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Pacific Electric Remembering the Red Cars Volume 1: Southern District

approximately 70 minutes, color and B&W, full soundtrack
Interurban Heaven in the City of Angels Step back into a railfan's paradise - Los Angeles in the 1940's, where the world's largest interurban was scheduling 1,100 passenger trains a day. From thousands of feet of vintage film, producer-archivist Don Olsen has assembled an extraordinary record of this interurban empire. Volume 1, first in a trilogy of Pacific Electric videos, features the Southern District, with the Long Beach/San Pedro , Newport Beach, Santa Ana and El Segundo/Torrance Lines. The evolution of ten and twelve hundred class cars and the "blimps" which supplanted them is well documented. Separate sections are devoted to carload freight and maintenance-of-way activities systemwide, including rail and overhead replacement and wrecks. As the system's premier freight hauler, electric, steam and diesel powered freights, plus box motors and RPOs kept the rails well polished with wartime activity, and these amazing scenes recall it all with vivid clarity.

Pacific Electric Remembering the Red Cars Volume 2: Western District

approximately 70 minutes, mostly color, full soundtrack
L.A.Quintessential Palm trees, beaches, and Red Cars. It doesn't get any more L.A. than this. For over half a century, from Hollywood to Hill Street, the legendary Pacific Electric defined the pulse of Los Angeles. PE considered its Western District a "suburban" service. Although the Burbank, Valley, and Venice Short Lines were certainly interurban in character, their equipment generally was not. Thus this Volume of the Western District focuses on 600 (5050) class cars, which ran on most of the Lines; venerable 800s in rare shots along the Redondo Beach-Del Rey Line; 950s and 1000s, which served the western beaches; and PE's newest cars, the thirty PCCs in the 5000 class. Our classic coverage of Western District operations features these types of cars, burnishing the rails down to Santa Monica, cresting the Cahuenga Pass or skimming along the Ivanhoe Hills on private right-of-way; plus downtown L.A., with the Subway and Hill Street Terminals, congested Hill Street and its tunnels, and facilities at Toluca yard, West Hollywood, and Ocean Park carhouses. We also show 100s and Birneys in local service in all 3 PE districts. Volume 2 of "Remembering the Red Cars", with the finest quality visual transfer and digital audio, affords the PE fan an unparalleled opportunity to relive these sights and sounds.

Pacific Electric Remembering the Red Cars Volume 3: Northern District

approximately 70 minutes, mostly color, full soundtrack
The Red Car Empire Comes to Life Transportation shapes cities. And no modern city owes more to a single mode of transit than Los Angeles owes to its famous Red Cars. Justifiably revered as the world's greatest interurban, the Pacific Electric's vast empire has required three video volumes to cover it in detail. Volume 3 features the Northern District, plus Special New Year's Day and racetrack trains, and RPO/ Box Motor operations in all 3 PE districts.

Packrat

Compulsive hoarding has been linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and dementia. This video profiles two families whose lives have been shaped by the packrat behavior of a family member.
Compulsive hoarding has been linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and dementia. This video profiles two families whose lives have been shaped by the packrat behavior of a family member.

Pain Management or Drug Abuse

An engaging training video for law enforcement officers involved in investigation of drug diversion. It offers practical tips and guidelines that will help them distinguish between legitimate medical practice and behavior that may warrant an investigation
An engaging training video for law enforcement officers involved in investigation of drug diversion. It offers practical tips and guidelines that will help them distinguish between legitimate medical practice and behavior that may warrant an investigation

Pain, Passion and Profit

A videotape by Gurinder Chadha , 1992, 49 min., Color
PAIN, PASSION AND PROFIT is an inspirational look at women entrepreneurs through the eyes of Anita Roddick, the founder of the Body Shop who has alway...

Painting the Town: The Illusionistic Murals of Richard Haas

This exuberant film portrait introduces the witty work of architectural muralist Richard Haas, whose mammoth murals have caused double takes in cities from Phoenix to Munich. Following in a tradition dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, Haas uses painted architecture to transform the sometimes brutal geometry of contemporary cityscapes. Interviews with art experts, people on the street, and the artist himself offer fascinating insights as the creation of a mural is demonstrated through time-lapse photography.
Introduces the witty work of architectureal muralist Richard Haas, whose mammoth murals have caused double takes in cities from Phoenix to Munich.

Painting the Town: The Illusionistic Murals of Richard Haas

Palante Siempre Palante! The Young Lords

vhs, 48 min., 1996
In the midst of the African American civil rights struggle, protests to end the Vietnam War and the womens movement for equality, Puerto Rican and Latino communities fought for the empowerment of their communities. From Chicago streets to the barrios of New York City and other urban centers, young Latinos and Latinas organized the Young Lords in the 1960s and 70s as a militant voice demanding social, economic and political justice for Puerto Ricans, Latino/as and all poor people.

