These Dangerous Women
Clapham Film Unit, UK, 2017 documentary, 24 min.
This documentary celebrates and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the International Congress of Women that took place on the 28th April 1915, when 1300 women from 12 countries – warring, neutral and allied – met at The Hague.
They advocated mediation between the politicians to end the First World War and proposed methods of settling future differences between nations by peaceful means
Women’s Peace Crusade
Dir. Charlotte Bill, UK, 2016/17, English, 22 min.
Script by Alison Ronan and Hazel Roy, featuring Florence King as Mabel Pythian and Emma Thomas as Lydia Leech.
Funded by AHRC via Voices for War and Peace
The Women's Peace Crusade swept like wildfire across Britain from 1916 -1918. This film tells the story of the North West women who took part in Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, and Nelson. Speaker: Sheila Triggs
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Dir. Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp, USA, 2007, English, 73 min.
Based on Norman Solomon's book, War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
Speakers: Kate Hudson, CND, Chris Nineham, Stop The War Coalition
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Admission £10, concessions £8. Annual members £6/£4. Sorry, no credit cards.
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