VIDEO CATALOGUE, S-Z

SEWING OUR FUTURE
Why has the U.S. government used taxpayers' money to help American companies move overseas? How has this affected American factory workers? This video compares working conditions in El Salvador and the U.S. and argues that U.S. government policies should protect--not export--American workers' jobs. Reflecting the views of the U.S. garment workers unions, this documentary questions the one-sidedness of free trade agreements and gives constructive suggestions for future labor organizing. (Includes sections in Spanish, with English subtitles)
"Sewing Our Future" (1993) 30 min. Rhian Miller and Patrice O'Neill, The Working Group Contact to order via email: wedothework@igc.org or rmiller@theworkinggroup.org

The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez follows the journey of the first U.S. soldier killed in the invasion of Iraq. Born in Guatemala, Gutierrez eventually made his way to the United States to become a "green card solider," promised a fast track to citizenship by enlisting in the military.
Mournful and engrossing, the film traces Gutierrez's life through the people he knew and the places he lived. He dreamed of becoming an architect, enlisting in the Marines to support his education. Orphaned during Guatemala's lengthy civil war (waged by army juntas with U.S. support), he was the streetwise survivor of a sad and lonely childhood, passing through foster families and briefly reuniting with a long-lost sister before trekking north on the Pan-American Highway, jumping the Mexico-U.S. border and living homeless in Los Angeles until a social worker helped turn his life around. After his death, his hard-luck story was given a typically uplifting spin on the nightly news, and faulty record-keeping resulted in an erroneous birth date on his gravestone that has yet to be corrected. The ultimate irony is that the first U.S. casualty in Iraq was an illegal immigrant fighting a foreigner's war with hopes for a better future.
“The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez” (2006) 89 min.
www.theshortlife-film.com   

SICKO reviewed by Cliff DuRand
In his acidic documentary “Sicko”, Michael Moore  holds up for all to see the failings of a health care system that is one of the most expensive in the world and yet has 50 million uninsured citizens, 18,000 of whom die each year because they are uninsured.  However, the film focuses not on them, but on the inadequacies for the insured who are driven to bankruptcy by high medical bills and whose claims are denied or policies canceled so that private insurance companies can achieve higher profits.   
Among "Sicko's" villains are lobbyists and politicians who pocket millions from HMOs (Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, once an advocate for universal care is now among the healthcare industry's biggest money recipients) and pharmaceuticals that denounce universal care as little better than a Communist plot.  But the main villain is the insurance industry itself, the frequent target of complaints by doctors and patients alike. 
It is this profit driven health care system that is the source of the problems.  The solution?  Universal single payer health coverage.  The U.S. is the only industrialized country without it, where it is tarred as “socialized medicine”.  Elsewhere it is simply seen as social insurance.  As a result, France, Britain, Canada and even poor Cuba have better delivery systems than the U.S.  Moore gives France's socialized medicine considerable attention. There, doctors lead comfortable lives, patients receive attentive care, and employers grant extended health-related leaves -- all reasons the World Health Organization ranked France tops in its global 2000 survey of the best healthcare countries.  The U.S. ranked 37.
Cuba’s extensive system of free preventative health care for everyone also comes in for praise – much to the ire of the Bush administration.  The Treasury Department is threatening to fine Moore and the three 9/11 ground zero volunteers whom he took to Cuba for free treatment they could not receive in their own country.  Moore certainly knows how to tweak the establishment. 
One of the more memorable scenes in the film is when Moore takes them to Guantanamo where the accused terrorists detained there receive the best of medical care for free while ground zero volunteers go untreated in their own country.  Moore could have also made his point had he taken them to the U.S. Congress, whose members receive free comprehensive health care while denying it to ordinary citizens.   
Audiences familiar with Michael Moore’s confrontational style might have expected such a stunt.  But here we do not see him confronting HMO or pharmaceutical executives.  Nevertheless, Moore told the Los Angeles Times "there is a big confrontation in this movie.  Because I am confronting the American audience with a question: 'Who are we, and what has happened to our soul?' To me, that's maybe more confrontation than going after the CEO of Aetna or the CEO of Pfizer."
Moore is confronting us, the American people.  We think of ourselves as a kind and gentle people, yet we tolerate a system that sometimes condemns to death those in need of life saving care and casts into the streets the sick who cannot pay.  “What kind of a people have we become?” he asks.  In a moment of sermonizing Moore tells us we need to realize we are all in the same boat together and start thinking of ‘we’ instead of just ‘me.’
With that Moore seeks to galvanize the American public into action for universal free single payer health care.  That was a major issue in the 1992 election when a majority of the public favored such a system.  The Clinton administration fumbled the ball on that one then and the system is even more broken now 15 years later.  Perhaps Michael Moore’s “Sicko” will put the issue on the political agenda once again in 2008. 
“Sicko”  (2007)  123 min. directed by Michael Moore