Palenque: Un Canto

48 min.
The African heritage of a Colombian village

The Panama Deception

The Panama Deception documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama; the events which led to it; the excessive force used; the enormity of the death and destruction; and the devastating aftermath. The Panama Deception uncovers the real reasons for this internationally condemned attack, presenting a view of the invasion which widely differs from that portrayed by the U.S. media and exposes how the U.S. government and the mainstream media suppressed information about this foreign policy disaster.

Pancho's Revenge

vhs, 24 min., 1997
A blue dog, a Latino identity crisis and a postcard from paradise... Pepe Martinez, a salsa tutor and exhausted New York radical, is embittered that his truths forever fall on deaf ears. At wit's end, Pepe "kills" himself and moves to South America to live an uncomplicated existence as Pancho. But Pepe learns that losing faith in what you stand for may be worse than death.

Pangyau

Against the bustling backdrop of Kuala Lumpur?s Chinatown, a Malay-Muslim narrator reminisces about a teenage relationship between himself and an ethnic Chinese classmate. "Pangyau," the Cantonese word for friend, is not just the story of a close friendship, but a prism through which the writer gets to examine his feelings about the the ways in which race and religion have been used in the national socio-political discourse.

Panic Attack

A vivid and compelling portrayal of one young man's struggle with panic disorder. He describes the physiological and emotional symptoms he experiences the situations which typically precipitate his panic attacks and how his fear and avoidance of such si
The filmmaker uses time-lapse photography stop-motion animation and creative sound design to convey the emotions associated with the experience of panic attacks.

Papapapa

dvd, 25 min., 1995
Papapapá is an experimental documentary about immigration. Looking at the potato, which was first cultivated in Peru as an Inca food staple, Papapapa paints a picture of a vegetable which has traveled, and been transformed. The video follows this immigrating vegetable North as it eventually becomes the potato chip, the couch potato, and the French Fry. While following the potato's journey and transformation, Papapapa simultaneously follows another Peruvian in motion, Augusto Rivera, the maker's father. The stories of these two disparate immigrants, the potato, and the maker's father, converge as Augusto Rivera becomes a Peruvian couch potato, sitting on the American sofa, eating potato chips and watching Spanish Language television.

Las Papas del Papa

vhs, 8 min., 2000
In 1999 Pope John Paul II visited Mexico. In true end-of-the-millennium style, the visit was not only the visit of Mexicos most revered living religious figure, but also an opportunity for product placements and corporate tie-ins. In one case, promotional stickers of the Pope (El Papa) appeared in bags of potato chips (Las papas). This short narrative follows the confusions of a young boy who searches for a shortcut to heaven, in the media saturated world of the Popes 1999 visit to Mexico. Las Papas del Papa is a wicked commentary on faith, free markets, and the surreal by-products of the New World Order.

Paradise

A little blackbird learns that fine feathers alone cannot bring happiness, even in a brilliantly colored fantasy kingdom. Dazzling, detailed animation and haunting music combine to tell this gently humorous moral tale that will enchant audiences of all ages. An opportunity for discussion about the value placed on surface beauty, the importance of personal freedom, and whether or not the grass is really greener on the other side of the fence.
A short animated film about envy and how the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Academy Award Nominee.

Paradise Lost

A Film by Ebtisam Maraana , 2003, 56 min., Color
Arab Israeli filmmaker Ebtisam Mara'ana grew up in Paradise (Fureidis in Arabic), a small fishing village overlooking the Mediterranean. One of the fe...

Pariah

DVD, 27 Min.
Pariah is a coming-of-age drama about a lesbian teenager who unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Set against the kinetic and incongruous social landscape of middle class New York City, Alike vacillates between being a proud and sexually independent woman amongst her openly gay friends and being the feminine, obedient girl that her strict Christian upbringing dictates she be. Torn by mounting pressure from home, school, and within, the line between her dual personas wears thin with explosive consequences.

Parkinson's: Lynda's Story

Parkinson's disease is robbing Lynda McKenzie of normal coordination and movement. She's prepared to participate in a clinical study of surgery to transplant fetal cells directly into her brain but she will have to live for a year not knowing whether she
Parkinson's disease is robbing Lynda McKenzie of normal coordination and movement. She's prepared to participate in a clinical study of surgery to transplant fetal cells directly into her brain but she will have to live for a year not knowing whether she

Partners: Bethlehem Steel and the United Steelworkers

Running Time: 35 Minutes
In 1993, the United Steelworkers of America began an exciting experiment. Labor- management cooperation made the American steel industry one of the most productive in the world, measured in tons per employee hour. Even so, the staggering burden of pension costs and the failure to cut layers and layers of middle managers put a large segment of the industry into bankruptcy. Even more radical changes were necessary to save the industry as related in Merrimacks latest film, Rustbelt Phoenix. Partners relates the first stage of this process. Interviews with the unions visionary leader, Lynn Williams, and other union leaders, supervisors, and workers tell how the partnership developed from its roots in the unions early days. We recommend using both titles. Together they show that when a business is failing the remedy is not to give up partnership but rather to give labor more of a voice. The contrast between Area Committee meetings in the two films is striking. When managers and workers at the giant Sparrows Point, Maryland plant met in 1995, management listened politely to worker complaints and suggestions. Last year, as youll see in Rustbelt Phoenix, workers ran the meeting and prevailed in major disagreements, even rebuking managers publicly. That successful partnership was built on the one portrayed in Partners.

