Recommended Videos

The following list contains tapes relevant to conflict resolution, drugs and substance abuse, tolerance issues and violence prevention as well as videos geared specifically for teachers.

Bullying

All About Respect (grades 5-8) This video provides a hands-on workshop designed to help students think critically about the role of respect in their lives, encouraging young teens to not only give respect to others, but earn it for themselves. (28 minutes)

Bullying Schools: Strategies for Prevention (staff development) This video is designed to help administrators and teachers explore ways for creating a school culture and climate in which bullying is not allowed and all children.

Bully No More: Stopping the Abuse (grades K-8) Host Ruby Unger talks with a wide range of kids who discuss how to keep from being a target of bullies; how to stop bullies and get them help; and what to do if you're a witness to bullying. Animation and humor are used to illustrate the teaching points while role-playing examples demonstrate "win-win" techniques for handling bullies. (20 minutes)

Don't Pick on Me (grades 5-9) This program examines the dynamics behind teasing and being teased, and models effective responses to being harassed. The video challenges viewers to explore the issue of peer cruelty through thought-provoking discussion questions (21 minutes)

Gossiping, Taunting, Bullying: It's All Harassment (grades 5-9) This program presents vignettes that show teens what behaviors constitute harassment. Real students talk about their own experiences dealing with harassment. (22 minutes)

Joey (grades 5-12) This story is a powerful statement on the bullying problem and the consequences this behavior has on all involved. The video chronicles the life of Joey, a young boy who is harassed by his peers wherever he goes until finally, out of desperation, he attempts suicide, alerting his parents to the problem. (32 minutes)

How I Learned Not to Be Bullied (grades 2-4) Presenting two children's first-person accounts of their success in learning not to be bullied, this program helps students understand how their behavior and attitudes affect how others treat them. (14 minutes)

Names Can Really Hurt Us (grades 6-12) In this video, teenagers will come face-to-face with the issues of prejudice and stereotyping as they watch students in an ethnically diverse school talk about their own bigotry and reveal painful experiences as victims. These revelations lead to healing, self-confidence and the courage to challenge bigots and bullies. (24 minutes)

Put Yourself in Someone Else's Shoes (grades 2-4) Open-ended scenarios prompt classroom discussion about the important issue of empathy in this video. The video shows that empathetic kids bring sensitivity to their interactions with others, and can more readily resolve conflicts. (16 minutes)

Sticks and Stones (grades K-3) The theme of this video is about name-calling and the reaction of the victim. In the story, several older children make fun of Cat-a-lion by calling him names. Cat-a-lion feels hurt and powerless and reacts by calling another classmate names. (15 minutes)

Suppose That Was Me (grades 5-8) This program asks viewers to think about and discuss how they would feel if they were made a target by other students. The video shows short, open-ended scenarios that students will easily relate to. (18 minutes)

What Do You See: Giving Stereotypes a Second Look (grades 7-12) This video addresses the problem of stereotyping and the pain it creates for those in the stereotyped group. The program challenges students to take a second look and discover what others are all about instead of stereotyping them. (28 minutes)

Conflict Resolution

Anger, Violence and You: Taking Control (grades 7-12) Probing the reasons people get angry, this video helps students understand this natural emotion. The program examines how violence results when anger is not addressed, and asks a series of questions to help students realize that while they can't change others, they do have the power to change their own angry behavior. Shows viewers how to let out their anger in a healthy way, and presents 10 steps to resolving conflict that can help them stay in control. (42 minutes)

Increase the Peace: Conflict Resolution (grades 7-12) Shot in a city setting with streetwise kids, and using scenarios and language viewers will recognize as straight out of their own lives, this program teaches specific, easy-to-learn skills and effective strategies for conflict resolution. (32 minutes)

Student Workshop: Anger-Management Skills (grades 7-12) This hands-on workshop teaches the anger-management skills that enable teens to get along better with friends, family and authority figures. The program uses an MTV-style format to help students discover the things that trigger their anger and understand the consequences of angry behavior. (40 minutes)

Working It Out: Conflict Resolution (grades 5-9) Introducing pre-teens and young teens to conflict resolution, this video shows students how good communication skills and mediation can turn conflict into a positive experience, build self-esteem, and improve relationships. (28 minutes)

Drugs and Substance Abuse

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (grades 1-3) Designed to help young children recognize and understand the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. This videotape is produced by Buena Vista Home Videos and is available in English and Spanish. (30 minutes)

Fast Forward Future-A drug abuse prevention video adventure for elementary schools featuring Richard Kiley. This three-part video with teacher's guide is produced by the Weston Woods Institute. (62 minutes)

Introduction to D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)-Narrated by William Conrad. Geared to middle school students, this tape explains the benefits of having a D.A.R.E. Program in your school. Teaches students how to resist peer pressure and demonstrates techniques on how to say no. (15 minutes)

Straight Talk at Ya-Hosted by Kirk Cameron, this film uses dramatizations and animation to illustrate the realities and misconceptions about drug use. Cameron offers advice about how to avoid drugs and alcohol and how to deal with teen problems without the use of drugs. For a middle school audience. Told in three 15-minute parts. (45 minutes)

For Teachers

Avoiding Conflict: Dispute Resolution Without Violence-This program details ways of stemming the rising tide of aggression in our schools and playgrounds, our streets and homes. It shows ordinary problems that can ignite into violence, and how those problems can be resolved peacefully. The program focuses not on the problems but on the solutions as it highlights anti-violence programs that have made a difference by teaching dispute resolution, avoiding conflict, solving problems nonviolently and averting domestic and street violence. (47 minutes)

Campus Combat Zone-In this video, Officer Jim Corbin, Director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, explains how weapons affect the quality of education, and what teachers can do to combat the trend. Legal experts explain search and seizure laws within the context of Fourth Amendment rights. Topics covered include school security, the psychology of violence and how teachers can reinforce positive attitudes that discourage criminal behavior and promote student cooperation. (23 minutes)

Tolerance Issues

A Class Divided (grades 6-12) A follow-up to Iowa teacher Jane Elliott's original experiment where she taught her third-graders about the effects of prejudice by dividing the class on the basis of eye color. In this PBS Frontline documentary, filmed 15 years later, she meets with some of her former students to analyze the experiment and its impact on their lives. (60 minutes)

The Heart of Hatred-This program features conversations with a variety of people who have explored the heart of hatred. A Los Angeles gang member uses hate as a survival weapon. White supremacist leader Tom Metzger defends his policies of hate both in a court of law and in interviews. A former Israeli soldier tells how he disguised himself as a Palestinian to better understand the source of his own hatred. High school students in Bensonhurst, New York discuss the beating death of a black youth in their neighborhood, and Myrlie Evers, wife of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, talks about her own triumph over hate after her husband's untimely death. A man who physically abused his wife is presented as an example of people who act hatefully when their identity and self-esteem are threatened. (52 minutes)

Learning to Hate-In this program, Moyers focuses on how children learn to hate, and how attitudes toward hatred differ from culture to culture. A youth of Arab-Israeli descent becomes friends with a young Orthodox Jew at an international training center that teaches youngsters the tools for dialogue and understanding. High school students in Bensonhurst analyze the origins of hatred against gays. In Washington, D.C., a Holocaust survivor teaches children how stereotyping breeds hatred, and how that hatred can lead to persecution. Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, Vaclav Havel, Li Lu, and Northern Ireland peace activist Mairead Corrigan Maguire share their own experiences with hatred and discuss the resolve that helped them deal with it. (39 minutes)

Crimes of Hate (grades 6-12) In an era when bias crimes are increasing in frequency and intensity, this documentary reveals the twisted thinking of perpetrators, the anguish of their victims, and how law enforcement deals with these crimes. The video consists of an overview of hate crimes in three segments-the crime of racism, the crime of anti-Semitism, and the crime of gay bashing. (27 minutes)

Eye of the Storm (grades 6-12) Iowa teacher, Jane Elliott, conducts an eye-opening test of prejudice in her classroom. In a two-day experiment, third-graders are separated into "superior" blue-eyed children and "inferior" brown-eyed children. On the second day, the roles are reversed. This documentary explores the behavioral effects, attitudes, and classroom performance of the children as they suffer from the segregation, discrimination, and prejudice of the experiment. (25 minutes)

Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Hitler Youth (grades 7-12) Alfons Heck, one of the millions of impressionable German children, recalls in this video how he became a high-ranking member of the Hitler Youth Movement. While all societies try to influence their youth to follow their values, what makes things go out of control? Students will be encouraged by this video to think more critically about the dangers to society from pressures to conform. Archival footage depicting Nazi violence may be upsetting to some viewers. (30 minutes)

The Truth About Hate (grades 6-12) Hosted by Leeza Gibbons, this program explores the origins of hate through the eyes of today's teenagers as they come face-to-face with their own racism, ethnic bigotry, religious hatred, and sexual discrimination. (32 minutes)

What's Hate All About (grades 7-12) This video helps young people understand the dynamics underpinning this most dangerous of human emotions. Using an MTV-style format, the program examines through the personal stories of real teens the many reasons people hate and the stereotypes that hate fosters. The program helps students recognize their own negative feelings toward others, and shows them that they can make a difference by speaking out against hate in all its varied forms. (24 minutes)