Diversity Video Library

2 Days in October

Publisher: PBS
Format: DVD
Runtime: 90 mins

Based on the book They Marched Into Sunlight by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, Two Days in October tells the story of two turbulent days in October 1967 when history turned a corner. In Vietnam, a U.S. battalion unwittingly marched into a Viet Cong trap. Sixty-one young men were killed and as many wounded. The ambush prompted some in power to wonder whether the war might be unwinnable.

Half a world away, concerned students at the University of Wisconsin protested the presence of Dow Chemical recruiters on campus. When Madison police showed up, the demonstration spiraled out of control, marking the first time that a student protest had turned violent.

Told entirely by the people who took part in the harrowing events of those two days -- American soldiers, police officers, relatives of men killed in battle, protesting students, university administrators and Viet Cong fighters -- the film offers a window onto a moment that divided a nation and a war that continues to haunt us.

1998 Evergreen Graduation Speech by Mumia Abu Jamal

Publisher: The Evergreen State College
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

Mumia Abu-Jamal is on death row for crime he says he didn't commit. His pre-recorded message was his representation as graduation speaker to the graduating class of The Evergreen State College of 1998.

Affirmative Action Debate: WWU

Publisher: WWU, Viking Union
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

A debate surrounding Affirmative Action and Initiative 200.

Affirmative Action: Fulfilling the Promise of Equal Opportunity

Publisher: Maldef Affirmative Action Campaign
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

This video discusses the importance of affirmative action, how it helps minorities and women, and when it started. It shows how affirmative action impacts educational, career, and economical opportunities through the use of individual stories of people who have benefited from it.

African American Lives

Publisher: PBS
Format: DVD
Runtime: 240 mins
Captions: No

Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois professor of the Humanities and chair of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, African American Lives, an unprecedented four-part PBS series, takes Alex Haley's Roots saga to a whole new level through moving stories of personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories and DNA analysis to trace lineage through American history and back to Africa, the series provides a life-changing journey for a diverse group of highly accomplished African Americans: Dr. Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Chris Tucker and Oprah Winfrey.

African American Lives 2

Publisher: PBS
Format: DVD
Runtime: 240 mins
Captions: Yes

Building on the widespread acclaim of African American Lives (2006) and Oprah's Roots (2007), AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 again journeys deep into ancestry of an all-new group of remarkable individuals, offering an in-depth look at the African-American experience and race relations throughout U.S. history. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns as series host, guiding genealogical investigations down through the 20th century, Reconstruction, slavery and early U.S. history, and presenting cutting-edge genetic analysis that locates participants' ancestors in Africa, Europe and America . Joining Professor Gates in the new broadcast are poet Maya Angelou, author Bliss Broyard, actor Don Cheadle, actor Morgan Freeman, theologian Peter Gomes, publisher Linda Johnson Rice, athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, radio personality Tom Joyner, comedian Chris Rock, music legend Tina Turner, and college administrator Kathleen Henderson, who was selected from more than 2,000 applicants to have her family history researched and DNA tested alongside the series' well-known guests.

Additional Support Materials:

AFRICAN AMRICAN LIVES 2 MULTIMEDIA EDUCATION PACKAGE

A guide and DVD, exploring the themes and ideas presented in AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2. The guide is interactive, with information on how to build a family tree, profiles of the 11 individuals featured in the series, and a list of informative resources. Users of the package will learn how to uncover details of their own past, and witness the revelatory moments others have experienced through this process of looking back. The AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 Multimedia Package will place the circumstances of one's history within reach.

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

Publisher: The Cinema Guild Inc.
Format: DVD
Runtime: 96 mins
Captions: No

The collateral impact of America’s secret war in Laos Is reflected in the extraordinary story of one family’s struggle for survival-in Laos and later in the U.S. Filmed over the course of 23 years, The Betrayal is the directorial debut of famed cinematographer Ellen Kuras in collaboration with the film’s subject and co-director Thavisouk Phrasavath.

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. clandestinely operated in the neighboring country of Laos. By 1973 a secret air campaign had dropped more bombs on Laos than were used during WWI and WWII combined. Recruited by the CIA to work intelligence along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Thavisouk’s father is exposed after America’s retreat and is imprisoned by the ruling Communist government. The entire family comes under suspicion and their mother is forced to raise Thavi and his nine younger siblings alone. At the age thirteen, Thavi escapes across the Mekong River to Thailand, and is joined two years later by his mother and seven of his siblings. After living in a refugee camp the family seeks asylum in America, and is soon deposited in a crowded tenement in Brooklyn. Left to their own means by the government, the family struggles to survive and stay together, pulled by two different cultures, terrorized by local gangs, and haunted by memories. Renowned for her achievement as a Director of Photography, Ellen Kuras has worked for such directors as Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) and Spike Lee (Summer of Sam, 4 Little Girls), among many others, and is a three-time winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s prestigious Cinematography award.