Pashke and Sofia

A film by Karin Michalski , 2003, 28 min., Color
This fascinating film is a rare window into Albanian culture and an even more remarkable glimpse at the age-old custom that allows Albanian women to c...

A Passion for Justice

Bob Perske is a crusader for the legal rights of people with developmental disabilities and has handled cases in which such people have been convicted of crimes they did not commit.
Bob Perske author of Unequal Justice crusades for the legal rights of people with developmental disabilities including some who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit.

The Passion of Remembrance

A Sankofa film by Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien , 1986, 80 min., Color
The first film by Sankofa Film and Video, THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE has gained classic status as a representation of the totality and diversity of Bl...

Passionless Moments

A film by Jane Campion , 13 min., BW
A series of wry vignettes: SEAN AND ARNOLD NOT SPEAKING; SCOTTIES, PART OF THE GRAND DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE; ANGELA EATS MEATS, IRONING ON SUNDAY, and...

Patriarchy Is Malarkey!

15 minutes
EVC youth producers examine the causes of violence and discrimination against women. Skillfully weaving interviews with peers, feminist scholars and social workers, they offer an insightful critique of the media's role in reinforcing negative gender stereotypes. A powerful media literacy discussion tool, this video has been used for training by the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault and screened by educators at the University of Istanbul in Turkey.

The Peacekeepers and the Women

A film by Karin Jurschick , 2003, 80 min., Color
Winner of the Arte-Documentary Award for Best German Documentary, this chilling investigation examines the booming sex-trafficking industry in Bosnia ...

Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance

In its examination of American and Japanese attitudes toward each other during the decades leading up to World War II, Pearl Harbor uses a spectacular array of archival material from both Japan and the United States: feature films, news footage, government propaganda, radio speeches, popular photos, vintage music and firsthand testimony (including that of narrator Jason Robards, himself a witness to the attack on board the USS Honolulu).
Offers answers to questions that haunt many Americans today, providing a unique look back to that moment when the world changed forever for the United States.

Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance

Peel

A film by Jane Campion , 9 min., Color
On a hot Australian summer's day, a recalcitrant, freckled, red-headed family of three go on a Sunday drive in the country. Their outing results in an...

#904: Peer Mediation: A Process of Respect

We visit a diverse small city school that has a variety of pro-active student centered programs in place. When a fight breaks out in the cafeteria, the two boys choose to participate in peer mediation rather than face the administration. We follow the session as two experienced student mediators explain and lead them through the process. After setting the rules, they ask each to describe the incident, their feelings and past relationship. Then they help clarify the problems creating the hostility. The boys are encouraged to suggest their own solutions and a contract is written out, which they both agree to and sign. Graphics reinforce the steps in the mediation procedure. By the end, the boys acknowledge how it has helped not only them, but has diffused tensions among their groups at the school. The peer mediators share how their training has also benefited their relationships with their friends and family. This program can be used to raise awareness among students about peer mediation, encouraging those in a conflict to choose this option, as well as those interested in becoming mediators. It also provides a training tool for counselors and others starting peer mediation programs. *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.

Peggy and Fred in Hell

Leslie Thornton , 21 min.
The first installment of Leslie Thornton's ongoing epic follows two children, Peggy and Fred, through a densely cluttered, technological-consumer jumb...

Peggy and Fred in Kansas

Leslie Thornton , 11 min.
A few years older now, our boy and girl heroes mumble and chant their way through mid- America's wasteland. Thornton's interest in the line between la...

People Like Us: Social Class in America

Social Class As in "middle class," "working class," "upper class." It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life. But class is a hard subject to talk about in a society like ours, where the idea that all people are created equal and that a poor child can become President is enshrined in national legend.

People Or Puppets?: Media's Stronghold On Youth Culture

19 minutes Comes with Study Guide
This 2006 new release takes its inspiration from the fact that, in the United States, the average child spends at least 19 hours a week watching television, with children over 8 years old spending up to 7 hours a day. EVC filmmakers take a hard look at how the media represents teens and how this complex messaging affects teens' sense of body image and gender roles.

