Underplayed Gems

A Force More Powerful (1999)

A Force More Powerful poster
Directed by
Steve York
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
8.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary examines six major nonviolent resistance movements from the 20th century. It shows how groups in India, the United States, South Africa, Denmark, Poland, and Chile used peaceful tactics to challenge oppressive systems.

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What happens

A Force More Powerful is a 1999 feature-length documentary film and a 2000 PBS series written and directed by Steve York about nonviolent resistance movements around the world. Executive producers were Dalton Delan and Jack DuVall. Peter Ackerman was the series editor and principal content advisor. Institutional support for the film included funding from the United States Institute of Peace and the Albert Einstein Institution. The film played in festivals worldwide and was broadcast nationally on United States television network PBS in September 2000. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program. The series explores six successful nonviolent movements in the 20th century, including Mohandas Gandhi's leadership of the Indian Independence movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the boycotts in the Eastern Cape Province as part of the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, the Danish resistance to Nazi Occupation, the Polish Solidarity Movement, and the Chilean democracy movement to oust Augusto Pinochet. A Force More Powerful is also the name of the companion book to the PBS series, authored by DuVall and Peter Ackerman,. In the Acknowledgments section of the book, the authors name Steve York as their most-cited source. The book was published with Palgrave Macmillan and has been recognized as an important resource for peace education. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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