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CONTENTS PAGE NO.
U.S HISTORY & GOVERNMENT 3
SOCIETY AND VALUES 27
U.S. AND GLOBAL ECONOMY 36
U.S. ART AND CULTURE 51
DIPLOMACY & NATIONAL SECURITY 76
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 82
HEALTH 93
SCENIC AMERICA 97
VIDEOCASSETTE REQUEST FORM 101
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AMERICA: ON THE MOVE 1876-2000
90 Minutes, 2004
The History Channel commemorates the National
Museum of American History's stunning exhibition,
"America on the Move: 1876-2000," exploring the
role of transportation in shaping U.S. history and
culture. This DVD takes viewers on a guided tour of
the exhibit, revealing highlights of the museum's
transportation collection that includes an original
steam locomotive, the interior of a Mississippi
riverboat, and an actual chunk of the legendary
roadway. (Id. No. 696)
Format: DVD
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
* RACHEL CARSON’S SILENT SPRING
56 Minutes, 1993
She had survived a bout with cancer. Her scientific
methods were problematic. Her friends said a book
on the chemical poisoning of the environment was
too depressing. But the publication of "Silent
Spring" by marine biologist Rachel Carson, warni
ng against the unregulated use of agricultural
pesticides - particularly DDT - dramatically changed
public attitudes and governmental regulations about
the environment. This PBS video tells her story.
Written and produced by Neil Goodwin; narrated by
Alex Chadwick. (Id. No. 1)
Format: VHS
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
150 Minutes, 2000
She was the nation's conscience, a tireless
advocate for America's disadvantaged.
Controversial First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
influenced American social policies for decades
and helped create the first international charter on
human rights. Despite a painful childhood, shy
nature, and difficult marriage, she rose to become
one of America's admired women. This intimate
biography explores her secretive, surprising private
life. (Id. No. 2)
Format: VHS & DVD Location: AV & AL
THE MASSACHUSETTS 54TH COLORED
INFANTORY
60 Minutes, 1991
When the Civil War began, black men clamored for
a chance to strike a blow for the liberation of the
African-American race. They were ready to fight for
the abolition of slavery and the extension of full
citizenship rights by the war’s end. Their desire to
participate was rejected until the first officially
sanctioned regiment of northern black soldiers was
formed in Boston. This film tells the complete story
of that regiment—who they were and why they
fought. (Id. No. 495)
Format: VHS
SCOTTSBORO: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
90 Minutes, 2001
In March 1931, a freight train crowded with
homeless and jobless hoboes left Chattanooga,
Tennessee, bound for points west. A short time
after it crossed into Alabama, a fight erupted
between two groups of hoboes–one black and one
white. The train was stopped by an armed posse
in the tiny town of Paint Rock, Alabama. Before
anyone knew what had happened, two white
women stepped from the shadows of a boxcar to
make a shocking accusation: nine black teenagers
aboard the train had raped them.
So began one of the most significant legal fights of
the twentieth century. Before it was over, the
Scottsboro affair–so-named for the little Alabama
town where the nine were put on trial for their liveswould
divide Americans along racial, political, and
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geographic lines. It would draw North and South
into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield
two momentous Supreme Court decisions, and give
birth to the Civil Rights Movement.
But for all its historical significance, the Scottsboro
story is, at its core, a riveting drama about the
struggles of nine innocent young men for their
lives and a cautionary tale about using human
beings as fodder for political causes.
Viewers travel from the jails of Alabama to the
salons of New York and meet a fascinating gallery
of characters: the lead defendant – a defiant black
man who refuses to lay down before the power of
Alabama; the defense lawyer, who comes to see in
the case echoes of the discrimination he has felt
himself; the accuser – a poor white woman who
finds in her lie a route to respectability; and a
Southern judge-who risks the scorn of his beloved
state to deliver justice. (Id. No. 133)
Format: VHS
THE WAY WEST
1995
This PBS miniseries studies the triumph and
tragedy found in expansion of the United States
into Native American lands between 1849 and
1890. Written and directed by Ric Burns; narrated
by Russell Baker.
WESTWARD, THE COURSE OF EMPIRE
TAKES ITS WAY
(Episode 1) 90 Minutes
Part one reviews a series of violent confrontations
between whites and American Indians, from the
1849 California Gold Rush to the 1864 Sand Creek
massacre, in the push for white America’s "
manifest destiny ". (Id. No. 496)
Format: VHS
THE APPROACH OF CIVILIZATION
(Episode 2) 90 Minutes
Episode two chronicles the four-year period
following the Civil War—an extraordinarily
transformative and disruptive era on the Great
Plains, marked by tow great climaxes: the triumph,
in 1868, of Red Cloud and Crazy Horse over the
United States Army on the Bozeman Trail and the
completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869
at Promontory Point, Utah. (Id. No. 497)
Format: VHS
THE WAR FOR THE BLACK HILLS
(Episode 3) 90 Minutes
The 1873 invasion of the Lakota people’s sacred
Black Hills by gold seekers and the extermination of
the buffalo lead to confrontation between the
northern plains Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne
peoples, and the U.S. Army at the Little Big Horn in
1876. (Id. No. 498)
Format: VHS
GHOST DANCE
(Episode 4) 90 Minutes
This episode describes the final days of Crazy
Horse and Sitting Bull, the crushing of American
Indian tribes af ter the 1876 Battle of Little Big
Horn, the rise of the Ghost Dance religion and the
1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. (Id. No. 3)
Format: VHS
BATTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
MILITARY
5 DVDs, 12 hrs, 45 minutes, 2005
A mighty compendium of America’s five major
military branches—Marines, Navy, Army, Air Force,
and Coast Guard—the Battle History of the United
States Military trumpets the myriad strengths of one
of the world’s greatest military powers.
