
26 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-700-4
Using war records, old maps, and other archival materials, two of Australia's Vietnam veterans have produced the first comprehensive account of where nearly 4,000 missing Vietnamese soldiers might be...
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Wired: Gaming, Hacking, and Cyber Assaults in Korea
Item# 51872
© 2012
27 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-543-7
Fueled by the fastest and most pervasive Internet connections on Earth, online gaming is now a national obsession in South Korea. But while millions of people are engrossed in virtual warfare, their c...
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Nigeria: Endless Oil Spills
Item# 50436
© 2012
22 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-535-2
Over the years, Nigeria has become an economy based almost entirely on the mining of crude oil. But having a single economic focus has not kept the country safe from violent rifts and factionalism—ind...
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J, Robot: Japanese Designers Push the Boundaries of Humanoid AI
Item# 52394
© 2012
59 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-492-8
January 17, 1995: a massive earthquake hits Kobe, Japan, trapping thousands in collapsed buildings. Conventional search-and-rescue operations prove inadequate, and in the months and years that follow,...
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The Tree Workers’ Case: Human Trafficking in the European Union
Item# 51900
© 2012
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-485-0
Shedding light on one of the most brazen criminal enterprises to be uncovered in the E.U. in the past two decades, this film tells the story of approximately 2,000 workers—mostly from Southeast Asia,...
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