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African Studies 

DVD & Video On Demand Catalog • Spring 2012 

FEAturEd 

NEw rElEASES: 

TV in Africa, 

pages 14–15 

Myths and Legends 

of Lost Civilizations, 

page 6 

Nomads: 

Salt Caravans 

in the Niger, 

page 18 

Linking Africa: 

The Future Is Digital, 

page 20 

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In 1570 B.C., Rome was an empty 

riverbank—the Acropolis, a barren rock. 

But Egyptian civilization was already 

1,000 years old, with the pharaonic 

empire we call the New Kingdom now 

emerging. This three-part series brings 

the New Kingdom to life through astonishing 

footage, archival materials, and 

expert commentary—from renowned 

Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, historian and 

British Museum lecturer Nicole Douek, 

and American University in Cairo 

professor Kent Weeks. Distributed by PBS 

Distribution. (54 minutes each) © 2002 

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The Warrior Pharaohs 

In 1560 B.C., Egypt was divided in two, its 

very existence under threat. This program 

follows the succession of rulers who were 

determined to unite Egypt and return it 

to its former glory. From the Theban prince 

Ahmose through the reign of Hatshepsut to 

the triumphs of Tuthmosis III, viewers will 

learn how a central Egyptian government 

eventually controlled a massive empire 

and enormous wealth. 

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Pharaohs of the Sun 

When Amenhotep III became pharaoh in 

1390 B.C., Egypt had forged a vast empire— 

but it faced challenges from powerful new 

rivals. This program guides viewers through 

a period in Egyptian history that saw radical 

changes in both foreign and domestic 

policy—from the diplomacy and financial 

machinations of Amenhotep through the 

monotheism of Akhenaten to the brief 

reign of Tutankhamun. 

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The Last Great Pharaoh 

The reign of Ramses the Great marked 

the high point of the New Kingdom and of 

Egyptian culture. However, as this program 

illustrates, the golden age of Egypt would not 

last forever. The film details Ramses’ victory 

over the Hittites at Kadesh and the propaganda 

he spun from it; his massive building projects, 

including his new capital, Per-Ramses, 

and the temple at Abu Simbel; and the 

well-founded fear among his subjects 

that Egypt would die with him. 

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Egypt: 

ON Secrets of the Pharaohs 

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Who actually built the 

FAVORITE pyramids? SELLERWhat 

innovations 

enabled the ancient Egyptians 

to practice mummification? Why did they 

select certain treasures for their journeys to 

the afterlife? This classic program travels to a 

land of mystery and marvel as archaeologists 

investigate the secrets of long-lost pharaonic 

culture and technology. Viewers encounter 

the sophisticated methods used to construct 

the pyramids, the long-lost rituals and 

preparations involved in mummification 

(as demonstrated on a present-day cadaver), 

and the underground vault that still houses 

the mysterious ship of the Pharaoh Khufu: 

his magnificent vessel for eternity. 

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Cairo Museum 

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is a worldrenowned 

cultural center filled with some of 

the ancient world’s most precious artifacts— 

including the famed burial mask of King 

Tutankhamun and the Royal Mummies of 

Luxor. The museum’s collection is so large 

that it has traditionally shown only half of its 

holdings at any one time. This program documents 

an expanded presentation that enables 

viewers to study and appreciate the museum’s 

vast inventory. The result is a highly effective 

visual aid for instruction in archaeology, 

Egyptian history, art history, and other 

disciplines. (27 minutes) © 2003 

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Who Built the Pyramids? 

Despite Hollywood depictions of Egyptian 

taskmasters and expendable foreign slaves, 

historians have developed more complex 

theories about the people who raised the 

pyramids. Evidence suggests that Egyptian 

labor forces that took shape some 4,500 years 

ago helped launch early waves of urbanization. 

And as burial grounds, bakeries, and 

other finds are unearthed, we learn more 

about daily life on one of history’s most 

intriguing construction sites. This program 

follows archaeologists Dr. Zahi Hawass, 

director general of the Pyramids for the 

Egyptian Antiquities Organization, and Dr. 

Mark Lehner of the University of Chicago’s 

Oriental Institute, as their Giza excavations 

shed new light on the pyramid builders. 

(25 minutes) © 1992 Preview Clip Online ‡ 

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DNA Mysteries: The Search for Adam 

Could we all be descendants of an Adam-like 

ancestor? And if he existed, who was he, 

where did he live, and what did he look 

like? This program uses sophisticated DNA 

testing methods to, in effect, trace humanity’s 

family tree. Guided by renowned geneticist 

Dr. Spencer Wells, viewers learn about the 

primary tool that propels this quest for a 

common ancestor—the Y chromosome, which 

is transmitted through family lines from father 

to son. Focusing on Africa, the program posits 

the existence of a patriarchal figure who lived 

around 60,000 years ago and whose chromosomal 

characteristics may be shared, at least 

in part, by every man alive today. Intriguing 

conclusions about famous historical figures 

are also featured. (52 minutes) © 2005 


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Nubia and the Mysteries of Kush 

Hidden away in the Butana region of northern 

Sudan lie the ruins of ancient Nubia, an African 

civilization that rivaled Egypt for centuries. 

This film familiarizes students with ongoing 

excavations that study and preserve the deteriorating 

remains of the Nubian kingdom of 

Kush. Interviews with Sudanese, American, 

and European archaeologists and historians 

are interwoven with stunning footage from 

dig sites and graphics that illustrate ancient 

building designs and techniques. Viewers will 

encounter Nubian temples, pyramids, writing, 

and artifacts—as well as fresh perspectives 

on the flowering of culture, technology, and 

political power in the ancient Nile Valley. 

(27 minutes) © 2001 Preview Clip Online C 

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Gorée: Door of No Return 

ON Gorée Island is where the 

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slave ships anchored, cram- 

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their holds with Africans 

to be shipped across the 

Atlantic to work the fields and tend their 

“owners” throughout the Western Hemisphere; 

Gorée Island is where the enslaved Africans 

were held until the ships were ready to receive 

them. This documentary tells the history of the 

slave trade: the arrival of the first Europeans, 

the origins of slavery in the Americas, the 

development of Gorée as a center of the 

expanding slave trade, the wealthy merchant 

women who controlled the slave trade on the 

island. Today, the island is a monument to an 

ignoble past. The program visits the colonial 

buildings, the homes of the slave traders still 

standing, the trading warehouse called the 

House of Slaves, and the infamous Door of 

No Return, the door through which most 

of America’s enslaved people passed on their 

way to the New World. (30 minutes) © 1992 

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Nubia 

Once rivals and even rulers of ancient Egypt, 

Nubian kingdoms dominated the eastern 

Sahara for millennia. In this program art historian 

Gus Casely-Hayford tours the ruins of 

Kerma and Meroe, two of Nubia’s great capitals, 

to examine some of the cultural treasures 

these complex civilizations left behind: the 

remains of a vast worship center built 4,000 

years ago, a temple to the god Amun, statues 

of the black pharaohs who founded Egypt’s 

25th dynasty, and the spectacular group of 

more than 200 pyramids spread around the 

holy mountain of Jabel Barkal. Casely-Hayford 

also views a Neolithic rock art site, chants with 

mystics at a Sufi shrine, and visits Sudanese 

artisans to tell the story of a heritage that has 

stretched from prehistory to the modern day. 

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Ethiopia 

Could Ethiopia have been founded by the son 

of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba? In 

this program, art historian Gus Casely-Hayford 

searches for the facts behind the legend by 

traveling to several important religious sites: 

Gondar, with its stunning icons; Lalibela, a 

cluster of 11 churches carved from single 

blocks of stone; remote Debre Damo monastery; 

Axum, allegedly home to the Ark of the 

Covenant; and finally, to a pre-Christian temple 

where inscriptions in ancient Sabaean—the 

language spoken by the people of Sheba— 

provide a tenuous link to the biblical queen. 

Casely-Hayford also talks with an Eastern 

Orthodox patriarch and goes to bustling, 

Muslim Harar as part of the quest to find 

cultural expressions that link modern Ethiopia 

to its ancient past. 

$169.95 QHF43765 • DVD / VOD 


History 

Now Available! 

Lost Kingdoms of AfricA 

In this four-part series, art historian Gus Casely-Hayford explores Africa’s rich history and 

enduring traditions through an examination of its arts, architecture, and spiritual expression. 

Portions in other languages with English subtitles. (48–60 minutes each) © 2009 


Great Zimbabwe 

The Victorian explorer who discovered the 

ruins of Great Zimbabwe, with its high, 

sweeping walls and complex passageways, 

had no idea who could have built it. The vast 

stone city remained at the center of debate 

for decades. In this program, art historian Gus 

Casely-Hayford pieces together the story of 

the African empire and how it was linked to 

surrounding kingdoms as part of a medieval 

gold trade flowing from Great Zimbabwe’s 

towers to the Swahili coast and on as far as 

China. He examines linguistic and archaeological 

evidence of the trade by visiting key 

sites along the route, including Mapungubwe, 

Manyikeni, and the Great Mosque of Kilwa. 

Casely-Hayford is guided on his trek by 

Great Zimbabwe’s modern heirs, who honor 

their history by keeping artistic and spiritual 

traditions alive. 

$169.95 QHF43766 • DVD / VOD 

West Africa 

A collection of extraordinary plaques, seized 

as loot during the colonial aggression that 

ended the powerful Benin Empire in 1897, 

depict life in the African kingdom’s royal 

court at its height. In this program, art historian 

Gus Casely-Hayford travels to legendary 

Timbuktu, the Great Mosque of Djenné, the 

Oba Royal Palace, and Dogon country to 

learn more about how the plaques were 

made and what they reveal about the continent’s 

sophisticated precolonial civilizations. 

In addition, Casely-Hayford meets with local 

historians, village elders, and craftspeople 

from hereditary guilds still using an ancient 

mix of metallurgical skill and spiritual practice 

to create traditional works of art. Portions 

in other languages with English subtitles. 

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History 

ON 

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Lost Civilizations 

Story traditions reveal as much about longvanished 

societies as any ruin or artifact— 

perhaps more so. This program recounts 

myths and legends from early civilizations as 

it travels to ancient architectural sites around 

the world. Egyptian pyramids and hieroglyphs 

serve as backdrops for the sun-god narratives 

of Aton and later Theban-based mythologies, 

while the saga of the Olympian pantheon 

resonates among the fallen pillars of Athens, 

Sparta, Delphi, and other locations. In South 

and Southeast Asia, viewers encounter the 

tales of Brahma, Vishnu, Chandra, Rama, 

and other deities still venerated in the Hindu 

religion. Likewise, in Andean and Central 

America, the legends of Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl, 

and Tezcatlipoca prove to be very much alive. 


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Now Available! Ghosts of Rwanda 

Ghosts of Rwanda marks the 10th anniversary 

of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 with a documentary 

chronicling one of the worst atrocities 

of the 20th century. In addition to interviews 

with key government officials and diplomats, 

this documentary offers eyewitness accounts 

of the genocide from those who experienced 

it firsthand. Frontline illustrates the failures 

that enabled the slaughter of 800,000 people to 

occur unchallenged by the global community. 

