We are back with the third round of student-selected Docuseek films! This week’s documentaries cover a rich variety of topics spanning diverse historical eras and regions around the world.
In the third installment of A Perfect Meal, researchers discuss the benefits of adding more vegetables and fruits to your diet. A study of several participants with a peculiar mutation that allows cancerous polyps to grow in their intestines showed a decrease in inflammation when they adopted a Mediterranean diet. Tune in to discover other benefits that come from switching to a Mediterranean diet! By Nadia
Curious about the Internet’s earlier days? One of the earliest online chat environments, WorldsChat, was created in 1994, and even today, it remains a relatively safe, unmonitored gathering place for all sorts of people. Issac Thacker, better known by his screen name GradualDIME, a self-proclaimed archivist that operates in WorldsChat, talks about his memories and experiences in this unique online chat game. By Kianna
Garçonnières is a documentary filmed by an anthropologist, Celine Pernet, in hopes to understand the relationship with masculinity. She interviews men to discuss what it means to be a man in the 21st century as they converse about love, couples, and even fatherhood. It allows us to understand how society has shaped the way humans act, process, and connect things in a certain way.
Learn about a period of American history that is fading from our memories--the Salem Witch Trials. Persisting into the modern day, the persecution of fabled witches was merely a disguise and excuse to punish women who did not conform to society. In this documentary, 400 years of history is dug up and researched by Alice Markham-Cantor, a writer and eleven-time great-granddaughter of an innocent woman hanged during these dark times. By Kianna
A documentary on prostitution in urban Brazil that consists of interviews with residents and women involved in the profession. The interviewees discuss life before and outside of prostitution, their families, and working life. Hardships include troubles with law enforcement, disease, and health. Many of the women state that they partake in prostitution to fulfill their need to provide for their families and put food on the table. By Gabby
This documentary looks into the lives of some of the 23 resistance fighters of the Affiche Rouge, who were executed in 1944 by Nazi occupiers in France. The fighters were labelled on a notorious red poster as foreigners, communists, and Jews. Friends and family close to the resistance fighters talk about their lives from what they can recall and from what the fighters left behind through letters left to their loved ones before execution. By Gabby
Mahalo to our library student assistants for sharing their Docuseek picks. What will you discover?
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