A GIRL’S LIFE

100-79, 60 minutes, 2009 Researcher and author Rachel Simmons examines the challenges facing young women as they surf the waves of the 21st century adolescence. Simmons interviews parents, psychologists, teachers, and social workers who are helping nurture girls into capable, resilient adults. Request

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CHARACTER EDUCATION: Teens and Ethics

100-81, 29 minutes, 2007 Under the direction of a counselor, real teens talk about the potentially life-changing decisions they face every day decisions about smoking, drinking, drugs, sex, lying, cheating and shoplifting. Viewers are asked to think about their own choices and values and what it means to be “ethical.”...

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TEENS, FAMILY AND STRESS

100-82, 21 minutes, 2003 In this documentary-style program, real teens reveal how they meet the challenge of coping with stress in their family. Viewers learn to recognize the physical cues that indicate they are under stress, define the issues that cause them the most stress, and understand the difference between...

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TOP GUN

100-83, 43 minutes, 2009 This film deals with addiction to video gaming after parents had confiscated their son’s Xbox. He retaliated by running away from home, and his body was found 3 weeks later. His disappearance and death revealed to parents a darker aspect to their children’s video gaming: addiction....

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KIDS

100-84, 1 h 42 min, 1995 “KIDS” is 24 frenetic hours in the lives of a group of contemporary teenagers who, like all teenagers, believe they are invincible. It is a deeply affecting, no-holds-barred landscape of words and image, depicting with raw honesty the experiences, attitudes and uncertainties of innocence...

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THIRTEEN

100-85, 99 minutes, 2003 Anxiously trying to fit into the peer-pressure cooker environment of junior high, thirteen-year old Tracy goes to shocking lengths in order to befriend Evie, the most popular girl in school. Now the two are inseparable – and incorrigible- leaving Tracy’s desperate mom powerless to rescue her...

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PEER PRESSURE AND CHOOSING TO DRINK: Think about it

100-86, 11 minutes, 2011 In this dramatization the potential consequences of choosing to drive while intoxicated are played out. In a separate segment, a psychiatrist explains how the adolescent brain manages emotions and decision-making in a social context, differences between how boys and girls express this, and the importance of...

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