Forgiveness : a time to love & a time to hate / Bullfrog Films presents ; produced and written by Helen Whitney ; produced by Helen Whitney Productions, Clear View Productions Foundation and WETA Washington D.C.

"This layered film by acclaimed filmmaker Helen Whitney addresses the act of forgiveness, which is a theological principle central to all major religions, but is more and more frequently leaving the church, synagogue and mosque and hitting the fractious streets. Inevitably its new role in the world...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bilous, Edward (Composer)
DiBucci, Michelle (Composer)
Neiman, Adam (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Helen Whitney Productions
Clear View Productions Foundation
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
Bullfrog Films
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Other Authors: Whitney, Helen (Producer, Director)
Winterburn, Ted (Film editor)
Sanderson, Paul G. (Cinematographer)
Walker, Kathryn (Narrator)
Jacoby, Jeff
Albacete, Lorenzo
Sachs, Albie, 1935-
Van Zyl, Paul
Hayner, Priscilla
Rosenbaum, Thane
Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla
Sabune, Petero
Lapsley, Michael
Rutayisire, Antoine
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Published: Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, [2011], ©2011.
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Physical Description:2 videodiscs (168 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Contents:
  • Disc 1. Feature film (84 min.)
  • The Amish school shooting, Nickel Mines, PA (15:32)
  • Savage attack on two female campers, Cline Falls, OR (23:19)
  • Kathy Power, 60s radical, Wanted for murder (31:12)
  • The lost years : unjustly fired (12:19)
  • The therapy hour : dealing with AIDS (13:00)
  • Disc 2. Feature film (84 min.)
  • Mother walks out on husband and children (17:43)
  • Germany examines its past (29:34)
  • Rwanda : Confronting genocide (22:12).
  • Bonus features include mini-case studies and interviews on separate topics that were left out of the final version of the film. Disc 1. extras: short case studies (without captions): Armenian genocide (4:04); Japanese Internment (0:49); Liberia (1:59); Native Americans (1:22); Interviews: Jeff Jacoby / Simon Wiesenthal’s "The Sunflower" (3:30) and Jewish vs. Christian ideas of forgivenenss (2:44); Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete / Confession vs. therapy (7:03); Judge Albie Sachs / Torture (13:24); Paul van Zyl / Torture by US (4:05); Priscilla Hayner / Torture by US (0:57)
  • Disc 2. extras: Thane Rosenbaum / National apologies (3:23); Paul van Zyl / Age of apology (3:51); Paul van Zyl / Germany’s penitential journey (2:17); Judge Albie Sachs / South African truth and Reconciliation commission (3:13); Prof. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela / Legacy of the South African TRC (3:37); Rev. Petero Sabune / Brother’s death (5:22); Fr. Michael Lapsley / Letter bomb (3:36); Pastor Antoine Rutayisire / Forgiveness through the cross (4:19).