Educational and Institutional Video

72min.

Includes free “Coming Out Under Fire” book, while supplies last.
Coming Out Under Fire shoots to the heart of an issue that continues to be the focus of heated debates today: the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians in the military. Recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award and a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award, this internationally acclaimed film uncovers the World War II origins of a military policy which labeled homosexuals as mentally ill and sought their discharge as "undesirables."

Includes a free copy of the book, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (free book offer limited to stock on hand), an illustrated viewer’s guide, bonus footage, and special DVD features. Learn More

72min.

Coming Out Under Fire shoots to the heart of an issue that continues to be the focus of heated debates today: the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians in the military. Learn More

75 min.

Study and discussion guide included.
What happens when conservative Christian families have children who are homosexual? FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS goes to the heart of today's debates over homosexuality, where the personal is inextricably — and dramatically — bound up in the political. Learn More

Study and discussion guide included.
FORBIDDEN CITY, U.S.A. captures the story of San Francisco's notorious all-Chinese Forbidden City Nightclub during the Big Band era. "The Chinese Sinatra," "the Chinese Sophie Tucker," and the "Chinese Sally Rand" are just some of the original entertainers who strut their stuff and share triumphant and humorous tales of adventures in the cabarets of yesteryear. Learn More

89 min.

Study and discussion guide included.
Hollywood Chinese brings together a captivating portrait of filmmakers and iconic images for a high-spirited look at the ways the Chinese have been imagined in the movies, from silent classics to contemporary blockbusters. Produced and directed by Academy Award® nominee and triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, Hollywood Chinese stars a virtual who’s who of top Chinese and Chinese American talent, including Ang Lee, Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, B.D. Wong, Amy Tan, Wayne Wang, and David Henry Hwang. With special appearances by veteran actor Christopher Lee (Fu Manchu) and double Oscar® winner Luise Rainer (The Good Earth).
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77 min.

Study and discussion guide included. Winner of both the Directors and Filmmakers Trophy awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Licensed to Kill goes behind the media headlines of recent high-profile anti-gay murders to investigate their causes. Attacked by gay bashers in 1977, filmmaker Arthur Dong probes the hearts and minds of murderers convicted of killing gay men -- he faces them in one-on-one cell block interviews and asks them directly: "Why did you do it?"
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Study and discussion guide included.
Winner of both the Directors and Filmmakers Trophy awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Licensed to Kill goes behind the media headlines of recent high-profile anti-gay murders to investigate their causes. Attacked by gay bashers in 1977, filmmaker Arthur Dong probes the hearts and minds of murderers convicted of killing gay men -- he faces them in one-on-one cell block interviews and asks them directly: "Why did you do it?"
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Study and discussion guide included.
Winner of both the Directors and Filmmakers Trophy awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Licensed to Kill goes behind the media headlines of recent high-profile anti-gay murders to investigate their causes. Attacked by gay bashers in 1977, filmmaker Arthur Dong probes the hearts and minds of murderers convicted of killing gay men -- he faces them in one-on-one cell block interviews and asks them directly: "Why did you do it?"
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27 min.

The place is rural 1914 China and Lotus tells the heart-wrenching story of a mother with bound feet who must decide whether to subject her own daughter to this crippling tradition. For over thirty centuries, Chinese women's feet were maimed in the name of beauty and obedience. The custom was called "footbinding," and the fight against it triggered one of the most overlooked struggles for human rights in history. Learn More

14 min.

Study and discussion guide included.
Sewing Woman chronicles the bittersweet journey of one woman's determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to working class comforts in modern America. Learn More