Films with: Powers, Ron

Back against the Wal

Describes the effect of Wal-Mart moving into a community. Residents of small towns in Illinois and Texas discuss Wal-Mart's influence on downtowns, its consumption of land, the kinds of jobs it creates, and the cost of downtown disinvestment. Narrator Ron Powers encourages Vermonters to learn from the experience of these communities and to support local businesses.

DVD 13215

Flags of our fathers

The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their lives during war.

DVD 4976