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THE HUMAN RACE


4 x 52 minutes
Grades 10-Adult
Produced by Catherine Mullins and Marrin Canell,
Green Lion Productions

Hosted by historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer, this series
tackles the most complex and urgent global issue to emerge
since the Cold War era: Can the human race reconcile the
current rate of global development with a finite environment?

Around the world most people still struggle to exist much the
way our ancestors did, but today one quarter of the world's
population enjoys a standard of living never before dreamed
possible. And thanks to the mass media, the rest of the world
knows about it and wants to share in it too.

Dyer considers the roles that nationalism, patriarchy,
democracy and technology play in the delicate balance of our
relationship with the planet we inhabit. As he examines our
chances of surviving what he describes as the converging
global crises, Dyer finds peril, but also grounds for hope.

HUMANITIES, ANTHROPOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL SCIENCE,
RELIGION, WOMEN'S STUDIES, POPULATION, DEVELOPMENT

Series of 4 videos ISBN: 0-7722-0557-4

1. The Bomb Under the World
51 minutes (In two parts for schools: Part 1- 21 min., Part
2- 30 min.)
A film by Werner Volkmer

An ornately decorated elephant leads a parade through an
Indian village. A religious holiday? No, a promotional
campaign for soap. Consumer society is coming, and India's
growing population is looking westward, demanding the same
goods and a similar living standard. And why shouldn't they?
But what are the broadest consequences of Western-style
consumerism taking hold in large developing countries?

Awards: Gold Award & Special Achievement Award, International
CINDY Awards; Special Screening, Green Screen London

original ISBN:0-7722-0569-8
classroom ISBN:0-7722-0573-62

2. The Tribal Mind

52 minutes
(In two parts for schools: Part 1- 23 min., Part 2- 29 min.)
A film by Barry Greenwald

South Africa isn't the only society where racial and tribal
identity have profoundly marked the way people live together,
it's just one very striking example. Against a backdrop of
ongoing violence, a new breed of South Africans are rising
above old tribal reflexes as they struggle towards real
democracy. Initiatives in South Africa may well provide models
to the larger world where old tribal politics of narrow self-
interest continue to wreak havoc. But is the rest of the
world prepared to relinquish its own tribes? Is there enough
time?

"In a sense, we all live in South Africa, with a dreadful past
behind us and an uncertain future ahead. The whole planet is a
single environment, and it's already in deep trouble. But the
South Africans are not doomed to cut each other's throats, and
neither are we." Gwynne Dyer

Awards: Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival

original ISBN: 0-7722-0577-9
classroom ISBN: 0-7722-0581-73.

3. The Gods of Our Fathers

51 minutes (In two parts for schools:
Part1- 34 min., Part 2-17 min.)
A film by Anne Henderson

Human nature is not fixed. We can and do reshape ourselves
every time we change our culture. Nor is there anything
natural or innate in male domination. In ancient Egyptian
villages along the Nile, this video explores the evolution of
patriarchy as one effective way of organizing mass societies.
The patriarchal order was not inevitable, it was merely
functional. But the world is a different place now, and it's
time to find alternatives to hierarchies and militarization.

"Male domination is not natural, and neither is equality of
the sexes - it all depends. Same goes for whether we are
warlike or peaceful, democratic or authoritarian. Change the
way we live, and you may also change the way we behave toward
each other." Gywnne Dyer

Awards: Gold Award & Special Achievement Award, International
CINDY Awards; Special Screening, Green Screen London

original ISBN: 0-7722-0589-2
classroom ISBN: 0-7722-0593-04

4. Escaping from History
53 minutes
(In two parts for schools: Part1-19 min., Part 2- 32 min.)
A film by Josh Freed

Mexico City, the most polluted and fastest-growing city on the
planet, is a sobering foretaste of what may await us all. But
as those in the North continue to consume at all-time highs,
what right do they have to limit poorer nations from
developing? And while the "global village" is largely
responsible for encouraging the ideology of consumerism, mass
communications are also spreading democracy. Looking at the
effects of industrialization on Mexico, and how its
development impacts the rest of the world, this video finds
reasons for optimism. But it's a tough equation: for the
Third World to have more, the First World will have to get
used to having a little less.

original ISBN: 0-7722-0597-3
classroom ISBN: 0-7722-0600-7

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