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B.D. Women

England, 1994, 20 minutes, Color, VHS
B.D. WOMEN is a wonderful celebration of the history and culture of Black lesbians. Lively interviews feature Black women talking candidly about their sexual and racial identities. These contemporary views are cleverly interwoven with a dramatized love story, set in the 1920s, in which a sultry romance develops between a gorgeous jazz singer and her stylish butch lover. B.D. WOMEN rewrites the vanished history of Black lesbians' lives in an eloquent and entertaining way.

B.U.C.K.L.E.

Video. 11 min. 1993.
A humorous, fast-paced parody of women cruising, dancing and picking up women at New York's legendary Clit Club.

Bachelorette34

2008
Kara's mother is obsessed with getting her daughter married. Kara, a single artist and filmmaker in San Francisco, has her doubts. Through the microcosm of her often hilarious interactions with her mom, Kara Herold's Bachelorette, 34 examines the pressure society puts on women to find "Mr. Right."

BACK OFF: The Inside View on Youth Anger

15 minutes
This powerful documentary focuses on how teenagers deal with anger and violence at home, in their communities and at school. EVC youth filmmakers explore domestic violence, child abuse and the pressure on young people to fi ght.

Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale

What if your life-saving medicine contained deadly viruses and the drug manufacturers, the government, and your own doctors knew but failed to warn you? Through the eyes of survivors and family members, BAD BLOOD chronicles how a miracle treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10,000 Americans. Faced with evidence that pharmaceutical companies and government regulators knew the product was contaminated with deadly viruses from the 1960s through the early 1990s, they launched a powerful and inspiring fight to right the system that failed them and to make it safer for all.

Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale (Home Use)

Bad Boys

1978 National Broadcast PBS TV LAB at WNET 2 hrs.http://s13130.gridserver.com/admin/index.php/films/add
This uncompromising program looks into the complex problems of juvenile crime and the problems these children present to our society--from the high school school yard to a maximum security detention center for boys under sixteen years.

Badass Supermama

?I?ve got a crush on a woman named Foxy Brown.?

THE BALLAD OF GREENWICH VILLAGE

70 MIN
Tells the story of the artists, rebels, and bohemians who came to New York 's Greenwich Village over many decades, and changed the face of American culture through their art and politics. The film portrays important political and social movements that started in Greenwich Village - such as the first interracial jazz club, the earliest Socialist newspapers from before World War I, and the Stonewall rebellion that sparked gay liberation. The film interweaves on-camera stories from well-known celebrities who got their start in Greenwich Village . Actor/director Tim Robbins speaks about growing up in the Village and going to early protest rallies. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg shows us the coffee house where he first read poetry. Playwright Edward Albee relates stories of how his controversial plays found a venue here. Other stories are told by poet Maya Angelou, author Norman Mailer, director Woody Allen, jazz drummer Roy Haynes, and folk singers Peter, Paul, & Mary, Judy Collins, and Richie Havens - as well as local Village painters, drag queens, activists, and club owners. Actress Lili Taylor is the narrator. Interweaving past and present, and combining 16mm footage, archival photographs, Hollywood movies, cartoons, stories from people living and dead, famous and obscure - and with a soundtrack ranging from ragtime to bebop to folk music- the film is a celebration of what was America 's true bohemia.

Baltimore Light Rail

53 minutes
The first part of this DVD shows a northbound trip from Camden Yards to Timonium from numerous points of view, both on-train and trackside. The second part follows construction from groundbreaking through opening day, showing details of tracklaying (both in-street and conventional), overhead construction, and the arrival and testing of the new cars. This DVD will appeal to both railfans and light rail advocates. All color, with full soundtrack.

Banking Our Genes

Invites viewers to think about the ethical public policy and privacy issues involved in the collection and banking of DNA data about individuals.
Invites viewers to think about the ethical public policy and privacy issues involved in the collection and banking of DNA data about individuals.

Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour

53 min./82 min.
The new BARBIE NATION COLLECTORS EDITION includes the original BARBIE NATION used by more than 1,000 colleges and universities, plus nine short films updating the critique. Barbie is not just the world's most popular toy, she's a Rorschach test, revealing attitudes about sexuality, body image, gender roles and creativity. Journeying from Barbie conventions to anti-Barbie demonstrations, from girls' play dates to Barbie web pages, the film plumbs the cult of the Barbie doll, and tells the story of Barbie creator Ruth Handler. DVD EXTRAS: Directors Update Interview; Black Barbie Exploring African-American Barbies, and Nora & Claire: Still Best Friends BARBIE NATIONS child stars grow up.us.

Basement Girl, The

Canada, 2000, 12 minutes, Color, 16mm
Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the television insulate her from the pain and betrayal of her ill-fated relationship. Eventually, THE BASEMENT GIRL emergestransformed and ready to "make it on her own". This latest film by Midi Onodera (TEN CENTS A DANCE, SKIN DEEP) breaks new cinematic territory by employing multiple formats from traditional 16mm film to toy cameras including a modified Nintendo Game Boy digital camera and the Intel Mattel computer microscope. "Midi Onodera's latest film is a witty and wonderful meditation on how women translate the images that surround them (from Bionic Woman to That Girl!, from Barbra Streisand to Maya Deren). The film is funny and touching at the same time, as it looks at familiar texts in new contexts. For anyone interested in women and visual culture, this is an absolute must-see." Judith Mayne, Ohio University

Battered Hearts

Domestic abuse is not always physical. Focusing on abusers as well as their victims this documentary looks at the devastating range of physical verbal and emotional assaults which abusers may inflict but also profiles successful programs which offer a
Domestic abuse is not always physical. Focusing on abusers as well as their victims this documentary looks at the devastating range of physical verbal and emotional assaults which abusers may inflict but also profiles successful programs which offer a

Battle for the Minds

52 min.
Religion, politics and sociology collide in this award-winning, critically acclaimed film. With shocking honesty, BATTLE FOR THE MINDS documents the rise of fundamentalism in Americas largest Protestant denomination and the subsequent impact of that rise on women. Fundamentalist assaults on women in leadership are indicative of the alarming outbreak of the intolerant religious right in America today.

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

2003, 90 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD
BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, the directorial debut of actress LisaGay Hamilton, celebrates the life of legendary African American actress, poet and political activist Beah Richards, best known for her Oscar nominated role in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. While Richards struggled to overcome racial stereotypes throughout her long career onstage and onscreen in Hollywood and New York, she also had an influential role in the fight for Civil Rights, working alongside the likes of Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and Louise Patterson. After performing with Richards in Jonathan Demme's Beloved, Hamilton was compelled to get her inspiring story on film, and began the project with Demme as co-producer. Hamiltons intimate interviews capture Richards feisty passion and enduring elegance, and are woven together with a cache of archival material of her work as an actress and activist, including riveting performances of some of her most famous poems. Enlightening and moving, the film is a fitting tribute to Richards life of integrity, leadership and service to the two cultures she loved so deeplythe arts and the African American community.

Bearing Witness: Jocelyn Morton

Follows sculptor Jocelyn Morton over the course of her last four months as she copes with her impending death from cancer.
Follows sculptor Jocelyn Morton over the course of her last four months as she copes with her impending death from cancer.

Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior

A year in the life of Luke Melchior a passionate advocate for people with disabilities who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy a progressive wasting disease of the muscles.
A year in the life of Luke Melchior a passionate advocate for people with disabilities who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy a progressive wasting disease of the muscles.

Beauty In Aging

From a group of friends who share their experiences of normal aging to a woman stricken with facial paralysis to nursing home beauty contestants to an 85-year-old social butterfly and humanitarian this program compiled from excerpts from four videos
From a group of friends who share their experiences of normal aging to a woman stricken with facial paralysis to nursing home beauty contestants to an 85-year-old social butterfly and humanitarian this program compiled from excerpts from four videos

Beauty Does Lie

Although to others they may appear healthy approximately 15 million Americans are living with chronic potentially debilitating autoimmune diseases. Most of them — about 75 percent — are women. As a group autoimmune diseases are among the te
Approximately 15 million Americans live with chronic debilitating autoimmune diseases; about 75 percent are women. Seven African American women who are living with lupus multiple sclerosis Sjogren's syndrome pernicious anemia and myasthenia gravis de

Beauties Without a Cause

Four lawless drag queens prepare for a night of light crime. Beauties Without a Cause is a delirious moral comedy with compelling hairdos and an excitable soundtrack.

Beauty Before Age

22 min.
This groundbreaking film explores the power of youth and beauty in the gay community. A diverse group of gay men, ages 19 to 77, negotiate their fears of becoming old, undesirable, and alone. The film critically examines the pressure to look young and attractive, the lack of positive older role models, and the ways in which AIDS intensifies the fear and process of aging. BEAUTY BEFORE AGE offers a male perspective on a historically female issue, and illuminates the larger societal obsession with physical appearance.

Beauty in the Bricks

29 min.
What 20 years ago was a positive look at four African American teenage girls growing up in an urban housing project, today remains an uplifting film that goes beyond cultural stereotypes. The film captures the energy and determination of four friends and the importance of community. A film to inspire girls from all ethnicities.

Beca de Gilas

vhs, 20 min., 1999
In "Beca de Gilas: Rebeca's Story," his 1999 20-minute video documentary, Urquijo paints an intimate portrait of Rebeca Armendáriz, a 21-year-old Chicana battling Prop. 209 in rural California. "Beca" is a gorgeous, passionate work, revealing without resorting to talk-show tawdriness, earnest but not bludgeoning. Deservingly, "Beca," which was funded in part by Pacific News Service, garnered both a Golden Spire award and an honorable mention for grand prize at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival.

Becoming American

30 min./58 min.
This award winning classic resettlement story is now available on DVD. Previous VHS / 16mm owners will receive a 30% discount when purchasing a DVD. Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-torn native Laos. Becoming American records the odyssey as they travel to and resettle in the United States. As they face nine months of intense culture shock, prejudice, and gradual adaptation to their new home in Seattle, the family provides a rare insight into refugee resettlement and cultural diversity issues.

Bedevil

Australia, 1993, 90 minutes, Color, VHS/35mm
BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman. Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal and Irish Australian families, Tracey Moffatt has constructed a sublime trilogy in which characters are haunted by the past and bewitched by memories. All three stories are set in Moffatts highly stylized, hyper-real, hyper-imaginary Australian landscape. In the first story MISTER CHUCK, a young boy is fascinated and terrified by a swamp that is haunted by the ghost of an American GI. CHOO CHOO CHOO CHOO finds a family living by railroad tracks haunted by strange happenings. The mother (played by Moffatt) is drawn to the tracks at night as she senses the horror of a past tragedy. The final story, LOVIN THE SPIN I'M IN, follows a woman who resists eviction attempts by her landlord so she can keep vigil for her dead son. Made with the participation of the Australian Film Finance Corporation. "BEDEVIL captures the allusive quality of parochial, local, familial ghost stories, the sort of stories that are passed down through generations, that are repeated and embroidered upon so that eventually they are woven into quotidian discourse and a passing reference can evoke a complex texture of ghostliness. Lesley Stern, Photofile

Before Mickey: An Animated Anthology

Animation didn't begin with Mickey Mouse. Long before Mickey arrived on the scene in 1928, artists and cartoonists had been creating a wide variety of animated films which were both entertaining and often surprisingly sophisticated. Before Mickey is a mammoth international anthology that presents a comprehensive and fascinating look at the pre-history of animation. These pioneering works were the precursors to everything from Disney's classic animated features to Saturday morning cartoons.

Before Mickey presents examples of virtually every genre of animation, from line drawings and cutouts to early pixillation, and includes among its treasures many rare films not in distribution elsewhere. Ranging in length from snippets of 30 seconds to complete 5-minute shorts, the wealth of material includes works by Winsor McCay (creator of Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur), Max and Dave Fleischer, Otto Messmer (creator of Felix the Cat, as well as some early efforts by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney.

