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What is the root cause of aggressive behavior, and why is it so widespread today?  Understand why some people adopt belligerent attitudes that lead them to inappropriate confrontations.   This DVD is great for a classroom discussion on aggressive behavior and bullying.

Runtime: 18 mins

This instructional DVD provides a balanced look at the problem of bullying from all perspectives, and then provides a useful advice that covers the broad spectrum of solutions available to a child on a case by case basis.  Bully 911 is an easy to learn, step-by-step video that addresses a variety of issues, concerns and threats.  Levels of protection taught range from mild, moderate to more forceful.  This gives you a chance to work with and speak with your child on the heartbreaking topic of bullying and helps you learn how to handle a bully together!  Don't let your child be victimized by the mental and physical harm from bullying and its effects that can last well beyond their childhood years!  What have you got to lose except...your child's fears and worries.

Runtime:  26 mins

Every day, in schools Bullying doesn't stop at the grade school playground.  Middle school students can be targets and perpetrators of verbal, emotional, and physical bullying as well.  This important new video explores unique bullying issues that middle school (grades 6 to 8) students experience-as told in their own words.  Real kids (not actors) discuss real-life issues and situations, including: What is bullying?  Why do kids bully?  What if it happens to you?
Included with this DVD is a teacher's guide that contains information designed to assist you with introducing, following-up and reinforcing the material presented.

Runtime: 11 mins

Pre-teens discuss what it means to bully and how they've dealt with this threatening behavior in their own lives.  Asked about different ways kids can respond to a bully, they offer practical suggestions that have worked for them such as:  "ignore it," "tell them to stop," "laugh it off," "walk away," or "agree with the bully."  Everyone has a right to feel safe, they agree, and kids do have the power to help stop bullying.   This DVD is intended for grades 3 to 4.  Included with this DVD is a facilitators guide that contains supporting information, a session outline and a parent involvement newsletter.

Every day, in schools and in other institutions, aggressive, harassing acts are carried out with frightening regularity.  The oppression and intimidation caused by bullies can make it almost impossible to concentrate upon an education or a career.  Cycles of violence can be broken by confronting and eradicating environments in which bullies thrive.  By using education, empowerment, commitment, and unity, socially maladjusted individuals can be convinced to stop their abuse.

Runtime: 26 mins

As long as there have been schools, there have been bullies that tease, threaten and physically harm their peers.  We know today that bullying has serious consequences for both the victims and the bullies, ranging from low self-esteem to suicide.  Bullying: What Every Adult Needs to Know gives adults the tools and knowledge they need to prevent and stop bullying among young people.  This DVD, featuring professionals and young people, educates parents, teachers, and anyone who works with young people about what bullying is and what they can do to help deal with bullying in a healthy way.

On a cold day in January, Sixteen-year-old Jonathan will go to his middle school knowing one thing for sure-he is going to be verbally and physically bullied at least one time during the day.  However, today would not be the same.  Jonathan had something totally unexpected to share with his class, and it will be the day that his tormentors and classmates never forget.  Neither will those who watch this video.  This will be the most powerful and unusual anti-bullying film your students will ever see, and it will definitely spark a meaningful class discussion.

Runtime:  8 mins

In this educational DVD, you'll hear from Real Teens as they discuss their views on bullying and harassment on campus and some of the motivations behind a bully's behavior.  Using interviews with teens that bully and teens that have been bullied, this program provides a broad understanding of why bullies do what they do.  The best way to handle them and who can be of help in a harassing situation.  The program discusses the damage to self-esteem when a student becomes the constant victim of bullying and the ways to avoid conflict and violence on campus.  This DVD is geared towards teens grades 8-12.  Teens tell us their fears and solutions in this "must watch" program.

