Center for Cultural Pluralism
Videos
Below is a video list of many of the films available in the Bailey/Howe Library that serve to further the mission of the Center for Cultural Pluralism.
Racial and Ethnic Identity VID 1740
Running Time: 30 min.
Distributed: RMI Media Productions, 1991.
Summary: Describes racial and ethnic differences among Americans, resulting
conflicts, prejudice and discrimination.
Subject(s): Race.
Ethnicity--United States.
Ethnic relations--United States.
Race relations--United States.
Domino: Interracial People and the Search for Identity VID 1712
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1995.
Running Time: 45 min.
Summary: Portrays the stories of 6 interracial people, exploring issues of identity,
cultural isolation, and the search for community.
Subject(s): Racially mixed people--Canada.
Miscegenation.
Identity (Psychology)
Race awareness.
Just Black? VID 6071
Running Time: 59 min.
Published: New York : Filmakers Library, c1991.
Summary: Interviews young men and women of mixed racial heritage, who share
with us their struggle to establish, acquire and assert a racial identity.
Subject(s): Racially mixed children.
Interracial families.
Beyond Black and White VID 6027
Running Time: 26 min.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Women Make Movies [distributor], c1995.
Summary: Presents a personal exploration of the filmmaker's bicultural heritage
in which she relates her experiences to those of five other women of various
biracial backgrounds.
Subject(s): Women--Race identity.
Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World VID 524
Running Time: 58 min.
Published: New York, NY : New Day Films, 1983.
Summary: An in-depth look at the meaning of the Hopi way, a philosophy of living
in balance with nature. Describes the Hopi philosophy of life, death, and renewal
as revealed in the interweaving life cycle of humans and corn plants.
Subject(s): Hopi Indians--Religion and mythology.
Indians of North America--Arizona--Religion and mythology.
Home From the Eastern Sea VID 7191
Running Time: 58 min.
Published: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, [1998?]
Summary: The personal stories of three pivotal Asian-American groups--Chinese-Americans,
Japanese-Americans, and Filipino-Americans becoming Americans without sacrificing
their old-world heritage. Focusing on representative families, this documentary
provides the perspective of history and culture through interviews with scholars
and community activists.
Subject(s): Asian Americans--Washington (State).
Minorities--Washington (State)--History.
Washington (State)--History--1889-
Mah Jong Orphan VID 7192
Published: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1994.
Running Time: 45 min.
Summary: A real life film focusing on the widening chasm between a Chinese mother,
Suzane, a first generation immigrant, and her daughter, Lilly, who is eager
to fit in with her Caucasian friends and rejects her mother's values. Suzan
talks of her disappointment at Lilly's choice of a non-Chinese husband, while
Lilly, to her own surprise discovers a need to pass on her cultural heritage
to her son, who eventually heals the rift between the generations.
Subject(s): Women--Canada--Cultural assimilation/ Ethnic identity
Chinese--Canada--Cultural assimilation/Ethnic identity.
Knowing Her Place VID 4546
Running Time: 40 min.
Published: New York, NY : Women Make Movies, c1990.
Summary: An Indian woman looks at her life, her marriage, and her role in contemporary
society in both India and the United States. Reflects the cultural conflicts
of an Indian-American woman.
Subject(s): Women--India--Case studies.
Women--United States--Case studies.
Wives--India.
Wives--United States.
Chicana VID 4526
Running Time: 23 min.
Published: New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, [1990?]
Summary: Employs Mexican murals, rare photographs, prints, and documentary footage
to trace the traditional and the emerging roles of Mexican/Chicanas from pre-Columbian
times to the present, showing how women have made important contributions as
workers, mothers, activists, educators, leaders, and in numerous other ways,
despite their generally oppressed status in the Latino culture.
Subject(s): Mexican American women.
Women--Mexico.
Adelante, Mujeres! VID 4515
Running Time: 30 minutes.
Published: New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, [1997].
Summary: Documents the five-century history of Mexican-American/Chicana women,
emphasizing major themes, organizations, and personalities.
Subject(s): Mexican American women--History
Gender Identity
One Fine Day VID 2092
Running Time: 5 min.
Published: Patterson, N.Y. : Ishtar Films, c1984.
