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A Woman's Word

Spain/Egypt/Lebanon/Morocco, 2004, 52 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD, Arabic, Subtitled
Beautiful and intimate, A WOMAN'S WORD depicts the life and writings of three exceptional authors of the Arab word Nawal Al Saadawi from Egypt, Hanan Al Shaykh from Lebanon, and Janata Bennuna from Morocco. For all three women, becoming a writer was never a choice but a necessity a vocation fought for and hard won. In her own way, each writer struggles as an Arab woman in a society that often wants to shut down her powerful voice.

#702: The Way We See It: What Makes A School Worth Going To?

What makes a school worth going to? Four youth media teams set out to answer this important question by creating short personal documentaries about their schools. Thomas, in New Mexico, does poorly in academic subjects until he discovers unrecognized skills in a school arts program and gains the confidence to tackle more academic subjects. In Evanston, IL, students show that excellent teaching requires a mixture of inspiring pedagogy, emotional coaching and a strong dose of personalized attention. Students in San Antonio highlight a successful magnet school with only 450 students, teachers and administrators. Finally, Perpich Center for Arts Education provides academic and personal security for students in Minnesota. These videos depict a road map of hope and success for public school systems. *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.

#701: The Way We See It: What Makes A Teacher Worth Listening To?

All too often, schools are highlighted for their shortcomings and failures. For this program, student filmmakers produced short documentaries about what they think makes a great teacher. In Oakland, we meet two teachers who transfer their knowledge into interactive teaching techniques to create a successful learning experience. On the East Coast, a French teacher shows how to grab students attention. In Utah, teachers use art, music and dance to make poetry come alive. Finally, we see how a New York City video center helps a gang member, at risk of dropping out of school, turn around to achieve academic and creative success. As youth speak out on education, these documentaries serve as testimony that students care about their education and their teachers. *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.

W.C. Fields Straight Up

W.C.Fields Straight Up is the definitive feature-length celebration of the movies' best-loved curmudgeon. This Emmy Award-winning documentary traces Fields' life from his childhood in Philadelphia, through his years of Hollywood, to his final days.

Interviews with Fields' closest friends, family and collaborators are interwoven with beautifully remastered clips from his best-loved films and his rarely-seen screen appearances. The resulting film presents Fields as both a brilliant comedian and a troubled, stubborn loner.

Billing himself early in his career as the world's greatest juggler, Fields quipped his way to stardom and, by 1938, had become the sixth highest-salaried person in the United States. Though his abandoned his pregnant wife to pursue his career, and was estranged from his son for thirty years, Fields' onscreen charm made him a hero for the masses.

Did he really hate dogs and children? Did he really drink a quart of gin a day? Straight Up dispels some of the famous myths and sheds light on many lesser-known facts. It highlights Fields' most colorful antics and quotes, both onscreen and off. For 93 minutes. W.C. Fields comes back to life in this probing and hilarious warts-and-all account of a man and an entertainer so distinctly himself.

Also from Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Bob Weide:
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
A biography of comedian W.C. Fields, from his early days as a juggler, to his film career and to his final days.

W.C. Fields Straight Up

Waging Peace

Waging Peace focuses on how we can maintain and utilize the energy of the peace movement through very difficult times. A diverse range of organizers speak out on the impact of our efforts. This dialogue is situated within the historical context of protest and also emphasizes the importance of new tools at our command. Waging Peace will serve as a mobilizing inspiration for all those who continue to push past corporate and government power and insist the voice of the people be heard.

Waking Up to Rape

A film by Meri Weingarten , 1985, 35 min., Color
"If I were to choose only one film on sexual assault to show to a class or to the general public, I would select WAKING UP TO RAPE. This is a powerful...

The Walnut Tree

A film by Elida Schogt , 2000, 11 min., Color
Through a striking combination of documentary and experimental approaches, THE WALNUT TREE examines Holocaust memory, the family, and the role of phot...

Wandering...Is It a Problem?

Caregivers demonstrate compassionate techniques for intervening with patients who wander.
Experienced aregivers demonstrate compassionate techniques for intervening with patients who wander.

War on Lesbians

A videotape by Jane Cottis , 1992, 32 min., Color
WAR ON LESBIANS is a witty critique of the invisibility of positive images of lesbians and a satire of talk show television and radio self-help progra...

War Takes

A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Casta?o , 2002, 78 min., Color
With conflicts raging on nearly every continent, war now regularly transcends the battlefield into everyday life?whether its increased security at air...

Wars and Images

vhs, 112 min., 1996-1999
This documentary explores in the history of audio-visual representations that the United States and Mexico have created about each other. This documentary covers a span of 150 years, focusing in the different events of war in which both countries have been involved.

The Wash: A Cleaning Story

A videotape by Eve Sandler , 1999, 9 min., Color
Written, directed and produced by Eve Sandler, THE WISH is an autobiographical video narrative. This painterly work, which was shot in Hi-8, closely ...

Watching Sparrows

"Watching Sparrows" travels from desert canyons and coastal dunes to Alaskan mountainsides and Arctic tundra to hear the songs and explore the lives of 46 species of sparrows, towhees, juncos, and longspurs. Every scene features a spring-plumaged male exploding with song and a panoramic look at his dramatic habitat. Woven in are details of courtship, nesting, feeding and biological adaptation.

Watching Waders

From the South Florida Everglades and the Gulf Coast of Texas - to the freshwater wetlands of Northern Michigan and the Colorado Rockies, "Watching Waders" is filled with intimate footage of events in the lives of some of North America's most beautiful birds. Plus spectacular views of the many and varied wetland habitats where they live.

Watching Warblers

This 60 minute presentation explores the lives of the 39 species of wood warblers that nest in Eastern North America. Lots of nice close-ups and singing. We'll let you read the reviews and look at the pictures below to get some details.

