1. Lines in the Sand* 12 min. 1991. Donation $10-$15. Exposé of the Pentagon’s media coup during the 1991 war with Iraq. Featuring footage shot in Iraq right after the war, the film furthers the debate on how the Pentagon managed the news to manipulate public opinion. It traces the evolution of miliatry press and information control strategies from Vietnam through Central America in the 80s to the Persian Gulf war.

1. The Bedouin of Israel*
1998. 2 hrs. Sale $30
Filmed by a Fulbright Scholar living in Israel for a year, this film provides a rare glimpse into the life of the migratory Bedouin people under Israeli rule. Much of their traditionally held land has been taken over by Israeli “settlements,” and many of their people have been “transferred” to hamlets that offer no means of work for family providers and danger to the continuance of their culture. The film includes interviews with the Israel’s notorious Green Patrol.
2. Beyond the Mirage: The Face of the Occupation* 2002. 47 min.
Produced by Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East (PO Box 1086, Santa Barbara, CA 93102 ), this documentary is an attempt to hear from people who actually live in Israel and the Occupied Territories and get beyond what we read and hear in the American media.
3. Checkpoint: The Palestinians After Oslo (1997)* 1997. 58 min. Sale $27.
Directed by Tom Wright, this Studio 52 production documents the post-Oslo Peace Accord of 1993 situation. The film uses off-beat humor and historical insights provided by Palestinian and Israeli activist such as Naseer Arad and Hanan Ashrawi.
4. Dispatches: The Killing Zone 2003. Sale: $10. A Channel 4 (UK) production on the shocking violence in the Gaza Strip, including the killing of peace volunteer Rachel Corrie.
5. 500 Dunams on the Moon 2002. 48 min. Sale $25 Documents the 1948 depopulation of the Palestinian village of Ayn Hawd. The village was transformed into a Jewish artists’ colony in 1953 and renamed Ein Hod. This documentary tells the story of the village’s original inhabitants, who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away in the outlying hills. This new Ayn Hawd is not on official maps, is not recognized by Israeli law, and its inhabitants do not receive basic services such as water, electricity, or an access road.
6. Frontiers of Dreams and Fears* 2002. 58 min. Sale $43.95 Filmmaker Mai Masri traces the friendship that evolves between two Palestinian girls: Mona, from a Beirut refugee camp, and Manar, an occupant of Bethlehem’s Al-Dheisha camp under Israeli control. The film focuses on the plight of Palestinian children. The film won First Prize Documentary at the International Festival of Films by Women (Turin, 2002).
7. People and the Land* 1997. 57 min. Sale $25.00 A film by Tom Hayes. The filmmaker airdrops viewers into the universe of an occupied people, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging U.S. foreign policy and the conventions of the documentary form itself, the film examines the concrete realities of Israel’s conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of U.S. support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the U.S.
8. Children of Shatila 1999. 58 min. Sale $50.

1. Gaza Strip* 74 min. 2002. U.S. documentary filmmaker James Longley traveled to the Gaza Strip in January 2001. He stayed for more than 3 months, shooting over 75 hours of material. Filmed in verite syle, Gaza Strip covers the first major armed incursion into Area A by IDF forces and focuses on the realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military occupation.
2. Jenin Jenin* 54 min. 2002 Winner: Carthage Int’l Film Festival *Best Film* The film, directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor and director Mohammed Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army’s April 2002 attack on the refugee camp. The operation ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Banned in Israel, Jenin Jenin is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the co-producer of the film. On June 23 he was shot and killed by Israeli forces in besieged Yamun.

1. Palestine Is Still the Issue* 53 min. Video. 2002. Sale $25. Rental $85. Sale to grassroots groups: $39.00 plus shipping. In 1977 award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger made a documentary on Palestine. In 2001 he returned to the West Bank and Gaza, and to Israel, to film this documentary. He asks why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the UN more than 50 years ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo: refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times. He asks what this denial of basic human rights means to the region and to the wider world.
2. Paying the Price: Killing the Children* 74 or 48 min. Video. 2000. Long version: Sale $275, Rental $95
Short version: Sale $225, Rental $75. Sale for grassroots groups: $39.00 plus shipping. Journalist John Pilger investigates the effects of UN sanctions on the people of Iraq. He takes the former UN Asst. Secretary-General, Denis Halliday, back to the crippled country for the first time since Halliday quit in protest of the sanctions in 1998. Ten years of extraordinary isolation have killed more people in Iraq than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
3. In Whose Interest? 27 min. 2002. VHS public performance purchase $195, rental $45 Filmmaker David Kaplowitz questions the effects of U.S. foreign policy over the past 50 years. Revealing a pattern of intervention, the film focuses on Guatemala, Vietnam, East Timor, El Salvador, and Palestine/Israel. Archival footage, photographs, and media tidbits are interwoven with personal accounts and commentary. Recommended for use with grades 10-12, college, and adult audiences.