Distributed by PBS Distribution. (2 hours) 

© 2004 Preview Clip Online C 

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Skin Deep: 

The Story of Sandra Laing 

An emotional journey through 

the abyss of the apartheid era, 

this program explores the cruel 

realities and implications of institutionalized 

racial categorization. Viewers learn the story 

of Sandra Laing, who, although she was born 

to white Afrikaner parents, developed the 

skin color and facial features of a black 

African through a quirk of genetics. By the 

time she was a teenager, Sandra had been 

officially designated as “colored,” cut off from 

her family, and expelled from white society. 

Marked by imprisonment and domestic abuse 

as well as some semblance of reconciliation 

and closure, Laing’s saga inspires not only 

outrage but also far-reaching questions about 

racial identity and classification. (47 minutes) 




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Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers 

Confronting the cruelties of its past, South 

Africa has had to ask itself: recrimination 

and punishment, or forgiveness? This 

program describes the efforts of the Truth 

and Reconciliation Commission to investigate 

human rights abuses and begin healing the 

country. Bill Moyers speaks with apartheid 

victims while Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 

former state security officers, counterterrorists, 

and journalists round out this powerful 

documentary. (2 hours) © 1999 


Recommended.by.Booklist. 

Very.highly.recommended.by.. 

The New York Times. 

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Dying to Be Free: 

Zimbabwe’s Struggle for Change 

A portrait of the politics and history of 

Zimbabwe, this program traces Robert 

Mugabe’s rise to power and depicts his 

22-year dictatorship in a country where 

millions rely on food aid to survive, inflation 

is at 500 percent, and almost three quarters 

of the country’s workforce is unemployed. 

Also included is rare footage that captures 

the demand for change and the popular 

support for the new opposition party, MDC, 

during the presidential election in 2002. 

(51 minutes) © 2003 Preview Clip Online C ‡ 

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© Musée Albert Kahn 

The End of a World: 

Albert Kahn’s Archive of the Planet 

As they built an unsurpassed visual archive 

of world culture, Albert Kahn and his photographers 

turned their attention to widely 

divergent locations. This program follows 

the maritime odyssey of Lucien Le Saint, 

circa 1922, as he captured on film the daily 

lives of Newfoundland cod fishermen, as 

well as expeditions into Morocco, Tunisia, 

and Dahomey (now Benin). Contains 

brief nudity. A BBC/Musée Albert-Kahn 

(Département des Hauts-de-Seine—France) 

Coproduction. (52 minutes) © 2008 

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The Seven Ages of Music 

This program traces the development of 

African music, particularly South African 

music, from early tribal songs to the modern 

pop sounds of groups like Ladysmith Black 

Mambazo and Hugh Masekela. The program 

covers seven phases of development which 

mirror the history of an entire people. The 

relationship between African music and 

American jazz is also covered. The program 

includes performances by traditional tribal 

singers and dancers as well as modern pop 

and jazz performers. (52 minutes) © 1993 

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Culture 

Listening to the Silence: 

ON African Cross Rhythms 

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and use it as a dimension in 

which they can improvise,” 

observes John Collins, an English musician 

and host of this program. Taking off from 

the peace of nature, the singing cicadas, 

and the simple routines of the workday, 

this program explores a kaleidoscope of 

musical examples from Ghana: children’s 

games and their musical bands; traditional 

drums; sensual dances; trance dances; 

animated funeral music; and many other 

examples from the Ewe, Ashanti, Ga, and 

Frafra peoples of Ghana. Throughout the 

program, the leitmotif is social participation 

and the strikingly complex rhythmic sensibilities 

of the people. (33 minutes) © 1996 


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African Art and Women Artists 

This program focuses on the Kenyan Elizabeth 

Orchardson-Mazrui. Rooted deeply in African 

soil, her art comments on life, particularly the 

contradictory and often hypocritical attitudes 

of African society toward women; her teaching 

at the university champions the concept that 

African art is a valid academic discipline, that 

African art is intrinsically different in being part 

of life rather than (as in Western art) a separate 

element. (17 minutes) © 1992 

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African Art 

ON In the villages of sub-Saharan 

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Africa where traditions are still 

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strong, art is an integral part 

of daily life. This illuminating 

program examines the symbolism, aesthetics, 

and functionality of African art through the 

vast region’s sculpture, masks, architecture, 

ornaments, clothing, and utensils. In addition, 

indigenous African religious beliefs are 

explored through rituals—a spiritual form 

of performance art—and funerary statuary. 

Prehistoric rock art is also presented, and the 

conceptual nature of African art is stressed. 

Location footage underscoring the rich mosaic 

of cultures to be found in sub-Saharan Africa 

provides the backdrop for the program. 

(22 minutes) © 2003 Preview Clip Online 

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The Colonial Encounter: 

ON Views of Non-Western Art 

DEMAND and BEST Culture 

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its time as a 

celebration—or at least a fully 

informed study—of foreign ethnicities and 

customs, the Paris World’s Fair of 1900 is 

recognized today as a spectacle of Eurocentric 

myopia. This program lays bare that conceit 

as it interweaves archival photographs, film 

clips, and posters from the fair with commentary 

from renowned art historians. Produced 

by the Open University. (24 minutes) © 2003 



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Islamic Art: 

ON Africa and Central Asia 

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Continuing his trek across 

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the Muslim world, art scholar 

Waldemar Januszczak introduces 

viewers to masterworks in Africa, 

the Middle East, and Central Asia—from the 

gigantic and surreal mud mosques of Mali; 

to a rare, 10th-century Egyptian ewer carved 

out of a single piece of rock crystal; to the 

inspired urban planning of the ancient city of 

Isfahan in Iran; to the stunning architecture of 

Uzbekistan’s Samarakand. Januszczak shares 

his knowledge of the Sunni-Shiite schism and 

its artistic implications, the Fatimid influence 

evident in Cairo’s Al-Azhar mosque, and the 

vast debt which Gothic architecture owes to 

the arches and filigrees of medieval Islamic 

building design. (45 minutes) © 2007 


$169.95 QHF37638 • DVD / VOD 

Wole Soyinka: Child of the Forest 

A literary lion and a diehard political activist, 

Wole Soyinka has spent a long lifetime 

speaking truth to power. Part tribute and 

part retrospective, this program examines 

the Nigerian Nobel laureate’s actions and 

achievements through archival footage and 

insightful interviews. Commentary is provided 

by Soyinka; his sons Makin and Olaokun 

Soyinka; his friend Yemi Ogunbiyi; Nobel 

Laureate Nadine Gordimer; Maya Jaggi, cultural 

journalist and critic; Biodun Jeyifo, literary 

scholar and critic; publisher Margaret Busby; 

poet Odia Ofeimun; playwright Femi Osofisan; 

and writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi 

Atta, Biyi Bandele, Teju Cole, Helon Habila, 

Bankole Omotoso, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr., and 

Molara Wood. (52 minutes) © 2009 


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Chinua Achebe 

Chinua Achebe is president of the town 

council in his village in Nigeria, a role that 

brings him more headaches than honors. 

He’s also a storyteller who hears the music 

of history, weaves the fabric of memory, and 

sometimes offends the emperor as well. His 

first novel, Things Fall Apart, took the world 

by storm. Achebe disagrees with the notion 

that literature should be divorced from the 

politics and economics of its society. In fact, 

he states, “It is the storyteller...that makes 

us what we are, that creates history.” In his 

storytelling role, Achebe serves as the collective 

memory of his society, chronicling the 

rough transition of African nations such 

as Nigeria from colonialism to democracy. 

In this program with Bill Moyers, Chinua 

Achebe, a man caught between two worlds, 

discusses his observations and criticisms of 

both African and Western politics and culture. 


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Chinua Achebe: 

ON Africa’s Voice 

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Things Fall Apart has been 

FAVORITE translated SELLERinto 

50 languages, 

has sold over 8 million copies, 

and is considered one of the 20th century’s 

literary masterpieces. This program analyzes 

the impact Chinua Achebe and his writings 

have had on world literature, as well as his 

influence as an editor and a spokesman for 

a generation of African writers. Dr. Achebe, 

noted professors Abiola Irele and Gerald 

Graff, and Charles Larson, editor of the 

anthology Under African Skies, discuss the 

characterization, social implications, and 

levels of interpretation of Things Fall Apart. 

Vital concepts indigenous to the Ibos of 

southeastern Nigeria such as oral culture, 

reincarnation, and negotiation—concepts 

essential to a deep understanding of the 

novel—are also presented. This program is 

an indispensable supplement to Achebe’s 

best-known novel that elucidates Nigerian 

history and culture and the impact of 

colonialism. (61 minutes) © 1999 


$169.95 QHF9050 • DVD / VOD 



New Available! 

Discover the true cultural richness of Africa, 

past and present. Africa’s glorious history 

has been overshadowed by images of war, 

poverty, and famine. In this six-part series, 

Harvard University professor Henry Louis 

Gates, Jr., takes an exuberant trek by boat, 

land cruiser and camel across Africa in search 

of its remarkable past. Gates shows a continent 

virtually unknown to Westerners—and 

even to many Africans. His engaging personal 

journeys on the trail of great civilizations, 

cities, and centers of learning established 

long before the arrival of Europeans reveal 

an Africa most people never knew existed. 

Features six exclusive musical performances 

not seen in the original PBS broadcast. 

Distributed by PBS Distribution. 

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Black Kingdoms of the Nile 

This episode focuses on Professor Gates’ epic 

journey through the Nile River Valley of Egypt 

and Sudan in search of ancient Nubia—the site 

of highly advanced black African civilizations that 

once rivaled Egypt in wealth, power, and cultural 

development. Featured are the famed pyramids 

at Giza; the great temples of Abu Simbel built by 

Pharaoh Ramses II; the city of Jebel Barkal, capital 

of the Nubian kingdom until 300 B.C.; and the 

ruins of the last capital at Meroë. 

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The Swahili Coast 

In this episode, Professor Gates travels along the 

palm-fringed coast of Kenya and Tanzania and on 

to the legendary island of Zanzibar. The 1,800-mile 

Swahili coast had been the site of cultural and 

commercial exchanges between East Africa and 

the outside world since at least the 2nd century 

A.D. By around the 9th century A.D., the distinctive 

Swahili culture had emerged. 

$99.95 QHF44430 • VOD 

The Slave Kingdoms 

This episode features Professor Gates’ search 

to unravel the real story of the slave trade. The 

historical roots of racial discrimination in the 

United States today can be traced back to North 

American slavery, which involved the kidnapping 

of more than 20 million Africans 

$99.95 QHF44431 • VOD 


Culture 

Wonders of the African World, 

with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 

The Holy Land 

In this episode, Professor Gates’ journey takes 

him to Aksum—home, the Ethiopians believe, to 

the Last Ark of the Covenant. In the Middle Ages, 

the kings of Europe started searching for a mythical 

Ethiopian king named Prester John, beginning 

the Age of Discovery when they sailed along 

the coast of Africa. Early in the 20th century, the 

famous African-American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois 

described Ethiopia as “the all mother of men,” and 

recently we have seen a new truth in his claim as 

the oldest human remains are excavated there. 

$99.95 QHF44432 • VOD 

The Road to Timbuktu 

This episode follows Professor Gates in his 

search for the forgotten libraries of Timbuktu. He 

journeys through modern Mali, following ancient 

trade routes from the gold mines of the south to 

the legendary city on the shores of the Sahara 

desert. It is perhaps surprising that a place as 

comparatively close to Europe as West Africa 

should remain more or less unknown long after 

the colonization of the Americas. 