People Say I'm Crazy

VHS (NTSC) - 84 minutes
My name is John Cadigan, and I'm an artist with schizophrenia. People Say I'm Crazy is my documentary about the world inside my head. It's a chaotic world filled with paranoia, creativity, fear and desire. A world in which I'm struggling every day, trying to know what is real and what is not.

Perfect Harmony: The Whiffenpoofs in China

A charming half-hour documentary about the Yal Whiffenpoofs' highly successful tour of the People's Republic of China. The Whiffenpoofs are an internationally renowned all-male a capella singing group. They strike up a song at the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, as well as the Nanjing streets, on a railroad platform, inside a train, in the bustling Guangzhou market and in a Beijing kindergarten. As ambassadors of goodwill for Yale University and the United States, the Whiffenpoofs perform all over the world.
Dcoumentary about the Yale Whiffenpoofs' highly successful tour of the people's Republic of China. The Whiffenpoos are an internationally reknowned all-male a cappella singing group.

Perfect Image?

A film by Maureen Blackwood , 1988, 30 min., Color
Bright and imaginative in its approach to its subject, PERFECT IMAGE? exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores women's own ideas of se...

Performing the Border

A videotape by Ursula Biemann , 1999, 42 min., Color
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment j...

Period Piece

A humorous but penetrating celebration of menarche the first menstrual period featuring comments and recollections from women 8 to 84 from various backgrounds.
A humorous but penetrating celebration of menarche the first menstrual period featuring comments and recollections from women 8 to 84 from various backgrounds.

Period Piece

30 minutes Beta SP color 1996
Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche --a girl's first menstrual period -- which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet one that is rarely celebrated.

Permissible Dreams

A film by Ateyyat El Abnoudy , 1983, 30 min., 2 in series, Color
PERMISSIBLE DREAMS is an unforgettable look at life for Egyptian women....

The Personals

This video follows a drama group for senior citizens as they rehearse and perform an original play at a community theater. Drawn from the comedy and drama of their lives the play features elderly people looking for dates through the personal ads.
This Academy-Award winning video follows a drama group for senior citizens as they create and perform a play about looking for dates through the personal ads.

A Perspective of Hope

Highlights a unique program linking schools of nursing with nursing homes to improve student training as well as the day-to-day care of residents.
Highlights a unique program linking schools of nursing with nursing homes to improve student training as well as the quality of day-to-day care of residents.

Peter, Donald, Willie, Pat

Portraits of four homeless men living in a respite shelter documents their problems and their survival strategies.
Video portraits of four homeless men living in a respite shelter this video documents both their problems and their survival strategies.

Phantom Limb

28 minutes Beta SP & 35mm color/B&W 2005
The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of their child and the entire family experienced indescribable pain. PHANTOM LIMB uses this personal story as a point of departure. Whether it is a loss through death or divorce, the stages of grieving are the same. Individuals often go through denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, ultimately, some kind of acceptance, in order to heal. The film is loosely structured according to these stages. Interspersed throughout this poetic documentary are interviews with a cemetery owner, a phantom limb patient and an author of a book about evidence for life after death. PHANTOM LIMB reminds viewers that while grief is painful and isolating, it is a reminder to each of us that life is impermanent.

The Phantom of the Operator

A film by Caroline Martel , 2004, 65 min.
This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators' central place in ...

Phoenix Dance

Renowned dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer. Following the creation of a pas de deux choreographed by Alonzo King Phoenix Dance takes us on a journey of transformation and healing challenging our expectatio
Renowned dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer. Following the creation of a pas de deux choreographed by Alonzo King Phoenix Dance takes us on a journey of transformation and healing challenging our expectatio

Pickering's Sugar Pine Railroad

62 minutes VHS Only Black and White, Color and full sound track.
Geared locomotives were used by the Sugar Pine Railroad between 1909 and 1965 to haul logs from the Stanislaus River Canyon to the Pickering lumber mill some 70 miles away. The challenges facing this operation led to what may be considered the most spectacular logging railroad show in Californias history. This unique video documents Pickerings operation through the recollections of two brothers who worked on the railroad from 1920 to 1942. Manny Marshall was a locomotive engineer; his "kid brother", Tom, was first a brakeman and later a conductor.

Picking Tribes

A film by S. Pearl Sharp (aka Saundra Sharp) , 1988, 7 min., Color
?In a heartfelt, and often hilarious, attempt to be more than 'ordinary', a girl growing up in the 1940s tries to choose between her African-American ...

Pictures from Camp

At a very special summer camp a group of child cancer patients ages 6 to 16 discover that there can still be room in their lives for normal adolescent experiences.
At a very special summer camp a group of child cancer patients ages 6 to 16 discover that there can still be room in their lives for normal adolescent experiences.