This DVD marches through America’s military
development from its earliest Coast Guard days to
the technological wonders of the Gulf war. With
official government documents, extensive combat
footage, and commentary by historians and
decorated veterans. It is a full-scale, full-dress
salute to the men and women who give and have
given to America’s fight for freedom.
MARINES
V.1, 140 Minutes
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Volume one of the The Battle History of the United
States Military takes a tour through one of the
world’s great elite military forces—United States
Marien Corps.
Featuring some of the most dramatic combat
footage ever recorded and interviews with highly
decorated soldiers, this is a definitive history of the
U.S. Marine Corps in battle. Three distinguished
documentaries—Born in Blood, Pacific Inferno, and
Tragedy in Triumph—take you to the four corners
of the world and the edge of two centuries of valor,
tragedy, and triumph. From sharpshooters in the
War of 1812 to the bloodiest and most important
battles of WWII, the Marines are the first in a fight
and the last to leave. (Id. No. 675)
Format: DVD
NAVY
V.2, 184 Minutes
From the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm,
volume two of the Battle History of the United
States Military takes an extraordinary look at the
U.S. Navy.
Beginning with a band of privateers under the
command of John Paul Jones, the U.S. Navy
evolved into the world’s greatest sea power in the
modern era. Featuring four remarkable
programs—Born into war, fire & water, Steel Wars
of Freedom, and Second to None—that combine
harrowing combat footage and commentary from
historians and veterans, the path of American naval
dominance is an epic saga of struggle, courage and
conquest. From wooden ships to nuclear
submarines and massive aircraft carriers to the
deadly stealth of seal, the history of the U.S. Navy
never changes course. (Id. No. 676)
Format: DVD
ARMY
V.3, 184 Minutes
A glorious look at the heart of America’s ground
forces, volume three of the Battle History of the
United States Military examines the U.S. Army.
At the forefront of America’s fight for freedom, the
United States Army has always preserved and
triumphed against the greatest odds for over two
centuries. Often ill-equipped and outgunned,
American soldiers have displayed the skill,
ingenuity, and fortitude to defeat the enemy at all
costs. From the hardscrabble days of the
Revolution through the World Wars and into the
21st century and beyond, the U.S. Army is
exemplified and honored through four stirring
documentary features: The Citizen Soldier, Sword
of Freedom, Soldiers across the Sea, and In Wars
Undeclared. (Id. No. 677)
Format: DVD
AIR FORCE
V.4, 167 Minutes
Volume four of the Battle of History of the United
States Military examines the heights of courage
and valor in the U.S. Air Force.
Through technological brilliance and a dizzying
willingness to push the envelope, the history of
American air dominance stretches from the
appearance of the first planes in 1907,
manufactured by the Wright Brothers (who also
trained the Air Force’s first pilots), to the Air Force’s
first appearance in World War I, to its influential
presence in every world conflict since. Four stellar
documentaries –Struggling into the Air, Winds
Across the World, Air Wars Hot and Cold, and Over
the Jungles, Over the Sands—travel across time
and space to capture the steely resolve and daringdo
of America’s “guardians of the upper realm.”
From barely getting off the ground to the super
technology of today’s cutting edge aircraft, The
Battle History of the United States Air Force is an
adrenaline—packed history of one of the most vital
branches of the American military. (Id. No. 678)
Format: DVD
COAST GUARD
V.5, 91 Minutes
Head to sea for three hundred years of duty and
adventure with America’s original armed force in
volume five of the Battle History of the United
States Coast Guard.
In its third century of service, the U.S. Coast
Guard’s reputation as the worldwide emblem of sea
rescue overshadows the remarkable scope of its
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incredible feats as America’s fifth armed service.
From its inception by Alexander Hamilton in 1790 to
its present-day duties protecting the nation’s shores
from terrorist threats, this historical portrait of the
U.S. Coast Guard introduces the men and women
who perform nautical good deeds year in and year
out, while fighting in all U.S. wars and protecting
over 16,000 miles of river, lake and ocean
shoreline! (Id. No. 679)
Format: DVD
BEST KEPT SECRETS OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT
51 minutes, 2000
Using realistic reenactments, crime scene and
courtroom footage, and interviews with police
personnel and research scientists, this program
showcases 21st-century advances in law
enforcement. On the technological side, an array of
nonlethal weaponry, including the Laser Dazzler
and the TASER, and a computer program that can
analyze videotaped faces to determine if the people
filmed were lying are featured. On the tactical side,
high-tech training on virtual obstacle courses,
techniques used in high-speed pursuits, and the
application of neurolinguistics to determine if
drivers who have been pulled over have something
to hide are spotlighted. (Id. No. 552)
Format: DVD
BIOGRAPHY: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS:
EXPLORER OF THE NEW WORLD
1995, 50 minutes
He was determined to find a westward route to
Asia. Instead, in 1492 Christopher Columbus mad
history by accidentally disembarking on the shores
of the New World.
Evidence now indicates that the Vikings were
actually there long before him, and even in his own
time, other explorers managed to usurp
Columbus’s glory. With rare art and artifacts and
interviews with world renowned historians,
Biography reveals Columbus’s captivating story.
Learn how the Italian-born mariner convinced
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to fund his
journeys and how his fortunes and reputation sank
so quickly that by the time of his fourth voyage,
Spaniesh officials would not let him anchor in their
waters.
From the dream that led him across the horizon to
the ongoing controversy over his true place in
history, this is the dramatic story of Christopher
Columbus. (Id. No. 620)
Format: DVD
BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA
2003
This is a university level course in American history
taught by Donald L. Miller, professor of history at
Lafayette College. Supporting Miller is an
impressive team of historians who gather to discuss
the particular material to be covered. The series is
amply illustrated with paintings, still photographs,
motion picture footage, maps, and editorial
cartoons.
NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS
(Episode 1) 30 Minutes
Professor Miller introduces A Biography of America
and its team of historians. The program looks at the
beginnings of America. (Id. No. 5)
Format: VHS
ENGLISH SETTLEMENT
(Episode 2) 30 Minutes
As the American character begins to take shape in
the early seventeenth century, English settlements
develop in New England and Virginia. Their
personalities are dramatically different. Professor
Miller explores the origins of values, cultures, and
economies that have collided in the North and
South throughout the American story. (Id. No. 5)
Format: VHS
GROWTH AND EMPIRE
(Episode 3) 30 Minutes
As the merchant class grows in the North, the
economies of southern colonies are built on the
shoulders of the slave trade. Professor Miller brings
the American story to 1763. (Id. No. 6)
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THE COMING OF INDEPENDENCE
(Episode 4) 30 Minutes
Professor Maier tells the story of how the Englishloving
colonist transforms into the freedom loving
American rebel. The luminaries of the early days
of the Republic — Washington, Jefferson, Adams
are featured. (Id. No. 7)
Format: VHS
A NEW SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
(Episode 5) 30 Minutes
After the War for Independence, the struggle for a
new system of government begins. Professor Maier
looks at the creation of the Constitution of the
United States. (Id. No. 8)
Format: VHS
WESTWARD EXPANSION
(Episode 6) 30 Minutes
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the size of
the United States doubles with the Louisiana
Purchase. The Mississippi River becomes the
country’s central artery; and Jefferson’s vision of an
Empire of Liberty begins to take shape. The
historians examine the consequences of the
Louisiana Purchase. (Id. No. 9)
Format: VHS
THE RISE OF CAPITALISM
(Episode 7) 30 Minutes
Individual enterprise merges with technological
innovation to launch the Commercial Revolution —
the seedbed of American industry. (Id. No. 10)
Format: VHS
THE REFORM IMPULSE
(Episode 8) 30 Minutes
The Industrial Revolution has its dark side, and the
tumultuous events of the period touch off intense
and often thrilling reform movements: the
abolitionist movement, the women’s movement,
and a powerful wave of religious fervor. (Id. No.
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Format: VHS
SLAVERY
(Episode 9) 30 Minutes
While the North develops an industrial economy
and culture, the South develops a slave culture and
economy, and the great rift between the regions
becomes unbreachable. (Id. No. 12)
Format: VHS
THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR
(Episode 10) 30 Minutes
Simmering regional differences ignite an all-out
crisis in the 1850s. (Id. No. 13)
Format: VHS
THE CIVIL WAR
(Episode 11) 30 Minutes
As the Civil War rages, all eyes turn to Vicksburg,
where limited war becomes total war. Professor
Miller looks at the ferocity of the fighting, at
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and at the
bitter legacy of the battle—and the war. (Id. No.
14)
Format: VHS
RECONSTRUCTION
(Episode 12) 30 Minutes
With the assassination of President Lincoln, one
sad chapter of American history comes to a close.
In the fatigue and cynicism of the Civil War’s
aftermath, Reconstructionism becomes a promise
unfulfilled. (Id. No. 15)
Format: VHS
AMERICA AT THE CENTENNIAL
(Episode 13) 30 Minutes
As America celebrates its centennial, 5 million
people descend on Philadelphia to celebrate
America’s technological achievements, but some of
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the early principles of the Republic remain
unrealized. (Id. No. 16)
Format: VHS
INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY
(Episode 14) 30 Minutes
Steel and stockyards are featured in this program
as the mighty engine of industrialism thunders
forward. The story of the American Industrial
Revolution in New York and Chicago continues.
We look at the lives of Andrew Carnegie, Gustavus
Swift, and the countless workers in the
packinghouse and on the factory floor. (Id. No. 17)
Format: VHS
THE NEW CITY
(Episode 15) 30 Minutes
Professor Miller explores the tension between the
messy vitality of cities that grow on their own and
those where orderly growth is planned. (Id. No. 18)
Format: VHS
THE WEST
(Episode 16) 30 Minutes
Railroads and ranchers, rabble rousers and racists
populate America’s distant frontiers, and Native
Americans are displaced from their homelands.
Feminists gain a foothold in their fight for the right
to vote, while farmers organize and the Populist
Party appears on the American political landscape.
(Id. No. 19)
Format: VHS
CAPITAL AND LABOR
(Episode 17) 30 Minutes
The making of money pits laborers against the
forces of capital as the twentieth century opens.
(Id. No. 20)
Format: VHS
TR AND WILSON
(Episode 18) 30 Minutes
Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson — the
Warrior and the Minister — in the first decades of
the twentieth century. (Id. No. 21)
Format: VHS
A VITAL PROGRESSIVISM
(Episode 19) 30 Minutes
In a discussion with Professors Scharff and Miller,
the struggles of Native Americans, Asian
Americans, and African Americans are placed in
the context of the traditional white Progressive
movement. (Id. No. 22)
Format: VHS
THE TWENTIES
(Episode 20) 30 Minutes
The Roaring Twenties take to the road in Henry
Ford’s landscape-altering invention— the Model T.
Ford’s moving assembly line, the emergence of a
consumer culture is explored. (Id. No. 523)
Format: VHS
FDR AND THE DEPRESSION
(Episode 21) 30 Minutes
Brinkley paints a picture of America during the
Depression and chronicles some of Roosevelt’s
programmatic and personal efforts to help the
country through its worst economic crisis. First
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is at FDR’s side. (Id. No.
23)
WORLD WAR II
(Episode 22) 30 Minutes
America is enveloped in total war, from mobilization
on the home front to a scorching air war in Europe.