Summary: A celebration of American women from the 18th century to the present
in a montage to Kay Weaver's anthem One fine day.
Subject(s): Women--United States--History.
Gender: The Enduring Paradox VID 2083
Running Time: 58 min.
Published: Alexandria, VA : PBS Video [distributor], c1991.
Summary: Explores how gender affects how we see ourselves, how others see us,
and how gender shapes our human identity.
Subject(s): Sex.
Sex differences.
Sex role.
Man Oh Man VID 1158
Published: New York, NY : New Day Films, 1987, c1988.
Running Time: 1 videocassette (VHS) (18 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 study
guide.
Summary: Using interviews with men, family films, and a pastiche of sounds and
images, documents what it is like to grow up as a male in America today. Looks
at what shapes a boy into a man and the roles and stereotypes men have to deal
with in today's society.
Subject(s): Men--United States.
Sex role--United States.
Stereotype (Psychology)--United States.
Men's Lives VID 526
Running Time: 43 min.
Published: Athens, Ohio : New Day Films, c1974.
Summary: Uses a series of candid interviews in order to show what American boys
and men believe about the American concept of masculinity.
Subject(s): Men.
Masculinity
Sex role
A Gathering of Men VID 2032
Running Time: 90 min.
Published: New York, NY : Mystic Fire Video, c1990.
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Robert Bly about the confusion men feel today
about their roles in society and in their inner lives. Alternates between this
interview and a workshop in which Robert Bly leads a group of 100 men into a
deeper understanding of their own grief.
Subject(s): Men--United States.
Masculinity
Men--United States--Psychology.
Boys & Girls Are Different: Men, Women & the Sex Difference VID
1437
Running Time: 50 min.
Published: Oak Forest, Ill. MPI Home Video, c1995.
Summary: Looks at the differences between the sexes and whether they are the
result of biology or environment.
Subject(s): Sex differences--Social aspects--Psychology
Heroes and Strangers VID 2085
Running Time: 29 min.
Published: Wayne, NJ : New Day Films, 1987.
Summary: A personal exploration of traditional fathering. A young man and a
young woman break the silence with their fathers. Examines the social and economic
underpinnings of the father's role.
Subject(s): Fathers.
Fathers and sons/Fathers and daughters
Fathers--Economic conditions--Social conditions
Out in Suburbia: The Stories of Eleven Lesbians VID 3388
Running Time: 28 min.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, c1988.
Summary: Eleven women discuss their lives, including marriage, motherhood, discrimination,
stereotypes, and female roles.
Subject(s): Lesbians--United States--Interviews.
Lesbianism--United States.
Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness VID 1763
Running Time: 30 min.
Published: Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c1995.
Summary: Explores the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising with
the focus on thinness. Discusses the impact this portrayal has on the self images
of women and girls.
Subject(s):Advertising--Psychological aspects.
Leanness--Social aspects/Psychological
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women VID 6666
Running Time: 34 min.
Published: Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, 2000.
Summary: This sequel to Killing us softly (1979) and Still Killing us softly
(1987), which were Cambridge Documentary Films productions, discusses the manner
in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising.
Subject(s): Women in advertising.
Advertising--Psychological aspects.
Sex in advertising.
An Acquired Taste VID 2041
Running Time: 26 min.
Published: Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Ralph Arlyck Film Library, 1981.
Summary: "A filmmaker's personal odyssey from the world of spelling tests,
cheerleading tryouts and frisbee to the dilemmas of middle-class angst and mid-
life reflection. The "taste" referred to is the taste for success
..."(Synopsis).
Subject(s): Arlyck, Ralph.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Power and Racism
Ethnic Notions VID 2072
Running Time: 57 minn.
Published: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1987.
Summary: Presents how racism is depicted in American culture by tracing the
evolution of the deeply rooted sterotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.
Subject(s): Racism--United States
Racism 101 VID 2193
Running Time: 58 min.
Published: Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, 1988
Summary: A discussion of race relations on United States college and university
campuses during the 1980s.
Subject(s): Discrimination in education--United States.
College students--United States.--Attitudes
United States--Race relations.
The Price of Racism VID 6548
Running Time: 50 min.
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998.