SILENT SENTINELS
1998 was designated "International Year of the Oceans." It turned out to be the year that coral reefs--the jewels of the ocean--began to die. This film, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, documents the unprecedented mass bleaching of coral reefs now occurring in the world's tropical oceans. It shows how slight rises in sea temperatures have severely damaged hundreds of miles of coral coastline. This bleaching is widely viewed as unequivocal proof that global warming has begun and that its impact will be greater than had been previously predicted. Rafe Pomerance, a key U.S. global warming negotiator, has called Silent Sentinels "the most important movie on global warming to date."
"Silent Sentinels" (1999) 57 min. Richard Smith, Bullfrog Films
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ssppso.html

SIR! NO SIR!
Sir! No Sir! energetically reveals the untold story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam. This is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960s – one that had a profound impact on American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time.
By the Pentagon's own figures, 503,926 "incidents of desertion" occurred between 1966 and 1971; officers were being "fragged"(killed with fragmentation grenades by their own troops) at an alarming rate; and by 1971 entire units were refusing to go into battle in unprecedented numbers. In the course of a few short years, over 200 underground newspapers were published by soldiers around the world; local and national antiwar GI organizations were joined by thousands; thousands more demonstrated against the war at every major base in the world in 1970 and 1971, including in Vietnam itself. This hidden history combines fast-paced archival footage with thoughtful interviews, "perfectly timed with new doubts about the Iraq War"
"Sir! No Sir!" (2005) David Zeiger
http://www.sirnosir.com/

THE SIXTH SUN: MAYAN UPRISING IN CHIAPAS
This award-winning documentary by IPS fellow Saul Landau interweaves Mayan and Mexican history with the contemporary struggle of the Zapatista Liberation Army in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Through the voices of the movement's leaders, supporters, and negotiators--including subcomandantes Marcos and Elise and Bishop Samuel Ruiz, (dubbed "The Red Bishop")--this film chronicles the major events since the Zapatista uprising began on January 1, 1994. It also traces the history of how, beginning in the 1980s, Zapatista guerrillas organized in the mountains of Chiapas, consolidating their ideology and physical strength in preparation for their New Years' Day uprising that shook the world. This peasant uprising has challenged both the Mexican government's revocation of indigenous communal land rights and its joining the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Following the movement with footage from the initial San Cristobal attack to the arrival of government troops in Chiapas and an international convention held in the heart of the jungle, this dramatic and at times humorous documentary traces the growth of a tiny regional movement into an internationally influential struggle for economic, political, and social rights. (English subtitles for Spanish interviews)
"The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas" (1997) 60 min. Saul Landau and Meredith Burch, To order call: Cinema Guild, (800) 723-5522.
http://www.cinemaguild.com/catalog/catalog_latin_caribbean_studies.htm

SWEATING FOR A T-SHIRT
Do you know where your clothes are made? Do you bother to look at the label when you buy merchandise at a store? This video shows the journey of one UCLA student to Honduras, where she soon learns exactly where her college clothing is being made, and the conditions that prevail among the sweatshops. She speaks with local workers and human rights activists, who tell of the unhealthy conditions and unfair labor practices the workers live with. These workers earn only $3.50 a day in countries where the basic cost of living is $8 a day. At the end, we see Brown students who have just forced their administration to adopt fair labor standards for the production of clothing bearing their university logo. A great video to show students that something can and must be done.
"Sweating for a T-shirt" (1998) 23 min. Global Exchange
http://store.gxonlinestore.org/sweating.html

