OEOD frequently offers screenings from our video collection that is followed by a facilitated discussion among audience members. They provide an entertaining context for considering historical figures and events that profoundly impacted on our country's social evolution. If you have a suggestion for a future screening, please send an e-mail to Danny Valdez.
This documentary chronicles the gay and lesbian experience since what is considered to be the birth of the modern gay civil rights movement when the homosexual, bisexual and transgendered patrons of the Stonewall Bar in New York City spontaneously united against chronic police harassment, jeers and arrests.
Funded by the Environmental Stewardship Division, this video, screened during American Indian Heritage Month, examines groundwater hydrology and sustainability, using the Espanola Basin in Northern New Mexico to illustrate issues typical of arid and semi-arid regions of the world. It examines the science of hydrology used to determine water availability and manage groundwater resources. Water is sacred to the American Indian culture.
The story of how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to lead America's civil rights movement. An Amazing Grace chronicles Dr. King's role in the the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties. His stirring speeches provide a first-hand account of his peaceful approach toward civil disobedience. Through his leadership, the movement grew from the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama into a cause of international importance today.
Filmmaker Loni Ding explores the history of Asian immigration to America; Chinese, Filipino, and Indians in the "Gold Mountain" of the Americas. The film provides a historical perspective from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade to the 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean.
This film is an informative and engaging portrait of the history of homosexual experience in America using filmed recollections and archival material that include excerpts from silent-films newsreels and Hollywood musicals.
Banned at the time of its release and later burned by the Nazis, the film was believed lost for more than forty years. Using recently discovered film segments, still photos and censorship documents from different archives, Filmmuseum Muenchen has resurrected this groundbreaking silent film.