(Id. No. 24)
Format: VHS
THE FIFTIES
(Episode 23) 30 Minutes
World War II is fought to its bitter end in the Pacific
and the world lives with the legacy of its final
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moment: the atomic bomb. The GI Bill, Levittown,
civil rights, the Cold War, and rock 'n' roll are
discussed. (Id. No. 25)
Format: VHS
THE SIXTIES
(Episode 24) 30 Minutes
Stories of the Civil Rights movement along with
stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate create a
portrait of a decade. Lyndon Johnson emerges as a
pivotal character. (Id. No. 26)
Format: VHS
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
(Episode 25) 30 Minutes
The entire team of historians joins Professor Miller
in examining the last quarter of the twentieth
century. The discussion is of the period—and of the
difficulty of examining contemporary history with
true historical perspective. (Id. No. 27)
Format: VHS
THE REDEMPTIVE IMAGINATION
(Episode 26) 30 Minutes
Storytelling and its power forges with memory to
become the foundation of history. Novelists Charles
Johnson (Middle Passage), Arthur Golden
(Memoirs of a Geisha), and Esmeralda Santiago
(America’s Dream) discuss the intersection of
history and story. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., closes the
series with a reflection on the power of the human
imagination. (Id. No. 28)
Format: VHS
* BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF
BAYARD RUSTIN
84 Minutes, 2002
One of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr.
Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph,
organizer of the March on Washington, intelligent,
gregarious and charismatic, Bayard Rustin was
denied his place in the limelight for one reason --
he was also gay. This is a film biography of his life.
Produced and directed by Nancy Kates, Bennett
Singer. (Id. No. 29)
Format: VHS
BOYCOTT
112 Minutes, 2001
112 Minutes
BOYCOTT is the story of Rosa Parks and the birth
of the modern Civil Rights Movement forty-nine
years ago. When mild-mannered seamstress Rosa
Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white
passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955,
events were set in motion that would change
history and lead to the birth of the modern Civil
Rights Movement. After Rosa’s arrest and while
waiting for her appeal, the newly created
Montgomery Improvement Association decides to
start a boycott of the buses. To lead them, they
elect 26-year old Martin Luther King Jr., a new
minister and recent transplant to the community.
Lead them he does, with dramatic results – the
boycott lasted 381 days and resulted in the
Supreme Court ruling on November 13, 1956 that
bus segregation was unconstitutional. (Id. No. 30)
Format: VHS
CENTURY THAT MADE AMERICA GREAT
2001
The 20th Century - a 100 year chain of worldshaping
events and American accomplishments
that drove our nation's unstoppable rise to world
leadership. From the invention of the light bulb, the
auto assembly line and the television - to
computers, space shuttles and Hollywood blockbusters
- watch as American energy and ingenuity
powered our fledging nation's flight to remarkable
heights as an industrial, cultural and strategic
superpower.
EAGLE SOARS
(Vol. 1) 60 Minutes
America opens the Panama Canal and deploys its
forces in WW 1, taking its first steps as a world
power. Its stature soars with the Wrights at Kitty
Hawk and Lindbergh over the Atlantic, then breaks
all barriers with the aviation booms of Boeing and
McDonell-Douglas. The policies of FDR, Truman,
Ike and JFK refine our goals, and our strategic
leadership is tested and proven as a result of Pearl
Harbor, the Cold War and Desert Storm. (Id. No.
31)
WONDERS OF THE CENTURY
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(Vol. 2) 60 Minutes
Watch Thomas Edison light up America, San
Francisco open its Golden Gate Bridge, and Henry
Ford perfect his assembly line to produce the
Model T. On the silver screen, dance with Fred
and Ginger, and go behind the scenes at the filming
of the Wizard of Oz. Then see real stars when you
cruise inside a space shuttle. Orbit the earth with
John Glenn, and follow in Neil Armstrong’s
spacesteps as he walks on the moon. (Id. No. 32)
MIRACLES OF COMMUNICATION
(Vol. 3) 60 Minutes
Laugh with TV and radio comics Lucille Ball, Bob
Hope and Jack Benny. Gain insights into acting
from screen legends Bogart and bacall and
Elizabeth Taylor in rare TV interviews. Be there as
Nixon and Kennedy debate, and as the Civil Rights
Movement unfolds. From the eloquent orator
William Jennings Bryan to the stylings of Walter
Cronkite, examine the presidents and news events
that made American history. (Id. No. 33)
CITIZEN KING
120 Minutes, 2004
In April 1963, a 34-year-old minister wrote a letter
from behind bars in the Birmingham jail to his fellow
clergymen. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere,” argued Dr. Martin Luther King.
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
The campaign to end segregation in Birmingham
marked a crucial turning point in Dr. King’s life, as
he embarked on a controversial, often lonely
struggle to redefine and redirect the movement he
had helped lead. The quest would not end until his
untimely death five years later.
In exploring the last few years of life, this
beautifully-crafted AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
production traces King’s efforts to recast himself by
embracing causes beyond the civil rights
movement, by becoming a champion of the poor
and an outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam.
Tapping into a rich archive of photographs and film
footage and using diaries, letters, and eyewitness
accounts of fellow activist, friends, journalists,
political leaders and law enforcement officials, this
film brings fresh insights to King’s impossible
journey, his charismatic leadership and his truly
remarkable impact. (Id. No. 583)
Format: VHS
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
28 minutes, 2003
Peaceful solutions to conflict are wonderful, in
theory, but how do they work in the real world?
Using actual case studies, this program examines
conflict and conflict resolution on four different
levels: global, community, workplace, and school.
