Docudrama Topics 2024 (Wei)

Frontal Lobotomy - History and Women

Access to Education - Women & Girls Around the World

1. Girl's Education: World Bank

2. Leaving No Girl Behind in Education (UNWomen.org) 

3. Pushout : the criminalization of Black girls in schools (RHSA)

4. Academic well-being of racialized students (RHSA)

5.  Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide  (RHSA)

6. I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliba (RHSA)

7. From bombs to books : the remarkable stories of refugee children and their families at an exceptional Canadian school  (RHSA)

Insulin - The History of The Commodification of Insulin

1. Frederick Banting : hero, healer, artist  (RHSA)

2. Insulin : a hundred-year history (TPL) - many copies in audiobook available

3. Understanding and managing type 2 diabetes  (virtual library streaming)

4. The Soaring Cost of Insulin (CBC)

5. Diabetes and Diabetes-Related Out-of-Pocket Costs: (PDF)

6. Pay or Die: documentary trailer & info

Harvey Milk - The Murder Trial of Dan White

1. The Harvey Milk interviews : in his own words  (TPL)

2. The mayor of Castro Street : the life & times of Harvey Milk (RHSA)

3. Harvey Milk : no to homophobia (TPL)

4. Harvey Milk : pioneering gay politician / Corinne Grinapol. (TPL)

5. Harvey Milk, Leading the Way  (Virtual library streaming)

6. Famous Trials | Dan White

The Creation and aftermath of the Atomic Bomb

1. Appreciation : The Tomiko Morimoto Story (virtual library streaming)

2. Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story 

3. American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer 

4. The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth

5.  Hiroshima Bombing Story (20 minute video)