$99.95 QHF44433 • VOD 

Lost Cities of the South 

In this episode, Professor Gates explores a 

thousand-year-old African city kept from public 

view for 70 years, sings karaoke with Afrikaner 

holidaymakers, and heads for the medieval 

stone citadel of Great Zimbabwe. When 

European settlers discovered ruins of great 

civilizations at Mapungubwe in South Africa 

and Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe (then the 

British colony Rhodesia), they concluded that 

these marvelous stone cities could not have been 

built by black Africans. To justify their oppression 

of the black majority, the white imperialists 

created a grossly distorted history that denied 

African civilization and culture. 

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Healers of Ghana 

ON This program explores the 

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traditional medical practices 

FAVORITE of the SELLER Bono people of central 

Ghana and how their healers 

are cooperating with Western doctors, using 

herbs and spiritualism to improve health care 

delivery in rural areas. Traditionally, Bono 

tribal priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, 

during which deities reveal to them 

the causes of illnesses, which plants to use 

to treat them, who is perpetrating witchcraft, 

and which villagers might be endangering 

society through improper behavior. The 

program features vibrant dance and possession 

ceremonies, set against the backdrop of the 

Bono villages, which are awash with color. 


Margaret.Mead.Film.Festival.selection 

CINE.Golden.Eagle 

Recommended.by.American Anthropologist. 

$149.95 QHF6135 • DVD / VOD 

Africa: 

ON In Defiance of Democracy 

DEMAND 

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Throughout Africa, democracy 

FAVORITE has SELLER 

long been touted as the 

cure for the continent’s 

ongoing unrest. But can such a form of 

government flourish in countries where 

extreme poverty is the norm and violence 

is the chief tool of statecraft? Spanning the 

continent from Libya to South Africa, this 

program seeks to understand Africa’s complex 

political situations, addressing the “Big Man” 

syndrome and the one-party state, the 

destabilizing effects of armed conflict, 

the mismanagement of industry and natural 

resources, and strained relations with the 

industrialized world. (56 minutes) © 2001 


$169.95 QHF29500 • DVD / VOD 

Journeys into Islamic Africa 

Geographically, Muslim countries cover 

approximately 50 percent of Africa. This 

program travels around the continent to 

inquire into Islamic history and the Muslim 

way of life, making stops in Ethiopia, 

Tanzania, Zanzibar, South Africa, Senegal, 

Algeria, Sudan, and many other destinations. 

The experiences of two particular groups— 

those sent by Muhammad himself to Ethiopia, 

during the Muslim-Quraish War, and slaves 

and prisoners of the Dutch who were forcibly 

relocated to South Africa—are given special 

attention. (52 minutes) © 2004 


$169.95 QHF36129 • DVD / VOD 

Doctors and Nurses: Can Poor Countries 

Train and Retain Them? 

“Brain drain” is a core problem in the developing 

world, and an especially tragic one 

in the field of health care. For many African 

countries, training new doctors and nurses 

is almost a fruitless enterprise—since, upon 

completion of their schooling, these young 

professionals typically leave for high-paying 

positions abroad. This program analyzes the 

predicament by following a young, Malawiborn 

gynecologist as he wrestles with a fateful 

decision. Should he earn a good living in the 

West or make a crucial difference in the life of 

his native country, albeit on a meager salary? 

His journey of discovery (and self-discovery) 

incorporates interviews with Malawian medical 

students, educators, nurses, and fellow doctors. 

Dr. Mubashar Sheikh of the Global Health 

Workforce Alliance is also featured. 


$129.95 QHF43704 • DVD / VOD 

Senegal, Tunisia, and Laos: 

The Private Sector in Economic Growth 

Does the future of capitalism favor the 

global corporations of the West—or small, 

competitive businesses that are homegrown 

in the developing world? This program offers 

valuable case studies that clearly illustrate 

both the challenges and the enormous 

potential of non-Western entrepreneurship. 

In Senegal, plastics manufacturer SIMPA has 

obtained funding for equipment upgrades 

and employee training, while clothing 

designer Kali Abu Sol has opened a Dakar 

boutique and is moving full steam ahead 

toward international recognition. The film’s 

Tunisia segment features the Hannibal Clinic, 

a state-of-the-art cancer treatment center, and 

the Laos portion covers fair trade measures 

for boosting coffee production, quality, and 

profitability. Part of the series Sustainable 

Development: The World Challenge. 


$99.95 QHF41978 • DVD / VOD 



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An African Journey 

with Jonathan Dimbleby 

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Over the course of this threepart 

series, distinguished 

broadcaster and ardent cultural 

ambassador Jonathan 

Dimbleby challenges prevailing 

misconceptions of Africa by showing viewers 

that although it is a land of hardships 

and conflicts, it is equally a land of energy, 

imagination, talent, and innovation. “This 

series is not about failure or despair,” says 

Dimbleby, “but vitality and hope. It’s about 

nations in flux, about individuals who are 

changing the face of this continent.” A 

Fresh One Production in Association with 

Dimbleby Partners for BBC. Portions are 


(58–59 minutes each) © 2010 


A Fresh Look at Mali, Ghana, and Nigeria 

This program focuses on western Africa. 

Topics include how mopeds are moving Mali 

into a better future, the Ghanaian Akwasidae 

Festival, a Nigerian-owned and -operated 

cement-producing plant, and much more. 

$169.95 QHF41987 • DVD / VOD 

A Fresh Look at Ethiopia, Kenya, 

and Tanzania 

This program spotlights eastern Africa. Topics 

include initiatives to improve farming across 

Ethiopia, how the cell phone revolution is 

transforming Kenya, Tanzanian independence 

day festivities, and much more. 

$169.95 QHF41988 • DVD / VOD 

A Fresh Look at the Democratic Republic 

of the Congo, Zambia, and South Africa 

This program concentrates on central and 

southern Africa. Topics include a Congolese 

band whose polio-stricken members sing 

a message of hope, a Zambian-owned and 

-operated commercial farm, a biker group 

that spreads a message of empowerment 

to at-risk South African children, and 

much more. 

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Africa’s East Coast 

Beginning at Port Said, Egypt—a busy 

gateway from the Middle East into Africa— 

this program explores the many national and 

cultural identities found along the eastern 

face of the continent. Journeying down the 

Suez Canal, through the Red Sea, and into 

the Indian Ocean, the program documents 

apparently healthy relations between Sunni 

Muslims and Orthodox Christians in Massawa, 

Eritrea; khat distribution and addiction in the 

Republic of Djibouti; the ins and outs of the 

booming tea industry in Mombasa, Kenya; 

and day-to-day survival on the streets of 

Durban, South Africa—which some see as 

the New York of the continent, a city where 

dreams come to flourish or die. Portions are 



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What is Africa like? In an 

effort to answer that short 

but extremely complex 

question, this 13-part series 

travels sub-Saharan Africa to 

speak with artists and aid workers, rappers 

and religious leaders, single mothers 

and mentors of at-risk youth, and many 

others about sociocultural, geopolitical, 

environmental, and health-related issues. 

Portions in other languages with English 

subtitles. (47–57 minutes each) 

© 2004 Preview Clip Online C A 

To Love Oneself: 

Grassroots Humanitarian Activities 

in Benin, Ethiopia, and Mali 

Taking a grassroots approach to dealing 

with the physical and societal ills plaguing 

their countries, individuals and small groups 

in sub-Saharan Africa are creating success 

amidst widespread civil and economic 

instability. This program illustrates five 

empowering instances of solidarity and 

self-help, including the Yeredemé project, 

the Janjigui So association, and the 

Fasil Circus. 

$169.95 QHF39446 • DVD / VOD 

Who Controls Africa? 

Power Structures in Ghana, 

Guinea-Bissau, and Mali 

Women form the backbone of sub-Saharan 

Africa and consistently exert some measure 

of control alongside men, whether it is as 

a local ruler, a witch, an activist, a wage 

earner, a laborer, or a caregiver. This program 

examines female, male, and mixed power 

structures, with a focus on the Bijagós Islands, 

Mali, and Ghana. 

$169.95 QHF39447 • DVD / VOD 

Growing Up in Africa: 

Helping Children in Benin, Kenya, 

South Africa, and Uganda 

Based on recent statistics, 90 percent of the 

world’s orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa; 

40 percent of African children work seven 

days a week; and many support themselves 

by prostitution or are subjected to enslavement. 

This program highlights the work of 

the Terre des Hommes Oasis Center, the Jinja 

School for Orphans, the Dance for All project, 

and others. 

$169.95 QHF39448 • DVD / VOD 

Dying in Africa: 

Perspectives on the End of Life in Burkina 

Faso, Ghana, Mali, and South Africa 

In Africa—where infant mortality is sky-high, 

tens of millions have AIDS, and life expectancy 

can be as meager as 39 years—death 

is an all-too-frequent presence. This program 

presents sub-Saharan perspectives on the 

end of life. 

$169.95 QHF39449 • DVD / VOD 

Miraculous Water: 

The Effects of Scarcity and Abundance 

in Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mali 

In sub-Saharan Africa, water is the focus of 

daily life. This program seeks to understand 

its centrality by investigating water-related 

issues at Lake Ganvie, Benin; in Ethiopia near 

the Sahel; on the banks of the Volta River; 

and elsewhere. 

$169.95 QHF39450 • DVD / VOD 

Paper Gods: 

Aspects of Religion in Benin, Egypt, 

Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mali 

Christianity, Islam, and a broad range of 

indigenous religions coexist side by side in 

Africa, in many cases blending into unique 

hybrids. This program—an inquiry into the 

nature of the continent’s spiritual practices— 

spotlights the Celestial Church of Christ, 

in Benin; the village of Kukoe, Ghana; the 

Rifai Sufis of Cairo; Yin believers of the Niger 

River; and the Sof Omar Cave, in Ethiopia. 



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“Will You Marry Me?” Marriage Customs 

in Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, and Senegal 

Even today, the majority of African women 

in both city and country still aspire to get a 

good husband and have many children. This 

program sheds light on the pros and cons of 

marriage customs in sub-Saharan Africa as it 

relates the stories of women from Ethiopia, 

Mali, Niger, and Senegal. 

$169.95 QHF39452 • DVD / VOD 

The Talking Picture: 

The Impact of Mass Media in Kenya, 

Mali, South Africa, and Uganda 

As Africa continues to modernize, the influence 

of the media in daily life is growing ever 

larger. This program examines the importance 

of the press, radio, the Internet, and TV via 

segments involving the South African newspaper 

Sowetan, the Ugandan radio station 

KKC Kagadi, Kenya-based Africa Online, 

and ORTM, the national broadcaster of 

Malian television. 

$169.95 QHF39453 • DVD / VOD 

“By Profession...an Artist”: 

Contemporary Art in Burkina Faso, 

Mali, Senegal, and South Africa 

Historically, the arts in Africa were largely 

communal and unrecorded. But much has 

changed over the past century, and this 

program takes a look at art in sub-Saharan 

Africa as it exists today through profiles of 

musicians, artists, filmmakers, and a 

65-member family of griots. 

$169.95 QHF39454 • DVD / VOD 

Sex in Africa: 

Perspectives on Sex-Related Concerns 

in Ethiopia, Mali, and South Africa 

In Africa, views on sex vary widely from 

conservative to liberal and from traditional to 

progressive. Topics covered in this program 

include gay rights, the practices of female 

genital excision and “dry sexual intercourse,” 

the spread of HIV, and female prostitution. 

