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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2
X 84 min)
explores one of the 20th century's most important but least understood
stories - how nonviolent power has overcome oppression and authoritarian
rule all over the world.
Languages: English,
Arabic, Burmese, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Mandarin,
Nepali, Polish, Russian, Spanish,Vietnamese
Available in NTSC
and PAL
The series, made by filmmaker Steve York, tells six stories:
the students sit-in movement and boycott that broke the system of segregation in Nashville, Tennessee; Gandhi's campaign against British rule in India; the consumer boycott campaigns against apartheid in South Africa; the valiant resistance of Danish citizens to Nazi invaders; Solidarity's factory occupations and strikes that won the right to free trade unions in Poland; and the people's movement that challenged and eventually defeated the dictatorship of Gen.Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
For
more information :
http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/
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