Intimate Partner Violence - Justice Institute of British Columbia

V1169 A Place to Start (video, 41 minutes)
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INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
This educational video package is for women who have been assaulted by their husbands
or boyfriends. Many will be going to court as witnesses for the prosecution in wife assault
cases. The video and handbook help them to understand the Canadian criminal law and
court process by relating personal experiences of abused women, and through
professionals’ descriptions of the process. (B.C. Institute on Family Violence)
(HV 6626 P423 1994)
V3171 Safer Streets, Safer Cities: Episode I: Domestic Violence (video, 28 minutes)
This video features one woman's story of surviving and escaping violence in her
relationship. This personal narrative is interspersed with comments from experts such as
Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh, Minister Sue Hammell, Professor Neil Boyd and advocate
Zara Suleman. (Rogers Television) (HV 7431 S236 1998)
V007 A Summer in the Life of Louisa (video, 30 minutes)
A video about a battered wife in a northern community. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.
(Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program, Health and Welfare Canada)
(HV 6626 S845 1986)
V3216 A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Battering: A Speech by Susan
Schecter (video, 60 minutes)
Provides background material for understanding the causes of domestic violence in order
to form better public policy and improve intervention. (Duluth Domestic Abuse
Intervention Project) (HV 6626 T446 1992)
V1583 Violence against Women: Breaking the Silence (video, 60 minutes)
Offers stories of hope for women who are in violent relationships. Includes: who to call
for help, how to get out, how the police can help, children of violence, and how to break
the silence. (Friday Communications, Inc.) (HV 6626 V5586 1995)
V3230 Voices Heard Sisters Unseen (video, 76 minutes)
Battered women relate their experiences through a variety of forms of expression--poetry,
journals, performance art, etc. (Women Make Movies) (HV 6626.2 V65 1995)
V1253 When Women Kill (video, 48 minutes)
A powerful documentary about battered women who, after years of violence, kill their
abusers. Three women lead us through the stories of the abuse they endured, abuse that
led them to that moment when they stood to defend their lives. The film examines the
court treatment of the “murdress” - past and present - and challenges the legal system to
confront the systematic and widespread violence that men inflict daily on the home front.
(National Film Board of Canada) (HV 6535 C2 W448 1994)
V3157 Why Don’t You Just Leave (video, 28 minutes)
Presents poetic images, uncompromising text, and voices of men and women to expose
the implications of domestic violence towards women and the inability or unwillingness of
society and our justice system to confront the issue. Created as a video installation piece
for a travelling exhibition of paintings by artist Anne Popperwell. (Moving Images)
(HV 6626 W493 1996)