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Human Rights Video Collection

This new library collection was funded by a grant from the Human Rights Video Project. Videos are available for check out and retain public performance rights for anyone wanting to show them to groups for classroom, civic groups, or other use. All films listed below are videos unless otherwise indicated.

Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan Behind the Labels exposes the harsh conditions of the garment industry in Saipan, a U.S. territory in the Northern Mariana Islands of the Pacific. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	photo courtesy www.WITNESS.org
Bombies During the Vietnam War the U.S. Air Force dropped an estimated 90 million cluster bombs in neighboring Laos. Bombies tells the story of these attacks and their legacy. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	Laotian boy with cluster bomb
Books Not Bars This short documentary focuses on the growth of the prison industrial complex in the U.S. through the eyes of the youth who are working to reverse the trend. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	A sign for the “Books Not Bars” campaign
Calling the Ghosts: a Story About Rape, War and Women Calling the Ghosts examines the devastating impact of the war in Bosnia on women through the stories of Jadranka Cigelj and Nasreta Sival. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	Courtesy of Women Make Movies
Every Mother's Son This powerful documentary explores the involvement of the New York Police Department in the high profile slayings of three men, and the mothers working for their cases to be brought to justice. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	Doris Busch Boskey (L), Kadiatou Diallo and Iris Baez (R), featured in Every Mother's Son, by Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson
Going to School Going to School details the effort of the Los Angeles Unified School District to include students with disabilities in the curriculum and provide them with the same educational opportunities as other students. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	Richard Martinez first included student to graduate seventh grade at his school
Justice and the Generals Justice and the Generals chronicles the fight of Bill Ford, the brother of one of the victims [four American missionary women murdered in ElSalvador], and other family members to bring those responsible for the murders to justice. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	General Eugenio Vides Casanova, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, and their lawyer Kurt Klaus entering court in 2000. Photo: La Prensa Graffica.
Life and Debt Life and Debt explores the effect of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) policies on developing countries through Jamaica's experience with the organization. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat (DVD)

Long Night's Journey into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth & Reconciliation When apartheid collapsed in South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed to review amnesty applications by those who had been involved in crimes relating to the apartheid system. Long Night's Journey into Day focuses on four cases, revealing that the system that imposed racial separation was anything but clear-cut. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	Cynthia Ngewu (one of the Guguletu 7 mothers) testifying at the TRC hearing. Photo: IRIS FILMS
The 3rd Annual Media that Matters Film Festival DVD Fifteen short films and new media pieces on globalization, criminal justice, civil liberties and other topics make up the third annual Media That Matters Film Festival DVD. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat (DVD)

Promises Through the stories of seven children living in diverse areas of Israel/Palestine, the filmmakers interweave the complex political and geographic history of this region of the Middle East. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	Yarko and Faraj. Photo: Meagan Shapiro
State of Denial State of Denial chronicles the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, which has 4.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS - the largest such population in any one country worldwide. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	After Chipho has gone on treatment, she has gained weight and is back at school.
Well-Founded Fear This documentary, produced for the PBS POV television series, provides a rare glimpse of the U.S. asylum granting process through the perspective of the Immigration and Naturalization (INS) asylum officers responsible for reviewing asylum applications. Summary, interviews, and more Place a hold in LINKcat
	Asylum Officer Gerald. Photo: Michael Camerini