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Kanopy is a digital streaming service that provides access to over 26,000 films that you can view from home, in the classroom, or anywhere with an internet connection, using your City Tech library barcode.  All films in the collection have public performance rights, and can be used in classroom instruction.  
Below is a selection of election related films, or browse the full Kanopy collection – its user friendly search features are like browsing Netflix.
Please Vote for Me Run time: 58 mins.
Two males and a female vie for office, indulging in low blows and spin, character assassination and gestures of goodwill, all the while gauging their standing with voters. The setting is not the Democratic presidential campaign trail but a third-grade class at an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China. Chronicling a public school’s first open elections – at stake is the position of class monitor. (Excerpted from Sheri Linden’s review in The Hollywood Reporter)
Review on Rotten Tomatoes  View the trailer
The War Room Run time: 97 mins.
The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House. For this behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, cinema verite filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker captured the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton’s crack team of consultants–especially James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. The War Room is a vivid document of a political moment whose truths (“It’s the economy, stupid!“) still ring in our ears.
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Bring it to the Table – Republicans & Democrats, Dialogue Not Diatribe Run time: 40 mins.
Before the last presidential election, filmmaker Julie Winokur’s 17-year-son called her the most politically intolerant person he knew. He told her that if the ‘other side,’ had a good idea, she wouldn’t know because she hadn’t been listening. His claim inspired her to travel across the country with a small folding table and invite Americans from all walks of life to sit down to discuss the roots of their political beliefs. At the core of this effort is a rallying cry for every citizen to take ownership of his/her biases and to recognize their personal responsibility in either dividing or healing the nation.
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Recall Florida Run time: 60 mins.
Recall Florida starts out as a road movie, following former Attorney General Janet Reno as she cruises the backroads and byways of Florida in her recent bid for Governor. As Primary Day draws near, and the state Democratic Party strenuously opposes her candidacy, the documentary turns into a story on a fundamental right in crisis — the right to vote and have that vote counted. Recall Florida takes the audience behind the scenes, into the nerve center of a grassroots political campaign, to provide a fascinating inside look at — and raise very serious questions about — the election process itself.
For more information, contact Kimberly Abrams at kabrams@citytech.cuny.edu.

The Kanopy digital stream service has these handpicked films for the month of August. You can access Kanopy from home using your City Tech library barcode or on any computer on campus.
Holy Man
This is the story of Douglas White, an 89 year old Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit. During the making of this film, filmmakers uncovered new evidence of White’s “actual innocence” and brought the case back to federal court.
Offshore
While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American authorities, Rudolf Elmer, former auditor at bank Julius Bar, is indicted for violating the Swiss banking secrecy law on the Cayman Islands.
Of Dogs and Men
According to a U.S. Department of Justice estimate, police officers shoot and kill more than 10,000 pet dogs in the U.S. every year. This film takes audiences on a journey with pet owners through the tragedy of loss and pursuit of change in a legal system in which the very officers they challenge are an integral part.
The Last Battle of the Tehran Children
Avraham, Ziggy, Schreiber, and Robinson form the uncrowned governing council of the “Teheran Children”. The four represent 217 Holocaust orphans who are now bringing legal action against the State of Israel for monies received from Germany for their rehabilitation. In their old age they have set out to battle the state they dreamed of.
Bite Size
America’s battle against childhood obesity is an issue too big for many to fully comprehend. With one in three children overweight, the epidemic is sweeping our nation at an unforgiving rate. But in spite of these odds, Bite Size showcases the stories of four inspiring kids who are fighting for their health one day at a time.
Queens at Heart
The film offers an extremely rare and poignant glimpse into pre-Stonewall LGBT life as it takes us to a New York City drag ball and follows the women through their daily lives. They talk about their double-lives — going out as women at night but living as men during the day, and about how they take hormones and dream of “going for a change.”