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EXPIRATION DATES IN PARENTHESIS

All about My Mother (4/1/2025) 

-Manuela, a mother and hard-working nurse, has built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles.

Keita: The Heritage Of The Griot (9/4/2025)

-Keita creates a unique world where the West Africa of the 13th Century Sundjata Epic and the West Africa of today co-exist and interpenetrate.

Off the Verandah (9/23/2025)

-Examines the work of Bronislaw Malinowski, who studied the people of the Trobriands, a group of Pacific Islands, altering the idea that native peoples were primitive savages.

Bending the Arc (//2025)

-A documentary about a team of doctors and activists whose work thirty years ago saved lives in a rural Haitian village, which grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all. 

Civilaztions, Episode 3, God and Art (//2025)

-Trace the relationship between religion and art, which has inspired some of the most ingenious, affecting, and breathtaking works of art ever made. 

Merchants of Doubt (3/3/2026)

-A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.

!Kung, The !Kung San: Traditional Life (3/19/2026)

-The video depicts traditional Ju/'hoan life by using vignettes from longer films in the !Kung San series

Tubi-content platform and ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox Corporation offering online streaming from a library of films and television series for free

Crackle-a free to use video entertainment network featuring full-length movies, TV shows, and original programming

Vudu- where you can watch the latest movies & TV shows anytime, anywhere - no subscriptions, no contract

Pluto TV-has 100s of channels with huge library of on-demand content which spans across all genres of movies, news, TV shows, sports, and documentaries

Peacock TV-with free version-stream hundreds of hit movies and iconic NBC TV shows

Plex- free streaming service with over 50,000 on-demand titles

MovieKids TV- a free movie streaming site with zero ads and no registration

Documentary Heaven- a site filled with thousands of free online documentaries

Moving Image Internet Archive- a non-profit library of millions of free movies and more content

Open Video Project-The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities

PBS Video-public broadcast service

-Offers a wide variety of its films, documentaries and TV shows for streaming online.

            -American Experience https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/

            -NOVA Access to selected programs from the acclaimed PBS science series.

            -PBS Learning Media offers teachers more than 100,000 videos, images, interactive, lesson plans and articles drawn from critically acclaimed PBS programs such as NOVA, FRONTLINE, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and SID THE SCIENCE KID, and from expert content contributors like The National Archives and NASA.

Ted Talks-influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity

Thanhouser Films Online-Many of the 96 Thanhouser films are available for viewing online

National Geographic Videos-the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible

***Please contact the Electronic Resources Librarian with any issues***

 

►The Silence of Others  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7a2dad4f-4ce2-4682-b18c-ad870131a26a    

-Reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered.

►The Inner Tour   https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4a1d54dd-dc32-42b1-a09c-ad870123027a  

-Innovatively probes the human side of the Israel-Palestinian conflict crisis, bringing to light, with unparalleled grace and sensitivity, stories of loss and displacement told from the Palestinian perspective.

►Las Raíces de Mi Corazón (Roots of my Heart)  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=222e3475-e1f7-4606-9acf-ad8701095c3b

-This drama follows a young Cuban woman investigating her family history, and discovering disturbing revelations about the 1912 genocide, in which over 6,000 members of the Independents of Color were killed by the Cuban Army.

►Buddha in Africa (expires 9/1/2031)  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=16e6865a-e08e-42b7-90b9-ad980006b4ad  

-A Malawian boy, raised in a Buddhist orphanage, struggles to retain his cultural identity

►Falafelism: The Politics of Food in the Middle East   https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=865ef301-6452-4272-bd68-adc8013922b2  

-Falafelism follows the iconic Palestinian croquette made from ground chickpeas and fava beans as it rolls its way through world history, cultural identity, class struggle, and international politics.

►The Esmeraldas Beach     https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=73147b50-38c8-402b-8484-aed9012aaa8d 

-Sets out to expose the invisibility of Afro-Ecuadorians and rectify the narrative of the country’s history.

►Kafe Negro: Cuba & The Haitian Revolution https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=df485f38-06b1-4809-af86-aeda013efea1   

-A film that explores the social, economic & historical ramification of the Haitian Revolution on Cuba.

