Current Affairs in Video features award-winning films and documentaries emphasizing detailed analysis and discussion of the critical issues of the day. This collection allows students and scholars to view global events and trends through an interdisciplinary, multi-regional lens with a focus on the following core topic areas: environmental policy; health policy; human rights; international justice, genocide, and terrorism; institutional corruption; migration and the global economy; poverty and philanthropy; regional tension and conflict.
Filmakers Library is a well-known and highly respected distributor of issues-based documentaries. Topical coverage is diverse: anthropology, race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
Select content partners include HBO, CBC Learning, BBC, the Dramatists Guild, Journeyman Pictures, and IFC Films/Sundance Selects; Oscilloscope Films, First Run Features, and Zeitgeist Films. Includes recent content such as Finding Vivian Maier;Through a Lens Darkly; Sundance award-winners such as Dark Days; films by top filmmakers like Spike Jonze and Michael Gondry; and more.
