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Social Documentary

Social Documentary

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?

Directed by Jim Cricchi

Unravels the ways that years of minority rule by one party have reshaped democracy in Wisconsin, where voters are finding their lives increasingly irrelevant to state lawmakers.

Small-town activism. Nail-biting elections. A last-minute power grab. In Wisconsin, where extreme partisanship has become the norm, voters are finding their lives increasingly irrelevant to state lawmakers.

Through the stories of four tireless women fighting to have their voices heard, CAN YOU HEAR US NOW? unravels the ways that years of minority rule by one-party have reshaped democracy in a state at the heart of American politics.

DVD / 2020 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adults) / 87 minutes

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GIRL WITH THE RIVET GUN, THE

Directed by Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly

Takes you beyond the iconic "We Can Do It" poster girl to the millions of real-life women who shook the foundations of the American workplace in WWII.

Built entirely by women filmmakers, THE GIRL WITH THE RIVET GUN is an unconventional animated documentary short based on the adventures of three real-life "Rosie the Riveters" - "Esther Horne, Susan Taylor King and Mildred Crow Sargent. From vastly different backgrounds, these three women came of age in an America united by war but struggling with divisions of gender, economics and race.

THE GIRL WITH THE RIVET GUN serves as an entry point into a rich, layered, and adventurous rewriting of history as herstory, inspiring conversations about working women everywhere and taking viewers beyond the iconic "We Can Do It" poster girl to the millions of real-life women who shook the foundations of the American workplace - "forever changing not only their own lives, but the very perception of what women can do.

DVD / 2020 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 15 minutes

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NO FEAR NO FAVOR

Directed by Mirra Bank

African communities on the front lines of the poaching crisis fight to protect their wildlife for future generations.

Shot over two years in Zambia's Kafue National Park--one of the largest intact wilderness areas in the world--as well as in Kenya and Namibia, NO FEAR NO FAVOR illuminates the wrenching choices faced by impoverished Africans who live where community meets wilderness--on the front lines of Africa's poaching crisis. The film follows follows local women and men who fight the illegal wildlife trade through cooperative law enforcement and innovative conservation.

Through community conservancies, the people in these communities protect wildlife and the region's wilderness heritage, return eco-tourism profits to local people, and generate sustainable livelihoods -- especially for women and girls.

DVD / 2020 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adults) / 66 minutes

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PAULETTE

By Heather Rae

PAULETTE follows the historic campaign of Paulette Jordan, the first Native American candidate - " as well as the first woman -- to win the Idaho Primary for Governor.

PAULETTE is an inspiring short film that follows the historic campaign of the first Native American candidate -- as well as the first woman -- to win the Idaho Primary for Governor.

Coeur d'Alene tribal member Paulette Jordan comes from a long line of ancestral leadership deeply connected to the land of Idaho. The single mother of two ran for Governor in 2018, winning the Democratic Primary by a landslide. A victory in November would have made her the first woman to serve as governor in the state -- and would have marked the first time in U.S. history that a Native American has held the governorship of any state.

Despite a hard-hitting loss in the general election to a conservative Republican male opponent, Jordan's groundbreaking bid for Governor represented a growing movement for Native people, people of color, and women fighting to have a voice and visibility in American politics. Forging ahead and staying true to her path as an Indigenous leader, Paulette Jordan is currently campaigning for a seat in the U.S. Senate and won Idaho's Democratic primary in June 2020.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2019 / 18 minutes

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BABYLON DREAMERS

Director: Roman Shumunov

Headspins, windmills, and b-boying: a group of immigrants from the former Soviet Union form a breakdancing troupe in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Israel. They dream of competing in the International Breakdancing Competition in Germany, but the road is paved with hardship and crisis. Lacking an instructor, they learn moves from videotapes and move one step closer to their goal.

DVD (Russian, Hebrew, English, With English Subtitles) / 2016 / 90 minutes

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CHILD MOTHER

Directors: Yael Kipper & Ronen Zaretzky

Child Mother" tells the story of elderly women, born into Jewish communities in Morocco and Yemen, forced to become brides when they were still little girls.

Conversations between mothers and their families reveal haunting histories of women forced into marriage as young children. Born into Jewish communities in Morocco and Yemen where child marriage was a culturally sanctioned custom, these women's voices were largely unheard. When they were only five or six or ten years old, their parents snatched them from the playground and handed them to much older menת to be married. They recall the violence and fear they were subjected to, the pregnancies at the age of eleven or twelve, becoming mothers when they were still little girls themselves.

It was an open secret but one they put aside forever, because revealing it might tear their family apart, causing commotion and creating chaos. The memories of their tragic childhood never healed - " they were simply suppressed for the sake of their children, their livelihoods, and their husbands. No more.