Applying a novel teaching approach, it features a
pair of news desk anchors and four different
reporters, each covering a specific conflict
scenario. Topics include diplomacy, peaceful
protest, and mediation. (Id. No. 549)
Format: DVD
THE CONSTITUTION, THAT DELICATE
BALANCE
1984
NATIONAL SECURITY AND FREEDOM OF
THE PRESS
(Episode 108) 59 Minutes
Examines whether the Constitution grants
American public a `right to know’. Explores
government’s ability to conduct a covert operation
and to withhold information from the public. (Id.
No. 34)
Format: VHS
SCHOOL PRAYER, GUN CONTROL AND
THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE
(Episode 109) 59 Minutes
Examines whether the Constitution permits prayer
in public schools, whether people have an explicit
right to bear arms, and whether there is any limit on
the public’s right to demonstrate. (Id. No. 35)
Format: VHS
THE SOVEREIGN SELF : RIGHT TO LIVE,
RIGHT TO DIE
(Episode 110) 58 Minutes
Examines whether we have a Constitutional right to
die, whether unborn babies have Constitutional
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rights ; whether deformed babies have the right to
live ; and the rights of prgnant mothers in
determining the fate of the fetus. (Id. No. 36)
Format: VHS
FEDERALISM : THE NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT VS. STATES
(Episode 113) 58 Minutes
This episode explores the changing relationship
between the states and the Federal government
and asks whether the Federal role has grown too
large. (Id. No. 37)
Format: VHS
THE COURT, THAT DELICATE BALANCE
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND A DEFENDANT’S
RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRAIL
(Episode 104) 50 Minutes
Examines legal, ethical, and Constitutional
problems raised when an alleged criminal is
accused of a heinous crime. (Id. No. 38)
Format: VHS
THE CIVIL WAR
1990
Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in
historical storytelling, Ken Burn’s epic documentary
brings to life America's most destructive and
defining conflict: the American Civil War. This 9-
part series presents a comprehensive account of
the war—from battlefields to the home fronts, from
the politicians and generals to the enlisted men and
their families, from the causes of the war and the
opening guns at Fort Sumter to the stillness at
Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination and
beyond.
THE CAUSE 1861
(Episode 1) 99 Minutes
Traces causes of war, Cotton Kingdom of the South
and Northern Abolitionists who opposed It.
Explores Union Vs. States' Rights. John Brown's
Raid, election of Lincoln, firing on Fort Sumter. Lee,
Lincoln, Douglass & Grant Are Introduced. (Id. No.
39)
Format: VHS
A VERY BLOODY AFFAIR 1862
(Episode 2) 69 Minutes
Political infighting that threatens Lincoln's
administration. General George McClellan's
campaign on the Virginia Peninsula. Battle the
ironclad ships, camp life, crumbling of slavery,
battle of shiloh. (Id. No. 40)
Format: VHS
FOREVER FREE 1862
(Episode 3) 76 Minutes
Stonewall jackson & Robert E. Lee prevent union
victories which Lincoln feels he needs in order to
proclaim emancipation. Antietam creek is followed
with the brightest day of the war & emancipation
follows shortly after. (Id. No. 41)
Format: VHS
SIMPLY MURDER 1863
(Episode 4)62 minutes
Chronicles 3 important battles; Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, & Vicksburg. Lee loses his "righthand
man," "Stonewall" Jackson. Some
northerners voice strong opposition to the
emancipation proclamation. (Id. No. 42)
Format: VHS
THE UNIVERSE OF BATTLE 1863
(Episode 5) 95 Minutes
Battle of Gettysburg July 1863-pickett's charge, fall
of Vicksburg, NY city draft riots, use of black troops,
Chickamauga & Chattanooga, dedication of union
cemetery at Gettysburg. (Id. No. 43)
Format: VHS
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH 1864
(Episode 6) 70 minutes
Biographaical comparison of grant & lee who are
deadlocked at petersburg. Ghastly hospitals of
north and south. Sherman's army through mountain
north of atlanta. Lincoln faces re-election in the
midst of war. (Id. No. 44)
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Format: VHS
MOST HALLOWED GROUND 1864
(Episode 7)72 Minutes
The episode begins with the presidential election of
1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old
commanding general, George McClellan. The
stakes are nothing less than the survival of the
Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at
Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North has
turned strongly against the war. But 11th-hour
victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the
Shenandoah Valley tilt the election to Lincoln and
the Confederacy’s last hope for independence dies.
In an ironic twist, poignantly typical of the Civil War,
Lee’s Arlington mansion is turned into a Union
military hospital and the estate becomes Arlington
National Cemetery, the Union’s most hallowed
ground. (Id. No. 45)
Format: VHS
WAR IS ALL HELL 1865
(Episode 8) 69 minutes
Sherman's march to the sea-the end of the
confederacy. Petersburg & richmond fall, at
appomattox court house lee surrenders to grant. In
washington john wilkes booth dreams of vengeance
for the south. (Id. No. 46)
Format: VHS
THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE
1865
(Episode 9) 68 minutes
This extraordinary final episode of The Civil War
begins in the bittersweet aftermath of Lee’s
surrender and then goes on to narrate the
horrendous events of five days later when, on April
14, Lincoln is assassinated. After chronicling
Lincoln’s poignant funeral, the series recounts the
final days of the war, the capture of John Wilkes
Booth and the fates of the Civil War’s major
protagonists. The episode then considers the
consequences and meaning of a war that
transformed the country from a collection of states
to the nation we are today. . (Id. No. 532)
Format: VHS
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
2003
Democracy in America, a video resource for
teachers of civics, showing examples of democracy
in action.
CITIZENSHIP : MAKING GOVERNMENT
WORK
(Episode 1) 30 Minutes
This program introduces basic concepts of
government, politics, and citizenship. It explores the
tension between maintaining order and preserving
freedoms, the essential role of politics in
addressing the will of the people, and the need for
citizens to participate in order to make democracy
work. (Id. No. 47)
Format : VHS
THE CONSTITUTION : FIXED OR
FLEXIBLE ?