$169.95 QHF39455 • DVD / VOD 


Culture 

White on Black: 

Grappling with Race in Guinea-Bissau, 

Kenya, Mali, and South Africa 

Speaking in broad sociocultural terms, the 

overall Western attitude toward Africans has 

been one of race-based condescension. This 

program addresses that historically conflicted 

relationship through contrasting segments 

on an idealistic young French-born woman 

involved with the Yeredemé project and the 

founding of Orania, the proposed nucleus 

of a neo-apartheid whites-only state. 

$169.95 QHF39456 • DVD / VOD 

More Than Just a Game: Competitions 

and Celebrations in Ethiopia, Ghana, 

Niger, Senegal, and Sudan 

In sub-Saharan Africa, traditionally minded 

people view everything as being touched 

by the supernatural—including what might 

seem, to Western eyes, to be simply athletic 

or recreational activities. This program 

explains the deeper meaning of the donga, 

wrestling, camel races, music and dancing 

at festivals, and soccer. 

$169.95 QHF39457 • DVD / VOD 

Africa Calling: 

An Appeal for Understanding 

Bringing together segments from other 

episodes in The Call of Africa series, this 

program strives to build bridges of genuine 

understanding about human rights, political 

power structures, the environment, public 

health, marriage customs, emigration, and 

many other vital topics through the views 

of contemporary Africans dealing with the 

issues and complexities of their lives. 

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TV in 

Africa 

This series examines the incredible 

cultural, historical, ethnic, and linguistic 

diversity of Africa through the television 

programming of a dozen African nations: 

Angola, Mali, Ethiopia, Tanzania/Zanzibar, 

Mozambique, Benin, Cameroon, Côte 

d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Mauritius, Ghana, 

Namibia, and Burundi. Portions with 

English subtitles. (26 minutes each) 


Angola 

This documentary studies the cultural 

landscape of Angola through the lens of 

that country’s television programming. 

TV shows include Ponto de Reencontro, 

Reconstrução, Ecos e Factos, Angola em 

Movimento, Conversations Between Neighbors, 

Gala à Sexta-Feira, Janela Aberta, Jovemania, 

Sed de Viver, Comba, and 113. 

$99.95 QHF48866 • DVD / VOD 

Mali 


landscape of Mali through the lens of that 

country’s television programming. TV shows 

include Top Etoiles, The Big Interview, Eclats 

de Rire, Kadi Jolie, Dou, Gelekan, The Land, 

and Génération 21. 

$99.95 QHF48867 • DVD / VOD 

Ethiopia 

This documentary studies the cultural landscape 

of Ethiopia through the lens of that 


include 120 Minutes, Feguegta Talk Show, 

The Blue Horse, Ke Naw, Tsehai the Giraffe 

Likes to Learn, Blue Nile, and Ethiopian Idols. 

$99.95 QHF48868 • DVD / VOD 

Tanzania/Zanzibar 


of Tanzania and its semiautonomous 

region Zanzibar through the lens of that 


include Jarida la Wanawake, Halikuniki, 

Night Line, Zanzibar Today, City Sounds, 

Uswazi, Kemea, Hadithi Za Bibi, and 

Bongo Star Search. 

$99.95 QHF48869 • DVD / VOD 

Mozambique 


of Mozambique through the lens of that 


include Canal Zero, Historias do Bairro, The 

Greatest Portuguese of All Time, For Law and 

Order, Sorriso, Full Stop, Mais Jovem, Fama 

Show, public service messages, Brazilian 

telenovelas, and talk shows. 

$99.95 QHF48870 • DVD / VOD 



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Benin 


landscape of Benin through the lens of that 


include Entre Nous, Le Grand Journal du Bien, 

Midi Pile, Christ dans vos Maisons, Au Delà du 

Réel, Nécrologie, Rubi, Les Inséparables, sports 

events, news reviews, and music videos. 

$99.95 QHF48871 • DVD / VOD 

Cameroon 


landscape of Cameroon through the lens of 

that country’s television programming. TV 

shows include The Good News, Star-Crossed 

Destinies, Polygamous Household, My Favorite 

Song, news reports, and music videos. 

$99.95 QHF48872 • DVD / VOD 

Ivory Coast 


of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) through 

the lens of that country’s television programming. 

TV shows include It Must Be Said, 

Stars Tonnerre, The Good Old Days, Dr. Boris, 

Class A, Le Titrologue, and news reports. 

$99.95 QHF48873 • DVD / VOD 

Mauritius 


of Mauritius through the lens of that 


include Tulsi, Kel Fami!, Bonnto, Badinaz, 

C’est la Vie, and Sega Hungama. 

$99.95 QHF48874 • DVD / VOD 


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Ghana 


landscape of Ghana through the lens of 

that country’s television programming. 

TV shows include Thank God It’s Friday, 

Agenda, Colonial Court, Mmaa Nkommo, 

Soccer Academy, Children’s Channel, 

news reports, and religious programs. 

$99.95 QHF48875 • DVD / VOD 

Namibia 


landscape of Namibia through the lens 

of that country’s television programming. 

TV shows include School Grounds, Green 

Horizon, One Against Crime, Miss Namibia, 

Just Fabulous, The Ties that Bind, news 

reports, and religious programs. 

$99.95 QHF48876 • DVD / VOD 

Burundi 


landscape of Burundi through the lens of that 


include Ni Nde?, news reports, music videos, 

and religious programs. 

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Angola: The Curse of Oil 

Poverty in Africa reminds us that abundant 

natural resources don’t automatically translate 

into widespread economic wealth. This 

program brings home the disturbing reality of 

daily life in Angola—marked by ramshackle 

houses, open sewers, and a question that 

grows louder every day: who benefits from 

the country’s vast oil resources? Outlining 

the nation’s colonial and Cold War traumas, 

the film examines the civil war between 

MPLA and UNITA forces and the present-day 

mismanagement of oil revenues stemming 

from that conflict. Related topics include 

China’s growing role in the country, the 

tragedy of child hunger and malnutrition, 

and Angola’s widespread problem of land 

mine injuries. Portions in other languages 

with English subtitles. (25 minutes) © 2008 


$99.95 QHF40370 • DVD / VOD 

Chad: Hydraulic Projects and Peace 

Characterized as an LDC, or least developed 

country, the nation of Chad wrestles with 

drought, population growth, and resulting 

tensions between farmers and herders. 

This program investigates hydraulic projects 

and mediation initiatives that are fostering 

relationships between Chad’s food growers 

and its nomadic, livestock-centered cultures. 

Overviewing the basic causes of Chadian land 

disputes and competition for water sources 

as well as failed modernization schemes 

proposed during the 1960s, the film explores 

new solutions based on recognizing traditional 

agriculture and natural migration 

routes. Viewers witness “sit-down” talks 

between farmers and herders that could 

help prevent regional conflicts from 

flaring up. Part of the series Sustainable 



$99.95 QHF41969 • DVD / VOD 

Congo Basin: Sustainable Forestry 

Among the largest, most pristine areas of 

tropical woodland on the planet, the Congo 

Basin forests could easily fall prey to shortsighted 

and exploitative commercial interests. 

This program looks at sustainable lumber 

production initiatives taking root in the 

region, with a focus on cutting-edge forestry 

management as well as economic growth 

through increased cooperation between local 

concession holders. Viewers join a planning 

team and a chain-saw crew in the remote 

woodlands of Gabon as they take great care 

to preserve the fragile ecosystem, and another 

team of advisors as they set up meetings 

between small African foresters—who, 

despite initial skepticism, see a need for 

collective economic leverage. Part of the 

series Sustainable Development: The World 

Challenge. (25 minutes) © 2009 


$99.95 QHF41975 • DVD / VOD 

Man of the Serengeti 

Although the conditions facing the Maasai 

people have changed significantly since 

this classic film was produced, it remains a 

valuable snapshot of the evolving interaction 

between an age-old culture, modern influences, 

and the striking natural surroundings 

of the Serengeti. Today’s geography and 

anthropology students still benefit from the 

story of Tepilit Ole Saitoti, a Maasai warrior 

turned park ranger. (50 minutes) © 1972 


$149.95 QHF40801 • DVD / VOD 

Maasai: 

ON A Warrior’s Rite of Passage 

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Entering a world of long-held 

FAVORITE 

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rituals and traditions, this 

program examines the ancient 

tribal initiation of the Maasai warrior. Through 

unprecedented access to the three-day ceremony, 

the film documents the process by 

which Maasai boys and young men in Kenya’s 

Shampole region come of age. Traditional 

dances, singing, foraging, and goat and bull 

sacrifices are depicted in detail. (40 minutes) 




$169.95 QHF39758 • DVD / VOD 




Maasai on the Move 

The Maasai make a living by sharing their 

traditional culture with tourists, but they are 

very much aware of the modern world and 

its problems. Economic downturns mean less 

visitors to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area 

where the Maasai live. Both herding and agriculture 

have become nearly impossible due 

to drought, leading to hunger, frustration, and 

yet more conflict with the government over 

land use. In this program, three Maasai living 

in the NCA comment on issues the tribe faces 

today: development and climate change, 

family relations and marital problems, and 

the need to educate their children so they 

can be competitive in the 21st-century world. 

English subtitles. (50 minutes) © 2010 


$169.95 QHF44872 • DVD / VOD 

Kenya: National Identity and Unity 

From the Great Rift Valley to the shores of the 

Indian Ocean, Kenya contains extraordinary 

diversity in culture, landscape, and wildlife. 

This program surveys the history of the 

country, its difficult transition out of colonial 

rule, and its wide variety of ethnic groups and 

languages. Visits to a Nairobi high school, a 

Masai village, and two wildlife conservation 

areas underscore the challenges modern 

Kenya faces in economic progress and environmental 

protection. A viewable/printable 

instructor’s guide—including geographical 

background information, extension activities, 

vocabulary handouts, and more—is available 

online. (25 minutes) © 2002 


$89.95 QHF35171 • DVD / VOD 


Culture 

Madagascar: Agro-Ecology 

Journeying to the immense island nation of 

Madagascar, this program confronts the challenge 

of building sustainable agriculture in the 

country. Outlining reasons why many growers 

are unable or unwilling to discard outmoded 

techniques, the film visits community offices 

that support local farmers in organizing, 

obtaining microfinancing, and increasing 

efficiency. Part of the series Sustainable 



$99.95 QHF41973 • DVD / VOD 

Mauritania: 

Health Care for Pregnant Women 

Each year, some 800 women in Mauritania die 

during childbirth. The country’s mortality rate 

for children under age five is also alarmingly 

high—approximately 14,500 deaths annually. 

This program follows Mauritania’s struggle 

to meet national objectives established with 

guidance from the United Nations—aiming 

at a 75-percent drop in maternal deaths and 

a 66-percent drop in child mortality by the 

year 2015. The film visits a badly equipped, 

severely understaffed gynecological health 

center in Kiffa; another in Sebkha, which has 

a new ultrasound machine but only intermittent 

electrical power; and an outreach team 

working in rural areas, where an innovative 

obstetrical health care program is gradually 

making a difference. Part of the series 

Sustainable Development: The World 



$99.95 QHF41976 • DVD / VOD 

Niger: In the Shadow of Noma 

Noma is an acute oral infection that attacks 

young, malnourished children. If left 

untreated—which, tragically, is often the case 

in Africa—it devours bone tissue and permanently 

disfigures its victims. This unflinching 

program studies the impact of the pitiless 

disease and will help viewers assess the 

ability and readiness of the international 

community to combat the suffering. Graphic 

scenes of school-age noma patients are 

interwoven with commentary from medical 

experts and heartbreaking accounts from 

family members who have watched as sons, 

daughters, and grandchildren succumb to 

the sickness. The film also describes low-cost 

interventions that could keep noma from 

spreading, if resources are made available. 

