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  1. Program on United Nations, peace, and nuclear arms

    Presented by The Center for War/Peace Studies. Host: Richard Hudson. Program proposes a "binding triad system" to deal with international conflicts. Includes a weighted voting system in the General Assembly of the United Nations: 1) one nation, one vote; 2) population; 3) financial contributions. This would allow support from the most nations, the most people, and the greatest economic and political powers in the world. Additionally, the Center proposes binding resolutions in the General Assembly for peacekeeping forces and economic sanctions. Conferences in New York with many diplomats sim...

  2. Series on peace and nuclear arms

    Association for Counselor Education and Supervision presents the Quest for Peace series with host John M. Whiteley. Guest: Helen Caldicott, MD, founder of Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament and author of "Nuclear Madness" and "Missile Envy." Program discusses how nuclear technology threatens life on the planet. Caldicott argues that nationalism means extinction and that we must instead pursue a safer world and direct human instincts to altruism, pride, and love.

  3. Program on peace and nuclear arms

    Narrated by Bill Kurtis. Rolling text at start of program: "I've recently returned from the Soviet Union after spending six months there. If all goes well, we'll be out of the woods in a few years as far as the danger of nuclear war is concerned. But it could go dreadfully wrong. And we now live in the most unstable period we have ever seen since 1945....The possibility of a right wing coup d'etat, even of civil war in the Soviet Union cannot be excluded. The ultra conservative regime that would emrege would need foreign enemies. And this is still a nation with thousands of nuclear weapons ...

  4. Program on the Bush administration, peace, and nuclear arms

    Host: Marvin Kalb. First aired during Election 1988 as part of the national security debate. Program discusses how the Bush administration could reduce the risk of nuclear war while maintaining national security. It assumes our greatest challenge is making sure that nuclear weapons are never used again. Program offers four policy options: 1) military superiority; 2) arms control; 3) building missile defenses; and 4) eliminating all nuclear weapons. The segment provokes discussion about the nuclear future.

  5. Program on peace and nuclear arms

    Presented by the Center for Defense Information and Paul Newman. Narrated by Paul Newman. Program suggests that humans direct all resources towards creating a future safe from the threat of nuclear devastation. It argues for a comprehensive test ban to stop nuclear production and probable explosion. Finally, Newman urges the public to act, to have Reagan put a test ban on the negotiating table, and to make a step toward reason, and hence, a step away from war. Eisenhower quote rolling on screen at end of program: "...people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governme...

  6. Program on war

    Presented by the National Film Board of Canada. Gwynne Dyer, a journalist, military historian, and officer of three Navies, presents his commentary on the evolution of modern war. Tape includes episodes 1, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1: "The Road to Total War," describes what war has become and traces the road that led the great powers to the concept of total war, 00:00:55 to 00:58:08. Director: Barbara Seals. Producer: Barbara Seals. Cinematographer: Bonnie Andrukaitis; Simon Leblanc; Michael Mahoney; Serge Lafortune. 4: "The Deadly Game of Nations," explains the reasons why people support governments tha...

  7. Program on nuclear weapons

    Host: Carl Sagan. Guest: George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982), designed and built the chemical charge that triggered the first nuclear explosion. Sagan interviews Kistiakowsky about his involvement in nuclear weapons. Program discusses the history of the nuclear arms race and the "grave threat" of the human future. Kistiakowsky says that a nuclear war is probable and that only our efforts will help stop it.

  8. Program on peace and feminism

    Presented by the Academy award-winning filmmaker Vivienne Verdon-Roe. Taped for Red Mt. Productions at the Choices for the Future Symposium, June 1987, Windstar Foundation. Program discusses nuclear war, peace, and feminism. Verdon-Roe urges the public to care for each other and the security of the world. She wants to move people to lives of compassion, involvement, and knowledge. Rolling text at end of program: "Please help spread the message. Show our videos to your friends and family. Give them a present."

  9. Docu-drama on the Nuremberg trials

    Stanley Kramer's docu-drama examining Nazism and the Nuremberg Trials.

  10. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda film (part)

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jaffa, Nablus. Palestine, 1938