(Episode 2) 30 Minutes
This program examines the search for balance
between the original Constitution and the need to
interpret and adjust it to meet the needs of
changing times. It explains the original
Jeffersonian-Madisonian debate, the concept of
checks and balances, and the stringent procedures
for amending the Constitution. (Id. No. 48)
Format : VHS
FEDERALISM : U.S. V. THE STATES
(Episode 3) 30 Minutes
This program explores federalism as a
Constitutional compromise, especially in terms of
present-day conflicts between people who believe
that power should reside primarily in the national
government and those who want government
authority retained within the states. (Id. No. 49)
Format : VHS
CIVIL LIBERTIES : SAFEGUARDING THE
INDIVIDUAL
(Episode 4) 30 Minutes
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This program examines the First, Fourth, and Sixth
Constitutional Amendments to show how the Bill of
Rights protects individual citizens from excessive or
arbitrary government interference, yet, contrary to
the belief of many Americans, does not grant
unlimited rights. (Id. No. 50)
Format : VHS
CIVIL RIGHTS : DEMANDING EQUALITY
(Episode 5) 30 Minutes
This program looks at the nature of the guarantees
of political and social equality, and the roles that
individuals and government have played in
expanding these guarantees to less-protected
segments of society, such as African Americans,
women, and the disabled. (Id. No. 51)
Format : VHS
LEGISLATURES : LAYING DOWN THE LAW
(Episode 6) 30 Minutes
This program explores the idea that legislatures,
although contentious bodies, are institutions
composed of men and women who make
representative democracy work by reflecting and
reconciling the wide diversity of views held by
Americans. (Id. No. 52)
Format : VHS
THE MODERN PRESIDENCY: TOOLS OF
POWER
(Episode 7) 30 Minutes
This program shows that the American Presidency
has been transformed since the 1930s. Today,
presidents are overtly active in the legislative
process: they use the media to appeal directly to
the people and they exercise leadership over an
“institutional presidency” with thousands of aides.
(Id. No. 53)
Format : VHS
BUREAUCRACY: A CONTROVERSIAL
NECESSITY
(Episode 8) 30 Minutes
This program reveals how the American
bureaucracy delivers significant services directly to
the people, how it has expanded in response to
citizen demands for increased government
services, and how bureaucrats sometimes face
contradictory expectations that are difficult to
satisfy. (Id. No. 54)
Format : VHS
THE COURTS : OUR RULE OF LAW
(Episode 9) 30 Minutes
This program examines the role of courts as
institutions dedicated to conflict resolution, with the
power both to apply and to interpret the meaning of
law in trial and appeal courts. It shows the
increased power of the Supreme Court through its
use of judicial review and the difficulty of creating a
judiciary that is independent of politics. (Id. No. 55)
Format : VHS
THE MEDIA : INSIDE STORY
(Episode 10) 30 Minutes
This program explores the media as an integral part
of American democracy, highlighting the scrutiny
they impose on the performance of public officials,
the interdependence of politics and the media, and
the power the media wields in selecting the news.
(Id. No. 56)
Format: VHS
PUBLIC OPINION : VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
(Episode 11) 30 Minutes
This program examines the power of public opinion
to influence government policy, the increasing
tendency of public officials to rely on polls, and the
need to use many forms of feedback to get an
accurate measure of public opinion. (Id. No. 57)
Format : VHS
POLITICAL PARTIES: MOBILIZING AGENTS
(Episode 12) 30 Minutes
This program shows how political parties perform
important functions that link the public to the
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institutions of American government. Parties create
coalitions of citizens who share political goals, elect
candidates to public office to achieve those goals,
and organize the legislative and executive
branches of government. (Id. No. 58)
Format : VHS
ELECTIONS: THE MAINTENANCE OF
DEMOCRACY
(Episode 13) 30 Minutes
This program explores the crucial role of strategy in
the two-stage electoral campaign system; the
opportunities for citizens to choose, organize, and
elect candidates who will pursue policies they favor;
and the need for campaigns to increase voter
turnout by educating citizens about the importance
and influence of their vote. (Id. No. 59)
Format : VHS
INTEREST GROUPS: ORGANIZING TO
INFLUENCE
(Episode 14) 30 Minutes
This program shows how America’s large number
of corporate, citizen-action, and grass-roots interest
groups enhance our representative process by
giving citizens a role in shaping policy agendas.
(Id. No. 60)
Format : VHS
GLOBAL POLITICS: U.S.A. AND THE
WORLD
(Episode 15) 30 Minutes
This program examines the need for the United
States to use the tools of foreign policy in ways that
recognize the growing interdependence of
nations—implementing both traditional and new
forms of military, trade, and diplomatic strategies to
promote benefits for America and the world as a
whole politics; and the creation of economic, social
and foreign policy. (Id. No. 61)
Format : VHS
THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY : THE
OTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT AMERICAN
HISTORY
2 Parts, 180 Minutes, 2000
It tells the story of America by the numbers through
the eyes of those who did the measuring and the
interpreting, often in highly controversial and
unusual circumstances. These include George
Gallup, Alfred Kinsey, Robert and Helen Lynd
(authors of "Middletown,") Daniel P. Moynihan,
W.E.B. Dubois, Jane Addams and Julia Lathrop,
Frederick Jackson Turner, Franz Boas (who turned
back the tide of "scientific racism,") James Q.
Wilson (co-author of the "broken windows" theory
of crime prevention), Frank Fukuyama, William
Julius Wilson, and many others who, for the most
part, are unheralded.
We begin our look at social indicators before the
time of Gross National Product, public opinion polls,
rates of unemployment, out-of-wedlock births,
infant deaths and maternal mortality (which was the
second leading cause of death among women,
beaten out only by tuberculosis.)
