Nursing Shortage in the U.S.

Excellent (audio) documentary from WBUR in Boston. Unless young Americans start taking up nursing, we will have a massive crisis in the next decade or two. Thirty thousand nurses from overseas are being recruited to work in the U.S. every year. Half are from the Philippines.

Movie Recommendations, Vol. 6

Here are some films and PBS programs, we have enjoyed over the last several months:

• Gypo
  
• Volver
• Little Children
• Babel
• Time to Leave (another classic from Francois Ozon)
  
• The Impressionists (Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, ....)
• The Motel
• The Lives of Others (a beautiful film set in East Germany in the mid 1980s)
  
• After Innocence (documentary on men freed through The Innocence Project)
  
• The U.S. vs. John Lennon
  
• Who Killed The Electric Car
• Hand of God (from the PBS series Frontline)
  
• Horatio's Drive (a Ken Burns documentary)
  
• Peace One Day (documentary on the U.N. Global Day of Peace)
• Here to Stay (documentary on Filipino & other immigrant nurses in Ireland)
  
• One Bright Shining Moment (documentary on the '72 McGovern campaign)
• Look Both Ways (another gem from down under)
  
• Sherry Baby
• Bulworth (1998 classic from Warren Beatty)
  
• In the Shadow of the Stars (released in 1991; Oscar-winning documentary about the SF Opera)
  
• The Yes Men (we saw this a while back: funny documentary about a group of anti-WTO activists)
  

Previous Movie Recommendations can be found here:

• Vol. 5
  
• Vol. 4
  
• Vol. 3
  
• Vol. 2
• Vol. 1