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1) Settlers
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a remote homestead on the Martian frontier, a refugee family from Earth clings to hope for a better life. But when strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, nine-year-old Remmy (Brooklyn Prince) is faced with the desperate reality her mother (Sofia Boutella) and father (Jonny Lee Miller) have tried so hard to keep from her.
3) The Settlers
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A look at Jewish settlers in the West Bank and their allies - Jewish and non-Jewish alike - in Israel, America and Europe. The origins of the settler phenomenon, which reach back almost half a century, are explored along with a look at who THE SETTLERS are today and how they impact the Middle East peace process.
Publisher
CET Films
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Explores how people from the Philippines, China and India first arrived on the shores of North and South America, their survival amid harsh conditions, re-migrations and settlement in the Americas.. The film travels across oceans and centuries of time to trace the globally interlocking story of East and West.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Iceland represents a great example of how, when humans arrive at a new place where none presumably lived before, their footprint is large—and often destructive. Follow along as early Nordic settlers grow grains and cereals, then turn to sheep farming. Also, explore the impact of early settlers on the extinction of the Icelandic walrus.
Author
Series
Great Tours Iceland volume 6
Language
English
Description
Iceland represents a great example of how, when humans arrive at a new place where none presumably lived before, their footprint is large-and often destructive. Follow along as early Nordic settlers grow grains and cereals, then turn to sheep farming. Also, explore the impact of early settlers on the extinction of the Icelandic walrus.
7) The settlers
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at life as a settler in Israel's controversial West Bank settlements.
9) The settlers
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at life as a settler in Israel's controversial West Bank settlements.
10) Early settlers
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Pilgrims and the Mayflower, the Mayflower Compact, Squanto and the first Thanksgiving, life in colonial Williamsburg, and the Colonists.
Language
עברית
Description
Of Land and Bread is a series of vignettes about the daily life of Palestinians in the West Bank. It is a story of constant vulnerability where one's life is lived under the specter of state violence and the whims of settlers, and a camera is one's only defense.
In 2005, human rights organization B'Tselem established a video department, seeking to amplify the impact and power of their written reports on human rights violations in the Occupied Territories...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the kibbutz movement's glorious 100-year history, Inventing our life reveals the heartbreak and hope of Israel's communal living experiment as a new generation of women and men confront an essential question: can a radically socialist institution survive a new capitalist reality? In this "illuminating and entertaining" (Jewish Week) documentary, director Toby Perl Freilich explores the modern history of Israel, from its...
14) Ave Maria
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Arabic
Description
An Israeli settler family crash their car outside an isolated convent in the occupied West Bank. Their only hope of getting home rests with five nuns who have taken a vow of silence.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Log construction was a fundamental building method for Canada's first settlers. Log homes remain popular, especially in the West, where people want to recreate a rustic image that fits the landscape. We visit log homes in Quebec, Ontario and Alberta.
16) Savage State
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the American Civil War breaks out, a family of french settlers must abandon their Missouri home to flee and go back to Paris. They're escorted by a former mercenary whose troubled past soon catches up with him.
17) Jandamarra's War
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Jandamarra's War we learn how in the 1890's European settlers arrive in the Kimberley, North West Australia, with vast herds of sheep and cattle, determined to make their fortune by feeding a rapidly growing population in the South. But the settlers soon discover they are amongst indigenous tribes, ready to fight the red-faced invaders who are occupying their land. This is the story of Jandamarra, an Aboriginal warrior, a Bunuba man, who led...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1621, Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.
19) Possession
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Norwegian
Description
A priest has been tasked with deciding the location of a new church for the local mining company, which reveals itself to be on top of an old Sami burial ground. After removing the remains, the dead come alive and haunt the settlers.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Pastoral nomads weren't the only early settlers of Central Asia. The recently discovered Oxus civilization and the Persians reveal a number of key themes for Big History, including the role of climate and geography, intensified social complexity, innovations in warfare and farming, and more.
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