visual resources — DVD/Video

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FROM SURVIVOR TREATMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

• FROM TERROR TO HEALING, VHS or DVD, Downloadable study guide available. Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, MN. Part 1: Overview of Political Torture Today, 31 minutes. Includes the legal definition of torture, how torture is practiced and why, the highest risk populations, aftereffects, assessment and treatment options, and the history of the torture rehabilitation movement. Part 2: The Torture Survivor's Perspective, 28 minutes. Two torture survivors and a Bosnian medical interpreter describe their experiences with torture, the aftereffects, and their first experiences with the U.S. Healthcare system. Included are suggestions to healthcare providers for effective engagement.
• HEALING AND THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE : Challenging Sexual Assault as a Weapon of War, DVD, 34 Minutes. Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, MN. For human rights advocates, and for primary care providers, therapists, and staff in refugee camps who work with survivors of sexual torture.
• JUSTICE WITHOUT BORDERS, by Pamela Bates, narrated by Tim Robbins, DVD, 36 Minutes. Amnesty International (preview available online.) Follows three stories of the global movement for justice and accountability: the campaign to extradite former president Alberto Fujimori back to Peru for trial, the efforts of the International Criminal Court to try armed faction leaders from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo for enslavement of child soldiers, and the quest to bring Guatemalan General Rios Montt to justice in Spain. NOTE: this DVD, along with an extensive packet of resource materials, is available without charge to groups planning community screenings.
• PRIMETIME TORTURE : Interrogation – what works, what doesn’t, and how it’s portrayed on TV, DVD, 14 Minutes, Human Rights First. Can also be viewed online. Shows the difference between the way that interrogation is shown on TV and the way it ought to work in the field. The film weaves together clips from some of TV’s most popular shows with the comments of seasoned interrogators. A related power-point and lesson plan are also available for teachers and discussion leaders. The program is especially designed for students training to serve in the military.

FROM OTHER SOURCES

• GOLUB/SPERO, by Jerry Blumenthal & Gordon Quinn, and Irene Sosa, DVD, 82/45/11 Minutes, Kartemquin Educational Films. Three films on the lives and work of artists Leon Golub and his wife Nancy Spero, both of whom have focused on issues of war and political violence. Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes, in particular, focuses on the artist's images from the 1970's and 80's of torture and interrogation.
• S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE, by Rithy Panh, DVD, 105 Minutes, First Run Features. Approximately 1.7 million people (21% of the country's population) lost their lives in the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979. The most famous of the Khmer Rouge interrogation centers, codenamed S-21, was located in an abandoned Phnom Penh high school. To its neighbors, S-21 was known as konlaenh choul min dael chenh - "the place where people go in but never come out." In this film, two of S21’s few survivors confront their former jailers and interrogators.
• SENTENCED HOME, by David Grabias and Nicole Newnham, DVD, 76 Minutes, IndiePix. Decades after fleeing to the United States as refugees, three young Cambodian-American men find themselves facing deportation to an uncertain future in a country they hardly know.
• SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS, by Zach Niles and Banker White, DVD, Refugee All Stars. The remarkable story of a group of musicians who form a band while living in a West African refugee camp. Set against the backdrop of a brutal civil war, the film details the group's stories of survival and their daily struggle to keep hope and music alive.
• WELL-FOUNDED FEAR, by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, DVD, 120 Minutes, The Epidavros Project. Discussion modules based on the film are also available. An inside look at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE) where bureaucrats decide the fates of thousands of asylum-seekers each year. To be granted asylum, applicants must demonstrate a “well-founded fear” that their lives would be in danger were they to be deported.

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