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Special
Edition - Over 11 hours!
14 DVD
Culture Box Set
Disc I of XIV: Classic
Jewish Prejudice & Racism Films
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
For centuries and centuries
throughout history, all races and religions have been hurt by racism and
discrimination. One of the most compelling and unique racial histories belongs
to the Jewish culture. In the name of increasing awareness of the history of
Judaism and the struggles the Jews of the world have faced, we have put together
a DVD compilation of some of the most rare films of history pertaining to the
Jewish religion, Anti-Semitism, religious discrimination toward Judaism,
national origin discrimination and racism in America. Diversity and tolerance
are key to our survival, and so we extend this collection of video history in
the hopes of spreading education and awareness about the history of racism. Most
recent history about the Jewish culture, religion, people, history and beliefs
system revolves around the Jewish Holocaust. We have found some terrific films
touching on other important aspects of modern Jewish cultural history,
including: Judaism, Jewish diversity and Antisemitism. The focus of this DVD is on Jewish racism, but
discrimination of all races is covered.
Topics on this disc include:
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Anti-Semitism (Antisemitism)
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Jewish people, religion, culture, beliefs & history
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History of Judaism and Jews
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Racial discrimination
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Religious discrimination
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National origin discrimination
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Prejudice towards Jews and Judaism
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History of racism in America
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Cultural diversity
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Jewish Holocaust
Title #1:
American Girl
Part I, II and III
Production Date:1958
Running Time: 28
minutes
Brief Description:
An American girl pretends to be Jewish to see what happens and how she is
treated. She quickly finds out how prevalent racism and anti-Semitism are in the
United States.
Title #2: Don't
Be A Sucker
Production Date:
1947
Running Time: 17
minutes
Brief Description:
This film
shows that the US governmental and cultural system will completely disintegrate
if American people continue to embrace the ideals and practices of racism,
prejudice, discrimination and intolerance.
Title #3: Let Us
Break Bread
Production Date:
1954
Running Time: 26
minutes
Brief Description: Let Us Break Bread is a stunning film series about the struggles of
school administrators battling prejudice in mid-20th century America and how
they encouraged the social acceptance of racial integration in American schools
during the 50s and 60s.
Title #4: What
About Prejudice?
Production Date:1959
Running Time: 11
minutes
Brief Description: A positive film looking toward the social
benefits of keeping an open mind and embracing all cultures, regardless of
color, religion or creed. This film encourages teens to look within
themselves, as opposed to listening to the racist teachings of society, to find
the sources and reasons behind prejudice.
Disc II of XIV: Classic
Japanese Prejudice and Propaganda
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
During World
War II, the United States government produced a series of racist propaganda
films with the purpose of increasing discrimination, prejudice and racism toward
Japanese people, Japanese culture and Japanese Americans. These films were
produced in a dark era of racial discrimination and racism in America and
frankly, the films are quite appalling. However, they are vital educational
resources about WWII and the history of racism. In order to change the future,
we must learn from the mistakes of the past.
We have collected these prejudice
propaganda films and digitized them onto DVD format with the intention of
spreading these visual resources worldwide at a low cost so anyone can learn
about cultural diversity, racial and religious discrimination, national origin
discrimination and racial prejudice. Now you too can watch these videos and
learn how Japanese culture was viewed as "evil" for a period of time by fearful,
racist American citizens, soldiers and war hawk government interest groups.
These films vilified the Japanese
people while rationalizing the segregation of Japanese Americans into internment
war camps in the Midwest during WWII. This collection includes invaluable video
footage of these tragic camps and vintage United States government race
propaganda films.
Title #1:
Japanese Relocation Production Date:
1943 Running Time: 9 minutes Brief Description: An
extremely controversial film produced by the United States government about
Japanese American internment camps, Japanese Relocation shows a sad,
discriminatory piece of WWII American homeland history.
Title #2:
My Japan Production Date:
1945 Running Time: 16 minutes Brief Description:
This is a very violent propaganda film that intends to encourage the purchase of
war bonds by showing the Japanese culture in an extremely negative light.
According to this film, Japanese people are inherently evil and must be defeated
in war in order to protect the world. There is no shortage of racism,
discrimination and prejudice in this shocking video.
