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List of
Videotapes about Communal Societies
(Note: the dollar figures
in some cases represents rental ( R ), not purchase ( P ); these
prices may not be accurate. Further, the telephone numbers may no
longer be accurate, because some of the information was taken from
older lists and brochures. CSA can take no responsibility for
possible misinformation.)
-Amana: The Community of
True Inspiration (no cost for educational purposes)
Order: Amana Heritage Society, POB
81, Amana, IA 52203 - (319) 622-3567
(Note: Available only to schools
for borrowing)
Amish = see Old
Order Amish
Arche
-The Heart Has Its
Reasons [Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
communities] ($34.95P)
Order: Daybreak Publications, 11339
Yonge St. N. Richmond Hill, Ontario L4S ILI, Canada (905)
884-3454, x235; (800) 853-14112; fax (905) 884-0763;
pubs@larchedaybreak.com
(57 minutes)
Arden Single Tax
Community
-Experimental
Village [Robert and Joyce Foote are featured]
($30)
Order: Mark Taylor, Arden Archives,
2116 The Highway, Wilmington, DE 19810 Arden, Media Resources
(302) 571-1754
(ca. 60 minutes)
(Note: Only available to schools
for use there)
Bishop
Hill
-The Building of Utopia:
Work and the Workplace in Bishop Hill, Illinois
[1988] (can be ordered)
Order: Colony Store, Bishop Hill
Heritage Association, POB 92, Bishop Hill, IL 61419, (309)
927-3596
(14 minutes)
-Bishop Hill
[1979] (can be ordered)
Order: see above
(27 minutes)
-The Painter of Bishop Hill:
Olaf Krans, 1838-1916] ($19.95P)
Order: see above
(ca. 50 minutes)
Branch
Davidians
-Waco: The Rules of
Engagement [produced by William Gazecki] ($29.95P;
no rental)
Order: New Yorker Video, xxxx (800)
771-2147, x 19
(135 minutes)
-[Frontline
documentary]
Order:
China
-China A Network of
Communes (1977) ($59.00P + 2.50 S/H)
Order: Encyclopedia Britannica
Educational Corp., 310 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604 (800)
554-9862; fax (312) 347-7966
(15 minutes)
Community of True Inspiration =
see Amana
Contemporary
Communes (General)
-Follow the Dirt Road: An
Introduction to Communities in the 1990s [by Monique
Gauthier] (ca. $28.00P)
Order: Monique Gauthier, 72 Baker
Rd., Shutesbury, MA 01072 (413) 259-1199
(50 minutes)
-Lighthouse in Loleta
[Christian commune] ($30.50R)
Order: Norac Productions, 766
Shepard Ave., Hamden, CT 06514
(28 minutes)
-Looking for It
[a personal search by Sally Mendzela, featuring several
communities] ($24.95P; no rentals but a group can borrow by
paying postage)
Order: Sally Mendzela, 36 North
Center St., Bellingham, WA 02019 (508) 883-8424
(120 minutes)
-The Year of the
Communes [produced by Chris Munger]
($40.00R)
Order: Association/Sterling Films,
La Grange, IL 60525
(52 minutes)
-Where's Utopia?
[survey in 1986 of communal groups, cooperative housing, food
co-opos, and alternative communities Art Rosenblum and Dr. Peter
Gladkov] ($25.00R)
Order: Canyon Cinema Cooperative,
2325 3rd St., Suite 338, San Francisco, CA 94107 (415)
626-2255
(58 minutes)
-The Ultimate
Trip
Order: Films Incorporated, 733
Green Bay Rd., Wilmette, IL 60091
-New Age Communes: The Search
for Utopia ($29.95P or 25R + 5.00 S/H)
Order: Hartley Film Foundation, Cat
Rock Rd., Cos Cob, CT 06807
-Empire of the Sun
[Christian commune] ($19.00R)
Order: University of California
Extension Media Center, Berkeley, CA 94720
(25 minutes)
--Visions of Utopia: Intentional
Communities [Geoph Kozeny, produced/director, Community
Catalyst Project; survey of 18 communities on two 90-minute
tapes] ($25.00P for tape #1 only; $45 for two-tape set) Order:
Fellowship for Intentional Community, 138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa, VA 23093,
USA, 800-462-8240 (orders-US/Canada) 540-894-5798,
Emisaries
-Climate for the
