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WOMEN'S STUDIES

WOMEN'S STUDIES


CITY LIFE: MY MOTHER BUILT THIS HOUSE

Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.

There are four million homeless people in South Africa. Nearly one million people in Cape Town live in slums or squatter settlements alone. Victoria Mxenge was the first of the housing projects founded by the South African Homeless People's Federation in the 1990s in Khayalitsha, a huge sprawling township outside Cape Town. A small oasis in a seemingly infinite sea of neat houses, a creche, an office built from old, brightly painted shipping containers and a small shop selling basic essentials. Behind it, and beyond the railway line that carries commuters into the city, the endless shacks stretch out to the distant horizon -- and the distinctive outlines of Table Mountain.

Over 70,000 very poor women belong to the Homeless People's Federation, which was founded to transform the suffering of shack dwellers in South Africa and provide them with the opportunities and choices they had been denied under apartheid. This episode of City Life tells the story of three women shack dwellers.

Award
  • Bronze Plaque Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival

    Item no.: VS01110062
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 27 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2001
    StdBkNo: 159458141X
    Price: USD 195.00

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    COMMUNITY

    Micro-credit is transforming the lives of women in Bangladesh.

    COMMUNITY looks at the dramatic story of villagers in Bangladesh who have transformed themselves from beggars to business people with the help of micro-credit loans. At the same time the loans have enabled positive new roles and relationships for men and women to come into being.

    One women's group now owns a rice mill, another makes roof tiles, and a men's group runs a fish farm. The money raised is held collectively to benefit the entire group. The product presents a compelling story of positive long-term change that comes with women's participation in community affairs.

    Award
  • Silver Apple, National Educational Media Competition

    Item no.: AH02790364
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1996
    StdBkNo: 1594585261
    Price: USD 195.00

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    DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY

    By Tristan Quinn

    Grace Kodindo's heroic efforts in Chad to lower the rate of maternal mortality, one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

    Becoming a mother in Africa can be among the most frightening and dangerous jobs in the world. This program investigates why more than half a million women die every year in pregnancy and childbirth.

    DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY documents one woman's remarkable struggle to stop mothers in her country from dying. She's Grace Kodindo-an obstetrician in the poverty-stricken central African country of Chad. Women in Chad have a 1 in 11 chance of dying during pregnancy or in childbirth. The risk for women in the UK is 1 in 5100.

    Cutting maternal mortality by 75% by 2015 was one of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by 189 countries in 2000. Five years on, progress is far behind schedule-and this film reveals it's slowest on the goals that affect women and children.

    But DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY shows there is reason for hope. A few poor countries have succeeded in saving mothers' lives. BBC reporter Steve Bradshaw and Grace Kodindo travel to Honduras, which has cut maternal mortality far faster than some wealthier neighbors. A key reason is that influential men and women cared enough to make the issue a priority.

    Reviews
  • "An excellent introduction to the problems surrounding maternal health and childbirth in the Third World. [Dead Mums Don't Cry] is a captivating production that focuses on a real-world obstetric heroine, Dr. Grace Kodindo, and her struggles to save women's lives without the basic resources that she needs, in the country of Chad. Most importantly, by comparing Chad with Honduras, it shows how with determined efforts by government, by women's health `champions', and by external partners, these problems can be successfully overcome with only modest expenditures. Highly recommended." - L. Lewis Wall, MD, Dphil, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University

  • "This is by far the best film on maternal mortality I have ever seen. It really shows how families and health workers struggle to save the lives of pregnant women in developing countries. Sadly this struggle is often in vain. The portion of the film that takes place in Chad shows how the health system fails them in so many ways -- by having too few functioning facilities, that are too far from the villages; by not supplying essential drugs and supplies needed to save lives. It also shows how this failure can continue, due to lack of political will, or it can be remedied by relatively simple actions that the government can take even in a relatively poor country such as Honduras. The reaction of the courageous obstetrician from Chad, Dr.Grace Kodindo, to the improvements that have been made in Honduras, that allow physicians and other health workers to save so many more women than she can in Chad, is one of many memorable moments in the film." - Deborah Maine, Ph.D., Professor of International Health, Boston University

  • "The issues are illustrated beautifullyˇKDead Mums Don't CryˇKis Recommended for library collections supporting public health, women's health, African studies, and political scienceˇKAn important film that deserves a wide showing." - Lori Widzinski, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Educational Media Reviews Online

    Award
  • Finalist, Issues & Ethics Category, International Health & Medical Media Awards

    Item no.: VU02560516
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 49 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2005
    StdBkNo: 1594584494
    Price: USD 250.00

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    FURY FOR THE SOUND: THE WOMEN AT CLAYOQUOT

    Women's contribution to the battle to save the rainforest at Clayoquot Sound.

    This powerful and inspiring documentary shows how a small group of dedicated women activists came together to protest the clearcutting of the local rainforest and eventually found themselves in the midst of the largest civil disobedience action in Canadian history, the battle to save Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island.

    It would be hard to imagine a more compelling story than one of elderly women and children, aged 8 to 82 years old, being arrested together and jailed in defense of public land. But there is a revolution going on-in consciousness and in action-of individuals no longer willing to watch impassively the destruction of our planet's natural resources. And this revolution is being led largely by women. It is estimated that 80% of environmental activists worldwide are women.

    Following the path of the suffragettes and the Chipko women of India (the original "tree-huggers"), hundreds of women protesters at Clayoquot were arrested and jailed for up to 45 days for refusing to step aside in the face of logging trucks intent on clearcutting some of the last vestiges of the world's old growth temperate rainforest.

    A moving insider's account of grassroots social history in the making, this documentary talks about much more than trees. It exposes the perils of what happens in the larger society when consciousness is divorced from politics.

    Reviews
  • "It is the rare viewer who would not be transformed by this story's urgency and passion, and the tremendous spirit and intelligence of the women portrayed." - Atom Egoyan, filmmaker, "The Sweet Hereafter"

  • "It is one of those rare documentaries that takes you with passion and logic into another mindset from which there is no escape." - Mark Achbar, filmmaker, "Manufacturing Consent" and "The Corporation"

  • "I cannot think of more critical issues than those raised and documented in FURY FOR THE SOUND. Coupling environmental concerns and struggles to women's empowerment and resistance, this project brings to light the intersection of the two most significant movements of our time." - Frieda Forman, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

  • "This will be of special interest to anyone looking for a contemporary example of nonviolent protest." - The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution

    Notes
  • Nominated, Best Political Film, HOT DOCS, Toronto
  • Nominated, Best Canadian Film/Video, Ontario Arts Council
  • Nominated, Golden Maille, Hawaii International Film Festival

    Awards
  • People's Choice Award, Vermont Film Festival
  • Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
  • Best of Category, International Wildlife Film Festival
  • Figueira da Foz International Festival of Cinema, Portugal
  • Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal
  • Boston Film Festival
  • Denver Film Festival
  • Taos Talking Picture Festival
  • Festibal Visibilia, Bologna
  • Victoria International Film Festival
  • Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival M\'fcnchen
  • Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
  • Vancouver International Mountain Festival
  • Courteney Film Festival: 10 Days of Global Justice
  • MountainFilm, Telluride
  • Bangkok International Film Festival
  • RIENA, Paris

    Item no.: PT02560399
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 86 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1997
    StdBkNo: 1594585369
    Price: USD 275.00

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    FURY FOR THE SOUND: THE WOMEN AT CLAYOQUOT (SHORT VERSION)

    Women's contribution to the battle to save the rainforest at Clayoquot Sound.

    This powerful and inspiring documentary shows how a small group of dedicated women activists came together to protest the clearcutting of the local rainforest and eventually found themselves in the midst of the largest civil disobedience action in Canadian history, the battle to save Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island.

    It would be hard to imagine a more compelling story than one of elderly women and children, aged 8 to 82 years old, being arrested together and jailed in defense of public land. But there is a revolution going on-in consciousness and in action-of individuals no longer willing to watch impassively the destruction of our planet's natural resources. And this revolution is being led largely by women. It is estimated that 80% of environmental activists worldwide are women.

    Following the path of the suffragettes and the Chipko women of India (the original "tree-huggers"), hundreds of women protesters at Clayoquot were arrested and jailed for up to 45 days for refusing to step aside in the face of logging trucks intent on clearcutting some of the last vestiges of the world's old growth temperate rainforest.

    A moving insider's account of grassroots social history in the making, this documentary talks about much more than trees. It exposes the perils of what happens in the larger society when consciousness is divorced from politics.

    Reviews
  • "It is the rare viewer who would not be transformed by this story's urgency and passionˇK" - Atom Egoyan, filmmaker, "The Sweet Hereafter"

  • "It is the rare viewer who would not be transformed by this story's urgency and passion, and the tremendous spirit and intelligence of the women portrayed." - Atom Egoyan, filmmaker, "The Sweet Hereafter"

  • "It is one of those rare documentaries that takes you with passion and logic into another mindset from which there is no escape." - Mark Achbar, filmmaker, "Manufacturing Consent"

  • "I cannot think of more critical issues than those raised and documented in FURY FOR THE SOUND. Coupling environmental concerns and struggles to women's empowerment and resistance, this project brings to light the intersection of the two most significant movements of our time." - Frieda Forman, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

  • "An excellent high school resource for discussing personal responsibility and various forms of protest." - Green Teacher

    Awards
  • Best of Category, International Wildlife Film Festival
  • Figueira da Foz International Festival of Cinema, Portugal
  • Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal
  • Boston Film Festival
  • Denver Film Festival
  • Taos Talking Picture Festival
  • Festibal Visibilia, Bologna
  • Victoria International Film Festival
  • Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival M\'fcnchen
  • Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
  • Vancouver International Mountain Festival
  • Courteney Film Festival: 10 Days of Global Justice
  • MountainFilm, Telluride
  • Bangkok International Film Festival
  • United Nations Association Film Festival
  • Western Psychological Association Annual Convention
  • People's Choice Award, Vermont Film Festival
  • Chris Award, Columbus International Film Festival

    Item no.: EH01110129
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 52 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    StdBkNo: 1594585377
    Price: USD 250.00

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    HALF THE SKY: THE WOMEN OF THE JIANG FAMILY

    Changes in the lives of four generations of Chinese women.

    No women in any country have seen their lives change so radically as have Chinese women. "Women are 'half the sky,'" declared Mao Zedong, "and they are absolutely the equal of men."

    Equal they may have been, but by regimentation, to the point of the virtual abolition of womanhood and femininity. Today economic reforms have given young women a degree of independence unknown to any previous generation. For the first time they are conscious and outspoken about their role and position in society, and they make their demands known.

    This film explores these changes within the lives of four generations of women in the Jiang family over the last 50 years in China, from the grandmother who was bought by the Jiang family at age 14 to be grandfather's second wife, to her 24-year-old great-granddaughter who works as a sales assistant at the Pierre Cardin boutique in Beijing.

    Built around a series of interviews, images of daily life, special family occasions and archival film, HALF THE SKY focuses on the women's individual experiences of marriage, children, work, love, and self-esteem.

    Review
  • "The times they are, indeed, a-changing, as this beautifully shot impressionistic overview of several generations of women in the Jiang family showsˇK"Half the Sky" ranges far and wide over the social upheavals which women have faced and weathered in recent Chinese history. Recommended." - Video Librarian

    Awards
  • Best Independent Program, Rencontres Media Nord/Sud, Geneva
  • Bronze Apple, National Educational Media Competition
  • Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting

    Item no.: GS01110407
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1995
    StdBkNo: 1594586098
    Price: USD 250.00

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    HELEN NEARING: CONSCIOUS LIVING/CONSCIOUS DYING

    A moving portrait of the lives and deaths of homesteading authors, Helen & Scott Nearing

    This video examines the lives and deaths of Maine authors Helen Nearing and her husband, Scott, who were best known for their book about homesteading practices called Living the Good Life. More than a biography, this hour-long documentary looks at the Nearings' commitment to self-sufficiency and voluntary simplicity and unveils the spiritual philosophy that underlay their lives and work.

    Producers Polly Bennell and Andrea Sarris spent five years collecting photographs, interviews and archival footage to create this moving and provocative portrait.

    Reviews
  • "Offers tantalizing glimpses into the reality and mythology of Helen's life. Using photography, documents, and personal interviews, it draws the viewer into the world of the Nearings and what they sought to accomplishˇKA solid addition for school, college, and public libraries." - Kathleen Sullivan, Library Journal

  • "(An) informed biographical examination of the lives and deaths of homesteading authors Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing." - Midwest Book Review

  • "A very moving and uplifting account of a life led fully yet simply." - New Hope Review International Online-

    Awards
  • Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
  • Honorable Mention, EarthVision International Environmental Video Festival
  • Maine International Film Festival
  • American Psychological Association Convention
  • Portland Museum of Art

    Item no.: JE02560148
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 56 minutes
    Audience: Grades 9-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594588864
    Price: USD 59.00

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    HOME OF THE BRAVE

    Examines the case of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement.

    Home of the Brave is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement and why we hear so little about her. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother's heroism and the mystery behind her killing.

    Viola Liuzzo was a 39-year-old Detroit teamster's wife and mother of five, who joined thousands of people converging in Selma, Alabama for the march on Montgomery, led by Martin Luther King in 1965. But shortly after the historic Voting Rights March had ended, she was shot in the head and killed by a car full of Klansmen, while driving on a deserted highway.

    Liuzzo's death came at a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, when President Johnson had been fighting an uphill battle to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress. Her murder is attributed by historians of the era as providing the final piece of leverage that won Johnson approval of the Act in Congress, which forever changed our political landscape.

    Why do we not know the story of Viola Luizzo, while nearly everyone has heard of Goodman, Schwerner and Cheney -- the three rights workers killed the year before in Mississippi? The reasons are complex, and won't be found in history books. Immediately following her murder, Liuzzo became the target of a smear campaign, mounted by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, as a means of diverting attention from the fact that a key FBI informant was in the car with Liuzzo's killers. This discrediting of her name -- mostly based on her gender and wholly unfounded -- succeeded in erasing Viola Liuzzo from our cultural memory. After delving through thousands of pages of government documents and filming interviews with leaders in the fields of politics, history and forensics psychology, the filmmakers shed a new light on this complicated, buried story.

    Parallel to the Civil Rights struggle for which Viola lost her life is the present-day journey of her five children. Mary, the middle daughter, decides to retrace her mother's road trip from Detroit to Selma with the filmmakers. In the mid-60s she was an angry kid in the midst of a personal rebellion with her mother. The trauma of her sudden death caused her to bury any memories of her mother. Instead, she found herself reliving only the details of her gruesome death and its tumultuous aftermath. Now as an adult, she's ready to bring her back into consciousness. What she finds in Selma is both surprising and profoundly healing.

    Her brothers Tony and Tommy, who as boys felt the weight of it all on their shoulders, were eventually hit the hardest. Theirs is a path routed in turmoil, resulting largely from repeated failed attempts to vindicate their mother and seek justice their family. Their lives have been torn apart by what they see as a betrayal of their government, and after decades of fighting, they've each resigned themselves to their own form of refuge, which disconnects them from their sisters and the rest of the world.

    Reviews
  • "Di Florio has seamlessly woven together the strands of past tragedy and contemporary ramifications into a film that is stingingly personal and universal at the same timeˇKrequired viewing by all citizens if we hope not to repeat this awful chapter." - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

  • "There is nothing simple about this moving, historically significant, riveting filmˇK A movie of twists and turns that continually surprises and provokesˇKit should be seen by as many Americans as possible." - FOX NEWS

  • "HauntingˇK Home of the Brave does a meticulous job of summarizing these notorious events, but it is the stories of Liuzzo's five children that give it fresh emotional power." - NY Daily News

  • "Amazing footage from the glory period of the civil rights movementˇK Fascinating." - Christian Science Monitor

  • "The empty rhetoric about 'the price of freedom' that dominated so much post-9/11 posturing by politicians and opportunistic public figures snaps firmly into focus in light of this searing documentary's revelations about Viola LiuzzoˇKEven more than a crucial piece of remedial historiography, the film is also an unsettling exploration of the impact violence and shameful injustice continue to have on a family nearly 40 years after the fact." - TV Guide's Movie Guide

  • "5stars Home of the Brave is one of the most important films of the yearˇKThe civil rights struggle presented in the film provides a timeless reminder that no country can honestly call itself a democracy if any segment of its population is denied full access to basic libertiesˇK a powerful film worthy of a truly extraordinary American." - Phil Hall, Film Threat

  • "PoignantˇK freshly outragingˇK" - The New York Times

  • "A serenely powerful, handcrafted film that navigates into a place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called 'the tangled discords of our nation'." - DAILY VARIETY

  • "SearingˇK not to be missedˇK" - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

  • "Home Of The Brave stands out as both relevant and moving." - The Onion

    Awards
  • San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  • Philadelphia Film Festival
  • Ashland Independent Film Festival
  • Best Documentary, Port Townsend International Film Festival
  • Short- Listed for Best Docmentary Feature, Academy Awards
  • Social Justice Award, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
  • Runner- Up, Audience Choice Award, Cleveland International Film Festival

    Item no.: SS02560151
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 75 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2003
    StdBkNo: 1594582445
    Price: USD 295.00

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    IN THE NAME OF HONOUR

    Kurdish women fight for their rights in Northern Iraq.

    It's autumn in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq -- and the wedding season is coming to an end. Marriage for most Kurdish brides promises freedom and respectability. But for others, it can bring isolation, cruelty and even death.

    This Life program explores how oppression of the minority Kurds in the disputed enclave of north Iraq has unleashed a chain of violence -- often directed at the weakest members of Kurdish society: its women.

    A former doctor, Nasik gave up her career to run a shelter for women living under threat of death from their families. "Till now," she says, "hundreds of women have been killed in Iraqi Kurdistan simply because they fell in love, or because they demanded their basic rights -- such as the right to divorce or to be treated as a human being, to go outdoors, to be free to talk to other men."

    Beyan is a lawyer fighting to change the laws on justice for women. "A lot of people treat honor like capital," she explains, "and for them, their capital is women and should be guarded closely."

    Ironically, one area of Kurdish life where women are most free is the government-backed Peshmerga Force of women soldiers. 31-year-old Rezan, their commander, spent two years in Iraqi prisons, and lost both her brother and fiance to Saddam Hussein's forces. Now she teaches her young recruits to stand up for their rights. "Young women should be active players in tomorrow's society," she says. "I teach them how to look after themselves."

    Review
  • "In the Name of Honour offers a view of honor killings and oppressive patriarchy in contemporary Kurdish societyˇK provide[s] useful insight and context for a very weighted discussion of the issues. Director Alex Gabbay alternates interviews with intimate scenes of everyday life to create a diversified yet focused and effective narrative. The result is a rich, if brief, resource for critical consideration of women's rights. Sounds and imagery that convey the apparent banality and convention of women's daily lifes also capture subtleties and hint at more complex human meaningsˇK" - Aljadid, A Review of Arab Culture and Arts

    Award
  • Middle Eastern Studies Association FilmFest

    Item no.: FG02790158
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594584850
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE 4: REEL TO REAL: BALANCING ACTS

    Explores the international movement for women's rights.

    In 1994, 179 government leaders attending the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development signed a groundbreaking agreement aimed at improving the lives of women worldwide. Balancing Acts -- the first in a duo of Life programs made in collaboration with women broadcasters and producers around the world to mark the 10th anniversary of that conference -- explores how women from very different cultures, often faced with extremes of inequality, are taking on the status quo. Individual stories look at how Afghani women refugees are returning to pick up the pieces of their lives in Kabul; the feisty female entrepreneurs of Nigeria known as "Mama Benz" who, despite owning an estimated 50 per cent of the country's small businesses, are denied recognition of their contribution to the economy; a teenager battling purdah to get an education in Pakistan; and the "inherited widows" who are challenging convention in Kenya. Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN Commissioner for Human Rights, provides an overview of the state of women's rights worldwide-and why they are so crucial to social and economic development.

    Item no.: JB02560228
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 23 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2004
    StdBkNo: 1594582106
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE 6: NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG GIRLS?

    A young Indian woman has to choose-stay with a husband who doesn't want female children, or make it on her own.

    Directed by Nupur Basu
    Editors: Reena Mohan, Sotira Kyriacou
    Series Editor: Steve Bradshaw
    Series Consultant: Jenny Richards

    Twenty-seven year old Vyjanthi lives in the Indian city of Agra, in the shadow of the Taj Mahal built in honor of a beautiful woman. Already mother to one three-year old girl, when she became pregnant again her husband and in-laws forced her to have a scan to determine the sex of the foetus. Told she was carrying a girl, they tried to pressure her to have an abortion, and after a major argument she fled to her parents' home. But she felt bad, went back to her husband, got pregnant again, and the same thing happened all over again.

    Now she's living with her parents, with two young daughters-and undecided whether she can make it on her own, or will have to go back to her husband again. Sex-selective abortion is illegal in India, but so widespread that there are many more boys than girls, especially in India's more prosperous states. Vyjanthi wants to know if things are really as bad for girls in the rest of India as in her own neighborhood. Isn't India now one of the world's booming economies, thanks to its embrace of globalization?

    Life takes Vyjanthi on a journey through India, and films as she makes a disturbing discovery. Just because a country's becoming richer, doesn't actually mean life's going to be better for most people. In fact the status of women in India is falling behind that of women in many other countries, even in South Asia, and the newly prosperous middle class are particularly likely to abort female foetuses.

    Will Vyjanthi decide that India can offer her and her daughters a fair and prosperous future on their own? Or will she decide that India is no country for young girls, and go back to her husband?

    Item no.: EH01110582
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 25 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE 6: RUNNING ON EMPTY

    Highlights the plight of two young mothers-one in South Wales and the other in Northern Ethiopia.

    Series Editor: Steve Bradshaw
    Series Consultant: Jenny Richards

    In this film, Life highlights the plight of two young mothers living in two very different societies. Dawn lives in South Wales, in one of the poorest districts in the European Union, where over a quarter of all children live in poverty. She has a partner and three children. Her youngest child is David who is one year old. Asemu lives in northern Ethiopia where most of the people are farmers who cannot produce enough food to live on. She has a partner and two children; the youngest Mikiray is eight months old. Both Dawn and Asemu are 22 years old.

    David and Mikiray are both at a crucial stage in their development where a healthy diet is fundamental to preventing lifelong problems linked to malnutrition. Both women are aware that their children's diets are poor and that their health is suffering because of this. Asemu's eldest child Bayou is small and seriously underweight with chronic health issues. Dawn's youngest child David is not too small or underweight, but she recognises that she feeds him fatty foods because they are cheaper.

    Item no.: CY02560583
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 25 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE 6: THREE SISTERS

    Eritrea's women fought in the war. Should they now liberate themselves from harmful traditional practices?

    Series Editor: Steve Bradshaw
    Series Consultant: Jenny Richards

    Young Eritrean women like Commander Belainesh have fought in two wars-and been pioneers for women's rights. From the early 1970s, tens of thousands of girls from poor, conservative Muslim and Christian families-previously powerless in their communities-were enlisted by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and integrated into the ranks as bona fide fighters.

    A third of the guerrilla army were women. For 35 years they fought on the frontline and were treated as equals, serving as platoon commanders, tank drivers, barefoot doctors and engineers. By the late 1970s EPLF women fighters had come to personify an image of progress and liberation from oppressive traditions. But from 2002 on, thousands of them were demobilized.

    Now they face life in villages where girls must be circumcised, wives must obey their husbands, and children are married off as young as 12. Reports suggest that half the women who fought on the front lines are now estranged from their families and live in abject poverty. Despite a new constitution intended to protect women's rights, the old ways-from bride prices to female circumcision-continue to be practiced.

    Across the world, women soldiers like Belaniesh who've literally fought for their rights are struggling to hold on to their gains now that men don't need them. Their plight reflects a growing, controversial academic view that almost all "liberation struggles" fail to realize their dream. On this count, Eritrea stands as a monument to the futility of taking arms to win rights which economic growth can more effectively fulfil.

    For Commander Belainesh, it's time to decide whether her dreams of liberation have failed-and whether it's time to move on

    Item no.: WY01110524
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 25 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE: ALL DIFFERENT, ALL EQUAL

    Examines progress in women's rights globally.

    This product looks at progress in achieving greater equality for women -- five years after the Beijing Conference on Women. Government delegations in Beijing pledged themselves to tackle increasing violence against women. But in South Africa, the police and judiciary still don't regard rape and domestic violence as serious crimes -- with only one in 20 rapists receiving a conviction, and the punishment for wife-killing equal to that of fraud.

    In Lithuania, violence takes a more subtle form, with economic hardship forcing many young women into the hands of unscrupulous traffickers who sell women into the sex industry in Europe and the Far East.

    This program also analyzes the soaring rate of teenage pregnancies in Scotland, while aging populations in Brazil and the UK mean that more and more old people live out the final years of their lives in poverty.

    Review
  • "Five years following the Beijing Conference on Women, this film scrutinizes the significant achievements, but also the lingering pitfalls that mold women's status around the globe." - Timothy McGettigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Colorado

    Item no.: JG02560011
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594584753
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE: AT THE END OF A GUN - WOMEN AND WAR

    The devastating effect that the civil war in Sri Lanka is having on women.

    Druki Martenstyne's son Jason died in September 1995. Her husband, Cedric, went missing in January 1996. "I know the pain," she says. "I've suffered my son dying, and that we can accept -- we can move on and go back to our memories. But not knowing is something very, very difficult. Some people say they have seen him in chains, but I don't know how far that is true."

    Druki's family fell victim to the bloody civil war between the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government forces that has been tearing the island of Sri Lanka apart for the last 17 years. But she's not alone. With more than 30 regional and ethnic conflicts taking place around the world, this program reports from Sri Lanka on the suffering of thousands of women -- widowed, displaced, detained, separated from husbands, children and other loved ones -- as a result of wars.

    Review
  • "The worst horrors of war are often visited on the most innocent. A painful portrait of Sri Lanka's civil war." - Timothy McGettigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Colorado

    Item no.: KS01110020
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 25 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594584737
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE: THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE

    Women are denied human rights in Ethiopia and northern Nigeria.

    Nibret is eleven -- and they're marrying her off to a man she's never met. Forced marriage isn't unusual in northern Ethiopia. It helps to cement ties between families and establish land rights. Besides, claim Ethiopian scholars, there are no schools for young women, so why not marry them off early?

    It's a view shared by some Islamic leaders in northern Nigeria. They believe women's role is to comfort men, and see nothing wrong with marrying girls as young as seven, often in polygamous marriages.

    This program reports on the dissonant voices arguing for change in local cultures -- and the calls for reproductive health care and primary education for women. Does widespread discrimination and violence against women now constitute a violation of human rights on a massive scale?

    Reviews
  • "An illustration of the grotesque consequences of treating women as property or, even worse, as financial liabilities." -- Timothy McGettigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Colorado

  • "A very powerful film. It presents a world where women are valued only for their reproductive and economic uses. They are denied basic rightsˇKStudents can gain a lot from this videoˇKit is well suited for graduate and undergraduate classes." - Teaching Sociology (Magazine)

    Item no.: NY02560237
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594584729
    Price: USD 195.00

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    QUESTION OF RIGHTS, A: WORLD OF DIFFERENCE - INTRODUCTION

    Women and human rights around the world.

    According to a 1997 report from the United Nations Population Fund, denial of women's human rights to education and reproductive health care constitutes a violation of human rights on a massive scale. A QUESTION OF RIGHTS shows the reality of the report's finding for women around the world.

    The first film sets the scene, tracing the background to the international agreements on women rights. The late Bella Abzug, Dr. Nafis Sadiq and others show that when women are excluded from basic rights and decision-making, the economy, development, and environment suffer.

    Review
  • "A vivid introduction to the scope of international women's rights issues. This film also offers commentary on the potential for social change on a global scale." - Timothy McGettigan, author of UTOPIA ON WHEELS

    Award
  • NWSA Conference

    Item no.: EH01110449
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 12 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    StdBkNo: 1594584982
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    RAINMAKERS 1: RENA MCLEOD IN CANADA

    Winnipeg, Canada - Native Justice

    An aboriginal mother fights for native justice.

    "Rainmakers" is a series that tells the inspiring story of six youth leaders from around the world who have overcome difficult personal situations to take control of their lives and help others.

    Rena Mcleod is an aboriginal mother of two living in Winnipeg, Canada. As a baby she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Because she couldn't walk in the morning, she was teased at school. When she started skipping school she got in trouble at home. As a teenager she rebelled and was finally put in a juvenile institution called Knowles Center.

    It was at Knowles Center that she came into contact with a member of the staff, a Native woman named Vicky Whitehead, who taught her to be proud of her heritage. Now Rena is a youth leader in Winnipeg, and helped organize a youth justice symposium there, attended by 500 young people. She's part of a nationwide movement trying to unite aboriginal people to work together to create an equitable justice system that does not discriminate against Native people.

    Reviews
  • "All six videos feature well-selected historical footage, lively action, and, above all, engaging heroes who have much to show to young people. This series demonstrates to teenage viewers that individuals can make a difference and there are ways they, too, can get involved in their own communities." - MultiCultural Review

  • "Visually dynamic and deeply personal in approach. Hart and Cote avoid ponderous docu-speak pacingˇKInstead, they concentrate on getting as close and personal with a subject's psyche as the camera will permit. The results are often moving." - The (Montreal) Gazette

  • "This series is highly recommended for libraries and media centers." - Orlando Archibeque, University of Colorado, MC Journal

    Awards
  • International Family Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM
  • Finalist, Gemini Awards

    Item no.: YL02560453
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 26 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1997
    StdBkNo: 1594583609
    Price: USD 59.00

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    RAINMAKERS 1: SHAKUNTALA KAZMI IN INDIA

    New Delhi, India - Violence Against Women

    A low-caste Hindu, Shakuntala Kazmi fights for women's rights.

    "Rainmakers" is a series that tells the inspiring story of six youth leaders from around the world who have overcome difficult personal situations to take control of their lives and help others.

    Shakuntala Kazmi was born into a low-caste Hindu family and has experienced discrimination all her life. As an activist in the fight for women's rights, she leads a dramatic protest against the male-run lotteries.

    Reviews
  • "Admirably fiery, well-spoken, and unswervingly committedˇKvery inspirational" - Video Librarian

  • "All six videos feature well-selected historical footage, lively action, and, above all, engaging heroes who have much to show to young people. This series demonstrates to teenage viewers that individuals can make a difference and there are ways they, too, can get involved in their own communities." - MultiCultural Review

  • "Visually dynamic and deeply personal in approach. Hart and Cote avoid ponderous docu-speak pacingˇKInstead, they concentrate on getting as close and personal with a subject's psyche as the camera will permit. The results are often moving." - The (Montreal) Gazette

  • "This series is highly recommended for libraries and media centers." - Orlando Archibeque, University of Colorado, MC Journal

    Awards
  • Gold Apple, National Educational Media Network Video Competition
  • Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film Festival
  • Finalist, Gemini Awards

    Item no.: CK02790454
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 26 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1997
    StdBkNo: 1594583641
    Price: USD 59.00

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    RISING ABOVE:WOMEN OF VIETNAM

    Vietnamese women build on experiences of war.

    In the long years of war against France and the U.S., Vietnamese women fought alongside men as equals. Women such as Madam Binh, who negotiated with Henry Kissinger at the Paris Peace Accords, and later became Vice President of Vietnam, and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh, general and deputy commander of the Vietcong forces, reached the highest positions of power. But 30 years after the signing of the peace agreement, the revival of Confucianism and the spread of market forces are conspiring to relegate women once again to the role of second class citizens. This film looks at what happened to Mrs. Binh and Mrs. Dinh and three other w omen since the war.

    Kim Lai was 17 in 1965 when she captured an American pilot twice her size and the newspaper photograph of them was circulated around the world. Vo Thi Thang was also the subject of a famous picture. Sentenced to 20 years in jail by the South Vietnamese government for her part in the Tet offensive, her unrepentant smile was captured by photographers. Dr. Duong Quynh Hoa, Shadow Minister of Health in the provisional government, became Deputy Minister of Health for two years after the war until she became disillusioned.

    Vietnamese women overcame seemingly insurmountable odds in wartime. Their peacetime challenge is to rise above centuries of obedience and self-denial to build their own and their country's future.

    Reviews
  • "An excellent filmˇKwell organizedˇKcompelling narrationˇKHighly recommended." - Belinda L. Robinson- Jones, Ohio University, MC Journal

  • "Have you ever wondered about Vietnamese heroines? This is a heroic film about the intrepid participation of women in the war effort." - T.T. Nhu, San Jose Mercury- News

    Awards
  • Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Bronze WorldMedal, New York Festivals
  • DESIRABLE, California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse
  • Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference

    Item no.: BA02560459
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1995
    StdBkNo: 1594586101
    Price: USD 250.00

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    ROSITA

    The plight of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of a rape, triggers a battle over whose life has precedence.

    Rosita, a documentary by award-winning filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, traces a young girl's journey from innocent victim to unwitting victor.

    When a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl becomes pregnant as a result of a rape, her parents -- illiterate campesinos working in Costa Rica -- seek a legal "therapeutic" abortion to save their only child's life.

    Their quest pits them against the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the medical establishment, and the Catholic Church. When their story gains international media attention, the repercussions ripple across Latin America and Europe.

    Reviews
  • "Rosita is the riveting, prize-worthy story of how good people rescued a little girl from the combined tyranny of church and state." - Daniel C. Maguire, Professor or Moral Theology, Marquette University

  • "A heartbreaking true story about a 9-year-old Nicaraguan girl who was raped and impregnated but whose unwanted pregnancy . . . Became a political football between abortion rights advocates and antiabortion forces in Costa Rica and Nicaragua." - The Washington Post

  • "Rosita truly is eye-opening. It chronicles a violation of her [Rosa's] human rights and her dignity. This film is not just for activists in the reproductive rights movement, it is for all who work in social justice and who work to defend our human rights. Her story is both moving and inspiring and demonstrates the tragic realty of a young woman who was stripped of her dignity and denied her fundamental human right to decide her own future." - Sylvia Henriquez, Executive Director, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

  • "Emotionally complexˇK" - Philadelphia Inquirer

    Award
  • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
  • SilverDocs

    Item no.: SZ02790241
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 58 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2005
    StdBkNo: 1594582807
    Price: USD 250.00

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    SENSE OF WONDER, A

    Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.

    When pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" in 1962, the backlash from her critics thrust her into the center of a political maelstrom. Despite her private persona, her convictions about the risks posed by chemical pesticides forced her into the role of controversial public figure.

    Using many of Miss Carson's own words, actress Kaiulani Lee embodies this extraordinary woman in a documentary style film which depicts Carson in the final year of her life. Struggling with cancer, Carson recounts with both humor and anger the attacks by the chemical industry, the government and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people.

    Beautifully shot in HD by Academy Award®-winning cinematographer, Haskell Wexler, at Carson's cottage in Maine, the film is an intimate and poignant portrait of Carson's life as she emerges as America's most successful advocate for the natural world. Based on Kaiulani Lee's popular play of the same name.

    Reviews
  • "This is the Rachel that I knew, brought to life with almost uncanny skill and understanding." - Paul Brooks, Carson's editor and biographer

  • "You cannot walk away unmoved." - Bill Moyers

    Item no.: DE01110608
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 55 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2008
    StdBkNo: 1594588511
    Price: USD 250.00

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    TRIUMPH OVER TERROR: TILL DEATH DO US PART

    Widows are denied inheritance and property rights in Nigeria.

    In Nigeria a married man cannot die of natural causes, his wife must have had a hand in his death. In both urban and rural areas widows are made to suffer for their husbands' death. As a first rite, her head is forcibly shaven, she is forbidden to bathe, and made to sit on the bare floor for at least a month. Even if the deceased had made a will, his family moves in immediately to take over his possessions, and a widow's own older children must be on guard to make sure she comes to no harm.

    This film looks at the problem in three different areas of the country, and explores the way denial of inheritance and property rights is forcing growing number of widows to join the ranks of the homeless in the shantytowns of major cities like Lagos.

    Review
  • "An excellent video to illustrate the power of cultural practices in maintaining gender inequality." - Susan M. Alexander, Dept. of Sociology, Saint Mary's College

    Item no.: KV02790505
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 27 minutes
    Audience: Grades 9-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1999
    StdBkNo: 1594587434
    Price: USD 150.00

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    WELCOME TO WOMANHOOD

    Efforts to stop female genital mutilation in Uganda.

    In the remote Kapchorwe region of Uganda, female circumcision ceremonies occur among the Sabiny people every two years. NOT THE NUMBERS GAME producers looked at the United Nations Population Fund's 'REACH' effort to stop the practice of female genital mutilation in THE CUTTING EDGE.

    Now TVE's crew returns to Uganda with BBC correspondent Donu Kogbara as the date approaches for the next season of female circumcision ceremonies.

    Reviews
  • "It is a grisly topic, female genital mutilation, but is presented in this program without sensationalism or undue gore. Kogbara interviewed both opponents and proponents of the custom, and their onscreen comments make up much of this short program. Kogbara herself makes no effort to hide her own despair at the situation. What she discovered was that while some young Sabiny women, due at least in part to the efforts of REACH, are now avowing to never undergo the procedure, still "six thousand young girls continue to be mutilated daily in Africa."" - Teacher Librarian

  • "Well filmed and comfortably paced. It touches succinctly upon some major issues surrounding female circumcisionˇKThe thirteen-minute running time is excellent for classroom useˇKI highly recommend this film for high school and undergraduate college students, when supplemented withˇKsupporting materials." - Victoria Razak, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Buffalo, Anthropology Review Database

    Awards
  • Golden Spire, San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film Festival
  • Silver Apple, National Educational Media Network Competition
  • Vermont International Film Festival
  • United Nations Association Film Festival
  • The Hague Cairo +5 Festival
  • Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Edinburgh
  • House of Commons, special session organized by the All Party Committee on Population, Development, Development and Reproductive Health, London

    Item no.: BA02560318
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 14 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    StdBkNo: 159458401X
    Price: USD 125.00

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    WOMEN'S STUDIES

    WOMEN'S STUDIES


    LIFE 6: NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG GIRLS?

    A young Indian woman has to choose-stay with a husband who doesn't want female children, or make it on her own.

    Directed by Nupur Basu
    Editors: Reena Mohan, Sotira Kyriacou
    Series Editor: Steve Bradshaw
    Series Consultant: Jenny Richards

    Twenty-seven year old Vyjanthi lives in the Indian city of Agra, in the shadow of the Taj Mahal built in honor of a beautiful woman. Already mother to one three-year old girl, when she became pregnant again her husband and in-laws forced her to have a scan to determine the sex of the foetus. Told she was carrying a girl, they tried to pressure her to have an abortion, and after a major argument she fled to her parents' home. But she felt bad, went back to her husband, got pregnant again, and the same thing happened all over again.

    Now she's living with her parents, with two young daughters-and undecided whether she can make it on her own, or will have to go back to her husband again. Sex-selective abortion is illegal in India, but so widespread that there are many more boys than girls, especially in India's more prosperous states. Vyjanthi wants to know if things are really as bad for girls in the rest of India as in her own neighborhood. Isn't India now one of the world's booming economies, thanks to its embrace of globalization?

    Life takes Vyjanthi on a journey through India, and films as she makes a disturbing discovery. Just because a country's becoming richer, doesn't actually mean life's going to be better for most people. In fact the status of women in India is falling behind that of women in many other countries, even in South Asia, and the newly prosperous middle class are particularly likely to abort female foetuses.

    Will Vyjanthi decide that India can offer her and her daughters a fair and prosperous future on their own? Or will she decide that India is no country for young girls, and go back to her husband?

    Item no.: EH01110582
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 25 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE 6: RUNNING ON EMPTY

    Highlights the plight of two young mothers-one in South Wales and the other in Northern Ethiopia.

    Series Editor: Steve Bradshaw
    Series Consultant: Jenny Richards

    In this film, Life highlights the plight of two young mothers living in two very different societies. Dawn lives in South Wales, in one of the poorest districts in the European Union, where over a quarter of all children live in poverty. She has a partner and three children. Her youngest child is David who is one year old. Asemu lives in northern Ethiopia where most of the people are farmers who cannot produce enough food to live on. She has a partner and two children; the youngest Mikiray is eight months old. Both Dawn and Asemu are 22 years old.

    David and Mikiray are both at a crucial stage in their development where a healthy diet is fundamental to preventing lifelong problems linked to malnutrition. Both women are aware that their children's diets are poor and that their health is suffering because of this. Asemu's eldest child Bayou is small and seriously underweight with chronic health issues. Dawn's youngest child David is not too small or underweight, but she recognises that she feeds him fatty foods because they are cheaper.

    Item no.: CY02560583
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 25 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE 6: THREE SISTERS

    Eritrea's women fought in the war. Should they now liberate themselves from harmful traditional practices?

    Series Editor: Steve Bradshaw
    Series Consultant: Jenny Richards

    Young Eritrean women like Commander Belainesh have fought in two wars-and been pioneers for women's rights. From the early 1970s, tens of thousands of girls from poor, conservative Muslim and Christian families-previously powerless in their communities-were enlisted by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and integrated into the ranks as bona fide fighters.

    A third of the guerrilla army were women. For 35 years they fought on the frontline and were treated as equals, serving as platoon commanders, tank drivers, barefoot doctors and engineers. By the late 1970s EPLF women fighters had come to personify an image of progress and liberation from oppressive traditions. But from 2002 on, thousands of them were demobilized.

    Now they face life in villages where girls must be circumcised, wives must obey their husbands, and children are married off as young as 12. Reports suggest that half the women who fought on the front lines are now estranged from their families and live in abject poverty. Despite a new constitution intended to protect women's rights, the old ways-from bride prices to female circumcision-continue to be practiced.

    Across the world, women soldiers like Belaniesh who've literally fought for their rights are struggling to hold on to their gains now that men don't need them. Their plight reflects a growing, controversial academic view that almost all "liberation struggles" fail to realize their dream. On this count, Eritrea stands as a monument to the futility of taking arms to win rights which economic growth can more effectively fulfil.

    For Commander Belainesh, it's time to decide whether her dreams of liberation have failed-and whether it's time to move on

    Item no.: WY01110524
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 25 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 195.00

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    SENSE OF WONDER, A

    Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.

    When pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" in 1962, the backlash from her critics thrust her into the center of a political maelstrom. Despite her private persona, her convictions about the risks posed by chemical pesticides forced her into the role of controversial public figure.

    Using many of Miss Carson's own words, actress Kaiulani Lee embodies this extraordinary woman in a documentary style film which depicts Carson in the final year of her life. Struggling with cancer, Carson recounts with both humor and anger the attacks by the chemical industry, the government and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people.

    Beautifully shot in HD by Academy Award®-winning cinematographer, Haskell Wexler, at Carson's cottage in Maine, the film is an intimate and poignant portrait of Carson's life as she emerges as America's most successful advocate for the natural world. Based on Kaiulani Lee's popular play of the same name.

    Reviews
  • "This is the Rachel that I knew, brought to life with almost uncanny skill and understanding." - Paul Brooks, Carson's editor and biographer

  • "You cannot walk away unmoved." - Bill Moyers

    Item no.: DE01110608
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 55 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2008
    StdBkNo: 1594588511
    Price: USD 250.00

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    DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY

    By Tristan Quinn

    Grace Kodindo's heroic efforts in Chad to lower the rate of maternal mortality, one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

    Becoming a mother in Africa can be among the most frightening and dangerous jobs in the world. This program investigates why more than half a million women die every year in pregnancy and childbirth.

    DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY documents one woman's remarkable struggle to stop mothers in her country from dying. She's Grace Kodindo-an obstetrician in the poverty-stricken central African country of Chad. Women in Chad have a 1 in 11 chance of dying during pregnancy or in childbirth. The risk for women in the UK is 1 in 5100.

    Cutting maternal mortality by 75% by 2015 was one of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by 189 countries in 2000. Five years on, progress is far behind schedule-and this film reveals it's slowest on the goals that affect women and children.

    But DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY shows there is reason for hope. A few poor countries have succeeded in saving mothers' lives. BBC reporter Steve Bradshaw and Grace Kodindo travel to Honduras, which has cut maternal mortality far faster than some wealthier neighbors. A key reason is that influential men and women cared enough to make the issue a priority.

    Reviews
  • "An excellent introduction to the problems surrounding maternal health and childbirth in the Third World. [Dead Mums Don't Cry] is a captivating production that focuses on a real-world obstetric heroine, Dr. Grace Kodindo, and her struggles to save women's lives without the basic resources that she needs, in the country of Chad. Most importantly, by comparing Chad with Honduras, it shows how with determined efforts by government, by women's health `champions', and by external partners, these problems can be successfully overcome with only modest expenditures. Highly recommended." - L. Lewis Wall, MD, Dphil, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University

  • "This is by far the best film on maternal mortality I have ever seen. It really shows how families and health workers struggle to save the lives of pregnant women in developing countries. Sadly this struggle is often in vain. The portion of the film that takes place in Chad shows how the health system fails them in so many ways -- by having too few functioning facilities, that are too far from the villages; by not supplying essential drugs and supplies needed to save lives. It also shows how this failure can continue, due to lack of political will, or it can be remedied by relatively simple actions that the government can take even in a relatively poor country such as Honduras. The reaction of the courageous obstetrician from Chad, Dr.Grace Kodindo, to the improvements that have been made in Honduras, that allow physicians and other health workers to save so many more women than she can in Chad, is one of many memorable moments in the film." - Deborah Maine, Ph.D., Professor of International Health, Boston University

  • "The issues are illustrated beautifullyˇKDead Mums Don't CryˇKis Recommended for library collections supporting public health, women's health, African studies, and political scienceˇKAn important film that deserves a wide showing." - Lori Widzinski, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Educational Media Reviews Online

    Award
  • Finalist, Issues & Ethics Category, International Health & Medical Media Awards

    Item no.: VU02560516
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 49 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2005
    StdBkNo: 1594584494
    Price: USD 250.00

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    ROSITA

    The plight of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of a rape, triggers a battle over whose life has precedence.

    Rosita, a documentary by award-winning filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, traces a young girl's journey from innocent victim to unwitting victor.

    When a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl becomes pregnant as a result of a rape, her parents -- illiterate campesinos working in Costa Rica -- seek a legal "therapeutic" abortion to save their only child's life.

    Their quest pits them against the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the medical establishment, and the Catholic Church. When their story gains international media attention, the repercussions ripple across Latin America and Europe.

    Reviews
  • "Rosita is the riveting, prize-worthy story of how good people rescued a little girl from the combined tyranny of church and state." - Daniel C. Maguire, Professor or Moral Theology, Marquette University

  • "A heartbreaking true story about a 9-year-old Nicaraguan girl who was raped and impregnated but whose unwanted pregnancy . . . Became a political football between abortion rights advocates and antiabortion forces in Costa Rica and Nicaragua." - The Washington Post

  • "Rosita truly is eye-opening. It chronicles a violation of her [Rosa's] human rights and her dignity. This film is not just for activists in the reproductive rights movement, it is for all who work in social justice and who work to defend our human rights. Her story is both moving and inspiring and demonstrates the tragic realty of a young woman who was stripped of her dignity and denied her fundamental human right to decide her own future." - Sylvia Henriquez, Executive Director, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

  • "Emotionally complexˇK" - Philadelphia Inquirer

    Award
  • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
  • SilverDocs

    Item no.: SZ02790241
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 58 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2005
    StdBkNo: 1594582807
    Price: USD 250.00

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    LIFE 4: REEL TO REAL: BALANCING ACTS

    Explores the international movement for women's rights.

    In 1994, 179 government leaders attending the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development signed a groundbreaking agreement aimed at improving the lives of women worldwide. Balancing Acts -- the first in a duo of Life programs made in collaboration with women broadcasters and producers around the world to mark the 10th anniversary of that conference -- explores how women from very different cultures, often faced with extremes of inequality, are taking on the status quo. Individual stories look at how Afghani women refugees are returning to pick up the pieces of their lives in Kabul; the feisty female entrepreneurs of Nigeria known as "Mama Benz" who, despite owning an estimated 50 per cent of the country's small businesses, are denied recognition of their contribution to the economy; a teenager battling purdah to get an education in Pakistan; and the "inherited widows" who are challenging convention in Kenya. Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN Commissioner for Human Rights, provides an overview of the state of women's rights worldwide-and why they are so crucial to social and economic development.

    Item no.: JB02560228
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 23 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2004
    StdBkNo: 1594582106
    Price: USD 195.00

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    HOME OF THE BRAVE

    Examines the case of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement.

    Home of the Brave is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement and why we hear so little about her. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother's heroism and the mystery behind her killing.

    Viola Liuzzo was a 39-year-old Detroit teamster's wife and mother of five, who joined thousands of people converging in Selma, Alabama for the march on Montgomery, led by Martin Luther King in 1965. But shortly after the historic Voting Rights March had ended, she was shot in the head and killed by a car full of Klansmen, while driving on a deserted highway.

    Liuzzo's death came at a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, when President Johnson had been fighting an uphill battle to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress. Her murder is attributed by historians of the era as providing the final piece of leverage that won Johnson approval of the Act in Congress, which forever changed our political landscape.

    Why do we not know the story of Viola Luizzo, while nearly everyone has heard of Goodman, Schwerner and Cheney -- the three rights workers killed the year before in Mississippi? The reasons are complex, and won't be found in history books. Immediately following her murder, Liuzzo became the target of a smear campaign, mounted by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, as a means of diverting attention from the fact that a key FBI informant was in the car with Liuzzo's killers. This discrediting of her name -- mostly based on her gender and wholly unfounded -- succeeded in erasing Viola Liuzzo from our cultural memory. After delving through thousands of pages of government documents and filming interviews with leaders in the fields of politics, history and forensics psychology, the filmmakers shed a new light on this complicated, buried story.

    Parallel to the Civil Rights struggle for which Viola lost her life is the present-day journey of her five children. Mary, the middle daughter, decides to retrace her mother's road trip from Detroit to Selma with the filmmakers. In the mid-60s she was an angry kid in the midst of a personal rebellion with her mother. The trauma of her sudden death caused her to bury any memories of her mother. Instead, she found herself reliving only the details of her gruesome death and its tumultuous aftermath. Now as an adult, she's ready to bring her back into consciousness. What she finds in Selma is both surprising and profoundly healing.

    Her brothers Tony and Tommy, who as boys felt the weight of it all on their shoulders, were eventually hit the hardest. Theirs is a path routed in turmoil, resulting largely from repeated failed attempts to vindicate their mother and seek justice their family. Their lives have been torn apart by what they see as a betrayal of their government, and after decades of fighting, they've each resigned themselves to their own form of refuge, which disconnects them from their sisters and the rest of the world.

    Reviews
  • "Di Florio has seamlessly woven together the strands of past tragedy and contemporary ramifications into a film that is stingingly personal and universal at the same timeˇKrequired viewing by all citizens if we hope not to repeat this awful chapter." - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

  • "There is nothing simple about this moving, historically significant, riveting filmˇK A movie of twists and turns that continually surprises and provokesˇKit should be seen by as many Americans as possible." - FOX NEWS

  • "HauntingˇK Home of the Brave does a meticulous job of summarizing these notorious events, but it is the stories of Liuzzo's five children that give it fresh emotional power." - NY Daily News

  • "Amazing footage from the glory period of the civil rights movementˇK Fascinating." - Christian Science Monitor

  • "The empty rhetoric about 'the price of freedom' that dominated so much post-9/11 posturing by politicians and opportunistic public figures snaps firmly into focus in light of this searing documentary's revelations about Viola LiuzzoˇKEven more than a crucial piece of remedial historiography, the film is also an unsettling exploration of the impact violence and shameful injustice continue to have on a family nearly 40 years after the fact." - TV Guide's Movie Guide

  • "5stars Home of the Brave is one of the most important films of the yearˇKThe civil rights struggle presented in the film provides a timeless reminder that no country can honestly call itself a democracy if any segment of its population is denied full access to basic libertiesˇK a powerful film worthy of a truly extraordinary American." - Phil Hall, Film Threat

  • "PoignantˇK freshly outragingˇK" - The New York Times

  • "A serenely powerful, handcrafted film that navigates into a place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called 'the tangled discords of our nation'." - DAILY VARIETY

  • "SearingˇK not to be missedˇK" - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

  • "Home Of The Brave stands out as both relevant and moving." - The Onion

    Awards
  • San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  • Philadelphia Film Festival
  • Ashland Independent Film Festival
  • Best Documentary, Port Townsend International Film Festival
  • Short- Listed for Best Docmentary Feature, Academy Awards
  • Social Justice Award, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
  • Runner- Up, Audience Choice Award, Cleveland International Film Festival

    Item no.: SS02560151
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 75 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2003
    StdBkNo: 1594582445
    Price: USD 295.00

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    CITY LIFE: MY MOTHER BUILT THIS HOUSE

    Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.

    There are four million homeless people in South Africa. Nearly one million people in Cape Town live in slums or squatter settlements alone. Victoria Mxenge was the first of the housing projects founded by the South African Homeless People's Federation in the 1990s in Khayalitsha, a huge sprawling township outside Cape Town. A small oasis in a seemingly infinite sea of neat houses, a creche, an office built from old, brightly painted shipping containers and a small shop selling basic essentials. Behind it, and beyond the railway line that carries commuters into the city, the endless shacks stretch out to the distant horizon -- and the distinctive outlines of Table Mountain.

    Over 70,000 very poor women belong to the Homeless People's Federation, which was founded to transform the suffering of shack dwellers in South Africa and provide them with the opportunities and choices they had been denied under apartheid. This episode of City Life tells the story of three women shack dwellers.

    Award
  • Bronze Plaque Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival

    Item no.: VS01110062
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 27 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2001
    StdBkNo: 159458141X
    Price: USD 195.00

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    HELEN NEARING: CONSCIOUS LIVING/CONSCIOUS DYING

    A moving portrait of the lives and deaths of homesteading authors, Helen & Scott Nearing

    This video examines the lives and deaths of Maine authors Helen Nearing and her husband, Scott, who were best known for their book about homesteading practices called Living the Good Life. More than a biography, this hour-long documentary looks at the Nearings' commitment to self-sufficiency and voluntary simplicity and unveils the spiritual philosophy that underlay their lives and work.

    Producers Polly Bennell and Andrea Sarris spent five years collecting photographs, interviews and archival footage to create this moving and provocative portrait.

    Reviews
  • "Offers tantalizing glimpses into the reality and mythology of Helen's life. Using photography, documents, and personal interviews, it draws the viewer into the world of the Nearings and what they sought to accomplishˇKA solid addition for school, college, and public libraries." - Kathleen Sullivan, Library Journal

  • "(An) informed biographical examination of the lives and deaths of homesteading authors Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing." - Midwest Book Review

  • "A very moving and uplifting account of a life led fully yet simply." - New Hope Review International Online-

    Awards
  • Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
  • Honorable Mention, EarthVision International Environmental Video Festival
  • Maine International Film Festival
  • American Psychological Association Convention
  • Portland Museum of Art

    Item no.: JE02560148
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 56 minutes
    Audience: Grades 9-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594588864
    Price: USD 59.00

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    IN THE NAME OF HONOUR

    Kurdish women fight for their rights in Northern Iraq.

    It's autumn in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq -- and the wedding season is coming to an end. Marriage for most Kurdish brides promises freedom and respectability. But for others, it can bring isolation, cruelty and even death.

    This Life program explores how oppression of the minority Kurds in the disputed enclave of north Iraq has unleashed a chain of violence -- often directed at the weakest members of Kurdish society: its women.

    A former doctor, Nasik gave up her career to run a shelter for women living under threat of death from their families. "Till now," she says, "hundreds of women have been killed in Iraqi Kurdistan simply because they fell in love, or because they demanded their basic rights -- such as the right to divorce or to be treated as a human being, to go outdoors, to be free to talk to other men."

    Beyan is a lawyer fighting to change the laws on justice for women. "A lot of people treat honor like capital," she explains, "and for them, their capital is women and should be guarded closely."

    Ironically, one area of Kurdish life where women are most free is the government-backed Peshmerga Force of women soldiers. 31-year-old Rezan, their commander, spent two years in Iraqi prisons, and lost both her brother and fiance to Saddam Hussein's forces. Now she teaches her young recruits to stand up for their rights. "Young women should be active players in tomorrow's society," she says. "I teach them how to look after themselves."

    Review
  • "In the Name of Honour offers a view of honor killings and oppressive patriarchy in contemporary Kurdish societyˇK provide[s] useful insight and context for a very weighted discussion of the issues. Director Alex Gabbay alternates interviews with intimate scenes of everyday life to create a diversified yet focused and effective narrative. The result is a rich, if brief, resource for critical consideration of women's rights. Sounds and imagery that convey the apparent banality and convention of women's daily lifes also capture subtleties and hint at more complex human meaningsˇK" - Aljadid, A Review of Arab Culture and Arts

    Award
  • Middle Eastern Studies Association FilmFest

    Item no.: FG02790158
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594584850
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE: ALL DIFFERENT, ALL EQUAL

    Examines progress in women's rights globally.

    This product looks at progress in achieving greater equality for women -- five years after the Beijing Conference on Women. Government delegations in Beijing pledged themselves to tackle increasing violence against women. But in South Africa, the police and judiciary still don't regard rape and domestic violence as serious crimes -- with only one in 20 rapists receiving a conviction, and the punishment for wife-killing equal to that of fraud.

    In Lithuania, violence takes a more subtle form, with economic hardship forcing many young women into the hands of unscrupulous traffickers who sell women into the sex industry in Europe and the Far East.

    This program also analyzes the soaring rate of teenage pregnancies in Scotland, while aging populations in Brazil and the UK mean that more and more old people live out the final years of their lives in poverty.

    Review
  • "Five years following the Beijing Conference on Women, this film scrutinizes the significant achievements, but also the lingering pitfalls that mold women's status around the globe." - Timothy McGettigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Colorado

    Item no.: JG02560011
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594584753
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE: AT THE END OF A GUN - WOMEN AND WAR

    The devastating effect that the civil war in Sri Lanka is having on women.

    Druki Martenstyne's son Jason died in September 1995. Her husband, Cedric, went missing in January 1996. "I know the pain," she says. "I've suffered my son dying, and that we can accept -- we can move on and go back to our memories. But not knowing is something very, very difficult. Some people say they have seen him in chains, but I don't know how far that is true."

    Druki's family fell victim to the bloody civil war between the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government forces that has been tearing the island of Sri Lanka apart for the last 17 years. But she's not alone. With more than 30 regional and ethnic conflicts taking place around the world, this program reports from Sri Lanka on the suffering of thousands of women -- widowed, displaced, detained, separated from husbands, children and other loved ones -- as a result of wars.

    Review
  • "The worst horrors of war are often visited on the most innocent. A painful portrait of Sri Lanka's civil war." - Timothy McGettigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Colorado

    Item no.: KS01110020
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 25 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594584737
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LIFE: THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE

    Women are denied human rights in Ethiopia and northern Nigeria.

    Nibret is eleven -- and they're marrying her off to a man she's never met. Forced marriage isn't unusual in northern Ethiopia. It helps to cement ties between families and establish land rights. Besides, claim Ethiopian scholars, there are no schools for young women, so why not marry them off early?

    It's a view shared by some Islamic leaders in northern Nigeria. They believe women's role is to comfort men, and see nothing wrong with marrying girls as young as seven, often in polygamous marriages.

    This program reports on the dissonant voices arguing for change in local cultures -- and the calls for reproductive health care and primary education for women. Does widespread discrimination and violence against women now constitute a violation of human rights on a massive scale?

    Reviews
  • "An illustration of the grotesque consequences of treating women as property or, even worse, as financial liabilities." -- Timothy McGettigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Colorado

  • "A very powerful film. It presents a world where women are valued only for their reproductive and economic uses. They are denied basic rightsˇKStudents can gain a lot from this videoˇKit is well suited for graduate and undergraduate classes." - Teaching Sociology (Magazine)

    Item no.: NY02560237
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 1594584729
    Price: USD 195.00

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    TRIUMPH OVER TERROR: TILL DEATH DO US PART

    Widows are denied inheritance and property rights in Nigeria.

    In Nigeria a married man cannot die of natural causes, his wife must have had a hand in his death. In both urban and rural areas widows are made to suffer for their husbands' death. As a first rite, her head is forcibly shaven, she is forbidden to bathe, and made to sit on the bare floor for at least a month. Even if the deceased had made a will, his family moves in immediately to take over his possessions, and a widow's own older children must be on guard to make sure she comes to no harm.

    This film looks at the problem in three different areas of the country, and explores the way denial of inheritance and property rights is forcing growing number of widows to join the ranks of the homeless in the shantytowns of major cities like Lagos.

    Review
  • "An excellent video to illustrate the power of cultural practices in maintaining gender inequality." - Susan M. Alexander, Dept. of Sociology, Saint Mary's College

    Item no.: KV02790505
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 27 minutes
    Audience: Grades 9-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1999
    StdBkNo: 1594587434
    Price: USD 150.00

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    FURY FOR THE SOUND: THE WOMEN AT CLAYOQUOT (SHORT VERSION)

    Women's contribution to the battle to save the rainforest at Clayoquot Sound.

    This powerful and inspiring documentary shows how a small group of dedicated women activists came together to protest the clearcutting of the local rainforest and eventually found themselves in the midst of the largest civil disobedience action in Canadian history, the battle to save Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island.

    It would be hard to imagine a more compelling story than one of elderly women and children, aged 8 to 82 years old, being arrested together and jailed in defense of public land. But there is a revolution going on-in consciousness and in action-of individuals no longer willing to watch impassively the destruction of our planet's natural resources. And this revolution is being led largely by women. It is estimated that 80% of environmental activists worldwide are women.

    Following the path of the suffragettes and the Chipko women of India (the original "tree-huggers"), hundreds of women protesters at Clayoquot were arrested and jailed for up to 45 days for refusing to step aside in the face of logging trucks intent on clearcutting some of the last vestiges of the world's old growth temperate rainforest.

    A moving insider's account of grassroots social history in the making, this documentary talks about much more than trees. It exposes the perils of what happens in the larger society when consciousness is divorced from politics.

    Reviews
  • "It is the rare viewer who would not be transformed by this story's urgency and passionˇK" - Atom Egoyan, filmmaker, "The Sweet Hereafter"

  • "It is the rare viewer who would not be transformed by this story's urgency and passion, and the tremendous spirit and intelligence of the women portrayed." - Atom Egoyan, filmmaker, "The Sweet Hereafter"

  • "It is one of those rare documentaries that takes you with passion and logic into another mindset from which there is no escape." - Mark Achbar, filmmaker, "Manufacturing Consent"

  • "I cannot think of more critical issues than those raised and documented in FURY FOR THE SOUND. Coupling environmental concerns and struggles to women's empowerment and resistance, this project brings to light the intersection of the two most significant movements of our time." - Frieda Forman, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

  • "An excellent high school resource for discussing personal responsibility and various forms of protest." - Green Teacher

    Awards
  • Best of Category, International Wildlife Film Festival
  • Figueira da Foz International Festival of Cinema, Portugal
  • Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal
  • Boston Film Festival
  • Denver Film Festival
  • Taos Talking Picture Festival
  • Festibal Visibilia, Bologna
  • Victoria International Film Festival
  • Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival M\'fcnchen
  • Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
  • Vancouver International Mountain Festival
  • Courteney Film Festival: 10 Days of Global Justice
  • MountainFilm, Telluride
  • Bangkok International Film Festival
  • United Nations Association Film Festival
  • Western Psychological Association Annual Convention
  • People's Choice Award, Vermont Film Festival
  • Chris Award, Columbus International Film Festival

    Item no.: EH01110129
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 52 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    StdBkNo: 1594585377
    Price: USD 250.00

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    QUESTION OF RIGHTS, A: WORLD OF DIFFERENCE - INTRODUCTION

    Women and human rights around the world.

    According to a 1997 report from the United Nations Population Fund, denial of women's human rights to education and reproductive health care constitutes a violation of human rights on a massive scale. A QUESTION OF RIGHTS shows the reality of the report's finding for women around the world.

    The first film sets the scene, tracing the background to the international agreements on women rights. The late Bella Abzug, Dr. Nafis Sadiq and others show that when women are excluded from basic rights and decision-making, the economy, development, and environment suffer.

    Review
  • "A vivid introduction to the scope of international women's rights issues. This film also offers commentary on the potential for social change on a global scale." - Timothy McGettigan, author of UTOPIA ON WHEELS

    Award
  • NWSA Conference

    Item no.: EH01110449
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 12 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    StdBkNo: 1594584982
    Price: USD 59.00

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    WELCOME TO WOMANHOOD

    Efforts to stop female genital mutilation in Uganda.

    In the remote Kapchorwe region of Uganda, female circumcision ceremonies occur among the Sabiny people every two years. NOT THE NUMBERS GAME producers looked at the United Nations Population Fund's 'REACH' effort to stop the practice of female genital mutilation in THE CUTTING EDGE.

    Now TVE's crew returns to Uganda with BBC correspondent Donu Kogbara as the date approaches for the next season of female circumcision ceremonies.

    Reviews
  • "It is a grisly topic, female genital mutilation, but is presented in this program without sensationalism or undue gore. Kogbara interviewed both opponents and proponents of the custom, and their onscreen comments make up much of this short program. Kogbara herself makes no effort to hide her own despair at the situation. What she discovered was that while some young Sabiny women, due at least in part to the efforts of REACH, are now avowing to never undergo the procedure, still "six thousand young girls continue to be mutilated daily in Africa."" - Teacher Librarian

  • "Well filmed and comfortably paced. It touches succinctly upon some major issues surrounding female circumcisionˇKThe thirteen-minute running time is excellent for classroom useˇKI highly recommend this film for high school and undergraduate college students, when supplemented withˇKsupporting materials." - Victoria Razak, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Buffalo, Anthropology Review Database

    Awards
  • Golden Spire, San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film Festival
  • Silver Apple, National Educational Media Network Competition
  • Vermont International Film Festival
  • United Nations Association Film Festival
  • The Hague Cairo +5 Festival
  • Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Edinburgh
  • House of Commons, special session organized by the All Party Committee on Population, Development, Development and Reproductive Health, London

    Item no.: BA02560318
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 14 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    StdBkNo: 159458401X
    Price: USD 125.00

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    FURY FOR THE SOUND: THE WOMEN AT CLAYOQUOT

    Women's contribution to the battle to save the rainforest at Clayoquot Sound.

    This powerful and inspiring documentary shows how a small group of dedicated women activists came together to protest the clearcutting of the local rainforest and eventually found themselves in the midst of the largest civil disobedience action in Canadian history, the battle to save Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island.

    It would be hard to imagine a more compelling story than one of elderly women and children, aged 8 to 82 years old, being arrested together and jailed in defense of public land. But there is a revolution going on-in consciousness and in action-of individuals no longer willing to watch impassively the destruction of our planet's natural resources. And this revolution is being led largely by women. It is estimated that 80% of environmental activists worldwide are women.

    Following the path of the suffragettes and the Chipko women of India (the original "tree-huggers"), hundreds of women protesters at Clayoquot were arrested and jailed for up to 45 days for refusing to step aside in the face of logging trucks intent on clearcutting some of the last vestiges of the world's old growth temperate rainforest.

    A moving insider's account of grassroots social history in the making, this documentary talks about much more than trees. It exposes the perils of what happens in the larger society when consciousness is divorced from politics.

    Reviews
  • "It is the rare viewer who would not be transformed by this story's urgency and passion, and the tremendous spirit and intelligence of the women portrayed." - Atom Egoyan, filmmaker, "The Sweet Hereafter"

  • "It is one of those rare documentaries that takes you with passion and logic into another mindset from which there is no escape." - Mark Achbar, filmmaker, "Manufacturing Consent" and "The Corporation"

  • "I cannot think of more critical issues than those raised and documented in FURY FOR THE SOUND. Coupling environmental concerns and struggles to women's empowerment and resistance, this project brings to light the intersection of the two most significant movements of our time." - Frieda Forman, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

  • "This will be of special interest to anyone looking for a contemporary example of nonviolent protest." - The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution

    Notes
  • Nominated, Best Political Film, HOT DOCS, Toronto
  • Nominated, Best Canadian Film/Video, Ontario Arts Council
  • Nominated, Golden Maille, Hawaii International Film Festival

    Awards
  • People's Choice Award, Vermont Film Festival
  • Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
  • Best of Category, International Wildlife Film Festival
  • Figueira da Foz International Festival of Cinema, Portugal
  • Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal
  • Boston Film Festival
  • Denver Film Festival
  • Taos Talking Picture Festival
  • Festibal Visibilia, Bologna
  • Victoria International Film Festival
  • Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival M\'fcnchen
  • Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
  • Vancouver International Mountain Festival
  • Courteney Film Festival: 10 Days of Global Justice
  • MountainFilm, Telluride
  • Bangkok International Film Festival
  • RIENA, Paris

    Item no.: PT02560399
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 86 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1997
    StdBkNo: 1594585369
    Price: USD 275.00

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    RAINMAKERS 1: RENA MCLEOD IN CANADA

    Winnipeg, Canada - Native Justice

    An aboriginal mother fights for native justice.

    "Rainmakers" is a series that tells the inspiring story of six youth leaders from around the world who have overcome difficult personal situations to take control of their lives and help others.

    Rena Mcleod is an aboriginal mother of two living in Winnipeg, Canada. As a baby she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Because she couldn't walk in the morning, she was teased at school. When she started skipping school she got in trouble at home. As a teenager she rebelled and was finally put in a juvenile institution called Knowles Center.

    It was at Knowles Center that she came into contact with a member of the staff, a Native woman named Vicky Whitehead, who taught her to be proud of her heritage. Now Rena is a youth leader in Winnipeg, and helped organize a youth justice symposium there, attended by 500 young people. She's part of a nationwide movement trying to unite aboriginal people to work together to create an equitable justice system that does not discriminate against Native people.

    Reviews
  • "All six videos feature well-selected historical footage, lively action, and, above all, engaging heroes who have much to show to young people. This series demonstrates to teenage viewers that individuals can make a difference and there are ways they, too, can get involved in their own communities." - MultiCultural Review

  • "Visually dynamic and deeply personal in approach. Hart and Cote avoid ponderous docu-speak pacingˇKInstead, they concentrate on getting as close and personal with a subject's psyche as the camera will permit. The results are often moving." - The (Montreal) Gazette

  • "This series is highly recommended for libraries and media centers." - Orlando Archibeque, University of Colorado, MC Journal

    Awards
  • International Family Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM
  • Finalist, Gemini Awards

    Item no.: YL02560453
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 26 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1997
    StdBkNo: 1594583609
    Price: USD 59.00

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    RAINMAKERS 1: SHAKUNTALA KAZMI IN INDIA

    New Delhi, India - Violence Against Women

    A low-caste Hindu, Shakuntala Kazmi fights for women's rights.

    "Rainmakers" is a series that tells the inspiring story of six youth leaders from around the world who have overcome difficult personal situations to take control of their lives and help others.

    Shakuntala Kazmi was born into a low-caste Hindu family and has experienced discrimination all her life. As an activist in the fight for women's rights, she leads a dramatic protest against the male-run lotteries.

    Reviews
  • "Admirably fiery, well-spoken, and unswervingly committedˇKvery inspirational" - Video Librarian

  • "All six videos feature well-selected historical footage, lively action, and, above all, engaging heroes who have much to show to young people. This series demonstrates to teenage viewers that individuals can make a difference and there are ways they, too, can get involved in their own communities." - MultiCultural Review

  • "Visually dynamic and deeply personal in approach. Hart and Cote avoid ponderous docu-speak pacingˇKInstead, they concentrate on getting as close and personal with a subject's psyche as the camera will permit. The results are often moving." - The (Montreal) Gazette

  • "This series is highly recommended for libraries and media centers." - Orlando Archibeque, University of Colorado, MC Journal

    Awards
  • Gold Apple, National Educational Media Network Video Competition
  • Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film Festival
  • Finalist, Gemini Awards

    Item no.: CK02790454
    Format: DVD (Color, Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 26 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1997
    StdBkNo: 1594583641
    Price: USD 59.00

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    COMMUNITY

    Micro-credit is transforming the lives of women in Bangladesh.

    COMMUNITY looks at the dramatic story of villagers in Bangladesh who have transformed themselves from beggars to business people with the help of micro-credit loans. At the same time the loans have enabled positive new roles and relationships for men and women to come into being.

    One women's group now owns a rice mill, another makes roof tiles, and a men's group runs a fish farm. The money raised is held collectively to benefit the entire group. The product presents a compelling story of positive long-term change that comes with women's participation in community affairs.

    Award
  • Silver Apple, National Educational Media Competition

    Item no.: AH02790364
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1996
    StdBkNo: 1594585261
    Price: USD 195.00

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    HALF THE SKY: THE WOMEN OF THE JIANG FAMILY

    Changes in the lives of four generations of Chinese women.

    No women in any country have seen their lives change so radically as have Chinese women. "Women are 'half the sky,'" declared Mao Zedong, "and they are absolutely the equal of men."

    Equal they may have been, but by regimentation, to the point of the virtual abolition of womanhood and femininity. Today economic reforms have given young women a degree of independence unknown to any previous generation. For the first time they are conscious and outspoken about their role and position in society, and they make their demands known.

    This film explores these changes within the lives of four generations of women in the Jiang family over the last 50 years in China, from the grandmother who was bought by the Jiang family at age 14 to be grandfather's second wife, to her 24-year-old great-granddaughter who works as a sales assistant at the Pierre Cardin boutique in Beijing.

    Built around a series of interviews, images of daily life, special family occasions and archival film, HALF THE SKY focuses on the women's individual experiences of marriage, children, work, love, and self-esteem.

    Review
  • "The times they are, indeed, a-changing, as this beautifully shot impressionistic overview of several generations of women in the Jiang family showsˇK"Half the Sky" ranges far and wide over the social upheavals which women have faced and weathered in recent Chinese history. Recommended." - Video Librarian

    Awards
  • Best Independent Program, Rencontres Media Nord/Sud, Geneva
  • Bronze Apple, National Educational Media Competition
  • Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting

    Item no.: GS01110407
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1995
    StdBkNo: 1594586098
    Price: USD 250.00

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    RISING ABOVE:WOMEN OF VIETNAM

    Vietnamese women build on experiences of war.

    In the long years of war against France and the U.S., Vietnamese women fought alongside men as equals. Women such as Madam Binh, who negotiated with Henry Kissinger at the Paris Peace Accords, and later became Vice President of Vietnam, and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh, general and deputy commander of the Vietcong forces, reached the highest positions of power. But 30 years after the signing of the peace agreement, the revival of Confucianism and the spread of market forces are conspiring to relegate women once again to the role of second class citizens. This film looks at what happened to Mrs. Binh and Mrs. Dinh and three other w omen since the war.

    Kim Lai was 17 in 1965 when she captured an American pilot twice her size and the newspaper photograph of them was circulated around the world. Vo Thi Thang was also the subject of a famous picture. Sentenced to 20 years in jail by the South Vietnamese government for her part in the Tet offensive, her unrepentant smile was captured by photographers. Dr. Duong Quynh Hoa, Shadow Minister of Health in the provisional government, became Deputy Minister of Health for two years after the war until she became disillusioned.

    Vietnamese women overcame seemingly insurmountable odds in wartime. Their peacetime challenge is to rise above centuries of obedience and self-denial to build their own and their country's future.

    Reviews
  • "An excellent filmˇKwell organizedˇKcompelling narrationˇKHighly recommended." - Belinda L. Robinson- Jones, Ohio University, MC Journal

  • "Have you ever wondered about Vietnamese heroines? This is a heroic film about the intrepid participation of women in the war effort." - T.T. Nhu, San Jose Mercury- News

    Awards
  • Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Bronze WorldMedal, New York Festivals
  • DESIRABLE, California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse
  • Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference

    Item no.: BA02560459
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Audience: Grades 10-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1995
    StdBkNo: 1594586101
    Price: USD 250.00

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