PicturePerfect

We are barraged by media images that unrealistically glamorize and sexualize women and girls. This lively and engaging film explores the impact these messages have on young women's physical psychological and emotional health and offers tools to begin di
We are barraged by media images that unrealistically glamorize and sexualize women and girls. This lively and engaging film explores the impact these messages have on young women's physical psychological and emotional health and offers tools to begin di

Picture Me an Enemy

A film by Nathalie Applewhite , Produced by Nathalie Applewhite and Rene Lego , 2003, 29 min., Color/BW
Wars in the former Yugoslavia were among the most brutal in recent history, yet understanding of these events is still vague and detached. PICTURE ME ...

Pies

A surprising short animated film from The National Film Board of Canada. With warmth and color, the film tells a universal story of how human understanding can overcome prejudice. Pies is based on a short story by Wilma Riley, and is produced by Academy Award-nominated animator Caroline Leaf.

Pies follows the story of two neighbors, a Polish woman (Mrs. Cherwak) who owns a cow and German hausfrau (Mrs. Meuser) with strict notions about cleanliness. One day the two conflict between the two neighbors escalates to physical proportions. Mrs. Meauser, feeling mortally insulted , invents an ingenious way to get back at Mrs. Cherwak and carries it out over afternoon coffee. Her anger melts when she realizes that her neighbor is very much like herself. Their social and cultural differences, however troublesome they may seem at times, are transcended by a broader, shared humanity.

Pies is an excellent discussion vehicle for issues of sterotyping and prejudice, urban vs. rural lifestyles, the dangers of making blind judgments, problem solving, dealing with personal conflicts, immigration, and stress caused by urban growth.
Short animated film tells how human understanding can over come prejudice. Based on short story by Wilma Riley.

The Pill

A film by Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone , 1999, 45 min., Color
Conceived to help women control their fertility, the birth control pill was a touchstone for sexual liberation in the 1960s and is now used by million...

Pioneers of Hospice

Explores the development of hospice and palliative care focusing on the legacy of the founders of the modern hospice movement: Dame Cicely Saunders Florence Wald the late Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Balfour Mount.
Explores the development of hospice and palliative care focusing on the legacy of the founders of the modern hospice movement: Dame Cicely Saunders Florence Wald the late Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Balfour Mount.

Pitch of Grief

Explores the process of grieving through interviews with four bereaved men and women young and old.
Explores the process of grieving through interviews with four bereaved men and women young and old.

A Place Called Home

USA/Iran, 1998, 30 minutes, Color, VHS, Subtitled
Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri grew up in pre-Revolution Tehran daydreaming about an ideal life in the West. Nineteen years later, after living and working in the U.S., Persheng explores her controversial decision to move back to Iran, to return to the place she never stopped calling home. In this fascinating and very personal documentary, Persheng's interviews with her family--with her mother and sister in the U.S. and with her father, who chose to remain in Iran--reveal some of the complex layers of expatriate, national and cultural identities. The film features a rare glimpse at women's lives in contemporary Tehran.

A Place of Our Own

2004, 60 min.
Since the late 19th century, affluent African Americans have built summer communities to rest, socialize, and expose their children to a positive vision of black life. Some resorts, like Idlewild, Michigan; Cape May, New Jersey; and Fox Lake, Indiana, have fallen into decline. But other locations, including Sag Harbor, Long Island; Highland Beach, Maryland; American Beach, Florida, and perhaps the best known, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, continue to attract growing numbers of African Americans of means. A Place of Our Own examines the history, significance, and changing landscape of the African American resort community on Martha's Vineyard and its significance in the life of filmmaker Stanley Nelson. A Place of Our Own screened at the Sundance Film Festival documentary competition and broadcast nationally on PBSs acclaimed series Independent Lens in 2004.

A Place of Rage

England, 1991, 52 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
This exuberant celebration of African American women and their achievements features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Within the context of the civil rights, Black power and feminist movements, the trio reassess how women such as Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society. A stirring chapter in African American history, highlighted by music from Prince, Janet Jackson, the Neville Brothers and the Staple Singers.

Poetic License

34 min./57 min.
The captivating power of youth poetry and spoken word

Police Chiefs

60 min.
A critical look at three of Americas leading law enforcement figures including Los Angeles Chief Darryl Gates, Houston Chief Lee Brown and Minneapolis Chief Anthony Bouza.

The Police Tapes

90 min. 1977 WNET
This groundbreaking experimental video revealed the life of a police precinct in the South Bronx during its years of high crime. New York Chapter EMMY Award for Best Documentary, Alfred Du Pont Award, George Foster Peabody Award and a Sigma Delta Chi Deadline Award.