THIRST
Water: commodity or human right? 
Water is one of the most precious sources of life.  But is it part of a shared "commons," a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded in a global marketplace?  Water is becoming "blue gold," the oil of the 21st century. Global corporations are rushing to gain control of this dwindling natural resource, producing intense conflict in the US and worldwide where people are dying in battles over control of water.  
The documentary film "Thirst" opens with politicians, international bankers, and corporate executives deciding who will control global fresh water supplies. Their consensus for large dams and privatized, corporate water systems is challenged by experts and activists who assert that water is a human right, not a commodity to be traded on the open market.
The people of Cochabamba, Bolivia fought successfully to reverse the privatization of their water after the government had sold it to Bechtel Corporation.  The struggle even toppled the national government in 2003 and helped set the stage for the election of Bolivia's first indigenous President, Evo Morales. 
The central story in "Thirst" takes place in Stockton, California, where the mayor proposed giving control of the water system to a consortium of global water corporations.  Worried about price hikes, water quality, and layoffs of public employees, who tend to be women or people of color, Stockton residents created a new grassroots coalition to demand a say in the decision.
Meanwhile, across the United States, multinational water companies continue to campaign for new contracts, but have been put on the defensive by the collapse of contracts in Atlanta and Puerto Rico and popular challenges in many other cities. 
In Rajasthan, India, a charismatic local "Gandhi" is leading a poor people's movement for water conservation that has revived rural life. But it's an achievement that would be swept away by government plans, under pressure from the World Bank, to build large hydroelectric dams and privatize communal water sources, selling them to Coke and Pepsi. 
In Uruguay voters headed off any privatization efforts by voting last fall to amend their constitution, making water a human right.
"Thirst" (2004) 62 min. DVD Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman
http://www.thirstthemovie.org/order.html

TIME-BOMB: AMERICA'S DEBT CRISIS
Time-Bomb is a powerful new documentary that exposes George W. Bush's faith-based, supply-side economics for what it is: nothing more than pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking that threatens to bring down the U.S. economy in a pile of dust. It shows how Bush squandered a $5 trillion government surplus and now runs record deficits in one of the greatest miscalculations in human history. A distinguished array of economic experts, activists, statesmen, and business executives explain why the threat to the nation is more real than most of us have dared imagine.
Produced by the American Fiscal Responsibility Campaign, a bipartisan effort designed to raise awareness of America's debt crises and put pressure on our leaders to address these crises.
"Time-Bomb: America's Debt Crisis" DVD, 30 min. John F. Ince, The American Fiscal Responsibility Campaign
http://www.time-bomb.org/

TRADING DEMOCRACY
Bill Moyers, one of the world's most respected journalists, reveals how NAFTA'S Chapter Eleven clause can cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars when multinational corporations sue the government over environmental and health laws that threaten their profits.
Speaking with legislators, public policy experts, community leaders, and citizens about the lawsuits filed under NAFTA's Chapter Eleven, Moyers unravels the hidden repercussions of a treaty that was supposed to promote democracy through free trade, but now appears to have given deep-pocketed corporations the means to undermine democracy across international borders.
The program explores the case of Methanex, a Canadian company that is the world's largest producer of the key ingredient in the gasoline additive MTBE, which was found to be a carcinogen. In 1995 MTBE began turning up in wells throughout California, and by 1999 had contaminated thirty public water systems. The state ordered that the additive be phased out. Methanex filed suit under NAFTA's Chapter Eleven, seeking $970 million in compensation for loss of market share and future profits. Environmental attorney Martin Wagner tells Moyers, "they're saying that California either can't implement this protection or that they get a billion dollars. People should be outraged by that."
Moyers also takes his investigation to the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, where an American company called Metalclad tried to bulldoze over the protests of both state and local governments to reopen a toxic waste dump that many citizens feared was making them sick. When Metalclad was stopped by the local town council the company invoked Chapter Eleven and was awarded $16 million in compensation.
"Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy"
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/tradingdemocracy.html
transcript at http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_tdfull.html

TURNING DOWN THE HEAT: THE NEW ENERGY REVOLUTION
Global warming is no longer a debatable issue: the world must stop using fossil fuels that destroy the environment. This film looks at new sources of energy that are already being effectively used around the world, from Holland to Japan, to India and beyond. This film shows the many energy alternatives out there, and how they could quickly pay for themselves, saving governments money and rescuing our environment. All that is needed is the political will.
"Turning Down the Heat: The New Energy Revolution" (1999) 46 min. Jim Hamm Productions 
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/tdth.html

TWO TREVORS GO TO WASHINGTON
Two South Africans with very different economic views meet at the IMF/World Bank meetings and protests in April 2000. One Trevor is an official inside the IMF and World Bank. The other is a government official from Johannesburg who has joined the protests in the streets. Through the eyes of these two Trevors, both elected officials of the South African government, we see the debate over "structural adjustment programs" of the IMF and World Bank at an international level. The film then goes on to show the devastating social and economic effects of these policies in South Africa. It is not hard to see why the people are beginning to rise up to protest against these international institutions.
"Two Trevors go to Washington" (2000) 20min. Ben Cashdan
http://www.gxonlinestore.org/twotrevors.html