Summary: This program brings viewers face-to-face with the mindless ugliness
and irrevocable consequences of racism. Examining five case studies in which
racism led to violence, we see how each act destroyed not only its victim, but
others as well, including the perpetrator.
Subject(s): Race relations--England.
Racism--England.
Prejudices--England.
Images of Indians VID 4018
Running Time: 150 min.
Published: Seattle, Wash.: KCTS-TV ; Lincoln, Neb.
Summary: A five-part series which examines the Indian stereotype portrayed in
movies and questions what the effect of this Hollywood image has been on Indians'
own self-image.
Subject(s): Indians in motion pictures.
Western films--History and criticism.
Color Adjustment VID 3470
Running Time: 88 min.
Published: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, 1991.
Summary: This study of prejudice and perception traces over forty years of race
relations in America through the lens of prime time entertainment.
Subject(s): African Americans--Attitudes--History--Television--Racial Attitudes
South Central Los Angeles: Inside Voices VID 3360
Running Time: 48 min.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, c1994.
Summary: Discusses the Los Angeles riots of 1994 from the view of the people
who lived in the areas affected. Participants of the film were given video recorders
so that they could show their lives and record their feelings.
Subject(s): Riots--California--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations.
Black, White and Angry VID 6541
Running Time: 77 min.
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1996.
Summary: "This NBC News program examines the following topics: blacks and
whites at work; blacks and whites in their communities and the question of separate
worlds; the role politics and politicians play in issues affecting blacks and
whites; and what the future holds for the already delicate relationship between
blacks and whites in America"--Container.
Subject(s): Documentary films.
African Americans.
African Americans--Civil rights--Government policy.
United States--Race relations.
Natives: Immigrant Bashing on the Border VID 1572
Running Time: 28 min.
Published: New York, N.Y.: Filmaker's Library, 1991.
Summary: Documentary on the xenophobia of some Americans living in California
along the U.S.-Mexican border. Reacting to the influx of undocumented aliens,
who they believe are draining community resources and committing crimes, they
are forming nativist organizations in an attempt to keep potential immigrants
out.
Subject(s): Xenophobia.
Mexican-American Border Region
Emigration and immigration--Social Aspects.
Who Killed Vincent Chin? VID 475
Running Time: 83 min.
Published: New York : Filmakers Library, c1988.
Summary: Documentary on racism in working-class America focuses on the murder
of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American, in a Detroit bar. Interweaves the murder
with social concerns and questions about justice.
Subject(s): Racism--Michigan--Detroit.
Chinese Americans--Civil rights.
Civil rights--United States.
United States--Race relations--20th century.
Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases VID 3411
Running Time: 58 min.
Published: San Francisco, CA : Mouchette Films, c1984.
Summary: Tells the stories of three Japanese-Americans, Fred Korematsu, Gordon
Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui, who resisted the military orders to intern the
Japanese-Americans and remove them from the West Coast after the attack on Pearl
Harbor. Focuses on the three men's lives and the reasons behind their decisions
to take their cases to the Supreme Court.
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
White Man's Way VID 3134
Running Time: 28 min.
Published: Lincoln, Neb.: GPN, [1992?].
Summary: Depicts every-day life of Plains Indians children at U.S. government
Indian schools. Begun in the 1880's, school philosophy was to educate these
children to the white man's ways - a method which attempted to create their
cultural annihilation. Shows children's separation from their homes and traditions
and their sense of alienation even from their own culture.
Subject(s): Indians of North America--Education--History.
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America--Government relations--1869-1934.
The Lynchburg Story: Eugenic Sterilization in America VID 1732
Running Time: 55 min.
Published: [London] : Wordview Pictures, c1993.
Summary: (Producer) In the early years of his century, authorities were obsessed
with a belief that the "racial stock" of the country was in decline.
By the 1930's, over half the states had enacted eugenic sterilization laws,
giving states the right to forcibly sterilize citizens they deemed "unfit"
to reproduce. This haunting film tells the story of what happened at The Lynchburg
Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded in Virginia. There, between 1927 and
1972, over 8,000 children and young teenagers were forcibly sterilized. The
state claimed they had hereditary defects that would be passed on to their potential
offspring: in fact most were simply poor, ill-educated and considered a financial
burden on the state. Sterilization victims interviewed today indicate a devastating
impact on their lives and a profound loss of self worth. These individual tragedies
have a broader political context. The sterilization law declared constitutional
in the U.S. in 1927 became the basis of Hitler's eugenics program. It was the
beginning of the Holocaust as sterilization gave way to killing undesirables.