Waterborne: Gift of the Indian Canoe

13 min.
Linking past and present through the renewal of an important Native American tradition

Wavelengths

A film by Pratibha Parmar , 1997, 15 min., Color
WAVELENGTHS explores the time honored quest for love and human intimacy in the polished world of computers and the Internet. Set in gay bars, dreams,...

Waves

From the director of A Kiss in the Snow and Home For Christmas comes the beautifully filmed story of 18-year-old best friends on a weekend escape to a remote cabin.  Waves paints a moving and introspective portrait of two young men on the threshold of adulthood, timidly testing the waters between romantic attraction and the deep bond of friendship.

The Way Home

Making a home leaving home homecoming?there may be many places we choose to call home in the course of our lives but none of these choices may be as important or as laden with anxiety as the place we pick to live out our golden years. This moving
This moving documentary introduces a variety of elders who are trying to find the best possible living situation for themselves or for their loved ones during their golden years.

The Way Home

92 min.
Over the course of eight months, sixty-four women representing a cross-section of cultures, (Indigenous, African-American, Arab, Asian, European-American, Jewish, Latina, and Multiracial) came together to share their experience of racism in America.

Way of Life, A (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)

Part I of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Documents the history of the Book of the Dead and explores its traditional application in Ladakh, northern India, as well as its use in hospices in Europe and North America. Filmed on location over a four-month period, the film includes an interview with the Dalai Lama, who shares his own views on the book's meaning and importance.

Also Available:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Full Set)
Part II: The Great Liberation
Documents the history of the Book of the Dead and explores its traditional application in northern India, as well as its use in hopsices in Europe and North America. Includes interview with Dalai Lama.

The Way We Die

Intimately filmed interviews between caregivers and terminally ill patients encourage professionals to attend more closely to their patients' values needs and wishes.
Intimately filmed interviews between caregivers and terminally ill patients encourage professionals to attend more closely to their patients' values needs and wishes.

We Are PHAMALY

Follows cast members of a musical theater group for people with sensory and mobility disabilities from auditions to their remarkable opening night performance of Once Upon a Mattress.
Follows cast members of a musical theater group for people with sensory and mobility disabilities from auditions to their remarkable opening night performance of Once Upon a Mattress.

We are Here Together

dvd, 65 min., 2003
We Are Here Together, a one hour documentary film, tells the story of a group of teenagers who werent happy with school, so they started their own. They wanted to reach beyond academic scores and to learn how to function in the real world. HOME/BASE is the public charter high school they designed with the help and advice of their adult councilors. The students were members of a youth empowerment program called HOME, and they had experienced involvement in doing real thingslike helping to build the largest public skateboard park in California, running a youth employment agency, working in a child care center and successfully petitioning the Alameda City Council for a building on the former Naval Air Station.

"We The People..."

23 minutes
Stereotypes are often perpetuated and exaggerated through the media. This video analyzes stereotypes specific to America's indigenous peoples, as seen in cartoons and liquor and cigarette advertisements. Interviews with Native American teenagers and adults indicate that the struggle continues, and there are still many obstacles to overcome.

We Were One Man

France, 1943.

Weave of Time, A

Powerfully documents 50 years and four generations of change in one Navajo family. In 1938, noted anthropologist John Adair, traveled to the Najo reservation in Pine Springs, Arizona with a 16mm hand wind motion picture camera. There Adair met and filmed the Burnside family, creating a visual record of Navajo life in the 1930's. In an unprecedented composite, Adair's previously unseen historical footage is juxtaposed with contemporary scenes and in-depth interviews with the family today. As their story evolves, the clash between past and present surfaces. This rich and telling film of the Burnside history becomes a complex microcosm of Navajo culture in transition and raises question about the survival of ethnicity in modern-day America
Anthropologist John Adair filmed a Navajo family (the Burnside family) in 1930. This documentary weaves together his never-before-seen footage with footage of the Burnside family today creating a rich history of Navajo culture in transition.

Wedding Cake: A True Confection

A short film about the ingredients for delicious wedding cakes, happy lives, and even successful careers. At True Confections Bakery in Mill Valley, California, owners Joann Coffino and Bob Gree put together a sumptuous wedding cake, and in the process, reveal the ingredients of a happy marriage and a successful business.
A short film about the ingredients for delicious wedding cakes, happy lives, and even successful careers.

A Wedding in the Family

22 minutes VHS 22 minutes 16 mm
Young women face marriage and career decisions.

The Weight of Obesity

Obesity is second only to smoking as the leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S. This documentary takes an accessible non-clinical approach that communicates the serious consequences of obesity while also offering strategies for change.
Obesity is second only to smoking as the leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S. This documentary takes an accessible non-clinical approach that communicates the serious consequences of obesity while also offering strategies for change.

Welfare Reform's New Deal

15 minutes
Produced with community organizers, this documentary examines the impact of the national welfare reform legislation of 1996 and New York City workfare programs on poor and working class women and children, the elderly and disabled and people living with HIV/AIDS. Cuts in welfare for the poor are contrasted with increases in "welfare" for corporate America.

Wellington's Final March: The End of an Era

Recounts the event that became a precursor to The Crimean War. Queen Victoria decreed a state funeral in November, 1852 to honor her wisest counselor, Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington. This film reanimates the Iron Duke's last and most spectacular parade, his own funeral. The disasters yet to befall the British army are framed by a chronicle of Wellington's military career and the funeral parade which unfolds in rich detail.

Thousands jammed London to view the four-and-a-half-hour parade and an 18-ton funeral car designed for Prince Albert. Cannon, avalry, statesmen, and illustrious emissaries carrying Old Nosey's foreign batons marched to St. Paul's Cathedral where the Duke was entombed beside another of England's great heroes, Naval Commander Lord Nelson. Twenty thousand witnessed the Iron Duke's last rites and the extravaganza marked the end of an era.

The pomp and circumstance left a false impression with generals and statesmen alike -- that the British troops were invincible. World powers clashed less than two years later, and the fabled British army was strewn in disarray across the snow-swept Crimean hills above Sevastopol. This world Conflict is chronicled in the companion series, The Crimean War: A Clash of Empires.

