Charles Henry Harpole is a šcholar of cinema and mass communications and a filmmaker. He received his doctorate from

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and has taught at the

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, New York University, the New School,

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, the

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, the

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, and Mahidol University. He was chairperson of the Cinema and Photography Department at Ohio State and was founding Head of the Film School at U. C. F. He was recruited to Thailand to start the film, television, and animation B.A. program at Mahidol University (co-sponsored by Kantana studios). Harpole retired from Mahidol University in September 2011. Harpole founded and led the Cinema History Project which created a ten-volume "History of American Cinema" book series, published by Charles Scribner Sons and by the

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, and held in over 600 WorldCat libraries. He is the author of ''Gradients of Depth in the Cinema Image'', published by Arno Press, and producer, director, writer and editor of documentary videos, primarily about Tibetan

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by shooting in India, Nepal, Tibet (China), Bhutan, Thailand, Laos and the USA. He has made programming for the Children's Television Workshop (''Sesame Street'') and has contributed to MSNBC, BBC, CNN and PBS. His students include

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and Steve James (''

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''), Milčo Mančevski ('' Before the Rain''), and the creatives who made ''

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'' (including Eduardo Sánchez). Harpole has taught over 11,000 students in his 30+ teaching career. His documentary and entertainment videos are on his YouTube channel, k4vud, including video testimony of Red Chinese atrocities on Tibetans. Harpole is an amateur radio operator; his call sign is K4VUD.

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Unchained Heart productions website
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