We see the United States going from half the size
of the four biggest European nations to twice the
size of all of them combined. We see a nation of 50
million, taking in 25 million immigrants.
We see the population of cities soar, and then fade,
as America becomes the first majority suburban
nation. We see a nation with less mobility today
than in 1900, the sharp rise and slow fall of violent
crime rates, and increasing wealth, with a big
argument about how it is shared. (Id. Nos. 62 &
535)
Format: VHS
FIRST PERSON SINGULAR
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
60 Minutes, 1997
This arresting documentary examines the life and
work of 81-year-old John Hope Franklin, one of the
most highly-respected historians of the African-
American experience in the U.S. Perhaps most
famous as the author of his book From Slavery to
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Freedom, Franklin holds the Medal of Freedom and
105 honorary degrees. (Id. No. 63)
Format: VHS
FREEDOM: A HISTORY OF US
2003
INDEPENDENCE
(Episode 1) 30 Minutes
The episode begins by examining how the terrorist
attacks of September 11 sparked a renewed focus
on freedom. The program then takes us back to the
summer of 1776, exploring the escalating conflict
with Great Britain, including the Boston Tea Party.
America’s founding fathers such as George
Washington, Samuel Adams, and Thomas
Jefferson all play roles in the fight for liberty. (Id.
No. 64)
Format: VHS
REVOLUTION
(Episode 2) 30 Minutes
Colonial Americans fight together to defeat the
world’s most awesome military power. Then they
strive to create a new kind of government that will
live up to their high ideals. (Id. No. 65)
Format: VHS
LIBERTY FOR ALL?
(Episode 3) 30 Minutes
America was founded as a free land in which
people could live out their own destinies, but it
came at a terrible cost to Native Americans. The
Pilgrims laid the groundwork for religious freedom,
while the Puritan-led Salem Witch Trials were a
frightening reminder of superstition and intolerance.
(Id. No. 66)
Format: VHS
WAKE UP AMERICA
(Episode 4) 30 Minutes
In this episode we see a nation in love with
progress. Innovations include steamboats, the Erie
Canal, and the first railroads. The Industrial
Revolution brings Americans new leisure and
personal freedom — but there is a dark side to the
story for factory workers and women. (Id. No. 67)
Format: VHS
A FATAL CONTRADICTION
(Episode 5) 30 Minutes
The Declaration of Independence stated “all men
are created equal,” but the nation’s slaves were a
glaring exception. This episode explores the role of
Frederick Douglass, and looks at the impact of the
Lincoln-Douglass debates on the westward
expansion of slavery. It ends with Abraham
Lincoln’s election to the presidency. (Id. No. 68)
Format: VHS
A WAR TO END SLAVERY
(Episode 6) 30 Minutes
Heroic soldiers in blue and gray endure the
bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil, as
the country fights a civil war over the future of
slavery. (Id. No. 69)
Format: VHS
WHAT IS FREEDOM?
(Episode7) 30 Minutes
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Reconstruction
begins as a time of great hope for the devastated
South. When political turmoil continues and the
Reconstruction efforts fail, a new era of segregation
begins. (Id. No. 70)
Format: VHS
WHOSE LAND IS THIS?
(Episode 8) 30 Minutes
The nation seethes with racial conflict as
immigrants increasingly become targets of
prejudice, and as settlers and soldiers massacre
Western Indians and force them onto reservations.
As European freedom-seekers continue to pour into
America through Ellis Island, the Supreme Court
finally rules that noncitizens are due equal
protection under the law. (Id. No. 71)
Format: VHS
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WORKING FOR FREEDOM
(Episode 9) 30 Minutes
As industrial progress continues and the gap
between the rich and poor widens, a new labor
movement emerges to advocate for workers’ rights.
(Id. No. 72)
Format: VHS
YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE
(Episode 10) 30 Minutes
Mother Jones brings the child labor issue to the
forefront of the nation’s consciousness, and Jane
Addams, America’s first social worker, creates Hull
House. Ida Tarbell exposes the abuses of John D.
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. (Id. No. 73)
Format: VHS
SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY
(Episode 11) 30 Minutes
With help from the Wright brothers’ introduction of
the airplane, the country begins to soar. Woodrow
Wilson and America reluctantly join the fight in
World War I, while on the home front, women at
last get the right to vote. The twenties roar with new
levels of personal freedom. (Id. No. 74)
Format: VHS
DEPRESSION AND WAR
(Episode 12) 30 Minutes
With Black Thursday and the collapse of the stock
market, America heads into the Great Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt builds a New Deal, while,
overseas, Adolf Hitler rises to power and invades
Poland. (Id. No. 75)
Format: VHS
DEMOCRACY AND STRUGGLES
(Episode 13) 30 Minutes
As the Iron Curtain falls and the Cold War begins,
fear of communism spreads through the country,
sparking Joseph McCarthy’s communist witchhunts.
At the same time, the U.S. finally faces up to
racial separatism when the groundbreaking
Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of
Education outlaws segregation. (Id. No. 76)
Format: VHS
LET FREEDOM RING
(Episode 14) 30 Minutes
The Civil Rights movement becomes the most
effective social movement in U.S. history. Little
Rock’s high school is integrated. John F. Kennedy
is inaugurated as President of the United States.
(Id. No. 77)
Format: VHS
MARCHING TO FREEDOM LAND
(Episode 15) 30 Minutes
The 1960s bring new progress in the quest for
freedom, butthis is also an explosive decade that
threatens to tear apart the fabric of society. (Id.
No. 78)
Format: VHS
BECOMING FREE
(Episode 16) 30 Minutes
America continues to make tremendous strides
through the prosperity of the 1980s, 1990s and into
the new millennium. The nation’s mettle is severely
tested by the tragedy of September 11, 2001. (Id.
