Educational and Institutional Video
Videos for educational, institutional, library use.
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A Toisan Trilogy (DVD)
$275.00Sewing Woman: 14 min.
Living Music for Golden Mountains: 18 & 27 min.
Lotus: 27 min.
The first major wave of Chinese came to America primarily from southern China, with a heavy concentration from the Toisan (Taishan) region of Guangdong Province. For the first time together, A Toisan Trilogy presents three award-winning short films directed by Arthur Dong that draw upon this early period of Chinese migration to America: Sewing Woman, Lotus, and Living Music for Golden Mountains.
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Coming Out Under Fire (DVD)
$245.0072min.
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 -
Coming Out Under Fire (VHS)
$95.0072min.
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 -
Family Fundamentals (DVD)
$245.0075 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 -
Forbidden City, USA (DVD Collector's Edition)
$295.00Study 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 -
Hollywood Chinese (2-Disc Collector’s Edition)
$345.0089 minutes, plus over 3 1/2 hours of bonus material
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. This 2-disk collector’s edition packs in over 3.5 hours of bonus material, including the earliest known Asian American film produced in 1916, The Curse of Quon Gwon, restored and with a new original music score.
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Hollywood Chinese (Single DVD - Movie Only)
$295.0089 minutes
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. Learn More -
Hollywood Chinese - Exhibition Catalogue (Book)
$19.9534 pages, soft cover
A full color, lushly illustrated 34-page exhibition catalog from the “Hollywood Chinese: The Arthur Dong Collection” museum show. A perfect companion to the “Hollywood Chinese” DVD.
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Licensed to Kill (DVD)
$245.0077 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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Licensed to Kill (VHS, 53 Minute Version)
$95.00Study 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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Licensed to Kill (VHS, 77 Minute Version)
$95.00Study 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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Lotus (DVD)
$145.0027 min.
Lotus is also available in the DVD anthology, A Toisan Trilogy.
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 -
Sewing Woman (DVD)
$145.0014 min.
Sewing Woman is also available in the DVD anthology, A Toisan Trilogy.
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 -
Stories From the War on Homosexuality (3 DVD set)
$485.00Study and discussion guides included; plus free “Coming Out Under Fire” book, while supplies last.
DVD Box Set: Digitally re-mastered DVDs of Coming Out Under Fire, Family Fundamentals, and Licensed to Kill, with over 4 hours of additional material and bonus features, including more than 2 hours of previously unreleased footage, viewer guides for each title, and much more.
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