Original broadcast title: Noma in Niger. A part 

of the series Fighting the Tide 3: Developing 

Nations and Globalization. Portions in other 

languages with English subtitles. (25 minutes) 


$99.95 QHF41929 • DVD / VOD 


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Nomads: Salt Caravans in the Niger 

Situated near an oasis in Niger’s Ayar 

Mountains, the remote settlement of Timia is 

home to small-scale wheat growers. Once a 

year, after the harvest is done, members of the 

Kel Ewen clan federation—a subgroup of the 

Tuareg nomads—will venture into the merciless 

Ténéré desert to trade their wares. Almost 

600 kilometers lie between the paradise-like 

gardens of Timia and the village of Bilma, 

which produces salt from evaporation ponds. 

Bilma is, traditionally, one of the last stops on 

the age-old trans-Saharan trade route, and its 

salt is widely recognized as a trading article for 

grain and all manner of goods. This program 

follows a camel caravan as it makes its way 

along the route, taking on salt in Bilma, then 

heading further southward to Nigeria. A part 

of the series Nomads: How Ancient Traveling 

Societies Persevere. (52 minutes) © 2008 


$169.95 QHF44867 • DVD / VOD 

Flowers of Rwanda: 

ON Making Peace 

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with Genocide 

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Can killers and survivors 

coexist in peace? That is the 

crucial question facing Rwanda a dozen years 

after the genocide that claimed the lives of 

approximately 800,000 people. Flowers of 

Rwanda considers whether forgiveness and 

reconciliation can truly be achieved so the 

country can eradicate the ignorance and 

extremism that paved the way for monumental 

atrocity. Viewer discretion is advised. 


subtitles. (24 minutes) © 2008 


Best.Screenplay.Award,.Chicago.Short.. 

Film.Festival 

Best.Documentary.Jury.Award,.Sacramento.Film. 

and.Music.Festival 

$129.95 QHF40621 • DVD / VOD 

Lost Children: 

Uganda’s Youngest Soldiers 

During its campaign of terror in northern 

Uganda, the Lord’s Resistance Army abducted 

thousands of children of the Acholi tribe and 

forced them to kill among their own people. 

This powerful, award-winning documentary 

examines the tragic aftermath of a brutal 

practice by following the lives of two boys 

and two girls between the ages of 8 and 14 

who escape their captors. (58 minutes) 


Best.of.Festival,.Grand.Prix.winner,.2006.U.S.. 

International.Film.and.Video.Festival 

UNICEF.Film.Award,.2005 

$169.95 QHF40641 • DVD / VOD 

Senegal: Water Treatment 

ON and Distribution 

DEMAND 

BEST 

“Our most valuable treasure,” 

FAVORITE 

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is how residents of Dakar 

describe the Bay of Han. But 

pollution from both residential and industrial 

sources is destroying the body of water that 

has long supported fishing families in the 

Senegalese capital. This program reports on 

Western-aided efforts to restore the bay’s 

ecological health and its viability as an 

economic resource. Part of the series 

Sustainable Development: The World 



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The Lost Libraries 

ON of Timbuktu 

DEMAND 

BEST 

In the ancient Malian city 

FAVORITE 

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of Timbuktu, thousands of 

scientific and religious texts— 

among Africa’s oldest literature—have been 

hidden for centuries. This program examines 

the rich history and variety of Timbuktu’s lost 

libraries and shows how they have recently 

garnered the world’s attention. Viewers meet 

local scholars, as well as experts from across 

Africa and the Western world, who elucidate 

just how valuable these fragile treasures are 

to our knowledge of Africa, Islam, and the 

growth of literacy outside the Western 

tradition. The program also asks: how 

differently would Africa have developed if 

the libraries hadn’t been forced underground 

by colonial interests? A BBC Production. 


Recommended.by Educational Media Reviews 

Online.and.Anthropology Review Database. 

$169.95 QHF40567 • DVD / VOD 



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Slavery 

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Slavery is alive and well on 

planet Earth. This three-part 

series lays bare the hard 

truths of present-day slavery 

in Europe, Africa, and Asia. 

From the criminal sex trade to the horrors 

of armed conflict, viewers encounter slaves 

and former slaves in France, Moldova, 

Uganda, India, and Cambodia. Expert 

guests include scholar Noam Chomsky, 

Disposable People author Kevin Bales, 

UN authorities, and other human rights 

activists. (45 minutes each) © 2008 


Captive Servants and Child Prostitution 

House slavery—the confinement and coercion 

of unpaid domestic servants—occurs far more 

frequently across Europe and the United States 

than most people realize. Even more alarming 

is the widespread use of children as fodder 

for prostitution rings around the world. This 

program profiles a Moroccan-born former 

house slave named Rania, whose father, 

believing she would be educated and cared 

for, allowed her to be taken to France at the 

age of eight. Viewers also meet Sino and La 

Thiya, Cambodian victims of Southeast Asia’s 

rampant child sex industry. Both case studies 

are chilling in their accounts of deception and 

exploitation, yet they also convey the possibility 

of personal transcendence and justice. 

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Economics 

Debt Bondage and Child Soldiers 

Indentured servitude, however dehumanizing, 

played a role in the colonization and development 

of early America. But its 21st-century 

incarnation, the practice of debt bondage, 

contributes virtually nothing to the common 

good of southern Asia. This program examines 

the plight of workers in India’s rural areas, 

exposing the conditions in which they toil to 

pay off staggering personal debts. More tragic 

still are the ranks of child soldiers forced to 

fight in African militias and armies. Viewers 

meet Moses, who was kidnapped as a boy 

and absorbed into Uganda’s LRA insurgency. 

The film shows him going through the process 

of shedding his soldier’s ways, rejoining his 

family, and trying to reclaim his life. 

$169.95 QHF41370 • DVD / VOD 

Human Trafficking 

In search of a better life, Natasha and Galia 

Gutu thought they had found fulfilling jobs in 

Turkey through their seemingly helpful neighbors. 

But when the Gutu sisters left their home 

in Moldova they were actually traveling into a 

nightmare—not the health aide employment 

that their “friends” had promised, but rather 

enslavement as prostitutes. This program 

follows their story by recording their own 

painful accounts, a different side of the narrative 

as told by the mother-daughter pair who 

led them into deception, and the real-life 

courtroom drama that unfolds when the sisters 

bring charges against their former neighbors. 

Will a guilty verdict start Natasha and Galia 

on the road to healing? 

$169.95 QHF41371 • DVD / VOD 

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Sold: Fighting the New Global Slave Trade 

Evoking the spirit of 19th-century abolitionism, this program enters the lives of 

three antislavery activists in today’s developing world. Symphorienne Kessouagni 

works to protect vulnerable children in rural Togo, keeping them away from 

traffickers and helping young slaves escape. Sunitha Krishnan is a former Hindu 

nun in Hyderabad, India, who runs 17 schools for former brothel workers and lobbies officials 

to enforce antislavery laws. Ansar Burney is a Karachi attorney who retrieves Pakistani boys forced 

to perform as jockeys in the brutal sport of camel racing. Each activist speaks in eloquent detail 

about his or her experiences and the psychological scars—as well as the resilience—of those 

freed from slavery. Portions in other languages with English subtitles. (54 minutes) © 2009 


$169.95 QHF41698 • DVD / VOD 


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Economics 

New! 

Linking Africa: The Future Is Digital 

Africa has the fastest-growing cell phone 

market in the world, fueling the continent’s IT 

boom and making Nokia and Google sit up 

and take notice. This program examines East 

Africa’s burgeoning and innovative use of 

information technology in small businesses, 

health care, education, and social activism. 

Viewers meet the software developers and 

digital pioneers who are increasing Africa’s 

connectivity with programs such as One 

Laptop per Child—an initiative that brings ON 

hope to an area ravaged by civil strife. The 

video also looks at the mixed feelings of 

uneasy governments who see the Internet as 

both potential spark for an Arab Spring–style 

uprising and a lucrative way to bring their 

countries into the 21st century. (52 minutes) 


$169.95 QHF48291 • DVD / VOD 

DEMAND 

FAVORITE 

APOPO Vapor Detection Technology: 

Tanzania and Mozambique 

A land mine is an indiscriminate killer—it 

doesn’t care how young or old its victims 

are, or how many years have passed since the 

end of the conflict for which it was intended. 

Likewise, land mines have been put to use 

prolifically and ubiquitously by armies the 

world over, and experts fear it will take 500 

years before the last one on the planet is either 

defused or detonated. But a surprising and 

highly innovative mine-detection method is 

gaining ground in Africa—one that utilizes the 

indigenous giant pouched rat as its principal 

technology. Host Alvin Hall witnesses these 

remarkable rodents in action and advises 

APOPO, the social enterprise behind the idea, 

on ways to secure its financial future. Part 

of the series Alvin’s Guide to Good Business: 

Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship. 


$129.95 QHF43443 • DVD / VOD 

Africa: War Is Business 

ON The world is awakening 

DEMAND 

BEST 

to an ugly reality—that the 

FAVORITE diamond SELLER 

trade finances war 

and brutality in Africa. But 

diamonds are only one resource among many 

that feed bloody conflicts in Liberia, Sierra 

Leone, the Congo, and other countries. This 

program explores the role of international 

corporations in fomenting rebellion and 

arming renegade forces on the African 

continent. Key military and corporate 

players are interviewed. (54 minutes) © 2005 


“Exceptionally.well.done...a.real.eye-opening. 

and.alarming.exploration.of.this.crisis..This. 

work.comes.highly.recommended.to.audiences.high.school.level.and.up.who.seek. 

to.learn.the.dismal.conditions.in.Africa.and. 

wish.to.examine.the.echoing.effects.of.illegal. 

precious.commodity.sales..Highly.recommended.”—Educational 

Media Reviews Online 

$169.95 QHF37560 • DVD / VOD 

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Worse Than War: 

Genocide, Eliminationism, 

and the Ongoing Assault 

on Humanity 

In this program, the author of 

Hitler’s Willing Executioners explores the 

social and psychological factors behind genocide. 

From Rwanda to Bosnia to Guatemala, 

Daniel Goldhagen speaks with, and sometimes 

confronts, military and political figures 

about the insanity of mass killing. He also 

interviews former U.S. Secretary of State 

Madeleine Albright, as well as his own father, 

a Holocaust survivor. Contains graphic and 

disturbing content. Instructor discretion 

advised. (114 minutes) © 2009 C 

$199.95 QHF42166 • DVD 

Malawi: A Nation Going Hungry 

Poverty, unstable government, and disadvantages 

in trade have virtually eliminated food 

security in Malawi. This program explores the 

African country’s struggles on both a personal 

and national level, interviewing frustrated 

civil servants and impoverished citizens, 

and reflecting widespread despair over WTO 

policies and the government’s inability to 

subsidize the agriculture of its own people. 

Highlighting the additional problems of environmental 

degradation and AIDS, the program 

offers a moving glimpse into human lives that 

revolve around one constant challenge: getting 

something to eat. Portions have English 

subtitles. (26 minutes) © 2004 Preview Clip Online 

$99.95 QHF34468 • DVD / VOD 



New! Gorillas of the Congo: 

Chainsaws to the Rescue 

The northern rainforests of the Republic of 

Congo are the habitat of the largest concentration 

of gorillas anywhere in the world. 

