League of Women Voters of Ohio Videos

Note: Videos are rented for 30 days at a time. LWV members pay only shipping costs. For all others, the rental fee is $5 per month plus tax, shipping and handling.

bullet The Empty Chair (2003; 52 min.)
This new video features four stories of murder victims’ families reliving the crimes and confronting the loss of loved ones. Their instinct for revenge and debate for punishment by death climaxes in a search to forgive and heal. Includes commentary by Sr. Helen Prejean. Feature documentary produced and directed by Jacqui Lofaro and Victor Teich. Includes discussion guide.
 
bullet Breakdown: The Condition of Ohio’s School Buildings (2000)
One in a series of videos produced by The Ohio Coalition For Equity & Adequacy of School Funding.
 
bullet Focus on the Voter: Rethinking Election Day (2001)
 
bullet Focus on the Voter: The Election Workforce (2001) Workforce partisanship and recruitment.
 
bullet Focus on the Voter: The Voter’s Experience (2001)
 
bullet Fund Raising.
Three fund raising videos: 1) Welsh Hills School; 2) Limited, Inc. and United Way; and 3) Columbus Symphony.
 
bullet Justice for Sale (1999; 30 min.)
Special 30-minute edition of Justice for Sale, produced with support from the Open Society Institute. This Frontline/Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc. program was originally broadcast on PBS as a 60-minute show in November 1999.
 
bullet Ohio Supreme Court Forum (2002; 60 min.)
Candidates for Supreme Court discuss their judicial qualifications and philosophies at the state’s first televised forum sponsored by LWVO and the Ohio News Network.
 
bullet Our Democracy, Our Airwaves (2003; 7 min.)
Narrated by Walter Cronkite.
 
bullet Predatory Lending . . . It CAN Happen To You.
Ohioans have more protection buying a toaster than they do when it comes to making the single largest purchase of their lives . . . buying a home. Unfortunately, too many Ohio homeowners are losing their homes, as well as the wealth they spent a lifetime building, because of predatory home mortgage lending practices. The Ohio Coalition for Responsible Lending is a statewide anti-predatory lending campaign with representatives from the COHHIO, AARP, OSLSA, LWVO, and HOME.
 
bullet Predatory Lending Practices.
 
bullet The Battle Over School Choice (2000; 60 min.)
A co-production of A Center for Investigative Reporting and Frontline discussing the issue of School Choice.
 
bullet The Case for Free Air Time (9 min.)
Narrated by Walter Cronkite.
 
bullet You Want to Know What I Think? (2000; 6 min.)
A “how to” voting video.