Details the historically important final march (funeral parade) of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington.

Wellness Recovery Action Plan

VHS - 32 Min
Part 3 - Creating Wellness Series This three-part videotape series - based on a workshop with renowned author Mary Ellen Copeland - presents simple, effective, and non-invasive self-help strategies for anyone dealing with emotional, behavioral or psychiatric challenges. Used separately or together, these videos provide useful information about how to get well and stay well. They are invaluable for in-service trainings or self-help and support groups.

Wellness Recovery Action Plan - Book

Book
In this dynamic, practical, and popular guide, Mary Ellen Copeland gives people with mental illness self-help tools to more easily monitor their health, decrease the severity and frequency of symptoms, and improve quality of life. Well known for her seminar and lecture presentations, Copeland holds an MA in Counseling Psychology. In this book she shows how to incorporate the practical strategies that she and others have developed and successfully used to keep their own symptoms manageable.

The Wellness Toolbox

VHS - 28 Min
Part 2 - Creating Wellness Series This three-part videotape series - based on a workshop with renowned author Mary Ellen Copeland - presents simple, effective, and non-invasive self-help strategies for anyone dealing with emotional, behavioral or psychiatric challenges. Used separately or together, these videos provide useful information about how to get well and stay well. They are invaluable for in-service trainings or self-help and support groups.

West Side Slim Gauge

70 minutes VHS Only Black and White, Color and full sound track.
Most American steam-powered logging railroads had faded into oblivion by the 1940s. However, the West Side Lumber Company still had significant stands of timber to harvest from inaccessible tracts in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and their three-foot gauge logging railroad, with its geared engines, steamed along until 1960. The fascination of "back woods" railroading enhanced by the rugged beauty of its locale and the lure of the narrow gauge made the West Side a legend in its own time.

Western Artists/African Art: The Artists Speak

Video. 30 min. 1994.
Installation video featuring 13 artists represented in The Museum for African Art show Western Artists/African Art in which the artists consider their personal relationships to African art, their own cultural ties, spiritual connections and aesthetic discoveries.

Western Pacific: The First 50 Years

Two Hours VHS Only Black and White, Color and full sound track.
The first half-century of the Western Pacific is documented in surprising detail in this two hour show. From an extraordinary collection of archival films, we take a ride through time, beginning with the first trains to enter the Feather River Canyon in 1909, and continuing with a trip aboard the 1926 Scenic Limited.

Westler: East of the Wall

A romantic--and now historic--story of love across the Berlin Wall.

Wet Dreams and False Images

12 minutes DVD
Dee-Dee, a Brooklyn barber, covers his wall with magazine cut-outs of women. He wishes that real women could look more like the images on his wall of beauty. However, when Dee-Dee is introduced to the art of photo-retouching, his perceptions of beauty are called into question. WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES is an award-winning film that uses humor to raise serious concerns about the marketplace of commercial illusion and unrealizable standards of physical perfection.

What Do You Believe?

50 min.
In this timely film a religiously diverse group of teens candidly discuss everything from hormones to heaven, deflating misperceptions and stereotypes at every turn, and making a strong case for a more tolerant America. WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? weaves in-depth portraits of Buddhist, Muslim, Pagan, Native American, Jewish, and Catholic teens with thoughtful, humorous commentary from scores of young people. It paints a broad picture of the spiritual lives of youth while delving deeply into the issues that are at the heart of being human.

What My Mother Told Me

A film by Frances-Anne Solomon , 1995, 57 min., Color/BW
Exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving, WHAT MY MOTHER TOLD ME is a dramatic journey towards self discovery. The story focuses on Jesse, a young...

What You Take for Granted

A film by Michelle Citron , 1983, 75 min., Color
The tentative friendship of Anna, a feisty truck driver and Diana, an upper middle-class doctor, provides the core for an unusual, intimate and moving...

What's Wrong With This Picture

First-person insights into the realities of the homeless working poor.
Families with children now make up more than a third of America's homeless. This video offers first-person insights into the realities of the homeless working poor.

#442: What's Normal?: Overcoming Obstacles and Stereotypes

Most teens are concerned about being normal and fitting in. But what if you also have to cope with being different in some way? In this program, teens speak out honestlyand show how they live with physical problems that include learning disabilities, deafness, and loss of a leg. We also meet teens living in foster care group homes and gay teens who face their own challenges. By getting to know the people behind the stereotypes and how they want to be treated, viewers gain empathy and a new understanding of what normal really means. This excellent program can be used in any class or group where teachers want to acknowledge and respect individual differences. School Library Journal Where the unknown or different tends to make people afraid and exclusionary, this program focuses on the commonalties shared by kids everywhere, helping them to replace social barriers with bridges.Video Librarian *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.

A Wheelchair for Petronilia

Profiles a program organized and run by Guatemalans with disabilities which trains them to manufacture and repair cheap sturdy wheelchairs designed for conditions in developing countries.
Profiles a program organized and run by Guatemalans with disabilities which trains them to manufacture and repair cheap sturdy wheelchairs designed for conditions in developing countries.

When Billy Broke his Head

After becoming brain-injured in a motor scooter accident journalist Billy Golfus goes on the road in an irreverent and entertaining quest to explore the roots and progress of the disability rights movement.
After becoming brain-injured in a motor scooter accident journalist Billy Golfus goes on the road in an irreverent and entertaining quest to explore the roots and progress of the disability rights movement.

When the Bough Breaks

Recreates the actual interactions of a patient with a variety of healthcare providers helping her to deal with the likelihood her pregnancy will end with a stillbirth.
Recreates the interactions of a patient with the healthcare providers who try to help her deal with the likelihood her pregnancy will end with a stillbirth.

