Provincetown International Film Festival 2005 Series

Lectures curated around the Provincetown International Film Festival 2005, which featured the following films, also broadcast on PBS:

- American Experience: The Taking of Patty Hearst
- The Weather Underground
- Independent Lens: Brother to Brother
- POV: Chisholm '72 - Unbought and Unbossed
- The Education of Shelby Knox

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Exception to the Rulers: Media in Democracy
Noam Chomsky
April 29, 2004
01:49:40
Amy and David Goodman are joined by Noam Chomsky to explore the risks that corporate media pose to a democratic society.Tackling subjects like corporate influence over government and the deceptions of political leaders, the Goodmans explore the risks that corporate media pose to a democratic society
Big Media's Threat to Democracy: What We Can Do About It
Earl Dax
March 21, 2005
01:51:30
Students Concerned About Mass Media (S.C.A.M.M.) host a panel discussion with media educators and activists who are working to create a more just and equitable media system at the local, national, and global levels.
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Abolitionism and Human Rights in the U.S.
Angela Davis
March 7, 2003
01:25:24
Political activist Angela Davis talks about abolitionism and human rights in the United States.
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Age of Revolution: The Black American
Gary Nash
November 8, 2004
01:26:40
Gary Nash discusses the black American.
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Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in America
Martha Burk
April 12, 2005
00:49:39
Martha Burk talks about the international firestorm of debate she sparked by suggesting that the nation's premier golf club open its doors to women. The Augusta National Golf Club's membership roster reads like the New York Stock Exchange.
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living (1900-1939)
Virginia Nicholson
March 11, 2004
01:02:53
Virginia Nicholson explores the way of life of the Bohemian artists of the early 20th century - the majority of them artists, poets, writers, and composers - who were brave enough to jettison Victorian conformity and to invent a whole new way of living.
Meet the Poet: Robin Becker
Robin Becker
February 13, 2003
01:01:54
Poet Robin Becker discusses her writing.
Two Writers Read: Helen E. Lee and Randall Kenan
Helen E. Lee
February 19, 2003
01:28:20
Helen E. Lee and Randall Kenan read from their books.
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Bayard Rustin: Live Speech on the Freedom Budget
Bayard Rustin
December 11, 1967
00:49:17
Bayard Rustin, a leader of the civil rights movement, proposes the Freedom Budget.
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Social Inclusion of Disenfranchised People
Benedita da Silva
April 30, 2004
01:25:23
Benedita da Silva talks about how she has fought to prioritize racial, class, and gender issues within both Brazil's political institutions and the Workers' Party, and how she has opposed discrimination against women and blacks.