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Film Lending Library

Choose a film. Read the Borrowing Procedure. Send a Lending Agreement.

Borrowing

Procedure

Step -1. Choose a film and click on this CALENDAR SCHEDULE to see if the film is available. If there are any showings for the film within 10 days of your showing date, click on each one and read the descriptions of when the film is going out and coming back.

Step 2. Send a request by email or mail, with a completed copy of the Film Lending Agreement. Borrowing is limited to Quaker Meetings in New York Yearly Meeting and their members. (Click HERE for a copy)

Step 3. We'll reply to discuss any questions and arrangements, if needed, and approve the loan.

Step 4. We'll mail the film to you.

Step 5. You mail the film back in the stamped, self-addressed, envelope we provide, with your reimbursement of $10 per mailing.

Mail: Old Chatham Quakers' Film Lending Library

% Old Chatham Quaker Meeting

524 Pitt Hall Rd

Old Chatham, NY 12136

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Film Lending List

This is our list of films we can lend. Below is a list we've shown and recommend.

Updated periodically. Last update: 1-25-08

Contact us to receive automatic notices about new films and other changes in this list. Please do your own computer searches to read reviews and learn more about the films.

WAR

Let Them Stay
1. Description: Information about and request for support for Iraq war resisters who have taken refuge in Canada. 3 Time: 28 minutes 4. Format: VHS Video 5. Ratings: General 6. Terms of showing: Standard.

ENVIRONMENT

The End of Suburbia
1. Description: How will life be when oil runs out? Have we reached "peak" yet? 2. When released: 2004 3. Time: 78 minutes 4. Format: DVD 5. Ratings: General. 6. Terms of showing: Standard.

The Doctor: The Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children
1. Description: German doctor investigates the effects of depleted uranium on children. 2. When released: 2004 3. Time: 53 minutes 4. Format: DVD 5. Ratings: General. 6. Terms of showing: Standard.

GAY AND LESBIAN ISSUES

The Power of Harmony
1. Description: Personal stories of gay men singers in the Turtle Creek Corale of Dallas, Texas. 2. When released: 2005 3. Time: 70 minutes 4. Format: DVD. 5. Rating: Not Rated. 6. Terms of showing: Standard terms. plus you may not make copies of this film or let others use it.

Fish Can't Fly
1. Description: About gay men and lesbian women who go through de-programming without success. 2. When released: 2005 3. Time: 83 minutes 4. Format: DVD 5. Rating: Not Rated. 6. Terms of showing: Standard.

CREATIVITY/HUMAN POTENTIAL

The Upward Spiral
1. Description: A new, energizing way to approach life.
2. When released: 2006? 3. Time: 57 min. 4. Format: DVD-computer 6. Terms of showing: Standard.

NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS FOR CHANGE

Sixteen Decisions
1. Description: A Bangladeshi woman borrows money from the Grameen Bank and changes her life. Advise from the Grameen Bank. 2. When released: 2006. 4. Format: VHS & DVD 5. Time: 59 min. 6. Terms of showing: Standard

PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE WITH PEACE

American Blackout

1. Description: A provocative look at the 2004 election, centering on the black vote. 2. When released: 2005 3. Time: 86 minutes. 4. Format: DVD 6. Terms of showing: Standard.

Recommended Films List

These are other films that we have shown, but have not receive permission to include in the lending library so far. We recommend them, but you'll need to find another copy to show.. Formats, when listed, are for the one we showed.

WAR

Occupation Dreamland
1. Description: Follows a group of soldiers as they patrol the streets of Baghdad. 2. When released: 2005 3. Time: 79 minutes. 5. Ratings: Unrated.

Blood Makes the Grass Grow
1. Description: The process of six young military enlistees as they become COs. 2. When released: 1997 3. Time: 46 minutes 4. Format: VHS video 5. Ratings: High school to adult.

