Video Underground - A Force More Powerful 2

A Force More Powerful

Continues Sunday, December 11 at OMNI Center

7:00p.m., 75 min. 

Contact: Gladys Tiffany 935-4422; Dick Bennett  442-4600,  

A FORCE MORE POWERFUL:   NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE -- IT CAN HAPPEN

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

The Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Film, A Force More Powerful, recounts six successful nonviolent revolutions.

A Force More Powerful depicts the Danish resistance to Nazi Occupation, the Polish Solidarity Movement, and the Chilean democracy movement to oust Augusto Pinochet.

The film will be shown at OMNI Sunday, Dec. 11, 6:30.   OMNI is located at 3274 Lee Ave., Fayetteville, a block north of Office Depot.

Part One was shown Sunday, November 13, 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.

More 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 Salt March, the U.S. civil rights movement/the first Sit-ins, the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa/the boycotts in the Eastern Cape Province 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.