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China Studies

CHINESE MAYOR, THE

Directed by Zhou Hao

Once the thriving capital of Imperial China, the city of Datong now lies in near ruins. Not only is it the most polluted city in the country, it is also crippled by decrepit infrastructure and even shakier economic prospects. But Mayor Geng Tanbo plans to change all that, announcing a bold, new plan to return Datong to its former glory, the cultural haven it was some 1,600 years ago. Such declarations, however, come at a devastatingly high cost. Thousands of homes are to be bulldozed, and a half-million of its residents (30 percent of Datong's total population) will be relocated under his watch. Whether he succeeds depends entirely on his ability to calm swarms of furious workers and an increasingly perturbed ruling elite. The Chinese Mayor captures, with remarkable access, a man and, by extension, a country leaping frantically into an increasingly unstable future.

DVD / 2014 / 86 minutes

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ONE CHILD

Directed by Zijian Mu

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake, China's deadliest disaster in three decades, killed 90,000 people, including more than 5,000 children. Losing a child is an immeasurable tragedy for parents anywhere, but in China the effect is compounded by the one-child policy. Many parents suffered the loss of their only child, and with it the totality of their life's emotional investment.

In response to the earthquake, China's government made an exception for those who lost their only child to conceive another. That generation of newborns became known in China as "reborn" children. But for many parents, particularly those who lost teenage children, their advancing age proved to be a significant barrier.

This film features three families from Beichuan, the city most devastated by the earthquake's aftershocks. 80% of the city's buildings collapsed and the city was left in rubble. The government deployed its construction machine toward building an entirely new city. Old Beichuan was dead and a new Beichuan was erected ¡V in a different place. In just three years, residents of the old city were relocated, including the family of Yang, Jiang and Fu, and Gu, who all lost their only child in the earthquake. One Child follows the journey of these three families as they try to restore a sense of normalcy and struggle to move past the loss of their children.

DVD / 2014 / 40 minutes

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SPILLED WATER

By May May Tchao

Spilled Water explores how the economic transformation of China is changing the roles, rights, and social status of its women. Wanting to connect with her 'distant sisters', decades after emigrating to the United States, May May returns to China and explores the very different lives of four women: a young rural farmer who, against all odds, became a teacher; a successful lawyer in a male-dominated profession; a divorced factory worker struggling to brighten her daughter's future; and an ethnic minority singer torn between her dreams and her responsibilities as a peasant's wife. From the urban hustle of Beijing to the desolate beauty of rural provinces, their intimate stories show us why gender equality in China is so hard-earned, yet worth the struggle.

DVD / 2014 / 54 minutes

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CYBERWAR: BEHIND THE FIREWALL - CYBERWAR IN CHINA

By Jakob Gottschau

A half hour documentary about social media in China. With more than a half billion people online - China is the world's largest Internet nation. And on Weibo - the Chinese answer to Facebook and Twitter, the Chinese manifests themselves more sharp and critical than ever before. Embark on a travel in the digital China and meet some of the most controversial bloggers, and see what is possible to write and upload from a Weibo account before the Chinese censorship shut it down.

DVD / 2013 / 28 minutes

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SARS: COVER UP AND AFTERMATH

By Diana Dai

This documentary examines the extraordinary and insightful human drama that unfolded during and after the 2002 and 2003 crisis. It tells the stories of the Chinese government's efforts to hide the truth about this epidemic. The film also tells the story of the forgotten SARS survivors who continue to suffer from horrific after-effects. Many of these victims regularly undergo aggressive steroid treatments and must continually fight for their rights in China.

The film profiles five individuals, including Fang Bo, a SARS survivor who was initially hailed a national hero after winning his own battle against the virus, but was later blacklisted by the government for speaking out about civil liberties of those with the disease. It also shares the story of Wang Ligang, formerly an armed policeman, whose disability following SARS prevents him from making a living, and Wang Yong Hong, former senior editor at a major newspaper and present organizer of a SARS survivor group.

DVD / 2013 / 51 minutes

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XMAS WITHOUT CHINA

Directed by Alicia Dwyer
Featuring: Tom Xia

Exploring the intersection of consumerism and immigration in American culture, XMAS WITHOUT CHINA is an intimate portrait of families wrestling with our drive to consume cheap products, but also with our desire for human connection and a sense of who we are in a fast-changing world.

