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6000 a Day: An Account of a Catastrophe Foretold (Videocassette : 55 min. ) [2001]
V.CASS. VHS 8188
Abstract: How the failure of key individuals, prominent NGO's, and governments to act allowed a catastrophe to fester--a catastrophe that undoubtedly could have been avoided. Since it appeared 20 years ago, AIDS has left behind it a trail of destruction. This film answers the question 'why did the world wait so long to react', and dissects the key moments in the global response to the epidemic. By examining this human catastrophe, the film reveals a global rift that helped the disease to spread. Part of Steps for the Future, a unique collection of documentaries and short films from Southern Africa about life in the time of HIV/AIDS (Volume 16).
Director: Philippe Brooks Distributor:California Newsreel
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, NGO, international cooperation, government policy
Aiming High (DVD : 26 min. ) [2005]
DVD 8462
Abstract: This film focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.
Director: Ashley Bruce Distributor:Bull Frog
Keywords: Uganda, Idi Amin, poverty, government policy, development, economy
Black and White in South Africa (DVD : 30 min. ) [1957]
DVD7540
Abstract: South Africa, one of the largest members of the Commonwealth, a country with full self-government, has an acute race problem that causes dissension not only within its borders but within the Commonwealth and beyond. We see a country of fourteen million people where only one out of five is white. Edgar McInnis gives a dispassionate appraisal of the motivations behind the policy of apartheid and of whether the practice of segregation provides a satisfactory solution.
Director: John Howe Distributor:National Film Board of Canada
Keywords: South Africa, apartheid, race, government, history
Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation (Motion Picture : 45 min. ) [1978]
MP-16MM 219
Abstract: Examines the scale and underlying dynamics of multinational corporate expansion, and shows the deleterious social and economic effects of the multinationals' power in both the U.S. and the Third World. Includes interviews with several corporate executives and with workers in a small New England city faced with the threat of a runaway shop. Investigates the role of the multi-nationals in influencing U.S. government policy in underdeveloped nations.
Director: Larry Adelman Distributor:California Newsreel
Keywords: economics, politics, business, development
Silent Killer: AIDS in South Africa, The (DVD : 52 min. ) [2005]
DVD 8142
Abstract: South Africa is hard hit by the HIV epidemic which is infecting more than 1500 people per day. At Johannesburg's biggest hospitals, forty to fifty percent of the beds are occupied by patients with AIDS-related infections It is estimated that one fourth of the population will be affected soon. The history of social and economic division that still continues in South Africa is reflected in the way the disease has spread. Poor black women in the townships get only inferior mixtures of AZT to prevent their babies from being born infected. They do not get the information necessary to prevent infection. The disease is not confined to the poor, for affluent whites are also affected by HIV. We hear from patients, social workers, medical experts and government policy makers on the magnitude of the problem.
Director: Marika Griehsel Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: South Africa, Johannesburg, HIV/AIDS, health, race, government
T-Shirt Travels (DVD : 57 min. ) [2001]
DVD 8789
Abstract: What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business. We see a secondhand clothing dealer in Zambia carefully select a bale among dozens, bundled and shipped from abroad. He pays for the used clothing and then transports it by bus ten hours to a market. His meager profits support his entire extended family who subsist in shanty towns miles from the market. Their lives exemplify the poverty plaguing Africa today. They have virtually no possibility of advancing themselves and their children. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University Center for International Studies and other experts discuss the history of colonialism, slavery and the depletion of Africa's natural resources. They draw the connection between this shameful legacy and the current huge debt. As the African governments service their debts according to an IMF/World Bank policy known as 'structural adjustment lending,' people's benefits are slashed drastically, resulting in terrible suffering from malnutrition, poor healthcare, inadequate schools and a crumbling infra-structure. Our old t-shirts come with a high price-tag.
Director: Shantha Bloemen Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Zambia, trade, economy, clothing, poverty, history, government, development
Tooth of The Time (The) (Videocassette : 26 min. ) [1993]
VHS 9198
Abstract: Eddie Jacobs dreamed of being buried under an old prickly pear tree on the farm owned by his family for four generations. But when the government ceased its policy of 'buying' farmers' votes with subsidies - while an extended drought continued - Eddie was bankrupted, unable to pay back numerous loans. Thousands of other farmers and their workers faced the same plight. The Tooth of The Time spends a day with Eddie; Faan, a black laborer also born and raised on the farm; and Rudy Nagel, who is charged with auctioning away Eddie's life. Part of the Ordinary People series (a South African television series).