Title #3:
Challenge to Democracy Production Date:
1944 Running Time: 17 minutes Brief Description: Another shocker by
the American government that lays it on thick with heavy racial and religious
discrimination aimed at Japanese people and their culture. This race propaganda
film discusses how dangerous the Japanese American people are to domestic
American security and why the government was justified in separating them from
the general population with the development of internment camps during WWII.
Title #4:
Our Enemy: The Japanese Production Date:
1943 Running Time: 19 minutes Brief Description: As
is obvious by the simple, to-the-point title of this film, the content is not
objective and the imagery is highly biased and propagandistic. This film
describes Japanese culture as "primitive, murderous and fanatical" and was
created in an ostensive attempt to "understand"
Japanese culture for the purposes of "knowing your enemy so that you may defeat
him." A truly unconscionable, one-sided, racist film shown to soldiers and
civilians alike during a time of paralyzing fear and discrimination in the
world...
Discs III of XIV:Classic
Dangerous Strangers Films
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
These were the films that used to be shown in classrooms across America. The
American culture of fear is in full effect in all of these rare films. Children
beware....strangers, pedophiles, and molesters could be around every corner.
Title #1:
Strange Ones Production Date:19?? Running Time:
10 minutes Brief Description:
Vulnerable children stay away strangers. Molesters run rampant in the
streets. Police explain the dangers of strangers to a little girl in this
film.
Title #2:
Say No To Strangers Production Date:
19?? Running Time:
10 minutes Brief Description:
Fear of strangers film developed for 1st and 2nd graders. Watch out for
those creeps young ones.
Title #3:
Don't Talk To Strangers
Production Date:
1950 Running Time:
9 minutes Brief Description:
Dramatization of the dangers of strangers. Little children beware!
Title #4:
Dangerous Stranger Production Date:19?? Running Time:
9 minutes Brief Description:
Another classic beware of strangers film. The focus here is on strangers
in cars.
Title #5:
The Stranger
Production Date:
1957 Running Time:
15 minutes Brief Description:
A young girl is abducted and murder by a complete stranger.
Disc IV of XIV: Historic
Anthropology Films
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
We have collected four old great
anthropology films from 1947-1957 and put them onto one educational DVD
compilation. You can't find this DVD anywhere else!
Title #1: Man on the Land Production Date:
1951 Running Time:
15 minutes Brief Description:
Made with a pro-oil motive behind it, this animated classic shows how man came
to conquer famine and find their own form of utopian civilization in the United
States. What a great-looking cartoon!
Title #2: Social Class in
America
Production Date:
1950's Running Time:
15 minutes Brief Description:
This 1957 documentary follows three boys from three different social classes in
the United States. A fascinating look at the history of socioeconomic
determinism in the US that tries to push the idea that social classes in America
are determined before people are even born, despite what we like to believe.
Title #3:
Man and His Culture Production Date:
1954 Running Time:
14 minutes Brief Description:
How would an alien view mankind, peering in at our lives from a spaceship? That
kind of outside perspective is hard to imagine, but this cool 1950s film tries
to imagine it while giving an overview of different cultures of the Earth.
Title #4:
Southern Highlanders Production Date: 1947 Running Time: 15 minutes Brief Description: Great Smokey Mountains culture
is the centerpiece of Southern Highlanders, an awesome anthropological movie.
The daily lives of families from the Appalachian regions of Tennessee and North
Carolina are showcased, including great footage of dancing, music, crafts and of
course the excellent natural scenery of the area.
Disc V of XIV: Historic
Poverty Films
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
Explore the history of poverty in America first-hand with this special DVD
compilation of historical filmstrips featuring great movies from the Salvation
Army, the United Fund and other positive social organizations. There are six
films and 96 minutes of invaluable video history that helped bring about social
change in the United States.
Title #1:
Poverty in Rural America Production Date: 1956 Running Time:
11 minutes Brief Description:
This
documentary takes a raw and detailed examination of some of the poorest areas of
the United States. There are plenty of interviews with poor Southerners in this
vintage flick from the mid-1960s.
Title #2:A
Place to Live Production Date:
1948 Running Time:
24 minutes Brief Description:
This film
looks at the issue of housing situations for the elderly in the post war
economic boom. So many of the elderly during this period had struggled through
an economic depression that didn’t allow them to properly save for retirement.
