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Contemporary Voices: Films for Global Education (Ages 15-17)

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This playlist is meant to help educators integrate documentary films about various global issues into their curriculum across several subject areas. Education for global citizenship encourages youth to develop empathy for others living across the planet and to realize we all share our environment. Films in This Playlist Include Tiger Spirit Earth to Mouth Grace, Milly, and Lucy… Child Soldiers Unarmed Verses The Coca-Cola Case Hi-Ho Mistahey Island Green Pipelines, Power and Democracy Avenue Zero From Arusha to Arusha The Apology The Wanted 18

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Contemporary Voices: Films for Global Education (Ages 15-17)

This playlist is meant to help educators integrate documentary films about various global issues into their curriculum across several subject areas. Education for global citizenship encourages youth to develop empathy for others living across the planet and to realize we all share our environment.

Films in This Playlist Include
Tiger Spirit
Earth to Mouth
Grace, Milly, and Lucy… Child Soldiers
Unarmed Verses
The Coca-Cola Case
Hi-Ho Mistahey
Island Green
Pipelines, Power and Democracy
Avenue Zero
From Arusha to Arusha
The Apology
The Wanted 18

Playlist

  • Tiger Spirit
    Tiger Spirit
    Min Sook Lee 2008 52 min

    Korea at the crossroads

  • Earth to Mouth
    Earth to Mouth
    Yung Chang 2002 41 min

    Filmed at the Wing Fong Farm in Ontario, this documentary follows the tilling, planting and harvesting of Asian vegetables destined for Chinese markets and restaurants. On 80 acres of land, Lau King-Fai, her son and a half-dozen migrant Mexican workers care for the plants. For Yeung Kwan, her son, the farm represents personal and financial independence. For his mother, it is an oasis of peace. For the Mexican workers, it provides jobs that help support their children back home.

  • Grace, Milly, Lucy... Child Soldiers
    Grace, Milly, Lucy... Child Soldiers
    Raymonde Provencher 2010 1 h 12 min

    This feature documentary exposes the little-known tragedy of girl soldiers in Uganda. How can they learn to live normal lives again after being abducted and trained to become killing machines? Clinging to their dreams, Grace, Milly and Lucy are trying to restore meaning to their lives and break the silence surrounding the fate of a sacrificed generation.

  • Unarmed Verses
    Unarmed Verses
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    Charles Officer 2016 1 h 25 min

    Singing their Own Songs

  • The Coca-Cola Case
    The Coca-Cola Case
    Germán Gutiérrez  &  Carmen Garcia 2009 1 h 25 min

    For decades, Colombia has ranked first among countries in the number of social leaders assassinated. From 2002 to 2009, more than 470 leaders were killed by paramilitary militias in the pay of companies ready to do anything to crush the unions. Among these unscrupulous corporate brands were bottling plants of Coca-Cola company products.

    These unpunished crimes spur U.S. activists Dan Kovalik, Terry Collingsworth and Ray Rogers into an ambitious crusade against the soft drink giant, accusing them of turning a blind eye to the misdeeds brought to their attention. By following the relentless efforts of this unshakeable trio, The Coca-Cola Case takes us on a fascinating legal road-movie, against a backdrop of denunciation campaigns claiming: Stop Killer Coke!

    After five years of struggle, will Coca-Cola yield in the end? And on the verge of a settlement, what will the victims choose—cash, or power and integrity?

  • Hi-Ho Mistahey!
    Hi-Ho Mistahey!
    Alanis Obomsawin 2013 1 h 39 min

    In this feature-length documentary, Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Shannen’s Dream, a national campaign to provide equitable access to education in safe and suitable schools for First Nations children. Strong participation in this initiative eventually brings Shannen's Dream all the way to the United Nations in Geneva.

  • Island Green
    Island Green
    Millefiore Clarkes 2013 25 min

    This short documentary takes a look at the changing face of PEI's agricultural industry. Once famous for its spuds and red mud, this tiny island province now has higher than average cancer and respiratory illness rates. Is there a link to industrialized farming? Rather than dwelling on PEI’s worrisome monocropping practices, Island Green dares to ask: What if PEI went entirely organic?

    The stirring words of PEI-born poet Tanya Davis are coupled with beautiful imagery and poignant stories from the island’s small but growing community of organic farmers, reminding us that we can rob the land only so much before it robs us of the nourishment we need for life. Island Green is ultimately a story of hope and healthy promise.

  • Pipelines, Power and Democracy
    Pipelines, Power and Democracy
    Olivier D. Asselin 2015 1 h 28 min

    Pipelines, Power and Democracy is a striking documentary that follows the mobilization of ordinary people to thwart the ambitions of oil companies and halt, even if only temporarily, the advance of pipelines across Quebec. In the process, the film offers a sharp reminder that power can be accessible to all.

  • From Arusha to Arusha
    From Arusha to Arusha
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    Christophe Gargot 2008 1 h 54 min

    From Arusha to Arusha focuses on the Rwandan tragedy in order to examine the functioning of the international justice system. It examines both the activities of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which is prosecuting those responsible for the genocide, as well as those of the gacaca courts, the people’s tribunals, which are working towards justice through reconciliation.

    By juxtaposing archival audiovisual footage of an international court enacting justice behind closed doors, with images and testimony gathered in the field, the film presents conflicting points of view and invites the Rwandan people to re-appropriate their own history.

    Christophe Gargot has his roots in the rich documentary tradition of such filmmakers as Raymond Depardon, people who are interested in focussing on the rituals of large institutions. This film examines the issue of universal moral values in action while at the same time questioning our relationship with the images we take in and our responsibilities as world citizens.

  • The Apology
    The Apology
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    Tiffany Hsiung 2016 1 h 44 min

    The Apology follows the personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Some 70 years after their imprisonment in so-called “comfort stations”, the three “grandmothers—Grandma Gil in South Korea, Grandma Cao in China, and Grandma Adela in the Philippines—face their twilight years in fading health. After decades of living in silence and shame about their past, they know that time is running out to give a first-hand account of the truth and ensure that this horrific chapter of history is not forgotten. Whether they are seeking a formal apology from the Japanese government or summoning the courage to finally share their secret with loved ones, their resolve moves them forward as they seize this last chance to set future generations on a course for reconciliation, healing, and justice.

  • The Wanted 18
    The Wanted 18
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    Amer Shomali  &  Paul Cowan 2014 1 h 15 min

    This feature film incorporates live action footage with animation to tell the curious story of 18 cows. Acquired by a Palestinian community in the late 1980s, the cows were a symbol of freedom and resistance, providing milk for the Palestinian residents of Beit Sahour so that they would not rely on Israeli producers. Soon the illegal cows, cherished by the Palestinians, were being sought by the Israeli army as a threat to security. With humour and passion, this film captures the spirit of the 1987 uprising through the personal experiences of those who lived it.

  • Avenue Zero
    Avenue Zero
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    Hélène Choquette 2009 52 min

    Human trafficking is a reality: Asian girls are enslaved in suburban massage parlors; domestic workers toil like slaves in suburban homes; girls in a Montreal subway station are lured into prostitution; Vancouver gangs recruit Honduran boys to sell drugs. Featuring candid interviews with victims, witnesses and perpetrators, Avenue Zero weaves a spellbinding portrait of a dark and sinister trade flourishing in the shadows of the law.