When the Brain Goes Wrong

Portraits of individuals with brain dysfunctions including schizophrenia manic depression epilepsy stroke head injury headaches and addiction. Physicians add information about causes and treatments.
Portraits of individuals with brain dysfunctions including schizophrenia manic depression epilepsy stroke head injury headaches and addiction. Physicians add information about causes and treatments.

When Women Go Through Menopause, Where do Men Go?

A humorous engaging but informative documentary on men's reactions to reaching midlife.
A humorous engaging but informative documentary on men's reactions to reaching midlife.

When Parents Can't Fix It

This moving and important documentary looks at the lives of five families who are raising children with disabilities -- the problems they face how they have learned to cope and the rewards and stresses of adapting to their child's condition.
Looks at the stresses and rewards in the lives of five families who are raising children with disabilities. A realistic look at different family strengths and coping styles.

When Help Was There

This powerful new video examines the crisis of elder abuse through four ethnically diverse cases of physical emotional and financial abuse. Their stories illustrate the diversity and complexity of the problem of elder abuse while also offering the reas
This powerful video examines the crisis of elder abuse through four ethnically diverse cases of physical emotional and financial abuse.

When Gambling is No Longer Fun

Gambling can seem like an innocent way for retirees and other older adults to spend free time have a little fun meet new people. But what happens when the urge to gamble goes past entertainment to addiction?
Gambling can seem like an innocent way for retirees and other older adults to spend free time have a little fun meet new people. But what happens when the urge to gamble goes past entertainment to addiction?

When Abortion Was Illegal

Produced by Dorothy Fadiman , 1992, 28 min., 3 in series, Color
"Until recently, the era of illegal abortion has been a 'sealed chapter' in U.S. women's history. The aura of shame surrounding unwanted pregnancies a...

When Democracy Works

1997 30 min.
When Democracy Works is the first educational media project to examine the related policy initiatives of the radical right wing and illustrate how their hatred and bias hurts ordinary people. It presents three case studies of the democratic right: racist David Dukes electoral bids in Louisiana; the struggle over homophobic Amendment 2 in Colorado, which was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1996; and the scapegoating of immigrants, people of color, and women through Proposition 187 and Proposition 209 in California. In each case, When Democracy Works highlights the work of progressive grassroots organizers to thwart the radical right and uphold democratic values.

When Democracy Works

The first educational media project to examine the related policy initiatives of the radical right wing and illustrate how their hatred and bias hurts ordinary people. It presents three case studies of the democratic right: racist David Duke's electoral bids in Louisiana; the struggle over homophobic Amendment 2 in Colorado, which was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1996; and the scapegoating of immigrants, people of color, and women through Proposition 187 and Proposition 209 in California. In each case, When Democracy Works highlights the work of progressive grassroots organizers to thwart the radical right and uphold democratic values.

When Democracy Works

When Democracy Works is the first educational media project to examine the related policy initiatives of the radical right wing and illustrate how their hatred and bias hurts ordinary people.  It presents three case studies of the democratic right: racist David Duke?s electoral bids in Louisiana; the struggle over homophobic Amendment 2 in Colorado, which was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1996; and the scapegoating of immigrants, people of color, and women through Proposition 187 and Proposition 209 in California.  In each case, When Democracy Works highlights the work of progressive grassroots organizers to thwart the radical right and uphold democratic values.

When I Came Home

DVD, 70 Min.
WHEN I CAME HOME is a film about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the current war in Iraq. The film looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight for the benefits promised to them. Through the story of Herold Noel, an Iraq War veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and living out of his car in Brooklyn, WHEN I CAME HOME reveals a failing system and the veteran's struggle to survive after returning from the war.

When the Fire Dims

17 min.
A visually poetic and realistic look at the destructive nature of alcoholism

When the Light's Red

DVD, 11 Min.
Who will you decide to help? You're stopped at an intersection, and that guy with a sign asks for money. What do you do? Do you give him some spare change? Do you stare straight ahead pretending he's not there? With humor and compassion, WHEN THE LIGHT'S RED chronicles the filmmaker's own experience with intersection panhandling. Narrated with his own conflicted and stark inner dialogue, the filmmaker seeks guidance from other drivers, a homeless services provider and panhandlers themselves.

When The News Went To New Orleans

20 min.
What is considered news in todays media-saturated world? In the summer of 1988, the outcome of the Republican National Convention was a foregone conclusion and yet media people from around the world descended on New Orleans to cover this American political ritual. WHEN THE NEWS WENT TO NEW ORLEANS follows a news crews struggles to file the all-important story and the sometimes absurd situations that result

Which Way Home

2009, DVD, 83 min.
WHICH WAY HOME shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the U.S. The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call The Beast. Academy Award® nominated Mr. Mudd (Juno) and Director Rebecca Cammisa (Sister Helen) track the stories of children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans who are desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota, and Jose, a ten-year-old El Salvadoran who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and focuses on Kevin, a canny, streetwise 14-year-old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach New York City and send money back to his family. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the ones you never hear about the invisible ones.

White Cane and Wheels

Carmen and Steve once dreamed of lives on stage and screen but their plans were cut short by her blindness and his muscular dystrophy. This program is a funny and touching exploration of a relationship filled with frustration but held together with pati
Carmen and Steve once dreamed of lives on stage and screen but their plans were cut short by her blindness and his muscular dystrophy. This program is a funny and touching exploration of a relationship filled with frustration but held together with pati

White Dresses

A film by Ana Coyne Alonso , 1996, 33 min., BW
"This rare film brilliantly combines a lyrical aesthetic with insightful political and gender analysis. Employing both documentary and narrative tech...

Who Remembers Mama?

58 min.
The plight of middle-aged women who lose their traditional roles as homemakers through divorce.

Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway?

A videotape by Janice Tanaka , 1992, 58 min., Color
A brilliant collage of interviews, family photographs, archival footage and personal narration, this videotape documents Japanese American video artis...

