Defending Our Lives

1993 film

This article is about documentary. For related article, see Domestic violence. For the article about the U.S., see Domestic violence in the United States.

Defending Our Lives

Directed by| Margaret Lazarus
Renner Wunderlich
Produced by| Margaret Lazarus
Stacey Kabat
Renner Wunderlich

Production
company

Cambridge Documentary Films

Distributed by| Cambridge Documentary Films

Release date

* 1993 (1993)

Running time

| 30 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Defending Our Lives is a 1993 American short documentary film directed by Margaret Lazarus, Stacey Kabat and Renner Wunderlich. It won an Oscar at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994 for Documentary Short Subject.[1]

## See also

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* Domestic Violence Documentaries
* The Conspiracy of Silence, a Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) documentary
* Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America, a documentary about domestic violence and the community-based Duluth Model to reduce domestic violence
* Silent Voices, a United Kingdom documentary
* Sin by Silence, a documentary

## References

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1. ^ "Defending Our Lives (1993)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2008.

## External links

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* Defending Our Lives at Cambridge Documentary Films
* Defending Our Lives on YouTube
* Defending Our Lives at IMDb

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film

1941–1975|

* Churchill's Island (1941)
* No Award (1942)
* December 7th (1943)
* With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)
* Hitler Lives (1945)
* Seeds of Destiny (1946)
* First Steps (1947)
* Toward Independence (1948)
* A Chance to Live / So Much for So Little (1949)
* Why Korea? (1950)
* Benjy (1951)
* Neighbours (1952)
* The Alaskan Eskimo (1953)
* Thursday's Children (1954)
* Men Against the Arctic (1955)
* The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
* No Award (1957)
* Ama Girls (1958)
* Glass (1959)
* Giuseppina (1960)
* Project Hope (1961)
* Dylan Thomas (1962)
* Chagall (1963)
* Nine from Little Rock (1964)
* To Be Alive! (1965)
* A Year Toward Tomorrow (1966)
* The Redwoods (1967)
* Why Man Creates (1968)
* Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
* Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1970)
* Sentinels of Silence (1971)
* This Tiny World (1972)
* Princeton: A Search for Answers (1973)
* Don't (1974)
* The End of the Game (1975)

1976–2000|

* Number Our Days (1976)
* Gravity Is My Enemy (1977)
* The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (1978)
* Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
* Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (1980)
* Close Harmony (1981)
* If You Love This Planet (1982)
* Flamenco at 5:15 (1983)
* The Stone Carvers (1984)
* Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1985)
* Women – for America, for the World (1986)
* Young at Heart (1987)
* You Don't Have to Die (1988)
* The Johnstown Flood (1989)
* Days of Waiting (1990)
* Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (1991)
* Educating Peter (1992)
* Defending Our Lives (1993)
* A Time for Justice (1994)
* One Survivor Remembers (1995)
* Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)
* A Story of Healing (1997)
* The Personals (1998)
* King Gimp (1999)
* Big Mama (2000)

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* Music by Prudence (2009)
* Strangers No More (2010)
* Saving Face (2011)
* Inocente (2012)
* The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013)
* Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (2014)
* A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015)
* The White Helmets (2016)
* Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (2017)
* Period. End of Sentence. (2018)
* Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (2019)
* Colette (2020)
* The Queen of Basketball (2021)
* The Elephant Whisperers (2022)
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* The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2024)

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Domestic violence

General|

* Outline
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| Adults|

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* Elder abuse
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Children|

* Adverse childhood experiences
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Religion|

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Experts|

| Academics|

* Jacquelyn Campbell
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* Nicola Graham-Kevan
* Denise Hines
* Linda Saltzman
* Murray Straus

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Activists|

* Ruahine Albert
* Angela Barker
* Sarah Buel
* Elizabeth Celi
* Anne Cools
* Donna Ferrato
* Karen Ingala Smith
* Ellen Pence
* Erin Pizzey
* Deborah Tucker

Media|

| Documentaries|

* A Better Man
* The Conspiracy of Silence
* Defending Our Lives
* Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America
* Silent Voices
* Sin by Silence

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Other films|

* American Tragedy
* Black and Blue
* Blinded
* Bordertown
* The Burning Bed
* Our Mother's Murder
* Enough
* Looking for Angelina
* Once Were Warriors
* One Minute to Nine
* Provoked
* Sleeping with the Enemy
* Submission
* What's Love Got to Do with It

Books|

* Life with Billy
* Mommie Dearest
* The War on Women

Periodicals|

* Contemporary Family Therapy
* Family Process
* Family Relations
* Journal of Family Issues
* Journal of Interpersonal Violence
* Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
* Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
* Violence Against Women

Organizations|

* Gulabi Gang
* ManKind Initiative
* National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
* National Domestic Violence Hotline
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* Refuge
* Respect

Legal|

* Battered woman defense
* Domestic violence court

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