TY - BOOK AU - Gibney,Mark TI - Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films T2 - International Studies Intensives Series SN - 9781315631219 AV - JC571 U1 - 791.43/655 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Human rights in motion pictures KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Feature Films -- 1 Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) -- Also of Note -- The Last Days (James Moll, 1998) -- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris, 2000) -- Anne Frank Remembered (Jon Blair, 1995) -- 2 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) -- Also of Note -- Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut, 1966) -- 3 Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982) -- 4 The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, 1985) -- 5 The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé, 1984) -- 6 Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994) -- 7 Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008) -- Also of Note -- In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993) -- 8 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lee Daniels, 2009) -- Also of Note -- Love and Diane (Jennifer Dworkin, 2002) -- 9 Sometimes in April (Raoul Peck, 2005) and Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004) (tie) -- 11 Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins, 1995) -- Also of Note -- Love Lived On Death Row (Linda Booker, 2007) -- After Innocence (Jessica Sanders, 2005) -- Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (Adrian Shergold, 2005) -- 12 The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002) -- Also of Note -- A Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonski, 2010) -- 13 Journey of Hope (Xavier Koller, 1990) -- Also of Note -- In This World (Michael Winterbottom, 2002) -- 14 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) -- Also of Note -- Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010) -- Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, 2008) -- 15 Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982) -- Also of Note -- 1947: Earth (Deepa Mehta, 1998) -- 16 Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008) -- Also of Note -- Salaam Bombay (Mira Nair, 1988) -- Born into Brothels (Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, 2004) -- 17 Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008) -- Also of Note -- The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein, 1984); Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) -- Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel, 2000) -- La Mission (Peter Bratt, 2009) -- Fire (Deepa Mehta, 1996) -- 18 Norma Rae (Martin Ritt, 1979) -- Also of Note -- Matewan (John Sayles, 1987) -- Bread and Roses (Ken Loach, 2000) -- 19 The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999) -- Also of Note -- The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) -- Silkwood (Mike Nichols, 1983) -- Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) -- 20 V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2006) -- 21 A Dry White Season (Euzhan Palcy, 1989) -- Also of Note -- Cry Freedom (Richard Attenborough, 1987) -- 22 Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993) -- Also of Note -- Yesterday (Darrell Roodt, 2004) -- Life, Above All (Oliver Schmitz, 2010) -- 23 Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005) -- 24 To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) -- Also of Note -- 12 Angry Men (Sidney < -- /lnk> -- Lumet, 1957) -- The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982) -- A Time to Kill (Joel Schumacher, 1996) -- 25 Days of Glory (Indigènes) (Rachid Bouchareb, 2006) -- 26 District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009) -- 27 Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982) -- 28 Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002) -- 29 Omagh (Pete Travis, 2004) -- 30 Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005) -- Also of Note -- The Terrorist (Santosh Sivan, 1998) -- Miral (Julian Schnabel, 2010) -- The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel, 2008) -- 31 Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007) -- 32 Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) -- Also of Note -- Lebanon (Samuel Maoz, 2009) -- 33 Amazing Grace (Michael Apted, 2006) -- Also of Note -- Amistad (Steven Spielberg, 1997) -- Roots (Marvin Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, and Gilbert Moses, 1977) -- 34 Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker 1988) -- 35 The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000) -- Also of Note -- Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 2001); The Stoning of Soraya M. (Cyrus Nowrasteh, 2008) -- Silent Waters (Sabiha Sumar, 2003) -- Water (Deepa Mehta, 2005) -- 36 Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006) -- Also of Note -- The End of Poverty? (Philippe Diaz, 2008) -- Life and Debt (Stephanie Black, 2001) -- 37 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) -- 38 Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004) -- 39 Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002) -- Also of Note -- The Price of Sex (Mimi Chakarova, 2011) -- 40 Men with Guns (John Sayles, 1997) -- Also of Note -- Salvador (Oliver Stone, 1986) -- Romero (John Duigan, 1989) -- 41 The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) -- 42 Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle, 1987) -- 43 Moolaadé (Ousmarie Sembèrie, 2004) -- Also of Note -- Mrs. Goundo's Daughter (Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, 