#440: Political Literacy: Sifting Thru The Spin

According to recent surveys, teens and young adults are apathetic or highly cynical about politics. This half-hour In the Mix special focuses on political literacy in order to raise awareness and understanding of how candidates use the media to convey their positions on issues. Join our teen political reporters as they sift through the spin from journalists and politicians to discover ways to find out positions on the issues. We go behind the surface of political ads; see how the Internet can provide accurate information and discover why our voices really matter. Some of the many reporters, pundits and personalities interviewed range from Bob Dole, Dan Rather, Mary Matalin, Tom Brokaw, Bill Schneider to Johnny Rotten, WWF's 'The Rock' and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart *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.

#419: Politics: Action! Not Apathy

Get informed, get organized, and get involved in politics on the local and national level! Co-hosted by youth advocate and actor Malik Yoba, this evergreen special puts out a call to Americas youth. We highlight young people who are making a difference through grass roots activities, school governments and party politicsteens who are bringing to life the critical issues that affect them. We spend a day with the countrys youngest mayor, check out a group of Boston teens who travel to the Democratic and Republican Conventions to make sure the voice of Americas youth is being heard, and meet students who are working with school boards and city halls all around the nation to effect positive change. Then, In the Mix lays out practical tactics and steps young people can take to make their mark. Students all over the country are searching for meaningful ways to get involved in their communities. With a pounding hip-hop beat and the quick-cutting camera techniques of music videos It speaks directly to them.-Teachers Digest *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.

Positive Images

A videotape by Julie Harrison and Harilyn Rousso , 1989, 58 min., Color
People with disabilities constitute nearly twenty percent of the American population. Sexism and often racism compound discrimination based on disabil...

Positive: Life with HIV

Four hour series about HIV/AIDS targeted at the HIV community covering political, psycho-social, cultural, medical and legal issues of living with HIV/AIDS. (September 1993 - January 1995). Funded by ITVS for 1996 Public Television broadcast. Winner: Golden Apple, The National Educational Film and Video Festival. Distributed by PBS.

Possum Living

29 min.
Creative living in the 1980s on a tight budget.

Post Partum Depression

It's not just the baby blues. This video is about the perhaps 2% of new mothers who experience the severe depression delusions paranoia and other symptoms of postpartum psychosis.
It's not just the baby blues. This video is about the perhaps 2% of new mothers who experience the severe depression delusions paranoia and other symptoms of postpartum psychosis.

Potluck and the Passion,The

From the maker of She Don't Fade, Greetings from Africa, and Watermelon Woman comes a video exploring racial, sexual and social politics at a lesbian potluck. A lesbian couple plans a celebration of the first year of their passion ("We don't like the word anniversary").  It is also an opportunity for their separate groups of friends to get to know one another; not, it turns out, with uniformly happy results.

Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews

When Hitler occupied Denmark in 1940, in exchange for food and supplies, the country was allowed to keep its king and constitution. However, there were those who refused to be peacefully occupied and chose the path of resistance. In October of 1943, when the Gestapo decided to round up the Danish Jews, ordinary citizens banded together with resisters and overnight they created a rescue operation that hid and transported over 7,000 of their countrymen across the water to Sweden.

Over the next year, hundreds of saboteurs, resisters, and policemen were sent to concentration camps. Once again the Danish people organized a rescue. It began with friends sending food parcels and grew into a convoy of White Buses that drove through war-torn Germany to bring home Danish and Norwegian prisoners.

The Power of Conscience features the testimony of prisoners and saboteurs, the rescuers and the rescued, to tell the story of a people who refused to cooperate, placing the dictates of their conscience above an immoral authority.

Charts the dramatic development of the underground resistance during WWII in Denmark and Germany.

Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews

Charts the dramatic development of the underground resistance during WWII in Denmark and Germany.

A Powerful Thang

1991, 57 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm
This innovative drama, set in Ohio, traces an African American couple's search for intimacy and friendship. The spirited, African-identified Yasmine Allen is a writer and single mother who has been dating saxophone teacher Craig Watkins for a month. Wishing to end her self-imposed celibacy following her son's birth, Yasmine has reached a turning point in the relationship-but Craig, the Big Lug, wants to take it slow. Sage advice from friends and family members remind them, "sex is a powerful thang." Like her highly acclaimed Cycles, Davis's film incorporates animation as well as Afro-Haitian dance in a rich exploration of the lives of African Americans.

The Practice of Love

A film by Valie Export , 1985, 90 min., Color
"Valie Export's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, oscillating between two relationships, gradually discovers that both are imposs...

Praise House

A videotape by Julie Dash , 1991, 25 min., Color
PRAISE HOUSE combines elements of theater, dance and music based on the rhythms and rituals of Africa. Julie Dash, director of DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST,...

Precious Lives, Meaningful Choices

From the University of Calgary Teaching & Learning Centre. Among children with multiple special needs are some whose medical conditions will severely limit their potential lives. Their families struggle to give them the best possible quality of lif
Among children with multiple special needs are some whose medical conditions will severely limit their potential lives. Their parents struggle to give them the best possible quality of life while knowing that the time they have is limited. The four famili

Pregnant with Dreams

A videotape by Julia Barco , 1988, 48 min.
Engaging, intimate and fast-moving, this video reflects the diversity and richness of Latin American feminism by documenting the 4th Encuentro Feminis...

