Films with: Ziv, Ilan

Arab diaries

Five-part documentary series about contemporary life across the Arab world, with a focus on women's stories. "Birth: The story of a Palestinian woman caught up in a cycle of pregnancies because of social pressure to produce a male child, and two other stories of babies, one in need, the other absent, in Syria and Iraq. Youth: Four young women striving for independence and empowerment in Algeria, Egypt, and Lebanon. Work: Explores the hopes and aspirations of Arab men and women as embodied in the dreams and realities of flying. Love and marriage: The stories of people confronting obstacles to their personal relationships and happiness in Algeria and Lebanon. Home, or Maids in my family: A Moroccan woman confronts her liberal bourgeois family and their servants about the relationship between them."--Container.

DVD 9188

Jesus politics the Bible & the ballot /

"Filmed across 4000 miles and seventeen states, [the film] weaves an historically informed but thoroughly contemporary cinematic essay, a probing look at how deeply religious faith shapes 21st century American politics" -- Container

DVD 6318

Litigating disaster

"December 3, 1986, Bhopal, India. The worst and deadliest chemical disaster of all time. About midnight on that date, vast amounts of toxic gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory, killing thousands of people and poisoning hundreds of thousands of others ... This new film from Ilan Ziv takes viewers on a ... cinematic investigation; presenting the ... evidence assembled against Union Carbide including never before seen documents, exclusive interviews with former Union Carbide officers ..."--Container label.

DVD 2542