Pride and mischief inspire Chinese immigrant Tom Xia to challenge the Americans in his Southern California suburb to celebrate Christmas without any Chinese products. With deep ties to his extended family back home, Tom is incensed by how he considers China is misunderstood, particularly by the American media. But he gets more than he bargains for when he meets the Joneses, a young family trying to keep their children safe as a wave of Chinese toy recalls forces them to have their son tested for lead poisoning.

The Joneses start to give up not just toys, plates, lamps, and clothes, but the beloved hair dryer, coffeemaker, X-Box, and many Christmas decorations, challenging the way they live everyday life and how they celebrate Christmas. Meanwhile, Tom's parents are constructing a new home, proudly using Chinese materials to build their American dream. As they decorate for Christmas for the first time and the interactions between the Xias and the Joneses intensify, Tom realizes that he's on a deeper journey to understand the complexities of his own divided loyalties between America and China.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 63 minutes

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CIRCUS SCHOOL: CHINA'S PRESTIGIOUS ACROBATIC SCHOOL

Directed by Ke Dingding and Guo Jing
Circus School captures the breathtaking feats of a new generation of gymnastic performers-in-training in a centuries-old form of Chinese acrobatics. Given the art form's focus on challenging physical limitations, many Chinese view acrobatics as the quintessential expression of China's strength and power.

The film provides a rare glimpse into one of China's most revered institutions, the Shanghai Circus School, where students aged six to fifteen complete a grueling seven-year program that prepares them to work as professionals. Through exhaustion, injury, and broken bones, the students strive for seamless and precise performances in an unwavering quest to be the best.

The film introduces Xu Lu, a ten-year-old girl who grits her teeth through injury and pain in the struggle to perfect her routine. Thirteen-year-old Cai Yong, coping with a growing weight problem, has difficulties learning a single-handed handstand; his teacher urges him to practice self-control and warns him that his failure will ruin not only his own life, but also those of his teachers and parents. The students' punishing exercises are contrasted with the seamless beauty and precision of their performances to cast a new light on one of China's most ancient traditions.

DVD / 2012 / 52 minutes

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FUTURE FOOD: STAY OR GO? (CHINA)

Directed by Alex Gabbay

Who will grow China's food as young people leave the countryside for the cities?

In many remote areas of China young people have little choice but to stay on the land, and yet they may face a destitute future, with millions of farmworkers in China earning less than two dollars a day. Although there are some exceptions, farming is not generally seen as a "sexy" career choice.

The reality is that in China and around the world, young people are fleeing the countryside and moving to the big cities. Who will grow the food that feeds future generations? How can young people be convinced that farming is a good option? Californian-born Rand and his wife Sherry are the founders of Resonance China, a social media agency in Shanghai. They use the internet to create and identify trends and tricks that can create a buzz for global brands. FUTURE FOOD sets Resonance a task: can they make farming popular with young people?

DVD / 2012 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 29 minutes

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HOWLING INTO HARMONY: CHINESE ROCK CULTURE BORN IN THE WEST

By Joshua Frank

Howling into Harmony offers a portrait of young Chinese rock musicians in Beijing and provides a glimpse into the lives of a generation awakened by Western cultural forces, despite the conservatism of their parents' generation and their government.

Li Yang Yang is an explosive guitarist who views his visceral noise improvisations as authentically Chinese music. Drawing inspiration from Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, he identifies with the rebellious American youth of the '60s.

He Fan is a Beijinger, born and raised. A rising young rock star and college student, he's known for his raucous live shows and anti-establishment lyrics.

Li Qing is a soft-spoken introvert who creates soundscapes that mirror the capital's incessant clang of construction. Her parents, though supportive, don't know what to make of her experimental music.

Howling Into Harmony provides a look at China's evolving youth culture that is rarely seen by the outside world.

DVD / 2012 / 44 minutes

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LAW OF THE DRAGON, THE

Directed by Weijun Chen

Law of the Dragon examines how justice is served in the rural areas of China so remote and isolated that villagers have almost no contact with the central government. At the heart of the film stands the austere Judge Chen, head of a provincial legal practice, the Tiger Law Firm of Chengdu. Chen journeys with his team of court officials along mud tracks and rough roads in the Xuan'en region. Their court is wherever they hang the national emblem, be it nailed up in the fields or stuck up in the plaintiff's house. As he resolves the grievances of the residents and dispenses nuggets of Confucian-Communist wisdom, Judge Chen is the law in the eyes of the people.

