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Nonviolence International – films about nonvolence Movements and Monuments http://gabowitsch.net/films-about-nonviolence/Collection archivist Mischa Gabowitsch about this collection I initially compiled a list of films about nonviolent resistance in preparation for a workshop about the history, theory, and practice of nonviolence that I organized as part of the Berlin Colloquia on Contemporary History in February 2012. Later I incorporated suggestions collected by Beate Sissenich via the amsoc mailing list and by Stellan Vinthagen via the Nonviolent Research Network as well as a number of other films I have come across since. Inclusion in the list does not constitute endorsement (some of these films are outstanding, while others are terrible), nor […]

Portals for Peace – Omni Film SeriesWeds Nov 20 – 7:00 pm – Omni CenterThis month showing“Come and See” If you need an escape from the Democratic debates, please come and see ComeandSee (U.S.S.R., 1985), Elem Klimov’s masterpiece about Partisan resistance to the Nazi invasion of Belarus during WW2, witnessed through the eyes (and ears) of a teenage boy, Florya, briefly thrown into the company of Glascha, a beguiling peasant girl. Cited by some as the greatest war movie ever made, it “never stoops to conventional heroic catharsis or genre movie narrative symmetry” (from the liner notes). Some of the images, captured […]

Sat Nov 16 – 6:30-8:30 pm – St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 224 East Ave, Fayetteville Sponsored by Arkansas United and Working Films. This is a special educational session of short films by Working Films. It features immigrant stories of what really happens on the borders of our country. All donations go to support Arkansas United, a Springdale-based support center for area immigrants doing amazing work statewide.