A lyrical melding of memoir, cinema verite’ and historical inquiry, The Betrayal is an exquisitely crafted tale of a country and a family torn asunder, and the long and painful process of repair.

Beyond Our Differences

Publisher: Entropy Films
Format: DVD
Runtime: 72 mins
Captions: Yes

Beyond Our Differences provides a tapestry of distinct voices and viewpoints regarding spirituality, woven with one universal expression of hope. By providing such a variety of experiences against the backdrop of rich landscapes and religious images, it is the hope that individual viewers will understand this unified message of hope and will become empowered through their own expression of faith to impact positive change in their lives and the lives of others.

The film gives hope by exploring past and present religious-inspired movements that have resulted in positive change. In addition to documenting the work of great leaders such as Gandhi, Desmond Tutu, and the Dalai Lama we will also follow several modern-day visionaries whose faith have afforded them the courage to promote social change.

Beyond the Color of Fear

Publisher: SpeakOut! The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture
Format: DVD and 4 Lesson Booklets
Runtime: 90 min DVD excerpts and lessons
Captions: No

This is an indispensable resouce for educators, diversity trainers and facilitators. Utilizing this guide, you can design a powerful class or training program that will trigger critical reflection about the issues raised in the film that is both safe and challenging, while advancing critical work to address racism and white privilege.

• Volume I: Covers 25 lessons drawn from the first half of the film and includes a companion DVD. Each lesson corresponds to a video selection, organized for easy viewing and navigation.
• Volume II: Is the complete time-indexed transcript of the documentary,"The Color of Fear."
• Volume III: Is an exclusive interviews by white anti-racism educator Peggy McIntosh with David Christensen and Victor Lewis from "The Color of Fear."
• Volume IV: Includes ten "field reports" from experts with many years of experience teaching with "The Color of Fear." These essays provide in-depth models and information on specific teaching approaches and themes.

Body of War

Publisher: Docurama films
Format: DVD
Runtime: 87 mins
Captions: No

Paralyzed from the chest down after serving in Iraq for just one week, 25-year-old Tomas Young is forced to deal with the realities of war each and every day. For Tomas, learning to cope with his disability means finding his voice to speak out against the war in Iraq.

Directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro and set to the haunting vocals of Eddie Vedder, the multi award-winning Body of War splits its time between Tomas’s arduous daily reality in Kansas City, MO, and the harrowing legislative process that led up to the invasion of Iraq in 2002. Senatorial speeches and a running tally of pro-war votes that are inter-spliced with intimate footage of Tomas as he navigates through the acute physical and emotional impacts of his injury. A testament to the power of parallel images, the film adeptly juxtaposes the sanitized vantage point of Washington with raw personal experience. In the end, this contrast forces viewers to question the motives, methods, and ever-rising cost of the conflict in Iraq.

A deeply moving and bracingly honest film, Body of War narrates a story that must be heard-a story of courage, conviction and resistance.

Chicano Rock! The Sounds of East Los Angeles

Publisher: Wilkman Productions/PBS
Format: DVD
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: Yes

Narrated by Edward James Olmos, this lively one-hour documentary combines intimate interviews, rare archival film and photographs with exuberant music. Chicano Rock! is also an entertaining and informative journey through more than half a century of America's multicultural past. The story begins with Lalo Guerrero, a National Medal of the Arts honoree known as the Father of Chicano Rock. Arriving in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, Lalo found a city bursting with ambition, even in the last days of the Great Depression. During the war years that followed, many young Mexican Americans defied prejudice and stereotypes, adopting zoot suit fashions and a Spanglish slang called calo. Lalo Guerrero and his friend bandleader Don Tosti captured their spirit in music, mixing swing and boogie woogie in a cross-cultural dialog between African American, Anglo and Mexican American influences.

Children of Abraham

Publisher: Compassionate Listening Project
Format: VHS
Runtime: 36 mins
Captions: No

"Children of Abraham compellingly documents the profound possibilities within a society in which friends and enemies alike attune themselves to the voice of the other. It should serve as an urgent reminder of how badly we transgress and how much we forfeit when we dismiss the power of listening as too simple. This is not a promotion of a naive quick fix, but rather a call to the wrenching but essential heroism that Jewish tradition says inheres in making one's enemy into one's friend."

Rabbi Gordon Tucker

In January of 1998, twenty-two Jewish Americans traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of Mid East Citizen Diplomacy's Compassionate Listening Project. Children of Abraham is a 34-minute broadcast-quality documentary which chronicles this journey.

The film follows the Jewish participants as they visit with and listen to Israelis and Palestinians - from leaders to refugees, and seek to understand the complexities of religious, political and human rights issues. Participants include Jewish leaders and professionals ranging from secular to observant.

This stunning documentary introduces the Compassionate Listening reconciliation model, and humanizes each Israeli and Palestinian portrayed. The film delivers a compelling message that conflict can be transformed through the simple act of listening.

Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

Publisher: Unity Productions Foundation & Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Format: DVD
Runtime: 116 mins
Captions: No

A thousand years ago in the sun washed lands of Souther Spain, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together and thrived. Their cultures and beliefs intertwined and the knowledge of the ancients was gathered and reborn. Here were the very seeds of the Renaissance. But this world too quickly vanished. Greed, fear and intolerance swept it away. Puritanical judgements and absolutism snuffed out the light of learning. Within a few centuries, the fragile union of these people dissipated like smoke. The time of tolerance was lost forever. What can we learn from this time? Must history repeat itself?

BONUS MATERIAL: Lesson plans and facilitator's guides for futher exploring Islamic Spain.

City on the Edge

Publisher:
Format: VHS
Runtime: 12 mins
Captions: No

This is a short but powerful piece on image of Los Angles, California. The mix of Ultra rich and Permanently poor doesn't help the tourism industry, but the video points out that its almost a self-fulfilling prophesy. The tourism industry keeps people down by paying them horrifically low wages, then complains that not enough people want to see L.A. because of the increasing poverty.

A Class Apart

Publisher: American Experience
Format: DVD
Runtime: 60 minutes
Captions: Yes

In the small town of Edna, Texas in 1951, a field hand names Pete Hernandez killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a gritty cantina. From this seemingly unremarkable murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives of and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans.

In this case, lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were "a class apart" and did not neatly fit into a legal structure that recognized only blacks and whites. As legal skirmishes unfolded, the lawyers emerged as brilliant, dedicated, humorous, and at times terribly flawed men. This film dramatically interweaves the story of its central characters- activists, and lawyers, returning veterans and ordinary citizens, murder, and victim- within the broader history of Latinos in America during a time of extraordinary change. The DVD includes materials for educators as well as Spanish language audio and subtitles.

The Color of Fear

Publisher: Lee Mun Wah, Stir Fry Production
Format: VHS
Runtime: 90 mins
Captions: No

The Color of Fear is an insightful, groundbreaking film about the state of race relations in America as seen through the eyes of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino and African descent. In a series of intelligent, emotional and dramatic confrontations the men reveal the pain and scars that racism has caused them. What emerges is a deeper sense of understanding and trust. This is the dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.

Conversation with a Race Traitor, Noel Ignatiev, Day of Absence 1999

Publisher: Evergreen, Noel Ignatiev
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

Noel Ignatiev helped create Race Traitor, a news publication which aims to serve as an intellectual center for those seeking to abolish the white race. It will encourage dissent from the conformity that maintains it and popularize examples of defection from its ranks, analyze the forces that hold it together and those that promise to tear it apart. Part of its task will be to promote debate among abolitionists. When possible, it will support practical measures, guided by the principle, Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. He came to speak on the Day of Absence here at The Evergreen State College.

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Publisher: Bullfrog Films
Format: DVD
Runtime:  83 minutes
Captions: Yes

With unprecedented access into the worlds of active gangs, Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a compelling character-driven documentary which chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture from the genesis of L.A.'s gang culture to the shocking, war-zone reality of daily life in South L.A., the film traces the rise of the Crips and Bloods, and their bloody four-decade long feud. Contemporary and former gang members offer their street-level testimony providing a stark portrait of modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy and family structure, the rules of behavior, the culture of guns, death and dishonor.

Throughout the film ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists, and academics analyze many of the issues that contribute to South L.A.'s malaise: the erosion of identity that fuels the self-perpetuating legacy of black self-hatred, the disappearance of the African-American father and an almost pervasive prison culture in which today one out of every four black men will be imprisoned at some point in his life.

Finally the gang members themselves articulate their enduring dream of a better life. They provide a message of home and a cautionary tale of redemption aimed at saving the lives of a new generation of kids, not just in South L.A. but anywhere in the world that gang violence exists.

Crossing the Lines

Publisher: Compassionate Listening Project
Format: VHS
Runtime: 28 mins
Captions: No

Crossing the Lines contains interviews with Israelis and Palestinians filmed during the Compassionate Listening Delegations

Egalite for All: Toussaint Loverture and the Haitian Revolution

Publisher: Koval Films/PBS
Format: DVD
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: Yes

It was the only successful slave insurrection in history. It grasped the full meaning of French revolutionary ideas and used them to create the world’s first black republic. It elevated a former slave, Toussaint Louverture, to such international fame that admirers ranked him on par with George Washington. It was the Haitian Revolution, a movement of admirable aspirations…and appalling destruction.. Vaguely remembered today, the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 traumatized planters in the American South and inspired U.S. slaves. Égalité for All explores this history through music, voodoo ritual, powerful recreations, and insightful writers and historians

Equal Opportunity: The American Dilemma; A debate on Affirmative Action with Dinesh D'Souza and Tim Wise

Publisher: The Evergreen State College, Office for Equal Opportunity
Format: VHS
Runtime: 1 hr 11 mins
Captions: No

Tim Wise and Dinesh D'Sousa debate the merits of Affirmative Action at The Evergreen State College. Includes statements and questions from the community audience of approximately 1200. D'Sousa, a political conservative, describes himself as antiracist and sympathetic to minorities. A first generation immigrant from India, he authored the highly controversial book Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (1991) and The End of Racism (1995). Tim Wise is an expert on racism and the political movements of the far right. He is the director of the youth Anti- Prejudice Project and speaks extensively around the country about racial tolerance and understanding. As assistant director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, he was instrumental in the political demise of neo-Nazi David Duke. He is the author of Little White Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination.

