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Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (46 Min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Documentary designed to introduce audiences to the beauty, artistry, athleticism, competition and drama of dance as displayed by Native American tribes and nations. While having a powerful influence on US/Indian relationships, the dance demonstrates the ancient as well as the new struggles between intertribal cultures, progress, tradition, spirituality and commerce.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color, 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to 12-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A free spirit Di happily recounts her experiences to Vietnamese filmmaker Di¿m H̉ Lß, who planted herself within Di's family over the course of three years to document this unique coming of age. As Di grows older, her carefree childhood...
4) Sweetgrass
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages ; 18 cm)
Description
DVD-R. "An unsentimental elegy to the American West, "Sweetgrass" follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed"--Container.
5) Manakamana
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 pages ; 19 cm.)
Description
"Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, [Manakamana] is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity ... For centuries, devoted pilgrims hoping to reach the fabled temple needed to undertake an arduous multi-day journey. Today, because of a new cable car system, the entire trip takes just under 10 minutes...
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An English aristocrat is taken prisoner by a tribe of American Sioux Indians and given to the chief's aging mother as a servant. Gradually, he embraces the tribe's way of life and falls in love with the chief's sister. The constant threat of ambush by a rival tribe and rigors of survival now fill the days of this man called "Horse." He is eventually given a chance to prove his worthiness and be accepted into the tribe. But in order to be accepted...
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