''A Force More Powerful'' is a 1999 feature-length

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film and a 2000

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series written and directed by Steve York about

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resistance movements around the world. Executive producers were Dalton Delan and Jack DuVall. Peter Ackerman was the series editor and principal content advisor. Institutional support for the film included funding from the

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and the Albert Einstein Institution. The film played in festivals worldwide and was broadcast nationally on

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television network

in September 2000. It was nominated for an

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for Outstanding Historical Program. The series explores six successful nonviolent movements in the 20th century, including

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's leadership of the

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, the Civil Rights Movement, the boycotts in the Eastern Cape Province as part of the Anti-

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movement in South Africa, the Danish resistance to Nazi Occupation, the Polish Solidarity Movement, and the Chilean democracy movement to oust

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. ''A Force More Powerful'' is also the name of the companion book to the PBS series, authored by DuVall and Peter Ackerman,. In the Acknowledgments section of the book, the authors name Steve York as their most-cited source. The book was published with

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and has been recognized as an important resource for peace education. In 2006, the team behind the film, TV series and book released a nonviolent video game developed by Breakaway Games with the same title. The video game was designed to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Ivan Marović, one of the leaders of the Serbian student movement called Otpor!, was one of the designers. A turn-based strategy game, it consists of ten pre-built scenarios and an editing system that will allow players to create scenarios of their own. The game's budget was $3 million.

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The Film's homepage

The Game's homepage

Emmy Award Nominees for the Year 2000
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Review of ''A Force More Powerful'' on Gamasutra

Information about AFMP game on Games For Change
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Force More Powerful 1999 films American documentary films Government simulation video games Nonviolent resistance movements Films directed by Steve York 2000s American documentary television series PBS original programming Civil rights movement in television 1990s English-language films 1990s American films English-language documentary films

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