Title #3:
With No One to Help Us Production Date:
1967 Running Time:
19 minutes Brief Description:
A group of
welfare mothers in Newark form together to fight the overpricing of grocery
items to welfare recipients. This is tremendously important documentary and a
vital teaching tool for African American studies. Amazing historical
documentation of the projects of Newark around the 1960s.
Title #4:
For the Living Production Date: 1949 Running Time:
22 minutes Brief Description:
Public Housing in New York City is discussed in this film, which has a lot of
amazing footage of NYC, including many of the areas worst neighborhoods and
slums.
Title #5:
The Long Street Production Date:
1957 Running Time:13
minutes Brief Description:
The
Salvation Army promotes many of its causes and projects in this video shot in
San Francisco and other parts of Florida.
Title #6:
Till It Helps Production Date:
1959 Running Time: 7 minutes Brief Description:
Late 1950s St. Louis is shown through the eyes of the unfortunate in this United
Fund donation commercial. Lots of great shots of the low-income St. Louis of
this time.
Disc VI of XIV: The
Holocaust & Concentration Camps
Please note this film contains graphic material. We purposefully did not
choose to show any pictures of the deceased or mass graves in the sample photos
section as to respect the dead and to ensure no misuse of such photos. Be
advised this film is much more graphic than the sample photos represent.
***Contains Graphic
Material***
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: This is a collection of real nazi concentration camp footage including torture,
death, starvation, mass graves and other unconscionable atrocities committed in
nazi camps.
Footage from the following concentration camps are shown: PENIG, OHRDRUF,
BREENDONCK, HANNOVER, ARNSTADT, MAUTHAUSEN, BUCHENWALD, DACHUA.
Title #1:
Nazi Concentration Camp Allied Forces Footage Production Date:
1940's Running Time: 26 minutes Brief Description:
This film was commissioned by President Eisenhower and is a collection of Allied
Forces video footage as they advanced into Germany with footage from a number of
concentration camps.
Title #2:
The First Concentration Camp Newsreel Shown in America Production Date:
1945 Running Time: 8 minutes Brief Description: The first newsreel of concentration camps footage
that was shown in America from April 26, 1945.
Disc VII and VIII XIV: Classic
Counterculture Films on 2 DVDs
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
Disc 1:
Title #1: Brink Of Disaster Production Date:
1972 Running Time: 29 minutes Brief Description:
This film aims to put a stop to activism in America because it “threatens” the
American way of life. The video promotes the idea that every American should
embrace capitalism and democracy and join the fight against the real
enemy...communists.
Title #2: Coffee
House Rendezvous Production Date:
1969 Running Time: 25 minutes
Brief Description:
This film shows that by the late 1960s, conservative social organizations such
as churches and community youth groups had already accepted the "Coffee House,"
once a cool, hip meeting spot for subversive counter culturists, as an
acceptable recreation place for wholesome teenagers. As the beatnik hangouts
were commercialized, spending time in the coffee house suddenly became a normal
activity for teens, and they were even encouraged to start coffee houses in
their own basements!
Title #3:
Drug Abuse: The Chemical Tomb Production Date:
1969 Running Time: 18 minutes Brief Description:
This is a propaganda film about the growing drug abuse problem in the United
States.
Disc
2: Title #4:Columbia
Revolts Production Date:
1969 Running Time: 50 minutes Brief Description:
Video footage from the 1969 Columbia University riots from before, during, and
after.
Title #5:
Greenwich Village Sunday Production Date:
1960s Running Time: 13 minutes Brief Description: In this flick, a young hipster
female explores Greenwich Village one Sunday and takes in the counterculture
sites and sounds from some of the most unique clusters of people in the scene.
Discs IX of XIV:Classic
Caribbean Island Film: Haiti
     
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
Explore the archipelago paradise of Haiti in this colorful
Caribbean travelogue combining footage of Haitian culture with lively historical
narration. Focusing on the Haitian tradition of democracy, the film presents a
tourist's view of the island before the tumultuous and despotic Duvalier
regime.
Title #1: Introduction
to Haiti Production Date:
1942 Running Time:
9 minutes Brief Description: This colorful
travelogue through Haiti couples narration about Haitian history with footage of
buildings, cityscapes, and Haitian culture.
