Films for Teaching Peace

Recollection of Nelson Mandela’s life including leadership of the ANC party and the struggle against Apartheid; his term in office; and his time spent in Robben Island Prison.

Linguist and liberal political activist Noam Chomsky presents his thought on how the mass media works against democracy’s best interests.

A labor union leader comes to a mining community that is brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

The children of Baltimore, Maryland take to the streets to fight for civil rights in 1963.

The life of gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and became California’s first openly gay elected official.

A wife and father pursue the truth of a young journalist missing during the bloody US-backed coup in Chile.

This film documents civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall’s triumph in the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America’s public schools completed the final leg of a journey of over 20 years laying the groundwork to end legal segregation.