These lists were compiled by Rachel Rinaldo, University of Chicago. 

Websites to search for possible films and documentaries
Women Make Movies
Specializes in films by and about women. Great for international documentaries and experimental work.
http://www.wmm.com

Third World Newsreel
Social issues films by and about people of color. This is where to get videos of some of the original radical films produced by Newsreel in the late 1960s and 1970s (about the Black Panthers and Young Lords among others), but they also have recent films.
http://www.twn.org

Deep Dish TV
The first national grassroots satellite television network. They have produced many collaboratively made pieces about the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq war, and so on. They also distribute the Indymedia documentaries about the anti- globalization protests in Seattle (1999) and Washington, D.C.(2000).
http://www.deepdishtv.org/

New Day Films
A large collective of filmmakers offering many different social justice documentaries.
http://www.newday.com/

Another way to use these sites is to find out about films that might be
interesting, and then google the filmmakers so that you can contact them directly and see if you can get the video for a lower price.

Finally, for those who are interested, I (Rachel Rinaldo) made an experimental documentary in 2002 about gentrification and colonialism in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhood. It is based on the research I did for my master's thesis. It's 30 minutes long, and several Chicago-area faculty have shown it in their classes and reported that students enjoyed it. Contact me off the
list if you are interested in getting a copy.

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Below is a compilation of possible films and documentaries to be used in the classroom. This list was compiled by Rachel Rinaldo, University of Chicago. 

Social Movements & Social Change

1. Bloody Sunday
2. Gandhi
3. Harlan County USA : struggle to unionize a coal mine ? great
example of the conflict perspective on law and class warfare
4. Long Walk Home: dramatization of the Montgomery bus boycott
5. Love and Anarchy
6. Lumumba
7. Medium Cool
8. Roger and Me : documentary about class and social change after GM closed its plant in Flint, MI
9. Romero
10. Showdown in Seattle
11. 1968 ? by PBS
12. 30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle - a compelling first-person account of the events that unfolded during
the week the World Trade Organization came to Seattle in November of 1999. It's told from the perspective of 15-year veteran network news cameraman Rustin Thompson, who covered the WTO as an independent journalist. It is the story of how Thompson's objective point-of-view evolved into a subjective account of what became an unscheduled, unruly outbreak of democracy. Thompson, who had press credentials for the event, takes the viewer into the fray of tear gas, pepper spray, and police abuse; behind the lines and inside the convention center and press rooms; and along
the marches, sit-ins, and demonstrations. His dynamic, up-close footage captures the passion, the confusion, the anger, and the courage of everyone involved, from protesters to police to delegates to bureaucrats.With Thompson narrating, the film asks viewers to emotionally engage their own conflicting feelings about the demonstrations and behind-closed-doors meetings. "I was intrigued by taking a singular, personal approach to the events," says Thompson, as he recounts how the protests affected him as a journalist and a common citizen. The result is an impressionistic journal of a decisive week that exploded into a massive expression of freedom: of speech, of assembly, and the press.
72 minutes, Copyright Date: 2000
ISBN: 1-56029-881-2
Directed by Rustin Thompson
Produced by Rustin Thompson and Ann Hedreen for White Noise
Productions)

13. A Place Called Chiapas: documents the struggle of the Zapatistas; has interviews not only with Zapatista members, but also with refugees that are caught in the middle as well as interviews with the wealthy landowners, the paramilitary group, Paz y Justicia, and the state police in Chiapas. The documentary is in English or has English subtitles for the interviews in Spanish.

14. Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony: absolutely incredible-- on the role of music and song in that struggle. Goes well with Eyerman and Jamison's Music and Social Movements book.

15. At the River I Stand - garbage workers strike in Memphis 1968 leading up to the assassination of MLK, Jr.

16. Before Stonewall - Documents the rise of the gay rights movement.


17. Berkeley in the '60s - from Free Speech movement to the dissolution and violence at Peoples' Park 1969. Includes footage from the period, as well as interviews with key activists reflecting on the
variousmovements: student, anti-war, women's, black power. Available at California newsreel: http://www.newsreel.org/



18. Butterfly - based on Julia Hill Butterfly's 1990's occupation of a California redwood tree in order to save it from logging. Julia is amember of EarthFirst! and the film gives some background info on the organization and community reaction to Butterfly's occupation of the tree.

