Michigan Coalition for Human Rights

AIDS CRISIS A Closer Walk: Worldwide Documentaries. The global AIDS epidemic. Interviews and profiles of people throughout the world who suffer from or treat/combat the illness. VHS, 85 minutes, 2003------------------------------------------------------- BARGAIN SHOPPING - THE TRUE COST Human Cost Behind Bargain Shopping: National Labor Committee/ NBC Dateline, The story of sweatshop workers whose sacrifice gives us our discount prices. 2005 VHS and DVD, 32 minutes. Made in L.A.: Follows the lives of three Latina garment workers in Los Angelas as they fight to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing company. DVD. 2007. 70 min. *WalMart: The High Cost of Low Price: Brave New Films and Robert Greenwald. Behind the scenes look at the retailer and how it impacts its workers, business owners and communities. DVD 97 minutes, 2005.---------------------------------------------------- CORPORATIONS AND THE U.S. ECONOMY * Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: Magnolia Home Entertainment. Shocking inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals. DVD 110 minutes, 2005. * Thirst: Bullfrog Films. Conflict between publicgood and private profit on water systems. 2005 DVD 62 min. ------------------------------------------------------- ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Black Gold: California Newsreel Traces the path of coffee consumed each day to the farmers in Ethiopia who produce the beans, linking with globalization. 2006 DVD, 78 minutes. China Blue: Bull Frog Films. Deep access account of the harsh world of sweatshop workers in China who make the denim jeans we all wear. DVD 2005 88 minutes. Global Village or Global Pillage: World Economy Center: Preamble Center, Narrated by Ed Asner on how people around the world are challenging corporate globalization, VHS, 26 minutes with study guide. Life and Debt: New Yorker Video, Examines the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries, like Jamaica, DVD, 86 minutes. The Big Sellout: Shows the damage in the real lives of people in both developing and industrial countries that irresponsible privatization causes in health care, transportation, electricity and other public services. DVD, 94 minutes, 2006. Trading Democracy: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, A Bill Moyers Report on free trade, details a system of private justice, whereby companies can obtain covertly what they cannot achieve publicly in legislatures or courts, at the expense of public and environmental health, VHS, 58 minutes, 2002. ------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENT / GLOBAL WARMING * The Beloved Community: Looks on the Great Lakes town of Sarnia Ont. and the impact of toxins on health and reproduction of its oil refineries, esp. on a nearby Native American reservation. DVD 56 minutes, 2006. *Earth on Edge: PBS Video, Bill Moyers reveals recent scientific evidence that the earth is reaching a key environmental threshold. Five major ecosystems and individuals confronting the challenges. VHS, 85 min, 2001. Gasland: International Wow Company Production/HBO; documentary on the controversial process known as hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas and its impact on the community and its water. DVD 106 minutes plus 45 min bonus. 2009. Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai: Mongrel Media; tells the story of Nobel Peace Laureate whose simple act of planting trees in grew into Kenya’s Greenbelt movement. DVD 80 minutes, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------ GENOCIDE * Darfur Diaries: Message from Home Filmed in 2004 in southern Sudan, after a year of murder, mass rapes and displacement of millions of refugees by militias supported gy the Sudanese government. DVD 2005, 57 minutes. Hotel Rwanda: United Artists. True story -one man against genocide in 1994 Rwanda. 2004, DVD, 122 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------ HEALTHCARE *Health For Sale: Asks are the world’s largest drug companies, paradoxically major obstacles to creating a healthier world. DVD, 2007, 53 minutes. Sicko: Michael Moore gives a hilariously scathing indictment to America's failing healthcare system, DVD 123min. 2007 Unnatural Causes:* California Newsreel; explores racial and socioeconomic inequities in heath care. DVD , 400 minutes in 35-60 min. segments. 2008 ------------------------------------------------------- IMMIGRANTS * Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants: Bullfrog Films, Illustrates the most recent wave of anti-immigrant sentiment and the personal impact of new immigration laws. 2000 VHS 54minutes. American Dream, American Nightmare: AE/Kurtis Production, rare glimpse into the evolving of the Homeland Security Department and its sometimes controversial reputation, including interviews of immigrants, DVD, 50 minutes, 2000. The 800 Mile Wall: Gatekeeper Productions; highlights the construction of the new border walls in the SW and its impact on migrants trying to cross into the US and the failed US policy. 