19 Streaming Videos Added to Films on Demand

  • January 7, 2025

Our streaming video database Films on Demand has recently added 19 films to its collection. View the full list or check out the highlights below (Your PurplePass login is required if you are off-campus). 

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American Coup: Wilmington 1898

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898. Stoking fears of “Negro Rule,” self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial government.


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Generational Trauma

Learn the mechanisms of trauma response. Babies have an emotional history even before they're conceived. Learn the impact of unprocessed stress. We may inherit many things from our family such as heirlooms and how we look; and sometimes we may inherit trauma. It is estimate that we have more than 25,000 genes in our DNA. Some lie dormant and some can activate based on our environment. The way our genes determine our physical characteristics or even which disease we may be predisposed to is called epigenetics - the study of inheritable changes in gene function; how behaviors, events, and environment change the way our genes our expressed.


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Your Face is Ours: The Dangers of Facial Recognition

Clearview AI is redefining our privacy by working to identify and compile the faces of every human being on the planet, scraping images from such social media platforms as Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn without the owner's knowledge or consent. It claims that the database will serve as a force for good, helping to solve crimes and prevent espionage. But its clients include Middle Eastern dictatorships and its links to the far-right and the source of its funding have raised other concerns. The risks it poses are immense.

What are the risks of false identification? What are the legalities of this technology in the EU where it is illegal to collect people's biometric data without their explicit consent? Do the benefits of this technology outweigh its risks of misuse? This program looks at the technology and how it impacts society, featuring an interview with Clearview’s CEO, Hoan Ton-That.