First Break

Publisher: Fan Light Production
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

Documents the impact of the "first break" of mental illness on three young people in their teens and early twenties, as well as the effects on their families.

Frontline: Racism 101

Publisher: PBS
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

In 1986, a campus radio station at the University of Michigan aired a program of racial jokes touching off a heated confrontation between black and white students. Similar incidents at colleges across the country have signaled an increase of racism and violence on America's campuses. This program reveals an unsettling return to the kind of racial prejudice that flared during the early days of the civil rights movement. (Frontline Series)

For the Next 7 Generations: 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, Weaving a World that Works

Publisher: The Laughing Willow Company
Format: DVD
Runtime: 85 Minutes
Captions: No

In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners, moved by their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering, where they decieded to form an alliance: The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. This is their story.

Four years in-the-making and shot on location in the Amazon rainforest, the mountains of Mexico, North America, and at a private meeting with the Dalai Lama in India. For the Next 7 Generations follows what happens when these wise women unite. Facing a world in crisis, they share with us their visions of healing and a call for change now, before it's too late. This film documents their unparalleled journey and timely perspectives on a timeless wisdom.

Frontline: Secrets of the SAT

Publisher: PBS
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

With legal challenges to affirmative action spreading across this country, Frontline investigated the impact of standardized tests on racial diversity on college campuses.

A Grain of Sand

Publisher: Nobuko, Great Leap Production
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

In a poetic fusion of story, song, and video imagery, Nobuko Miyamoto breaks through the forces of silence in search of her own song.

The Great Pinoy Boxing Era

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Publisher:  Center for Asian American Media
Format: DVD
Runtime: 31 mins
Captions: No

Filipino men came to the U.S. not only as farm laborers, but as prize-winning boxers during the ‘20s and ‘30s. Experience the greatest era in sports for Filipinos through the only documentary ever made on the era. Come to know the Pinoy heroes who were symbols of pride and hope for equality in an unwelcoming America. This documentary also reveals contributions by Filipinos to the international boxing technique.

Harassment: Keeping it out of the Workplace

Publisher: American Training Resources
Format: VHS
Runtime: 18 mins
Captions: No

A series of vignettes that communicate the destructive nature of workplace harassment, including sexual harassment, workplace harassment, abuse of authority, and racism. --from http://www.atr-inc.com

Initiative 200 Debate, Tim Wise and Tim Eyman

Publisher: TVW, Tim Wise and Tim Eyman
Format: VHS
Runtime: 1 hr 34 min
Captions: No

Tim Eyman and Tim Wise debate the merits of anti-affirmative action Initiative 200 at the University of Washington. Includes statements and questions from the community. The initiative was passed by vote of the citizens of Washington State in November 1998. Tim Eyman was co-chairman of the campaign for Washington State Initiative 200 attacking affirmative action for women and people of color in public employment, education and contracting. Tim Wise is an expert on racism and political movements of the far right. He is the director of the youth Anti-Prejudice Project and speaks extensively around the country about racial tolerance and understanding. As assistant director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, he was instrumental in the political demise of neo-Nazi David Duke. He is the author of Little White Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination.

Inside Burma: Land of Fear

Publisher: Bullfrog Films
Format: VHS
Runtime: 51 mins
Captions: No

John Pilger investigates the history and brutality of the military dictatorship in Burma. Inside Burma exposes the history and brutality of one of the world's most repressive regimes. Nearly the size of Texas, with a population of more than 40 million, Burma has rich natural resources probably unequaled in Asia. Yet Burma is also a secret country.

Isolated for the past 40 years, since a brutal military dictatorship seized power in Rangoon, this rich country has been relegated to one of the world's poorest, the assault on its people all but forgotten by the rest of the world.

Award-winning filmmakers John Pilger and David Munro go undercover to expose how the former British colony is ruled by a harsh, bloody and uncompromising military regime.

More than a million people have been forced from their homes and untold thousands killed, tortured and subjected to slavery.

Last Chance for Eden

Publisher: Lee Mun Wah
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

Last Chance for Eden is a documentary about eight men and women discussing the issues of racism and sexism in the workplace. They examine the impact of society's stereotypes on their lives in the workplace, in their personal relationships and within their families and in their communities. In the course of their dialogue, they also explore the differences and similarities between racism and sexism - an area that has seldom been researched, but has heatedly become a very important issue needing to be understood and dealt with.