The region is also home to the IFO timber 

company and its employees, who rely on IFO 

for their income as well as for the schools 

and medical center that IFO has established 

there. Environmentalists are concerned about 

tropical timber harvesting, but without IFO 

the human residents of the rainforest would 

be plunged into poverty. Can the rainforest 

be harvested without destroying the great 

apes’ habitat? This program examines the 

sustainable forestry practices successfully put 

into place by IFO in the Congo Basin, and 

also addresses the problems that might occur 

if the logging company were simply to shut 

down. (52 minutes) © 2011 


$169.95 QHF48293 • DVD / VOD 

Down to Earth: Regreening the Sahel 

The Sahel has long been prone to cycles 

of drought, but those of the 20th century 

were especially severe, devastating the land 

and the lives of the people living there. This 

program spotlights the efforts of aid agency 

director Mathieu Ouedraogo to regreen the 

territory by teaching farmers in Burkina Faso 

traditional conservation methods. The result? 

“It’s like a miracle,” he says of an antiflooding 

technique successfully employed by 

the villagers. The video also touches on the 

life-changing benefits to Tuareg herders of a 

tree-planting program in Mali and on considerations 

of the Kyoto Protocol’s allotment of 

funds to such projects. Original broadcast 

title: Down to Earth. (23 minutes) © 2009 C 

$99.95 QHF42308 • DVD 


Economics • Health 

AIDS Warriors: 

Confronting Africa’s Health Crisis 

In sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS is not only a vast 

humanitarian tragedy, but also a dire threat 

to regional stability. This Wide Angle documentary 

explores the role of Angola’s military, 

the only functioning arm of the state, in 

a nationwide effort to combat the AIDS 

pandemic. The program identifies what may 

be the only benefit of Angola’s long civil 

war—specifically, one of the lowest HIV 

infection rates in southern Africa—although 

this advantage is now endangered as 

refugees and soldiers reenter civilian life. 

Uncompromising in its social and political 

analysis, this program offers an arresting 

portrait of a nation and continent ill-equipped 

to defend against an exploding health crisis. 

In addition, Stephen Lewis discusses Africa’s 

AIDS crisis with anchor Mishal Husain. 


CINE.Golden.Eagle.Award 

$149.95 QHF36133 • DVD / VOD 

Malaria, the Serial Killer 

ON How does an organism carried 

DEMAND 

BEST 

by insects become an instru- 

FAVORITE 

SELLER 

ment of mass destruction? Can 

malaria be defeated or at least 

neutralized? What political and economic 

forces influence the battle against the disease? 

This program investigates social and scientific 

issues surrounding malaria and shows how 

the parasite wreaks havoc—especially in 

Africa, where it causes more deaths than 

AIDS. (52 minutes) © 2008 


$169.95 QHF40151 • DVD / VOD 

Partners In Health: Malawi 

A half-century of helping disadvantaged 

communities, beginning when he was a 

first-year Harvard medical student, has reinforced 

Dr. Paul Farmer’s belief that access 

to health care is a basic human right. He 

argues that by delivering quality care to the 

poor, severe health issues such as AIDS or 

MDR-TB can be tackled effectively. Through 

a community-based approach, along with 

training doctors and health workers in 

impoverished areas, Partners In Health— 

the organization Dr. Farmer founded in 

1987—has saved thousands of lives. In 

Peru it has achieved cure rates for MDR-TB 

which are higher than at many hospitals 

in the United States. This program features 

an analysis of PIH’s potential in Malawi, 

presented by finance expert Alvin Hall. Part 




$129.95 QHF43444 • DVD / VOD 


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Health • Human Rights 

New! 

Global Health and Human Development 

Is good health simply the absence of physical 

disease, or should emotional well-being also 

be of concern to global aid organizations? 

This program profiles the work of Australia’s 

Nossal Institute for Global Health to explain 

how psychological and social factors impact 

life expectancy and infant mortality. The 

video covers basic health needs, food scarcity, 

distribution of wealth, the UN’s Human 

Development Index and its 2015 Millennium 

Development Goals, and some sustainable 

practices that have empowered a community 

in Ghana to maintain its health without 

relying on foreign aid. A viewable/printable 

worksheet is available online. Portions with 



$129.95 QHF47481 • DVD / VOD 

New! 

Health Risks to the World’s Young 

The UN’s Convention on the Rights of the 

Child was meant to establish the fundamental 

right of those 18 and below to a life free from 

exploitation and preventable adverse conditions. 

However, there are still many factors 

that pose risks to the health of the young, in 

both the developing world and industrialized 

countries. This program examines the most 

prominent of these risks: early pregnancy and 

childbirth, HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, mental 

illness, smoking, alcohol abuse, and violence. 

With insights from experts in each field, the 

video takes a non-alarmist approach that 

focuses on the facts. A viewable/printable 

worksheet is available online. (22 minutes) 

© 2011 Preview Clip Online C ‡ 

$129.95 QHF47483 • DVD / VOD 

Riders for Health: Zambia 

Lack of transport is one of the greatest 

barriers to delivering health care in remote 

parts of Africa, causing NGOs and local 

governments to abandon projects prematurely. 

Former motorbike racer Andrea 

Coleman and her husband Barry founded 

Riders for Health in 1996 to provide practical 

solutions to the continent’s transportation 

problems. They created a maintenance system 

for bicycles, cars, ambulances, and trucks that 

has virtually eliminated breakdowns. Now 

they face a new challenge from host Alvin 

Hall: to set up a medical transport network in 

rural Zambia in just six months. This program 

depicts their efforts to clear the logistical, 

legal, political, and business hurdles. Part 




$129.95 QHF43441 • DVD / VOD 

Birth of a Surgeon: 

Empowering Midwives in Mozambique 

Suffering from an acute shortage of doctors, 

Mozambique launched a bold grassroots 

initiative to combat its high maternal death 

rate: the training of midwives in surgical 

delivery-related techniques. In this program, 

Wide Angle reports from the region with 

an inspiring profile of a female midwife-intraining 

and tracks her progress as she learns 

to counter life-threatening complications 

of labor—such as eclampsia, acute bleeding, 

and ruptures of the uterus—and performs a 

C-section. Filmed in the operating room and 

during night shifts in the delivery ward, Birth 

of a Surgeon illustrates the much greater 

contribution to maternal and neonatal care 

that a surgically trained midwife can make 

in Mozambique. In addition, WHO Director- 

General Margaret Chan speaks with Aaron 

Brown about her pledge to give particular 

attention to the health of women and to 

health care in Africa. Viewer discretion is 

advised. Original broadcast title: Birth of 

a Surgeon. (57 minutes) © 2008 


The.Carl.Spielvogel.Award,.2009. 

$169.95 QHF39929 • DVD / VOD 

The Right to Femininity: 

ON Fighting Female 

DEMAND Circumcision BEST in 

FAVORITE Africa SELLER 

Today 

The custom of female circumcision 

faces growing opposition in Africa. This 

program presents multiple perspectives on the 

issue, interviewing health care personnel, 

professional circumcisers, women who have 

undergone the ritual, and men who are against 

it. Examining medical and emotional problems 

that follow genital mutilation, the video also 

features signs of positive change, including a 

Nigerian drama troupe that stages anti-circumcision 

productions and groups like UNICEF, 

CARE Austria, and the Girls’ Power Initiative 

that campaign in areas where the ritual’s 

effects are most profound. Includes graphic 

footage of births and circumcisions. 


“Highly.recommended.”—Nursing Ethics 

$149.95 QHF34539 • DVD / VOD 



CAMFED: Zambia 

Millions of girls across Africa cannot obtain 

a decent education. Founded in 1993, the 

international nonprofit organization known 

as CAMFED aims to change that. Alvin Hall, 

who transcended poverty through educational 

scholarships, wants to help. This program 

follows his interaction with the group in 

Zambia and its response to his influence. 

Part of the series Alvin’s Guide to Good 

Business: Case Studies in Social 

Entrepreneurship. (22 minutes) © 2010 


$129.95 QHF43442 • DVD / VOD 

ON 

DEMAND 

FAVORITE 

Tribal Wives: 

Challenging BEST Western 

Views of Polygamy and 

SELLER 

Female Circumcision 

Single and in her early thirties, 

educator Dionne Braham has become disenchanted 

with the romantic ideal of the perfect 

mate—actually, with the idea of finding any 

mate in her familiar London milieu. But she 

experiences an even greater paradigm shift 

when she travels to Tanzania to live with and 

learn from a Maasai family for a month. This 

program documents her transformative journey 

and the challenges it entails. Tasked with 

everything from milking cows to plastering 

huts with dung, Dionne grapples with troubling 

subjects like polygamy, female circumcision, 

and the virtual powerlessness of women in 

Maasai society—all while struggling to refrain 

from imposing Western views and morals. A 

Diverse Bristol Production in Association with 

Goldhawk Media. Portions in other languages 

with English subtitles. (59 minutes) © 2010 


$169.95 QHF43354 • DVD / VOD 

Bill Moyers Journal: 

Pray the Devil Back to Hell 

Leymah Gbowee was born and raised in 

Liberia. She inspired and united her countrywomen 

to march with her against a dictator 

and restore the rule of law to their country. 

And her riveting story has been captured in 

an award-winning documentary, Pray the 

Devil Back to Hell. In this edition of the 

Journal, guest host Lynn Sherr, Liberia correspondent 

for Worldfocus, interviews activist 

Leymah Gbowee and the filmmaker, Abigail 

Disney, who recorded her incredibly effective 

campaign of nonviolence. Broadcast date: 

June 19, 2009. (56 minutes) © 2009 C 

$149.95 QHF40613 • DVD 


Human Rights 

Class of 2006: 

Morocco’s Female Religious Leaders 

This Wide Angle program goes on location 

in Morocco as history is made. In May 2006, 

an imam academy in the city of Rabat holds 

a graduation ceremony. But the class of 2006 

is no ordinary group of students. Side by side 

with the male graduates are 50 women 

pioneers, among the first contemporary group 

of women to be officially trained as religious 

leaders in the Arab world. Empowered to do 

everything that male imams do—except lead 

Friday prayer in a mosque—the women will 

fan out across Morocco to work as spiritual 

guides in mosques, schools, hospitals, and 

prisons, even hosting their own television and 

radio talk shows. In addition, anchor Daljit 

Dhaliwal discusses U.S. foreign policy in the 

Arab world with Ambassador Dennis Ross, 

former U.S. envoy to the Middle East peace 

process. (57 minutes) © 2006 


IDA.Distinguished.Documentary.Award.. 

nominee,.2007 

$149.95 QHF36343 • DVD / VOD 

It’s Time: African Women Join Hands 

Against Domestic Violence 

Once accepted as a cultural norm in Africa, 

domestic violence is increasingly recognized 

for what it is—an assault on the rights and 

well-being of women, as well as a major 

impediment to progress on the continent. 

This program examines the issue in Ethiopia 

and South Africa, focusing on efforts to reduce 

and hopefully eliminate violence against 

women. Viewers meet survivors of domestic 

abuse and sex crimes who are regaining 

control over their lives in safe houses and 

educational centers. Also featured are 

Nomfundo Mogapi of South Africa’s Centre 

for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation; 

Annalize Teichmann, a South African prosecutor; 

Senait Berhanu of Ethiopia’s Addis 

Ababa Women’s Association; and other activists. 