Why Us? Left Behind and Dying (Consumer Version)

The documentary feature film about a small group of inner-city African-American teenagers, (14-17 years old), who examine the reasons why HIV rates are highest in black communities. The teens are simultaneously researchers - asking the questions - and research subjects, discussing and evaluating their own safe/unsafe sexual behavior (86 minutes)
The documentary feature film about a small group of inner-city African-American teenagers, (14-17 years old), who examine the reasons why HIV rates are highest in black communities. The teens are simultaneously researchers - asking the questions - and research subjects, discussing and evaluating their own safe/unsafe sexual behavior (86 minutes)

Why Us? Left Behind and Dying (Educational Version)

The documentary feature film about a small group of inner-city African-American teenagers, (14-17 years old), who examine the reasons why HIV rates are highest in black communities. The teens are simultaneously researchers - asking the questions - and research subjects, discussing and evaluating their own safe/unsafe sexual behavior (86 minutes)
1) The documentary feature film about a small group of inner-city African-American teenagers, (14-17 years old), who examine the reasons why HIV rates are highest in black communities. The teens are simultaneously researchers - asking the questions - and research subjects, discussing and evaluating their own safe/unsafe sexual behavior (86 minutes) 2) A second disc with 12 extra video segments that illustrate the specific issues that impact the disproportionate spread of HIV in black and other minority communities. Additional new footage from the teen researchers, community members, and HIV experts (Total: 90 minutes)

Why Women Stay

A videotape by Jacqueline Shortell-McSweeney and Debra Zimmerman , 1980, 30 min., BW
This documentary examines the complex reasons why women remain in violent homes and challenges the prevailing attitudes which accept domestic violence...

Wild by Law: The Rise of Environmentalism and the Creation of the Wilderness Act

By the middle of the twentieth century civilization had erased much of America's natural landscape. As the wilderness shrank, the movement to protect it grew -- and in the end America did something no other country had ever done: it passed a law to protect its remaining wild land forever.

Wild by Law is the story of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the best-selling A Sand County Almanac and the first to bring the word ecology into standard usage; Bob Marshall, millionaire socialist and founder of the Wilderness Society; and Howard Zahniser, a tireless bureaucrat with a profound love of the wild places he seldom saw. Singly and together, these three fought against the current of American thought from the 1920's through the 1950's to attain what had once seemed an unimaginable victory.

More than just the story of an historic struggle to preserved the natural world, Wild by Law provides an invaluable overview of the roots of the environmental movement, offering a deeper understanding of one of the most important issues facing contemporary civilization.

Part of a two-part series:
Part I:The Wilderness Idea
Part II: Wild by Law

The story of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage. Provides an invaluable overview of the roots of the environmental movement, offering a deeper understanding of one of hte most important issues facing contemporary civilization.

Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

83 Minutes. Rated G.
This remarkable movie is the true story of a Bohemian St. Francis and his remarkable relationship with a flock of wild red-and-green parrots. Mark Bittner, a dharma bum*, former street musician in San Francisco, falls in with the flock as he searches for meaning in his life, unaware that the wild parrots will bring him everything he needs. *Dharma bum (per Gary Snyder): "A homeless seeker of truth"

Wilderness Idea, The: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and the First Great Battle for Wilderness

An exploration of the first national controversy about America's wilderness: Should Hetch Hetchy, a valley within Yosemite National Park, be dammed and flooded to form a reservoir for San Francisco? On one side, utilitarians argued that the benefits of water and power for the city outweighed the good of an untouched valley. On the other side, preservationists pleaded the intrinsic spiritual worth of wilderness. After a long and bitter debate, the dam was approved by Congress; the schism in American attitudes that emerged in the dispute still endures

The Wildernes Idea explores this seminal chapter in American environmental politics by tracing the pathers of the leaders of the two faction; John Muir, the brilliant and eccentric founder and first president of the Sierra club, and Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, who defined conservation as the wise management of natural resources. Combining archival materials with stunning cinematography shot on location in Yosemite, this timeless film tells the dramatic story of two founders of the American conservation movement and the historic battle that drove them apart.

Part of a two-part series:
Part I:The Wilderness Idea
Part II: Wild by Law

An exploration of the first national controversy about America's wilderness: Should Hetch Hetchy, a valley within Yosemite National Park, be dammed and flooded to form a reservoir for San Francisco? By tracing the paths of the leaders of the two factions in the conflict, John Muir and Gifford Pinchot, the film brings to life an important moment in American history, and provides a context for understanding the environmental issues of today.

Wind Grass Song

A film by Jana Birchum and Tori Breitling , 1989, 20 min., Color
Based on interviews with Oklahoma women aged 85 to 101 years, WIND GRASS SONG presents a unique vision of U.S. regional culture through an invaluable ...

Wings of Defeat

89 Min., DVD 53 Min., DVD
In Japan, WWII Kamikaze are still revered as self-sacrificing heroes. Internationally, they remain a potent symbol of fanaticism. In astonishingly candid interviews, four former Kamikaze reveal that they were neither suicidal nor fanatical. In fact, they were young men sentenced to death by a military that could not admit defeat. In heartbreaking testimony corroborated with rare archival footage, they tell us about their dramatic survival and their survivors guilt. This riveting, seamlessly edited film is an emotionally charged and timely expose, probing the responsibilities that a government at war has to its people and its soldiers.

Wired for Life

This documentary visits several Functional Electrical Stimulation technology (FES) experimental programs which are using implanted electrodes controlled by external computer devices to enable people with spinal cord injuries to stand transfer and unde
Functional Electrical Stimulation technology (FES) seeks to use technology to enable people with spinal cord injuries to stand transfer and under some conditions even to walk.

Witches, Dykes, Faggots and Poofters

A film by Digby Duncan , 1979, 45 min.
In medieval times, nonconformists were labeled witches and burned at the stake. This important film makes links the social and political oppression o...

With a Vengeance

A film by Lori Hiris , 1989, 40 min., BW
This urgent and timely film is a history of the struggle for reproductive freedom since the 1960s, reflecting the wider history of the contemporary wo...