The cast was painstakingly selected from a large pool of interesting and dynamic applicants. We would like to thank everyone who answered our questionnaire. We've saved them all and are keeping them for consideration for our upcoming films.

Learning Communities: Constancy & Change

Publisher: Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

In this Multi-media presentation adapted for film, Learning Communities through out Washington through out its history are acknowledged and celebrated.

Liberian Women Together as One

Publisher: Gilda L. Shepherd
Format: DVD
Runtime: 15 min
Captions: No

"Women Together as One" focuses on work Sheppard did with Liberian women refugees who live at the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana, West Africa. She worked with the refugees to organize and design classes for economic sustainability (computer literacy, adult literacy, cosmetology, catering, sewing and tie and dye workshops) and school scholarships for their children.

Lioness

Publisher: Room 11 Productions Film
Format: DVD
Runtime: 82 mins
Captions: No

How did a group of Army women-mechanics, supply clerks, and engineers-  end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war? Directors Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers offer an unprecedented look at the war through the eyes of the first women in the U.S. history to be sent into direct ground combat in violation of official policy. Through intimate personal stories and scenes from their lives back home, the film creates a deeply moving portrait of love, faith, duty, and solidarity.

Long Nights Journey Into Day

Publisher: California Newsreel
Format: DVD
Runtime: 91 mins
Captions: No

For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid's rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed. As it investigated the crimes of apartheid, the Commission brought together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. By revealing the past instead of burying it, the TRC hoped to pave the way to a peaceful future.

Long Night's Journey Into Day follows several TRC cases over a two-year period. The stories in the film underscore the universal themes of conflict, forgiveness, and renewal.

Lourdes Arguelles

Publisher: The Evergreen State College, Lourdes Arguelles
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

Lourdes Arguelles received her Ph.D. at New York University from the Division of Behavioral Sciences, Center for Human Relations and Community Studies of the School of Education. Her concentrations were in Psychology and Sociology. She did post-doctoral work in law and psychiatry at Osgood Hall Law School at York University in Canada and in ethnic studies at the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA. Dr. Arguelles is a licensed marriage, child, and family therapist in the state of California.

Her theoretical interests in the political economy and the spirituality of everyday life and her commitment to social and ecological justice and non-human animal welfare were shaped by the experience of the Cuban socialist revolution, by her studies with Buddhist teachers in India, Japan, Thailand, and Burma, and with a Chinese Qi-Qong master in the U.S. They were also greatly influenced by living and working with refugees and indigenous peoples throughout the world. Community, labor, and environmental organizing work in the inner cities of Montreal, New York, Miami, Florida, and in US-Mexico border cities and clinical practice with people living with HIV/AIDS, survivors of political and family torture, and with women of color and sexual minorities, have led her to an interest in the development of critical psychological modalities of care and ecologically-based educational practices, as well as to an interest in the field of gender and feminist studies. Dr. Arguelles' experience of growing up in an extended family system in the Caribbean and her life experiences in non-advanced industrial parts of the world have greatly contributed to her work in narrative research and storytelling pedagogy.

Minorities in the College Classroom

Publisher: Dept. Human Relations
Format: VHS
Runtime: 26 mins
Captions: No

This video illustrates communication problems between faculty and minority students at the college level, which can lead to learning difficulties; and the assumptions or presumptions professors have before getting to know students.

Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible

Publisher: World Trust Educational Service, 2007
Format: DVD
Runtime: 50 mins
Captions: No
Support Material: Study Guide found at http://www.world-trust.org/MWV_CGuide.pdf

This video follows white activists as they discuss the process of transforming their own unconscious racist attitudes. Participants, including Peggy McIntosh, Tim Wise and others, share what actions they took to move through the common first stages of denial, defensiveness, guilt, fear and shame into making solid commitments towards ending racism.

Mo' Better Education

Publisher:
Format: VHS
Runtime:
Captions: No

African-American, American Indian, Latino & Asian-American Students Describing the Eurocratic Nature of Public Schools & Their Visions for Change.

New Faces on Main Street

Publisher: Newist
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

New Faces on Main Street, an hour-long investigative documentary, provides a contemporary perspective of the situation of Latino and among refugees and immigrants; why they originally came to the United States and how they are surviving in middle size and smaller communities in the Midwest. It hopes to dispel some commonly held beliefs and stereotypes about the Hmong and Latino cultures. New Faces on Main Street utilizes first person accounts of immigrants and refugees and testimonies of other people in their communities.

