Videos on Global Conditions

4 little girls 1998

Spike Lee and Sam Pollard

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

The agronomist c2005

Jonathan Demme, Peter Saraf, Bevin McNamara, Thinkfilm (Firm), Clinica Estetico, Ltd, and  New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)

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

Battle of Algiers 1988

Gillo Pontecorvo, Brahim Haggiag, and Jean Martin

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

C'eravamo tanto amati c2001

Ettore Scola, Pio Angeletti, Adriano De Micheli, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Stefania Sandrelli, Deantir (Firm), and Brigham Young University

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 10-597

Crisis behind a presidential commitment c2003

Robert Drew, James Lipscomb, ABC News, Drew Associates, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group

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

The democratic promise Saul Alinsky & his work 2005?, c1999

Alec Baldwin, Bob Hercules, Bruce Orenstein, Media Process Educational Films, Chicago Video Project, Independent Television Service, and Berkeley Media

Legendary organizer Saul Alinsky led the movement to empower disenfranchised communities through collective action.  The democratic promise examines Alinsky's life and legacy through work being done by two contemporary people's organizations. 1 videodisc (55 min.)

MEDIA 10-620

Fi baytina rajul A man in our house 2003

Ihsan `Abd al-Qaddus, Omar Sharif, Hinri Barakat, Zubaydah Tharwat, Rushdi Abazah, Hasan Yusuf, and Arab Film Distribution

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

Las Madres the mothers of Plaza de Mayo 2001?

Susana Muńoz, Lourdes Portillo, Nina Serrano, Ying Ying Wu, Carmen Zapata, Direct Cinema Ltd, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Mothers who believe their children were kidnapped by the Argentine government tell how they banded together to demonstrate in the Plaza de Mayo to publicize their complaints, and seek assistance in finding "los desaparecidos" and punishing the kidnappers. 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 (64 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-3661      2-5554          2-5555

Maggie growls a documentary c2002

Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Maggie Kuhn, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), Independent Television Service, Attie & Goldwater Productions (Firm), and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Portrait of Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995) who founded the Gray Panthers in 1970 after being forced to retire from a job she loved at age 65. Her outrage and determination fueled a political chain reaction that forever changed the lives of older Americans, repealing mandatory retirement laws and proving that "old" is not a dirty word. 1 videodisc (56 min.)

MEDIA 10-874

No logo brands, globalization, resistance c2003

Naomi Klein, Sut Jhally, Loretta Alper, Kelly Garner, Naomi Klein, and Media Education Foundation

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

Viva Maria! 1965, 2005

Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm), Productions Artistes associés, Vides Cinematográfica, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

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

The weather underground a documentary 2004, c2003

Sam Green, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group

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. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-406