Chasing Freedom.
After barely escaping the unspeakable horrors of her Taliban-controlled
homeland, Meena arrives in the U.S. only to have her freedoms
stripped again. Now she must convince her lawyer and herself that
she is worth fighting for. Inspired by a true story.
(DVD-1838 Feature) Check
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The Clay Bird.
Set against the backdrop of Pakistan during the turbulent 1960s,
a family is ripped apart by religious beliefs and civil war. A
young boy from Bangladesh is sent away by his Muslim father to
a Madrasah and struggles to adapt to a harsh monastic life. In
Bengali with English subtitles. (DVD-3027 Feature) Check
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Daughters of Afghanistan.
When the hated Taliban were ousted, Afghan women felt their daily
nightmare was over. They hoped to reclaim the future for their
daughters, but generations of neglect and second-class status
don't vanish with the current political winds. Journalist Sally
Armstrong exposes the ongoing struggles of women in modern Afghanistan
by following the lives of five courageous women from diverse backgrounds:
Dr. Sima Simar, a woman who ignored death threats and defied edicts
of the Taliban by providing healthcare and education to women;
Soghra, who lost everything to the Taliban, now struggling to
feed and clothe her five children; Hamida, a school principal
determined to provide education to her female students; Camellah,
an Afghan housewife living in a country whose laws make her a
virtual sex slave to her husband; and Lima, a young girl whose
childhood has been lost to war. (305.486971 D265 DVD) Check
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Himalaya.
Michael Palin takes on the abode of snow and begins a 2000-mile
journey across this mighty and majestic region of Asia. Encountering
extremes of wealth and poverty, altitude and freezing cold, he
once again brings his unique wit, charm and wisdom to each of
6 episodes. Along the way he encounters, among many others, the
Dalai Lama, the Bhutanese Royal Family and the once feared head
hunting tribe of the Konyak. While on his travels he passes through
Afghanistan, across India to the feared Death Zone near the base
of Mount Everest and then onto the Bhutanese capital before arriving
in the Bay of Bengal. (915.496 H57 DVD) Check
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In This World.
Two young Afghan refugees try to make their way to freedom in
London. In Persian and Pashtu with English subtitles.
(DVD-838 Feature) Check
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Kandahar: Journey Into the
Heart of Afghanistan.
An epic tale of hope and courage, inspired by the true story of
a woman's attempt to enter Afghanistan. Nafas, an Afghan-born
Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt
to reach her sister. Overcome with grief after being injured by
a landmine and despairing because of the Taliban's systemic oppression
of women, she has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time
of the next solar eclipse, only three days away. Clothed in the
traditional head-to-toe burka and posing as a subservient wife,
Nafas' odyssey takes her across a dramatic desert landscape, where
she encounters bandits, corpse-robbers, marooned exiles, overwhelmed
Red Cross workers, hordes of land-mine victims, and finally a
wedding procession that brings her within eyeshot of Kandahar.
In Farsi and English with English subtitles. (DVD-1036 Feature)
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Osama.
A young girl must pretend to be a boy in order to qualify for
work in Taliban-run Afghanistan. In Pashtu with English subtitles.
(DVD-857 Feature) Check
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Vertical Limit.
When mountain climbers are trapped by an avalanche on 28,250 foot-high
mountain K2 in Pakistan, a rescue team races against time to save
them. (DVD-124 Feature) Check
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