90 minutes 2009. The Line in the Sand: Stories From the U.S./Mexico Border: Catholic Relief Services. In August 2005 CRS sent a team of writers and actors to the Arizona-Mexico Border to study immigration. The group spoke with a variety of people affected by the issue of immigration, and turned their interviews into a powerful performance. DVD, 2005. Made In L.A.: Traces three Latina women through groundbreaking lawsuit and consumer boycott to establish precedents for labor conditions under which products are manufactured. DVD 2007, 2007. -------------------------------------------------- IRAQ WAR* Ground Truth: Universal Studios, The Iraq War ground conflict as told by the soldiers who fought it and the battles these heroes face when they return home. 2006 DVD, 78 minutes. No End in Sight: Insider’s tale which examines the principal errors of US policy largely created the insurgence and that engulf Iraq today. DVD, 102 minutes, 2007. * Independent Intervention: Bullfrog Films. Contrasts corporate controlled media with independent media reports of the human cost of war in Iraq. DVD 2006,75 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------ LATIN AMERICA On the Line: December 2nd Productions. An inside look at the people behind the movement to close the SOA that trains Latin American soldiers. DVD. 55 minutes.2007. ** Who Shot My Brother?: Bull Frog Films. Exposes the root causes of violence in Colombia and where America is the puppet master. DVD 2006 52 minutes.		MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY American Blackout: Examines contemporary tactics used to control elections and to silence voices of dissent, featuring ex Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. DVD, 90 minutes 2006. *Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Media Education Foundation. Demonstrates how journalism has been compromised by big corporations. DVD, 30 minutes, 2003 * Election Day: Big Mouth Films, A tapestry of citizens in 11 locations determined to make their votes count. DVD. 84 minutes, 2008. The People Speak: A&E Television; based on Howard’s Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, features quotes, letters, songs, speeches, poems of dissenters,rebels and visionairies of the past that prove that democracy is not a spectator sport. DVD 113 min. 2009.----------------------------------------------------- MIDDLE EAST The Oil Factor: Free Will Productions. Discusses the results of US attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq in order to expose the human costs of these attacks and to explore the bigger geo-strategic picture, DVD, 93 minutes. 2004 *Life in Occupied Palestine: Chun Pan Music. Eye witness stories and photos of the occupation with Anna Baltzer, a Jewish American young woman who has spent much time in the Middle east documenting human rights abuses. DVD,2007. 59 minutes. * The Fence: Bullfrog Films, Sheds light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by telling the stories of families who live on opposing sides of the barrier .2005 DVD 46 minutes. Peace, Porpaganda and the Promised Land: Media Education Foundation; explores how the foreign policy interests of the US and the PR strategies of Israel influences news reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. DVD, 80 minutes, 2004.--------------------------------------------- PRISONS *America's Brutal Prisons: First Run Icarus Films, A rare look inside America's prison systems, with its deeply ingrained culture of punishment rather than rehabilitation. 2005 VHS 48 minutes. ----------------------------------------- RACISM Freedom Riders: Story of an integrated band of college students who brought the country face to face with the challenge of correcting segregation and civil rights inequities in the South in 1961. PBS 120 min., 2011. Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks: Teaching Tolerance Production, Tells the story of Rosa Parks act of defiance which continues to inspire those who work for freedom and justice today, 2002, VHS, 40 minutes. Tom Wise: On White Privilege: Media Education Foundation. Spellbinding lecture that offers a unique inside-out view of race and racism in America. DVD. 57 minutes. 2008. Traces of the Trade: Retraces the troubling heritage of one family in the infamous Triangle Trade from Rhode Island to Africa’s Ghana to the sugar plantations in the Caribbean and its implications for today’s racially divided America. DVD, 86 minutes, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------ SLAVERY IN THE 21st CENTURY Slavery: A Global Investigation: An estimated 27 million people are held in bondage - more than at any other time in human history - in factories, building roads,weaving carpets, forced to be soldiers, or sex slaves. VHS. ------------------------------------------------------- U. S. FOREIGN POLICY Hidden in Plain Sight: A Raven's Call Production, distributed by SOA Watch, documentary that presents different points of view about the reality of Latin America and the consequences of U.S. policy there, 2002, VHS, 71 minutes. Blood and Oil: Media Education Foundation. Based on Nation’s Michael Klare work that shows how concerns about oil have been at the core of foreign policy for more than 60 years. DVD 52 minutes. 2008. Secrecy:* Bullfrog Films; about the vast invisible world of government secrecy and explores the tension between security as a nation and our ability to function as a democracy, DVD 56/80 minutes, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------- WAR AND PEACE *Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines: Narrated by Jessica Lange, the film profiles women around the world in five different countries who are building the foundation for sustainable peace. VHS, 86 minutes, 2003. The Last Atomic Bomb: Richter Productions, Follows a tiny, tireless survivor of the last atomic bomb dropped in Japan who makes sure the truth of that event will never be forgotten. DVD, 92 minutes, 2006. The Road to Guantanamo: Tipton Films, A first look into the world's most notorious prison. 2006. DVD 91 min. The Wounded Platoon:* PBS Frontline; tells the dark side of the men from the Third Platoon as they returned from war in Afghanistan with post traumatic stress after multiple tours; DVD 90 minutes, 2010. * War Made Easy: Exposes a 50 year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the US into one war after another, paying special attention to the comparison between Vietnam and Iraq. Based on book by Norman Solomon. DVD 72 minutes, 2007. Why We Fight: Sony Pictures. Unflinhing look at the anatomy of war making. DVD. 99 minutes, 2006. *Soldiers of Conscience: Every soldier wrestles with his conscience over whether to kill, some choose not to. DVD, 2008, 54 min. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------		HOW TO RENT FILMS To reserve a film for a showing for your group or congregation: Call the MCHR office at 313 579-9071. Rental fees: $10/film, $15 if film has resource packet (identified with ***) - Guides for group discussion.
9200 Gratiot, Detroit MI 48213 \| (313) 579-9071 \| FAX: (313) 922-8888

AIDS CRISIS A Closer Walk: Worldwide Documentaries. The global AIDS epidemic. Interviews and profiles of people throughout the world who suffer from or treat/combat the illness. VHS, 85 minutes, 2003------------------------------------------------------- BARGAIN SHOPPING - THE TRUE COST Human Cost Behind Bargain Shopping: National Labor Committee/ NBC Dateline, The story of sweatshop workers whose sacrifice gives us our discount prices. 2005 VHS and DVD, 32 minutes. Made in L.A.: Follows the lives of three Latina garment workers in Los Angelas as they fight to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing company. DVD. 2007. 70 min. *WalMart: The High Cost of Low Price: Brave New Films and Robert Greenwald. Behind the scenes look at the retailer and how it impacts its workers, business owners and communities. DVD 97 minutes, 2005.---------------------------------------------------- CORPORATIONS AND THE U.S. ECONOMY * Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: Magnolia Home Entertainment. Shocking inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals. DVD 110 minutes, 2005. * Thirst: Bullfrog Films. Conflict between publicgood and private profit on water systems. 2005 DVD 62 min. ------------------------------------------------------- ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Black Gold: California Newsreel Traces the path of coffee consumed each day to the farmers in Ethiopia who produce the beans, linking with globalization. 2006 DVD, 78 minutes. China Blue: Bull Frog Films. Deep access account of the harsh world of sweatshop workers in China who make the denim jeans we all wear. DVD 2005 88 minutes. Global Village or Global Pillage: World Economy Center: Preamble Center, Narrated by Ed Asner on how people around the world are challenging corporate globalization, VHS, 26 minutes with study guide. Life and Debt: New Yorker Video, Examines the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries, like Jamaica, DVD, 86 minutes. The Big Sellout: Shows the damage in the real lives of people in both developing and industrial countries that irresponsible privatization causes in health care, transportation, electricity and other public services. DVD, 94 minutes, 2006. Trading Democracy: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, A Bill Moyers Report on free trade, details a system of private justice, whereby companies can obtain covertly what