War

Vietnam: Talking to the People [*Institutional License]

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Following up on their landmark documentary Vietnam: Picking Up the Pieces, DCTV returns to the war-torn land to locate many of the subjects they filmed eight years before, just after the fall of Saigon. The resulting film, Vietnam: Talking to the People, offers a penetrating view of a country deeply embedded in the American consciousness, and the picture that emerges is one of determination, hardship, humor and resiliency.

Release Date: 
1985

Director/Producer
Jon Alpert

Producer
Steve Friedman

Tokyo Video Festival: Grand Prize

"Incomparably the most vivacious, absorbing, and outrageous piece of reportage ever screened...Always goes straight to the heart of the matter."
— The Listener (London)
*Institutional Exhibition License: 

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

Vietnam: Picking Up the Pieces [*Institutional License]

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Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno made headlines with a 1977 journalistic coup when they became the first American television crew allowed back into Vietnam after the U.S. withdrawal and were given unprecedented access to the ruined countryside and its people. The resulting "up-close" study of Vietnam's grim postwar reality relies on the voices of the common people to tell their stories: a 14-year-old prostitute, war orphans, an American translator turned opium addict .

Release Date: 
1978

Producer/Director/Editor
Keiko Tsuno

Producer/Director/Editor
Jon Alpert

Associate Producer
Karen Ranucci

"A very special and illuminating program... If you still feel guilt and rage about our role in Viet Nam, this film will not bring you comfort."
— The New York Times

"The most moving scene on television in the past ten years."
— The Village Voice
*Institutional Exhibition License: 

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

Vietnam: 1990 [*Institutional License]

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A collection of stories from day-to-day life in the Vietnam of 1990.

Release Date: 
1990

Cine Golden Eagle Award
*Institutional Exhibition License: 

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

Bridge to Baghdad II [*Institutional License]

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$125.00

As Americans wait in anticipation to see how the dawn of a new Iraq will unfold, many questions about the war, and about life under Saddam, remain unanswered. Imagine being able to call up an old friend and ask those questions, directly, honestly, with no hesitation. This is what happened when DCTV and Chat the Planet brought together the youth of the critically acclaimed Bridge to Baghdad to speak again for the first time since the bombs fell.

Release Date: 
2003

Executive Producer
Jon Alpert

Executive Producer
Kate Hillis

Executive Producer
Laurie Meadoff

Executive Producer
Matthew O'Neill

Aegis Award: Award of Excellence, Television News
*Institutional Exhibition License: 

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

Bridge to Baghdad I [*Institutional License]

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$125.00

Filmed on March 1, 2003, just two weeks before the start of what was to become “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” Bridge to Baghdad 1 connects the youth of New York City to the youth of Baghdad for an unprecedented conversation about the futures of the lands they will someday govern.

Release Date: 
2003

Producer
Jon Alpert

Producer
Brent Renaud

Producer
Craig Renaud

Producer
Matt O'Neill

Camera
Jon Alpert

Camera
Brent Renaud

Camera
Craig Renaud

Editor
Jon Alpert

Editor
Brent Renaud

Editor
Craig Renaud

Aegis Award 2004

Aurora Award 2004

Telly Award 2004

Official Selection: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2004

Official Selection: Amnesty International Film Festival 2004

"Moved me more than any other TV coverage or reporting on the Iraqi situation. My rage brought me up out of my chair!"
Janine Holde
*Institutional Exhibition License: 

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero [*Institutional License]

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$175.00

Documentarian Jon Alpert accompanies Masuda Sultan, a 23-year-old Afghan-American woman, as she travels back to Kandahar, Afghanistan to see what has become of her country after 9/11. Masuda is delighted to see the yoke of the Taliban lifted, but horrified to find out what happened to her family. Seeking refuge from the American bombing, a large number of her family escaped to the small village of Chowkar-karez, 60 miles north of Kandahar. Then, on October 22, 2001, Chowkar-Karez was attacked by the American military. 41 civilians were killed. 19 of them were members of Masuda’s family.