1. Stuck with the Truth* 30 min. 2002. Video Sale Can$30; US$25; Leader’s and study guides included.
This video is based on the February 2001 Sabeel international solidarity gathering in Jerusalem and includes clips from conference speakers, interviews with key Sabeel members, scenes from worship services, and background footage of Palestinian communities in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The film is intended primarily for the education of faith groups seeking insight into the conflict in Israel/Palestine, with the hope that viewers will be inspired to become active in striving for justice and peace for the region.

1. Come September* Arundhati Roy discusses the war in Iraq, U.S. foreign policy, the current situation in Palestine, and corporate globalization in this speech delivered in New York in September 2002. Since September 11, Roy has emerged as one of the most eloquent critics of the Bush administration’s so-called war on terror. Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker-prize-winning novel The God of Small Things, and of The Cost of Living and Power Politics. Her newest book, War Talk, is a collection of essays analyzing issues of war and peace, democracy and dissent, racism and empire.

1. Crossing the Lines* about 60 min. VCR. Interviews with Israelis and Palestinians filmed during “Compassionate Listening Delegations” in 2001 and 2002 led by Rabbi Leah Green.
2. Encounter in Ramallah 53 min. Video. Sale $295. Rental $75. In 1996 two soldiers, one Israeli and one Palestinian, fire their automatic weapons, wounding each other. The film traces how these two “brothers,” descendants of Abraham, ended up enemies. Not strong in analysis.
3. In the Line of Fire 47 min. Video. Sale $325. Rental $75. This film exposes the harsh reality of covering news from Israel and the Occupied Territories. The documentary follows two Reuters cameramen, Mazen Dana and Nael Shyoukhi, as they work in the West Bank city of Hebron. Although they try to stay on the sidelines, journalists often find themselves the target of attack by the Israeli army. After years of being the object of violence themselves, the Hebron cameramen decided to compile a video archive of beatings, shootings, and humiliation they have endured. For the first time this video archive is brought to light in this film. Israel’s army has investigated only a handful of cases despite vigorous lobbying from The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Sans Frontiers and the Foreign Press Association in Israel.
3. Speaking of Peace 32 min. Video. Sale $195. Rental $55. Israelis and Palestinians, working on issues of human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories, speak about the abuses of the Israeli military occupation: torture in interrogations, confiscation of land, and the destruction of Palestinian homes.

