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Video Project

Founded in 1983, the mission of the Video Project is to provide the best media programming available on critical social and global issues to classrooms and communities to help advance awareness and encourage action on the most important concerns of our times. The Video Project collection features programs for all ages from over 200 independent filmmakers, including Oscar and Emmy winners, as well as films that aired on Showtime, HBO and PBS. Video Project's films are regularly honored with top festival awards and with critical praise from major review publications.

Crowd of people looking in 1 direction with distressed expressions on their faces.
1 hours 22 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Extremely busy city street full of vehicles and people. Caption: But the problem goes beyond these numbers.
44 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Silhouettes of a flock of geese fly above bare branches in a peachy pink sky.
1 hours 8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Nature's Orchestra: Sounds of Our Changing Planet
23 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of 3 nurses looking at a girl in a hospital bed with suspended right leg in foot to knee cast. Caption. Environment, and circumstance.
53 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Still image from: Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco
47 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Petersburg Rising
56 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Black girl wears a red collared shirt and two long braids in her hair as she faces away from us towards a white brick wall. Text reads, "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools."
1 hours 18 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Closeup of a young person wearing glasses and holding a microphone in front of a small crowd. Text reads, "Rap Squad."
55 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: The Road to Justice
30 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Children at their desks during break, 1 with head resting on his arm, others talking. Caption. Female. One disruptive kid can take away any learning.
55 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Man with gray hair and a beard writes a math equation with chalk on a blackboard.
10 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW
24 minutes
Grade Level: PT/TT
Closeup of Black person wearing glasses and looking downward. Caption. Were shocking.
1 hours 20 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of 2 hands cupping water under a running faucet.
1 hours 2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Older woman holds a tablet up for a younger woman in a pink dress. The young woman touches the screen while she looks at it.
26 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Slide shows white text on a black background that reads, "What Are You?"
20 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Forest fire burns trees. Overlaid text tells about different fires in the U,S and Canada and how many acres each one burned.
56 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12