The Ground Truth
1. Description: Listen to the stories of servicemen who have come back from Iraq and their families. 2. When released: 2006 3. Time: 78 minutes. 4. Format: DVD 5. Ratings: R (reality of war)

Paradise Now
1. Description: Two young Palestinian men are enlisted to become suicide bombers in Israel. 2. When Released: 2005. 3. Time: 91 min. 4. Format: DVD. 5. Rating: PG13 (parents strongly cautioned)

CREATIVITY/HUMAN POTENTIAL

Sir! No Sir!
1. Description: The suppressed story of the GI Movement to end the War in Vietnam. 2. When Released: 2005. 3. Time: 49 min. 4. Format: DVD.

CREATIVITY/HUMAN POTENTIAL IN PRISONS:

What I Want My Words To Do To You
1. Description: Eve Ensler's writing class at a women's prison in New York State . 2. When Released: 2002 3. Time: 82 minutes 4. Format: DVD

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
1. Description: A form of meditation which is used with success in Indian prisons, and taught in the United States. 2. When released: 2006 3. Time: 52 min. 4. Format: DVD

The Last Graduation
1. Description: How education helps men in prison, before the Marist College program is closed down. 2. When released: 1998 3. Time: 50 minutes. 4. Format: VHS.

BIOGRAPHY

Bonhoeffer
1. Description: Pastor, Pacifist, Nazi Resister -- How does a pacifist react to Hitler when given the opportunity to change history?
2. When released: 1999 3. Time: 90 minutes 4. Format: VHS video
5. Rating: General.

Brother Outsider
1. Description: The story of Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist.
2. When released: 2002 3. Time: 83 minutes 4. Format: VHS video
5. Ratings: General.

William Sloane Coffin
1. Description: An American Prophet -- The amazing life of this amazing activist, preacher, lover-of-life. 2. When released: 2004 3. Time: 52 minutes 4. Format: VHS video
5. Ratings: General

Redemption
1. Description: The story of Tookie Williams (founder of Crips, author, anti-gang activist, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize) who was executed. 2. When released: 2004. 3. Time: 45 minutes.

NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS FOR CHANGE

A Force More Powerful These films are from a documentary series called "A Force More Powerful", for which a separate book was also published. All of this material is of excellent quality.

Bringing Down a Dictator
1. Description: The non-violent overthrow of Milosivec in Serbia.

Amandla
1. Description: The times and music of the anti-apartheid movement in So. Africa. 2. When released: 2003 3. Time: 103 minutes 4. Format: DVD 5. Ratings: (Rated PG-13)

Iron Jawed Angels
1. Description: The efforts of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to get women the right to vote in 1920. 2. When released: 2004 3. Time: 104 minutes 4. Format: DVD. 5. Ratings: Not Rated.

Paying for Peace
1. Description: War tax resistance in the United States. 3. Time: 29 minutes. 4. Format: VHS.

The Long Walk to Freedom
1. Description: About the civil rights movement 2. When released: 2003 3. Time: 30 minutes 4. Format: VHS

PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE WITH PEACE

An Act of Conscience
1. Description: Randy Kehler's and Betsy Corner's life-long commitment to pacifism -- The IRS took their house in lieu of taxes, but the community rallied in support. 2. When released: 1997 3. Time: 90 minutes. 4. Formats: VHS and DVD

ACLU FREEDOM FILES
1. Description: A set of 10 film, distributed together, on topics of importance to freedom, prepared by the most well known association of lawyers protecting people's rights in the United States. The topics are: Racial Profiling, Dissent, Drug Wars, Religious Freedom, The Supreme Court, Youth Speak, Women's Rights, Beyond the Patriot Act, Voting Rights, Gay and Lesbian Rights. 2. When released: 2006? 3. Time: Each about 28 minutes long.. 4. Format: One VHF video

Not in Our Name
1. Description: Readings and performances by the signers of the "Not in our Name" statement of conscience, including Ed Asner, Danny Glover, Pete Seeger, Howard Zinn, and more. 2. When released: 2003 3. Time: 57 minutes. 4. Format: VHS video

The Good War and those who Refused to Fight it
1. Description: The Story of World War II Conscientious Objectors. 3. Time: 60 minutes. 4. Format: VHS video

OTHER

The Art of Being Human

1. Description: 2. When Released: 1994. Time: 30 min. 4. Format: VHS 5. Rating: Not Rated .

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