DVD (Hebrew, Moroccan, Yemeni Arabic, With English Subtitles) / 2016 / 90 minutes

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TALE OF TWO, A

Director: Zohar Wagner

How to get a pair of perfect breasts and stay alive? Zohar Wagners' journey of survival.

In her fourth highly self-revealing documentary film, Zohar Wagner discovers she has to undergo a mastectomy. Using self humor and optimism, she explores her conceptions of femininity, body image and sexuality.

DVD (Hebrew, With English Subtitles) / 2016 / 59 minutes

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SAVING UNCLE JACOB

Director: Sivan Shtivi

Sivan, the film director, sets out to quit smoking together with his Uncle Jacob, a heavy smoker whose life is in danger. The initial plan involves recruiting the entire addicted family, but rapidly twists and turns as it becomes a more complex and eventful story. Sivan, who is about to become a father, must inevitably confront the painful memories of his father's suicide, while Jacob's health continues to deteriorate.

This dark-humored, smoke-filled film shares the story of a tight, loving, self-destructive family, as they reach out to smokers everywhere - " active or passive.

DVD (Hebrew, With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 70 minutes

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L'CHAIM! (TO LIFE!)

Director: Elkan Spiller

L'Chaim! is a glimpse into the unusual life of Chaim Lubelski, who had a wild past as a hippy, before he became a millionaire and a professional chess player. When his mother needs care, Chaim decides to move in with her into the elderly home in Antwerp, Belgium. He cares for her around-the-clock with remarkable joy, lots of laughter and singing. Shaped by his mother's history as a Holocaust survivor, Chaim feels his mission is to ease her pain. The film is an intimate story about altruistic love and deep humanity.

DVD (German, English, Hebrew, With English Subtitles) / 2014 / 52 minutes

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AL HELM: MARTIN LUTHER KING IN PALESTINE

The glorious strains of gospel music wash over the West Bank in Field's potent film. As the Palestinian National Theater and an African-American choir mount a touring play about Martin Luther King Jr., written by Stanford Professor and King scholar Dr. Clayborne Carson, an impassioned cultural exchange ensues, new friendships are forged and attitudes are altered. A rousing portrait of the changes unfolding in the Middle East as a nonviolent movement grows in Palestine, this dynamic and complex work is born of a brilliantly simple and potent idea: what would happen if African-American Christians--the same group who served as exemplars of the Civil Rights Movement--could witness first-hand the plight of Palestinians today?

DVD / 2013 / 93 minutes

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LUCKY DEVILS (GLUCKSPILZE)

Director: Verena Endtner

In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets, but the innovative circus Upsala with its charismatic director Larissa is giving some of those children a chance to leave all that behind them. Meet 6-year-old Danja and his peers, training at UPSALA circus and trying to win over new kids from the streets. A journey from the Russian slums to the lights of the big top.

DVD (Russian, Swiss German, With English, Swiss German, Russian Subtitles) / 2013 / 52 minutes

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TURBULENCE

Directors: Roni Livneh and Kobi Davidian

For the last 27 years four Bedouins have been serving a life sentence for kidnap, rape and murder, and they have since been protesting their innocence. Dr. Arial Livneh, a pensioner of Israel's General Security Services and a Doctor of Criminology, decided to investigate obsessively during 3 years and met with anyone that was connected to the case. The stream of new information raises many tough questions on the way that brought the four Bedouins to convincement.

DVD (Hebrew, Arabic, With English Subtitles) / 2011 / 90 minutes

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DARK CIRCLE

Directors: Judy Irving, Christopher Beaver & Ruth Landy

It's been 75 years this month since the start of the Atomic Age, with the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, but its trail of destruction has never ended.

Dark Circle covers both the period's beginnings and its aftermath, providing a scientific primer on the catastrophic power of nuclear energy while also relating tragic human stories detailing the devastating toll radioactive toxicity has taken on people and livestock - focusing in large part on Rocky Flats, Colorado, whose plutonium processing facility infamously contaminated the surrounding area.

Documentary Grand Prize winner at Sundance, Academy shortlisted for Best Documentary, and Emmy winner, Dark Circle is no less potent today than it was 40 years ago.

DVD / 1982 / 82 minutes

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FREEDOM ON MY MIND

The Story of Freedom Summer

Freedom On My Mind vividly chronicles the complex and compelling history of the Mississippi voter registration struggles of 1961 to 1964: the interracial nature of the campaign, the tensions and conflicts, the fears and hopes. The film provides a sweeping panorama of a turbulent time: a time that tested America's purpose. It is the story of youthful idealism and shared vision, of a generation who believed in and fought for the principles of democracy.

DVD / 110 minutes

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HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG: DIVEST

We have made this special short film so that organizers in today's social justice and environmental movements can learn from and be inspired by the story of the U.S. movement to divest from companies doing business with Apartheid South Africa.

DVD / 31 minutes

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HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG: FAIR PLAY

Faced with governments reluctant to take meaningful action against the apartheid regime, athletes and activists around the world hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field. International boycotts against apartheid sports teams help bring the human rights crisis in South Africa to the forefront of global attention and sever white South Africans' cultural ties to the West. The sports campaign becomes the anti-apartheid movement's first victory and succeeds in culturally isolating the white minority in an arena of passionate importance.

DVD / 52 minutes

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HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG: FROM SELMA TO SOWETO

Long one of South Africa's most important and powerful allies, the United States becomes a key battleground in the anti-apartheid movement as African-Americans lead the charge to change the government's policy toward the apartheid regime. A grassroots movement to get colleges, city councils, and states to divest their holdings in companies doing business in South Africa spreads across the entire nation pressuring the U.S. Congress to finally sanction South Africa. This stunning victory is won against the formidable opposition of President Ronald Reagan. African-Americans significantly alter U.S. foreign policy for the first time in history. European sanctions follow, and with them, the political isolation of the apartheid regime.

DVD / 56 minutes

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HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG: OLIVER TAMBO

This film tells the untold story of Oliver Tambo - "who lived a life on the principles of ethics, compassion, inclusion, social justice and equality - "the man behind the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa.

Described as one of the world's greatest statesmen, his strategy to the international community to isolate and sanction the Apartheid regime created the most globalized human rights struggle of the 20th century. Regarded as a terrorist in the West, he was hunted by the South African government's assassins. He narrowly escaped death at their hands, and succeeded in leading the overthrow of apartheid and fathered the new constitution of a democratic South Africa.

DVD / 97 minutes

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HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG: THE BOTTOM LINE

This is the story of the first-ever international grassroots campaign to successfully use economic pressure to help bring down a government. Citizens all over the world refuse to let business with South Africa go on as usual. Boycotts and divestment campaigns bring the anti-apartheid movement into the lives and communities of people around the world, helping everyday people understand and challenge Western economic support for apartheid. Faced with attacks at home and growing chaos in South Africa, international companies pull out in a mass exodus, causing a financial crisis in the now-isolated South Africa and making it clear that the days of the apartheid regime are numbered.

DVD / 52 minutes

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HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG: THE COMPLETE SERIES

Directed by Connie Field

Seven stories of the global anti-apartheid movement

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories, chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.

7 DVDs / 393 minutes

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LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE

Remastered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The U.S. entry into World War II created an unprecedented demand for new workers. Notions of what was proper work for women changed overnight. Thousands of posters and billboards appeared calling on women to "Do the Job He Left Behind." Rosie the Riveter was born -- the symbol of working women during World War II. Women found themselves doing "men's work" and they did it so well that production levels rose despite the military call-up of millions of male workers. When the war was over, Rosie wanted to stay. But neither the structure of the American economy nor the dominant view of women's place in society sustained such hopes.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 65 minutes

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WHISTLEBLOWER OF MY LAI, THE

The Whistleblower of My Lai tackles the concept of heroism, the definition of morality in wartime, and guilt both personal and national. The film follows the Kronos Quartet's production of Jonathan Berger and Harriet Chessman's opera My Lai, which takes at its heart the actions and life of the whistleblower who revealed the 1968 massacre by U.S. troops in Vietnam.

The massacre of over 500 innocent civilians by American soldiers in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968 was one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War. The events of that day may well have gone unnoticed save for the actions of a young army helicopter pilot who, by happenstance, witnessed the killing in the course of a routine reconnaissance flight. Appalled by what he saw, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson attempted to intercede. Aghast at his inability to stop the slaughter he reported the massacre to military high command thus putting the incident firmly in army records. In November 1969 Seymour Hersh broke the story in his Pulitzer Prize-winning expose, which shook the national conscience. Thompson's refusal to remain silent about the massacre forced the military to conduct an inquiry and trial.

Among the generation that came of age during the 1960's were four artists - "David Harrington of the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet, composer Jonathan Berger, novelist Harriet Scott Chessman, and singer Rinde Eckert - "on whose lives the Vietnam War and its controversy left an indelible mark. Out of this concern they created a new music opera, with musician Van-Anh Vo, that explores the tragedy of My Lai through the perspective of Thompson's naïve, heroically idealistic, ethical decision to act, and its consequences. The creativity of this artistic collaboration brings a whole new dimension of understanding of the Vietnam War and of Hugh Thompson that one cannot get from a traditional historical documentary. The intensity of the libretto, the power of the unique music, the focus of a haiku encapsulation of a specific story captures the essence of the tragedy of that war.

DVD / 64 minutes

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