Director: Clifford Bestall Distributor:First Run/Icarus
Keywords: South Africa, agriculture and farming, economy, labor, land
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6000 a Day: An Account of a Catastrophe Foretold (Videocassette : 55 min. ) [2001]
V.CASS. VHS 8188
Abstract: How the failure of key individuals, prominent NGO's, and governments to act allowed a catastrophe to fester--a catastrophe that undoubtedly could have been avoided. Since it appeared 20 years ago, AIDS has left behind it a trail of destruction. This film answers the question 'why did the world wait so long to react', and dissects the key moments in the global response to the epidemic. By examining this human catastrophe, the film reveals a global rift that helped the disease to spread. Part of Steps for the Future, a unique collection of documentaries and short films from Southern Africa about life in the time of HIV/AIDS (Volume 16).
Director: Philippe Brooks Distributor:California Newsreel
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, NGO, international cooperation, government policy
Aiming High (DVD : 26 min. ) [2005]
DVD 8462
Abstract: This film focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.
Director: Ashley Bruce Distributor:Bull Frog
Keywords: Uganda, Idi Amin, poverty, government policy, development, economy
Black and White in South Africa (DVD : 30 min. ) [1957]
DVD7540
Abstract: South Africa, one of the largest members of the Commonwealth, a country with full self-government, has an acute race problem that causes dissension not only within its borders but within the Commonwealth and beyond. We see a country of fourteen million people where only one out of five is white. Edgar McInnis gives a dispassionate appraisal of the motivations behind the policy of apartheid and of whether the practice of segregation provides a satisfactory solution.
Director: John Howe Distributor:National Film Board of Canada
Keywords: South Africa, apartheid, race, government, history
Controlling Interest: the World of the Multinational Corporation (Motion Picture : 45 min. ) [1978]
MP-16MM 219
Abstract: Examines the scale and underlying dynamics of multinational corporate expansion, and shows the deleterious social and economic effects of the multinationals' power in both the U.S. and the Third World. Includes interviews with several corporate executives and with workers in a small New England city faced with the threat of a runaway shop. Investigates the role of the multi-nationals in influencing U.S. government policy in underdeveloped nations.
Director: Larry Adelman Distributor:California Newsreel
Keywords: economics, politics, business, development
Silent Killer: AIDS in South Africa, The (DVD : 52 min. ) [2005]
DVD 8142
Abstract: South Africa is hard hit by the HIV epidemic which is infecting more than 1500 people per day. At Johannesburg's biggest hospitals, forty to fifty percent of the beds are occupied by patients with AIDS-related infections It is estimated that one fourth of the population will be affected soon. The history of social and economic division that still continues in South Africa is reflected in the way the disease has spread. Poor black women in the townships get only inferior mixtures of AZT to prevent their babies from being born infected. They do not get the information necessary to prevent infection. The disease is not confined to the poor, for affluent whites are also affected by HIV. We hear from patients, social workers, medical experts and government policy makers on the magnitude of the problem.
Director: Marika Griehsel Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: South Africa, Johannesburg, HIV/AIDS, health, race, government
T-Shirt Travels (DVD : 57 min. ) [2001]
DVD 8789
Abstract: What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business. We see a secondhand clothing dealer in Zambia carefully select a bale among dozens, bundled and shipped from abroad. He pays for the used clothing and then transports it by bus ten hours to a market. His meager profits support his entire extended family who subsist in shanty towns miles from the market. Their lives exemplify the poverty plaguing Africa today. They have virtually no possibility of advancing themselves and their children. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University Center for International Studies and other experts discuss the history of colonialism, slavery and the depletion of Africa's natural resources. They draw the connection between this shameful legacy and the current huge debt. As the African governments service their debts according to an IMF/World Bank policy known as 'structural adjustment lending,' people's benefits are slashed drastically, resulting in terrible suffering from malnutrition, poor healthcare, inadequate schools and a crumbling infra-structure. Our old t-shirts come with a high price-tag.
Director: Shantha Bloemen Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Zambia, trade, economy, clothing, poverty, history, government, development
Tooth of The Time (The) (Videocassette : 26 min. ) [1993]
VHS 9198
Abstract: Eddie Jacobs dreamed of being buried under an old prickly pear tree on the farm owned by his family for four generations. But when the government ceased its policy of 'buying' farmers' votes with subsidies - while an extended drought continued - Eddie was bankrupted, unable to pay back numerous loans. Thousands of other farmers and their workers faced the same plight. The Tooth of The Time spends a day with Eddie; Faan, a black laborer also born and raised on the farm; and Rudy Nagel, who is charged with auctioning away Eddie's life. Part of the Ordinary People series (a South African television series).
Director: Clifford Bestall Distributor:First Run/Icarus
Keywords: South Africa, agriculture and farming, economy, labor, land
September 16, 2008: Geoffrey Nyarota
