Force More Powerful, A: A Century of Non-Violent Struggle
- Synopsis
- A series of six half-hour programmes tracing the use of non-violent struggle around the world in the 20th century. Highlighting examples from various countries, the series identifies the elements of non-violent action and how the techniques have developed over time to overcome oppression. Narrated by Ben Kingsley.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2003
- Year of production
- 2000
- Documentation
- Book of the same title by Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall available separately.
- Subjects
- HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Politics & government
- Keywords
- Chile; civil rights movements; Denmark; history of India; history of the 20th century; Poland; political movements; South Africa; World War II; caving
Distribution Formats
- Type
- VHS
- Format
- PAL
- Price
- £30.00 (+VAT) each
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 6 x 30 minutes
- Year
- 2003
Sections
- Title
- India: Defying the crown
- Synopsis
- In India in the 1930s, after Gandhi had returned from South Africa, he and his followers adopted a strategy of refusing to co-operate with British rule. Through civil disobedience and boycotts, they successfully loosened their oppressors’ grip on power and set India on the path to freedom.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Nashville: We were warriors
- Synopsis
- In the 1960s, disciplined and strictly non-violent, black college students in Nashville, Tennessee successfully desegregated Nashville’s downtown lunch counters in five months, becoming a model for the entire civil rights movement.
until the democratic opposition organized to defeat Pinochet in a 1988 referendum. - Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Poland: We’ve caught God by the arm
- Synopsis
- In 1980, striking workers in Poland demanded independent unions. Using their leverage to negotiate unprecedented rights in a system where there was no power separate from the communist party, they created a union, Solidarity. Driven underground by a government crackdown in 1981, Solidarity re-emerged in 1989 as Poland’s governing political party.
- - Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- South Africa: Freedom in our lifetime
- Synopsis
- In 1985, a young South African named Mkhuseli Jack led a devastating consumer boycott in the Eastern Cape province. These and other mass nonviolent sanctions awakened whites to black grievances and fatally weakened business support for the apartheid regime.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Denmark: Living with the enemy
- Synopsis
- In April, 1940, German military forces invaded Denmark. Danish leaders adopted a strategy of resistance disguised as collaboration. Later the underground resistance rescued all but a handful of Denmark’s seven thousand Jews, and staged sabotage and strikes against the Germans, undermining the Nazis’ objectives.
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Title
- Chile: Defeat of a dictator
- Synopsis
- In 1983, Chilean workers initiated a wave of nonviolent protests against the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Severe repression failed to stop the protests, and violent opposition failed to dislodge the dictatorship.
- Duration
- 39 mins
Distributor
- Name
TVE
- General email: tve@tve.org.uk.Sales and outreach: distribution@tve.org.uk
- Web
- http://tve.org/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- + 91 (11) 26 410 684
- Address
- 46 Bloomsbury Street
London
WC1B 3QJ - Notes
- TVE works with partners globally to produce films on environment and development issues, as well as health and human rights. Most of the 600 films are available for sale on DVD for educational use. Previously known as Television Trust for the Environment.
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