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The Film Site: Documentary Films
This resource provides information about documentary films.
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B Ykids: Master Filmmakers Mentoring International Youth to Make Films
Website contains information, film trailers, interviews, and/or screening schedules about documentaries created by kids from around the world partnered with master filmmakers. Also includes related press and news as well as information...
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Pbs: Independent Lens: A Village Called Versailles
A Village Called Versailles is a film documenting the strength and determination of a small Louisiana Vietnamese American community. Devastated first by Hurricane Katrina, then facing massive rebuilding. Followed by another challenge -...
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Pbs: Independent Lens: Project Kashmir
PROJECT KASHMIR attempts 'to navigate the treacherous maze of occupation, insurgency, unrest, censorship, and religious animosity'. The beauty of Kashmir is captured as India and Pakistan continually fight over Kashmir making daily life...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Documentary: A Fragile Trust: Lesson Plan
This lesson explores the Jayson Blair story and other cases where journalists have breached the code of ethics in their efforts to get the story out. Learners will examine the journalism code of ethics and its importance. They will view...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Great Depression: Creating Narrative Through Photography
This video [4:15] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning provides a documentary photographer's perspective of the severe economic despair and difficult living conditions that characterized the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Learning Media Presents Pov Watch Club
PBS LearningMedia Presents POV Watch Club. Free to educators each month. Let's watch and learn together! Join the Watch Club: Since February 2021 PBS has teamed up with POV to bring a documentary from television's longest-running...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Up Heartbreak Hill: Factors in a Successful College Experience Lesson Plan
In this lesson from POV, students will watch four video clips that provide glimpses into the lives of two high school seniors who live in New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. They will then analyze a current issue that Native Americans...
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American Experience: Buffalo Bill
This 1-hour documentary presents a portrait of William Cody, also known as Buffalo Bill. A western frontier legend in the 1880s, his Wild West Show travelled the globe making the American West into the American story.
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Pbs: Jewels of Islamic Architecture
Photographs and filmed footage of five Islamic architectural masterpieces: Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Cairo, the Great Mosque of Damascus, the Alhambra in Granada, and the Mosque of Shaykh Lutfallah in...