The Immortalists is the story of two eccentric scientists struggling to create eternal youth with medical breakthroughs in a world they call “blind to the tragedy of old age.” Bill Andrews is a lab biologist and famed long-distance runner racing against the ultimate clock. Aubrey de Grey…
During his extraordinary life, Cruz Reynoso has been one of those rare individuals who are not only shaped by history, they make history. As a child of farm workers, Reynoso felt the sting of injustice, and later as a lawyer, and then the first Latino to sit on the California Supreme Court, he used his…
* This rental is intended for educational use and is allowed to be streamed in classrooms, workshops, and small community settings. If you would like to do a theatrical or large community screening, please e-mail info@mediaed.or secure those rights. Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the…
“This controversial, award-winning documentary feature film is at once a heartbreaking,intimate ethnographic portrait, and a true life detective story. revealing how U.S. scientists turned a Pacific island paradise into a radioactive hell, using Marshall Islanders as human guinea pigs for three…
To Light a Candle (2014) is a film about the triumph of knowledge over intolerance. The Baha’is are Iran’s largest religious minority. They are persecuted because of their faith, and barred from teaching and studying at university. But Baha'is do teach, and do study. The Baha’i…
Challenges preconceived ideas about family therapy. Raises many questions about our attitudes to family, and challenges preconceived ideas. We must beware of stereotypes, such as the white nuclear family, and be aware of other cultures. If we ask questions, then the answers are the client’s…
Alles menschliche Verhalten wird durch das Gelenkt, was uns das Gefühl der Wichtigkeit vermittelt. Wenn dies wirklich zutrifft, wie viel Einfluss könnten Sie dann gewinnen, wenn Sie wissen, was einen anderen Menschen sich wichtig fühlen lässt? Was ist der Grund für unser Verhalten? Woher…
The role of the client in negotiating appropriate programmes of help. The practitioner emphasises the role of the client in negotiating appropriate programmes of help, and outlining the goals to be achieved Although made some years ago the issues raised are still current This programme is now…
The Rouen Museum has just returned a severed Maori head, which has been in its collections for 150 years, to New Zealand’s Te Papa Institute. Behind this apparently insignificant piece of news lies a remarkable story. It has its origins in the worst periods of colonial conquest, and perfectly illustrates…
Jeder von uns möchte sein Leben bestmöglich gestalten. Schon seit Jahren wird immer wieder gelehrt, wie wichtig es ist, eine Vision und klare Gedanken zu haben. Diejenigen jedoch, die in allen Lebensbereichen wahren Erfolg erreicht haben, wissen, dass noch mehr dazu gehört, um es an die…
Four French museums: the Louvre, the Musée du quai Branly, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Muséum de Rouen are faced with pressing demands to return several works of art back to countries across the world; primarily Egypt, Mali and New Zealand. Cultural heritage is…
Suggests the causes of many of the clients' problems. The importance of recognising the causes of many of the clients' problems in the structure of society as well as in individual terms, and keeping these two ideas in balance This film is of historical interest and reflects the cultural…
