Video Underground November

A Force More Powerful

Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

Sunday Nov 13, 6:30 pm @ OMNI

VIDEO UNDERGROUND, OMNI VIDEO SERIES:   Causes, Consequences, and Cures of US Militarism, Wars, and Empire

Part One:   Sunday, November 13, 6:30, at OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology, 87 min.   Three sections:  From Gandhi sprang the Birmingham Sit-ins and eventual rejection of Jim Crow Segregation IN the South.  Gandhi’s Salt March, the Indian national uprising, and overthrow of British rule of India.   The boycotts in the Eastern Cape Province as part of the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa.

Part Two:   A Force More Powerful will continue Sunday, December 11, 6:30, 75 min.   It depicts the Danish resistance to Nazi Occupation, the Polish Solidarity Movement, and the Chilean democracy movement to oust Augusto Pinochet.

About the film

A Force More Powerful explores 6 successful nonviolent movements in the 20th century starting (Disk One) with Gandhi's leadership of the Indian Independence movement, the U.S. civil rights movement, the boycotts in the Eastern Cape Province as part of the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, and (Disk Two) continuing with the Danish resistance to Nazi Occupation, the Polish Solidarity Movement, and the Chilean democracy movement to oust Augusto Pinochet.

A Force More Powerful is a 1999 feature-length documentary film and a 2000 PBS series written and directed by Steve York about non-violent resistance movements around the world. Executive producers were Dalton Delan and Jack DuVall.     Peter Ackerman was the series editor and principal content advisor.

The film was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program.

A Force More Powerful is also the name of the companion book to the PBS series, authored by DuVall and Peter Ackerman.  The book was published with Palgrave Macmillan and has been recognized as an important resource for peace education. Call your bookstore to order a copy.   Nightbird has copies ready for purchase.

In 2006, the team behind the film, TV series, and book released a nonviolent video game developed by Breakaway Games with the same title. The video game was designed to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Ivan Marović, one of the leaders of the Serbian student movement called Otpor!, was one of the designers.