With Babies and Banners

45 min.
The victory of the Great General Motors Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan, in 1937 was the key to the success of the CIOs drive for industrial unionism. The now classic WITH BABIES AND BANNERS presents the untold story of the women the working women, wives, mothers and sisters who became the backbone of the strike. Forty years later, nine of these women reunite and dramatically show the relevance of their experience for working women today.

With What Shall I Wash

In this beautifully animated short, a transwoman ends her day reminiscing about her great love and about her life working in a red light district in Spain.  Set to an aria by an unknown composer, With What Shall I Wash is an homage to all homosexual artists of the twentieth century.

Witness To War

30 minutes DVD
The Academy Award© winning story of Dr. Charlie Clements who, as a young pilot in the Vietnam War, made a decision to stop flying further combat missions. Stripped of his military identity, Dr. Clements dedicated his life to non-violence and healing, ultimately tending to the wounded behind rebel lines in El Salvador in 1985. Witness to War is a personal testament to the enduring tragedy of war and the power of conviction, as relevant in our times as it was then. Updated with a DVD extra of a soul-searching return to El Salvador and current interview with Dr. Charlie Clements.

Wo Ai Ni Mommy (Educational/Community Group)

From 2000-2008, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. There are now approximately 70,000 Chinese children being raised in the United States. Wo Ai Ni Mommy explores what happens when an older Chinese girl is adopted into an American family. This film reveals the complicated gains and losses that are an inherent aspect of international, transracial adoption.

Wo Ai Ni Mommy (Home Use)

Woman Being

A videotape by Wen-Jie Qin , 1997, 20 min., Color
In a critical examination of changing concepts of beauty and sexuality in modern China, WOMAN BEING illustrates how a flood of Western pop culture is...

Woman of the Southern Wind

Woman of the Southern Wind" examines the quest of Taiwanese performing artist Mei-O Chen to revive the ancient Chinese music known as Nanguan.

WOMAN: Who Is Me?

Format 1/2" VHS video and DVD Length 11 minutes Study Guide 12 pages, illustrated Documentation available
WOMAN: Who Is Me? provides a jumping-off point for a broad exploration of both contemporary and historical societal issues relevant to women's studies. WOMAN: Who Is Me? is about the myths, legends, and stereotypes of women (and men) that have endured through the ages, perpetuated by significant Western art and other visual media of every era. While Western art rarely portrayed women of color, the issues apply to all women. WOMAN: Who Is Me? is not a polemic. The film does not "put down" the art. It examines how each period's culture and perceptions are reflected in its media and how this has influenced attitudes toward women and women's attitudes toward themselves. The media may change but the myths persist. WOMAN: Who Is Me? underscores "how terrifying it is for a man to be omnipotent savior and protector". The narration by noted actor Anne Jackson is both witty and wise. Animation techniques create a visually provocative and topical film.

Womanhouse

A videotape by Johanna Demetrakas , 1974, 47 min., Color
WOMANHOUSE is an historic documentary about one of the most important feminist cultural events of the 1970s. Judy Chicago (best-known as the creator ...

Women: Coming Out of the Shadows

Ten women of all ages and from all walks of life share their stories of alcohol addiction and recovery.
Ten women of all ages and from all walks of life share their stories of alcohol addiction and recovery.

Women and Spirituality Series

TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK.

The Women and Spirituality Series is a three-part series that includes Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times and Full Circle.

Goddess Remembered
Part 1 of this stunning and poetic documentary examines pre-Christian, goddess-worshipping religions. Incorporating the work of archaeologist Marija Gombutas, art historian Merlin Stone, and scholars Jean Bolen, Charlene Spretnak and Starhawk - who link the loss of goddess-centered societies with today's environmental crisis - Goddess Remembered offers insights into these ancient cultures and explores the contemporary women's spirituality movement inspired by them.

The Burning Times
Part 2 explores Europe from the 15th through the 17th centuries, a time when the church and state cooperated in the torture and execution of thousands of women accused of being witches. In an attempt to eradicate the woman-based power of midwives, wise old crones and healers, the Christian church along with local governments instigated a reign of terror.

Full Circle
In Part 3, filmmaker Donna Read examines the many manifestations of women's spirituality in the Western world in the last decade of the 20th century. As she completes her personal journey to discover the history and present practices of goddess religions, she finds women meeting together around kitchen tables and in circles on hilltops, discussing spirituality and performing rituals that give them strength to transform their personal beliefs into political and social action.
The Women and Spirituality Series is a three-part series including the following: The Burning Times, Full Circle, Goddess Remembered.

Women Filmmakers in Russia

A videotape by Sally Potter , 1990, 51 min., Color
Since Lenin's fervent embrace of cinema in the 1920s, more women have worked in the film industry in Russia than in the west. This fascinating docume...

Women in Politics

A six-part series by Lowri Gwilym , 1989, 40 min., 6 in series, Color
Produced by BBC Television, WOMEN IN POLITICS is a major international series of documentaries about women politicians. Profiles of six women who run...

Women in Struggle

A film by Buthina Canaan Khoury , 2004, 56 min., Color
WOMEN IN STRUGGLE presents rare testimony from four female Palestinian ex-detainees who disclose their experiences during their years of imprisonment ...

Women Like Us

A film by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri , 2002, 60 min., Color
Filmmaker Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri returns to Iran after 20 years as an expatriate to present this intimate and revealing portrait of five ordinary Iran...

The Women Next Door

A film by Michal Aviad , 1992, 80 min., Color
THE WOMEN NEXT DOOR is a thoughtful and emotive documentary about women in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israeli director Michal Aviad was living...

