Voices for peace : four films on grassroats activism
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Leppzer Robbie ;
- Editeurs : Watertown, Mass. Documentary Educational Resources ;
- Date d'édition : 2014
- Sujets : Mouvements pacifistes -- DVD -- États-Unis, 11 septembre 2001, Attentats du (États-Unis), Films ethnographiques DVD États-Unis
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD mono face toutes zones (1 h 32 min), : Coul., sonore
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Turning Tide, : The Robbie Leppzer collection.
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Version en anglais
Résumé
Indiqué sur la jaquette : In this compilation DVD, award-winning independent documentary filmmaker Robbie Leppzer chronicles grassroots activists from a cross-section of races, religions, and ages working together to stop war. Choose Life : On June 12, 1982, over a million people gathered in New York City to call for an end to the nuclear arms race. Presented in a fast-paced, up-beat style, Choose Life captures the feeling and spirit of this historic day. 'One Earth, One Humanity, One Future' reads a banner, as the camera pans across a colorful sea of people marching in front of the United Nations on their way to gather in Central Park. Americans from all walks of life are asked why they came to march: an elderly man, a union organizer, a high school student, a mother with young children.- ; Their answers come straight from the heart: 'We're here because we want to live.' 'It's an issue of survival.' 'Unless the people take to the streets, the governments will not act.' Call of the Peace Pagoda : In 1945, Nichidatsu Fujii, a Japanese Buddhist monk, witnessed the devastation of Hiroshima and had a spiritual vision for world peace. Fujii's vision was to create peace shrines around the world to awaken a spirit of nonviolence. Since the 1950s, the monks and nuns of Nipponzan Myohoji, the Buddhist religious order founded by Fujii, have constructed over 70 of these shrines in six different countries. They are known as Peace Pagodas. Call of the Peace Pagoda is an intimate portrait of the Japanese and American Buddhists who live at the first Peace Pagoda built in the United States, located in rural western Massachusetts. This documentary chronicles two months in the life of this unique spiritual community — a time in which they faced numerous tests of faith.- ; Straight Talk : No one understands war and the military better than a veteran. Yet many of America's young people learn about war only from Hollywood, politicians, and recruiters. Straight Talk features five Vietnam veterans speaking to high school students about their first-hand experiences in war. The veterans talk about their decisions to enter the military and share stories of combat and noncombat situations in Vietnam. The documentary also offers glimpses of current high school military recruitment practices — the landing of an army helicopter on a high school football field and the screening of a military promotional video. The recruiters' pitches to students contrast sharply with the poignant and revealing testimonies of the veterans. Passing on their hard-earned wisdom to the next generation of military-age youth, the veterans of Straight Talk share a compelling perspective on war that needs to be heard.- ; Voices for Peace : Nobel Peace prize laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel, along with various journalists, authors and human rights activists raise critical questions about U.S. foreign and military policy following the September 11 attacks.