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Binding: DVDEAN: 0689076829489 Format: Dolby, NTSC Label: A Force More Powerful Films Languages: Manufacturer: A Force More Powerful Films Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: A Force More Powerful Films Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 01, 2000 Running Time: 154 minutes Studio: A Force More Powerful Films Editorial Review: Product Description: A Force More Powerful explores how popular movements battled entrenched regimes and military forces with weapons very different from guns and bullets. Strikes, boycotts, and other actions were used as aggressive measures to battle opponents and win concessions. Petitions, parades, walkouts and demonstrations roused public support for the resisters. Forms of non-cooperation including civil disobedience helped subvert the operations of government, and direct intervention in the form of sit-ins, nonviolent sabotage, and blockades have frustrated many rulers' efforts to suppress people. The historical results were massive: tyrants toppled, governments overthrown, occupying armies impeded, and political systems that withheld human rights shattered. Entire societies were transformed, suddenly or gradually, by nonviolent resistance that destroyed opponents' ability to control events. These events and the ideas underlying nonviolent action are the focus of this three-hour documentary production. The series begins in 1907 with a young Mohandas Gandhi, the most influential leader in the history of nonviolent resistance, as he rouses his fellow Indians living in South Africa to a nonviolent struggle against racial oppression. The series recounts Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign against the British in India; the sit-ins and boycotts that desegregated downtown Nashville, Tennessee; the nonviolent campaign against apartheid in South Africa; Danish resistance to the Nazis in World War II; the rise of Solidarity in Poland; and the momentous victory for democracy in Chile. A Force More Powerful also introduces several extraordinary, but largely unknown individuals who drove these great events forward. Few who relied on nonviolent sanctions in the 20th century did so because of a principled attachment to nonviolence. For some, arms were unavailable as a way to fight. Others had seen a violent insurrection fail, at devastating cost to life and property. They had no desire to be passive: they wanted passionately to overturn the rulers or the laws that subjected them, and they found a way. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Inspiring, well-edited with vintage footage.A Force More Powerful is both a fabulous introduction to nonviolence for those who think nonviolence is impractical, and an historical proof that nonviolence can be created and adapted to varying conditions. Very fine work and easy to watch several times. Rating: - FascinatingA much-needed documentary on the short history of nonviolence. Could have done without all the focus on Gandhi and MLK Jr. since they review a lot of what a student of non-violence would already know. I was more interested in the lesser-known events of nonviolence which the second DVD focuses on. 5 Stars because their coverage in the first DVD is still excellent, albeit common knowledge. |
