Media Education Foundation Movies
- 2022
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL02022HD
Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and...
- 2016
The Occupation of the American Mind
The Occupation of the American Mind8.32016HD
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a...
- 1997
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media81997HD
Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations,...
- 2010
The Codes of Gender
The Codes of Gender6.52010HD
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...
- 2010
The Mean World Syndrome
The Mean World Syndrome02010HD
For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these...
- 2002
Playing Unfair
Playing Unfair42002HD
It has been 30 years since Title IX legislation granted women equal playing time, but the male-dominated world of sports journalism has yet to catch...
- 2013
Tough Guise 2
Tough Guise 202013HD
In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist...
- 1997
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation01997HD
bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under...
- 2018
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots
The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots02018HD
The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender...
- 2023
Beyond the Straight and Narrow
Beyond the Straight and Narrow02023HD
How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer...
- 2000
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women6.52000HD
Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly...
- 2018
Digital Disconnect
Digital Disconnect102018HD
In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the...
- 2020
The Man Card
The Man Card02020HD
For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman...
- 2000
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial02000HD
Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than...
- 2000
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games02000HD
Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who...
- 2012
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships
Flirting with Danger: Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships02012HD
Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at...
- 2003
Wrestling with Manhood
Wrestling with Manhood02003HD
Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth,...
- 2018
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse02018HD
In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking, ADVERTISING AND THE END OF THE WORLD, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating...
- 2003
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Rich Media, Poor Democracy02003HD
Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from...
- 2013
White Like Me
White Like Me02013HD
In White Like Me, anti-racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege.