Movies: Self defense

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 d...

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, ...

An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives....

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....

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes...

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, ha...

In a dangerous world, it's important to know how to defend yourself. This instructional program features techniques for thwarting a carjacking, chemical attack, armed robbery, gang violence and other assaults. Host Jim Wagner brings more than 20 year...

In this instructional program, self-defense expert JimWagner teaches viewers basic handgun techniques for protection and defense. In addition to gun safety and shooting, lessons explain how to conduct an in-home drill for practice using nonlethal air...

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 ...

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....

Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and busine...

Many demonstrations of the art of Jiu Jitsu are given, and as evidence that this is not a passing fad intended only for the amusement of the public there is illustrated in very thrilling manner how several footpads follow two girls and then in a dese...

Self-defense training for women...

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 li...

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...

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...

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....