Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip Zimbardo skyrocketed to infamy in the social psychology world after leading the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971. The experiment was designed to test the virtues of "good" and "evil" and to determine w..
Rage Against the Darkness: Gert's Secret
Gert is 102, a happy survivor of one of society's unhappiest institutions: a nursing home. While others barely survive emotionally, Gert maintains her charm and her spirit. She's been a feisty, independent lady all her l..
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
A portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories about Tevye the milkman became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Aleichem (1859-1916) was a rebellious wordsmith who created a new genre of literat..
Solution-Focused Brief Counseling: Two Actual Interviews with a Child
Initial and follow-up interviews show a real case-Kelly, age 10, is doing poorly in school due to difficulty in concentrating following recent accidents and health problems in his family. We see Gerald's five-step proces..
Sound and Fury: Six Years Later
In this follow up film, Heather Artinian and her two brothers have received cochlear implants. Her speech is now understandable. She attends a mainstream school. She can function in the hearing world. Her father, who ini..
Sound and Fury: The Communication Wars of the Deaf
Two related families with a history of deafness go through the process of deciding whether their children should have cochlear implant surgery. The surgery would allow the children to hear, but would weaken their connect..
Speaking in Tongues
Closely following four very different local public-schoolers through an academic year, [the producers] draw on subtle nuances of the kids' stories to illustrate the complex shades and permutations of bilingual schooling...
The Children of Allah
A film from another world - from the school forming the Islamic priests, the Jihad warriors, the fundamentalists - and the Taliban. There are more than 10.000 religious schools, the so-called Madrassas in Pakistan. One o..
The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights
he Powerbroker tells the story of Whitney Young, who biographer Nancy Weiss Malkiel called “the inside man of the black revolution.” By challenging America’s business and political communities directly, Young was a..
Three School Counseling Sessions: Life is What Happens While You're Also Going to School
School counselors need certain skills in order to hold conversations that address the wide range of issues that interfere with learning. In this film, Dr. John Winslade demonstrates three brief sessions with students age..