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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars | Music as Social Protest
June 20, 2007

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars relates the story of a band born in a West African refugee camp that chooses to fight back against their suffering and circumstances with music.

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The Boys of Baraka | The Influence of Environment on Education
September 9, 2006

The Boys of Baraka by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady tells the story of a group of middle school boys from inner city Baltimore who are selected to attend a boarding school in rural Kenya, East Africa. This lesson will help students reflect on and develop an understanding of the role of environment and individual motivation on academic achievement and future life plans, write about and discuss their personal experiences and more.

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No More Tears Sister: Anatomy of Hope and Betrayal | No More Tears Sister Lesson Plan
June 27, 2006

This lesson plan is designed to be used in conjunction with the film No More Tears Sister: An Anatomy of Hope and Betrayal. This 52-minute film recreates the struggles of human rights activist Dr. Rajani Thiranagama, who remained in her war-torn homeland of Sri Lanka to expose human rights violations and to provide whatever level of stability that she could.

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Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball | Learn About Japanese Culture Through Baseball
June 22, 2006

This classroom activity is designed to be used in conjunction with the film Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball. In Japan, baseball is not a pastime — it's a national obsession. And for many of the country's youth, the sport has become a rite of passage, epitomized by the national high school baseball tournament known simply as "Koshien." Four thousand teams enter, but only 49 are chosen to compete in the championship that grips the nation for two weeks every August. Like the film, this classroom activity looks at sport to reveal some interesting aspects of Japanese culture.

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The Fire Next Time | Free Speech or Hate Speech?
July 12, 2005

The Fire Next Time explores what happens when free speech dissolves into hate speech. The hour-long documentary looks at a two-year period in the life of a dangerously divided town and shows how heated rhetoric can devolve into hate, intimidation, and violence.

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Big Enough | Identity, Stereotypes and Diversity
June 28, 2005

Jump to: Objectives Streaming Video Clips Introductory Lesson Focus Exercise Assessment Extensions Resources Standards OVERVIEW Big Enough is an hour-long documentary that re-introduces viewers to five short statured individuals filmmaker Jan Krawitz met in her 1982 film Little People....

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The Flute Player | Lost Childhoods: Exploring the Consequences of Collective Violence (Part 2)
July 22, 2003

POV is thrilled to offer high school teachers a study guide on genocide and the children of war prepared by Facing History and Ourselves. For over 25 years, Facing History and Ourselves has been bringing the stories of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides to classrooms across the nation and around the world. This resource is divided into four lessons. The first uses a poem to introduce the main ideas developed in The Flute Player. Each of the remaining lessons highlights one of the three 2003 POV films that deal with genocide — Discovering Dominga, The Flute Player and Lost Boys of Sudan.

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Discovering Dominga | Lost Childhoods: Exploring the Consequences of Collective Violence (Part 1)
July 20, 2003

POV is thrilled to offer high school teachers a study guide on genocide and the children of war prepared by Facing History and Ourselves. For over 25 years, Facing History and Ourselves has been bringing the stories of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides to classrooms across the nation and around the world. This resource is divided into four lessons. The first uses a poem to introduce the main ideas developed in Discovering Dominga. Each of the remaining lessons highlights one of the three 2003 POV films that deal with genocide — Discovering Dominga, The Flute Player and Lost Boys of Sudan.

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In the Light of Reverence | A Unit on Religious Freedom
August 14, 2001

What are the clauses protecting religious practice in the First Amendment? What do they mean and how do they apply to land held sacred by several American Indian nations? How does the Supreme Court function to resolve conflicts arising under the First Amendment? Students will engage in research and interactive exercises to discover the answers to these questions.

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