19. Canadian Film Board: recommended as a source for documentaries.

20. Casting the First Stone - focuses on six women who regularlyconfront each other from opposite sides of a police barricade. Threebelieve that abortion is an inalienable right. Three consider it murder. Shelley Miller, director of the Women's Suburban Clinic in Paoli,Pennsylvania, endures constant harassment from anti-abortion groups
camped outside her doors. Joan Scalia, a Catholic mother of six, defies her
husband to join Operation Rescue's efforts. Sharon Owens, clinic counselor and adoptive mother of three, is closer to the middle. She cannot decide when human life begins, but feels required - as a Christian - to serve others who must. As it chronicles the daily lives of these and the other women, the camera records anti-abortion blockades, counseling
sessions, a visit with a young mother the protesters persuaded to have her baby, and Planned Parenthood's emergency board meetings after the Supreme Court's historic Webster v. Missouri decision. Rare in giving equal voice to
both sides, CASTING THE FIRST STONE is among the most insightful documents of the abortion struggle ever made.
A Video by Julie Gustafson
54 minutes / color / 1991
http://www.frif.com/cat97/a-e/casting_.html

21. Chicanos!: four-part film series about the Chicano Movement in US, most recommended the part on Cesar Chavez and the Mexican Farmworkers Association entitled: "Struggle in the Field". The film covers issues of mobilizing poor workers, immigrants, leadership, culture and art, etc.
22. Deadly Deception - about the nuclear industry deception regarding safety to the public and weapon trigger manufacturing of GE General Electric and the boycott effort.

23. Eyes on the Prize - in-depth look at the U.S. civil rightsmovement. In particular I've used the segment on the student sit-ins at department stores in Nashville (Ain't Scared of Your Jails) (great for college students) and the segment on the Mississippi Freedom Summer(Mississippi. Is this America?). In Series I (good to combine with McAdams' Freedom Summer since it deals with college student experiences)and the segment in Series II (I think) on the Lowndes County freedomballot and the march that grew out of James Forman's ill-fated march to Montgomery (I think) where you see the tensions between Stokely Carmichael and ML King and you see the development of the Black Power movement. (I think the title is: The Time Has Come.)

24. The FBIs War on Black America - about COINTELPRO and the Black Panther Party in US

25. The fight in the fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker's Struggle on the Chicano movement/grape boycott

26. Freedom on My Mind - California newsreel, http://www.newsreel.org/

27. The Greening of Cuba (38 minutes, 1996) - The Greening of Cuba profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainableagriculture, based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs. In their quest for self sufficiency,Cubans combine time-tested traditional methods with cutting edge
bio-technology.
https://commerce12.pair.com/~pront011/Merchant2/merchant.mv

28. Greensboro sit-ins: from California Newsreel

29. Harlan County, USA - is really a wonderful account of the women's strength in a union struggle.

30. In the Name of the People: on the civil war in El Salvador from the perspective of the guerilla resistance. The documentary is in English or has English subtitles for the interviews in Spanish.

31. Iron-Jawed Angels: the new HBO movie about Alice Paul.

32. Kilometer Zero (50 minutes, 2003): A film that documents the September 2003 WTO protests in Cancun, Mexico. You can find out more at: http://www.bignoisefilms.com/cancun.htm

33. Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo: excellent documentary on the mothers' movement in Argentina in their search for information about their missing children that were disappeared during the Dirty War in the country from 1976 to 1982; has interviews with some of the primary leaders of the movement as well as with government officials; also addresses the
issue of U.S. support to the military junta responsible for the disappearances and the role of the School of the Americas. The documentary is in English or has English subtitles for the interviews in Spanish.

34. Made in Thailand (Women Make Movies) is about a Thai garment workers' strike.

35. Made in India ? about the Self Employed Women's Association in Gujarat, India. SEWA is one of the best success stories of disadvantaged women coming together and organizing themselves into various self-employed associations such as rag pickers, gum collectors etc. http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c488.htm.

