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| SID AT 90 | YOUNG AT HEART | DARE TO BE 100 |
| THE AGE TO BE This video on the longevity revolution profiles pioneering seniors who are actively challenging stereotypes about retirement and a passive old age. |
| AGING: THE SEARCH FOR ETERNAL YOUTH Dr. Robert Butler, a psychiatrist and specialist in gerontology, discusses the ways in which American society compartmentalizes people into age groups and discriminates aginst its senior citizens, who often face neglect, a lack of emotional and intellectual stimulation and economic hardship. |
| AIDS BABIES Examines the plight of babies born with AIDS, focusing on the inspiring examples of dedicated caregivers such as Mother Hale, founder of Hale House in New York City, and Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-ross, filmed at her House of Peace in West Virginia. |
| AIDS IN THE BARRIO Examines the impact of AIDS within Hispanic-American communities, focusing on the specific economic, social and cultural factors which influence perception of the AIDS crisis, including macho attitudes about sexuality, traditional relations between men and women, prejudices against homosexuality, and the prevalence of drug abuse. |
| THE ANGELMAKERS In a sleepy Hungarian village, after the First World War, a series of arsenic murders took place. Over 140 bodies were discovered. The victims, all men, were apparently killed by their wives. |
| DARE TO BE 100 This video features an interview with Walter M. Bortz, M.D., author of the best-selling book, We Live Too Short and Die Too Long. Bortz, a clinical associate professor at the Stanford University Medical School and former Chair of the American Geriatrics Society, contends in this video that living to the age of 100, and even beyond, is natural. |
| THE FUTURE OF AGING Examines recent scientific research into the biological and mental mechanisms of human aging and the development of new techniques to reverse its effects. |
| GOSPEL OF AIDS Examines the rapid spread of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, focusing on the small nation of Rwanda. |
| LONGEVITY: TO LIVE TO BE 140 This video features an interview with Dr. Alexander lief, a gerontology specialist at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, who discusses his on-location study of the people living in the Andean village of Vilcabamba in Ecuador. |
| IN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS A beautiful and poetic film about the last remaining Jews in Birobidzhan, the world's first Jewish autonomous region, established in a distant corner of Siberia in the 1920s. |
| SID AT 90 This video profiles actor, comedian, impersonator and variety performer Sid Raymond, in the process challenging the assumption that celebrity defines success. |
| VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE This informative video takes viewers through a daughter's deepest feelings, expressed in a journal, as she watches her mother go through the initial stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and shows how those feelings eventually lead her to experience a profound change within herself. |
| VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: OLDER ADULTS This video, consisting of the innermost thoughts and feelings of those in their sixties and beyond, captures the essence of what it truly means to be "old." |
| YOUNG AT HEART Young at Heart is an endearing film about two widowed artists who meet on a painting trip when they were in their mid-eighties and fall in love. Together they reaffirm that love and romance can happen at any age. |