Prescription for Change

1986, 30 minutes, Color, Video
Nurses: traditionally female, underpaid and under-appreciated. This documentary presents a rare behind-the-scenes look at nursing. Produced over ten years ago - before prime-time's ER and CHICAGO HOPE - this documentary has a clear feminist perspective and continues to be refreshing and relevant.

Prescription for Change

A videotape by Tami Gold and Lyn Goldfarb , 1986, 30 min.
Nurses: traditionally female, underpaid, and under appreciated.PRESCRIPTION FOR CHANGE presents a rare behind-the-scenes look at nursing....

Pretty Vacant

vhs, 33 1/3 min., 1996
Molly "La Molly" Vasquez -- perennial jr. college art student, incurable romantic, drummer for the all girl band Aztlan-a-Go-Go -- is a woman obsessed. This week (at least) with issue #5 of "Ex-Voto," the latest issue of her underground 'zine: a special isssue devoted to the legendary punk band the Sex Pistols and their infamous footnote-in-rock-history gig at Randy's Rodeo, a redneck bar in San Antonio. Convinced from her research that she's on the brink of a discovery so important that it will change the very tenets of rock and roll history as we know it, Molly's probem is avoiding the annual Vasquez clan's summer trip to la familia back in Mexico. Shot in glorious black and white, we see in vignettes life on the cultural edge as Molly struggles to confirm her theories, practice with her band, hang out with friends, play with her Super-8 camera, finish her 'zine -- all the while one step ahead of the slow burning Señor Vasquez and his non-refundable airplane ticket to the motherland.

Preventing Drug Diversion: A Program for Pharmacists

Pharmacists have a responsibility to prevent diversion of drugs into the street market. This entertaining video will help train them to distinguish con men and addicts from legitimate patients without increasing costs or compromising patient care.
Pharmacists have a responsibility to prevent diversion of drugs into the street market. This entertaining video will help train them to distinguish con men and addicts from legitimate patients without increasing costs or compromising patient care.

Preventing Drug Diversion: A Program for Physicians

This dramatic and engaging training film will teach physicians and other healthcare professionals to avoid drug diversion by addicts and recreational drug users without unduly increasing costs and without compromising patient care.
This dramatic and engaging training film will teach physicians and other healthcare professionals to avoid drug diversion by addicts and recreational drug users without unduly increasing costs and without compromising patient care.

Prey

A film by Helen Lee , 1995, 26 min., Color
The morning after a break-in at her Korean immigrant father's convenience store, Il Bae, 20-something and strong-willed, catches a hunky shoplifter-on...

Pride in Puerto Rico

In 1991 Puerto Ricans held the first-ever Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Transexual Pride march.  Eight years later, director Jorge Oliver documented the 1999 Pride March, now an annual event on the island.  Together with footage from the festivities are interviews with prominent Puerto Rican activists -- including the first openly gay Puerto Rican candidate for the House of Representatives -- working for social change.  As much a document of the struggle against discrimination and ignorance, Pride in Puerto Rico also celebrates the strength of the community.

Pride of Place

A film by Dorthea Gazidis and Kim Longinotto , 1976, 60 min., BW
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England's National School of Television and Fil...

Primary Colors

Artist and Sister, teacher and revolutionary, the creator of the world's largest painting (The Boston Gas Co. rainbow) and the world's smallest (the original LOVE postage stamp), she was a nun who left the church at age 50 to find God - and herself. Narrated by Eva Marie Saint (using Corita's own words), the film presents an intimate portrait of an artist who bridged the gap between religious and secular art, and commercial and fine art, while helping people to see both art and society in new ways.
Traces artist and nun Corita Kent's journey to self-realization.

Prisoners in Paradise

During World War II more than 51,000 Italian soldiers were brought to the United States as Prisoners of War. The charming and poignant documentary special, "Prisoners in Paradise," traces the previously untold story of these young men, their romances and friendships with American women, and their significant--but unrecognized--contribution to the Allied war effort.

Professional Choices

Actual case scenarios challenge social workers to explore the sometimes fine line between sound ethical practice and professional misconduct. This video is not available for rental.
Actual case scenarios challenge social workers to explore the sometimes fine line between sound ethical practice and professional misconduct. Not Available for Rental

Promise of Play, The (All three parts)

A three-part series about the important benefits of play. Play is a fundamental developmental factor in the lives of humans and other species from birds to primates. Play isn't trivial. It shapes who we are and what we will become. Gaining knowledge of play's deeper meaning allows us to gain greater benefit in our individual, group, and political lives. This series examines play among chimpanzees at an Australian Zoo, Mardi Gras celebrants in New Orleans, cutting-edge companies in Silicon Valley, police officers in the big city, and physicians Patch Adams and Bowen White in El Salvador. .