American biologist, Dr. Harry Laughlin, who drafted the legislation was awarded
an honorary doctorate in Germany in 1936 for his contribution to "race
hygiene." Goebbels was the guest of honor.
Subject(s): Lynchburg Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history--Virginia.
Sterilization, Sexual--history--Virginia.
Eugenics--history--Virginia.
Eyes on the Prize Part I: Awakenings 1954-1956 VID 2180
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated ; Alexandria, VA
Summary: Presents the segregation of American society before the 1950's, and
the effects of the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision in
1954. Also presented are the Emmett Till murder trial in Mississippi, the Montgomery
Alabama boycott of public transportation, and the formation of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
Subject(s): Segregation--Southern States--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History.
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Eyes on The Prize: Fighting back, 1957-1962 VID 6907
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, c1986.
Summary: The law as a tool both for change and resistance to change, particularly
as it relates to education. Examines the political, social and psychological
implications both of school segregation and desegregation programs.
Subject(s): Documentary television programs.
Segregation in education--Southern States--History.
Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961 VID 2179
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated ; Alexandria, VA
Summary: 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.
Subject(s): African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History.
African American college students--Southern States--Political activity.
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History.
Civil rights demonstrations--Southern States--History.
Eyes on the Prize: No Easy Walk: 1961-1963 VID 6908
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, 1999
Summary: Retells the stories of three cities involved in the civil rights movement.
The Albany, Ga. police chief and Martin Luther King, Jr. each tested out the
strategy of nonviolence in their own way. In Birmingham, Ala., children marched
against fire water hoses, and in Washington, D.C., Black and White, young and
old, North and South came together to march on the nation's capital.
Subject(s): African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi, Is this America? 1962-1964 VID 2184
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated : Alexandria, VA
Summary: Starting in 1961, Mississippi, becomes a testing ground of constitutional
principles and of the human spirit as the Civil Rights Movement focuses its
energies on the right to vote.
Subject(s): African Americans--Suffrage.
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.
Civil rights movements--Mississippi.
Civil rights demonstrations.
Mississippi--Politics and government--1951-
Eyes on the Prize: Bridge to Freedom, 1965 VID 2182
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated ; Alexandria, VA
Summary: Presents the freedom march of 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
During the drive to make voting rights a national issue, ideological differences
within the civil rights movement surface. As the movement splinters into factions,
the Voting Rights Act becomes law.
Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations.
Civil rights movements--Southern States.
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--Suffrage
Eyes on the Prize: The Time Has Come, 1964-1965 VID 6897
Running Time: 57 min.
Published: Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, c1990.
Summary: In this program, the sense of urgency and anger in the black communities
in the north is articulated by Malcolm X, National Minister of the Nation of
Islam. It shows his influence both within the civil rights movement and outside
and the influence of his philosophy on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) as they organize and issue the call for "Black power"
in 1966 in Mississippi.
Subject(s): X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.
Black Muslims.
Civil rights movements--United States--History.
Segregation--United States--History.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Black power--United States.
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
Eyes on the Prize: Two Societies, 1965-1968 VID 6898
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, c1990.
Summary: This program explores the civil rights movement's first attempt at
organizing in the north, as Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference go to Chicago. Their strategies come up against the powerful
political machinery of Mayor Richard Daley. Also looks at the 1967 uprising
in Detroit as blacks and the police clash on city streets.
Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States--History.
Eyes on the Prize: Power, 1967-1968 VID 2186
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated ; Alexandria, VA
Summary: Out of the ashes of the urban rebellions, blacks look for new ways
to take control of their communities. This program explores the political path
to power for Carl Stokes, the nation's first black mayor of a major city. It
also describes the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif., and
the struggle of black and Hispanic parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., to improve their
children's education through community control of the schools.
Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--United States--History.
Race relations--United States--History.
Eyes on the Prize: The Promised Land, 1967-1968 VID 2187
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated ; Alexandria, VA
Summary: Moved by the increasing level of poverty, Dr. Martin Luther King, in
the final year of his life, began to organize a Poor People's Campaign, a march
of the poor to Washington, D.C., where they would erect Resurrection City to
embarrass and motivate a reluctant government. On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was
assassinated. Soon after its construction, Resurrection City was shut down,
marking the end of a chapter of the civil rights movement.
Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--United States--History.
Race relations--United States--History.
Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More, 1964-1972 VID 6901
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video
Summary: Covers the black consciousness movement throughout the country through
the mid 1960's and early 1970's.
Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad, 1942-
African Americans--Civil rights.
Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.
African American politicians.
Eyes on the Prize: A Nation of Law? 1968-1971 VID 2191
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated : Alexandria, VA : PBS Video
c1989.
Summary: 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.
Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--United States--History.
Race relations--United States--History.
Eyes on the Prize: The Keys to the Kingdom, 1974-1980 VID 2189
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated ; Alexandria, VA : PBS Video
c1989.
Summary: Examines the relationship between law and popular struggle. In Boston,
black parents organized to improve their children's education. In Atlanta, Mayor
Maynard Jackson, the city's first black mayor, tries to guarantee black involvement
in the construction of Atlanta's airport.
Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--United States--History.
Race relations--United States--History.
Eyes on the Prize: Back to the Movement, 1979-mid 1980s VID 2190
Running Time: 62 min.
Published: Boston, MA : Blackside Incorporated ; Alexandria, VA : PBS Video
c1989.
Summary: Examines two cities ; one in the south the other in the north. In Miami,
Florida, viewers witness the destruction of a black community. In the North,
we see how Harold Washington gets elected as Chicago's first black mayor.
Subject(s): Civil rights movements--United States--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--United States--History.
Race relations--United States--History.
Beyond Hate Trilogy VID 1106
Running Time: 296 min.
Published: New York : Mystic Fire Video, 1991, 1992.
Summary: Beyond hate (90 min.): chronicles the impact of hate on its victims,
and probes its many dimensions. Moyers listens to those gripped by hatred and
those victimized by it. He also focuses on individuals and groups who are working
to move beyond hatred to achieve tolerance and acceptance. Facing hate (60 min.):
Elie Wiesel helps probe the logic of hatred as expressed in books, religion,
history and personal experience. Hate on trial, pt. 1 (80 min.), pt. 2 (60 min.):
In 1990, Tom and John Metzger, leaders of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) were
charged with inciting the murder of Mulugeta Seraw of Ethiopia in Portland,
Oregon. This is a documentary of their trial using actual courtroom footage,
interspersed with commentary on hate crime, First Amendment rights, and the
role of the media, by a panel of lawyers, activists and journalists.
Subject(s): Metzger, Tom--Trials, litigation, etc.
White supremacy movements--United States.
Freedom of speech--United States.
Holocaust survivors.
Skinheads USA: The Pathology of Hate: Soldiers of the Race War VID 6689
Running Time: 54 min.
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1996.
Summary: A close-up look at white-supremacist skinhead hate groups active in
the United States. Covers an actual neo-Nazi skinhead organization's day-to-day
activities at its headquarters, white power rallies and recruitment drives,
and visits a prison where four skinheads are jailed for the murder of a black
man.
Subject(s): Skinheads--United States.
Affirmative Action: The History of an Idea VID 6540
Running Time: 56 min.
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1996.
Summary: Explores the historical roots of affimative action and the current
debate over its usefulness. Looks at several different affirmative action programs
today, from the Univ. of California, Berkeley, to the City of Chicago. Includes
archival footage and features interviews with a wide array of academic scholars.
Subject(s): Affirmative action programs--History.
Affirmative Action and Reaction VID 7264
Running Time: 27 min.
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1996.
Summary: Among the many questions examined in the program are: How do blacks
and whites differ in their understanding of affirmative action? Is affirmative
action still necessary to remedy past discrimination? What changes, if any,
should be made to affirmative action programs?
Subject(s): Affirmative action programs.
Power, Sexism, and Heterosexism
Sexual Stereotypes in Media: Superman and the Bride VID 6162
Running Time: 37 min.
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Inc., 1993.
