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1) Hope
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred asylum seekers were pitched into the sea when their people-smuggling boat from Indonesia sank on its way to Australia in 2001. Three hundred and fifty three people drowned. Only seven survivors made it to Australia. Amal Basry was one of those survivors, spending 22 hours in the ocean hanging on to a floating corpse, convinced that her son was dead and she was the only person left alive. Acclaimed documentary maker Steve Thomas records...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Buddhist nun, a fashion designer, a student and a playwright - their paths have never crossed yet they have common experiences in their struggle for identity, maintaining a connection to their cultural roots and reconciling two worlds: Vietnam and Australia. Just over 30 years ago, the first wave of non-European refugees - Vietnamese refugees - arrived in Australia. Their homeland had been torn apart by war and most were not looking for a new life,...
Publisher
Java Films Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Since 2011, an estimated 9 million Syrians -- half of them children -- have fled their homes due to the civil war. BORN IN SYRIA follows seven of these young, displaced children for a year witnessing everything through their eyes: their escape from Syria, their travel through the refugee camps in the Middle East, and their arrival into the promised land of Europe. With a soundtrack composed by Gabriel Yared, this feature-length documentary reveals...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
They arrive under age and alone, often traumatized and seeking asylum in a country completely alien to their own. In some provinces, specifically Ontario, these unaccompanied refugee minors have surprisingly no government system in place for their care after arriving. This documentary is a cinematic portrait of a year in the life of two such teenagers, Joyce and Sallieu. They seem like your typical teenagers, except that reserved Sallieu, 16, witnessed...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Weaving together interviews, official photos and documents, home movies, and archival film, this 90-minute film explores the complex social and political factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust. The story of Kurt Klein, who struggled with State Department red tape to free his parents from Europe, represents America's reaction to European Jews clamoring for rescue.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The second war against the Cylons is over and The Twelve Colonies have been destroyed. Now Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galatica and President Laura Roslin lead a ragtag fleet of refugees in the search for the fabled lost thirteenth colony, Earth. However, the dangers they face are many which compound an already difficult situation. In addition, the Cylons are hunting and attacking the fleet in space. The fleet also faces internal political conflict...
7) Otomo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A powerful film portraying institutionalized racism and police brutality, Otomo provides a convincing look at the everyday world of refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension and insecurity. In the summer of 1989, a Stuttgart newspaper reported the true story of a West African asylum seeker who physically assaulted an intolerant subway ticket-taker; fled, and became the target of a city-wide manhunt.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1943 a group of 1434 Polish refugees from the Soviet Russia, including a few hundred orphans, arrived in an abandoned ranch of Santa Rosa at the invitation of the Mexican President. Santa Rosa, near Leon, Mexico became their home for the few years to come. Earlier in December 1942, Prime Minister of Polish Government in Exile - General Władysław Sikorski arrived in Mexico to sign an agreement with President of Mexico Avila Camacho to set up such...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This documentary looks at the daily lives of a number of Afghan boys from the MV Tampa, now living in Mangere, Auckland. Shot in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Nauru and New Zealand, it traces the circumstances that led to their arrival in New Zealand and the reunion process they have been undergoing as their family members are resettled in New Zealand. --Kanopy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Years of war and ethnic conflict in the Sudan have created a generation of young men, known as the "Lost Boys," who have spent more years in refugee camps than in their home communities. This intimate film recounts the story of Benjamin and William Deng, brothers joined in the struggle of a seemingly never-ending exile, who are then separated when one is accepted into a United States resettlement program while the other remains in a Kenyan refugee...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2001
Language
Deutsch
Description
Swimming champion Harry Melchoir, having narrowly escaped being trapped in East Germany by the communist regime just after the completion of the Berlin Wall, joins with other freedom seekers to dig a tunnel by which he hopes to rescue his beloved sister.
12) Nanking
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
From August to October 1942, over 2250 Jews were deported from the internment camp of Rivesaltes to Auschwitz by way of Drancy. Among them were 110 children. Friedel Bohny-Reiter, a nurse with the Swiss Aid to Children, worked in this camp in the South of France.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film opens with the Australian government’s surprise announcement to build Tasmania’s first detention centre for 400 male asylum seekers at Pontville on the outskirts of Hobart. The local community erupts with hostility as the Department of Immigration host a public meeting. When a suggestion is made at the local knitting club, to make beanies for the asylum seekers, not everyone is in support. Knitter and elderly Christian woman Mary is strongly...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A true gem of 1970s American cinema verite filmmaking re-released! The Phans of Jersey City fills a gap in our cinematic history of Vietnam by documenting a South Vietnamese family recently relocated to the United States. Evoking the realist style and domestic drama of An American Family, the filmmakers lived with the Phans in order to achieve a remarkably intimate and detailed portrait of a family in transition as well as a country in transition....
16) All About Darfur
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Arabic
Description
A Sudanese immigrant to the UK returns to her homeland to understand why the seemingly racially harmonious country of her memories has become the scene of one of the worst instances of ethnic cleansing in recent history. Director Taghreed Elsanhouri says that she made this film "out of a passionate belief that I was uniquely qualified to tell a story of race because as a northerner in Sudan I know what it is to belong to a dominant group and as a...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film portrays aspects of an Afghan refugee's life - his living conditions in Peshawar and his longing to return to Herat. It is also about Amir's life as a professional musician and his relationships with other musicians in Peshawar.
18) Casablanca
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010, c2009]
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
19) Burma Diary
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This powerful and universallyacclaimed documentary explores the revolutionary movement fighting for democracy in Burma and depicts how young people, in particular, are affected by the human rights abuses of Burma's dictatorial military government.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After the second war against the Cylons, Commander Adama and President Roslin lead their group of refugees in search of Earth, the fabled thirteenth colony, while the Cylons continue to harrass the humans and internal political and personal conflict threatens to tear the fleet apart.
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