1. Palestine: Story of a Land, Parts 1* and 2* 60 min. each part. Video. First Run/Icarus.
Two-part film by Simone Bitton. Succinct and effective history of Palestine in the 18th and 19th centuries, the subsequent establishment of Israel and the development of the Occupied Territories.
2. The Bombing* 59 min. 1999. Video. Sale $390; Rental $75 A film by Simone Bitton. The personal stories of the victims, the bombers, and the grieving families after three Palestinian youths blow themselves up on a downtown Jerusalem street on September 4, 1997. The strength of the film lies in its presentation of viewpoints rarely seen or heard. It allows us to glimpse a complex, human reality usually hidden by sound bites, experts, and politicians.
3. Bethlehem Diary 57 min. Video. 2001. Sale $390. Rental $75. This film by Antonia Caccia focuses on two Palestinian families and a human rights lawyer around Christmas of 2000. The town of Bethlehem has been closed off by the Israeli army. Violence and economic uncertainty affect the lives of the people whose everyday lives we witness in this film. The film was featured in the 2002 Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
4. Close, Closed, Closure 52 min. 2002. Video Sale $390. Rental $75. A film by Ram Loevy. Enclosed by an electric fence, the Gaza Strip covers 111 square miles. Lacking internal resources, it is one of the poorest places on Earth. Like a prison with one million inmates--that’s how the people of Gaza regard their land. Shot in and around Gaza, the film shows the scars of 35 years of the Israeli occupation on both societies.
5. Human Weapon 54 min. 2002. Video Sale $390. Rental $75. Directed by Ilan Ziv, the film provides an indepth examination of the complexity of the suicide bombing phenomenon. Filmed in Iran, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Israel, Palestine, Europe, and the United States, Human Weapon interviews key militants and supplements dramatic footage with powerful human stories. The film is not primarily concerned with suicide bombing as a part of a particular conflict but rather it tries to understand how this weapon unleashes a different kind of warfare.
6. Naji Al-Ali: An Artist with Vision* 52 min. 1999. Video. Sale $390. Rental $75. The late Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali was an uncompromising critic of a regressive Arab political culture and of Western intervention in Arab affairs for over 30 years. He was shot and killed in London in 1987. It has not been revealed--after extensive investigation by Scotland Yard and by MI 5, whether he was murdered by the Mossad or the PLO.
7. The Settlers 52 min. 2001. Video. Sale $390; Rental $75. A film by Ruth Walk. In the midst of the densely populated Palestinian city of Hebron in the Occupied Territories, a seven Orthodox families and their 43 children constitute the Jewish settlement of Tel Rumeida. The community refuses to acknowledge the existence of their Arab neighbors. Despite the settlers’ distrust of the media, the filmmaker built trust relationships with the families. The resulting accessibility provides a unique insight into their lives and psychology.
8. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times* 60 min. 2002. Video. Power and Terror presents the latest in Noam Chomsky’s thinking through interviews and talks he gave during the spring of 2002. As he has done countless times since September 11, Chomsky places that terrorist attack in the context of American foreign intervention throughout the postwar decades--in Vietnam, Central America, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the perpetrator is a well-organized band of Muslim extremists or a powerful state, Chomsky challenges the United States to apply to its own actions the moral standards it demands of others.

1. Sucha Normal Thing* 2004. 60 min. (VHS) NTSC $20, (VHS) PAL TBA, DVD $20 + $4 Shipping/handling. In October 2003 Rebecca Glotfelty and 6 others from Traverse for Peace in northern Michigan traveled to Occupied Palestine (West Bank). During their 4-week tour, including visits to Hebron, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Jerusalem and numerous small villages, Glotfelty interviewed both Palestinians and Israelis regarding the economic, social, and political situation in both Israel and the West Bank. The documentary captures the uncertainty of a “normal” day for average Palestinians, and the frustration and despair of both peoples, as well as the courage and commitment of those working for a just peace.

1. * 20 min. VCR. The film describes not only the terrible impact home demolitions have had on Palestinians, it also outlines the Rebuilding Homes Campaign’s international movement to rebuild Palestinian homes and to encourage peace through strategic Palestinian and Israeli cooperation. It is designed especially for home audiences to encourage financial support for this joint Israeli-Palestinian effort (Global Exchange in San Francisco is the group’s U.S. fiscal sponsor).
OTHER FILMS
2. Dehumanized in Gaza: The Movie. Filmed between May 2000 and October 2001 by a Palestinian crew at the request of B’Tselem, human rights group in Israel.
3. * New Day Films, 22D hollywood Ave., Hohokus, NJ 07423. Tel: 888-367-9154. email: tmcndy@aol.com. 82 min. 1984 Even as the political status of Gaza and the West Bank evolve, the uncertainties and harshness of land confiscations and military occupation remain key. Produced in 1984, Gaza Ghetto explores the very issues that caused the first intifida and continue at the heart of the conflict.
4. Hidden Wars* JusticeVision, 1425 W. 12th St., #262, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Tel: 213-747-6345. email: democracyu@aol.com Web: http://www.justicevision.org Documented material on the Gulf War. Interviews with Ramsey Clark (former U.S. Atty. General), Denis Halliday (former UN official in Iraq), Phyllis Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies), Scott Ritter ( former member of UNSCOM), Dr. Labib Kamhawi, (president of Human Rts. Assn. of Jordan), Michel Haj (journalist), and others.
5. Palestine, Under Siege* 41 min. 2002.
6. Tragedy in the Holy Land: The Second Uprising* 71 min. 2001. MPI Media Group. Use only for home viewing unless otherwise authorized www.mpihomevideo.com. A view of the history of the Middle East through Palestinians eyes. This provocative documentary addresses the core issues of land and identity. It probes the evolution of the conflict in Palestine from a historical perspective typically unknown to U.S. audiences.