►Father, Son, & Holy War (Pitra, Putra, aur Dharmayuddha)  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=033f0cbd-5793-4436-a3fc-af07000d32e6 

-Explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against “the other” may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of “manhood.” 

►Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ff87cddc-4b88-455d-aa17-af3300d83e57

-Follows five Native American Tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices. 

►Reckonings: The First Reparations  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3b1dd4d3-187c-4512-8c30-af1c00cb463e 

-In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the unprecedented destruction and plight of survivors prompts the unthinkable – German and Jewish leaders meet in secret to grapple with the first reparations in history. 

►Daughter of the Lake (Hija de la Laguna) https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4f7aefd3-cb6a-463b-a735-afba0004f6b7 

-Nelida, an Andean woman able to communicate with water spirits, uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the body of water she considers her mother.

►My Neighbourhood https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=04f24d42-ff1f-4d73-90b3-b108015e9f6a

-Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian boy growing up in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the heart of East Jerusalem. When Mohammed turns 11, his family is forced to give up part of their home to Israeli settlers, who are leading a campaign of court-sanctioned evictions to guarantee Jewish control of the area.

►The Home Front Series https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=2412ee05-a6ea-467e-8df9-b10700efe81e

-Featuring the accounts of a Palestinian teenager forced to share his house with settlers, an American-born Israeli mother who gets drawn into the demonstrations after her children's arrest, a Palestinian community organizer who brings local women to the forefront of the struggle, and a veteran of the Israeli army who becomes one of the campaign's leaders, Home Front chronicles the resolve of a neighborhood, and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places.

►Gurumbé. Afro-Andalusian Memories (Gurumbé. Canciones de tu memoria negra)) https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4622bcd2-fc60-496a-a022-b10d014124f8

-Since the inception of flamenco, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians to this art form. Commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Spain and music/dance were a fundamental part of their expression and identity. Their contribution to this art form disappeared in the late 19th century. Now, their story is finally told.

►A Todos Nos Gusta El Platano (We All Like Plantain) https://vimeo.com/914381470 (please email ER Librarian for the password)

-It is a warm and mature ensemble film, in which the director hands the camera over to seven black people in Spain to have them make a film.

►Dadiwonisi (We Will Speak) https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3fe380af-280d-4d61-ab9f-b134011346be

- This film explores the nuanced ways the Cherokee language is vital to maintaining a unique cultural identity and relationship with the world.

►Cheche Lavi https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6a50c8b3-f517-4d26-b5d5-b20c017b6f61

-Two young Haitians find themselves stranded at the US-Mexico border with no way forward and no one to depend on but each other.

►The Homes We Carry https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7d881bcc-beaa-47a5-8d5b-b10c00fc4b42 

-Sarah, an Afro-German, travels to Southern Africa with her daughter to give her the relationships she herself lacked. 

►Juvenile: Five Stories https://www-newday-com.ezproxy.centre.edu/films/watch/2732 

-Five young people from across the country face their traumas and seek healing after their justice system experiences.

EXPIRATION DATES IN PARENTHESIS

 

Global Environmental Justice Collection-database list on library website (35 films-expires 6/24/2028)  

-A curated collection of 35 interdisciplinary documentaries featuring underrepresented stories that explore the intersections of human rights, environmental degradation, colonization, industrial development, and climate change.

The Pinochet Case (expires 11/7/2025)

-Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile from the early 1970s through 1990. This documentary chronicles the collapse of Pinochet's violent and corrupt reign. 

Still Waters (Perpetual Access)

-A remarkable one-room school in Brooklyn is facing a tough year. It's the run up to the US presidential election and anti-Latino rhetoric is ramped up--an extra source of tension for a hard-pressed Hispanic community already threatened by gentrification and eviction.

 

Tingher-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah (Perpetual Access)

-Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community in Tinghir, Morocco that has vanished - and confronts fundamental questions of his own identity in the process.

Queer China, 'Comrade' China (Perpetual Access)

-This film documents the changes and developments in LGBT culture that have taken place in China over the last 80 years, exploring the historical milestones and ongoing advocacy efforts of the Chinese LGBT community.