Accompanied by an original piano score by Christopher Penny, historic images of early animation are brought to life in this informative and immensely enjoyable collection. Both in and out of the classroom, Before Mickey offers an invaluable resource that will prove irresistible not only to the film scholar and animation buff, but to everyone who wants to know what cartoons were like before the advent of the famous rodent.
The history of early animation

Beirut: The Last Home Movie

1988, 120 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm/DVD
BEIRUT: THE LAST HOME MOVIE is an imaginative film which challenges documentary form and concepts of reality by exposing a personal response to a global eventthree months in the life of a Lebanese family living in a heavily-bombed Beirut neighborhood. This extraordinary film captures the real-life experiences of a family living in one of the most chaotic wars in history and provides insight into the psychology of war, 20th century-style. It also reveals the power of cinema verité at its best: a seemingly simple recording of everyday life becomes a fascinating, complex and many-layered look at the connections between personal and political lives.

Belfast Girls

Sweden/Ireland, 2006, 58 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD, Belfast English, Subtitled
BELFAST GIRLS is a quiet, powerful story of two young women growing up in a city where neighbors are cut off from each other by permanent concrete and corrugated iron screens. These so-called peace walls have also become mental walls, dividing one community from another.

Beloved Murderer!

Two lesbian hit women are hired to bump each other off in this darkly romantic animated film noir. The narration of the letter left by the victim prophetically proclaims, "You'll find this letter on me, after having me killed." A beautifully animated mixture of desire and intrigue.

Best of All a Dancer

The story of Rusty Harmon, a 32-year old man with Down's Syndrome. This beautifully evocative film demonstrates how Rusty uses painting, music and movement to create unique performance pieces. His inspirational example has great potential value for teachers, health professionals, parents and others who work with the developmentally disabled.
The inspiring story of Rusty Harmon, a 32-year-old man with Down's Syndrome.

Betty Tells Her Story

20 min.
What starts out as a simple story of Bettys search for the perfect dress becomes a subtle yet striking exploration of our culture's emphasis on female beauty. Betty tells her story twice: First in witty and delightful detail; then later, disclosing her underlying feelings of vulnerability, sadness and pain. In this classic documentary about self-image, the contrast between the two stories is both haunting and revealing.

Between the Lines

A visually lyrical experimental documentary about women who cut themselves.
A visually lyrical, experimental documentary about women who cut themselves, this film explores the fine line between self-destructive behavior and self-preserving coping mechanisms.

Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry

US, 2001, 60 minutes, Color, VHS
BETWEEN THE LINES offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets. Organized in interwoven sections such as Immigration, Language, Family, Memory, and Spirituality, it is a sophisticated merging of Asian-American history and identity with the questions of performance, voice, and image. This engaging documentary serves as poetry reading, virtual anthology, and, perhaps most importantly, moving testimony about gender, ethnicity, aesthetics, and creative choice. The carefully edited interviews and poems read reflect the filmmaker's desire to show both individual voice and diversity within the Asian-American womens community. Theoretically as rich as the images and poems provided, there is also an implicit conversation in the video about the possibility and usefulness of an Asian-American womens aesthetic/poetic. Using carefully selected archival images, historical footage, and brilliant photography as the scrim through which we hear the poets, BETWEEN THE LINES provides important and lively viewing for literature, history, ethnic and womens studies classes. - Joseph Boles, Visiting Scholar, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr

Bevel Up: Drugs, Users & Outreach Nursing

How can nurses deliver effective and compassionate healthcare to drug users? This taut compelling documentary follows a team of ?street nurses? as they reach out to prevent HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases by taking their services directl
How can nurses deliver effective and compassionate healthcare to drug users? This compelling documentary follows a team of street nurses as they reach out to prevent AIDS and other STDs by going directly to the young people sex workers and homeless me

Beyond the Loss of the Breast

Explores the meaning and impact of breast cancer through the personal narratives and poetry of the filmmaker and two other women.
Explores the meaning and impact of metastatic breast cancer through the personal narratives and poetry of the filmmaker and two other women.

Beyond Beijing

England, 1996, 42 minutes, Color, VHS
The 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and the parallel Forum (NGO) that took place in Beijing assembled the largest global gathering of women in recorded history. BEYOND BEIJING, a personal document of the epoch-making events, captures their exciting spirit and shows the strength of the worldwide movement to improve the status of women. Moving back and forth from NGO workshops convened by grassroots activists to ceremonies commemorating women's art and achievements, the film also includes informal cross-cultural get-togethers, compelling North-South exchanges and candid interviews with individual participants. English and Spanish versions available. Discussion Guide/Action Kit available.

Beyond Black and White

1994, 28 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE is a personal exploration of the filmmakers bicultural heritage (Caucasian and Asian/Begali) in which she relates her experiences to those of five other women from various biracial backgrounds. In lively interviews and group discussions these women reveal how they have been influenced by images of women in American media, how racism has affected them, and how their families and environments have shaped their racial identities. Their experiences are placed within the context of history, including miscegenation laws and governmental racial classifications. BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE is a remarkable celebration of diversity in American society.

Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise

2004, 60 min., DVD or VHS
On May 17, 1954, in its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the doctrine of "separate but equal," ending legal segregation in American education. Fifty years later, the full promise of Brown v. Board of Education has yet to be fulfilled. To mark the 50th Anniversary of Brown, Firelight Media produced Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise, as the centerpiece of PBS's commemoration of this historic event. Beyond Brown explores the challenges of pursuing the promise in several locations across the United States. In Boston, officials consider abandoning a voluntary busing program that shepherds inner-city African-American students to better schools. Inequitable funding of New York schools perpetuate racial and economic disadvantage. Los Angeles schools separate Latino and African-American students from their White and Asian counterparts with "ability tracking." And thousands of minority third-graders in Florida risk being held back by high-stakes testing. Beyond Brown aired on PBS on May 12, 2004 during primetime.

Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson & the Little Review

1991, 30 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
Bold literary visionary Margaret Anderson founded the journal Little Review in 1914, an overlooked but profound influence on American literature. Anderson introduced writers such as Gertrude Stein, Emma Goldman, Djuna Barnes and Ezra Pound, and went to trial for publishing excerpts from James Joyce's new work, ULYSSES. Immersed in her own pointed, charismatic writings, this engrossing profile follows Anderson's inspiring life and travels. Anderson resisted censorship, meager finances and mediocrity in her unflagging search for literary enchantment; this film reveals her life to be her greatest creation.