The Philosopher Kings

Publisher: Transcendental Media

Format: DVD

Runtime: 70 Minutes

Captions: No

In search of wisdom found in unlikely places, The Philosopher Kings takes us on a journey through the halls of the most prestigious colleges and universities in America to learn from the staff members who see it all and have been through it all: the custodians. This thought-provoking, feature-length documentary interweaves the untold stories of triumph and tragedy from the members of society who are often disregaurded and ignored, and seeks out the kind of wisdom that gets you through the day and the lessons one learns from surviving hard times, lost loves, and shattered dreams

From the producers of the multiple-award winning Flight from Death, The Philosopher Kings gives us the opportunity to learn from the eight incredible individuals whom we would never have otherwise taken a moment out of our day to acknowledge.

"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study."  ~ Chinese Proverb

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Publisher: Fork Films
Format: DVD
Runtime: 72 mins
Captions: No

Pray the Devil Back to Hell was released in 2009 but got precious little distribution.  The film chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.

Thousands of women — ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Christian and Muslim — came together to pray for peace and then staged a silent protest outside of the Presidential Palace. Armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions, they demanded a resolution to the country’s civil war. Their actions were a critical element in bringing about an agreement during the stalled peace talks.

A story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence, Pray the Devil Back to Hell honors the strength and perseverence of the women of Liberia. Inspiring, uplifting, and most of all motivating, it is a compelling testimony of how grassroots activism can alter the history of nations.

Precious Knowledge

Precious Knowledge examines the current struggle over ethnic studies and culturally authentic and relevant pedagogy. Through documentary footage of classroom activities in the Mexican American Studies program of the Tucson Unified School District, as well as testimony of students, teachers, school board members and Arizona policy makers, viewers are provided the opportunity to consider the implications for education policy and practice beyond the borders of the State of Arizona. Important questions are raised about who in this country is dictating public policy about curricular content, what is legitimate American history, who teaches our children, what are the appropriate roles of youth, community and activism in shaping public policy, and the role of culture in America today.

Rabbit in the Moon

Publisher: Emiko Omori, Sundance Film Award Winner
Format: VHS
Runtime: 85 mins
Captions: No

A documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the World War II interment of the Japanese American community. Interwoven is the story of two sisters, both former internees, filmmaker Emiko Omori and writer Chizuko Omori, who questioned the absence of this vital history in their lives while searching for the memory of their mother. Includes historical footage and accounts from Japanese American who experienced interment and fought against it."

Race in the Classroom: A Multiplicity of Experience

Publisher: Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning & Office of Race and Minority Affairs
Format: VHS
Runtime: 19 mins
Captions: No

Five vignettes depicting moments in college courses when racial and cultural dynamics become a major factor in teaching and learning. Each vignette is based on an actual classroom incident. These scenes do not offer specific answers, but are intended instead to spark discussion on these important and difficult issues. Co-produced with the Harvard Office for Race Relations and Minority Affairs."

Race: The Power of Illusion

Publisher: California Newsreel
Format: VHS
Runtime: 56 mins each
Captions: No

The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new three-hour series by California Newsreel claims. Race - The Power of an Illusion questions the very idea of race as biology, suggesting that a belief in race is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth.

Yet race still matters. Just because race doesn't exist in biology doesn't mean it isn't very real, helping shape life chances and opportunities.

Episode 1- The Difference Between Us examines the contemporary science - including genetics - that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.

Episode 2- The Story We Tell uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American social inequalities as "natural."

Episode 3- The House We Live In asks, If race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions "make" race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people.

By asking, What is this thing called 'race'?, a question so basic it is rarely asked, Race - The Power of an Illusion helps set the terms that any further discussion of race must first take into account. Ideal for human biology, anthropology, sociology, American history, American studies, and cultural studies.

Regret to Inform

Publisher: Barbara Sonneborn and Sun Foundation Productions
Format: VHS
Runtime: 72 mins
Captions: No

Regret to Inform looks at the Vietnam War through the lenses of women who lived through it, nurses, U.S. and Vietnamese widows, women who were children at the time. The video jacket reads, "...has extraordinary power and beauty. It is a personal, haunting and redemption-filled journey that will forever change the way you think about war." Our viewers agree.

Returning Veterans: Implications for Higher Education

Publisher: Magna Online Seminars – July 15, 2008
Format: DVD (Web based seminar and handouts on CD)
Runtime: 92 mins
Captions: No

The seminar Returning Veterans: Implications for Higher Education compares veterans from World War II, Vietnam, and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in terms of the economic climate, political climate, survival and injury rates, the characteristics of this generations soldiers, and implications for institutions of higher education.

Reverend James Lawson at Evergreen Hall I

Publisher: The Evergreen State College
Format: DVD
Runtime: 60 minutes
Captions: No

Reverend James Lawson Jr.’s lecture 5/5/08 at The Evergreen State College Lecture Hall I.

