Video Collection • Turning Tide Productions

(In order of most recent)
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	BEATING THE ODDS: Inside Five Urban Charter Schools Narrated by Sarah Jones • Watch An Excerpt Of The Film An inside look at five high-performing urban charter schools in the Boston area that serve mostly low-income, Black and Latino students, many of whom are several grade levels behind academically when they enroll. These schools set records for achievement and send the vast majority of their students on to college. Through interviews with students, teachers, and school leaders, as well as scenes depicting daily life inside the classroom and at school-wide events, BEATING THE ODDS presents an engaging examination of what makes these schools successful. Viewable in 18 chapters which range in length from 3 to 19 minutes. Currently under review for broadcast consideration by public television. 111 minutes • DVD
	THE PEACE PATRIOTS • Watch Excerpts Of The Film Narrated by actress and Air America Radio host, Janeane Garofalo, this 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. 78 minutes • DVD 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
	HEALING THE WOUNDS OF WAR A film about conflict transformation and the work of the Karuna Center For Peacebuilding, a U.S.-based organization, which brought together Serb and Muslim teachers seeking to rebuild and reunite their devastated communities in the aftermath of the war in Bosnia. 40 minutes • DVD “Dialog is so very important. We will never be able to move forward if we aren’t able to sit at the same table and listen to each other’s needs, wishes, and hopes.” —Senka Jakupovic, Bosnian Teacher
	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 • DVD *"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 • Watch Excerpts Of The Film 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 • DVD
	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 • DVD 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 • DVD
	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 • DVD 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 • DVD
	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 • DVD
	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 • DVD
	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 • DVD
	VIETNAM STORIES Eleventh grade students interview Vietnam combat veterans and draft resisters. 35 minutes • DVD
	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 • DVD
	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 • DVD 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 • DVD
	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 • DVD
	VOICES FROM THREE MILE ISLAND • 30th Anniversary Release • FREE MP3 Audio Download • Listen To Entire Radio Documentary Nationally Broadcast on Public Radio. An oral history audio documentary about America's near catastrophic nuclear accident, which took place at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979, as told by the people who lived through it. A montage of voices expressing the human side of this traumatic experience — fear, anger, frustration, and betrayal. Presented in this public radio special are the accounts of residents who lived within the 5-mile evacuation zone around the plant: parents, small town officials, doctors, and business people. In interviews, local farmers reveal a dramatic increase in birth defects, stillborns and miscarriages among farm animals, which peaked directly following the nuclear accident. 116 minutes • Two Audio CDs
	SEABROOK 1977 • Watch Excerpts Of The Film 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. 80 minutes • DVD

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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).