Beyond The Sea

2003, 80 min.
It began with a bus crashing through the gates of an embassy in Havana and unraveled into one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human migrations. As Fidel Castro briefly allowed Cubans to leave the island, nearly 130,000 of them left their homeland in an unrelenting stream of vessels bound for America. 25 years later, the personal stories surrounding the Mariel Boatlift continue to resonate with an energy that can only be described as surreal and powerful. Weaving together these riveting stories along with rare historical images and footage from present-day Cuba, this film recreates this "explosion of 1980," a crisis that shook the very foundations of Cuban as well as American society. With unprecedented access to archival material, and numerous interviews to murielitos, Pérez-Rey constructs the most complete work to date on the infamous Mariel Boatlift.

Beyond Voluntary Control

2000, 30 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
Acclaimed filmmaker Cathy Cook (THE MATCH THAT STARTED MY FIRE) breaks new cinematic territory by devising a new visual language that explores the psychological and emotional effects of physical confinement in her latest film, BEYOND VOLUNTARY CONTROL. Stimulating the senses through haunting and poetic images, the film imaginatively conveys the obsessions, phobias and illnesses constricting personal freedom. While lyrically meditating on the limits of the body, Cook incorporates the evocative movements of modern dancer, David Figueroa, and blends a mesmerizing soundtrack set to the poems by Emily Dickinson and Sharon Olds. Through Figueroas gestures and dance, along with a moving interview of Cooks own mother suffering from Parkinsons, the film succeeds in humanizing and reconciling the effects of physical metamorphosis and stasis. Through artistry and visual astuteness, BEYOND VOLUNTARY CONTROL innovatively investigates the limits of human physicality and movement.

Bhangra Jig

4 minutes, VHS
A vibrant short video about how young Asian people in Scotland celebrate desire and self-pride through dance and music.

Big Enough

Meet seven people leading typical American lives pursuing middle-class careers and living in the suburbs. Yet their lives have been anything but typical. They are dwarfs and this film chronicles the changes and challenges in their lives in the 20 years
Meet seven people leading typical American lives pursuing middle-class careers and living in the suburbs. Yet their lives have been anything but typical. They are dwarfs and this film chronicles the changes and challenges in their lives in the 20 years

Big Spill, The

A look at the failure of technology and policy in preventing, containing and cleaning up the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Broadcast nationally by PBS on NOVA.

Bikini

An animated musical, Bikini stars a young man, dolled up in his mother's yellow swim suit, who is afraid to come out of the changing room.  With the encouragement of a pair of happy twins he emerges, but their lady friend would rather receive all the attention herself.

Billy Turner's Secret

Billy and Rufus live together and share everything, except Billy's secret ? he's gay.  Rufus just isn't ready to deal with it: the only thing he hates more than a faggot is a pushy woman.  But when the cousin of Rufus' girlfriend drops by unexpectedly, it looks like Billy's secret might be out of the bag.  Billy Turner's Secret is a hip, urban comedy, an inadvertent look at the connection between misogyny and homophobia, and among the first African-American films to deal with these subjects.

Bionic Beauty Salon

22 min.
BIONIC BEAUTY SALON addresses the insecurities in women of all ages who learn to place their self-worth in the measure of their beauty. Its personal voice and funny, adolescent sensibility make it intellectually accessible to girls and women of all ages. The film offers a model for how to reclaim the media and find ones self through ones own voice. Its primary audience is teenage girls but should include anyone who struggles to understand female socialization, and anyone who has ever assessed the physical beauty of a woman.body

Bird in the Hand

Video. 30 min. 1992.
Simone and Kaya are lovers trying desperately to escape New York City for the weekend and the reality of their friend Ayo's abusive relationship. Along the way, Kaya, who is Ayo's ex-lover, becomes more and more obsessed with tracking her down before they leave. In this experimental narrative, the couple confronts exemplary urban obstacles of broken pay phones, jealousy and other unexpected encounters. At times humorous, at times discomforting, Bird in the Hand addresses issues around co-dependency and obsession through passionate, honest characterizations of lesbian culture.

Bird in the Hand

Simone and Kaya are lovers trying desperately to escape New York City for the weekend and the reality of their friend Ayo's abusive relationship. Along the way, Kaya, who is Ayo's ex-lover, becomes more and more obsessed with tracking her down before they leave. In this experimental narrative, the couple confronts exemplary urban obstacles of broken pay phones, jealousy and other unexpected encounters. At times humorous, at times discomforting, Bird in the Hand addresses issues around co-dependency and obsession through passionate, honest characterizations of lesbian culture.

Birth of Language

What is the meaning of language? How and where did it begin? This highly original and challenging film examines these questions as it explores human evolution and the development of language. The Birth of Language uses a unique combination of extraordinary documentary footage, expert interviews and dramatic re-enactments to unravel the fascinating origins of language, the essential differences between human and animal communication and the relationship between language and thought.

Featuring such renowned experts as anthropologists Jane Goodall and Sherwood Washburn, the film compares the special language ability of humans to the instinctual and involuntary form of communication used by animals. Theories are illustrated by remarkable animal footage including the famous Chantek ape experiment in which an orangutan is taught to communicate with American Sign Language. The varied information presented in The Birth of Language strongly supports Charles Darwin's theories on evolution and natural selection.

Presenting complex social and biological concepts in a logical and accessible format, The Birth of Language explains the mystery that sets the human race apart from all other animals: the ability to think and translate our abstract ideas into concrete realities.
Examines the origins and evolution of human language and communication.

Black Dawn: The Next Pandemic

For the moment we seem to have escaped the threat of a global bird flu pandemic but what about next time? This gripping docudrama imagines what it would be like if what we feared actually happened: human-to-human transmission of the virus leading to th
We seem to have escaped the threat of a global bird flu pandemic but what about next time? This gripping docudrama based on scientific reality imagines what it would be like if it actually happens. Many experts predict that such a pandemic <i>will</i>

Black and White

New Zealand, 2006, 17 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD, English
BLACK AND WHITE shines a sensitive light on a subject that is too often either shunned or sensationalized: the experiences of intersex people (sometimes called hermaphrodites).

Black Hair and Black Eyed

From what sources does a young Korean-American woman draw her sense of identity?   From her mother, who provides the kim chee recipe and offers to pick up what she needs from the Price Club?  From fashion magazines, or her own short haircut, which brings her the berating of her entire extended family?  From the boy she dances with, the girl she sleeps with, or her own barren apartment?   Black Hair and Black Eyed may raise more questions than it answers.  In its own quirky way it asks the questions that matter.