Reverend James Lawson at Temple Beth Hatfilo

Publisher: The Evergreen State College
Format: DVD
Runtime: 120 minutes
Cations: No

Reverend James Lawson Jr’s talk at the Temple Beth Hatfiloh on 5/5/08.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Trinity Church of Christ, National Press Club Morning News Maker 4/28/08

Publisher: Federal News Service
Format: DVD
Runtime: 53 minutes
Captions: No

National press club speaker breakfast with the reverend dr. Jeremiah Wright, senior pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois topic: the African-American religious experience moderator: Donna Leinwand, reporter, USA today, and vice president of the national press club location: the national press club, Washington, D.C. time: 9:00 a.m. EDT date: Monday, April 28, 2008

Sexual Harassment: Minimizing the Risk

Publisher: McGrath

Format: VHS

Runtime:

Captions: No

Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America

Publisher: Teaching Tolerance
Format: VHS
Runtime: 40 mins
Captions: No

Spanning three centuries, this resource explores the history of intolerance in America and our country's ongoing struggle to live up to its ideals of liberty, equality and justice for all.

Through documentary footage and eyewitness reports, students are given a powerful perspective on historical events from the ordinary people who lived through them.

Skin Deep

Publisher: Iris Films Production
Format: VHS
Runtime: 53 mins
Captions: No

The award winning film, by Academy-Award nominated producer Frances Reid, chronicles the provocative journey of a diverse group of college students as they examine their deeply held attitudes and feelings about race. Through their dialogue and interactions, they explore the barriers that stand in the way of building a society that truly respects all races.

Slingshot Hip Hop

Publisher: Fresh Booza Productions
Format: DVD
Runtime: 94 minutes
Captions: No,
Languages: English, Arabic and Hebrew

Slingshot Hip Hop weaves together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank, and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. Follow Tamer, Suhell, and Mahmoud of DAM, the first ever Palestinian Hip Hop group, from their early awkward studio recordings, through the outbreak of the second Intifada, to fiery sold-out shows all over the world. Through DAM we meet Mahmoud Shalabi, an irreverent rapper from Akka, along with R&B singer Abeer and rap duo Arapeyat, rising female artists determined to express themselves.

Meanwhile, Mohammed, Kan”aan and Mezo of PR have begun emulating DAM. Trapped in Gaza, one of the most heavily populated places on Earth, PR longs to escape its confines and finally meet their fellow rappers. From Separation Walls to gender norms, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that divide them

Southern Poverty Law Center

Publisher: SPLC
Format: VHS
Runtime: 22 mins
Captions: No

A video presentation about The Southern Poverty Law Center, their work and their offices.

The Sun Behind The Clouds

Publisher: Zeitgeist Films
Format: DVD
Runtime: 79 Minutes
Captions: Yes

A provocative and potent look at The Dalai Lama's ceaseless struggle for justice recognition for the Tibetan people, The Sun Behind The Clouds focuses on the pivotal and particularly tumultuous events of 2008. From Buddhist monks' protest in Lhasa on the 50^th anniversary of the Chinese invasion and the four-month march of exiled Tibetans through India to the Tibetan border, to the Beijing Olympics and the raucous talks between the Dalai Lama's representatives and the Chinese government, the film uncovers the growing rifts between younger Tibetans and their most respected spiritual leader.

While His Holiness advocates for the political autonomy within China rather than secession from it, a younger generation within Tibet has grown impatient and begun to chart a more confrontational course. Following the Dalai Lama's political life with unprecedented personal access, Tibetan filmmaker Tenzing Sonam and co-director Ritu Sarin, bring an impassioned focus to the myriad complexities in fining a peaceful solution based on compromise and dialogue.

Talking About Race

Publisher: Iris Films Productions
Format: VHS
Runtime: Part 1: 12 mins, Part 2: 13 mins
Captions: No

Talking About Race, parts 1 and 2 are designed to facilitate classroom or community group discussions about the race and ethnicity-related experiences and attitudes of college students. Using footage shot for the award wining documentary Skin Deep, each vignette presents a different issue for discussion. These videos were directed and produced by Frances Reid.

Tattooed Under Fire

Publisher: Mo-Ti Productions

Format: DVD

Runtime:

Captions: No

Tattooed Under Fire is a grippingly intimate, character-driven portrait of Iraq-bound and returning U.S. soldiers as they go under the tattoo needle-openly professing their pride, sharing their secrets and confessing their fears.

 The tattoos cross lines of gender, class, and political affinity revealing the inner lives of young men and women as they live through the horrors of the Iraq War.

The film's narrative moves from the early expectations and excitement of 18 and 20 year-olds through cynicism and anger, to a sense of a psychological aftermath that will never be erased. Each soldier's story is an evocative, poignant, and highly personal look at the human and cultural cost of war.

Tell Them I'm A Mermaid

Publisher: Prop. of Disable Student Group
Format: VHS
Runtime: 23 mins
Captions: No

"The children in shopping centers always ask, 'What's wrong with your legs?' You know what I say to them? I tell them 'I'm a mermaid!'" Seven extraordinary women with physical disabilities relate their stories in this original musical-theater "documentary."