Among the cases heard is the story of a family attempting to hold a school responsible for the suicide of their only son. In another, Judge Chen listens to the complaints of a mother who is suing her son for maintenance. Though the judge strives to remain fair, he often transcends his official role, reminding villagers that they cannot always rely on the law and must work to preserve peace and harmony in their community without recourse to the intervention of the country's official justice system.

DVD / 2012 / 58 minutes

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MAO'S GREAT FAMINE

Directed by Patrick Cabouat
Written by Patrick Cabouat and Philippe Grangereau

Between 1958 and 1962, China experienced tragedy on an epic scale. The "Great Leap Forward" was an economic campaign conceived by Mao Zedong to transform China's vast population from an agrarian economy to a modern communist society through the process of industrialization and collectivization. In reality, it led to a famine resulting in the death of as many as fifty-five million people. But while millions were starving to death, China's grain stores remained full.

Using previously unheard testimony by survivors, rare archival footage, secret documents, and interviews with the leading historians on this catastrophe, Mao's Great Famine provides, for the first time, an insight into the insanity of this disastrous program. Today the Chinese Communist Party whitewashes the catastrophe calling it "three years of natural disasters." This film examines the mechanisms and political decisions that led to the disaster, stripping away the secrecy surrounding the campaign and exposing the lie, which continues today, about the true human cost and who was responsible.

DVD / 2012 / 53 minutes

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TO THE LIGHT: THE DARK DAYS OF CHINA'S COAL MINERS

By Yuanchen Liu

The bright lights of China's booming economy are powered by the hard labor of the miners, who work deep in perilous coal shafts around the country. When a miner dies, his family receives a death pension greater than the amount of money he would have made in his lifetime had he stayed alive. In rural China, where farming alone cannot sustain families, miners have no alternative but to risk their lives daily, descending hundreds of meters underground to dig out the black ore fueling China's massive electrical grid.

To the Light delves into the hopes and struggles of the mining families of Sichuan, in western China. The father of two, Luo originally became a coal miner to pay the fine for violating China's One Child Policy. Hui, son of another miner, prefers to be a coal-train driver than to work far from home. For many families, coal mining has become the principal source of income and the only alternative to factory jobs in distant cities. The mines are notoriously dangerous and thousands are killed every year. Going deep underground, the film exposes the perils faced by these miners, the slim rewards, and dire consequences when things go wrong. In spite of the risks, the working poor continue to flock to the mines, unable to heed the warning that earning a living wage may also mean dying for it.

DVD / 2012 / 68 minutes

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SHANGHAI TALES, EPISODE 1: THE WAR OF GROWING UP

It is the first day of school in Grade 4 of the Shanghai Experimental Primary School. The film follows the chlldren through the whole semester as they learn, misbehave, flirt, play and take exams. Their teachers observe their behavior and progress and share insights with each other.

The focus is on three children, including Gu, a smart boy but a show off, who is often in trouble for fighting and is teased by his classmates for crying when he is ignored.

One of the remarkable features of this film is the naturalness of the pupils who seem oblivious to being filmed. The documentary allows the viewer to see the educational system in China at work. When some children do poorly on a math test the whole class loses points. But much attention is paid to each individual child and the teachers strive to maintain discipline and academic success. In this spontaneous film we see the formation of new generation of Chinese children.

DVD / 2011 / 59 minutes

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SHANGHAI TALES, EPISODE 2: ALL ABOUT MY FRIENDS

What is it like to be an entrepreneur in today's China? This engrossing film provides an up-close view of the daily life of a tour operator in Shanghai determined to become wealthy. We meet a man who works non-stop with only a few hours of sleep. He has no other interest except seeing his tour business make a profit and he oversees every detail. His young girl friend does not have a job but leads a luxurious life on his earnings, while he postpones thoughts of marriage until he has amassed a substantial nest- egg.

