Animal Experimentation

• ABC News - Almost Human: A report on the debate over the use of chimpanzees in medical research.
• Advances in Medical Education: World-renown medical innovator Henry Heimlich, MD. narrates this video which shows Harvard Medical School's alternative to the traditional "dog lab" method of teaching cardiac medicine. It examines the relevance, ethics, and effectiveness of live animal laboratories and their alternatives.
• Animals Are Not Ours to Experiment On: This DVD contains six videos: UNC Uncovered, No Gravy for the Cat, Unnecessary Fuss, Silver Spring Monkeys, Breaking Barriers, and Inside Biosearch.
• Britches: The rescue and rehabilitation of an infant primate from a basement laboratory at the University of California.
• Dealing Dogs: This HBO documentary is about the pet theft trade which is used to supply research facilities with companion animals.
• Health with Humanity: This British film explores the topics of natural health therapies, alternatives to animal experiments, and preventing disease.
• Lethal Medicine: Examines the health consequences of using animal research and questions its scientific validity.
• The Nature of Things: Animal research is an issue that divides intelligent people. There are extreme views on both sides of the issue but, this film is about the responsible and thoughtful people in the middle, where the debate is the hottest.

Animals in Entertainment

• Chimps So Like Us: A look at the uniqueness of our closest living relatives, Chimpanzees, and society's use of them in entertainment and animal experimentation.
• Bucking The Myth: This is a short but compelling critique of the rodeo industry.
• Animals Are Not Ours to Use As Entertainment This DVD contains eight videos: Cheap Tricks, Circus Elephants, The Circus, Carson & Barnes Circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Tiger's Eye, Bullfighting School, and Rodeo.
• Behind The Bigtop: The greatest show on earth provides little more than suffering and boredom for its four-legged performers.

Animal Agriculture

• A Cow At My Table: This documentary is about the social forces in our society that conceal, distort and legitimize factory farming with perilous repercussions to animals, humans and the environment. It weaves together interviews with animal rights activists, agribusiness representatives and animal welfare experts.
• Diet For A New America: A highly acclaimed video (and book) that discusses health, animal, environmental and world hunger issues.
• Meet Your Meat: According to the USDA approximately 10 billion animals are raised and killed for food every year in the US. This video documents legal and routine treatment of animals in the food industry.
• Peaceable Kingdom: At a time when the public is more concerned than ever about the health and environmental problems associated with large-scale factory farming, this documentary explores another angle of this unfolding story: the interconnected life journeys of farm animals, former farmers, and animal rescuers struggling against an out of control industrial system.
• The Meatrix: Uses animation, action, and humor to educate audiences about today's industrial meat and dairy production systems.
• The Pig Picture: Traces the development of commercial pig rearing in America - from the small-scale family farms of yesterday - to the corporate owned pig factories of today. Also, documents the natural behaviors of pigs reintroduced back into a natural setting.
• Processed People: Features in-depth discussions with leading health experts detailing why so many Americans are sick, and offers solutions to our current health crisis.
• Pig Farm Investigation: Narrated by James Cromwell, Star of the popular movie Babe, this video is a shocking inside look at a North Carolina pig farm. This footage is what it took to lead to the first felony conviction of a farm worker for animal cruelty.

General Animal Issues

• Just Choices: An intriguing, contemporary video that captures the audience's attention. It examines animal protection as a modern social justice movement by following four high school students working on a project.
• Their Future In Your Hands: Rather than a simple catalog of the inhumanity of vivisection laboratories and factory farms, this is a film about hope, showing how we can all help to create a less violent world for humans, animals, and the environment.
• The Witness: This is an award winning documentary about personal transformation and caring for animals. Eddie Lama, a streetwise Brooklyn contractor, takes viewers inside his personal odyssey from animal avoider to animal protector - and then to vegetarian and crusader against the cruelties of the fur industry. It all began when a woman he wanted to date asked him to pet-sit her cat for the weekend.
• What's Wrong with Hunting: Amidst the current pro-hunting propaganda that wildlife agencies and the gun industry are distributing to schools this video debunks common myths about hunting.
• Animals Are Not Ours to Use For Clothing: This DVD contains six videos: Trapping and Fur Farms, Stella McCartney's Fur Farm Expose`, Indian Leather Investigation, Fur Sting, "Love Affair with Faux" Fashion Show, and "Singing Cows" Commercial.
• Teachkind Compilation: This DVD contains six videos: Share the World, Classroom Cutups, Stimulus/Response, Chew On THIS!, Testing 1,2,3, and Whose Skin Are You In.

Good For 6th Grade Students and Up

• A Conversation with Koko: Explores inter-species communication by focusing on the groundbreaking work of The Gorilla Foundation, where one animal resident has been speaking in sign language for more than 25 years.
• Protecting The Web: Using the metaphor of a spider's web, this film helps us understand that all living things are part of the Earth's ecosystem and that the choices we make in everyday life can help or hurt other living creatures.
• Share The World: Helps us understand and appreciate the animals with whom we share our world. Examine how our relationships with them have changed through history, discover alternatives to their use, and respond to situations in which their well-being is threatened.
• Animal Dissection - A Student's Choice: One of the fundamental tenets of Life Sciences is to teach respect for life. This video discusses the importance of Student's Choice Laws that give students the right to choose alternatives to dissection.
• Why Dogs Smile And Chimpanzees Cry: Is it human conceit to attribute emotions to animal actions, or are emotions basic to life on earth? Wildlife filmmakers and scientists make a convincing argument for the latter in this gripping film.

Additional Resources

• Contact Bridges of Respect: Our office has literally hundreds of other titles including books and magazines.
• For online videos check out these resources: http://video.hsus.org and http://animalrights.change.org/ or search key words such as: prop 2, veganism, cosmetic testing, Tom Regan, vegetarian cooking, vegetarian celebrities, or vegetarian athletes at http://www.youtube.com.