Trans Clients Speak

Publisher: Philipe Lonestar
Format: DVD
Runtime: approx. 2 hours
Captions: No

This video is one step towards a vision of widespread education and awareness about Transgender issues in mental health care. This documentary features a panel of transgender and genderqueer people, who are given the oppurtunity to disscuss and answer questions about their range of expierences with therapists. A transgender educational panel for psychotherapists and mental health practitioners created a rare opportunity for transgender and genderqueer people to speak about their helpful, insulting, insensitive, uplifting, pathologizing, plaguing, empowering, and healing experiences with therapists.

Trouble the Water

Publisher: A Zeitgeist Film
Format: DVD
Runtime: 96 minutes
Captions: No

This astonishingly powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine) weave this insider’s view of Katrina with a devastating portrait of the hurricane’s aftermath.

Trouble the Water takes Audiences on a journey that is by turns heart stopping, infuriating, inspiring, and empowering. It’s not only about the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, but about the underlying issues that remained when the floodwaters receded-failing public schools, records high levels of incarceration, poverty, structural racism and lack of government accountability.

Viva La Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History

Publisher: Collision Course Video
Format: VHS
Runtime: 1 hour
Captions: No

A documentary film about race, gender and class in the United States. Over the course of eight months, sixty-four women, representing a cross-section of cultures in the U.S., met in councils separated by ethnicity - African-American, Arab, Asian, European-American, Indigenous, Jewish, Latina, and Multi-Racial. With uncommon courage, the women shared their minds and hearts and told their stories about resistance, love, assimilation, standards of beauty, power, school experiences and more. Their candid conversations offer rare access into multi-dimensional cultural worlds invisible to outsiders.

Waltz With Bashir

Publisher: Sony Pictures Classics

Format: DVD

Runtime: 90 minutes

Captions: Yes

Inspired by actual events, Waltz with Bashir chronicles one man's descent into his own half-forgotten past. Filmmaker Ari Folman, an Israeli veteran of the First Lebanon War, encounters an old friend suffering from nightmares of conflict. Ari begins to wonder why his own memories are full of gaps. In an effort to uncover the truth, he reconnects with old friends and dares to confront the horrors of war. Hailed as innovative and devastating, Waltz with Bashir fuses animation and documentary to create an experience unlike anything you've ever witnessed.

The Way Home

Publisher: Shakti Butler
Format: VHS
Runtime: 92 mins
Captions: No

A documentary film about race, gender and class in the United States. Over the course of eight months, sixty-four women, representing a cross-section of cultures in the U.S., met in councils separated by ethnicity - African-American, Arab, Asian, European-American, Indigenous, Jewish, Latina, and Multi-Racial. With uncommon courage, the women shared their minds and hearts and told their stories about resistance, love, assimilation, standards of beauty, power, school experiences and more. Their candid conversations offer rare access into multi-dimensional cultural worlds invisible to outsiders.

When We Were Kids, We Went to War

Publisher: Bristol Production
Format: VHS
Runtime: 2 hrs
Captions: No

When We Were Kids...We Went to War is a powerful video for the classroom that shows the personal side of war as presented by WWII Veterans and civilians in their own words and from their unique viewpoint. History books tell us the names dates and places, while these people tell us about their feelings, thoughts, and everyday lives during the war. This documentary connects today's student with the fact that history is real, and the men and women who fought the war were real people about their age when they were called into service. --from http://wwiihistoryclass.com

White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men

White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men is a documentary that raises important and challenging questions about the popularization and commercialization of Native American spiritual traditions by non-Indians. The film presents the voices of a wide range of communities, Native and non-native, with differing perspectives on what new age practitioners are engaging in when they adopt certain cultural objects and practices. Many important questions are explored in this 26 minute video. Who benefits from these activities? What are the costs and to whom? Why is this occurring and what is at stake? What is cultural appropriation? What’s to be done?

Yellow Apparrel: When the Coolie Becomes Cool

Publisher: getupstandup productions
Format: VHS
Runtime: 31 mins
Captions: No

When does one cross the line between appreciation and appropriation? Between supporting the struggle for social justice and objectifying the struggle into a fashion trend? yellow apparel: when the coolie becomes cool, a 31-minute documentary produced by Ethnic Studies 128 students Anmol Chaddha, Naomi Iwasaki, Sonya Zehra Mehta, Muang Saechao, and Sheng Wang, helps answer these questions.

You are the Game: Sexual Harassment on Campus

Publisher: Indiana University
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

This video is more useful for research or informational purposes rather than in presentations. It dramatizes the situations of two college women who have experienced different forms of sexual harassment. Most of this discussion focuses on the difficulty students have in dealing in isolation with a pattern of harassment and the impact it has on their lives.

You are the Game: Sexual Harassment on Campus

Publisher: Indiana University
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No

This video is more useful for research or informational purposes rather than in presentations. It dramatizes the situations of two college women who have experienced different forms of sexual harassment. Most of this discussion focuses on the difficulty students have in dealing in isolation with a pattern of harassment and the impact it has on their lives.