I wanted to thank everyone for the great film suggestions. My apologies for being late in getting the full list out to you all. In addition to those suggested by members of the list I would like to add, [Restless City - _http://restlesscityfilm.com/_ (http://restlesscityfilm.com/) ]; [The End of Suburbia - _http://www.freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=51_ (http://www.freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=51) ] Here are suggestions from the rest of you. Again thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- There are some very useful, short videos online dealing with urbanization, race, place, and many other themes--and they're free. For instance, there's Halstead Street USA:
http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmPage.php?title=237 There are several programs here (note that sometimes you have to click on VoD twice to get the video to play): http://www.learner.org/resources/series123.html For urban renewal, there's The World that Moses Built, posted in several parts on YouTube (just follow the links): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUmI6mUzSH8 And to follow that, there's always From Mambo to Hip Hop: _http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xef0kx_from-mambo-to-hip-hop_shortfilms#re l-page-1_ (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xef0kx_from-mambo-to-hip-hop_shortfilms#rel-page-1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- William Whyte's classic Social Life of Small Urban Spaces ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Amelie, Flag Wars, Metropolis, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Dirty Pretty Things. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- -Chavez Ravine movie in combo with Pruitt-Igoe clips (or Pruitt-Igoe Myth movie), songs from Chavez Ravine soundtrack -The Garden movie (about LA urban farmers) -Steven Johnson TED talk on Ghost Map book -Monte Python Life of Brian scene about "what have the Romans ever done for us" -The Mesopotamians - They Might Be Giants (song) -Ellen Dunham Jones TED talk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Hope_(film_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Hope_(film) ) _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner) _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Films El Norte and Chinatown ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Milagro Beanfield War ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth Immokalee, U.S.A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/_ (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/) Nowhere Fast ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