$169.95 QHF41401 • DVD / VOD 


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Human Rights 

Wangari Maathai: For Our Land 

Through her Green Belt Movement, Wangari 

Maathai—environmental activist, social justice 

advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient— 

has planted 30 million trees in Kenya while 

protecting existing forests endangered by 

development. A veritable force of nature 

herself, Maathai communicates her infectious 

fervor as she advocates environmental action 

and government reform in this documentary. 

The program also captures a sense of modern 

Kenya’s history: a country co-opted by British 

colonialism, energized by independence, and 

mired in a repressive era of political corruption. 

(49 minutes) © 2009 


$169.95 QHF41965 • DVD / VOD 

Tribal Wives: 

Western Taboos versus Tribal Traditions 

Londoner Anna de Vere, age 52, has come to 

live with Ethiopia’s Hamar tribe. This program 

records her monthlong adventure and its 

impact on her. She learns that crying is taboo 

and the main reason to have children is for 

security in old age. She also observes the zeal 

with which teenage Hamar girls endure whippings 

from their male counterparts as a rite 

of passage. A Diverse Bristol Production in 

Association with Goldhawk Media. Portions 



$169.95 QHF43373 • DVD / VOD 

Umoja, the Village Where 

ON Men Are Forbidden 

DEMAND 

BEST 

To escape spousal abuse, 

FAVORITE 

SELLER 

forced marriage, genital mutilation, 

and the spread of HIV/ 

AIDS—and to defend themselves against rape 

by local British soldiers—a group of abandoned 

Kenyan women founded Umoja, a 

village off-limits to men. Filmed on location, 

this program gives a voice to villagers who 

communicate their determination to establish 

gender equality in the region. Portions with 



$169.95 QHF41366 • DVD / VOD 

Ladies First: 

Rwandan Women Help Heal Their Nation 

After genocide ripped their nation apart in 

the 1990s, the women of Rwanda have led 

the healing process and have helped usher in 

a much-needed era of stability. By depicting 

the multifaceted efforts of women activists 

to build a sustainable peace between the 

majority Hutus and minority Tutsis, this Wide 

Angle documentary explores the challenges 

facing Rwanda. The film features an in-depth 

examination of the remarkable role Rwandan 

women play in politics and the business 

sector and shows how one portion of a citizenry, 

no matter how under-recognized and 

underappreciated, can help guide a nation 

and provide a courageous example to the 

wider world. Ambassador Swanee Hunt, 

director of the Women and Public Policy 

Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of 

Government, discusses Rwanda’s women 

with Mishal Husain. (57 minutes) © 2004 


26th.Annual.News.and.Documentary.Emmy. 

Award,.Outstanding.Continuing.Coverage.of.. 

a.News.Story,.Long.Form 

CINE.Golden.Eagle.Award 

$149.95 QHF36141 • DVD / VOD 

ON 

DEMAND 

FAVORITE 

Africa: Who Is to Blame? 

Corporate greed and vestigial 

BEST 

colonialism are Africa’s worst 

SELLER 

enemies—or is homegrown 

leadership responsible for the 

continent’s troubles? This program explores 

that dichotomous question from the vantage 

point of former Ghanaian president Jerry 

Rawlings and Kenyan law student June 

Arunga, who undertake a voyage of discovery 

through Ghana, Tanzania, and Rwanda. 

Visiting a struggling fishing village, a tribal 

hunting ground, an AIDS treatment center, 

an African-owned gold mine, and an eerily 

preserved site of genocidal slaughter, the 

program eloquently documents Rawlings’ and 

Arunga’s interaction with the socioeconomic 

dilemmas and everyday realities of African life. 

A BBCW Production. (60 minutes) © 2005 


$149.95 QHF35896 • DVD / VOD 



ND 

ITE 

BEST 

SELLER 

What Are We Doing Here? 

Why Western Aid Hasn’t 

Helped Africa 

Challenging viewers to rethink 

traditional Western methods 

of aiding Africa, this film follows four young 

Americans as they experience firsthand the 

scope and intractability of the continent’s 

suffering. From Cairo to Cape Town, viewers 

are taken across war-torn, famine-ridden, and 

disease-ravaged countries. Discussions focus 

on HIV/AIDS, armed conflict, child sponsorship, 

U.S. farm policies, and the role of 

NGOs. A viewable/printable instructor’s 

guide is available online. (95 minutes) 

© 2008 Preview Clip Online C ‡ 

“Remarkable.and.touching,.this.documentary. 

is.very.poignant.in.its.account.of.the.poverty. 

issue.in.Africa.”—Cinema ATL 

$179.95 QHF40080 • DVD / VOD 

Words and Actions: 

Contexts and Consequences of 

Propaganda—from the United States 

Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Drawing upon a hypothetical situation 

involving mounting tensions between two 

fictional countries, this seminar, moderated 

by NYU professor Arthur Miller and filmed 

on location at the United States Holocaust 

Memorial Museum, explores the role of 

propaganda in situations where genocide 

is threatened and examines how the use of 

propaganda during the Holocaust era informs 

public reaction to its dissemination today. 


$169.95 QHF41967 • DVD / VOD 

Crisis in Darfur 

Precious time has been spent on protracted 

debate over the term “genocide.” Meanwhile, 

regardless of what politicians and activists 

choose to call it, a colossal tragedy has torn 

Darfur apart. In March of 2006, NBC’s Ann 

Curry traveled to the border between Chad 

and Sudan to cover the conflict that has 

claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Curry 

tells the stories of people caught up in the 

violence: a mother, an orphan, an aid worker, 

and others who have been largely forgotten 

as Arab-on-Christian and sometimes Arab-on- 

Arab killing continues. Curry also talks to New 

York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof about 

Darfur’s future and what can be done to 

shape it. (30 minutes) © 2006 


$149.95 QHF39093 • DVD / VOD 


Human Rights 

Heart of Darfur: Fighting an International 

Humanitarian Crisis 

With the Darfur Peace Agreement in shambles, 

this Wide Angle report portrays the 

desperation of daily life five years into the 

Darfur conflict, from the sprawling Abu 

Shouk refugee camp to volatile rebel-held 

areas of Sudan seldom reached by Western 

reporters. General Martin Luther Agwai, 

commander of the combined United Nations/ 

African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur, 

is featured as the cameras follow him into a 

hostile region on a mission to persuade reluctant 

rebel leaders to come to the negotiating 

table. An interview between Aaron Brown 

and Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times 

columnist Nicholas Kristof concludes the 

program. Viewer discretion is advised. 

Original broadcast title: Heart of Darfur. 


$169.95 QHF39927 • DVD / VOD 

On Our Watch 

After the atrocities of Rwanda and Srebrenica, 

the international community invoked its antigenocide 

vow of “never again!”—but then 

Darfur happened, and the slogan proved 

impotent. This episode of Frontline investigates 

the near-global passivity that allowed 

genocide to occur in Sudan. Documenting 

the origins and escalation of the crisis, the 

program features commentary from several 

perspectives—those of Mukesh Kapila, UN 

humanitarian coordinator for Sudan; Sir Kieran 

Prendergast, UN undersecretary-general for 

political affairs; Abdelmahmood Abdelhaleem, 

Sudan’s ambassador to the UN; and James 

Traub, author of The Best Intentions: Kofi 

Annan and the UN in the Era of American 

World Power. Distributed by PBS Distribution. 


$169.95 QHF40898 • VOD 


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ITE 

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Global Issues 

The FuTure oF Food 

BEST 

SELLER 

Traveling through the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Africa, and India, this series 

explores the complex global web that brings food from farm to table. It also 

studies the very real possibility of a worldwide food crisis and the political and 

economic measures the global community needs to take in order to avert 

such a catastrophe. A Blakeway Television Production for the BBC. 

(52 minutes each) © 2009 Preview Clip Online C ‡ 

A Looming Crisis 

According to Tim Lang, professor of food 

policy at London’s City University, future wars 

may be fought specifically over agricultural 

resources. Given the present volatility of food 

prices and the riots they provoked in 2008, his 

theory seems to be on the mark. This program 

assesses the potential for a global food crisis 

as it guides viewers through issues involving 

climate change, oil consumption, biofuel 

development, fish stock depletion, and other 

topics. A Rift Valley herder discusses drought 

in Africa; a Cuban scholar details the impact of 

the Soviet collapse on food transportation in 

his country; an Indian farmer reports being 

pressured into planting jatropha instead of 

food crops; and Senegalese fishermen lament 

the intrusion of Western corporate interests. 

$169.95 QHF41991 • DVD / VOD 




Bill Moyers Journal: 

ON Global Hunger 

DEMAND 

BEST 

The head of the UN’s world 

FAVORITE food SELLER program says “a perfect 

storm” is hitting hungry people 

around the globe. What are the causes, and 

what is being done to help the poorest of 

the poor? This edition of the Journal begins 

with a report on the situation in the war-torn 

Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an 

estimated 45,000 people die every month of 

hunger and disease. Then, Bill Moyers interviews 

David Beckmann, president of Bread 

for the World, an organization campaigning to 

strengthen U.S. political commitment to end 

global hunger and poverty. Broadcast date: 

April 4, 2008. (58 minutes) © 2008 


$99.95 QHF39474 • DVD / VOD 

Sustainability and Security 

For decades, local food producers in the West 

have faced a shrinking market share. But if 

well-intentioned Americans and Europeans 

stop eating vegetables from Africa, will 

Africans have more to eat? Or will we simply 

deprive African farmers of a living? This 

program delves into that issue and other 

food-related problems, some of which have 

solutions while others urgently await answers. 

Viewers are shown how tenuous food security 

in Kenya doesn’t stop the country from 

exporting most of its produce to the West 

while potentially leasing large portions of 

arable land to Qatar. The film also profiles 

small U.K. growers, offers carbon footprint 

comparisons between livestock producers in 

New Zealand and Great Britain, and features 

commentary from Earth Policy Institute president 

Lester Brown and other experts. 

$169.95 QHF41992 • DVD / VOD 

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Mali: 

ON Message from the River 

DEMAND 

BEST 

As climate change lays waste 

FAVORITE to the SELLER 

Niger River, landlocked 

Mali may find itself without 

water. Incorporating discussions of poverty, 

population growth, and other issues, this 

film examines the impact of desertification 

on two of the nation’s indigenous peoples— 

the fishing-dependent Bozo and the Tuareg, a 

pastoral culture threatened by the depletion of 

desert wells. A part of the series Fighting the 

Tide 3: Developing Nations and Globalization. 




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who came to dominate so 

much of the planet, rather 

than the Chinese or the Incas? And why 

are the tropics the capital of global poverty? 

Based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer 

Prize–winning book, this classic three-part 

series follows humankind’s bumpy journey 

from the Ice Age to the information age to 

reveal the root cause of global inequality: 

geography. (54–55 minutes each) © 2004 


Out of Eden 

In Papua New Guinea, a local man asked 

Jared Diamond a question that penetrates 

to the very heart of the issue of global 

inequality: “Why is it that you white people 

developed so much cargo [material goods], 

but we black people had little cargo of our 

own?” In this program, Diamond traces the 

trail of history and proposes that a society’s 

potential for advanced development lies not 

in race or creed or even experience, but in 

access to domesticated animals and cultivated 

plants—a necessary precondition that failed 

to arise in Papua New Guinea but appeared 

in Europe in abundance. 

