Times are hard, and travel funding is hard to come by. This year, instead of making our usual trek to the National Media Market (held again in Lexington, KY) (http://www.nmm.net/), we attended virtually. One of our favorite distributors sent us a large care package of new titles to preview back in Berkeley. In other cases we had to make due with online trailers and/or web catalog descriptions. As usual, this year's NMM offerings included dozens of provocative, moving, and insightful documentaries. The titles below are just a sampling of those titles acquired for the MRC collection.

Black Sun
A Film by Rüdiger Sünner
A history of the esoteric ideas and myths that served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideology and inspired Adolf Hilter.

The Nine Lives of Norodom Sihanouk
A Film by Gilles Cayatte
The life story of Norodom Sihanouk, by turns Cambodia's King, Prime Minister, Prince, Head of State for Life, Exile, and Prisoner.

Mechanical Love
A Film by Phie Ambo
As increasingly life-like robots move from science labs and factories into our homes, how will human beings interact with these machines?

Malls R Us A Film by Helene Klodawsky From impressive
architectural projects to economic, environmental and social concerns,
everything about shopping malls, and more.

In Search of Memory: The Neuroscientist Eric Kandel A Film by Petra Seeger.
The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.

 Homo Toxicus
Dir. Carole Poliquin
Explores the links between the hundreds of toxic pollutants in our environment and increasing health problems.

 The Inheritors
A Film by Eugenio Polgovsky
An immersion in the daily life of children in Mexico who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor.

Virtual JFK
Dir. Koji Masutani
A filmic examination of "virtual history." What would Kennedy have done in Vietnam if he had lived and been re-elected in 1964?

Milking the Rhino
Dir. David E. Simpson
The promise of community-based conservation in Africa.

The Moroccan Labyrinth
- The little-known history of Spain's bloody colonial ambitions in
North Africa, and how they became a prelude to the Spanish Civil War.

Secret Museums
- For millenia erotic art has been created, often by some of the
world's best-known artists. But it is rarely on public display.