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Philosophers and Ideas

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The Philosophers and Ideas includes the following titles:

A Quest for Meaning - imageA Quest for Meaning

Two childhood friends take an impromptu road trip attempting to uncover the causes of our current global crisis and discover a way to bring about change.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 87 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults
A Sense of Wonder - imageA Sense of Wonder

Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.

Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 55 minutes | Grades 7-12, College, Adult
Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market - imageAdam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market

Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade. (Episode 1 of the Capitalism series)

Icarus Films | 2014 | 53 minutes
Althusser, an Intellectual Adventure - imageAlthusser, an Intellectual Adventure

Centered around the only filmed interview ever given by acclaimed French philosopher Louis Althusser, who murdered his wife, Helene, a few weeks after the interview was given.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 55 minutes
An Ecology of Mind - imageAn Ecology of Mind

A daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 60 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults
Antonio Negri - imageAntonio Negri

Traces the biography and current relevance of this controversial moral and political philosopher, his work, and his contemporary role as an intellectual leader of the anti-globalization movement.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Crossing the Stones - imageCrossing the Stones

An intimate biography of the Norwegian founder of deep ecology.

Bullfrog Films | 1993 | 47 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Derrida's Elsewhere - imageDerrida's Elsewhere

An exploration of the life and ideas of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century.

Icarus Films | 2000 | 68 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival - imageDonna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

A portrait of one of the most important living thinkers in the fields of feminism, science and technology.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 81 minutes
Edward Said: The Last Interview - imageEdward Said: The Last Interview

An extended discussion with Prof. Edward Said filmed less than a year before his death. The noted literary critic and Palestinian activist delivers his final testament about his life and work as a committed intellectual.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 114 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult

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