Black Kites

1996, 26 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm/35mm
Based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, BLACK KITES is the outcome of a chance encounter between Hajric and filmmaker-choreographer Andres. Focusing on Hajric's inner landscape, it skillfully merges reality-based content with interpretive visual material to reveal the simple, sometimes beautiful, yet brutal truth of her existence. Non-linear, dreamlike and spectral, BLACK KITES is a testament to artistry, imagination and the resiliency of the human psyche. Features sensitive performances by Steve Buscemi, Mimi Goese and Mira Furlan, a prominent actress from the former Yugoslavia, as the narrator.

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

1998, 86 min.
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords is a powerful and engaging account of the pioneering black newspapermen and women who gave voice to black America. From facilitating the migration of Southern blacks to northern cities to honoring black soldiers in World War II, the black press documented people who were otherwise ignored.

Black Sheep

Australia, 1999, 26 minutes, Color, VHS
Lou Glover grew up in New South Wales repeating the same homophobic and racist taunts she heard around her. Though she was raised in a white family, she was dark-haired and dark-eyed and was often asked if she was Aboriginal--a suggestion she vehemently denied. It wasn't until she came out as a lesbian and left the racist and homophobic environment in which she was raised that she began to explore her ancestry. And that's when she uncovered the secret that her father's family had been hiding for three generations. In this upbeat tape from Australia, Lou Glover tells her own story as lesbian, one-time police officer, and recently-discovered Aboriginal woman.

Black Women of Brazil: Mulheres Negras

Brazil, 1986, 25 minutes, Color, VHS, Voiceover
Despite official jargon to the contrary, Brazilians live in a racially segregated class system. This upbeat, sensitive and elegantly composed documentary, produced by Lilith Video Collective, looks at the ways Black women have coped with racism while validating their lives through their own music and religion.

Black Women On: The Light, Dark Thang

1999, 52 minutes, Color, VHS
BLACK WOMEN ON: THE LIGHT, DARK THANG explores the politics of color within the African-American community. Women representing a variety of hues--from honey-vanilla to brown-sugar chocolate--speak candidly about the longstanding "caste system" that permeates black society. These women share provocative, heart-wrenching personal stories about how being too light or too dark has profoundly influenced their life and relationships--from childhood on and throughout their adult years. Originating in a culture of slavery, the "light, dark thang" still persists. Even today it haunts black women's individual and collective memories. Both entertaining and transformative viewing, BLACK WOMEN ON: THE LIGHT, DARK THANG combines personal interviews and historical footage with literary and dramatic vignettes.

Black, Bold and Beautiful: Black Women's Hair

Canada, 1999, 40 minutes, Color, VHS
Afros, braids or corn rows--hairstyles have always carried a social message, and few issues cause as many battles between black parents and their daughters. To "relax" one's hair into straight tresses or to leave it "natural" inevitably raises questions of conformity and rebellion, pride and identity. Today, trend-setting teens happily reinvent themselves on a daily basis, while career women strive for the right "professional" image, and other women go "natural" as a symbol of comfort in their Blackness. Filmmaker Nadine Valcin meets a diverse group of black women who reveal how their hairstyles relate to their lives and life choices. BLACK, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL celebrates the bonds formed as women attend to each other's hair while exploring how everyday grooming matters tap into lively debates about self-determination and society's perceptions of beauty.

Bleach, Teach, and Outreach

Video. 25 min. 1989. Produced for the Gay Men's Health Crisis, "Living With AIDS" cable TV series.
Documents the emergence of a problematic city-sponsored needle exchange program to combat the spread of HIV.

Blind Justice

24 minutes
Blind Justice explores the phenomenal increase in the prison population from 250,000 in 1975 to over two million in the year 2000. Interviews with former prisoners, lawyers and prison rights advocates challenge the notion of prison as rehabilitation and caution against the privatization of prisons and their growing importance to the U.S. economy.

Blind Spot: Murder by Women

2000, 87 minutes, Color, VHS
Because murder by women is still relatively rare--only one out of eight murders in the United States is committed by a woman--women's own stories provide unique insights into the circumstances leading to these violent acts. In this absorbing documentary, intimate one-on-one interviews with six women murderers are combined with re-enactments of their background experience and visual re-creations of their interior lives. Sharing and reflecting on their memories, fantasies, dreams, and anger, the six women candidly describe their actions as perpetrators in detail and address the issue of having taken a life. Interspersed between their separate stories are their individual reflections on coping strategies, and life and relationships in prison. From the Academy and Emmy-award winning filmmakers responsible for DIALOGUES WITH MADWOMEN, BLIND SPOT is a provocative and riveting encounter with throw-away children, out-of-control adults, and the emotional, psychological and spiritual consequences of murder.

Blonds (Los Rubios), The

Argentina, 2003, 89 minutes, Color/BW, VHS, Spanish, Subtitled
Albertina Carris second feature is a look at Argentinas recent history from the perspective of a generation forced to mourn those of whom they have no recollection. Carri, who lost her parents to Argentinas brutal military junta when she was three years old, travels through Buenos Aires with her crew to unravel the factual and emotional mysteries of her parents life, disappearance and death. Traces of Carris family emerge, colored by sharply conflicting perspectives. Who were the Carris? How did they disappear? Were they blonde, brunette, parents, heroes or merely a fiction of those who remember them? Crossing the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking, Carri enlists an actor, her parents former comrades, fading photographs and happy Playmobil dolls to investigate her parents untimely end. In the end, merging fact, rumor and imagination, Carri succeeds in reconstructing both her parents history and her own construction of them. Emotionally fraught and intellectually provocative, THE BLONDS has resonance far beyond the tragic history of Argentinas dirty war.

Blue Diary

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a young dyke pining over a one night stand with a straight girl.

Bodies and Souls

Sister Manette a nurse practitioner and a white Catholic nun runs the only health clinic in Jonestown a largely African-American town in the heart of the Mississippi delta where many people haven't seen a doctor more than once or twice in their lives
Sister Manette a nurse practitioner and a white Catholic nun runs the only health clinic in Jonestown a largely African-American town in the heart of the Mississippi delta where many people haven't seen a doctor more than once or twice in their lives

Body Beautiful,The

England, 1991, 23 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurahs brave excursion into her mothers scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.

Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre Lorde,The

England, 1995, 29 minutes, Color, VHS
An imaginary biopic, THE BODY OF A POET centers on the efforts of a group of young lesbians of color to devise a fitting tribute to one of this century's great visionaries. Its genre-bending celebration of the life and work of Audre Lorde, black lesbian poet and political activist, daringly meshes diverse media conventions and techniques as it explores Lorde's trajectory from birth to death. Refreshing and visually stunning, this brave film features assured acting by a dedicated cast and a taut script comprising the work of contemporary African American lesbian poets.

BOOK WARS

Documentary Feature RT 78:00 / 56:40 NTSC]
Camerado's first award-winning feature, the IFP Gotham Award-nominated documentary BOOKWARS is the gritty world of New York City street booksellers told in a remarkable story that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life...

Borders

DVD, 10 min., 2002
Borders tells three small stories to illuminate a much larger one: the consequences of a world order in which products freely cross borders that people may not.

Born in the USA

60 MINUTES, COLOR, DVD
Meet three birth caregiversa obstetrician, a nurse-midwife, and a licensed homebirth midwifeeach with a dramatically different idea about what constitutes best care for birthing women. Learn how they see their work and what factorsmedical, legal, and culturalinfluence women's choices in the birthing room.

The Boy Inside

The harrowing story of the filmmaker's son Adam a 12-year-old with Asperger Syndrome during a tumultuous year in the life of their family. AS makes Adam's life in seventh grade a minefield where he finds himself isolated and bullied. As he struggles to
The harrowing story of the filmmaker's son Adam a 12-year-old with Asperger Syndrome during a tumultuous year in the life of their family. AS makes Adam's life in seventh grade a minefield where he finds himself isolated and bullied. As he struggles to

Boy In The World

For many three and four-year-olds learning how to live in the world begins in a preschool classroom. Children with developmental disabilities are no exception. This intimate documentary follows four-year-old Ronen a young boy with Down syndrome who att
Following four-year-old Ronen a young boy with Down syndrome this intimate documentary concretely demonstrates that inclusive preschool classrooms benefit both children with special needs and their typical peers. It examines the nuts and bolts of succes

Boy I Am

2000, 56 min., Color
Tackling the resistance of some women in feminists and lesbian communities who view FTM transitioning as at best a "trend" or at worst an anti-feminist act that taps into male privilege, this groundbreaking film opens up a dialog between the lesbian, feminist, and transgender communities while also promoting understanding of transgender issues for general audiences.

A Boy Named Sue

2000, 56 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD
Julie Wyman's compelling documentary chronicles the transformation of a transsexual named Theo from a woman to a man over the course of six years. The film successfully captures Theo's physiological and psychological changes during the process, as well as their effects on his lesbian lover and community of close friends. Taking full advantage of the unlimited access she received into an extraordinarily personal process, Wyman carefully composes a moving story about gender identity, relationships, and how even things that seem permanent can change. A BOY NAMED SUE is one of the best videos to date on female-to-male transsexual experience. Wyman spent six years taping Sue's transformation into Theo and then organized a huge archive of material into a moving, informative and smart rendering of what a difference sex reassignment surgeries can make not only to the transsexual himself but also to all those in his immediate circle. Theo is a great subject and Wyman is a talented and imaginative documentarian. If you are looking for a sensitive and sophisticated representation of transsexual experience, look no further." Judith Halberstam, University of California, San Diego

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema showcases six of the finest gay shorts produced in the 1990's. This feature-length program, spanning the work of filmmakers from the U.S., Canada,  England and Australia, exemplifies the quality, defiance and self-affirmation of The New Queer Cinema.  B. Ruby Rich, in her ground-breaking article in Sight & Sound on The New Queer Cinema, wrote: "These works are irreverent, energetic, alternatively  minimalist and excessive. Above all, they're full of pleasure."

Brats

In this lively film, a young woman comes to terms with being an army daughter. Tired of the regimented life on the base, Libby Hinckle organizes a protest rally. However, when her plans go awry, a GI friend helps her to recognize the human qualities beneath the uniform.
In this lively short fictional film, a young woman comes to terms with being an army daughter.

Breadcrumbs

In this touching and humorous short documentary, the filmmaker's father admits he isn't wild about his son's homosexuality, but he still wants Ruven's boyfriend to bring a little bit of San Francisco with him when he comes to visit.

Breakaway

This provocative documentary tells the story of the conflicted relationship between two men coping with the consequences of severe traumatic brain injury. At once inspiring and disturbing this film is not just about coping with disability but about the
This provocative documentary tells the story of the conflicted relationship between two men coping with the consequences of severe traumatic brain injury.

Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence

Healthcare workers are in a unique position to detect the problem and to intervene to break the cycle of violence. They may be the first to observe the physical symptoms of abuse and if they have good relationships with their patients may be the ones
This program will help nurses physicians social workers and other healthcare workers to detect domestic violence and intervene to break the cycle.

Breakin' the Glass

As exciting and fast-paced as the game itself, Breakin? the Glass examines the promise and power of women?s professional basketball. Leech and Munsch interview the founders and players of the American Basketball League. Athletes discuss what it means for women finally to have the opportunity to play professional basketball in the US. Chronicling the rise and fall of the ABL, Breakin? the Glass provides insight into the politics of professional sports. A testament to the importance of women role models, Breakin? the Glass is an excellent motivational and empowerment tool for women and girls of all ages.

BREAKING LEAVES

30 MIN
In the Haitian countryside - where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine - the peasants use local leaves, herbs, and massage as a way of curing simple ailments. This video follows several men and women as they take us into the bush to look for leaves. We follow them home where they explain and demonstrate their way of preparing the poultice or infusion. Narrated by the people themselves, the film is poetic as well as infomative.

Breaking Silence

58 minutes VHS 30 minutes VHS
BREAKING SILENCE is the definitive film on incest and child sexual abuse. Personal stories told by survivors and their families, woven with telling drawings by abused children, give viewers a realistic understanding of how incest destroys trust and bonding and limits the lives of its victims. BREAKING SILENCE celebrates survivors who are finding the courage to break silence and regain their lives.

