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	A Boy of Old Prague by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Dover Publications) Tomas, a young boy living in the 1500's, has been taught to be suspicious and even hateful of Jews. His beliefs are challenged when he must confront them in the ghetto. See pages 294-297 of the Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book for a discussion of this novel.
	Banished 87 minutes Source: California Newsreel In this documentary fimmaker Marco Williams expores three communities that forcibly expelled African American residents between the Civil War and the Great Depression, replacing Reconstruction with Jim Crow laws. The film explores the question of reparations: what do the residents of these now all-white towns owe to the families they drove out? Residents of Pierce City, Missouri; Harrison, Arkansas; and Forsyth County, Georgia are interviewed.
	Bearing Witness 21 minutes Source: Social Studies School Service This documentary examines the role of American soldiers in the liberation of concentration camps at the end of World War II. The film combines historical footage and stills of the camps (including photographs taken by the witnesses themselves) with the powerful testimony of those Americans who were among the first to see the camps upon liberation. In addition, the veterans describe the enduring impact that witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust has had on their lives.
	Becoming American: The Chinese Experience 4 episodes, 90 minutes each Source: PBS Video What does it mean to become American? In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, Bill Moyers explores this question through the experience of the Chinese in America.
	Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community 89 minutes Source: First Run Features In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city’s gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. Before Stonewall pries open the closet door—setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s. Related lesson:
	Beyond Belief Keno International (92 minutes) Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary moms living their American dream until both husbands are killed by terrorists. Rather than turning inwards, grief compels them to travel to Afghanistan and help empower Afghan women whose lives have been ravaged by decades of war, poverty and oppression, factors they consider to be root causes of terrorism. The two women discover an unlikely kinship with widows halfway around the world, and a profound way to move beyond tragedy.
	Beyond Hate 90 minutes, color Source: out of print Bill Moyers examines the historical, philosophical and psychological roots of hatred.
	Black Is...Black Ain't 87 minutes, color Source: California Newsreel This film about African-American identity weaves together the testimony of those whose complexion, class, gender, speech or sexuality has made them feel 'too black' or 'not black enough.' Scholars and artists, including Bill T. Jones, Essex Hemphill, Angela Davis and bell hooks, movingly recall their own struggles to discover a more inclusive definition of "blackness."
	Blessed is the Match 49 minutes Source: Katahdin Foundation
	Bonhoeffer, Agent of Grace 90 minutes Source: PBS Video What is a moral person to do in a time of savage immorality? That question tormented Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life. The Nazis hanged him on April 9, 1945, less than a month before the end of the war. Bonhoeffer's last years, his participation in the German resistance and his moral struggle are dramatized in this film. Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace sheds light on the little-known efforts of the German resistance.

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