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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Turn to northwest Africa, where the fierce warrior woman, Kahina, fought to defend the mountain tribes of Maghreb from Muslim incursion. Understand why the struggle between the north African tribes and Islam was not about religion, but rather about preserving independence. Also discover the crucial role of olive trees in this conflict.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Take a closer look at everyday life and politics in the Middle Ages with the chronicle kept by the Carolingian woman, Dhouda, for her young son. Through her writing, we can gain rare insight into this time of constant warfare and shifting alliances from the perspective of a highly educated woman who stands in for the many women whose voices are lost to time.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Writers and artists have long portrayed the death of John the Baptist as the whim of the young femme fatale Salome, but the truth is much more complicated. Discover the story of Salome’s mother, the ambitious Herodias, an influential Judean woman whose hunger for power and recognition ultimately left her exiled and forgotten.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Heian period, Japan was breaking away from Chinese influence and developing its own courtly culture, with women emerging as a powerful force in art and literature. Here you will meet Murasaki Shikibu, the woman who wrote the world’s first novel: The Tale of Genji.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Discover the story of Heloise, a woman who embodied the passion for ideas that would define the time known as the “12th-century renaissance.” Her thirst for knowledge, and her scandalous love affair with the teacher Peter Abelard, resulted in years of correspondence that captures spiritual and intellectual ideas that foreshadow modern philosophy.
6) Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400: Episode 17,Wu Zetian Rules China
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In all of Chinese history, only one woman ever ruled on her own: Wu Zetian. Trace her rise to power, from her lowly origins as the daughter of a merchant to the head of her own dynasty. Along the way, gain insight into the cutthroat nature of the Chinese imperial court and the ways Wu could be both brilliant and cruel throughout her reign.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore the life of a woman some modern historians argue is one of the most influential women in history. From a marriage alliance with the Mongols at the tender age of 13, Sorkhakhtani would grow to have a prodigious influence on this important Asian empire, exercising a degree of power unavailable to many other women of the time.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
See how a woman, Lubna, rose to prominence as the most renowned mathematician of her day in the glittering intellectual capital Cordoba and get a better understanding of women’s education in the Muslim world and beyond. You’ll see that, while Lubna was extraordinary, she was not necessarily unique to her time and place.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Though we don’t know her birth name, the woman who would come to be called Abutsu used her talents as a writer to make her fortune in a time of immense change for Japan. Under the new regime of Confucianism, women saw their freedoms curtailed and their opportunities limited, but Abutsu found a path to influence through the “Way of Poetry.”
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections Stella McCartney celebrates freedom in her Fall 2015 collection, exploring classic suiting, and teasing sensuality. Layered in blanket shawls and bold prints, Kenzo's woman is both a warrior and a woodland nymph. Co-designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon explain, "We're celebrating this collective of different and strong women, and the relationship they have with nature and the forest." Plus Sarah Burton used...
11) Nancy Wake
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from Russell Braddon's book by ROGER SIMPSON (Bikie Wars: Brothers In Arms, Hallifax f.p), NANCY WAKE tells the true story of Australia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo dubbed the 'White Mouse' Featuring award winners NONI HAZLEHURST (City Homicide) and JOHN WATERS (Offspring), this miniseries event begins in 1939 when Nancy meets wealthy businessman, Henri Fiocca, while she is working on assignment as a journalist in Marseilles....
12) Henry VI, Part 1
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. As the nation mourns the death of King Henry V, news reaches England of military setbacks in France. After the release of their General, Lord Talbot, the English reclaim...
13) Avenged
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Traveling cross country, Zoe, a deaf mute woman, is brutally savaged and left for dead after trying to save a Native American youth from a gang of rednecks. When a Native shaman finds her clinging to life in a shallow grave he attempts to save her - but something goes horribly wrong. The awoken spirit of a bloodthirsty Apache warrior takes possession of Zoe's dead body. Now she walks amongst the living, hell-bent on getting revenge. One by one she...
14) Out run
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As leader of the world's only LGBT political party, Bemz Benedito dreams of being the first transgender woman in the Philippine Congress. But in a predominantly Catholic nation, rallying for LGBT representation in the halls of Congress is not an easy feat. Bemz and her eclectic team of queer political warriors must rethink traditional campaign strategies to amass support from unlikely places. Taking their equality campaign to small-town hair salons...
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The seven videos contained in this DVD were made in Tanzania between 2008 and 2010 by participants in the Maasai Migrants Field School, directed by Peter Biella of San Francisco State University's Program in Visual Anthropology. The primary purpose of the videos in the series is to educate urban and rural Maasai about the consequences of migration, especially its relationship to poverty and the spread of HIV. The films have been produced through a...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As recently as forty years ago, most sections of the Maasai were semi-nomadic and relatively independent of the nation-state. However, political, social and economic changes in East Africa have forced many herders to adopt a sedentary lifestyle. The chairman and the lions introduces Frank Kaipai Ikoyo, a charismatic Ilparakuyo Maasai who, at thirty-three, is the leader of a Tanzanian village called Lesoit. Ikoyo was elected to his post at the age...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A charming series of short documentaries that take you to the heart of Australian outback life. Biggest Banana: One of the most important days of year for Tweed Valley Banana growers is Murwillumbah’s King Banana competition. After the weigh in and judging the King Banana Proclamation is read out aloud and the winners including the Queen Banana are announced. A Ringers life: Boys as young as 15 and 16 leave home to become ringers out on the backblocks...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
The fable of an old African king and his wayward daughter is updated to present day Brussels to make provocative points about racism, tradition, class struggle, cultural identity and corruption. More than a decade ago Mweze Ngangura delighted the cinema world with one of the most accessible and entertaining African films ever made, La vie est belle, the rags to riches story of a Congolese musician played by soukous super star Papa Wemba. Now he returns...
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