Video Collection • Turning Tide Productions

(In order of most recent)
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	THE PEACE PATRIOTS • NEW! DVD & VHS Available For Purchase On-Line • Watch Excerpts Of The Film • Film Available As A Fundraiser For Community Activist Groups • Now Booking For Winter-Spring 2006 College Speaking/Screening Tour Narrated by actress and Air America Radio host, Janeane Garofalo, this new feature-length documentary is an intimate portrait of American dissenters reflecting on their personal participation as engaged citizens in a time of war. The 78-minute film follows a diverse group of individuals, ranging in age from 13 to 74, including middle and high school students, college students, teachers, clergy, and war veterans from Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, as they take part in vigils, marches, theater performances, and civil disobedience sit-ins to protest the U.S. invasion and on-going military occupation of Iraq. Featuring contemporary music by 2005 Grammy Award winner Steve Earle, Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Jonatha Brooke, Stephan Smith, Saul Williams, DJ Spooky, and original music by John Sheldon. “THE PEACE PATRIOTS gives us hope and inspiration. I hope it will be shown widely.” Howard Zinn Author of A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
	INDEPENDENT VOICES Turning Tide Speaker Series We have produced a series of full-length video talks by noted authors and journalists addressing the critical issues of our times. Videos in the series include: JIM HIGHTOWER : "Take Back America" AMY GOODMAN : "Free Speech & Independent Media" SCOTT RITTER : "The Bushwacking of America" DANIEL ELLSBERG : "Secrets & Lies: Vietnam To Iraq" DR. VANDANA SHIVA: "Making Another World Possible" DR. HELEN CALDICOTT: "The New Nuclear Danger" NOAM CHOMSKY: "Why Iraq?" HOWARD ZINN: "War and Terrorism" Hear the voices which are being ignored or only given superficial treatment by the mainstream media. Use these videos as discussion catalysts for your family, friends, and community at schools, workplaces, community centers, libraries, religious organizations, and in your own living room.
	VOICES FOR PEACE A chronicle of the first national peace demonstrations which took place in Washington, DC and New York City following the September 11 attacks. An effective discussion catalyst to widen the scope of debate about U.S. responses to terrorism. Nationally broadcast on Free Speech TV. 25 minutes • VHS Color *"VOICES FOR PEACE* is an inspirational boost, letting those who oppose war know they are not alone." Howard Zinn Author of A People’s History of the United States
	AN ACT OF CONSCIENCE Narrated by actor Martin Sheen, this feature-length documentary chronicles the story of two pacifists whose home in western Massachusetts was seized by federal marshals and IRS agents after they publicly refused to pay federal taxes as a protest against war and military spending. World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival. Nationally broadcast by Cinemax and Sundance Channel. 90 minutes • VHS Color
	FUTBOLITO: A Journey Through Central America A chronicle of five New Engtland young people who travel through Guatemala and Nicaragua waging peace with "Hacky Sack" to show how a cooperative footgame can be used to make cross-cultural bridges. Broadcast on Public Television. 28 minutes • VHS Color Available in English or Spanish version.
	ARCTIC TO AMAZONIA Native activists from North and South America present first-hand information on the impact of industrial development upon their land and cultures. 21 minutes • VHS Color
	COLUMBUS DIDN’T DISCOVER US A moving testimony about the impact of the Columbus legacy on the lives of indigenous people from North, South, and Central America. Broadcast on Public Television. 24 minutes • VHS Color Available in English or Spanish version.
	STRAIGHT TALK Vietnam veterans speak to high school students about their first-hand experiences in war. Broadcast on Public Television. 31 minutes • VHS Color
	THE LONG ROAD BACK High school students interview recovering drug addicts and alcoholics from Marathon House, an intensive residential treatment program in Springfield, Massachusetts. 29 minutes • VHS Color
	CALL OF THE PEACE PAGODA A portrait of a Japanese and American Buddhist spiritual community in western Massachusetts dedicated to the philosophy of nonviolence. Broadcast on Public Television in the U.S. and Canada. 28 minutes • VHS Color
	SONGS OF THE TALKING DRUM A portrait of a cross-cultural artistic collaboration: CBS world beat musicians Tony Vacca and Tim Moran link contemporary jazz with its African roots, and African-American performance artist Andrea Hairston blends dramatic monologue, movement, and music to create a "jazz theater." Broadcast on Public Television. 57 minutes • VHS Color
	VIETNAM STORIES Eleventh grade students interview Vietnam combat veterans and draft resisters. 35 minutes • VHS Color
	A HERITAGE WITHIN A children’s special about the history and culture of Irish, French-Canadian, and Puerto Rican immigrants in Holyoke, Massachusetts, one of America’s first industrial milltowns. Broadcast on Public Television. 55 minutes • VHS Color
	HARVEST OF PEACE U.S. volunteers travel to a war zone in Nicaragua during the height of the U.S.-backed Contra war in the mid-1980's to harvest cotton in a unique citizen-to-citizen peace effort. World premiere, Telluride Film Festival. Best Nonfiction Film, San Antonio Cine Festival. Broadcast on Public Television. 29 minutes • VHS Color Available in English or Spanish version.
	CHOOSE LIFE A document of the historic march for world peace when over a million people gathered in New York City to call for an end to the nuclear arms race on June 12, 1982. 10 minutes • VHS Color
	THEY CAN’T BREAK OUR UNION A chronicle of the longest strike in Massachusetts history and a case study of the breakdown in American labor relations in the 1980s. 50 minutes • VHS Color
	SEABROOK 1977 A chronicle of a seminal event of 1970s’ environmental activism when 1,414 people were arrested in a civil disobedience protest at a nuclear power plant under construction in Seabrook, New Hampshire and jailed en masse in National Guard armories for two weeks. Broadcast on Public Television. 87 minutes • VHS Color

Photo Credits: All website photos by Robbie Leppzer, unless otherwise noted.

Top Row Photo Credit: Lionel Delevingne (upper right).

Left Column Photo Credits: Diane Greene Lent (VOICES FOR PEACE), Richard Bancroft (COLUMBUS DIDN’T DISCOVER US), Bryan Lagimoniere (STRAIGHT TALK and VIETNAM STORIES), Lionel Delevingne (CHOOSE LIFE and SEABROOK 1977), and Robert Tobey/The Valley Advocate (THEY CAN’T BREAK OUR UNION).