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Documentaries
An Emmy Award-winning producer
Lioness
Media Arts has created over 60 hours of prime-time non-fiction
programming, four feature films, and a series of programming
for National Geographic EXPLORER. Rachel Lyons, President, served for seven years as
Senior Producer for Ted Turner, where she produced
The Terror Trade - Buying the Bomb,
Only One Earth and many other global-issue
documentaries. At the Benton Broadcast Project of the University of Chicago, Ms. Lyon
produced
The Glory and the Power: Fundamentalism Observed, a three-part series on
the worldwide impact of fundamentalism.
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Mr.
Dreyfuss Goes to Washington - A two-hour special
for the History Channel with Oscar winner, Richard
Dreyfuss. NPR's Nina Totenberg, former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Pulitzer-prize winner Joseph Ellis offer personal insight into landmarks such as the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial Wall, the White House, Mount Vernon and the Capitol Building. |
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Shadow
over Tibet: Stories in Exile -This film, directed by Rachel
Lyon and narrated by Richard Gere, is a highly
personalized account of the crises in Chinese-occupied
Tibet and the attempts of Tibetan refugees to maintain
their ancient culture in exile while using non-violent
means to bring peace and freedom to their homeland. |
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The Terror Trade - Buying the Bomb is a Better World
Society Program that probed the burgeoning black market in
nuclear know-how. In a deadly twist to the law of supply
and demand, the raw materials of nuclear weaponry are now
available to the highest bidder - and bidders in this
multi-million dollar black market auction already include
representatives of Libya, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan and
could extend to well-financed terrorist groups. |
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Men who Molest: Children who survive - This Emmy
award winning feature documentary broke open the story of
child sexual abuse and brought it to the forefront of the
national agenda. Borrowing techniques developed in Alcoholics Anonymous, the program views molesters as sexual addicts and seeks to first alter their behavior and then focus on the reasons for it. |
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The Glory and the Power: Fundamentalism Observed is based on The Fundamentalism Project, a five-year
study of worldwide fundamentalism conducted by a team of
international scholars. The Fundamentalism Project is
sponsored by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
(AAAS) which received a grant from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. April 1992. |
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Only One Earth is an integrated package of film and
educational print materials that shows how careless
economic development is destroying the global environment. As well as looking at the world's major environmental problems, the project also shows examples of "sustainable development" that improves living standards without damaging the environment. |
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