The film weaves together three stories: colorful boxing coach and ex-drill sergeant Sal Bartolo Jr., son of a renowned 1940s East Boston boxing champ; Naomi Yang herself, learning boxing from trainer Bartolo and reexamining some of her own family’s disturbing history; and schoolteacher Mary Ellen Welch, who in the 1960s mobilized a group of neighborhood women against encroachment from Logan airport, fighting back against an indifferent city government. None of these protagonists are destined to win the Big Fight, but all offer inspiration to anyone determined to stand up for themselves and hold their ground.
In Tanzania there is a growing clandestine market for albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that promise to make people rich. As a result people with albinism live in fear of being abducted or maimed. Jerome, a young karate master, has made teaching kids with albinism to defend themselves his life's mission. Now he’s determined to take one of them to a world championship in Japan.
A dad who supposed to be the savior to his daughter turns out being a deep trauma. This is the story of a lonely teenagers who's living a horrible life after the death of her mother.
In the West Bank, Area C is a Palestinian area surrounded by Israeli settlements. Facing poverty and violence, a clever and sensitive Palestinian child tries his hardest to keep his home and family safe from aggressive settlers, even if just for a little while.
A single mother signs up for self-defense classes from a handsome instructor. But he develops a frightening obsession with her and orchestrates an increasing deadly array of "tests" to see if she has truly learned from his lessons.
A college student in Northern Michigan, harassed with anonymous homophobic threats, seeks out shooting lessons with a reclusive survivalist in an effort to prove his manhood.
Beauty Bites Beast aims to 'normalize' the idea of women's self-defense - and by extension, kids' self-defense - as a human need and right.
A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence. For what they saw, the band themselves become targets of violence from a gang of white power skinheads, who want to eliminate all evidence of the crime.
As crime and attacks against women soars throughout the country, "Gun Self-Defense for Women" teaches women, and men, from basic to advanced knowledge on pistols and shotguns, and how to protect themselves and their family.
The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?
When a troubled teen from Cleveland experiences bullying in Cocoa Beach, he soon learns Martial Arts to gain confidence and self-defense skills.
While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
World renowned UFC fighter Kimo Leopoldo presents his fierce brand of hand-to-hand combat with his sensational new “Fierce Fighting” self-defense video training series. Developed from hundreds of street fighting encounters and no holds barred cage fights, Kimo has refined and perfected a “Fierce Fighting” system so effective that anyone who learns his lethal techniques is almost certain to win any stand-up or ground fighting encounter.
Former military security and SWAT team officer Jim Wagner, creator of the Reality-Based Personal Protection system, joins Detective Joanna Clark for this useful lesson in self-defense techniques for women. Using military and law enforcement tactics, Wagner and Clark demonstrate methods for escaping a variety of assault situations. The program also includes essential weapons training and safety.
With this step-by-step defense course from martial arts expert Jim Wagner, you'll learn how to fend off a knife attack. Lessons cover the 12 possible attack angles, primary blocks, the correct grip and Wagner's knife-disarm principle. The class also includes three conflict maneuvers that will help improve your reaction time and swiftness in repelling a knife assault: the freestyle drill, the feeding drill and the one-for-one drill.
Learn core defensive tactics with this step-by-step program from self-defense expert Jim Wagner. Based on military and police methods, this course covers threat zones, angled arm blocks, conflict stances, Wagner's own piston arm strikes and more. The course also covers proper head-butting techniques, leg strikes and counters, stopping power and the legalities of the use of force -- all strategies that are easy to learn and teach.
Jim Wagner, one of the world's top police and military defensive -tactics instructor, delivers a step-by-step program that shows you how to defend yourself should you end up on the ground. He covers tackle defense, opponent takedowns and powerful arm strikes, and his Ground Survival course also shows you how to use your environment to your benefit, how to get back up on your feet, plus expert methods for evasion and escape.
Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover.
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.