Film screening and discussion on selected Saturdays each month.

Free popcorn.  Bring your own beverage.

7:30 p.m., Berrigan House, 713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines

Iron Jawed Angels

September 6, 2008

A powerful dramatic account of a group of fiery young suffragettes led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) who from 1912-20, band together and engage in direct action and civil disobedience to push the United States into adapting a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. Along the way, they incur the wrath of President Woodrow Wilson and anger and alienate established leaders—including Iowan Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston)--in the suffragette movement.

Jesus Camp

October 18, 2008

This riveting Oscar-nominated documentary offers an unfiltered look at a revivalist subculture where devout Christian youngsters are being primed to deliver the fundamentalist community's religious and political messages. Building an evangelical army of tomorrow, the Kids on Fire summer camp in Devil's Lake, N.D., is dedicated to deepening the preteens' spirituality and sowing the seeds of political activism as they're exhorted to "take back America for Christ."

The Corporation

November 1, 2008

Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is dazzled critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore–plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

White Light, Black Rain

December 6, 2008

Through the powerful recollections of atomic bomb survivors White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki an extraordinary new film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first–and hopefully last–uses of thermonuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors–many who have never spoken publicly before–and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings White Light/Black Rain provides a detailed exploration of the bombings and their aftermath. In a succession of riveting personal accounts the film reveals both unimaginable suffering and extraordinary human resilience.

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