Summary: Shows how pervasive are the images of man as superman and woman as
his slavish bride on film and TV, in fiction, and even in so-called documentaries.
Subject(s): Sex role in mass media--motion pictures--television
Stereotype (Psychology) in mass media.
Women in mass media.
Working class women.
Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women VID 485
Running Time: 32 min.
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge Documentary Films, c1987.
Summary: Discusses the manner in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising
and the effects this has on women, men, and children and their images of themselves.
Subject(s): Women in advertising.
Advertising--Psychological aspects.
Stale Roles and Tight Buns: Images of Men in Advertising VID 2086
Running Time: 29 min.
Published: Brighton, MA : OASIS, c1988.
Summary: Presents a selection of images of men as found in consumer advertising.
Raises questions concerning the definition of a "real man", his relationships,
and the societal pressures involved.
Subject(s): Advertising--Psychological aspects.
Men--Psychology.
Sexism.
Sex role
DreamWorlds 2: Desire, Sex, Power in Music VID 1270
Running Time: 56 min.
Published: Northhampton, Mass.: Media Education Foundation, 1995.
Summary: Illustrates the systematic representations of women in music video
and how these representations tell a dangerous and narrow set of stories about
what it means to be female or male; these stories impact how women think about
themselves sexually, and how men think sexually about women. "Warning:
This video features a very disturbing scene of sexual violence. It is imperative
that viewers are properly warned of this and are given the option of leaving
the room."
Subject(s): MTV Networks.
Women in mass media--United States.
Rock videos--Sex role in mass media
Sexism in Language VID 3288
Running Time: 29 min.
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Extension Center for Media
and Independent Learning, c1995.
Summary: Lynn T. Lovdal explores sexism in both the syntax and semantics of
language and shows how it is often unintentional or even unrecognized. She explores
four key areas: "female" words that are dependent on a "male"
version, words that are more positive for men than for women, words for women
that carry negative sexual connotations, and "neutral" words that
become inferior when applied to women.
Subject(s): Sexism in language.
English language--Usage.
English language--Sex differences.
A Word in Edgewise VID 4551
Running Time: 26 min.
Published: New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1986.
Summary: Looks at how language is often taken for granted by some and used to
exploit by others.
Subject(s): Language and languages.
Sociolinguistics.
Rate it X VID 4565
Running Time: 93 min.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1986.
Summary: An ironic portrait of the American man and his stubborn sexual chauvinism.
Filmmakers Lucy Winer and Paula de Koenigsberg used interviews with a wide variety
of men to reveal the deep rooted sense of machismo and the sexual double standards
at work in our culture today.
Subject(s): Men--United States--Attitudes.
Sexism--United States.
Social perception.
Masculinity
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter VID 463
Running Time: 65 min.
Published: Los Angeles, CA : Direct Cinema Ltd. c1987.
Summary: Five women reminisce about their jobs and working conditions during
World War II.
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Women--Employment--United States--History--20th century.
Sexual Harassment: Building Awareness on Campus VID 1849
Running Time: 23 min.
Published: Northhampton, MA : The Foundation, c1995.
Summary: This video discusses what sexual harassment is and ways people can
be made more aware of it in colleges and universities.
Subject(s): Sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment in universities and colleges.
Date Rape VID 7266
Running Time: 52 min.
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, c1995.
Summary: " ... Documentary-drama takes us inside the story of a rape ...
All of the professionals involved are real with all the other roles played by
actors .... demonstrates both the emotional issues of a case of date rape as
well as the process by which police and prosecutors follow-up and prosecute
a case"--Container label.
Subject(s): Rape--acquaintance rape
Sex crimes--violent crimes
Dating Rites: Gang Rape on Campus VID 7189
Running Time: 28 min.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, Inc., c1991.
Summary: Presents a dramatization of a gang rape at a campus dorm party. Includes
follow up disucssion of rape and date rape by students. Additional comments
by a professor of social psychology and a sexual assault counselor. Interviews
with a convicted rapist and a rape survior.
Subject(s): Rape-acquaintance rape--sex crimes
Rape Culture VID 1161
Running Time: 35 min.
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge Documentary Films, 1983.