We meet his parents who are also driven to be successful. They work hard running a restaurant, even though they are no longer young. His mother complains that her son is so busy working that he does not have time for her. This film will interest not only students of Asian studies but also students of business who will gain an insight into the new breed of Chinese entrepreneur.

DVD / 2011 / 59 minutes

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SHANGHAI TALES, EPISODE 3: WHEN MY CHILD IS BORN

This remarkable film profiles a couple that craves personal freedom, but is faced with the unwanted constraints of parenthood. In a society where grandmothers are expected to care for babies, how much freedom is it reasonable for a mother to expect?

When Jun finds herself pregnant, she agrees to marry Long to avoid stigma and judgment. Jun is an English translator with a specialty in Virginia Woolf novels who identifies strongly with Woolf's quest for independence. Long is a PhD candidate who is bored with reading about Karl Marx and takes a different approach to studying his subject.

The film captures disagreements between Jun and her mother as new child-rearing theories spar with traditional ones. Jun's disdain for her mother and plans for her career only elevate the tension, as she reveals her intentions to travel to Australia for coursework, leaving her husband and baby behind. When My Child Is Born gives audiences a glimpse of one manifestation of feminism in a Chinese family.

DVD / 2011 / 60 minutes

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BIRD'S NEST, THE

Experience the birth of the "Bird's Nest," Beijing's iconic National Stadium which played host to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Swedish designer, Thomas Herzog, conceptualized this marvel, which is not only functional, but architectural and cultural. Explore the creation of this magnificent structure from the beginning stages through the construction and completion. You'll hear from the designers, architects and welders who each played a part. The Bird's Nest stands apart from any other stadium as a one of a kind structure unique in its design and social significance. Like humans, buildings have life. The Bird's Nest will forever be a piece of Beijing's history and Chinese culture.

DVD / 2009 / (Senior High, College) / 51 minutes

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HIDDEN CHINA, THE

Hidden China takes an in-depth look into this country's meteoric rise to economic superpower in this behind the scenes show. Through access to exclusive interviews and on-camera visits to areas forbidden to journalists, discover how China has rapidly changed from a state run disaster to the world's powerful economy.

China is attempting to do in one generation, what other countries have needed three to accomplish. From one of the world's largest gaming industries, to global corporations, China is now most certainly on the world's stage.

In the 1970's, thanks to Supreme Leader Deng Xiaoping's pragmatism, China moved from a classic Soviet style command economy to a consumer economy virtually from scratch. This meant China needed to commercially reconnect with the rest of the world breaking away from centuries of tradition.

Learn how the inner battle between tradition and modernization continues to rage on as the world's most powerful economy continues to grow. With economic growth at over Ten percent a year, tradition is giving way.

DVD / 2009 / (Senior High, College) / 45 minues

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CHINA VS USA: THE BATTLE FOR OIL

It's the end of a myth which lasted 3,000 years. Since its oil shortage, China has relied on the outside world. Energy is its weak spot, its Achilles heel, and the problem will become more pronounced in proportion to its unbridled economic growth, which continues to be forecasted at 8% for the foreseeable future. There will be an immense need for an increased energy supply. China is unable to meet theses needs and collaboration with other governments is its only option. All of this growth has forced China to launch a world conquest. Every country with oil is being pursued.

For three years, Chinese authorities have been traveling extensively to establish new oil alliances across the world. With those, come concessions that are incessantly at odds with the West. Contracts have been signed with Venezuela, Iran, the Sudan and Angola. In exchange, China offers its support in the form of promises to build telecommunication systems, railways and ports. It also offers protection to their partner nations by threatening to use its UN veto against resolutions involving human rights (Darfur) or nuclear issues (Iran.) Therefore doing business with the Chinese is much more attractive than with countries in the West. The Chinese do not want to be involved in the politics of other nations. They simply want oil.

Are the Chinese really fulfilling all their promises? This investigative film offers an unprecedented examination of the issues that reach beyond the question of oil.

DVD / 2008 / (Senior High, College) / 52 minutes

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DREAMING OF TIBET

Directed by Will Parrinello

Looks at the lives of three Tibetan exiles, and at the recent history of their country which forced them to flee.

