Pray the Devil Back to Hell (How women won a war)

[Dover]

Run time: 02:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkLHHndwphM   Posted on YouTube: August 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: forkfilms2010 Views on YouTube: 5825   Posted on DU: October 19, 2011 By DU Member: Dover Views on DU: 363

 
This is the trailer for a documentary about how the women of Liberia used prayer, sex and sisterhood to bring peace to
a warring nation.

The full length documentary is available free online - link
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/features/pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/


Four years ago, when producers Abigail Disney, Pamela Hogan, and Gini Reticker hatched the idea for Women, War, and Peace, the five-part documentary series currently airing on PBS, they couldn’t possibly have predicted quite how perfect their timing would be. Just three days before the first episode premiered, one of their real-life heroines, Leymah Gbowee, was among three women to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work shepherding peace into a war-ravaged region of sub-Saharan Africa.

Fittingly, it was Gbowee who inspired the series itself. Disney was in the midst of making Pray the Devil Back to Hell, her award-winning documentary—and second episode of the PBS series—about the group of Liberian women, led by Gbowee, whose peaceful protests helped bring about the end of a 15-year civil war, ushered the brutal dictator Charles Taylor out of power, and paved the way for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—one of the other recipients of this year’s Nobel—to take the helm as Africa’s first female head of state...cont'd

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/18/leymah-gbowee-among-heroines-of-new-pbs-series-on-women-as-war-s-equal-opportunists.html


PBS Series - Women, War and Peace
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace /



Mighty Be Our Powers (book)
http://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Be-Our-Powers-Sisterhood/dp/0984295151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319057707&sr=1-1