Movies:
- 13th: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
- ABC Africa: documentary
- Amandla: about the power of song in ending apartheid
- Amazing Grace: William Wilborforce and the history behind the "end" of slavery in Britain
- Before Night Falls: life of one of Cuba's literary voices, Reinaldo Arenas
- Beyond Rangoon: based on true story, American escaping Burma in 1988
- Blood Diamonds: the horrendous brutality and exploitation of the diamond trade
- Born into Brothels: documentary of Kids with Cameras
- Boys of Baraka: documentary Baltimore, MD 20 boys sent to special institution in Kenya.
- Caminho das Nuvens (The Middle of the World): family travels to city to seek a better life
- Capitalism, a love story
- Catch a Fire: true story, S. Africa
- Chasing Freedom: lawyer who attempts to earn a foreign women citizenship in the US
- Children of Men: future without ability to bear children and marshall law
- Children Underground: homeless children in Bucharest
- The Circle: Iranian women, repressive society.
- The Constant Gardener
- The Corporation: documentary, US Corporations
- Cry Freedom: true story, friendship between two men in S. Africa, struggling against aparteid.
- Dan Ellsbury and the Pentagon Paper
- Dark Days: harrowing account of the day-to-day existence of the homeless
- Devil's Miner: Bolivian silver mines from child's point of view
- Dreams of Sparrows: plight of Iraqi civilians under US occupation
- End of Poverty: World bank explains how today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries.
- Favela Rising: about one man's efforts to better himself and his community, the slums of Rio.
- Flags of our Fathers: companion movie to Letters from IwoJima, WWII movie from US viewpoint
- The Future we will create behind-the-scenes tour of this stimulating annual conference of bold new ideas.
- The Garden: details the plight of the farmers who organized and worked on a community garden in Los Angeles.
- Ghosts of Rwanda: genocide Rwanda
- The Ground Truth: US veterans and the war in Iraq.
- Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef: Tibet, focuses on daily lives and customs.
- Homeland: American Indian activists
- Hotel Rwanda: genocide Rwanda
- In My Country: South Africa's history of institutionalized racism
- In this World: account of two Afghan refugees' passage to the West in search of a better life
- Keep the River to your Right: anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum jungles of Peru
- Lagaan, Once Upon a Time in India: Indian village, beset by drought, colonialism 1893
- Lamumba: Patrice Lumumba was a passionate advocate for freedom in colonial Africa
- Last King of Scotland: Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
- Letter: Documentary Somalis immigrating to Lewistan, MA, post 9/11 violence towards them and the community response.
- Letters from IwoJima: WWII movie from the Japanese viewpoint
- The Linquists: search for dying languages
- Lord of War
- Mandela and de Klerk: docudrama
- Milking the Rhino: examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who live with wild animals.
- Most Dangerous Man in America
|
Movies, continued:
- Motorcycle Diaries: Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevaras
- National Geographic: China's Lost Girls: documentary
- Our Times: docudrama, Iranian women during 2001 election
- Pandemic: Facing AIDS
- Peace, a documentary
- Pursuit of Happyness: homelessness
- Red Corner: thriller that sought to expose the civil and human rights abuses of China
- Separate but Equal: Brown vs. the Board of Education
- Sicko
- Soldier Child: A Documentary by Neil Abramson
- Sometimes in April: Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen
- Syrian Bride: Marriage in the midst of political turmoil between Israel and Syria
- Tears of the Sun: career soldier choosing to save refugees in Africa over orders
- Tibet cry of the Snow Lion
- Troublesome Creek: documentary demise of the American farm family
- Trust me: Shalom, Salaam, Peace: documentary
- Turtles Can Fly: days leading up to the Iraq war from a young boy's perspective.
- Warrior of Light: homeless children on the streets of Rio de Janeiro
- When the Mountains Tremble: documentary human rights abuses in Guatemala
- Witnesses: real-life war crimes committed during the Serbo-Croatian war
- Why We Fight: documentary, US and war
- Yesterday: AIDS
Books:
- Africa Unchained, George BN Ayittey
- America's New War on Poverty, compiled and edited by Robert Lavelle
- Big Citizenship, Alan Khazei
- Black Death, Aids in Africa, Susan S. Hunter
- A Broken Landscape HIV & AIDS in Africa, Gideon Mendel
- The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz
- Ending World Hunger, Nathan Aaseng
- The Diary of Ma Yan, Ma Yan, translated by Lisa Appignanesi
- Deadly Business, Herbert Krosney
- Each one, Teach One, Ronald Casanova
- Economic Apartheid in America, Chuck Collins & Felice Yeskel
- The Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
- The End of Poverty, Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Growing Up Empty, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
- Homeless in America, Melissa J. Doak
- House of War, by James Carroll
- An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
- Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs, Sara K. Gould
- Left to Tell, by Immaculee Illibagiza
- A Long Way Gone, by Ishmeal Beah
- Masters of Illusion, Catherine Caufield
- Nobodies, John Bowe
- One Nation, Mark Robert Rank
- Only One Earth, Lloyd Timberlake
- Perpetuating Poverty, Doug Bandow & Ian Vasquez
- Poverty in America, Kathiann M. Kowalski
- The Shackled Continent, Robert Quest
- State of Emergency, Patrick Buchanan
- The Universe in a Single Atom, The Convergence of Science and Spirituality, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
- Volunteer Vacations, Bill McMill, Doug Cutchins and Anne Geissinger
- The War on Hunger, Ron Fridell
- The White Man's Burden, William Easterly
- The Working Poor, David Shipler
- The World's Banker, Sebastian Mallaby
- World Health, Ronan Foley
|