VIVA ZAPATA !
Nearly a century after the Mexican Revolution, the turmoil that so transformed this country still reverberates.  But of all those whose deeds made history, none is more alive today than Emiliano Zapata.  This campesino from Morelos fought for land and liberty –a cry still heard today from those who have resurrected his name to struggle against neo-liberalism and for indigenous rights.
Marlon Brando received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Zapata and Anthony Quinn received an Oscar for his supporting role.  John Steinbeck also got an Oscar nomination for the screenplay.  Directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, this 1952 film may take some liberties with the facts in romanticizing Zapata, but it does focus on the corruptive influence of power.
"Viva Zapata!" (1952) 113 min. black & white, Elia Kazan
http://www.amazon.com

VOICES FROM THE FIELDS
This video describes how changes in agricultural production are driving many Mexican peasants to the cities or to the United States in search of work. The introduction of tractors, credit, and cattle are only some of the "modernizations" that are eroding traditional campesino economic activities, while increasing use of chemicals, insecticides, and fertilizers are harming both humans and the environment. Voices from the Fields showcases a new method of farming--agroecology--that attempts to find a balance between nature and production. (In Spanish with English subtitles)
"Voices from the Fields" (1997) 45 min. Selena Jaramillo and Ulla Nilsen, Cinema Guild  
To order, call: Cinema Guild, (800) 723-5522.
http://www.cinemaguild.com/catalog/catalog_latin_caribbean_studies.htm

WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE
When has a single private company driven scores of small stores out of business and turned main streets into ghost towns?  When has an employer encouraged its employees to go on public assistance for their health care?  When has a single store so sapped the tax base of a whole town that it can no longer provide essential services?  When has a single company added so much to an entire nation's foreign indebtedness by importing cheap goods from abroad?  The answer is –when it is Wal-Mart. 
Here's another question.  When has a single documentary movie so effectively exposed such a company that scores of state legislatures are discussing new laws to make it more socially responsible?  When has a film caused such a public stir that the largest company in the world spends millions and millions of dollars in publicity to patch up its image?  When has a film moved people from coast to coast (and even here in Mexico) to mount picket lines protesting the building of a new store in their community?  When has a film done so much to change the world?  The answer is –when it's Robert Greenwald's documentary "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price."
While we knew the story of Sam Walton's small business growing into the number one retailer on the globe, we probably didn't know how much it violated the basic American values that he professed.  "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" lays it all out to us through the personal stories of Wal-Mart employees –"Associates" – who face retaliation for speaking out, stories of businessmen driven into bankruptcy, former Wal-Mart managers who reveal company practices, local leaders struggling to grapple with the impact of Wal-Mart on their community.  It will make you want to ask, what would happen if a Wal-Mart, or a Wal-Mart clone, were to come to San Miguel de Allende? 
Director/producer Robert Greenwald has a number of other hard-hitting documentaries to his credit: "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdock's War on Journalism" (2004), "Unconstitutional" (2004), "Uncovered: The Iraq War" (2003), and "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" (2002).  Where there is an important social issue, Greenwald will have his cameras there.  Most recently he has done two series: "The ACLU Freedom Files" and "The Sierra Club Chronicles."  Greenwald is an activist filmmaker of the first order. 
"Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005)  98 min. Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films 
http://www.walmartmovie.com/

WAR MADE EASY: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
Narrated by Sean Penn
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
War Made Easy gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon’s meticulous research and tough-minded analysis, the film presents disturbing examples of propaganda and media complicity from the present alongside rare footage of political leaders and leading journalists from the past, including Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, dissident Senator Wayne Morse, and news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer.
Norman Solomon’s work has been praised by the Los Angeles Times as “brutally persuasive” and essential “for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee.” This film now offers a chance to see that context on the screen.
“War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death”  72 min 2007
http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/WarMadeEasy
for article go to  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/19/2621/

WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE and other Globalization Stories
Using Mexico as an example of what much of the Third World has experienced, the filmmakers show how foreign investment in export factories distort both the culture and environment. Its exquisite photography, elegant editing, and original music probe the essence of the new economic disorder.
To stop construction of a corporate golf course -- “globalization” -- and 1,500 vacation chalets, the people of Tepoztlan confronted federal troops. As it has done in countless other villages throughout the world where people still speak indigenous languages (Nahual), corporate culture invaded. The “investors” constructed not just factories and shopping malls, but in this Morelos village, proposed to replace soccer with the corporate “sport” of golf, which included building 1500 vacation chalets and a country club.
The newly elected Tepoztlan mayor sneered: “We don’t play that sport here,” because, he explained, maintenance of a large golf course “would sap badly needed farming water; pesticides and chemical fertilizer to maintain the grass would pollute the town’s aquifers.”
In another story, two “ecological peasants” describe how Mexican army personnel tortured them because they tried to stop Boise Cascade from clear cutting forests in Guerrero.
Tijuana residents describe how the US owner of a battery recycling plant allowed dangerous chemicals to seep into their neighborhood. It poisoned our children, the local mayor charged. Local, state and federal authorities refused to stop the contamination process. Then, neighbors stormed the factory and forced its owner to flee.
The film includes cinematic essays on progress, by native people as liabilities as told by SubComandante Marcos, and sociologist Victor Quintana offers a comparison between golf as the sport of the rich and few as opposed to soccer as the sport of the poor and many.
Musicians Greg Landau, Omar Sosa and Francisco Herrera combined to offer “Se Vende” and “La Pelotita Blanca,” dazzling compositions whose lyrics and sound express the agonies and humor the modern predicament.
This 33 minute filmic essay is ideal for high school classes and university professors that want to add an audio visual dimension to their teachings on globalization.
The film is directed by Institute for Policy Studies fellow Saul Landau – winner of Emmy, George Polk, Letelier-Moffitt  and First Amendment awards, in addition to many film festival prizes, and co-produced by Saul Landau and George McAlmon. 
“We Don’t Play Golf Here and other globalization stories”  (2007) 33 min. directed by Saul Landau
http://saullandau.com/movies.html

WHAT A WAY TO GO: Life At The End Of Empire
A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.
Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning. Produced by Sally Erickson. Written, Directed, and Edited by Tim Bennett. What is it doing to us as thoughtful human beings as we face the overwhelming challenges of:

• Peaking fossil fuel flow rates?
• Critically degraded ecosystems?
• A changing climate?
• An exploding global population?
• Teetering global economies?
• An unstable political climate?

And what is it doing to the rest of the life on this planet?

• How did we get here?
• Why do we keep destroying the planet?
• What do we truly want?
• Can we find a vision that will empower us to do what is
  necessary to survive, and even thrive, in the coming decades?
  

WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
In this video, ten segments from a range of documentary and media sources are brought together to unravel the atrocities committed upon the Third World by the U.S., via the CIA, the Pentagon, America's corporate culture, and the mainstream press. Frank Dorrel's montage takes an in-depth look at some of the most heinous crimes of U.S. foreign policy through the eyes of some of the most important and influential figures in contemporary history. Included in his video are speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Stockwell, the former CIA chief in Angola in the 1970's; clips from documentaries such as Bill Moyers' 1987 PBS documentary "The Secret Government," an overview of CIA covert ops, and "School of Assassins" a film on the SOA narrated by Susan Sarandon; and many more insightful segments on U.S. government conspiracies, from the Iran-Contras affair and sanctions in Iraq, to our invasion of Panama and the CIA's involvement in the deaths of some six million people in the Third World.
"What I've Leaned About U.S. Foreign Policy" (2002)  2 hours,  Frank Dorrel
Available for $10.00 on http://www.addictedtowar.com

WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A Requiem in Four Acts
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. This intimate, heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of misery, despair and triumph.
The film also looks at a community that has been through hell and back, surviving death, devastation and disease at every turn. Yet, somehow, amidst the ruins, the people of New Orleans are finding new hope and strength as the city rises from the ashes, buoyed by their own resilience and a rich cultural legacy.
To make the film, Lee visited the Gulf Coast region nine times and interviewed more than 100 people, including the mayor of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana, Sean Penn, Soledad O'Brien, Kanye West, engineers, historians, journalists, radio DJs—even the guy who spotted the vice president during a post-Katrina photo-op and told him, "Go f--- yourself, Mr. Cheney." Critics have called When the Levees Broke the most essential work of Lee’s 20-year career.
Act I covers the storm's arrival; Act II chronicles the failure of the emergency response; Act III follows an abandoned community coming to grips with all that it lost, and Act IV addresses the halting, haphazard effort to begin again. But images and ideas echo through each act like a fugue. Lee's voice is rarely heard; he lets the people of New Orleans and Terence Blanchard's thundering brass score, dizzy with grief, do the speaking for him. We all know that our government failed us when Katrina hit. What Lee most importantly reveals is how it continues to fail fellow Americans in the Gulf Coast — race be damned — to this day.
"When the Levees Broke", 4 hours and 36 minutes, 2006, by Spike Lee. Available via Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/When-Levees-Broke-Spike-Lee/dp/B000J10F14

WHEN THE MOUNTAINS TREMBLE
The film that shook audiences and critics alike upon its original theatrical release, this revolutionary tour-de-force and Sundance Film Festival winner is now available for the first time on DVD. Digitally remastered to commemorate its 20th Anniversary, this special edition chronicles the astonishing story of one woman who stood up for her people and helped wage a rebellion in the wake of seemingly unconquerable oppression.
Shot at the height of a heated battle between the heavily-armed Guatemalan Military and a nearly defenseless Mayan population, filmmakers Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel threw themselves into the center of a storm to capture live combat footage with a surprisingly robust passion and exhilarating flair. As the first film to depict this previously unreported war, it is firmly anchored by the firsthand accounts of Rigoberta Menchú, a Quiché Indian woman known around the world for her humanitarian efforts. Throughout the imminent chaos and danger, Menchú provides courage and optimism in a time where death squads kill without conscience and an oppressive dictator seizes power.
Updated after Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, WHEN THE MOUNTAINS TREMBLE includes a compelling filmmaker commentary as well as a never-before-seen forward from Susan Sarandon and an illuminating epilogue reflecting on the country's events a decade later.
"When the Mountains Tremble" DVD, 90 min.
http://www.docurama.com/productdetail.html?productid=NV-NVG-9618

WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline...........Ten years later, these cars were gone.  EV1 was a well-intentioned soul that was in the right place at the right time, but was surrounded by the wrong people.  So, who killed the electric car?  Possible suspects include consumers, oil companies, car manufacturers, government and even the Hydrogen Fuel Cell car.  Chris Paine's who-done-it tells the whole tale with humor.  It's a dirty story about a clean car.
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2006) 92 min.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/

WHY WE FIGHT
"Why We Fight" is a compelling documentary about the U.S. war machine.  Directed by Eugene Jarecki, the film examines the extent to which the "military-industrial complex" (a term coined by President Dwight Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell speech warning about the permanent establishment of an arms industry) not only profits from war, but also becomes a force that makes war happen. With the use of graphic war footage, a visit to a weapons trade show, and interviews with politicians, ordinary citizens, and retired military officers, Jarecki dispels the notion advanced by Presidents Johnson, Reagan, and Bush, that America has been a force for peace in the world. Instead what we see is a militaristic nation in which capitalism is at war with democracy—and capitalism is winning.
"Why We Fight" was selected as the Best American Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Why We Fight" (2005) 98 min., DVD 
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/main.html

WINTER SOLDIER
In February 1971, one month after the revelations of the My Lai massacre, an astonishing public inquiry into war crimes committed by American forces in Vietnam was held at a Howard Johnson motel in Detroit. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War organized this event called the Winter Soldier Investigation. More than 125 veterans spoke of atrocities they had witnessed and committed.
Though the event was attended by press and television news crews, almost nothing was reported to the American public. Yet, this unprecedented forum marked a turning point in the anti-war movement. It was a pivotal moment in the lives of young vets from around the country who participated, including the young John Kerry. The Winter Soldier Investigation changed him and his comrades forever. Their courage in testifying, their desire to prevent further atrocities and to regain their own humanity, provide a dramatic intensity that makes seeing Winter Soldier an unforgettable experience.
The fact that this process of truth-telling was not respected and honored as a part of the experience of these soldiers is one of the reasons that the subject of the war in Vietnam continues to be misunderstood and misrepresented. This is a very disturbing film about the making of war, the making of young men into killers, the bringing of our society into acceptance of a war against people of a different color, a different culture, all the way around the globe. It brings to the surface of consciousness questions that must be confronted and asked again as our country is again sending off soldiers to die and to kill."
“Winter Soldier”, Milestone Film & Video, 96 minutes http://www.wintersoldierfilm.com/

WTO: IN WHOSE HANDS?
This video examines--from a feminist and humanist perspective--the inequalities caused by WTO policies. It proposes that women around the world must not only protest the inequalities to which they bear witness but must also learn the fundamentals of economics in order to help their local communities fight the devastating effects of "free" trade.
"WTO: In Whose Hands?" (2000) 20 min. /United Methodist Women/Service Center.  For more information about the video and study guide, see: http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/wto.html and http://www.gbgm-umc.org/umw/service.html