Video Tapes Collection

U.S. Diplomacy And National Security

• Becoming A Nation: American from the Diplomatic Recption Rooms  (DVD)
• Discussion of Cuban Missile Crisis (DVD)
• Ideals and Interestes in U.S. Foreign Policy: A History (DVD)
• Islamic Wave,The 
• Living Martyr: Inside the Hezbollah,The
• Making of U.S. Foreign Policy, The  (DVD)
• Marketplace of Ideas: Interest Groups and U.S.Foreign Policy, The  (DVD)
• Role of Media in U.S. Foreign Policy: Unbiased Reportage or Shaper of Events? (DVD)
• Role Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy, The  (DVD)
• Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: Searching For The Roots of 9/11
• U.S. Foreign Ploicy Colloquium, The (DVD)
• U.S. Foreign Policy Round-up (DVD)
• United States and China: Competitiors, Partners or Both? (DVD)
  

The Islamic Wave

This program surveys the sociopolitical landscape of Islamic hotspots in the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sudan, and elsewhere. Features commentary by Musharraf, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Dr. Hasan al-Turabi, and other key figures. The documentary provides background on Islam and considers the use of violence by Muslim extremists to attain their goals.

The Living Martyr: Inside The Hezbollah

For militant followers of Islam, the highest honor is to be dubbed "the living martyr," one who has committed himself to dying in a suicide attack against the organization's enemies. Why do boys embrace this ideal? How do mothers and sisters feel? This documentary interviews Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance fighters and their families as well as footage of suicide mission preparation. If one is trying to understand the political situation in the Middle East and beyond, Films for the Humanities strongly endorses this program.

Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: Searching For The Roots of 9/11

Thomas L. Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, tries to answer two of the most puzzling questions to come out of 9/11: What drove young, middle-class Muslim men to give up their lives to murder almost 3,000 people? And - perhaps more important - why does their violent act elicit so much support from millions of ordinary Muslims throughout the world? He searches out the answers in the Middle East where the contradictory feelings of so many Muslims are laid bare: admiration for America's freedom and standard of living, combined with anger for what they see as arrogant behavior in that part of the world.