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Showing 1 - 10 of 85 titles with a criteria of Subject is Southeast Asia
Agent Orange
A look at the long-term effects, on U.S. soldiers, the Vietnamese people, and the environment of Vietnam, of the spraying of Agent Orange on Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Icarus Films | 2007 | 66 minutes
Alias Ruby Blade
An action-packed documentary which chronicles the tumultuous birth of a new nation in East Timor through a never-before-seen perspective. Kirsty Sword, a young Australian activist, aspired to be a documentary filmmaker, but instead she became a revolutionary.
Collective Eye Films | 2013 | 78 minutes
Almayer's Folly
Narrative film adaptation by Chantal Akerman of Joseph Conrad's first novel, following a European man living in Southeast Asia and his half-indigenous daughter.
Icarus Films | 2011 | 127 minutes
The Amahs of Hong Kong
Filipino women exploited as maids in Hong Kong.
Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 11 minutes
Annah La Javanaise
An animated reimagining of the life of Annah, a 13-year-old Javanese girl brought to France in 1893 to serve as a maid and model to the famous painter Paul Gauguin.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 6 minutes
Blood and Gold
Blood and Gold: Inside Burma’s Hidden War explores the intensification of violence as a cease-fire collapses and a civil war flares up between Burma’s government military forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in the country’s Kachin State.
Face to Face Media | 2012 | 24 minutes
Blowpipes and Bulldozers
The story of the Penan, a tribe of rainforest nomads in Borneo, as seen by Bruno Manser.
Bullfrog Films | 1989 | 60 minutes
Bombies
The terrible aftermath of dropping cluster bombs during the secret air war in Laos and the international campaign to ban them.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 57 minutes
Brazil's Women Warriors
* New title added January 2023 *
If Not Us Then Who? Film 6 of 7
400,000 women harvest the nuts of the babassu palm, which is used to produce soap, oil, bread, charcoal,and cosmetics, providing them a modest living. When access to the trees was denied, a movement began.
Face to Face Media | 2014 | 8 minutes
Building a Longhouse as a Cultural Center
* New title added January 2023 *
If Not Us Then Who? Film 2 of 7
Kynan Tegar, a young Indigenous filmmaker, documents a cultural revival and the consruction of a traditional longhouse for the first time in 50 years.
Face to Face Media | 2021 | 12 minutes