In isolated communities around the world, particularly in India, Nepal and the United States, Tibetan exiles have created a 'virtual Tibet,' where they have endured and even flourished in the face of overwhelming adversity. DREAMING OF TIBET follows their arduous journeys from Tibet into exile over a 19,000 foot Himalayan pass. It's a flight that the Dalal Lama took in 1958 and over 150,000 of his followers have taken since then. Most have only minimal clothing and meager provisions to make the life-threatening trek. Many die along the way.

This intimate documentary is about the resilience of the human spirit under the most dire circumstances. The film looks at the lives of three extraordinary Tibetan exiles who have survived in exile and are deeply involved in working for the survival of their culture. They are, in short, Ms. Tseten Phanucharas, a political activist, who is one of the Dalai Lama's press coordinators in Los Angeles; Ms. Tsering Lhamo, a nurse working with recent refugees in Kathmandu, Nepal; and Mr. Ngawang Ugyen, a monk in the Mt. Everest foothills.

DREAMING OF TIBET captures the difficult challenges they each face and conveys the sense of hope they bring to their day-to-day lives in spite of great hardship and loss.

Also features His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and author/climber Jon Krakauer, with appearances by actors Richard Gere and Goldie Hawn.

DVD (Color) / 2006 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 58 minutes

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LOCOMOTION PART 11 - ZHEN ZHEN IN CHINA

In southern China 12 year old Zhen Zhen goes by bicycle to visit her grandparents. Bicycles are the most commonly used form of transportation in China, especially in the countryside. On the river there are very decorative state boats and sampans. Zhen Zhen then takes a three wheeled taxi to her grandparents' house.

DVD / 2003 / (Elementary, Intermediate) / 13 minutes

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CELESTIAL EMPIRE, THE: PATH OF THE DRAGON - PART 15: A NATION OF DIVERSITY

The vast land of China is home to 55 recognized distinct minority groups. Although approximately ninety-three percent of the country is Han Chinese, first united under emperor Qin in 221 B.C, each of these groups is still distinguished by language, culture and religious affiliation. Most of the ethnic minorities live in Western China. This episode will cover their traditions, culture and origins, from the largest group, the Zhuang people of southern China, to the Hui sea traders, the Manchu northern warriors, the Uygur silk road traders, the Mongols, the Yi, the Naxi, the Bai people and others.

DVD / 2002 / (Senior High, College) / 26 minutes

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CELESTIAL EMPIRE, THE: PATH OF THE DRAGON - PART 18: ARCHITECTURE OF CHINA

Architecture is usually a function of the raw materials available, geology and social standards. Architcture and design have undergone many changes in China, but have always been categorized into four classes: palaces, temples, residential houses and pavilions. This program covers the 7000 year evolution and variances of Chinese archetecture throughout time, place and function.

DVD / 2002 / (Senior High, College) / 26 minutes

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CITY LIFE: THE LONG MARCH

Community in Chengdu, China has organized to clean-up polluted river.

China is already home to a fifth of the world's population. To relieve the pressure on scarce farm land and fragile topsoil, the Chinese government is building four hundred new cities over the next 20 years, each housing over half a million residents. New towns and settlements are springing up from nowhere. Others are witnessing an explosion in their populations, stretching their capacity to deliver essential services to breaking point. This film tells the story of one such town.

Chengdu, in South West China, was once the southern staging post for the silk trade and capital of Shu Kingdom. In 256 BC, Shu leader Li Bing built the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, channeling the Min River through Chengdu in what is still recognized as a triumph for hydraulic engineering. But the irrigation system was neglected and abused during the rapid industrial development of the 1970s, resulting in massive pollution and floods. Today, Chengdu's municipal government has succeeded in reversing the damage, turning what had become an urban nightmare into a model of modern day planning.

DVD (Color) / 2001 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 27 minutes

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CELESTIAL EMPIRE, THE: PATH OF THE DRAGON - PART 12: FAMILY AND SOCIAL LIFE IN CHINA

This revealing look at how the Chinese relate to each other on a daily basis evaluates to what extent the Confucian ideal of family life really exists.

DVD / 2000 / (Senior High, College) / 26 minutes

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CELESTIAL EMPIRE, THE: PATH OF THE DRAGON - PART 2: CHINA AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD

China was a world unto itself, cut off from foreign contact by its geography. Its view of the outside world, which grew out of its cultural superiority to its immediate neighbors and from its isolation, served as a unifying force that strengthened its culture. This program examines Chinas relationship with its neighbors and the European nations. It reports on how, in the early 20th century, Chinas ancient glory gave way to a new form of government, as it finally adapted to the outside worlds.