Summary: Considers the phenomenon of rape in relation to the cultural and social
forces that produce rapists and rape victims. Includes the opinions of convicted
rapists, rape crisis center workers, and others associated with the problem.
Subject(s): Rape.
Off the Straight & Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Television
VID 6267
Running Time: 63 min.
Published: Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, 1998.
Summary: Off the straight & narrow casts a critical eye over the growth
of gay images on TV. Leading media scholars provide the historical and cultural
context for exploring the social implications of these new representations.
Subject(s): Homosexuality on television.
Pink triangles VID 1160
Running Time: 35 min.
Published: Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Documentary Films, [198-?]
Summary: A documentary designed to explore prejudice against lesbians and gay
men. Provides a historical perspective for this prejudice and offers a discussion
of why this prejudice is so strong.
Subject(s): Homosexuality
Prejudices
Silent Pioneers VID 600
Running Time: 42 min.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, c1984.
Summary: Elderly homosexuals discuss the changed social conditions which have
allowed them greater freedom in their relationships.
Subject(s): Gays--Aged--social conditions
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community VID 1818
Running Time: 87 min.
Published: New York, NY : Cinema Guild, 1985.
Summary: A social history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969,
showing how this group has moved from a secret shame to the status of a publicly
viable minority group. Tells how a group consciousness coalesced after the 1969
police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day
riot that followed gained them national publicity and the birth of the gay movement.
Subject(s): Gay liberation movement--United States--History.
Homosexuality--United States--History.
Stonewall Riot, New York, N.Y., 1969.
Lesbianism--History.
Pornography: The Double Message VID 1264
Running Time: 28 min.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, 1985.
Summary: An analysis of the effect of pornography and violent sex in films on
the youth in Toronto. Comments on the types of censorship in Sweden, and England,
and the lack of it in the United States.
Subject(s): Pornography--Case studies
Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography VID 529
Running Time: 69 min.
Published: [S.l.] : National Film Board of Canada, [198-?]
Summary: Presents the facts and problems of pornography through interviews
Subject(s): Pornography--Social aspects.
Power and Classism
Eugene Debs and The American Movement VID 6249
Running Time: 44 min.
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge Documentary Films, c1977.
Summary: A biographical sketch of Eugene V. Debs, labor leaders, industrial
unionist, and American Socialist, narrated by his friend and comrade Shubert
Sebree.
Subject(s): Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926.
Socialists--United States--Biography.
Making Welfare Work VID 1733
Running Time: 56 min.
Published: [United States] : Public Policy Productions, Inc. ; New York : Filmakers
Library, 1994.
Summary: Takes a look at the broken welfare system in this country and whether
it can be fixed. While there is agreement that welfare reform must encourage
self-sufficiency rather than dependency, there is enormous controversy on how
to achieve this goal. Issues of politics, race, class and sexual morality all
converge in this volatile debate.
Subject(s): Public welfare--United States.
Down and Out in America VID 2296
Running Time: 57 min.
Published: Oak Forest, IL : MPI Home Video, c1987,1986.
Summary: We live in a country that prides itself on the opportunities available
to all. This film takes a hard look at the farmers who can't hold on to their
land, the homeless and the 20 million Americans who still don't have enough
to eat, and asks how long can we ignore the nightmare of poverty.
Subject(s): Agriculture--Economic aspects.
Homeless persons--HungerPower and Change Makers
Promised Land VID 7190
Running Time: 50 min.
Published: New York : Filmakers Library, 1992.
Summary: Contrasts today's Montgomery, Alabama with the city in the 1950's and
1960's in terms of civil rights.
Subject(s): Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery--Race Relations
Salt of the Earth VID 4158
Running Time: 94 min.
Published: [S.l.] : MPI Home Video, c1987.
Summary: A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Mexican American zinc
miners in New Mexico. When an injunction is issued against the workers, the
wives take up the battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home
and children. Produced independently by blacklisted filmmakers.
Subject(s): Strikes and lockouts--Zinc mining--New Mexico.
Women labor union members--New Mexico.
Mexican Americans--New Mexico.
Mexican American women--New Mexico.
Fundi VID 1040
Running Time: 48 min.
Published: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, c1986.
