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The Docuseek Asian Studies Collection

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The Docuseek Asian Studies Collection includes the following titles:

Fat or Skinny? - imageFat or Skinny?

The people of India are faced with a choice: indulge in a Western-style fast food diet, or embrace healthy and indigenous alternatives.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 29 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Female Directors - imageFemale Directors

When job prospects elude them, two twenty-something art school graduates decide to film each other's lives instead.

dGenerate Films | 2012 | 43 minutes
Floating - imageFloating

Yang is a 30-year-old itinerant singer with a complicated love life, busking in big cities with fellow musicians and sharing wisdom on how to evade the authorities - for a while.

dGenerate Films | 2005 | 93 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
From Courtyard House to Block Apartment - imageFrom Courtyard House to Block Apartment

Examines the impact of rapid industrialization on traditional Chinese housing styles and ways of living.

Icarus Films | 1987 | 23 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Geologic Journey II - The Collision Zone: Asia - imageGeologic Journey II - The Collision Zone: Asia

Examines the collision zone in Asia--from Indonesia's volcanoes at one end to the Himalayas at the other--which is in the process of forming the earth's next supercontinent.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 50 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Geologic Journey II - The Western Pacific Rim - imageGeologic Journey II - The Western Pacific Rim

Examines the western Pacific Rim, home to 50% of the world's active volcanoes, and 90% of its earthquakes.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 52 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Ghost Town - imageGhost Town

A remote village in southwest China is haunted by traces of its cultural past while its residents piece together their existence.

dGenerate Films | 2012 | 169 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Half The Sky - imageHalf The Sky

Changes in the lives of four generations of Chinese women.

Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 50 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Hiroshima Bound - imageHiroshima Bound

A personal documentary that tracks the construction of America's collective memory (or lack of one) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Icarus Films | 2015 | 56 minutes
Hong Kong Symphony - imageHong Kong Symphony
Tan Dun's "Symphony 1997" premieres as Hong Kong switches from British to Chinese rule.
Bullfrog Films | 1998 | 57 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

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