Disc X of XIV: Classic ACLU Film
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: Operation Correction documents the anti-HUAC protests May
1960 in San Francisco. Protestors were demonstrating the HUAC hearings
that were taking place at City Hall. The protests became violent and
heightened when police used firehouses to force protestors, whom were mainly
students, away from the steps of City Hall. This film includes footage
from both the The House Un-American Activities Commission Hearings & the
protests.
Title #1:
Operation Correction Production Date:
1961 Running Time: 44 minutes Brief Description:
This film was created by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in response
to the US government campaign calling anyone opposed to The House Un-American
Activities Commission, a communist.
Disc XI of XIV: Classic
Appalachia Culture Films
  
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
This compilation documents daily life in the Appalachia
mountain regions of North Carolina and Tennessee during the 1950s. Topics
include mountain life, culture, food, bluegrass music, education, and farming.
Title #1:
The Children Must Learn Production Date:
1940 Running Time: 12 minutes Brief Description:
This propaganda film presents the argument that children growing up and living
in Appalachia, or any rural community for that matter, will end up uneducated
and malnourished. The film is filled with hierarchal undertones and refers
to the "simple life" as poverty. Despite its skewed vision, this film does
contain wonderful documentary footage of the daily lives of mountain
residents and does encourage better farming practices through education, which
gives the film a little piece of credibility.
Title #2:
Southern Highlanders Production Date:
1947 Running Time: 15 minutes Brief Description:
This is an amazing historical documentary about the mountain culture of the
residents of the Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee.
This cultural exploration film documents daily life in the mountains as
well as arts and crafts, foods, music, farming, and culture. This film was
sponsored by the Ford Motors Company.
Disc XII of XIV: Classic Homosexuality Film
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: In the traditional of ridiculous government sponsored social
propaganda films such as Reefer Madness, comes, Boys Beware, an outlandish film
about homosexuality. The film claims that homosexuality is a mental
illness, "a disease of the mind," and contagious. It goes on further to
claim that homosexuals are pedophiles preying on young school children.
This propaganda film is an a class all by itself.
Title #1:
Boys Beware Production Date:
1961 Running Time: 10 minutes Brief Description:
A police office offers tips to young men
about avoiding strangers because they could possible be homosexual child
molesters. The officer explains many of the techniques sexual predators
may use on children such as praise, companionship, money, presents and becoming
over personal to win over a child's trust. This film warns youth to avoid
hitchhiking and strangers at all costs. Homosexuals are presented as
pedophiles, sick and diseased, possibly aggressive, contagious, and as a wolf in
sheep's clothing. This film was produced by Sid Davis and The Inglewood
Police Department.
Disc XIII of XIV: Classic HUAC Film: Operation
Abolition
  
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
The House Committee on Un-American Activity (HUAC) tried to
stifle a Communist conspiracy called “Operation Abolition” in the late 1950s and
early 1960s that was supposedly trying to undermine the American government’s
fight against the spread of Communism. This film was made to showcase the 1960
California legal proceedings involving the “Operation Abolition” conspiracy. You
can’t find this DVD edition of this film anywhere else.
Title #1:
Operation Abolition Production Date:
1960 Running Time: 42 minutes Brief Description: This governmental film classic was made by the
House Committee on Un-American Activities to show the 1960 San Francisco
“Operation Abolition” courtroom battle in an anti-Communist light. Congressman
Francis Walter opens with a dialogue rich in HUAC propaganda that sets up the
tone of the entire movie. There is copious footage of courtroom arguments,
protests, demonstrations and riots. The California Communist Party members were
picketing in the streets outside as the policemen turned water hoses on them.
Prominent Communist activists are shown arguing their case and politicians and
Congressmen associated with HUAC are interviewed. This film is action packed,
from the scenes are vehement courtroom bickering to protestors being forcibly
dragged out against their will.
Disc XIV of XIV: Classic
Social Class Film
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: Are social classes pre-determined? This vintage film on DVD
aims to discover this question during an era (1957) when many citizens of
various races and social classes were still not extended complete civil rights.
Despite the American Dream of the pursuit of life, liberty and property - is our
society still basically hierarchical?
Title #1: Social Class in America Production Date:
1957 Running Time: 15 minutes
Brief Description:
This 1957 documentary follows three boys from three different social classes in
the United States. It’s a fascinating look at the history of socioeconomic
determinism in the U.S. that tries to push the idea that social classes in
America are determined before people are born, despite what we like to believe.
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