DVD / 2000 / (Senior High, College) / 26 minutes

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CELESTIAL EMPIRE, THE: PATH OF THE DRAGON - PART 4: COMMERCE AND DAILY LIFE

This episode examines how a single belief-system, and a secular one at that, could have been responsible for unifying and stabilizing a vast and ancient nation.

DVD / 2000 / (Senior High, College) / 26 minutes

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CELESTIAL EMPIRE, THE: PATH OF THE DRAGON - PART 5: HISTORY OF INVENTION & DISCOVERY

The quality, sophistication and even modernity of Chinese technological ingenuity remained unmatched anywhere else in the world until the European Renaissance. This episode examines how, despite the sometimes-extreme conservatism of their society, the Chinese found creative and novel solutions to many kinds of practical problems. It also looks at what stifled Chinese genius at precisely the time that the West was beginning to catch up.

DVD / 2000 / (Senior High, College) / 26 minutes

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LIFE: BECAUSE THEY'RE WORTH IT

Micro-credit, education, health information, and hope provided to impoverished Chinese.

Internationally, the definition for absolute poverty is living on an income of under $1 a day. But the Chinese government has a lower threshold: the definition for poverty in China is living on 66 cents a day. Out of a total Chinese population of 1.3 billion, there are 42 million Chinese who are poor.

This episode of Life looks at a scheme which is helping poor people break out of the cycle of poverty and ignorance -- by providing them with small loans, basic health information, education¡Kand hope.

In Wang San Ping village, near the Chinese border with Burma, in the southwest of Yunnan province, Yu Gui Hua and her friend Hu Zang Hua have used their loans from the scheme to build plastic greenhouses to grow vegetables all year round. They've repaid the first loans, and have even more ambitious plans for the second loan they're going to take out: this time, Yu Gui Hua has her sights set on a guest house, a car park -- even a restaurant.

But the micro-credit scheme, funded by UNICEF in China, does more than help women on to the first, vital step of the economic ladder. It also helps them gain friends, basic knowledge on how to improve their health -- and, crucially, self-esteem. As 83-year-old Ji Ki Ren Di, a woman from the Bai Yi caste in Mei Gu, a clan-based slave society until 1956, sums her situation up: "I was born a slave and was forced to live in a grass shed¡K.Now we live in a solid house. I don't think that I can live much longer, but I have lived long enough to see my family free. Now every day is a little better¡K"

DVD (Color) / 2000 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 24 minutes

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ASIA TODAY - CHINA

One fifth of all people on Earth live in China, the world's most populated country: modernization is on the fast track.

DVD / 1998 / (Senior High, College) / 50 minutes

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HALF THE SKY: THE WOMEN OF THE JIANG FAMILY

Changes in the lives of four generations of Chinese women.

No women in any country have seen their lives change so radically as have Chinese women. "Women are 'half the sky,'" declared Mao Zedong, "and they are absolutely the equal of men."

Equal they may have been, but by regimentation, to the point of the virtual abolition of womanhood and femininity. Today economic reforms have given young women a degree of independence unknown to any previous generation. For the first time they are conscious and outspoken about their role and position in society, and they make their demands known.

This film explores these changes within the lives of four generations of women in the Jiang family over the last 50 years in China, from the grandmother who was bought by the Jiang family at age 14 to be grandfather's second wife, to her 24-year-old great-granddaughter who works as a sales assistant at the Pierre Cardin boutique in Beijing.

Built around a series of interviews, images of daily life, special family occasions and archival film, HALF THE SKY focuses on the women's individual experiences of marriage, children, work, love, and self-esteem.

DVD (Color) / 1995 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 50 minutes

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WORLD, THE: A TELEVISION HISTORY - CHINA AND JAPAN 1279-1600

The Mongol warrior Kublai Khan brought the whole of China under foreign rule for the first time In history. Later the Ming built the great wall In Japan, under the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates a heavy influence of Zen Buddhism was in evidence.

DVD / 1985 / (Senior High, College) / 26 minutes

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