Breaking Silence: The Story of the Sisters at Desales Heights

58 min.
A rare and intimate insight into a way of life that may soon be gone forever, this film raises important questions about the changing role of women in society and what happens to those whose roles are no longer valued. This compelling documentary reveals life behind the cloistered walls of a 150-year-old monastery, as it follows the twelve elderly nuns preparing to face the outside world for the first time in their adult lives. BREAKING SILENCE: THE SISTERS AT DESALES HEIGHTS examines the effects on the members of this unusual community as they respond to pressures from the unfamiliar world around them.

Breaking the Rule of Thumb

1997, 35 minutes, Color, VHS
Combining powerful interviews with documentary footage, this timely and compelling videotape takes a comprehensive look at the issues still confronting battered women twenty years after the beginning of the domestic violence movement. Featuring the stories of three women - one a police officer - who went through the Philadelphia family courts to ensure their safety, BREAKING THE RULE OF THUMB examines contemporary domestic violence in terms of changing historical definitions of abuse. Incorporating individual stories into a strong argument for legal reform, filmmaker Andrea Elovson exposes how domestic violence's seemingly personal gender issues are inextricably tied to flawed ideas of civil justice.

Breaking Through Stereotypes

15 minutes
Using clips from Hollywood movies, Nazi propaganda and other films, this documentary takes a hard-hitting look at racial and ethnic stereotypes and how they shape our interactions with others. Produced from a youth perspective, this tape is an excellent discussion tool for multicultural curriculum and trainings in conflict resolution and human dynamics.

Breath Taken

Explores the tragic personal and social impact of asbestos-related disease through the stories of several former asbestos workers.
Explores the tragic personal and social impact of asbestos-related disease through the stories of several former asbestos workers.

Breathing Lessons

Academy Award winning portrait of poet/journalist Mark O'Brien who contracted polio in childhood and has spent much of his life in an iron lung.
Academy Award winning portrait of poet and journalist Mark O'Brien who contracted polio in childhood and spent much of his life in an iron lung.

Breathe Easy

When 78-year-old Lois Perelman's Emphysema a form of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) recently became severe she was devastated at the thought that she would have to carry an oxygen tank around for the rest of her life. It was hard to accept
When 78-year-old Lois Perelman recently developed Emphysema she was devastated at the thought that she would have to carry an oxygen tank around for the rest of her life. Determined not to let her own past stereotypes of people on oxygen affect her enthu

#903: Bridging The Years: Teens and Seniors Mix It Up

Intergenerational programs are on the rise across the country, providing a place for teenagers and senior citizens to come together to share talents, resources, and support. First, we see how much fun high school art students and older adults at the senior center have working together to create murals and mosaic tables to beautify a local community park in their small town. Then we visit an intergenerational center with a unique program that pairs autistic teens with surrogate grandmas and grandpas who work patiently to improve the teens communication and social skills. High school volunteers also enjoy helping at the center. We close with a theatrical flourish as older Hispanic women and at-risk students in NYC inspire each other as they create and perform a play to a full house. Throughout this program we hear how stereotypes are dispelled as the groups realize how much they have in common. In addition to having fun, the teens find emotional support and welcome advice, and the seniors feel useful. Its a win-win for everyone, and encourages teens to volunteer with seniors. This program was made possible by MetLife Foundation. *DVDs are also available on over 50 other topics of critical interest to teens. For full descriptions, transcripts, video clips, discussion guides, lesson plans and more on this and other topics, please visit our website, inthemix.org. For one day shipping orders or volume discounts please call 800-343-5540. Note: VHS copies are also available for some programs.

Brincando El Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican

1994, 55 minutes, Color/BW, VHS/16mm, Subtitled
Refreshingly sophisticated in both form and content, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO contemplates the notion of identity through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned Puerto Rican photographer/videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the US. Confronting the simultaneity of both her privilege and her oppression, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO becomes a meditation on class, race and sexuality as shifting differences. BRINCANDO EL CHARCO was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Bringing It All Back Home

England, 1987, 48 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
This fascinating documentary analyzes how the patterns of international capital investment and the exploitation of Third World women workers in free trade zones are being brought home to the First World. Issues discussed include: the internationalization of local economies, the growing schism between the rich and poor and the changing nature of women's work.

Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter

In 1990, Dr. Peter Jepson-Young learned he had AIDS. Believing that there's no logical end point to education, he began taping a series of two-minute video diaries that document the fullness of his life and offer insights both as a patient and as a doctor. Without sentimentalizing or dramatizing his experiences, the film gives AIDS a human face, and profoundly demonstrates the strength of the human spirit.
Academy Award-nominee. A doctor infected with the AIDS virus documents his experience through a series of 2-minute diaries over many months.

Broken Sky

Broken Sky blends both past with present and fact with fiction as it dramatizes the deep, lasting impact of an actual 1948 plane crash in which 28 Mexican nationals were killed near Fresno, California. Inspired by the haunting folk ballad Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) by Woody Guthrie, the film tells the story of Rodrigo Cortinas (Victor Campos), a former migrant worker who was supposed to be on the plane and lost his wife in the crash. Now, 50 years later, as he approaches death, Rodrigo is visited by the spirit of Rosario (Diane Uribe), the wife he lost long ago. Meanwhile, his grown son Mario (Robert Beltran) feels it is time to move him into a nursing home. In a journey that is both funny and sad, the irascible old man sets out to catch the plane he missed years ago a journey that, spiritually at least, finally heals him.

Brooklyn Matters

50 minutes DVD Closed Captioned
In an era of urban growth and vitality, many neighborhoods are being threatened by intense pressure to develop on a large scale. Brooklyn Matters exposes how, in one community, powerful real estate interests and politicians collaborate to circumvent local laws, seize private property through eminent domain, and manipulate public participation to push forward what could become the densest development in the United States. Brooklyn Matters raises critical issues for urban planners, architects, environmentalists, policy makers, and community residents.

