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Programs in this series

  • (Mis)Treating Prisoners
    Prisoners receive inferior health care, because they, for the most part, come from oppressed communities and are thus seen as expendable.
  • A Shortness of Breath
    This film mixes documentary and narrative form to describe attitudes towards death and dying.
  • Breathless
    In 1992, New York City announced its plan to build seven garbage incinerators in low income neighborhoods to solve the city's waste problem.
  • Casa Primavera
    This documentary highlights the struggle of a successful community-based mental health program, Casa Primavera, for Latinos in Boston, Mass.
  • Dishwarmer
    Deep Dish TV Network promos and Public Service Announcements from around the country on health care.
  • Doing What It Takes
    This program focuses on alternative health care in various Black communities.
  • Glass Jaw and Unfinished Symphony
    Glass Jaw chronicles the filmmakers recovery from a pistol whipping and his ensuing brain surgery. The Unfinished Symphony is an experimental autobiographical documentary of a spinal fusion operation.
  • He Wo Un Poh
    Beverly Singer, a member of the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo, introduces us to the thoughts, experiences and successes of seven Native Americans on the road to recovery from alcohol abuse.
  • Healers
    This program explores varied approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease based upon simultaneously treating the mind, body and spirit.
  • High Tech Baby Making
    This program examines how different reproductive issues are dealt with in both industrialized and developing countries.
  • Lesbian Health Heroes
    This program features five lesbians sharing their experiences, memories and personal histories concerning lesbian health care in San Diego, Calif.
  • Lesbian Health News
    Personal vignettes on health care are featured in this short video from a lesbian perspective. Topics include Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, AIDS and breast cancer.
  • National Health Emergency: An Activist Survey
    A trenchant analysis of health care reform in the United States. Though made in 1994, it remains, sadly, accurate.
  • Toxic Wars
    This program documents environmental health movements around the country, showing how three different communities of color have fought for environmental justice.
  • Who's In Control
    Does the responsibility for equal reproductive care begin with us? Ethical, moral and legal issues raised by three leading women of color in Milwaukee's health care professions.
  • Women of Substance and Crack Clouds Over Hells Kitchen
    "Woman of Substance" looks beyond the statistics to reveal the human and social problems encountered by pregnant and parenting addicts seeking treatment.In "Crack Clouds Over Hell's Kitchen" by Educational Video Center students visit a park in New York City's infamous "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood.

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Blogs

  • Uprooted - A Grassroots Examination of the Politics of Migration
    Uprooted is multiplatform (web, tv, dvd) media tool for activists and organizers advocating for migrant rights. It highlights the social, political and economic policies that drive migration. It encourages and enables migrant communities and their allies to document and distribute their narratives.
  • Waves of Change
    Waves of Change: The Many Voices of the Global Village is a multimedia project designed to survey community media around the world by compiling and archiving the creative use of participatory communication globally.

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High Tech Baby Making

North and South

The program includes media pieces from women's groups in India, Brazil, Mexico, France and the United States. Additionally, interviews with sociologists, scientists, influential doctors, cultural critics, patients and women who have received various reproductive treatments are included.
Kai Lumumba Barrow
Cynthia Lopez
Kathy High
Harriet Hirshorn
Nathalie Magnan
Mont Marsa
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