2009) -- 44 The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005) -- 45 Even the Rain (Icíar Bollaín, 2010) -- Also of Note -- Indochine (Régis Wargnier, 1992) -- Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988) -- 46 Lord of War (Andrew Niccol, 2005) -- Also of Note -- Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006) -- 47 Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961) -- Also of Note -- Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) -- 48 The Road to Guantanamo (Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, 2006) -- 49 City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan, 2009) -- Also of Note -- The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (Lisa Jackson, 2007) -- Lumo (Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III, 2007) -- 50 Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, 2002) -- Part II Documentaries -- 1 Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper, 2004) -- 2 Nero's Guests: The Age of Inequality (Deepa Bhatia, 2009) -- Also of Note -- Black Gold (Nick Francis and Marc Francis, 2006) -- 3 Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994) -- Also of Note -- On the Ropes (Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen, 1999) -- 4 USA vs. Al-Arian (Line Halvorsen, 2007) -- Also of Note; The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, 2006) -- 5 The Agronomist (Jonathan Demme, 2003) -- 6 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee, 1997) -- Also of Note -- The Murder of Emmett Till (Stanley Nelson, 2003) -- 7 Arna's Children (Juliano Mer-Khamis and Danniel Danniel, 2004) -- Also of Note -- To See If I'm Smiling (Tamar Yarom, 2007) -- Hot House (Shimon Dotan, 2006) -- 8 We Were Here (David Weissman, 2011) -- 9 Long Night's Journey into Day (Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann, 2000) -- 10 Waiting for "Superman" (Davis Guggenheim, 2010) -- 11 Roger & -- Me (Michael Moore, 1989) -- 12 White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Steven Okazaki, 2007) -- 13 Where Soldiers Come From (Heather Courtney, 2011) -- 14 In the Land of the Free (Vadim Jean, 2010) -- Also of Note -- The Trials of Darryl Hunt (Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, 2006) -- Murder on a Sunday Morning (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, 2001) -- Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1996) and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 2000) -- The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) -- 15 You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez, 2010) -- 16 An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, 2006) -- Also of Note -- Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, 2006) -- Burning the Future: Coal in America (David Novack, 2008) -- The Last Mountain (Bill Haney, 2011) -- 17 Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, 2009) -- 18 Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin (Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Veridemmiati, 2001) -- Also of Note -- Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma (Patrick Reed, 2008) -- Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (Mark Hopkins, 2008) -- 19 Pushing the Elephant (Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, 2010); 20 Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Gini Reticker, 2008) -- 21 Enemies of the People (Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, 2009) -- Also of Note -- Brother Number One (Annie Goldson, 2011) -- 22 Presumed Guilty (Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith, 2008) -- Also of Note -- Reportero (Bernardo Ruiz, 2012) -- 23 Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007) -- 24 Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Rory Kennedy, 2007) -- Also of Note -- Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, 2008) -- 25 Crude (Joe Berlinger, 2009) -- 26 Better This World (Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, 2011) -- Also of Note -- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, 2011) -- Bidder 70 (Beth Gage and George Gage, 2012) -- 27 The Pinochet Case (Patricio Guzmán, 2001) -- Also of Note -- Carta's List (Marcel Schüpbach, 2006) -- Milosevic on Trial (Michael Christoffersen, 2007) -- War Don Don (Rebecca Richman Cohen, 2010) -- The Reckoning (Pamela Yates, 2009) -- My Neighbor, My Killer (Anne Aghion, 2009) -- 28 Budrus (Julia Bacha, 2009) -- Also of Note -- Encounter Point (Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha, 2006) -- 29 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee, 2006) -- Also of Note -- Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, 2008) -- 30 Well-Founded Fear (Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, 2000) -- Also of Note -- Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars (Zach Niles and Banker White, 2005) -- Sentenced Home (David Grabias and Nicole Newnham, 2006) -- 31 Children Underground (Edet Belzberg, 2001) -- Also of Note -- We'll Never Meet Childhood Again (Sam Lawlor and Lindsay Pollock, 2007) -- 32 Invisible Children (Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole, 2006) -- Also of Note -- Soldier Child (Neil Abramson, 1998) -- War/Dance (Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, 2007) -- ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami, 2001); 33 The Inheritors (Eugenio Polgovsky, 2008) N2 - Wide-ranging exploration of how film can inform and reinforce our understanding of human rights, analysing more than 300 human rights films UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4185966 ER -