Dr. Molly Ladd-Taylor gives a brief history of the eugenics movement and how it was applied in Canada.
This film focuses on Benjamin Ferencz, a former prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials who is dedicated to preventing mass atrocities.
Dr. Hong Zheng reflects on his earliest memory as a five year old during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Japanese airplanes dropped bombs around his village, forcing his family to seek shelter in an air raid shelter.
This film focuses on the first prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
This film focuses on lawyer Raphael Lemkin’s efforts to develop an international law to punish and prevent the crime of genocide.
This film, created in partnership between Propeller Films and Facing History from the feature length film Watchers of the Sky, focuses on Raphael Lemkin’s effort to establish an international law to prevent mass violence against a group of people.
In this clip from the film “Reporter,” journalist Nicholas Kristof interviews imprisoned child soldiers.
In this clip, filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar introduces the film, Reporter.
In this clip from the film “Reporter”, Nicholas Kristof discusses some of the methods he uses while reporting.
Nicholas Kristof describes psychic numbing: caring less as a number of victims increases.
Using the experience of her Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity class, Dakota shares how she chooses to hold on to certain ideas to make her world a better place. She performs at the Facing History and Ourselves 2013 "Stand Up, Speak Out" event.
Dr. Hong Zheng recalls the fate of his uncle’s family in Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when Japanese soldiers enter and search their home. Another family, thousands of compatriots, and British POWs, also cannot escape the violence.