Summary: This film on Ella Baker's lifework highlights the civil rights movement
of the 1960s, the period of the most dramatic upsurge in the struggle for racial
justice. Since Ms. Baker's activism spanned over 50 years in the North and the
South, the struggles of earlier decades are portrayed, giving a sense of the
continuity of the fight for social change.
Subject(s): Baker, Ella, 1903-1986.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African American civil rights workers--Biography.
What Could You Do With a Nickel? VID 1777
Running Time: 26 min.
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : First Run Features, [1987?]
Summary: In October 1977, two hundred Black and Hispanic housekeepers in the
south Bronx of New York City went on strike in an attempt to form the first
legally recognized domestic workers union in the United States
Even though they were not able to form a union they provided the impetus for
over 6000 housekeepers in New York City to become organized.
Subject(s): Strikes and lockouts--Domestics--New York (N.Y.)
The Emerging Woman VID 6045
Running Time: 40 min.
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : Cinema Guild, [1986?].
Summary: Uses original photographs, historical footage, and drawings in order
to trace woman's role in American society from the 18th century to be present
day.
Subject(s): Women--United States--History.
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage VID 5996
Running Time: 60 min.
Published: [United States] : Goldhil Video, c1995.
Summary: Highlights the careers of ten American women who struggled to establish,
preserve, and expand the rights and liberties of women in the United States.
Subject(s): Women--United States--Biography.
Feminism--United States.
Union Maids VID 6116
Running Time: 50 min.
Published: Dayton, Ohio : New Day Films, c1976.
Summary: The story of three women who were part of the Rank and File Labor Movement
during the tumultuous 1930's. Their lives were like many other young working
women. But all three rose to the demands of their time and became militant organizers
for their class.
Subject(s): Women labor union members--Illinois--Chicago--History.
Labor unions--United States--History
Working class--United States--History.
With Babies and Banners VID 528
Running Time: 59 min.
Published: Washington D.C. : New Day Films [distributor], [1977?]
Summary: Describes the role of women in the General Motors sit-down strike of
1936-1937, especially the formation, success, and subsequent disbanding of the
Women's Emergency Brigade. Includes interviews with several Brigade members
as they met on the fortieth anniversary of the strike. Their reminiscences make
clear the part they played in strengthening the United Auto Workers Union and
the events discussed are illustrated with newsreel sequences of the actual events.
Subject(s): Women's Emergency Brigade.
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (A.F. of L.)--History.
General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937.
Women labor union members--Michigan--Flint--History.
The Women of Summer VID 1134
Running Time: 55 min.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, c1985.
Summary: Documents an historic moment when feminists, unionists and educators
came together to pursue a common social idea. From 1921 to 1938, seventeen hundred
blue collar women participated in a controversial and inspired educational experiment
known as the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers.
Subject(s): Bryn Mawr College. Summer School for Women Workers in Industry.
Women--Education--United States.
Women--Employment--United States.
Labor and laboring classes--Education--United States.
Ida B. Wells: A Passion For Justice VID 4713
Running Time: 58 min.
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, 1989.
Summary: Chronicles the life of Ida B. Wells, an early Afro-American activist
who protested lynchings, unfair treatment of Afro-American soldiers, and other
examples of racism and injustice toward Afro-Americans around the turn of the
century.
Subject(s): Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.
African Americans--History--1877-1964.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
Rosa Parks: The Path to Freedom VID 4511
Running Time: 20 min.
Published: New York : Filmakers Library, [1995?]
Summary: Film features Rosa Parks and others involved in the boycott of the
Montgomery, Alabama bus system which her refusal to give up her seat to a white
person sparked.
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa, 1913-
African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery--History--20th century.
Wilma P. Mankiller, Chief of the Cherokee Nation: Woman of Power VID 4578
Running Time: 29 min.
Published: New York, NY : Roeper-Scott Video Productions : Women Make Movies
[dist.], c1992.
Summary: Profiles Wilma Mankiller in her role as leader of the Cherokee Nation
in Oklahoma.
Subject(s): Mankiller, Wilma Pearl, 1945-
Cherokee Indians--Politics and government.*This is not a fully inclusive list,
only recommendations, for more information and titles please visit the Voyager
page at http://voyager.uvm.edu/
Compiled by Alicia Kozma, April 2001