In this educational DVD, You'll hear from Real Teens as they discuss their views on Cyber-Bullying.  Cyber-bullying is any form of harassment that occurs via the internet.  Vicious forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web sites and mean or cruel email messages are all considered types of bullying.  While Cyber-Bullying mainly takes place on line, other high tech methods like threatening text messages and taunting voicemails also fall under this category.  In some States, Cyber-bullying is a crime that can even lead to death.  This DVD is geared towards teens grades 8-12.  This program has recommended companion title: Bullies and Harassment.

Runtime:  18 mins

From the creator of Broken Toy and Joey, here is another Thomas Brown DVD dealing with the impact of teasing and bullying.  Twelve-year-old Billy had it made.  He was popular and he had no idea how it felt to be down.  Billy and his best friends liked to pick on Christopher, a small built boy who had just lost his mother to cancer 6 months earlier.  However, a freak accident scars Billy, and the roles are now reversed.  Christopher stands up for Billy, who is now a Bully turned victim.  This changes Billy forever, as he learns the value of acceptance, sensitivity, and becoming a caring person.

In the United States, over 165,000 bullied children purposely miss school every day because they're afraid to go.  Childhood bullying has been a major factor in both youth suicides and school shootings.  "Storm" is an unnerving and stark reality drama of a boy whose ego and self-worth are reduced to the point where he takes his own life in order to, "make it all go away".  Thomas Brown, anti-bullying advocate and film director reflects on his own bullying experience in the classroom presentation of Taking Ninth Graders by STORM.  Here, Tom poses questions and invites debate on matters affecting the film's characters.  Students watching this segment are able to reflect on other students' attitudes toward bullying, providing them an opportunity to weigh their thoughts against those of their peers.

Thomas Brown has created another powerful, thought-provoking and touching film about how bullying can change and affect the lives of victims, the bystanders and the bully themselves. There are more than half a million school busses on the road every day in the U.S. alone, with fortunately, very few yearly fatalities on or involving them.  This video presents a "what if" scenario.  What if children were being so discourteous to driver and fellow peers, by engaging in misbehavior and bullying, that it would directly contribute to a driver losing control of the bus? This hard-hitting film does not focus on school bus safety. The film is about school bus BULLYING and what 'could' go horribly wrong. Our story DOES go horribly wrong, resulting lives both lost and forever changed. This film contains some scenes that might be upsetting to more sensitive or younger audiences. It has been successfully tested on grades 3-8.

People get hurt by words every day. Across the nation, someone is being subjected to mocking, name-calling or having rumors spread about them all over school.  Some victims of emotional harassment never fully recover from it, and the consequences can be devastating, yet the perpetrators go unpunished.  In this video, you'll find out what constitutes emotional harassment and what you can do to stop this social phenomenon.

Runtime: 24 mins

That's Enough is a fictional drama about the relationship between youth bullying and school shootings.  It examines what can happen when a high school student is mercilessly teased, socially excluded, and physically wounded.  It challenges middle and high school students to explore bullying at their schools and the cliques, struggles, and ostracizing that may result, and in some cases, has resulted shootings and youth suicides.  This video is directed by Jack Revheim, a seventeen-year old Central High School (St. Paul, MN) exchange student from Norway.  The screenplay is co-authored by Jack Revheim and Dr. Michael Obsatz, Associate Professor of Sociology, Macalester College, (St. Paul, MN), author of the award-winning book, Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent World, and violence prevention educator.  Dr. Obsatz is also the executive producer.  The cast includes middle school students, high school and college students, as well as adults.  The video also includes a seven-minute interview with Dr. Obsatz about bullying issues and questions teachers can use for discussion.

Runtime:  20 mins

Bullying hurts, and scares many people. It also causes anxiety, and disrupts lives. This comprehensive program will provide solid advice for understanding and dealing with bullies, and viewers will learn the causes and effects of bullying. Why do they do it, and what do they stand to gain? Most importantly, viewers learn the things they can do if they are the victim of a bully. They will learn it's NOT their fault; where they can go for help; and what specific steps they can take to stop the abuse. This video includes interviews, teen bullies, and experts on bullying.