Brooklyn Matters

DVD, 50 Min. (Home Use)
Brooklyn Matters is a riveting look at how big real estate, politics, community voices, and the desperate need for jobs and housing clash in one of the largest development proposals in the history of New York City. (HOME USE ONLY)

Brooklyn Matters

Brother Born Again

57 min.
A Jewish woman's jouirney to find her born again Christian brother

Bubbeh Lee & Me

35 min.
For her filmmaker grandson, a young gay man born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father, 87-year old Bubbeh Lee is a vital link to selfand cultural identity. This spirited film examines legacies passed through generations, and shows that the journeys of self-discovery and reconciliation can begin at any age.

Buddha Wild

"Anna Wilding's film provides a "marvellously well-judged" glimpse into the world of Buddhist monks in living in the western world "

Bullet

19 minutes
In1931, the Philadelphia and Western rebuilt their track for high-speed operation and took delivery of ten lightweight streamlined cars from the J. G. Brill Co. Quickly nicknamed Bullets, five of these legendary cars were still in service when we shot them in action during 1988 and 1989. We have edited nearly eight hours of footage to recreate a spectacular 14-minute high-speed run from 69th Street to Norristown. Unlike our other DVDs, this one has no narration; just a bit of music while we see some of the intense and varied activity at 69th Street, and then the soundtrack belongs to four 100 horsepower traction motors in glorious binaural stereo.

Bullets for Breakfast

1992, 77 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST is a sublime essay film which sits at the frontier of its genre. Holly Fisher describes the film as a Western filtered through a post-feminist sensibility. Moments from John Fords classic 1946 Western MY DARLING CLEMENTINE are repeatedly interwoven with art postcards depicting Renaissance paintings of women, footage of women working in a herring smoking house and landscapes of Maine. Ryerson Johnson, a 91 year old writer who wrote more than 200 cowboy stories for pulp Western magazines reads from his unpublished autobiography. Feminist Nancy Nielson, who lined the interior of her outhouse with art postcards, reads her poetry. By playing with differences between poetry, story telling and visual narrative, BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST gradually unravels the seductive power of collective myths and stereotypes. Its a blatant hybrid of experimental and documentary techniques. Stories are told and re-told, images reordered like musical motives, in a structure which is cyclic and open-ended.

Bundle of Blues

The stories in this thoughtful documentary represent a range of experiences from minor postpartum depression through postpartum psychosis. It stresses that PPD can happen to any new mother but that it can be managed.
The stories in this thoughtful documentary represent a range of experiences from minor postpartum depression through postpartum psychosis. It stresses that PPD can happen to any new mother but that it can be managed.

Buoyant

2004, 28 minutes, Color/BW, VHS/DVD
Julie Wymans ebullient experimental documentary intertwines the story of the Padded Lilies, a troupe of fat synchronized swimmers, Archimedes, the Greek mathematician obsessed with floating bodies, and the inventor of the Drystroke Swimulator to investigate, proclaim and celebrate the fact that fat floats! As the Padded Lillies prepare for their appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", BUOYANT follows their rigorous training and strategizing as they promote their message of body-acceptance, fat-empowerment, and fitness at any size. A school-marmish voiceover moves on to tell the story of Archimedes, classical Greek mathematician and discoverer of pi, as he tackles one of his more difficult problems: how to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object. The final vignette, performed by Wyman herself, captures the trials and tribulations of the inventor at work on the Drystroke Swimulator (patent pending) -- a contraption designed to allow its user to swim outside of water. Giddy and irreverent, moving fluidly between color and black and white, video and film, handheld and locked-down camera styles, Buoyant draws attention to its own surface and leaves us with the exuberant possibility of a fat body that literally and culturally rises, like cream, to the top.

The Burden of Knowledge

Seven couples their caregivers and others explore the ethical and emotional implications of prenatal testing for genetic defects.
Seven couples healthcare and genetic specialists and others explore the ethical and emotional implications of prenatal testing for genetic defects.

Burning Wall

A dozen years after the collapse of East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hava Beller movingly investigates the profoundly contemporary dilemma of individual resistance within a totalitarian state. The Stasi, the secret police that employed over 100,000 agents (many of them ordinary citizens) assembled files on one-third of the East German population. Former dissidents tell of kafkaesque stories of the psychological warfare they endured while former Stasi agents candidly detail their techniques for destroying the lives of their opponents.

The Burning Wall depicts the developing opposition to the East German government from the first stirring of single acts of resistance by individuals, through an emerging dissident movement, all the way to the astounding groundswell of defiance that brought down the Berlin Wall and resulted in the collapse of the GDR regime.This documentary also traces these stories through the use of archival footage as well as through interviews with Vaclav Havel, Richard von Weizsacker, Gunter Grass, Stephan Heym, and prominent resisters Robert and Katja Havemann.

Also by filmmaker Hava Beller:
The Restless Conscience
An overview of the resistance to the East German regime which led ultimately to the collapse of the communist government and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.

Business as Usual

An international look at people with disabilities who have created successful businesses which provide employment income and self-reliance for themselves and others.
An international look at people with disabilities who have created successful businesses which provide employment income and self-reliance for themselves and others.

...But Then, She's Betty Carter

1980, 53 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
This lively film is an unforgettable portrait of legendary vocalist Betty Carter, one of the greatest living exponents of jazz. Uncompromised by commercialism throughout her long career, she has forged alternative criteria for success including founding her own recording company and raising her two sons as a single parent. Parkerson's special film captures Carter's musical genius, her paradoxical relationship with the public and her fierce dedication to personal and artistic independence.

Buying Time

Should campaigns in the media (in this case soliciting contributions to pay for bone marrow transplants) be allowed to influence the allocation of precious healthcare resources?
Should media campaigns (in this case soliciting contributions to pay for bone marrow transplants) be allowed to influence the allocation of precious healthcare resources?

By Invitation Only

56 minutes DVD Closed Captioned
New Orleans filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker explores the insular world of the elite, white Carnival societies and debutante balls of Mardi Gras. Questioning their racial exclusivity, she takes an unprecedented insider's look at the pageantry and asks: what does it really mean to be the queen of the masked men? As she examines her own place in this captivating tradition, Snedeker challenges viewers to reflect on the roles that we play in our lives. Ideal for courses in Anthropology, American Studies, Gender Studies, Multicultural Studies, Sociology, Southern History and Psychology.