that were given to them by whites or choices that were somehow influenced by whites. I agree with the 13th documentary when it concludes that politicians and other big name white figures in America have a strong hold on the other members of society that keeps racism and prejudice around. It is often said that Blacks are the cause of their own demise‚ but the speakers in the 13th documentary make it clear that they think the opposite. The politicians of America today have an astonishing way of tricking
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Women are left alone with many children to care for‚ so the older children most often stop going to school in order to help financially support their family. In the documentary “The Devil’s Miner” the boy’s father died when they were very young and so they had to start working at an early age. The older boy says that if he had a father he would not be working in the mines and would be able to focus more on his education
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which has over one hundred children. Most of these children are orphans due to a AIDS epidemic that took the lives of their parents. After Kenya‚ they traveled to their destination of Northern Uganda. The infrastructure and faces seen on the documentary are ones to not be forgotten. This film communicates non-verbally to viewers in many ways. The scenes of the children who are so skinny from lack of food that they look like bones and a pot belly is disheartening. This captures the heart in a
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The Waiting Room Documentary is a story and a symbol of our national community and how our common vulnerability to illness binds us together as humans. It is a type of film that uses unprecedented access to go behind the doors of Oakland’s Highland Hospital‚ a safety-net hospital fighting for survival. Baring the struggles and determination of both a community and an institution functioning with limited resources and no road map for navigating a health care. According to Adam Grossberg‚ the hospital
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The end of the line The end of the line is a part of a new wave of documentaries that not only seek prizes at Film Festival and wasn’t just primarily made to make money but change the opinions of dozens of people. What is happening to the world fish stocks is an under reported issue and End of the Line seeks to address this problem and make the issue reportable. The film was directed by Rupert Murray and narrated by Ted Danson. But the whole film is based on a book By Charles Clover himself
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nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi and the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plants. In the documentary – Children of the Tsunami directed by Dan Reed (2012)‚ it provides a glimpse into the life of the younger victims‚ the children‚ who survived the triple chain disasters and how their lives were impacted. It is record on the ‘03/11’ disaster‚ narrated through the eyes of the children. The documentary demonstrates how the tsunami has destroyed the children’s schools‚ playgrounds and home‚ where
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Sifferlin‚ Alexandra‚ and Alexandra Sifferlin. "Hungry in America: Documentary Exposes the Growing Problem of Starvation Amid Plenty | TIME.com." Time. Time. Web. 21 June 2015. This article describes many causes of hunger and unhealthy eating habits in the United States that explored in documentary “A Place at the Table”. The author explains that poverty is one of the major contributing factors of obesity because poor families cannot provide healthier meals. I will use this article to
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possibility to be violent in nature. In the documentary‚ “The Difference Between Us:- The Power of an Illusion.” it talks about how genetically we are not that different from one another compared to other species‚ but because we live in a racialized world our similarities in biology are forgotten. During the video‚ a class of students was all using their own DNA to compare who they were
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Tying the Knot is a documentary that chronicles the issues of same sex marriages. It puts into perspective the question of what happens to a surviving spouse of a same sex marriage after their partner dies. The documentary offers emotional‚ as well as the financial troubles both men and women face as gay widows and widowers because of the laws in regards to marriage. It also places a human face on the struggle for equal rights and offers information from the past and into the present day meaning
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In the documentary‚ Greenwood interviews Sergeant Ryan Stokes‚ of the Mesa P.D. In the interview‚ Stokes reveals that originally many of the officers that were given cameras in the Mesa Police Department weren’t so keen to the idea of being continually recorded as
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