36. Making a Killing - about the effort to curb the tobacco industry, particularly Philip Morris in international context Bottle Babies - 1970s vintage German produced film that inspired the creation of INFACT - the Infant Formula Action Coalition which continues targeting companies for boycott as a tool to change bad practice. http://www.infact.org/

37. Making Sense of the Sixties - 1991 PBS series (about 5 films, I think) about events occurring in the United States.

38. Matewan - 1920s coal-mining country

39. Medicine at the Crossroads - the one called Pandemic is about three different approaches to the AIDS crisis, comparing US, Australia, and Thailand situations and responses of health workers in these different countries.

40. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (PBS): It is long (3 hours), but lovely on their friendship, their commitment, the movement and its evolution, training
new generations, hard political decisions (about the 14th amendment, etc).

41. Occupation - documents the 3-week sit-in (in the administration building) by a group of Harvard students supporting the increase of wages for low-wage workers. It's very compelling - live footage of the student protesters and of the workers, as they both develop more confidence as leaders of the campaign. Also shows the growing mass of supporters, with rallies outside the administration building, etc. It's narrated by Ben Affleck, and produced by EnMasse Films. (www.enmassefilms.org)

42. One Woman, One Vote - PBS documentary on U.S. women's movement; practically a textbook case.

43. Poverty Outlaw (60 minutes, 1991): A film that documents the workand organizing of the women in the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. You can find out more at: http://www.skylightpictures.com/film_outlaw.html.

44. Raiz Forte (41 minutes, 2001, Portuguese with English subtitles): A film that documents the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil. You can find out more at: http://store.globalexchange.org/strongroots.html.
45. Rebels with a Cause. It is about the SDS during Vietnam. It has a great clip about the FBI's efforts to thwart their efforts.

46. Salt of the Earth - produced in the 1950s/labor/early feminism

47. Scout's Honor - The film chronicles a 13-year-old Boy Scout, Steven Cozza, who, although not gay, galvanizes a national campaign to overturn the ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of America. Also included are the legal stories of James Dale and Tim Curran, ousted gay Boy Scouts, whose cases wound their way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The film shows what happens when gay and straight people come together to resist prejudice while demonstrating how community organizing and legal action work in tandem to effect social change.By Thomas Shepard http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/

48. Standing on My Sister's Shoulders: In 1965, when three women walked into the US House of Representatives inWashington D.C., they had come a very long way. They weren?t lawyers or politicians. They were not rich. They were women from Mississippi who had been descendants of African slaves. They had worked the cotton fields in the U.S. State of Mississippi and had come to their country?s capitol to seek their civil rights. And they were the first black women to be allowed in the senate chambers in nearly 100 years.
A film by Joan Sadoff, Dr. Robert Sadoff and Laura J. Lipson
2002, 61 minutes

49. THE TAKE has opened in several countries. Avi Lewis and NaomiKlein (author of NO LOGO) are the writers/producers. Filmed in Argentina last year.

50. This is What Democracy Looks Like- by Big Noise Films about the WTO/IMF protests in Seattle. I?ve shown it in classes and it is very accessible to undergrads and really encourages discussion afterward. There are also quite a few interviews and discussions with the people planning the action.

51. Union Maids is old, but fabulous.

52. Uprising of '34 - is about the textile mill strikes of 1934,across the country, but primarily in the south.

53. Weather Underground - about the Weather Underground in US

54. We Can Change the World - about the Civil Rights Movement. It's really moving and features both activists and academics (such as Doug McAdam).

55. With Babies and Banners - about the Flint sit down strike that spawned the UAW.

56. YOU GOT TO MOVE - about the Highlander Folk School in TN andcovers a variety of campaigns over decades. Highlander is now called the Highlander Education Center and you can find them on google.
57. Women Organize (Women Make Movies, www.wmm.com)

58. Zapatista: by Big Noise Films, about the Zapatistas in Mexico

Corporate and Organizational Deviance

1. A Civil Action

2. A Dangerous Business ( Frontline)

3. Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair (government deviance)

4. Erin Brockovich

5. Fahrenheit 9/11 (documentary, Michael Moore)

6. Manufacturing Consent (also Media)

7. The Corporation

8. The Trials of Henry Kissinger

9. Toxic Sludge is Good for You: documentary, not sure where to put this, but the public relations industry certainly helps perpetuate organizational deviance

10. Turning Point (documentary about the Cold War human radiation experiments)

11. Wrath of Grapes (documentary about pesticides, environment, and health)

bout pesticides, environment, and health)