Quaker Film Series Sept 2017 – Nov 2017 The Library Committee is sponsoring a lengthy were Quakers, although not necessarily Quaker Film Series. Films are aired on third first identified as such in the film. The November days (Sundays) of the month, 1pm, and are suitable documentary is also about a little know topic, for all ages. We have three great films for the fall. the brilliant Quaker, Bayard Rustin. The The September film is a documentary that October film is commercial, directed by George examines the little known story of the concientious Cloony, and deals with the Red-baiting of the objectors that the U.S. government tried to make McCarthyite era, and our hero, Edward R. disappear from sight during World War II. Many Murrow, who was raised as a Quaker. 26. September 17th , The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It Narrated by Ed Asner, this film tells the story work in mental institutions under of the American conscientious objectors who CivilianPublic Service, a national system of refused to fight. It is a story of personal work camps administered and paid for by the courage, idealism and nonconformity based on "peace" churches; the Quakers, Mennonites both ethical and religious beliefs. and Brethren. Many conscientious objectors Thousandsrefused to cooperate with the war performed"alternative service" to prove their effort at all, and spent the war years in prison, patriotism, risking their lives as fire jumpers often working to reform the federal prison and medical guinea pigs on experiments on human system by hunger striking. All lived with the scorn of a starvation. Thousands of other COs volunteered to nation, and often family and friends . 27. October 15th , Good Night and Good Luck - Edward R. Murrow Movie Edwar R. Murrow’s ancestors were Quaker In the mid-1950's Edward R. Murrow helped abolitionists in slaveholding North Carolina, end the tyranny of the blacklist and the House where was born. A broadcaster, he brought Un-American Activities Committee's anti- rooftop radio reports of the Blitz of London Communist hearings. With his CBS News into America's living rooms before World program "See It Now," he challenged Joseph War II. After the war, he and his team of McCarthy on his claims that hundreds of reporters brought news to the new medium avowed Communists were working as Soviet of television, winning an Emmy in 1952 for spies in the U.S. government. This turning- a program about migrant workers. point reporting won him a Peabody Award. 28. November 19 th , Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Bayard Rustin was born in West Chester, strategies that propelled the American civil Pennsylvania and was brought up by his rights movement. His passionate belief in grandmother, who had been raised as a nonviolence drew Martin Luther King Jr. Quaker. He himself became a Quaker in and other leaders to him in the 1940's and 1936, shortly before moving to New York 50's; his practice of those beliefs drew the where he lived most of his adult life. His attention of the FBI and police. In 1963, pacifism landed him in prison during Rustin brought his unique skills to his civil WWII. During his 60-year career as an rights career: his work organizing the March activist, organizer and "troublemaker," on Washington. But his open homosexuality Bayard Rustin formulated many of the forced him to remain in the background. Complete Quaker Film Series Berkeley Friends Meeting Library 1. George Fox and the Quakers 2. Jan De Hartog's Early Quaker Stories 3. William Penn Documentaries 4. William Penn Movie - Courageous Mr. Penn 5. Reform of the Asylum Movie - Bedlam 6. Female Industrialist Documentary - Rebecca Lukens 7. Whaling Industry Documentary & Silent Film - New Bedford 8. Whaling Industry Movie -Moby Dick, or The Whale 9. Anti-Slavery Documentaries 10. Underground Railroad Docudrama - Whispers of Angels 11. Civil War Movie - Friendly Persuasion 12. Quaker Settlers in the West Movie - The Winds of Autumn - 13. Advocate for Indians Movie - Cheyenne Autumn 14. Guy with Gun meets Beautiful Quaker #1 - Angel and the Badman 15. Guy with Gun meets Beautiful Quaker #2 - High Noon 16. Women's Rights Documentary - Susan B. Anthony 17. Women's Rights Movie (Western) - The Lady from Cheyenne 18. The American Experience - Annie Oakley 19. Women's Rights Docudrama - Iron Jawed Angels 20. Rufus Jones Documentary 21. General Relativity Docudrama - Einstein and Eddington 22. Herbert Hoover Documentary 23. Quakers as Environmentalists Movie - The Big Trees 24. Quakers & WWII Movie #1 - Raid on Rommel 25. Quakers & WWII Movie #2 - The Deep Six 26. Quakers & WWII - The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It 27. Edward R. Morrow Movie - Good Night and Good Luck 28. Bayard Rustin Documentary 29. Late 20th C. Quaker Documentaries 30. Quakers & Nonviolence Movie #1 - The July Group (Canada) 31. Quakers & Nonviolence Movie #2 - A Prayer in the Dark (US) 32. BFM Members Mary Lou & Ernie Goertzen Documentary .