Also Available:
The Promise of Play (Three Episode Set)
Episode I: The Mother of Invention
Episode II: A World of Your Own
Episode III: The Heart of the Matter

[Full three-tape, three-part set.] Examines the benefits of and importance play in human and animal societies -- in the workplace, education, healthcare, in communities, and family life.

Promise of Play, The: Episode 1: The Mother of Invention

[Part one of three]. Play helps us adapt to the world. Primatologist Jane Goodall, professor and play theorist Brian Sutton-Smith an other experts explain the underlying mystery of play's role in our lives. We learn about chimpanzees and ape play at Sudney's Taronga Zoo in Australia. At a preschool in Pennsylvania we examine the social skills that play instills in youngsters on the playground. And at the corporate business level, we see how play helps develop creativity and fosters better people skills..

Also Available:
The Promise of Play (Three Episode Set)
Episode I: The Mother of Invention
Episode II: A World of Your Own
Episode III: The Heart of the Matter

(Part one of three parts.) Examines the benefits of and importance play in human and animal societies -- in the workplace, education, healthcare, in communities, and family life.

Promise of Play, The: Episode 2: A World of Your Own

[Part two of three.] We rediscover the joys of life through play at all walks of life, and through a variety of interests, from skydiving, to memorabilia collecting, to an audience at a pro wrestling match. Then we move on to the cut-throat competition and Machiavellian strategies of a deceptively sedate-looking bridge group. Then, the Burning Man festival in Nevada will offer twenty thousand people the chance to play, in a celebration of purification and hedonism..

Also Available:
The Promise of Play (Three Episode Set)
Episode I: The Mother of Invention
Episode II: A World of Your Own
Episode III: The Heart of the Matter

(Part two of three-part set.) Examines the benefits of and importance play in human and animal societies -- in the workplace, education, healthcare, in communities, and family life.

Promise of Play, The: Episode 3: The Heart of the Matter

[Part three of three.] Shows play's role as a fertile source of community healing, as well as individual inner strength and confidence. First we'll see two communities preparing for Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and examine how diverse communities use celebration to forge healthy bonds between individuals. From there it's on to Southern California, where Fred Donaldson, a well-known play specialist, gets down on the mat to play-wrestle with special-needs children, showing how even the simplest forms of play generate positive effects. .

Also Available:
The Promise of Play (Three Episode Set)
Episode I: The Mother of Invention
Episode II: A World of Your Own
Episode III: The Heart of the Matter

(Part three of three-part set). Examines the benefits of and importance play in human and animal societies -- in the workplace, education, healthcare, in communities, and family life.

Psychiatric Nursing

This documentary reveals the complexities and rewards of psychiatric-mental health nursing and demonstrates the enormous impact psychiatric nurses can have on the quality of their patient's lives.
Profiles of psychiatric nurses and the vital work they do in community mental healthcare in home health and in the hospital.

Public

1970 Super 8mm 5 minutes (16mm blowup, 1983) Color English
PUBLIC is based as a poem written by filmmaker Arthur Dong in 1969 and marks his debut as an artist whose work continues to delve into the politics and human tragedy of social injustice. Produced, directed, written, edited, and photographed by Arthur for less than fifty dollars, this raw, animated film combines words from his poem with pixilated images to explore a child's reactions to authoritative social mores and the Viet Nam War.

Purity

A film by Anat Zuria , Produced by Amit Breuer , 2002, 63 min., Color
Israeli filmmaker Anat Zuria examines the Tharat Hamishpaha (family purity), the ancient laws and rituals shaping women's lives and sexuality within J...

Pushin' Forward

Growing up poor and Latino in Chicago James Lilly dreamed of becoming a professional athlete but he got sidetracked into the world of drugs and gangs. At the age of fifteen he was shot in the back and paralyzed but even that didn?t put an immediate en
Growing up poor and Latino James Lilly was a gang member and drug dealer until at fifteen he was shot in the back and paralyzed. Today he shares his story with inner city kids and tells them about one thing that helped him move on  wheelchair r

Putting Up the Pickles

This revealing and energetic film provides a peek behind the scenes at the Pickle Family Circus. A close-knit group of musicians, acrobats, clowns and amazing jugglers, all of whom began as street performers, the Pickle Family Circus now works as a traveling troupe that maintains a unique rapport with its audience. Putting Up the Pickles intercuts rehearsals, performances and private moments backstage to demonstrate the hard work that goes into making something look easy and effectivly conveys the comaraderie and infectious fun that is the company's trademark.
Provides a peak behind the scenes at the Pickle Family Circus. A close-knit group of performers who began as street performers, travels as a troupe and maintains a unique rapport with its audience.