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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
Variant Title:Nashville: We were warriors; India: Defying the Crown; South Africa: Freedom in our lifetime; Denmark: Living with the Enemy; Poland: We've caught God by the arm; Chile: Defeat of a dictator
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Force More Powerful
Media Type:DVD
Videocassette
Release Date:2000
Audience:Higher Education
High School
Running Time:174 min.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 study guide + 1 community resource and discussion guide.
Language:English
Author:Written, produced and directed by Steve York; A production of York Zimmerman Inc. and WETA Washington, D.C.
Subject:History
Politics and Government
Subheading:History, Modern (19th-20th Century)
Human Rights
Social & Political Protest
Region:South Asia
Country:India



Abstract:

This six-part series tells one of the 20th century's most important and least-known stories-- how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. In South Africa in 1907, Mohandas Gandhi led Indian immigrants in a nonviolent fight for rights denied them by white rulers. The power that Gandhi pioneered has been used by underdogs on every continent and in every decade of the 20th century, to fight for their rights and freedom. Discusses how Gandhi's non-violent method of political protest was used to fight segregation in 1960s Nashville, Tennessee; liberate India from British colonial rule; weaken South African apartheid; undermine German the occupational presence in 1940s Denmark; motivate the Polish Solidarity movement in the 1980s; and protest the dictatorship of Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet || Documentary, companion book, and game are also available at http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/




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