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Global Issues 

The Dark Side of Chocolate: 

Child Trafficking and Illegal 

Child Labor in the 

Cocoa Industry 

Have chocolate manufacturers 

turned a blind eye to child trafficking and 

de facto slavery on African cocoa farms? 

This program investigates, following a trail 

of misery that begins at a confectionary trade 

show in Germany, continues on through 

the villages of southern Mali and the cocoa 

plantations in neighboring Cote d’Ivoire, 

and finishes up in Switzerland at one of 

the world’s largest confectionary companies. 


subtitles. (47 minutes)© 2010 


$169.95 QHF42125 • DVD / VOD 

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Conquest 

In 1532, 168 Spanish conquistadors arrived 

in Peru. They were exhausted, outnumbered, 

and terrified, and ahead of them were camped 

80,000 Incan troops. And yet within just 24 

hours, more than 7,000 Inca warriors were 

slaughtered, the Incan emperor languished in 

chains, and the victorious Europeans began 

what would become a brutal reign that would 

leave its marks throughout the Americas. This 

program examines the colossal impact of 

advanced Old World weaponry and deadly 

diseases on the history of the New World. 

$169.95 QHF40761 • DVD / VOD 

Into the Tropics 

Unlike the primarily east-to-west conquest 

of the Americas, European incursions into 

sub-Saharan Africa proceeded south to 

north—an approach, climatically speaking, 

that did not favor the invaders. Cattle and 

crops failed to thrive, and indigenous diseases 

decimated the newcomers, yet still that vast 

region was subdued. How? This program tells 

a story of colonization and exploitation that 

shows how Europeans imposed their civilization 

on the tropics, to the lasting detriment 

of Africans. Also, the video considers the role 

the forces of technology and environment 

play in the world today. 

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This timely four-part series uses 

compelling documentary footage 

from around the world to 

zero in on the effects and implications 

of widespread religious 

fundamentalism, a globalized economy, the 

ongoing fight for women’s rights, and the 

worldwide war on terrorism—issues that, 

in one way or another, impact the lives of 

everyone. Viewable/printable discussion 

questions are available online. A Films for 

the Humanities & Sciences Production. 

(26–29 minutes each) © 2010 


Fundamentalist Fervor 

Religious fundamentalism underpins some of 

the world’s most intractable political problems 

as members of fundamentalist groups seek 

to influence both domestic and international 

policy. After identifying general hallmarks of 

fundamentalist belief, this program places 

fundamentalist movements within the Christian, 

Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu religions into their 

cultural and historical contexts. Movements that 

are examined include the dispensationalist organization 

Christians United for Israel, the Jewish 

haredim, the Jewish settler group Gush Emunim, 

Hamas, and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a 

key component of the Hindu “Saffron Brigade.” 

Some content may be objectionable. 

$99.95 QHF39349 • DVD / VOD 

Globalization at a Crossroads 

To some, the term “globalization” means ruthless 

exploitation by corporations; to others, it means 

bringing economic development to all the 

peoples of the world. This program explains key 

principles at the core of global economics and 

takes a historical look at their effects, focusing 

on market liberalization and the failed “East 

Asian miracle”; privatization of basic resources 

in Bolivia and the severe backlash against it; 

Russia’s rapid transition to capitalism and the 

oligarchism and kleptocracy that came to characterize 

it; and China’s incremental implementation 

of capitalism under communism. The video 

also takes stock of the seismic shift in the 

U.S. economy and its probable effect on 

the rest of the world. 

$99.95 QHF39350 • DVD / VOD 

Women’s Rights 

Despite the progress of the international women’s 

movement in exposing and correcting human 

rights abuses against females, in many countries 

women are still fighting to attain the most basic 

of civil liberties. This program contextualizes that 

struggle by comparing women’s rights in the U.S. 

with the status of women in China, Afghanistan, 

and Kenya. Hopeful signs such as rising levels 

of education for girls, female representation 

in government, and business opportunities 

for women are contrasted with the continuing 

practice of age-old antithetical abuses that 

have yet to be eliminated—nonconsensual 

marriage and severe domestic violence, to 

name two—and the demoralizing effect of 

seeing hard-won rights overturned. Some 

content may be objectionable. 

$99.95 QHF39351 • DVD / VOD 

Targeting Terror 

The war on terror requires greater cooperation 

among countries and a deeper understanding 

of terrorism’s causes and manifestations. This 

program spotlights five nations caught in the 

crosshairs to examine regional history, terrorrelated 

issues, and counterterrorism actions: 

the U.S., post-9/11, where captured international 

terrorists have been handled by military rather 

than civilian courts; the U.K., where fighting the 

IRA has ultimately conferred little advantage 

to the country in its battle against the Islamic 

extremists in its midst; Germany and Japan, 

whose counterterrorism efforts are constitutionally 

constrained by their history as aggressors in World 

War II; and Colombia, a land of narcoterrorism 

where extradition to America has been the 

government’s key antiterror weapon. Some 

content may be objectionable. 

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Opposing religious beliefs, racial 

and cultural intolerance, competition 

for natural resources, 

regional separatist movements, 

boundary disputes, clashes of 

special interests—all can be causes of conflict. 

This three-part series is designed to promote 

conflict awareness as a step toward improving 

quality of life within the community and around 

the world. Viewable/printable educational 

resources for each program are available 

online. (23–26 minutes each) © 2009 


Conflict on a Local Scale 

This program examines types of conflict that can 

occur at the local level, whether that locality is a 

single town, a region, or an entire country. After 

generally addressing armed conflict—different 

types of war, where they tend to proliferate, and 

kinds of weaponry used—Conflict on a Local 

Scale illustrates unarmed conflict through five 

examples. They include a clash of recreational 

interests in Britain’s Lake District; in Cambodia, 

the forced eviction of residents from confiscated 

oceanfront real estate; the potential expansion of 

England’s Heathrow Airport, which would necessitate 

the leveling of an entire town; tensions 

over inadequate water supplies in Ukraine, an 

instance of cooperative conflict resolution; and a 

municipal planning crisis involving a supermarket 

chain in the British town of Ottery St. Mary. 

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Global Conflict 

This program—a valuable tool for introducing the 

concepts of energy security, antiterrorism, and 

managing change at the global level—identifies 

the roots of violent conflict by way of specific 

examples. Through discussion of territorial 

conflicts (India/Pakistan, Israel/PLO), genocides 

(Rwanda, Srebrenica), terrorism (al Qaeda, IRA, 

ETA), and hybridized violence such as that found 

in Sudan, Global Conflict makes the case that an 

understanding of the sources of conflict, combined 

with the free exchange of information internationally, 

is the key to reducing strife at all levels. 

$129.95 QHF42003 • DVD / VOD 

Consequences of Conflict 

The consequences of armed conflict are complex 

and long-lasting. Using Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, 

and Afghanistan as points of departure, this 

program examines some of the economic, environmental, 

and social impacts of conflicts at the 

national and international levels. Topics include 

the pernicious phenomenon of child soldiers; 

the plight of refugees and internally displaced 

persons; thorny issues related to aid money and 

international assistance; the enduring scars of war 

on the landscape; the repercussions of ruined 

infrastructural elements such as power grids; and 

the unquantifiable losses—the what-could-havebeens—that 

inevitably occur when a nation’s 

money is diverted from education and health care. 

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The Nile River: Shared or Monopolized? 

Were it not for the elemental forces of the Nile River, the great architecture of ancient Egypt and 

Ethiopia might never have been built. But in today’s water-starved world, the river could lead both 

countries down a destructive path. This program examines lives and livelihoods that depend on the 

Nile, from the humble to the hugely ambitious. In Egypt, viewers encounter a struggling Cairo fishing 

family, a father-and-son farming team, and the nation’s irrigation minister, who discusses diverting part 

of the river into a new valley. Moving to the source of the Nile, the program depicts Ethiopia’s efforts 

to exploit the river—a series of hydroelectric projects that have created tension with Egypt. 


$169.95 QHF40148 • DVD / VOD 


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It is the most superficial 

of human differences— 

one that is literally only 

skin-deep. Nevertheless, as 

an ideological construct, race 

has sparked warfare, influenced politics, 

and shaped global economics for over 

five centuries. This three-part series 

dissects ideas of racial categorization 

and illuminates the history of racism 

as it unfolded in the Americas, Europe, 

Africa, and Asia. Showing how 

Eurocentric attitudes toward “the other” 

evolved in response to historical events, 

the series identifies and explores the 

profound impact of racism on science, 

culture, and collective memory. Each episode 

features the expertise of prominent 

historians, philosophers, and political 

observers from all over the world. A BBC 

Production. (53 minutes each) © 2007 


The Color of Money: Colonialism and 

the Slave Trade 

Reaching back across the centuries, this 

program sheds light on historical attitudes 

toward human differences. It assesses the 

significance of biblical narratives, including the 

“curse of Ham,” in the evolution of European 

concepts of race, and goes on to examine the 

basis of institutionalized racism—entwined 

with fervent capitalism—on which the transatlantic 

slave trade operated. The destruction 

of America’s indigenous civilizations and 

the dehumanization and exploitation of 

Africans are studied alongside the writings 

of Enlightenment philosophers and historians. 

Experts interviewed include Dr. Orlando 

Patterson of Harvard University, Dr. Barnor 

Hesse of Northwestern, and Professor James 

Walvin of the University of York. 

$169.95 QHF39663 • DVD / VOD 

A Fatal Impact: Eugenics, Social 

Darwinism, and Genocide 

During the 19th century, racial categorization 

took on a pseudoscientific stance. This 

program shows how the academic racism 

of the period helped to spread imperialist 

policies across the globe. Sifting through the 

“science” of eugenics and its link to social 

Darwinism, the film juxtaposes the racial 

hygiene theories of Robert Knox, Francis 

Galton, and Eugen Fischer with racial 

warfare in Tasmania, Victorian apathy in 

famine-wracked India, and—prefacing the 

Holocaust—horrific German colonization 

tactics in Namibia. Expert commentary comes 

from author David Dabydeen, Dr. Maria Misra 

of Oxford University, and Professor Catherine 

Hall of University College London. Contains 

graphic footage from concentration camps. 

$169.95 QHF39664 • DVD / VOD 

A Savage Legacy: 

Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today 

Did racist atrocities in the 19th and 20th 

centuries bring Western society to an ethical 

and ideological turning point? Or has racial 

oppression simply assumed other, more insidious 

forms? Pursuing answers, this program 

focuses on a pattern of segregation and 

genocide evident in King Leopold’s Belgian 

Congo rampages, South Africa’s apartheid 

rule, the terrorism of Jim Crow, and less 

obvious examples that persist in today’s 

global community. Several renowned 

authors, including Dr. Michael Eric Dyson 

of Georgetown University, Dr. Manning 

Marable of Columbia, and Dr. Kwame 

Anthony Appiah of Princeton, contribute 

expert commentary. Contains graphically 

violent imagery, footage, and reenactments. 

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Anatomy of Prejudice: Jane Elliott’s Seminar on Race 

Continuously refining an experiment she first conducted as a third-grade teacher in 

1968, Jane Elliott has pioneered a viable way to talk about racial prejudice—a way 

in which white people and people of color can explore the subject together. This 

program documents one of Elliott’s diversity training seminars, in which participants 

of varied racial and cultural backgrounds are separated into brown-eyed “superiors” and blue-eyed 

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