Garden [Sunrise Ranch, Loveland, CO]
($19.95P)
Order: Emissary Foundation House
Publications, 4817 N. Country Rd. 29, Loveland, CO 80538 (303)
679-4200; www.emissaries.org/
The
Farm/Ecovillages
-The Habitat
Revolution ($20.00 + 5.00 S/H)
Order: Ecovillage Training Center,
Summertown, TN, 38483-0090 (913) 964-4474 or (913) 964-2200;
http:www.thefarm.org/etc/
Also avaliable with Spanish
language subtitles and in European (PAL) format
(26 minutes)
-Stephen Gaskin's
Farm
Order: Full Circle, POG 4370,
Boulder, CO 80306
(Note: may not be
available)
Harmonists/New
Harmony
-Old Economy Village: Those
Who Believed ($9.95P + 12.55 S/H;
also listed as #21.95P + 1.32 tax +
25.27 S/H)
Order: Old Economy Village,
14th and Church Sts., Ambridge, PA 15003 (412)
266-4500
(21 minutes)
Old Economy
Kunstfest
Order: PBS Video, 1720 Braddock
Pl., Alexandria, VA 22314-1698 (800) 344-3337; fax (703)
739-5269
(57 minutes)
(Listed as not available from
PBS)
- The New Harmony
Experience [1978]
Order: Museum Shop, Historic New
Harmony, New Harmony, IN 47631 (812) 682-4491; (812) 682-4474; or
(800) 231-3816
-New Harmony: An Example and
a Beacon ($12.50R)
Order: Indiana University
Instructional Support Services, 5901 Franklin Hall, Bloomington,
IN 47401 -(800) 552-8670; fax (812) 055-8404
(29 minutes)
Hutterian
Brethren/Bruderhof
-The Hutterites: To Care and
Not to Care [John L. Ruth, writer and
produced]
Order: Buller Films, Inc., 1251
Virginia Ave., Harrisonburg, VA 22802; e-mail:
bbuller@mbcom.com
(two versions, 25 minutes and 58
minutes)
-How To Get To Heaven in
Montana [tv documentary on division among the
Hutterites between traditionalists and new
evangelicals]
Order: BBC Enterprises, 65 Heward
Ave., Suite 121, Toronto, ONT M4M 2T5, Canada (416)
469-1505
(48 minutes)
-The
Hutterites
Order: Cambridge Educational
Company, POB 2153, Charleston, WV 29318-2153 (800) 468-4227; fax
(800) 329-6687;
camedu@main.citynet.net;
www.cambridgeeducational.com
(58 minutes)
-Living Community:
Introduction to the Bruderhof (formerly Life Together: The
Hutterian Bruderhof
Order: Spring Valley Bruderhof, RD
# 7, Box 446, Farmington, PA 15437 (800) 521-8011 or (724)
339-6680; www.bruderhof.org
(22 minutes)
-Deer Spring Bruderhof
[ABC video presentation]
Order: see above
(22 minutes)
(Note: This community is closed;
video is not available from Spring Valley)
Icaria
-Seven American
Icarias [written by Dale R. Larsen, directed by D. L.
McMains] ($19.95P)
Order: National Icarian Heritage
Society, 9420 Trillium Dr., St. Louis, MO 63126
(ca. 30 minutes)
-Report of Pre-Opening of
Icarian Living History Museum [Lillian Snyder]
($6.00R)
Order: National Icarian Heritage
Society, 503 8th St., Box 404, Corning, IA 50841-1430
(515) 322-3442
(60 minutes)
Kashi
Ashram.
-Introducing Ma Jaya
Bhagavvati
Order: Kashi Foundation, Inc.,
11155 Roseland Rd., Unit ii, Sebastian, FL 32958 (561) 589-1403;
kashinform@kashi.org;
www.kashi.org
(ca. 60 minutes)
Kibbutzim
- Kibbutz 2000
[changes in contemporary kibbutzim] ($29.95P)
Order: Ergo Media, Inc., 668
American Legion Dr., POB 2037, Teaneck, NJ 007666-1437 (800)
695-3376; fax (201) 692-0663
Latter-day Saints
(Mormons)
-A Matter of Principle:
Polygamy in the Mountain West ($19.95P) [producer, Ken
Verola]
Order: KUED TV, 101 Gardner Hall,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (800) 444-8638,
x6771
(55 minutes)
-Under the Great White
Throne (c. $20.00) [deals with Mormon polygamists,
survivalists,and others living near Zion National
Park]
Order: KUED TV, 101 Gardner Hall,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (800) 444-8638,
x6771
(56 minutes, 30seconds)
-Historic
Nauvoo
Order: Nauvoo Visitors Center, POB
215, Nauvoo, IL 62354 - (217) 453-2237
(ca. 25 minutes)
Moravian
Brethren
-In the Spirit of
Community
Order: Moravian Church, Bethlehem
(??)
(23 minutes)
-First Fruits: In Celebration
of 250 Years of Protestant Missions [1982]
($59.95P)
Order: Gateway Films, Box A,
Lansdale, PA 19446
(70 minutes)
New
Age
-New Age Communities
[from Findhorn to the Farm] ($29.95P, + %.00
shipping)
Order: Hartley Film Foundation, 59
Cat Rock Rd., Cos Cob, CT 06087 (800) 937-1819; fax (203)
869-1905
(40 minutes)
- New Age Communities: the
Search for Utopia
Order: see above
New Harmony = see Harmonists/New
Harmony
Old
Believers
- Old Believers
($195.00 / $50.00R + 9.00 shipping)
Order: Center for Media and
Independent Learning, University of California, Extension,
Berkeley, CA 94764 (510) 642-1340; fax (510) 642-0460
National Film Board of
Canada
(29 minutes)
- Old Believers
[Woodburn, OR]
Order: Media Project, POB 4093,
Portland, OR 97208
(28 minutes)
Old
Order Amish
-The Amish: People of
Preservation ($19.95 + 5.00 shipping)
Heritage Productions, Encyclopedia
Britannica Education Corp., Chicago
Order: Buller Films, 1251 Virginia
Ave., Harrisonburg, VA 22802; e-mail: bbuller@mbcom.com
(53 minutes)
-The Amish
Riddle
EKIS Agence de Reportages, Granges
12, 2300 La Chauz-de-Fonds, Switzerland
(50 minutes)
-The Amish: A Family
Legacy [genetic problems]
Order: BBC Enterprises, 65 Heward
Ave., Suite 101, Toronto, ONT 5NT M4M 2T5, Canada - (416)
362-3223
(Note: sold only to
broadcasters)
Oneida
-The Oneida Family of John
Humphrey Noyes [1991, by Milton H. Jannone]
Order: Milton H. Jannone, 781
Kellogg St., Clinton, NY 13323 (315) 363-0745, x4228
(currently unavailable as
videotape)
(20 minutes)
-
Order: Oneida Community Mansion
House, 170 Kenwood Ave., Oneida NY 13421
(315) 363-1745
Rugby
-Historic Rugby, Tennessee's
British Past ($14.95P)
Order: Historic Rugby, Inc., POB 8,
Rugby, TN
(15 minutes)
Roman
Catholic Monasticism
-The Monastery
[ABC documentary, Helen Whitney, director, 1981]
Order:
Shakers
-Shaker Images:
Shakertown [Pleasant Hill] into a More Perfect
Order ($12.95P).
Order: Craft Shop, Shaker Village
of Pleasant Hill, 3501 Lexington Rd., Harrodsburg, KY 40330-8846 -
(800) 734-5611
-Shaker Images: Pleasant Hill
Remembered, Restored, Revisited ($12.95P).
Order: see above
-Shaker Images: The
Architectural Heritage of the Shakers at Pleasant Hill
($12.95P).
Order: see above
-Shaker Images: With Hands
and Hearts [music and dance of the Pleasant Hill
Shakers] ($12.95P).
Order: see above
-Shaker Images: James Lowry
Cogar, A Living Tribute [restorationist]
($12.95P).
Order: see above
-The Shakers ($25.00
rental)
Order: Tom Davenport Films, RR # 1,
Box 527, Delaplane, VA 22025 (703) 592-3701
(44 minutes or 29
minutes)
-The Shakers at South
Union
Order: Shakertown, South Union,
KY
(27 minutes)
-I Don't Want to Be
Remembered as a Chair ($50.00P)
Order: BBC Enterprises, 65 Heward
St., Suite 101, Toronto, ONT, M4M 2T5, Canada,
(ca. 50 minutes)
-Shakers in America
($25.00R)
Order: Applause Productions, Inc.,
85 Longview Rd., Port Washington, WA 11050 (800) 278-7326; fax
(516) 883-7460
(28 minutes)
-The Shakers: Hands to Work,
Hearts to God (Ken Burns)
Order: Direct Cinema Ltd., POB
10003, Santa Monica, CA; fax (710) 396-3223
(58 minutes)
-Shakers: Frugal
Gourmets [Taste of America Series, by Jeff
Smith]
Order: Career Development Software,
Vancouver, WA 98669 (800) 543-0998; fax (676)-3621
Taizé
-Taizé: That Little
Springtime [ecumenical brotherhood in
France]
Order: Taizé Community,
Taizé, France
(26 minutes)
Utopias
-Utopias
Order: Journal Films, Inc., 1560 Sherman, Suite
100, Evanston, IL 60201
(26 minutes)
- Utopias Origin and Development of Utopian
Communalism in America
Order: Agency for Instructional Technology,
POB A, Bloomington, IN 47402-0122 (800) 457-4504; fax (812) 333-4218
-Visions of Utopia: Experiments in Sustainable Culture, A Documentary
by Geoph Kozeny
Order: Fellowship for Intentional Community, 138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa,
VA 23093, USA, 800-462-8240 (orders-US/Canada), 540-894-5798,
Waco = see Branch
Davidians
Zoar
Village
-Zoar Village
Order: Ohio Historical Society,
Zoar State Memorial, Box 523, Zoar, OH 44697 (216)
874-3011
(22 minutes)
Page last updated on August 6, 2002
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