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Taking Our Bodies Back: The Women's Health Movement
The "shocking" thesis of this film, that women should control their health and regain the knowledge about their bodies that had been withheld by the male-dominated medical industry, became a major focus for the women's movement of America. "Taking Our Bodies Back" explores ten critical areas of the women's health movement, from the revolutionary concept of self-help to the issue of informed surgical consent. The film documents a growing movement in the 1970s of women regaining control of their own bodies. It shows women becoming aware of their right in dealing with the medical industry. The film explores self-help, birth at home, abortion, high school women's support group, breast cancer, research, gynecological exams, drug company attitudes, hysterectomy, and health care for women of color.
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WWII Liberation of Europe: The Push to Berlin
For GIs, the twisting city streets of the Nazi Fatherland were as foreign as Oz. Nevertheless, in the spring of 1945, they moved east into Germany.
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Beyond Natural: The Journey of an Acapella Band
A music documentary on the Acapella vocal band Naturally 7. The film is an introspective vision of the 'Vocal Play' sound, and travels back to the group's origins in the city of New York.
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Other Worlds : A Journey Into The Heart Of Shipibo Shamanism
Ayahuasca, the holy sacrament which the indigenous people and Shamans of the Amazon have known as a powerful holistic purgative medicine capable of great healing and transformation for thousands of years. The film 'Other Worlds : A Journey Into The Heart Of Shipibo Shamanism' by Jan Kounen primarily shows the therapeutic power of the Shamans and their plant teachers. This power is a type of ancestral psychoanalysis or human psychotherapy backed by 4,000 years of experience and practice.
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Haydn, The seven last words of Christ - Jordi Savall
The Seven Last Words of Christ was commissioned so the piece could be performed in the church of Cadiz for Good Friday. The priest quoted the words of the Christ, followed by a musical accompaniment. Haydn completes these seven movements with a final Earthquake. Jordi Savall invites us to listen to the original score in the very place where it was premiered, the church of Santa Cueva in Cadiz.
TV
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story is a 1989 NBC TV-movie based on the 1985 ruling Thurman v. City of Torrington. The film stars Nancy McKeon as Tracey; Dale Midkiff as Buck; and Bruce Weitz as Tracey's lawyer, Burton Weinstein.
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Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
Lt. Columbo matches wits with a defense lawyer who has never lost a case in his career.
