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Films on Demand provides thousands of high quality videos on a wide-range of topics and includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, historical speeches, newsreels and more. Here are direct links to films on specific subjects:
Pro & Anti Immigration Organizations
From Columbia University Libraries, a strong list of organizations both in favor and against immigration.
Nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC with a mission to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.
Established in Washington, D.C., over 50 years ago, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to providing strategic insights and policy solutions to help decision-makers chart a course toward a better world.
Independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members and interested parties to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
U.S. bilateral relations fact sheets for countries, A-Z.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States. The mission and work of the United Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
The World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. Its five institutions share a commitment to reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development.
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Reflecting the research interests of Duke researchers and students, this list can be sorted alphabetically, by region, or by type.
The database is freely accessible, and contains the fully searchable profiles in English and in French of organizations, as well as the contact details of their institutional members.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. These links go to specifci topic pages from Pew Research Center: