Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu June 2006

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Media Collections:
Protest and Resistance

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

10,000 black men named George 2003

A dramatization of the true story of the formation of the first black-controlled union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Asa Philip Randolph, a black journalist establishes a voice for the forgotten workers of the Pullman Rail Company, where all black porters were simply named "George", after George Pullman, the first person to employ emancipated slaves.

1 videodisc (95 min.)

DANA 58

4 little girls 1998

The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists were soon jailed...but it was the participation of the children that advanced the momentum of the Birmingham movement. They marched alongside the adults and were taken to jail with them as well. The 16th St. Baptist Church was close to the downtown area, it was an ideal location to hold rallies and meetings. On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in the building...under the fallen debris the bodies of [four] girls were found--Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley died because of the color of their skin.

1 videocassette (102 min.) : DVD

DANA MEDIA 1566 10-384

À bientot, jéspère Be seeing you 2003?

From 1967 to 1976 Chris Marker was a member of SLON (the "Company for the Launching of New Works"), which was based on the idea that cinema should not be thought of solely in terms of commerce. 1967 was also the year an important strike broke out at Rhodiaceta, a textile plant in Besançon, France. Chris Marker and members of SLON visited the city to document the strike and the lives and attitudes of the workers.

1 videocassette (39 min.)

MEDIA 2-6903

After Stonewall from the riots to the millennium 1999

The sequel to Before Stonewall chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the roots at Stonewall to the end of the century.

1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.)

MEDIA 2-6677

The agronomist 2005

Tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the 80's and early 90's in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over the years. Dominique fought tirelessly against his country's overwhelming injustice, oppression, and poverty, but it was his shocking and still-unsolved assassination in April of 2000 that gave the director the impetus to assemble more than a decade's worth of material into a celebration of this dynamic man's life and legacy.

1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-558

Aimé Césaire poet and statesman 2002

Césaire speaks about his love for the French Caribbean landscape, his student days in Paris, the connection between his inner journey and the process of writing, his fight against the ravages of slavery and French policies in the colonies. The video also includes interviews with the Martinican artists who speak of Césaire's influence on their work, Victor Anicet and Luc Marlin, and ends with a two minute reading by Césaire.

1 videocassette (42 min.)

MEDIA 2-6375

Ain't scared of your jails, 1960-1961 1995

Presents college student involvement in the civil rights movement. The program focuses on four related stories: the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960; the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); the impact of the movement on the 1960 presidential campaign, and the freedom rides of 1961.

1 videocasette (ca. 60 min. ) :

MEDIA 2-4164

All power to the people! the Black Panther Party and beyond 1996

"Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race conflict in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the mid 1960's"--Container.

1 videocassette (115 min.)

MEDIA 2-6940

America, behind bars beyond the prison industrial complex : critical resistance 1999?

Visions of freedom / produced by Luana Plunkett, Neal Morrison (32 min.) -- USA, INCarceration / produced by Sasha Magee and Carla Leshne (24 min.)The growing reliance on prisons as the solution to systematic social problems, has created a punishment industry that bleeds taxpayers as it wields repression against the poor, immigrants and minorities. Visions of Freedom shows highlights from the Critical Resistance Conference held in Berkeley, California in 1998. Weaving music, poetry and speakers at the conference, this video highlights the growing movement to end the lockdown. USA INCarcerated outlines the growth of the prison industrial complex, the privatization of corrections and the social trade-offs being made to support it.

1 videocassette (56 min.) :

DANA 1358

America's battlegrounds 1994

Whisky Rebellion, 1794 -- Dred Scott decision, 1846 -- Battle of Poison Springs, 1864 -- Battle of Bear's Paw, 1877 -- Cairo, Illinois, 1969Tells the stories of some of the countless struggles-- in city streets, and courtrooms, as well as on the battlefield-- that shaped American history.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-4001

The Amistad Revolt "All we want is make us free" 1995

Performer Note: Narrator: Vinie BurrowsTells the story of the 1839 Amistad Revolt and the ensuing campaign to free the Africans jailed for murder and piracy.

1 videocassette (33 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-6437 2-6437 guide

Antonio Negri a revolt that never ends 2004

Documentary that profiles the life of university professor, Antonio Negri, a leading spokesperson for the international anti-globalization movement.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6860

Ashes and diamonds 1986

The conflict between idealism and instinct is revealed in the story of a Polish Resistance fighter who assassinates the wrong man on the last day of World War II.

1 videocassette (VHS) (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-229

Battle of Algiers 1988

Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962.

1 videocassette (125 min.) : DVD

DANA. MEDIA MEDIA 326 2-706 10-346

The Battle of Vieques 1986

Offers an in-depth examination of the U.S. Navy's controversial control and use of Vieques, a satellite island and municipality of Puerto Rico and home to 8,000 people, as a military training, exercise and deployment base. Uses interviews with residents and leaders, scenes of military maneuvers, Naval bombings and protest demonstrations to explore what the Naval presence has meant for Vieques and its people. Dramatically documents the Navy's gradual expropriation of 75% of the island's land, the ravaging of its economy, the virtual destruction of the island's ecology and its fishing industry by warship movement and practice bombing, and the displacement of more than half the island's population.

1 videocassette (ca. 41 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5366

The Bayview Massacre of 1886 1987

Describes the struggle of the working class to achieve an eight-hour working day.

1 videocassette (15 min.)

MEDIA 2-6436

Black Panther San Francisco State: on strike 1998

Black Panther (15 min.) 1969 -- San Francisco State: on strike (20 min.) 1969Black Panther features interviews with founding members, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale. Documentary footage of the organization's meetings and marches reveal a pragmatic and still relevant outline for African American communities' self-determination and development. San Francisco State: on strike recounts how students of color led a six month long strike in the fall of 1968 at San Francisco State to make their university's curriculum and admission policies more relevant and succeeded in creating the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies department in America.

1 videocassette (35 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5028

Bon voyage ; Aventure malagache 1993

These two films, originally filmed in England as a tribute to the French Resistance, were banned by the British Government. Bon voyage tells the story of an RAF pilot whose mistake caused the deaths of several resistance fighters. Aventure malgache illustrates the division between the Free French through the experiences of a lawyer who is imprisoned by the Vichy government.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2341 2-6688

Brenda Senders a partisan's story 1991

Following an introduction about the stages and causes of the Holocaust, Brenda Senders describes the course of the Holocaust in her little town in the Ukraine to a B nai B rith youth group.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1817

C'eravamo tanto amati 2001

Ettore Scola examines the lives of three resistance fighters and their transformation over thirty years. Each of these friends falls in love with the beautiful Luciana, an aspiring actress, testing the friendship and idealism they all shared.

1 videodisc (124 min.)

MEDIA 10-597

The century: Approaching the apocalypse America's time 1999

This program appraises the effects of the blights on the political landscape and their impact on the trust between the government and the governed, so vital to the well-being of a representative democracy such as the United States.

1 videocassette (45 min.)

MEDIA 2-7030

The century: Poisoned dreams America's time 1999

This program documents U.S.-Soviet conflicts of interest in Cuba and Vietnam and the growing polarization at home between civil rights activists and segregationist hard-liners, which resulted in the Birmingham riots and the freedom march on Washington, D.C.

1 videocassette (43 min.)

MEDIA 2-7028

The century: Unpinned America's time 1999

This program presents the unrelenting rage that divided the nation during perilous years, as the Watts race riots, the assissinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and the Kent State killings made headline news.

1 videocassette (45 min.)

MEDIA 2-7029

Chicago, 1968 1996?

Explores the atmosphere surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Insight into factors contributing to events is provided through interviews with writers, politicians, anti-war activists and historians.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-4066

Claiming open spaces 1995

Part one. Space and time -- Claiming and conflict -- pt. two. An era of open spaceExplores African-American culture as it clashes with the design of the modern American city. The film is both a critical examination of the design and histories of American urban open space, as well as a celebration of leisure, recreation, and resistance.

2 videocassettes (90 min. each) :

DANA. DANA 721 cassette 1 721 cassette 2

Crisis behind a presidential commitment 2003

Having earned John F. Kennedy's trust with his 1960 campaign-trail film Primary, cinéma vérité documentarian Robert Drew expressed his desire to document a president in crisis. When African American college students Vivian Malone and James Hood prepared to enroll at the all-white University of Alabama in June 1963, governor George Wallace defied a federal court order and vowed to prevent the students' enrollment. Kennedy granted unprecedented access to Drew and his unobtrusive four-team crew, who used handheld cameras to cover both sides of the conflict: Wallace self-righteously clings to of segregation, while a flurry of phone calls between the president, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenback reveal a tightly coordinated plan to dismiss Wallace (in Robert Kennedy's words) as "a second-rate figure." Drew's short film Faces of November provides an examination of the meaning of John F. Kennedy's death to those at his funeral.

1 videodisc (53 min.)

MEDIA 10-390

Crossing the line 1999

Documentary video of nonviolent protest against the United States Army School of the Americas, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. On November 22, 1998, over 7,000 people gathered at the gates of Fort Benning to demand that the United States end its policy of training foreign soldiers.

1 videocassette (16 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5196

La cueca sola 2003

"On September 11, 1973, a military coup in Chile brought Augusto Pinochet to power, and over the next 17 years, thousands of men were taken from their homes never to return. Since that time, Chilean women have danced the country's traditional courtship dance alone. After 30 years in exile, filmmaker Marilu Mallet returns to Santiago to tell the story of five women who suffered under the dictatorship and have emerged as heroes under democracy.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6933

Czlowiek z zelaza Man of iron 1993

The Polish Solidarity strike takes place at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer of 1980. An alcoholic TV journalist is ordered to smear one of the Solidarity's key figures, coined the "man of iron.".

1 videocassette (140 min.) :

DANA 302

Dateline, San Salvador 1986

On May 1, 1986, 80,000 Salvadorians, in protest of their conditions, marched the streets of their capital demanding an end to the war. This video documents this historic march and explores the concerns of the people behind the banners.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

DANA 377

Dirty secrets Jennifer, Everardo & the CIA in Guatemala 1998

Follows the efforts of Jennifer Harbury, a middle class American woman, to find the truth about her husband Everardo, a Guatemalan peasant revolutionary who "disappeared" after capture by Guatemalan government forces. Explores the web of cover-ups and lies that hide human rights violations in Guatemala and the involvement of the CIA and other American governmental bodies in this and related events.

1 videocassette (56 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3910

Doctors, liars and women 1988

In January 1988, Cosmopolitan published an article by Dr. Robert E. Gould about the risk factor for hetersexual women. Confrontation with Dr. Gould, clips from various "talk shows" and footage covering the development of and occurrance of a protest rally at Cosmopolitan make up the content of the video.

1 videocassette (24 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2047

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr a historical perspective 2002

Historical overview of the struggle for racial equality in America. Focuses on the extraordinary life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. using rare and largely unseen film footage and photographs.

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)

DANA 131

Emitai 1971?

Dramatically depicts the confrontation and resistance that ensued between the French colonial goverment and the Diola people in Senegal. The colonial goverment's conscription of young Diola men to fight for France in World War II and their demand for food from the women and old men set the stage for the clash between the Diola and the French.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2220

Escape from China 1993

The story of Zhang Boli, one of the 21 student leaders during the 1989 student democratic movement in Beijing, China that was crushed by military force. Describes his role in the movement, how he went into hiding for two years, then escaped from China to the U.S.

1 videocassette (57 min., 10 sec.) :

MEDIA 2-2425

Euskadi hors d'état = Euskadi : stateless nation 1984

Tells of the struggle for autonomy and political forces within the Basque provinces of Spain. Includes historical film footage.

1 videocassette (97 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5744

Fearless stories from Asian women 2003

Contents: Tape 1. The price of freedom -- Tape 2. Breaking the caste -- Tape 3. Heart on the sleeveA study of three women who are fighting for social justice, both in their homelands and in exile.

3 videocassettes (ca. 78 min.)

MEDIA 2-6542 2-6544

February one 2004

Tells the inspiring story of four remarkable young men who initiated the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, NC on February 1, 1960.

1 videocassette (57 min.)

DANA MEDIA 3035 2-6909

Fi baytina rajul A man in our house 2003

Set prior to the 1952 revolution, a member of an underground resistance group seeks refuge from the political police with a civil servant and his family.

1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-325

Fight no more forever 1996

By the 1870s there were only a few pockets of resistance against the nation's push to conquer the West. On the Great Plains, Sitting Bull followed his mystical visions and urged his Lakota people to fight rather than surrender their sacred Black Hills and traditional way of life. Custer's "Last stand" would also become, in effect, the last stand of the Sioux as a free people. In Utah, the Mormon patriarch Brigham Young would be forced to choose between saving his church or sacrificing his spiritual son. Farther west, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce would find himself helping to lead one of the most extraordinary military compaigns in American history.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 1268 2-3224 2-4235

Flame 1996

One of the most controversial films ever produced in Africa (seized by the police during editing), this feature film not only exposes past abuses but continuing divisions within Zimbabwean society, especially against women and peasants. It is the story of two close friends, Florence and Nyasha as they train and fight as soldiers in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, but after liberation find their lives little changed.

1 videorecording (85 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 1295 2-3299

Le fond de l'air est rouge A grin without a cat 2002

Chris Marker's epic film essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. This sweeping, global contemplation of a defining decade's political history is divided into two parts, each part woven together to describe what Marker has called "scenes of the Third World War.".

1 videocassette (180 min.)

MEDIA 2-6888

Four more years 1985?

Affords unusual coverage of the Thirtieth Republican National Convention which re-nominated Richard Nixon for President. Includes a wheelchair parade of disabled veterans protesting the war in Vietnam, shots of grotesque costumes worn by the protestors and views of some of the delegates on these subjects.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-926

Fury for the sound the women at Clayoquot 1997

Reveals the important role of women in establishing grassroots social movements like the one to protest clearcut logging in Clayoquot Sound on Canada's West Coast. Depicts women of all ages fighting to protect the Sound, one of the largest remaining tracts of untouched Canadian rain forest.

1 videocassette (52 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5081

The Gate of Heavenly Peace 1996

Through still photographs, eyewitness accounts, interviews, and newsreels, examines the Tiananmen Square incident and the complex political process that led to the events of Spring 1989 in China.

2 videocassettes (189 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3392 2-3393

Generations of resistance 1979

Uses archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by Black South Africans for economic viability and individual freedom.

1 videocassette (52 min. 21 sec.) :

MEDIA 2-6494

Geronimo and the Apache resistance 1988

Using archival photos and interviews with descendants of the Chiricahua Apaches, the program highlights the clash between Indian and white cultures and portrays the effects on an Indian society faced with the loss of its land and traditions.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 1156 2-717 2-4013

Good evening Mr. Wallenberg 1994

Raoul Wallenberg moved from Sweden to Budapest in late 1944 to help protect Jews from Adolph Eichmann's Sonderkommando.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2446

The Greenham challenge bringing missiles to trial 1987

The Greenham challenge is about the women of Greenham Common and their unusual law suit demanding that the United States government stop the deployment of American nuclear missiles in Great Britain.

1 videocassette (44 min.) :

MEDIA 2-583

Guazapa 1988

Presents an American journalist's view of life in the rebel-controlled combat zone of Guazapa in El Salvador, showing the relationship between combatants and civilians in a revolution.

1 videocassette (37 min.) :

DANA 401

Guerrilla wars, 1973 1999

Examines how highly motivated guerrillas have organized revolts that eventually defeated large well-equipped governments. Using interviews and archival footage this film examines the Cuban revolution, America's futile struggle in Vietnam and the Soviet Union's equally unsuccessful attempts to control Afghanistan.

1 videocassette (60 min) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-4202a 2-5636

Haiti killing the dream 1992

Ossie Davis narrates this unique perspective on the events in Haiti following the military coup of 1991. The program includes interviews with exiled President Jean Bertrand Astride and his cabinet, dissident clergy, underground resistance leaders, U.S. State Department officials, and a cross-section of the Haitian people.

1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1766

Henry one man's way 1997

Examines the life of Henry Spira, an animal rights activist.

1 videocassette (53 min.)

MEDIA 2-6455

In a dark time 1991

This episode looks at the effects of the Vietnam War on America and the increasing polarization of its supporters and opponents. It also examines the mounting racial tensions that sparked riots in cities nationwide, and the elements of fear, disenchantment and frustration that were evident across the country. Finally, it leads viewers to the violent year of 1968 as political protest began to fuse with social ferment.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1238

In the light of reverence 2001

Across the United States, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Thisfilm presents three indigenous communities in their struggles to protect their sacred sites from rock climbers, tourists, stripmining and development and New Age religious practitioners.

1 videocassette (73 min.)

MEDIA 2-6493

Inside Burma land of fear 1997

This news report tells of the opression suffered by the Burmese people and the measures the government took to supress a democracy uprising in 1988. The film was shot secretly and smuggled out of Burma.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6473

The Internationale 2000

Using rare archival footage and interviews with historians, musicians and activists, this film tells the story of this 100-year-old anthem of the oppressed and exploited, and celebrates the relationship between music and social change.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5716

Iron jawed angels 2004

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and collegue Inez Mulholland gives up her life.

1 videodisc (123 min.)

DANA 210

Jang aur aman War and peace 2002

Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the United States. This film is the contemporary, epic journey of peace activism in the face of religious militarism and war.

2 videocassettes (146 min.)

MEDIA 2-6905 2-6906

Kanehsatake [videorecording] : 270 years of resistance 1993

"On a hot July day in 1990, a historic confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience. Behind Mohawk lines that gruelling summer, producer and director Alanis Obomsawin, herself an Abenaki Indian, endured 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming an armed standoff between the Kanehsatake Mohawk people of First Nations, the Quebec police and the Canadian army"--Container.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5192

Kenya 1987

Uses early newsreels, missionary films, and interviews with Kenyan activists to trace the history of Kenya's opposition to white rule beginning with the arrival of the first European settlers in the 19th century. Focuses on the Mau-Mau rebellion of the early 1950s and the key roles played by the Kikuyu people and their leader Jomo Kenyatta.

1 videocassette (53 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3128

The keys to the kingdom, 1974-1980 1995

Examines the relationship between law and popular struggle. In Boston, Black parents organize to improve their childrens's education. In Atlanta, Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, tries to guarantee Black involvement in the construction of Alanta's airport. Affirmative action programs do not go unchallenged, however, as Allan Bakke takes his suit against the University of California all the way to the Supreme Court.

1 videocasette (ca. 60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-4160

Las Madres The Mothers of Plaza De Mayo 1985

In 1977, the darkest year of the military dictatorship in Argentina, fourteen ordinary women began to march. They risked their lives, defying the law prohibiting public meetings, by marching before the Presidential palace in Buenos Aires, in the Plaza de Mayo, demanding to know the whereabouts of their missing children. These middle-aged and elderly women, without formal political education, sparked both an Argentinian national movement and an international campaign for the release of all "disappeared" persons.

1 videocassette (75 min.) :

MEDIA D-246

Leon Senders's war 199

The film shows Leon Senders addressing an adult group at the Washington Hebrew Congregation. Born Lazar Sendarovich in Vilna Lithuania, then a part of Poland, he fled to the forests following the Nazi invasion. His family stayed behind and died in Polnar. He was trained in guerrilla warfare in Moscow and spent the war as a partisan radio operator, often miles behind enemy lines, including several months in Konigsberg.

1 videocassette (23 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1816

Let's get married 2002

In this video, correspondent Alex Kotlowitz takes a look at the modern marriage movement.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-6803

Liberia America's stepchild 2002

From Haitian slave revolts and the American Colonization Society to the 1997 election of Charles Taylor to the presidency and his corrupt administration, this program looks at events leading up the founding of Liberia and its history up through the twentieth century.

1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.)

DANA 116

The life and times of Rosie the riveter 1999

Five women reminisce about their jobs and working conditions during World War II. Includes topics of sex discrimination, the women's movement, and the role of movies and radio in helping mold public opinion during World War II.

1 videocassette (65 min.)

MEDIA 281 2-564 2-7281

The living martyr Hizbollah unveiled 2001

This documentary presents footage of suicide mission preparations and interviews with Lebanon's Hizballah resistance fighters and their families.

1 videocassette (53 min.) :

DANA 1759

The long walk of Nelson Mandela 1999

An in-depth film biography of Nelson Mandela, who is credited with the reversal of apartheid in South Africa and its peaceful transformation to democrary.

1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.) :

DANA 1688

Mandela the living legend 2004

Presents the powerful story of Nelson Mandela, prior to his arrest for treason and the beginning of his life sentence in a South African jail.

2 videodiscs (108 min.)

DANA 149 v.1-2

Mapantsula 1990?

Panic is a petty criminal imprisoned with South African Anti-Apartheid activists who feel contempt toward his lifestyle. While in jail, Panic is transformed into a man willing to become involved with social change.

1 videocassette (104 min.) :

DANA 373

Morning sun Ba jiu dian zhong de tai yang 2003

This film attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes--and reflected in the hearts and minds--of members of the high-school generation that was born around the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and that came of age in the 1960s. Others join them in creating in the film's conversation about the period and the psycho-emotional topography of high-Maoist China, as well as the enduring legacy of that period.

2 videocassettes (117 min.)

MEDIA 2-6839 & 2-6840

Moving the mountain 1995

Captures the power and passion of the Chinese student demonstrations for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China during May 1989. Newsreel footage, dramatic re-enactments and extensive input from the actual student leaders are combined to paint a portrait of courage, conviction and commitment.

1 videocassette (83 min.) :

DANA 674

Nat Turner a troublesome property 2002

A chronicle about the multiple ways the Nat Turner slave revolt has been remembered and interpreted by historians, novelists, dramatists, and artists.

1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-6463

A Nation of law? 1968-1971 1990

By the late 1960's, the anger in the poorer urban areas over charges of police brutality was smoldering. In Chicago, Fred Hampton formed a Black Panther Party chapter. During this same period, inmates at New York's Attica Prison took over the prison in an effort to publicize intolerable conditions.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-4159

No easy walk, 1961-1963 1995

Presents the emergence of mass demonstrations and marches as means of protest for the civil rights movement, and shows the effects of such tactics in Albany, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., and Washington, D.C.

1 videocasette (ca. 60 min. ) :

MEDIA 2-4165

No justice, no peace four voices for change 2002

This video offers a window into the world of today's politically active youth. Presents portraits of four Ohio college students of different racial backgrounds who are active in a variety of issues.

1 videocassette (48 min.)

MEDIA 2-6398

No logo brands, globalization, resistance 2003

Using hundreds of media examples, No Logo shows how the commercial takeover of public space, destruction of consumer choice, and replacement of real jobs with temporary work (the dynamics of corporate globalization) impact everyone, everywhere. It also draws attention to the resistance arising globally to challenge the hegemony of brands.

1 DVD (42 min. + min. additional footage)

MEDIA 10-211

Nobody listened 1989

In 1987,an organization named the Cuban Human Rights Film Project applied to the Cuban government to make a film about the Cuban justice system. Permission to make the film was denied. The Project made an alternative film consisting of interviews with Cuban political refugees, most of them living now in the United States and most of them former political prisoners from Cuba's infamous prisons.

1 videocassette (117 min.) :

DANA 292

Of civil wrongs and rights the Fred Korematsu story 2000

Fred Korematsu was probably never more American than when he resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his landmark Supreme Court case in 1944 but never his indignation and resolve. This is the untold history of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu, one that finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7388

Oh freedom after while 1999

In January 1939, Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers--black and white--staged a dramatic roadside protest to call attention to unjust treatment by local plantation owners. Their demonstration spurred the U.S. government to develop new housing for displaced sharecroppers. Some demonstrators also established a remarkable farming community--and learned how to make lasting change in their lives.

1 videocassette (57 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5023

One wedding and a. . .revolution 2004

February 12, 2004, the mayor of San Francisco instructed city and county officials to allow lesbian and gay couples to marry. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, founders of the first lesbian-rights organization and celebrating their 51st anniversary, were invited to be the first couple married.

1 videocassette (19 min.)

MEDIA 2-6886

Open city 1985

A graphic portrayal of the misery of Rome during the German occupation, telling of an underground leader who takes refuge with a friend.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA DANA 2-121 7-127 526

Other American voices 2002

Interviews with prominent people concerning the state of political opposition and dissent in the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6852

The other side of the fence 1993

Lynn Estomin interviews Nancy O'Brien about O'Brien's role in a pro-life-movement group that demonstrated outside Cincinnati Planned Parenthood clinics. O'Brien says the black-and-white view of life she held as a pro-life activist changed when her group supported her husband during their divorce, and she now questions her former certainties.

1 videocassette (28 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5735

Palante, siempre palante! The Young Lords 1996

In the mid-60's from Chicago to New York City and other urban centers, the Young Lords emerged to demand decent living conditions and raised a militant voice for the empowerment of the Puerto Rican people in the United States. This documentary surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords activities and philosophy, the torturous end of the organization and its inspiring legacy, through camera interviews, archival footage, photographs and music.

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MEDIA 2-5130

Partisans of Vilna 1986

Feature-length documentary film that explores Jewish resistance during World War II. Recounts the untold tale of the moral dilemmas facing the Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance in the Vilna ghetto, and fought as partisans in the woods against the Nazis.

1 videocassette (130 min.) :

MEDIA 2-846

A. Philip Randolph for jobs & freedom 1996

Music: Jesus is a rock in the weary land -- La Guiablesse: Entrance of Les Porteuse -- Night -- Let's all be Americans now -- On Jersey shore -- Get on board -- Now let me fly -- Pullman porter blues -- Hold the fort -- Mean low blues -- Happy days are here again -- Defense factory blues -- I'm so glad -- We shall overcomeBiography of the African American labor leader, journalist, and civil rights activist, A. Philip Randolph. Randolph won the first national labor agreement for a black union, The Sleeping Car porters. His threat of a protest march on Washington forced President Roosevelt to ban segregation in the federal government and defense industries at the onset of WWII and later he forced Truman to integrate the military. Finally with the 1963 March on Washington, Randolph succeeded in placing civil rights at the forefront of the nation's legislative agenda as he passed the torch to Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes music of the labor and civil rights movements.

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Picking up the pieces 1991

Although there were still a half million troops in Vietnam, and even though the violence and absurdities of war would continue into the next decade, by 1969 there was a definite sense of something ending. The seeds of the Seventies were planted: the Women's Movement ; the Silent Majority ; the Citizen Action Movement. This program traces the end of the decade through the early seventies when the anti-war movement became mainstream, when worries about revolution faded away and political action took a more personal turn.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1239

Rebel hearts Sarah & Angelina Grimke and the anti-slavery movement 1994

Discusses the lives of Sarah and Angelina Grimke and their work against slavery and their involvement with what would become the women's rights movement in the United States.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5088

The restless conscience resistance to Hitler within Germany, 1933-1945 1991

Using new material, this absorbing documentary examines the activities of the anti-Nazi resistance within Germany from 1933 to 1944. Focusing on the moral and political evolution of the movement's principal architects, The Restless conscience highlights the tension between an individual's responsibility to a personal ethical code and to a national political system.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-2108 298

Roots of resistance a story of the underground railroad 1990

Recounts the story of the underground railroad through narratives of escaped slaves. Includes interviews with descendents of slaves and slave holders of Somerset Place, a plantation in North Carolina, who describe the personal danger and terrible risk involved in each slave's departure.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-4020 1039

Samurai rebellion Joiuchi 1997

"Isaburo, a renowned swordsman, ... is the essence of samurai loyalty until his overlord demands the return of a former mistress, Isaburo's beloved daughter-in-law. The injustice to his family forces Isaburo to take a heroic stand for individual freedom and moves him towards a revolt he can never win."--Container.

1 videocassette (ca. 121 min.)

MEDIA 2-7006

Senegal the power to change 2000

The protest against female genital mutilation started with an educational program set up by the United Nations in cooperation with a local NGO. News of the declarations spread through the media, inspiring women in other villages to demand education and to take similar decisions. This is a success story which shows that education makes all the difference.

1 videocassette (30 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6015

Sisters in resistance 2000

Four women reunite to reminisce about their days in the French Resistance. They recall setting up a Resistance network by establishing safehouses, disseminating underground publications to counter Nazi misinformation, and transmitting military intelligence to London. The women survived imprisonment in Ravensbrück, a Nazi women's concentration camp, and then went on to form the Association of Women Deportees and Prisoners of the Resistance. They have been recognized as French heroines, and are still passionately engaged in causes of justice.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5714

Sit down and fight Walter Reuther and the rise of the auto workers union 199-

Performer Note: Narrator: Tresa Hughes ; host, David McCullough Event Note: Part of the American experience television series, broadcast on February 1, 1993Tells the story of Walter Reuther, a man whose leadership and vision of worker's rights changed the way America worked.

1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA D-233

Six generations 2004

From Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her great-great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth Jenkins-Sahlin, six generations of Stanton women have fought for equality in the voting booth, the classroom, and the workplace. A concise overview of the women's movement in America.

1 videodisc (15 min.)

DANA 252

Some mother's son 1997

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a Britain prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of the war.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1604

The Sorrow and the pity 1984

Examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II using reminiscences of individuals and officials involved in the events at the time. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.

2 videocassettes (260 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-50 cassette 1 2-51 cassette 2

State of fear a film 2005

Performer Note: Narrator: Karen DuffyThe Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission's official report chronicles the atrocities of both sides during the twenty year war between Abimael Guzman's revolutionary "Shining path" Indian guerrilla movement and the establishment governments.

1 videodisc (94 min.)

DANA 258

Strange fruit 2002

A history of the anti-lynching protest song made famous by Billie Holiday.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MUSIC 462

The struggle for racial equality : the civil rights movement, 1948-1963 1970

Fifteen years of non-violent protest for desegregation and racial justice from the 1948 political secession of the South to the 1963 March on Washington. Includes statements by Presidents, George Wallace, and Black leaders.

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DOUGLASS 33

This black soil a story of resistance and rebirth 2004

Chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, Virginia, a small and severely improverished rural African-American community to overcome the state of Virginia's plans for building a prison in their backyard, and under the leadership of visionary women, building a new community from the grounds up.

1 videocassette (59 min.)

MEDIA 2-6982

This is what democracy looks like 2000

Composed of film segments shot by over 100 media activists during the 1999 World Trade Organization's Ministerial meeting in Seattle when human rights activists, environmentalists, indigenous people, labor activists, fair trade proponents, people of faith, union workers, farmers, students and teachers from more than 700 organizations took to the streets to protest against the meeting.

1 videocassette (67 min.) :

MEDIA 2-671

The time has come, 1964-196 1995

Shows how during the decade of civil rights protest in the South, a sense of urgency and anger emerged from the Black communities in the North. This urgency was best articulated by Malcolm X, and the programs follows his influence on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as they organized in Alabama and Mississippi.

1 videocasette (ca. 60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-4154

The torch is passed 1986

SLATE is a student politial party which was active at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 50s and early 60s. Former members, gathered for a 25th anniversary reunion, reflect on the party's values and actions.

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MEDIA 2-302

Toward freedom, 1940-1965 1991

Covers Harlem's politics of protest, World War II, the emergence of uptown gangs and social growth in the 1960's, the Apollo Theater, the emergence of Malcolm X.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1376

Trick bag a black & white movie ; What the fuck are these red squares? ; Hum 255 1992

Trick bag / Kartemquin Films with Rising Up Angry and Columbia College (1975, 21 min.) -- What the fuck are these red squares? / editing and sound, Jerry Blumenthal ; camera, Gordon Quinn ; discussion leader, Shirlee Blumenthal ; Kartenquin Films (1970, 15 min.) -- Hum 255 (1969, 28 min.)Trick bag: Interviews gang members, Vietnam veterans, and factory workers. What the fuck are these red squares?: Documents a teach-in at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the Vietnam War. Hum 255: Begins in 1968 with the striking students at the University of Chicago and follows with the return of two expelled students one year later who confront currently enrolled students about social and moral values and responsibilities.

1 videocassette (64 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5325

Two societies, 1965-1968 1995

Shows how during the decade of civil rights protest in the South, a sense of urgency and anger emerged from the Black communities in the North. This urgency was best articulated by Malcolm X, and the programs follows his influence on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as they organized in Alabama and Mississippi.

1 videocasette (ca. 60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-4155

Underground Railroad 1999

Tells the story of the struggle to break the bonds of slavery in the American South: a story of secret codes, hidden way-stations and clandenstine "conductors." A story not of a railway, but of a loosely organized network of runaway slaves, freed blacks and anti-slavery whites, all willing to risk their lives in the name of liberty. Presenting dramatic re-creations of escapes, this documentary also chronicles the achievements of abolitionist figures Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Garrison.

1 videocassette (100 min.) :

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Unfinished symphony democracy and dissent 2004

Explores the events that led up to the Vietnam Veternas Protest of May 28-31, 1971. Also includes original footage of the protest including a reverse Paul Revere March from the Concord Bridge and the arrests of 410 demonstrators on Lexington Green.

1 videocassette (59 min.)

MEDIA 2-6835

Video against AIDS Program 2 1989

Resistance (45 min.) -- Mourning (45 min.) -- Community education (29 min.)Program 2 deals with homophobia and sexual discrimination in the popular media's representation of the disease, a mother's dedication to her son who suffers from AIDS, and how communities can responsibly respond to the AIDS crisis by fighting fear and ignorance through education.

1 videocassette (119 min.) :

MEDIA 2-836

Vieques ... un largometraje 2000

The struggle by the residents of Vieques Island to halt target practice by the United States Navy and Marine Corps.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5617

Vieques un pueblo forjando futuros = An island forging futures : un documental 2000

"This documentary demostrates part of the peaceful resistance movement against the bombing practices of the U.S. Navy in Vieques...after two bombs negligently killed David Sanes, a Viequense civilian employee, on the 19th of April 1999. This works documents the story of a people's struggle against the world's most powerful armed forces."--Container.

1 videocassette (16 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5280

Viva Maria! 1965

The daughter of an Irish anarchist is on the lam in Mexico circa 1910, hiding with a touring carnival troupe, where she meets singer Jeanne Moreau only to find themselves at the head of an armed peasant revolt.

1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.)

MEDIA 10-407

La voz de los pañuelos The voice of the shawls 1992

Documentary that follows 'The Mothers of the Disappeared' as they organize protests for information about the abduction and presumed torture and execution of their children the 'los desaparacidos' (the disappeared ones), by the Argentine government.

1 videocassette (47 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5811

The War at home 1986

Documentary about the anti-war movement. Concentrating on the political activities of radical students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison which culminated in the bombing of the U.S. Army Math Research Center on campus. Includes interviews with local, state and national figures as well as news clips of the war in Vietnam.

1 videocassette (100 min.) :

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Warrior marks 1993

A documentary on, and a protest of, female genital mutilation and sexual blinding of women and girls in Africa.

1 videocassette (54 min.) :

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We shall overcome the song that moved a nation 1989

Originally a black religious song, then a union organizing song, "We shall overcome" gradually became the protest anthem that set America marching towards racial equality. By tracing the sources of one song, the film uncovers the diverse strands of social history which flowed together to form the Civil Rights movement. Julian Bond, Andrew Young and others reminisce about what this song meant during the sit-ins, voter registration drives and protest marches of the sixties.

1 videocassette (58 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2030

The weather underground a documentary 2004

In the early '70s, the radically enraged, bomb-planting fringe group call Weathermen had the distinction of being as alienated from the anti-war counterculture as the counterculture movement was from the rest of America. The group planned to blow up an empty building, but on March 6, 1970, an explosive accidentally went off in the New York Greenwich Village area, killing three of its own members and turning the rest of its members into outlaws on the run.

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MEDIA 10-406

Die Weisse Rose White Rose 1983

The story of a secret society of students and their professor who printed and distributed anti-Nazi leaflets to urge German citizens to sabotage the war efforts.

1 videocassette (123 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5971

When the mountains tremble 1999

A documentary describing the struggle of the Indian peasantry in Guatemala against state and foreign oppression. Uses a variety of formats--interviews, direct address, newsreels, re-enactments, video transmissions, and live footage shot at great hazard. Loosely centered on the experiences of the Nobel prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, a 23-year-old Indian woman now living in exile.

1 videocassette (83 min.) :

MEDIA D-46

Where do you stand? stories from an American mill 2004

On June 23, 1999, after a quarter century of struggle, textile workers in Kannapolis, N.C. won the single largest industrial union victory in the history of the South, a region long known as a bastion of anti-union sentiment. This film traces the story of that epic and often bitter struggle, and examines the efforts of workers to cope with a rapidly changing social and economic climate.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-6911

Where the green ants dream 1985

In his first film released in English, Werner Herzog journeyed to weird desert landscapes of South Australia to create a myth out of his own imagination. Bruce Spence plays a sympathetic geologist for an uranium mining company who must confront the passive resistance of the aborigine tribes.

1 videocassette (99 min) :

MEDIA 2-3484

Who killed Vincent Chin? 1988

This academy award nominated film relates the brutal murder of 27-year-old Vincent Chin in a Detroit bar. Outraged at the suspended sentence that was given Ron Ebens, who bludgeoned Chin to death, the Asian-American community organized an unprecedented civil rights protest to successfully bring Ebens up for retrial.

1 videocassette (82 min.) :

MEDIA 2-903

Women of Vieques a message from the border 2000

Short documentary about the history and activities of the Vieques Women's Alliance, an activist group formed to protest the use of Vieques as a US Naval base. The Alliance also runs workshops and educational programs for Puerto Rican women.

1 videocassette (19 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5367

The world stopped watching 2003

A sequel to the award winning the World Is Watching, filmmakers Peter Raymont and Harold Crooks return to Nicaragua fourteen years later with two American journalists who were in the original film - and a Canadian journalist from La Presse - to discover what became of the first revolution which was conducted in the glare of the world media.

1 videocassette (ca. 58 min.)

MEDIA 2-6896

Ya basta! le cri des sans-visage = the battle cry of the faceless 1997

In Mexico on January 1, 1994, Indians of Mayan origin staged an armed take-over of several Chiapas municipalities. But the Zapatista Army of National Liberation did not wish to seize power; rather it demanded land, work, housing, education, healthcare, food, justice, independence, freedom and democracy. The Indians' spokesman and head of military operations, Subcommander Marcos, is not an Indian. He has been able to rally public opinion on the Indians' tragic living conditions. Now a war of words has replaced the armed struggle. The Zapatista movement's cause echoes world-wide but the lives of the Indians today in the mountains and the jungles of Chiapas are no less precarious than before. In this documentary it is the Indian men and women who speak, re-situating their struggle in its human, cultural and historical context.

1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)

MEDIA 2-6749

You are on Indian land 1970

A film report of a protest demonstration by Mohawk Indians of the St. Regis Reserve on the international bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. Shows the confrontation with police and the ensuing action.

1 videocassette (37 min.) :

MEDIA D-379

Young blood, 1968 1999

By 1960 almost half the U.S. population was under eighteen years of age. By 1968, the conservative '50s had been overtaken by full-blown social and political revolt. In Europe, students rioted and demonstrated for greater intellectual freedom--and against the rigid values of the parents' generation. This film revisits the Civil Rights Movement, the beginnings of Students for a Democratic Society, the experience of the Vietnam War, student protest in 1968 Paris, anti-war movements, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Weather Underground, the advent or rock and roll, hippies, counter-culture, yippies and anti-nuclear campaigns.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

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Zapatista 1998

In 1996, three international filmmakers traveled to the deep Lacandon jungles of Mexico to seek out and interview the leaders of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and to examine the peasant uprisings which began in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994. It recounts through a cast of rebel leaders, celebrity narrators and political activists, how a few thousand Mayan peasants have transformed the political culture of Mexico forever.

1 videocassette (54 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5037