Check out these related films available in the Reed film and video library!

• "Rape is...", 2002, 33 mins
  Featuring Eve Ensler, author and performer of the well-known Vagina Monologues, This half-hour documentary video explores the meaning and consequences of rape. This documentary looks at rape from a global and historical perspective, but focuses mainly on the domestic cultural conditions that make this human rights violation the most underreported crime in America.
  
  
• No Safe Place: Violence Against Women, 1996, 57 mins.
  Explores the origins of violence against women, includes the moving stories of women who have been assaulted, and interviews men who committed these crimes and experts who look at causes and solutions.
  
  
• Blink, 2000, 57 mins
  Once a fanatical rising star in the white supremacist movement, Greg Winthrow grapples with a legacy of hatred handed down across generations in this haunting documentary. The film reveals how class divisions are masked by racial confict and follows the intense, angry and breathtakingly resourceful Winthrow as he grapples with his own redemption from a heritage of violence.
  
  
• Defending Our Lives, 1999, 30 mins.
  Shows the magnitude and severity of domestic violence in this country. This video features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their personal testimonies.
  
  
• Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity, 2002, 105 mins
  Another Jhally-Katz film. Looks systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century. Jackson Katz argues that there is a crisis in masculinity and that some of the guises offered to men as a solution (e.g., rugged individualism, violence) come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as other men.
  
  
• The Brandon Teena Story, 1998, 90 mins
  Documentary film about Brandon Teena, who arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993 where he finds some new friends. Three weeks later he is brutally raped and beaten by friends who discover that he is actually a female. A week later the same two men murder Teena along with two other people. This is a tale of Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender identity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion and hostility among residents of a town in America's heartland.
  
  
• Boys Don't Cry, 1999, 118 mins
  Feature film with Hilary Swank. The story of the life and murder of Brandon Teena, an FTM man in a small Nebraska town.