Social Justice: Videos

Focuses on how children learn to hate, and how attitudes toward hatred differ from culture to culture. Features friendship between an Israeli Arab and an Orthodox Jew; high school students analyzing the origins of homophobia; a Holocaust survivor who teaches children how stereotyping breeds hatred and how that hatred can lead to persecution. Major world figures share their own experiences with hatred and discuss the resolve that helped them overcome it.

In 1990, Tom and John Metzger, leaders of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) were charged with inciting the murder of Mulugeta Seraw of Ethiopia in Portland, Oregon. This is a documentary of their trial using actual courtroom footage, interspersed with commentary on hate crime, First Amendment rights, and the role of the media, by a panel of lawyers, activists and journalists.

Bill Moyers interviews Elie Wiesel who probes the logic of hatred as expressed in books, religion, history and personal experience. When Wiesel was 15, his family perished in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. As he has struggled to understand hatred and its role in contemporary world affairs, he has become a prolific writer, a leader in the worldwide cause of human rights. and the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.