Abstract:

This six-part series tells one of the 20th century's most important and least-known stories-- how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. In South Africa in 1907, Mohandas Gandhi led Indian immigrants in a nonviolent fight for rights denied them by white rulers. The power that Gandhi pioneered has been used by underdogs on every continent and in every decade of the 20th century, to fight for their rights and freedom. Discusses how Gandhi's non-violent method of political protest was used to fight segregation in 1960s Nashville, Tennessee; liberate India from British colonial rule; weaken South African apartheid; undermine German the occupational presence in 1940s Denmark; motivate the Polish Solidarity movement in the 1980s; and protest the dictatorship of Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet || Documentary, companion book, and game are also available at http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/