Release Date: 
2002

Producer/Director
Jon Alpert

Camera
Jon Alpert

Camera
Tami Alpert

Camera
Brent Renaud

Editor
John Custodio

Editor
Brent Renaud

Editor
Craig Renaud

Associate Producer
Tami Alpert

Associate Producer
Masuda Sultan

Associate Producer
Brent Renaud

Video Communication Prize, JVC Tokyo Video Festival

"[Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero] was as close as I'd been to this war; and the voice and imagery in this piece were as close to a breakthrough as Moyers has given us in the storytelling power of TV. Or perhaps it was a glimpse of the talent PBS needs to get beyond Moyers."
Christopher Lydon, Current Magazine
*Institutional Exhibition License: 

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

Off to War: The Complete Box Set [*Institutional License]

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$475.00

A Downtown Community Television Center and Discovery Times Channel production.

From the farms and fields of Arkansas to the deadly streets of Baghdad, Off to War tracks the citizen soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard as they come face to face with the horror of war.

Release Date: 
2005

Director
Brent Renaud

Director
Craig Renaud

Camera
Brent Renaud

Camera
Craig Renaud

Editors
Brent Renaud

Editors
Craig Renaud

Editors
John Custodio

Editors
Eddie Stein

Editors
Mami Kuwano

Editors
Rubin Polizzi

Executive Producers
Jon Alpert

Executive Producers
Diana Sperrazza

Golden Gate Award

Bronze Remi Award: Houston International Film Festival

"The most intimate and memorable look at Americans in the Iraqi conflict."
— The New York Times

"One of the best documentaries about the war in Iraq."
— FOX News

"Should be mandatory viewing from the President on down."
— Cable World

"The cameras are unflinching in their portrayal of life in a combat zone, whether it involves soldiers detonating improvised explosive devices intended to kill them or weeping as they leaf through family photos."
— Andrew Wallenstein, The New York Times

"Absolutely riveting television. It's a knockout."
— On the Tube by Alan Pergament

"Grade: A-"
— Entertainment Weekly
*Institutional Exhibition License: 

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

No Place to Hide: Inside Iraq, 1991 [*Institutional License]

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Originally slated for broadcast on NBC news in 1991, Inside Iraq: No Place to Hide was yanked just three hours before airtime. Was this coverage, which revealed that the Gulf War was not as clean and easy as the US media presentation had implied, too hot for TV?

Traveling through Iraq, DCTV’s filmmakers were able to visit a number of Iraqi cities whose infrastructure had been entirely destroyed. Water, electricity, and medicine were in short supply. Doctors stood helpless as the wounded suffered and starving babies died in their mothers’ arms.

Release Date: 
2002

Re-edited by Paul Pittman
*Institutional Exhibition License: 

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

Off to War: The Complete Box Set

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$49.95
See video
$49.95

A Downtown Community Television Center and Discovery Times Channel production.

From the farms and fields of Arkansas to the deadly streets of Baghdad, Off to War tracks the citizen soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard as they come face to face with the horror of war.

Release Date: 
2005

Director
Brent Renaud

Director
Craig Renaud

Camera
Brent Renaud

Camera
Craig Renaud

Editors
Brent Renaud

Editors
Craig Renaud

Editors
John Custodio

Editors
Eddie Stein

Editors
Mami Kuwano

Editors
Rubin Polizzi

Executive Producers
Jon Alpert

Executive Producers
Diana Sperrazza

Golden Gate Award

Bronze Remi Award: Houston International Film Festival

"The most intimate and memorable look at Americans in the Iraqi conflict."
— The New York Times

"One of the best documentaries about the war in Iraq."
— FOX News

"Should be mandatory viewing from the President on down."
— Cable World

"The cameras are unflinching in their portrayal of life in a combat zone, whether it involves soldiers detonating improvised explosive devices intended to kill them or weeping as they leaf through family photos."
— Andrew Wallenstein, The New York Times

"Absolutely riveting television. It's a knockout."
— On the Tube by Alan Pergament

"Grade: A-"
— Entertainment Weekly

Vietnam: Talking to the People

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$19.95
$19.95

Following up on their landmark documentary Vietnam: Picking Up the Pieces, DCTV returns to the war-torn land to locate many of the subjects they filmed eight years before, just after the fall of Saigon. The resulting film, Vietnam: Talking to the People, offers a penetrating view of a country deeply embedded in the American consciousness, and the picture that emerges is one of determination, hardship, humor and resiliency.

Release Date: 
1985

Director/Producer
Jon Alpert

Producer
Steve Friedman

Tokyo Video Festival: Grand Prize

"Incomparably the most vivacious, absorbing, and outrageous piece of reportage ever screened...Always goes straight to the heart of the matter."
— The Listener (London)
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