PROGRESSIVE VIDEO LENDING LIBRARY

There are many good videos progressives can use to educate themselves and others. Here is my list. If you live in Bucks, Montgomery, Lehigh, or Northampton Counties and would like borrow one, call Tom at 610-882-1136 or email tomulrich41@gmail.com to arrange the exchange.

Democracy needs an educated electorate. We can all help that happen!

List of DVD’s for use by Democratic/Progressive Groups

Election Integrity
1. “Invisible Ballots: A Temptation of Electronic Vote Fraud” - Discussion of the
electronic voting issue and the problems it brings. (50m or 90m versions)
2. “Help America Vote - On Paper” (18m)
3. “Hacking Democracy” - HBO special about Electronic Voting. (81m)
4. “Uncounted - The New Math of American Elections” by David Earnhardt (80m)
5. “Commander ‘N Thief” by Thomas O’Brien about the 2004 voter suppression.
6. "Stealing America: Vote by Vote" (90m)
7. "Slacker Uprising" Michael Moore's tour in 2004 to increase the vote.

Peace/Justice
1. “Iraq for Sale - The War Profiteers”. Shows who’s killed and who is making a killing.
2. “Why We Fight” Eisenhower warned, about political/corporate interests inwar.
3. “The Ground Truth - Human Cost of War” (78m) Human elements of the Iraq War.
4. “War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” (73m)
5. “No End In Sight” is an insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence in Iraq. (102m) 6. “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib” investigates the context in which torture occurred.(82m)
7. “Leading To War - See Where The Truth Lies” (72m)
8. “Rendition” (122m) - non-documentary on Extraordinary Rendition”
9. “Strange Culture” has terrorism become the new McCathyism (75m), “Voices of Dissent: Activism & American Democracy” (42m), “Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the War on Terror”(27m)
10. “Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties” - It reminds us what America used to stand for and what it seems we are falling for now. (67 m)
11. “Peace One Day” & “The Narrow Path - John Dear” (82m)
12. “Liberty Bound” - look at lies, oppression, and corruption since 9/11
13. "Body of War - The True Story of an Anti-War Hero" - directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro (87m)
14. “ Waging A Living: Working Overtime in Pursuit of the American Dream” (85m)
15. “Amazing Grace” (118m) - Story of William Wilberforce’s quest to end the British slave trade.
16. Fair Trade Videos (some free online) http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/movies/
17. "I Cannot Be Silent" - stories of Phila activist who are elderly

Media/Framing
1. “Orwell Rolls In His Grave” (105m) doc about the media in recent years.
2. “How Democrats and Progressives Can Win: Solutions from George Lakoff” -
Discusses how we can use language to effectively frame progressive issues. (25m)
3. “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism” - Shows that Fox News is anything but fair and balanced. (70m)

Environment/Global Warming
1. “The 11th Hour” (92m) Doc about our rush toward ecological collapse with L.DiCaprio.
2. “Six Degrees Could Change The World” (90m) - about preserving our planet.
3. “Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America” (50m)
4. “An Inconvenient Truth - A Global Warning” (96m) Al Gore on climate change.
5. “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Charter” with David Korten
6. “Who Killed The Electric Car?” (93m)
7. "Burning the Future - Coal in America" (89m), "Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars" (34m), "Power Shift: Energy & Sustainability" (26m)
8. "Running Dry" (82m) & "The American Southwest; Are We Running Dry?" (71m) -discusses the world wide water problems.
9. "Flow - How Did a Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water?" (85m)
10. "Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home (76m)
11. "When Clouds Clear" (77m) & "Red Gold" (54m)
12. "Asparagus! Stalking the American Life" (53m) & "A Growing Season" (50m)

Healthcare
1. “Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law” (74m), “Health, Money and Fear” (47m) , Collateral Damage: Bad Medicine in Tennessee” (24m)
2. “Sicko” by Michael Moore is an indictment of America’s health care system. (123m)
3. "Sick Around The World" PBS Frontline (60m)


Corporatism/Democracy
1. “The World According to Monsanto” (109m) doc about control of food supply
2. “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (110m) doc about Enron.
3. “The Big Buy - Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress”. Big money and big government.
4. “The Corporation” - Looks at the inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts,and possible futures of the modern global conglomerate. (145m)
5. “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” - Are they the great corporate neighbor they portray in their commercials? (97m or 20m condensed)
6. “Fahrenheit 9/11” by Michael Moore looks at role of oil and money in wake of 9/11 (122)
7. “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community” by David Kurten (60m) 8. “ Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” (62m) by Greg Palast
9. “R.F.I.D - tracking everything, everywhere” - on consumer privacy.
10. “Bush’s Brain - How did this happen”
11. “Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (64m)
12. "Corporate Scandals" - (36m) CBS News review
13. "Life & Debt" (86m) - example of economic globalization on small counties.

General
1. “Good night, and good luck”. Shows the 1953 Murrow/McCarthy battle. (93m)
2. “Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train” (78m)
3. “Bowling for Columbine” - Michael Moore on America &guns and violence. (120m)
4. “In Debt We Trust” by Dan Schechter investigates USA’s mounting debt crisis. (98m)
5. “9/11 Press For Truth” - Story of 4 widows who pushed for the 9/11 Commission. (85m)
6. "Red State Road Trip" (60m), "Considering Democracy: 8 Things to Ask Your Representative" (58m)
7. "This Brave Nation - Progressive Leaders Speak"