they cannot achieve publicly in legislatures or courts, at the expense of public and environmental health, VHS, 58 minutes, 2002. ------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENT / GLOBAL WARMING * The Beloved Community: Looks on the Great Lakes town of Sarnia Ont. and the impact of toxins on health and reproduction of its oil refineries, esp. on a nearby Native American reservation. DVD 56 minutes, 2006. *Earth on Edge: PBS Video, Bill Moyers reveals recent scientific evidence that the earth is reaching a key environmental threshold. Five major ecosystems and individuals confronting the challenges. VHS, 85 min, 2001. Gasland: International Wow Company Production/HBO; documentary on the controversial process known as hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas and its impact on the community and its water. DVD 106 minutes plus 45 min bonus. 2009. Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai: Mongrel Media; tells the story of Nobel Peace Laureate whose simple act of planting trees in grew into Kenya’s Greenbelt movement. DVD 80 minutes, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------ GENOCIDE * Darfur Diaries: Message from Home Filmed in 2004 in southern Sudan, after a year of murder, mass rapes and displacement of millions of refugees by militias supported gy the Sudanese government. DVD 2005, 57 minutes. Hotel Rwanda: United Artists. True story -one man against genocide in 1994 Rwanda. 2004, DVD, 122 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------ HEALTHCARE *Health For Sale: Asks are the world’s largest drug companies, paradoxically major obstacles to creating a healthier world. DVD, 2007, 53 minutes. Sicko: Michael Moore gives a hilariously scathing indictment to America's failing healthcare system, DVD 123min. 2007 Unnatural Causes:* California Newsreel; explores racial and socioeconomic inequities in heath care. DVD , 400 minutes in 35-60 min. segments. 2008 ------------------------------------------------------- IMMIGRANTS * Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants: Bullfrog Films, Illustrates the most recent wave of anti-immigrant sentiment and the personal impact of new immigration laws. 2000 VHS 54minutes. American Dream, American Nightmare: AE/Kurtis Production, rare glimpse into the evolving of the Homeland Security Department and its sometimes controversial reputation, including interviews of immigrants, DVD, 50 minutes, 2000. The 800 Mile Wall: Gatekeeper Productions; highlights the construction of the new border walls in the SW and its impact on migrants trying to cross into the US and the failed US policy. 90 minutes 2009. The Line in the Sand: Stories From the U.S./Mexico Border: Catholic Relief Services. In August 2005 CRS sent a team of writers and actors to the Arizona-Mexico Border to study immigration. The group spoke with a variety of people affected by the issue of immigration, and turned their interviews into a powerful performance. DVD, 2005. Made In L.A.: Traces three Latina women through groundbreaking lawsuit and consumer boycott to establish precedents for labor conditions under which products are manufactured. DVD 2007, 2007. -------------------------------------------------- IRAQ WAR* Ground Truth: Universal Studios, The Iraq War ground conflict as told by the soldiers who fought it and the battles these heroes face when they return home. 2006 DVD, 78 minutes. No End in Sight: Insider’s tale which examines the principal errors of US policy largely created the insurgence and that engulf Iraq today. DVD, 102 minutes, 2007. * Independent Intervention: Bullfrog Films. Contrasts corporate controlled media with independent media reports of the human cost of war in Iraq. DVD 2006,75 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------ LATIN AMERICA On the Line: December 2nd Productions. An inside look at the people behind the movement to close the SOA that trains Latin American soldiers. DVD. 55 minutes.2007. ** Who Shot My Brother?: Bull Frog Films. Exposes the root causes of violence in Colombia and where America is the puppet master. DVD 2006 52 minutes.		MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY American Blackout: Examines contemporary tactics used to control elections and to silence voices of dissent, featuring ex Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. DVD, 90 minutes 2006. *Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Media Education Foundation. Demonstrates how journalism has been compromised by big corporations. DVD, 30 minutes, 2003 * Election Day: Big Mouth Films, A tapestry of citizens in 11 locations determined to make their votes count. DVD. 84 minutes, 2008. The People Speak: A&E Television; based on Howard’s Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, features quotes, letters, songs, speeches, poems of dissenters,rebels and visionairies of the past that prove that democracy is not a spectator sport. DVD 113 min. 2009.