Top Video Courses

• FREEDOM RIDERS. This 110 min video is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives - and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism.
• DEMOCRACY, NATURAL RIGHTS & 21ST CENTURY SOCIALISM. A 20 minute video talk by Carl Davidson at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Good discussion starter.
• THE DOG WHISTLE OF RACIAL POLITICS. A 20 minute discussion starter with Bill Moyers and Ian Haney Lopez on how the rightwing political class uses race to manipulate elections.
• THE WORKING UNDERCLASS. A short video, 26 minutes, that exposes the nature of work and low wages in de-industrialized New Jersey, but typical across the U.S. Excellent as a discussion starter for campaigns around the minimum wage and/or a deeper look at capitalism today.
• SLAVE TRADE FROM COLONIALISM TO LIBERATION. 2:30 hr film on the origins of capitalism. Europeans offered African chiefs what they had in exchange for their slaves. America and Europe needed people who could do hard labor and rigorous tasks. Slave traders came along the African coast, which was the sub-region (South of the Sahara) to acquire slaves. They would get them in large numbers and pack them inside the ships they came with. Millions dies in the 'Middle Passage'.
• SELLING CIGARETTES, BACON AND EGGS,AND WARS:  Edward Bernays: Part 1 and Part 2, Cigarettes and Sufferettes, and the Selling of Wars. The nephew of Freud, Bernays invented public relations as a tool for capitalism, not only to sell its goods, but also its wars and other policies. The key the all other media studies. Less than 20 minutes. Great discussion starter on how hegemony is manufactured.
• Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change.In a 30 minute video with Bill Moyers, Klein, author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, says the tragic destruction of Hurricane Sandy can also be the catalyst for the transformation of politics and our economy. Good discussion group starter.
• From Capitalism's Crises to a New Order: 11 minute David Harvey animation video. Great discussion starter
• Reading Marx's Capital. 13 Video Lectures with David Harvey, author of 'The Enigma of Capital'. Powerful and effective, but be prepared to workk at it!
• Ollie Stone's 'Untold History' All 10 parts of Stone's series on birth of the American Empire. Chapter 1: World War II Chapter 2: Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace Chapter 3: The Bomb Chapter 4: The Cold War: 1945–1950 Chapter 5: The 50s: Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World. Chapter 6: JFK: To the Brink Chapter 7: Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune Chapter 8: Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World: Revival of Fortune Chapter 9: Bush & Clinton: Squandered Peace - New World Order Chapter 10: Bush & Obama: Age of Terror
• Discussion Starter:  Automated Green Energy Production.  This seven-minute video hightlighting Conergy, a fully automated factory producing solar cells in Germany, should open a variety of topics--the new working class, the labor theory of value, the falling rate of profit, the ability to shift to a solar-powered world, and much more.

• Democracy, Human Rights and 21st Century Socialism.  20-minute video of Carl Davidson on the topic in 2010. Davidson is co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a national board member of the Solidarity Economy Network, and a member of Steelworker Associates. This talk, useful for discussion groups on socialism and democracy, was on a panel with four others at the 2010 USSF in Detroit, co-sponsored by Democratic Socialist of America

• Frantz Fanon Documentary - Black Skin, White Mask: 5 10-min videos
• Carl Davidson at Berlin's Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on Mondragon's Impact
• Reading Marx's Capital Vol 2 with David Harvey: 4 90-min videos so far...
• Marxian Economics with Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick.
• African America Freedom Struggle with Claybourne Carson.