Women of Brazil

2006, 113 min.
Mixing documentary and fiction, five women, Brazilian writers from across the country tell the stories of five women. Telma, a flag-bearer in a Samba School of Rio de Janeiro, struggles to win the most coveted prize of Carnival. Laura, a single mother in her forties, is faced with entering the competitive São Paulo job market at the end of a marriage entirely dedicated to her husband and child. Esmeralda, a country girl from Bahia, tries to reconcile her faith as a Christian with the superstitions of society and the history of a strict, conservative upbringing. Ana, a young student from Maceió, makes a journey of self-discovery in which she reconsiders her own values. Martileide, a waitress who is no longer able to bear her sparse livelihood in a poor suburb of Curitiba, finds hope in the voice of a radio announcer. Sensual, amusing, and at times sarcastic and cruel, these narratives some based on true stories explore a range of universal female types that come to life by the unique experiences of these extraordinary characters.

Women of El Planeta

A film by Maria Barea , 1983, 30 min., 4 in series, Color
In WOMEN OF EI PLANETA two women inspire the women of El Planeta in Peru to take action to solve their own community's problems....

Women of Mystery

53 min.
Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and Marcia Muller's intelligent and bold female detectives revolutionized crime fiction. WOMEN OF MYSTERY includes intimate interviews and absorbing dramatizations, while exploring each writer's home turf.

Women of Niger

A videotape by Anne Laure Folly , 1993, 26 min., Color
Niger is a traditionally Islamic country where authorized polygamy and Muslim fundamentalism clash with the country's struggle for democracy. In elec...

Women of Steel

A videotape by Mon Valley Media , 1984, 28 min., Color
For women who entered the nation's steel mills in the 1970s, the mill was a ticket out of traditionally low-paying "women's jobs" and in some cases, o...

Women of Substance

A documentary by Rory Kennedy and Robin Smith , 1994, 55 min., Color
With passion and clarity, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE opens the door on the struggles and triumphs fo women overcoming addiction during pregnancy and motherhoo...

Women of the Wall

31 min.
In 1989, a group of Jewish women carrying a Torah scroll marched toward the Western Wall in Jerusalem, determined to pray openly without male leadership or approval. After violent attacks by right-wing opposition, the Women of the Wall filed a petition with the Supreme Court asserting their right to pray openly. After thirteen years of delaying, the court ruled in their favor. But in 2003, under extreme government pressure, they reversed the ruling and called the group "a danger to public safety." This film is an insightful exploration of the women's struggle for free spiritual expression in a climate of government-controlled religious practice. It offers a glimpse into the battles raging in Israel over religious freedom, women's rights, and separation of religion and state.

Women Organize!

A video by Joan E. Biren, Union Institute Ctr. for Women & Women and Organizing Documentation Project , 2000, 32 min., Color
WOMEN ORGANIZE! is an inspirational, half hour video that portrays women organizers across the U.S. who are involved in the global struggles for racia...

Women Who Made the Movies

A videotape by Gwendolyn Foster and Wheeler Dixon , 1992, 55 min., Color/BW
WOMEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES traces the careers and films of such pioneer women filmmakers as Alice Guy Blach?, Ruth Ann Baldwin, Ida Lupino, Leni Riefen...

Women: The New Poor

A videotape by Bea Milwe , 1990, 28 min., Color
Divorced women and single mothers who lack skills and opportunities for economic self-sufficiency represent the alarming feminization of poverty in th...

Women's Lives and Choices

Produced by Daniel Riesenfeld for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , 1995, 200 min., 3 in series, Color
This important and timely series deals with women's health and the social, cultural and economic factors underlying reproductive choices. VENTRE LIVR...

Women's Voices: The Gender Gap Movie

16 min.
The impact of the 80's economic policies on women

Wonderful World of Dogs, The

A woman obsessed by dogs fouling her small piece of lawn...Another whose chihuahua is carried off by a hungry pelican...And a dog with a sixth sense...These are only a sampling of the stories captured in this hilarious new film from the maker of the classic Cane Toads. The Wonderful World of Dogs explores the myths, the obsessions, and the wide variety of attitudes people harbor towards our four-legged friends by introducing a few of the barkers, bullies and roamers that make up the canine population.

Here are mellifluous mutts and obsessive owners, pampered poodles and persecuted mailmen. Here also is the redoubtable Fugly, the most impounded dog in Australian history, whose wandering, sausage-stealing ways have cost his owner thousands in fines. Provocative insights into canine psychology are provided by noted dog experts, including an All Breeds Judge and an official Dog Commentator. A special dog-cam provides and unprecedented dog's-eye view of the world.

For both dog lovers and dog haters, The Wonderful World of Dogs is indispensable viewing -- a fascinating and funny view of canines and humans from both sides of the leash.
Explores the myths, the obsessions and the wide variety of attitudes people harbor towards our four-legged friends by introducing a few of the barkers, bullies and roamers that make up the canine population.

Wonderful World of Dogs, The

Wong Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

2010, DVD, 80 min.
After playing sold out houses from Alaska to Los Angeles to New York City, to Yale, Kristina Wong's unforgettable one woman tour de force performance of "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is finally captured in her first ever concert film through the thoughtful direction of Michael Closson. In this hilarious and whip-smart performance, Kristina takes a surprisingly raucous approach to addressing the high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American women, she tries to single-handedly save them all with her show! She fails fantastically at the task, creating hysterical laughter that descends into a sobering coda. It's one hell of a roller coaster ride! But don't worry, it's all fiction.

Woo Who? May Wilson

33 min.
A portrait of artist May Wilson, former wife-mother-housekeeper-cook and a grandmother who, at age 60 after the break-up of her 40-year marriage, moves to New York City and discovers an independent life of her own for the first time.

Woodstock for Capitalists

Each year the faithful make a pilgrimage to Omaha, Nebraska. Some 15,000 people descend on this small midwestern town, anxious to hear the wisdom of their humble guru. It is an event surrounded by ritual, adulation, and a fair amount of cult worship. But this is not a gathering of a religious sect; it is a shareholders? meeting. It?s a millionaire?s convention - probably the largest gathering of private wealth at any one time, anywhere in the world. Their guru, Warren Buffett, is an unassuming man in his late sixties. He also happens to be worth over $30 billion, making him one of the richest men in the world.

The film leads through the three-day festival asking the questions we ourselves want the answers to. Everyone soon discovers that the weekend is about a lot more than money. The Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are a global tribe, brought together by a shared set of values and a strong sense of family. Ordinary men and women come to see Warren Buffett, the man who has changed their lives so drastically.

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A look at the annual retreat for Berkshire Hathaway stockholders, the company led by investment guru Warren Buffett

Woodstock for Capitalists

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A look at the annual retreat for Berkshire Hathaway stockholders, the company led by investment guru Warren Buffett

A Word in Edgewise

A videotape by Heather MacLeod , 1986, 26 min., Color
A truly articulate, unaffected statement about a basic human activity, this excellent video explains the role of language in shaping behavior. It is a good synthesis of all that has been explored by linguists about sex bias in everyday speech and writing. Scholarly, yet simple and believable, it is informative without being preachy, and cites illustrations of abuses as well as suggestions for improvement. This is a truly feminist video made by women. This video should be required viewing for all educators and can be used at all levels to improve awareness of our use and abuse of language in perpetuating sex bias in culture."-Choice

Words from the Heart

min./15 min.
In WORDS FROM THE HEART, a follow-up film, people from Alaska to the islands of the South Pacific share how CARVED FROM THE HEART has prompted emotional healing and encouraged unification and action within diverse communities.x

Words That Bite

25 minutes
Words That Bite offers a glimpse behind the wall that separates many people with mental illness from society. With humor and candor, Elizabeth Dahle and Kathleen Gorman reveal the enormous toll that diagnostic labels can exact.

Working Like Crazy

Though once labeled unemployable they now work in businesses run and staffed by other psychiatric survivors - places where they can make a living rebuild their lives connect with others and contribute to society. From tears to laughter isolation to
Once labeled unemployable these psychiatric survivors work and run businesses where they can make a living rebuild their lives connect with others and contribute to society.

The Works of Sadie Benning

A video collection by Sadie Benning , 1989, 68 min., Color/BW
At age 15, Sadie Benning began using a toy video camera to produce these frank, funny and remarkably self-aware missives about growing up lesbian. Ma...

Worlds Apart

A series on cross-cultural healthcare. These four unique trigger films raise awareness about how cultural barriers affect patient-provider communication and other aspects of care for patients of diverse backgrounds.
A series on cross-cultural healthcare. These four unique trigger films raise awareness about how cultural barriers affect patient-provider communication and other aspects of care for patients of diverse backgrounds.

The World in Claire's Classroom

89 min.
What can a classroom of first and second graders in the whitest state in the union teach us about respecting diversity and building community? This film documents veteran public school teacher Claire Oglesby and her class over the course of a year, with a focus on the childrens sustained, in-depth study of another culture. Throughout the study, she focuses the childrens attention back on themselves in relationship to each other, their local community, and the world. The film gives an intimate portrait of Claire, her community-oriented classroom and academically rich curriculum, which integrates math, literacy, the arts, cultural competency and conflict resolution. It is joyful, provoking and moving.classroom

World of Tomorrow

Was there ever truly an Emerald City? Could it have been found on a map of Queens in 1930? This beguiling and poignant feature documentary looks at the great New York World's Fair of 1939, a technological showcase that drew more than forty million people to witness the bright and beckoning world of the future. A combination of hardware and jazz bands, architectural marvels and nightly fireworks, the fair was the greatest peacetimne project ever. A celebration of idealism and industry brought to an untimely end by the outbreak of war in Europe. Using home movies, newsreels, cartoons, photographs and vintage graphics to evoke that fragile moment when the world stood poised between black and white and color, between the Great Depression and the Second World War.
Documentary feature looks at the great New York World`s Fair of 1939, a technological showcase that drew more than forty million people to witness the bright and beckoning world of the future.

World of Tomorrow

The Worlds of Mei Lanfang

He was an artist, a husband, a father, a patriot, a communist, a woman. Beijing Opera performer Mei Lanfang played only female roles. His perfect portrayal of the idealized woman made him China's first pop star, a kind of Rudolph Valentino in drag.

Worried Sick

The narratives of ten people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder reveal show it to be a shape-shifter its symptoms mutating - sometimes erupting sometimes controlled but never quite disappearing.
The narratives of ten people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder show it to be a shape-shifter its symptoms mutating  sometimes erupting sometimes controlled but never quite disappearing.

Worth Saving

This short video follows two drug users through a groundbreaking program that teaches the signs of drug overdose and the basic CPR needed to save lives. In an unusual and controversial approach the DOPE program also prescribes the antidote Narcan directl
This short video follows two drug users through a groundbreaking program that teaches the signs of drug overdose and the basic CPR needed to save lives. In an unusual and controversial approach the DOPE program also prescribes the antidote Narcan directl

Writ Writer

DVD, 54 Min.
Writ Writer documents the remarkable transformation of Fred Arispe Cruz, from a barrio delinquent on drugs to the hero of the prison reform movement in Texas. Coming of age at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Cruz landed in prison for robbery in 1961. Horrified by the rampant brutality of prison life, he studied law religiously and wrote a string of lawsuits against the prison system. His pen and writs of habeas corpusalong with help from a lady lawyer sent to assist the poorshook the prison system to its core, and launched the historic prisoners' rights movement in Texas.

Writing Desire

A videotape by Ursula Biemann , 2000, 23 min., Color
"Ursula Biemann's WRITING DESIRE is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women's bodi...

Writings On the Wall

25 minutes DVD Closed Captioned
With infectious optimism, three young men eke out a living in Indias largest cities using public art to express their hopes and dreams. In Delhi, Azad paints film billboards as an escape from the destruction of his home and personal art by government bulldozers. In Bombay, Ashok paints traditional images to keep alive his Warli tribal heritage even though hes abandoned his rural life for the opportunities of the city. Throughout Madras, G Mani puts his name on posters idolizing a film star, gaining power and prestige at odds with his job selling peanuts.