----------------------------------------------------- MIDDLE EAST The Oil Factor: Free Will Productions. Discusses the results of US attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq in order to expose the human costs of these attacks and to explore the bigger geo-strategic picture, DVD, 93 minutes. 2004 *Life in Occupied Palestine: Chun Pan Music. Eye witness stories and photos of the occupation with Anna Baltzer, a Jewish American young woman who has spent much time in the Middle east documenting human rights abuses. DVD,2007. 59 minutes. * The Fence: Bullfrog Films, Sheds light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by telling the stories of families who live on opposing sides of the barrier .2005 DVD 46 minutes. Peace, Porpaganda and the Promised Land: Media Education Foundation; explores how the foreign policy interests of the US and the PR strategies of Israel influences news reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. DVD, 80 minutes, 2004.--------------------------------------------- PRISONS *America's Brutal Prisons: First Run Icarus Films, A rare look inside America's prison systems, with its deeply ingrained culture of punishment rather than rehabilitation. 2005 VHS 48 minutes. ----------------------------------------- RACISM Freedom Riders: Story of an integrated band of college students who brought the country face to face with the challenge of correcting segregation and civil rights inequities in the South in 1961. PBS 120 min., 2011. Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks: Teaching Tolerance Production, Tells the story of Rosa Parks act of defiance which continues to inspire those who work for freedom and justice today, 2002, VHS, 40 minutes. Tom Wise: On White Privilege: Media Education Foundation. Spellbinding lecture that offers a unique inside-out view of race and racism in America. DVD. 57 minutes. 2008. Traces of the Trade: Retraces the troubling heritage of one family in the infamous Triangle Trade from Rhode Island to Africa’s Ghana to the sugar plantations in the Caribbean and its implications for today’s racially divided America. DVD, 86 minutes, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------ SLAVERY IN THE 21st CENTURY Slavery: A Global Investigation: An estimated 27 million people are held in bondage - more than at any other time in human history - in factories, building roads,weaving carpets, forced to be soldiers, or sex slaves. VHS. ------------------------------------------------------- U. S. FOREIGN POLICY Hidden in Plain Sight: A Raven's Call Production, distributed by SOA Watch, documentary that presents different points of view about the reality of Latin America and the consequences of U.S. policy there, 2002, VHS, 71 minutes. Blood and Oil: Media Education Foundation. Based on Nation’s Michael Klare work that shows how concerns about oil have been at the core of foreign policy for more than 60 years. DVD 52 minutes. 2008. Secrecy:* Bullfrog Films; about the vast invisible world of government secrecy and explores the tension between security as a nation and our ability to function as a democracy, DVD 56/80 minutes, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------- WAR AND PEACE *Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines: Narrated by Jessica Lange, the film profiles women around the world in five different countries who are building the foundation for sustainable peace. VHS, 86 minutes, 2003. The Last Atomic Bomb: Richter Productions, Follows a tiny, tireless survivor of the last atomic bomb dropped in Japan who makes sure the truth of that event will never be forgotten. DVD, 92 minutes, 2006. The Road to Guantanamo: Tipton Films, A first look into the world's most notorious prison. 2006. DVD 91 min. The Wounded Platoon:* PBS Frontline; tells the dark side of the men from the Third Platoon as they returned from war in Afghanistan with post traumatic stress after multiple tours; DVD 90 minutes, 2010. * War Made Easy: Exposes a 50 year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the US into one war after another, paying special attention to the comparison between Vietnam and Iraq. Based on book by Norman Solomon. DVD 72 minutes, 2007. Why We Fight: Sony Pictures. Unflinhing look at the anatomy of war making. DVD. 99 minutes, 2006. *Soldiers of Conscience: Every soldier wrestles with his conscience over whether to kill, some choose not to. DVD, 2008, 54 min. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------		HOW TO RENT FILMS To reserve a film for a showing for your group or congregation: Call the MCHR office at 313 579-9071. Rental fees: $10/film, $15 if film has resource packet (identified with ***) - Guides for group discussion.
9200 Gratiot, Detroit MI 48213 \| (313) 579-9071 \| FAX: (313) 922-8888