    Jaffa-Jerusalem road, the proposed "corridor" in the British partition scheme. Driving on the road from Jerusalem to Jaffa. Several scenes from a moving vehicle showing road lined with cactus and orange groves. Road sign reading "JERUSALEM-LYDDA-RAMLE." Shot of the main highway from Jerusalem to Jaffa from above. 01:14:58 Policeman directing traffic in Jaffa, street scenes, square in Jaffa. Good view of Jaffa from Franciscan monastery, homes. Harbor at night. 01:16:11 Jaffa's biggest cinema "Alhambra." Jaffa street scenes, people, shops. Brief shot, EXT of printing press for "Falastin" (the...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Brief shot, harbor, loading ship. CU, man. 01:24:06 Arabs hauling bags of oranges. Crane loading oranges for export on French SS Champollion. Passengers on deck. 01:24:43 "Gerusalemme / Trieste" ship at dock. Soldiers. Loading and unloading crates, oranges. 01:25:46 CUs, orange boxes. 01:25:57 Several scenes of unloading donkeys with a crane. 01:26:25 Polish immigrants on board ship. More shots of Poles. 01:26:57 Stevedores working with Haifa in BG. Oranges for export loaded onto Norwegian ship. 01:27:32 CU, Mr. William Peasley, Director of Customs and Excise, talking to British Police Serg...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Working Girls Hostel, women reading magazines in the rest room. EXT of building. Hand weaving, chair caning. Sign on door, "Beth Hachalutzoth" (built in 1936). 01:34:18 INT, bank in Tel Aviv where immigrants receive loans, people applying for loans, receiving money. 01:34:54 EXT, street, laborers gathered outside main entrance of Labor headquarters building in Tel Aviv where registration and distribution of work to all laborers gets processed. 01:35:19 Construction for housing project/cooperative in south Tel Aviv, land provided by the Jewish National Fund. Children crossing street. Sign at...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Views of Tel Aviv harbor. Boats (lighters) used to load/unload ships are docked. Workers repair boats. Bags of flour imported from America piled in customs sheds. 01:42:51 Loading and unloading goods at Jaffa harbor, a few miles from Tel Aviv (This harbor was used for imports and exports of Tel Aviv until the beginning of the Arab strike on April 19, 1936 when a new port was built in Tel Aviv.) CUs, loading and unloading citrus. Workers, cranes, donkeys. CU, an Arab supervises workers. Orange juice seller. View of Jaffa harbor from crane, man on crane. Shot of harbor with Tel Aviv in BG. Re...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    EXT, main entrance to Labor headquarters in Tel Aviv. Filing paperwork. Laborers present passbooks, CUs, pass. Reading notices in hall. Entering labor restaurant, eating, CUs, typical dish in labor restaurant. 01:48:59 INT, Tel Aviv city hall, meeting of Executive Committee of Labor Federation in Tel Aviv following the attack on Hanuta. David Remez, one of labor leaders in Palestine, presides at the meeting. At his left is Mereminsky, in charge of labor disputes. Eliahu Golumb, veteran labor leader, reports on the attack. Other meeting scenes, speaker, chairman, showing woman member of the ...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    In town of Ness Ziona, Arabs and Jews in street, returning from work. The town represents a pure partition scheme, as the left side of road is occupied by Arabs and the right by Jews. 02:13:23 Ben Shemen settlement, a junior agricultural village near Tel Aviv for training young boys in farm work. Boys and girls folk-dancing, playing musical instruments, swimming/diving in pool, editing and printing their own newspaper. 02:15:17 Palestine Orchestra, founded in 1936 by violinist Bronislaw Huberman, in its second season. Under the direction of Issay Dobrowen, conducting the last movement of th...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    In the Samaria Plain, workers develop wasteland, leveling ground. Views of Hedera, the largest settlement in Samaria, showing houses, gardens, fields, etc. with sand dunes in the BG. Tractor plowing fields. Orange plantations. 02:23:52 Farming scenes at Arab farm, plowing among orange trees, weeding in orange grove, CU, Arab diverting waters in irrigation canal. Cows feeding on Arab farm, coming out of stable. 02:25:13 Men and women picking oranges in one of the largest plantations in Rehoboth (the main town in the orange-growing belt of Palestine), CUs. 02:25:55 Packing oranges. CU, Yemeni...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938 Chaim Weizmann & others

    02:28:16 EXT of The Daniel Sieff Research Institute at Rehovot. INT scenes, Dr. Chaim Weizmann's lab, research, main entrance, name of institute. Dr. Weizmann leaving the Institute by car in company of Brig. Harrison, Commander of the Sarafand Army Base and 2) with Gen. Haining, Commander in Chief of British troops in Palestine. 02:29:54 City walls of Jerusalem, convoy/vehicles at bottom of hill, pedestrians walking on road. Western wall. 02:30:39 Jerusalem street scenes, automobiles and pedestrians. 02:30:58 Dr. Weizmann leaving the Sieff Institute by car with Gen. Haining, Commander in Ch...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Military convoy of the Second Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment (stationed in Haifa) on the way to Qadun village. The convoy was made up of lorries, machine guns, men, officers, donkeys, cannon, and medical units with the objective to find terrorists around Attil village. Soldiers leave barracks, drive on road. Camels proceed. Convoy going through village with Arabs drawing water in BG. Villager watches convoy. Machine guns. Fields just before Attil village. Arab explains directions to Army. Convoy unloads bombs, mortars, machine guns, donkeys. Soldiers awaiting orders, eating, load...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Black Watch Regiment troops reviewed by the High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael. Regiment lines up, arrival of the colors, inspection by MacMichael and Gen. Wavell. Black Watch troops march. High Commissioner and General salute. 02:44:11 On the road from Jerusalem to Jericho to the Dead Sea, Black Watch Troops put on a demonstration to let a military convoy through. Soldiers look though binoculars and record planes flying above in a book. Prisoner being searched (scene staged by military). 02:45:18 Brief scene (unrelated) of men smoking cigarettes. 02:45:26 Troops get off...