No. 79)
Format: VHS
FRAMEWORK FOR DEMOCRACY
2002
This series demystifies the vagaries of a
democratic government in the 21st century.
Created for a university audience, it probes the
concepts basic to an introductory course in
American government. It is linked with Harvard
University historian, Tom Patterson’s textbook, “We
the People,” published by McGraw-Hill. Concepts
are illustrated with case studies and interviews with
leading scholars and politically engaged citizens,
respected politicians and policymakers such as
David Gergen, Mike McCurry, and Mickey Edwards
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among others. Featured topics include: American
political culture and ideology; development of our
constitutional democracy; the legislative, executive
and judicial branches of government; granting civil
liberties and civil rights; the electoral process and
voter participation; interest groups; public opinion
and the media in politics; and the creation of
economic, social and foreign policy.
AMERICAN HERITAGE
(Episode 101) 30 Minutes
American politics today cannot be understood apart
from the nation’s heritage. This episode examines
the key principles that have shaped American
politics since the country’s earliest years. (Id. No.
80)
Format: VHS
THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
(Episode 102) 30 Minutes
This narrative story of the settlement and early
days of the colonies culminates in the fight for
independence and the evolution of a constitutional
framework of government for the new United
States. (Id. No. 81)
Format: VHS
THE LIVING CONSTITUTION
(Episode 103) 30 Minutes
The Constitution in contemporary terms reveals a
short document-7,000 words long. Only thirty-three
of the more than 11,000 amendments that have
been proposed have been approved by Congress.
Twenty-seven have been ratified. Nevertheless, the
Constitution is an unfinished work. (Id. No. 82)
Format: VHS
A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY
(FEDERALISM)
(Episode 104) 30 Minutes
One national government; fifty state governments;
town, city, and county governments - there are
various ways of ordering relations between central
governments and local units. Federalism is one of
them. Understanding federalism and how it differs
from other forms of government is critical to
understanding the American political system. (Id.
No. 83)
THE MOST BASIC OF RIGHTS
(EXPRESSIONS & PRIVACY)
(Episode 105) 30 Minutes
Without government, people live in a state of
anarchy. With unbridled government, men and
women may live in a state of tyranny. The civil
liberties imbedded in the Bill of Rights place
specific limitations on governmental power. (Id.
No. 84)
Format: VHS
RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED
(Episode 106) 30 Minutes
Because the United States has a high violent crime
rate, it is not surprising, therefore, that many
citizens have strong opinions about the rights of the
accused. At the center of this discussion are the
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments of the
Constitution - amendments that specifically
address the rights of criminal defendants. (Id. No.
85)
Format: VHS
THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY
(Episode 107) 30 Minutes
In this program we examine the rights of minority
groups, and their struggle for equal treatment in the
United States. (Id. No. 86)
Format: VHS
FRAMES OF REFERENCE (PUBLIC
OPINION AND POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION)
(Episode 108) 30 Minutes
The United States is a country marked by divergent
political views. Public opinion plays a powerful role
in the politics of this country. In fact, public opinion
surveys have become a permanent fixture of the
political scene. (Id. No. 87)
Format: VHS
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (VOTING AND
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION)
(Episode 109) 30 Minutes
Americans attach great significance to the right to
vote. In addition to voting, citizens participate in the
political process through community and campaign
activities, and by participating in social movements
and protests. (Id. No. 88)
Format: VHS
PARTY POLITICS (POLITICAL PARTIES)
(Episode 110) 30 Minutes
The patterns of party politics in the United States
provide a fascinating platform from which to view
American political history. Divergent interests join
with others in creating a common political agenda,
often under the Republican or Democrat banner.
CAMPAIGN TRAIL (CANDIDATES AND
CAMPAIGNS)
(Episode 111) 30 Minutes
Today, party organizations are alive and well in
America, but they are no longer the driving force in
contemporary campaigns. This episode looks at
organizing and financing campaigns through the
eyes of candidates, strategists, managers and
critics. (Id. No. 89)
Format: VHS
PRESSURE POLITICS(INTEREST GROUPS)
(Episode 112) 30 Minutes
The degree to which Americans form groups to
solve civic problems and lobby for their economic
or political interests is unique among the nations of
the world. The structure of government, particularly
at the local level, invites public participation. (Id.
No. 90)
Format: VHS
THE FOURTH ESTATE (THE NEWS MEDIA)
(Episode 113) 30 Minutes
On a daily basis, more Americans connect to
politics through the news media than through the
activities of parties or groups. The press brings
events and problems into public view, serves as a
channel through which political leaders can address
the public, and scrutinizes political behavior. (Id.
No. 91)
Format: VHS
THE FIRST BRANCH (CONGRESS I)
(Episode 114) 30 Minutes
The founders of the American republic believed that
the bulk of power exercised by a national
government should be in the hands of the
legislature. This episode follows three current and
past members of Congress and examines the
differences between the ways the Senate and
House of Representatives operate. (Id. No. 92)
Format: VHS
GOVERNMENT BY COMMITTEE
(CONGRESS II)
(Episode 115) 30 Minutes
Most of the actual work of legislating is performed
by the committees and subcommittees within
Congress. This episode explores the various
routes bills may take before being enacted into law.
(Id. No. 93)
Format: VHS
THE GLORIOUS BURDEN (THE
PRESIDENCY I)
(Episode 116) 30 Minutes
This episode explores the foundations of the
modern presidency, and takes viewers from the
campaign for nomination to staffing the executive
branch of government. (Id. No. 94)
Format: VHS
LEADER FOR A NATION (THE
PRESIDENCY II)
(Episode 117) 30 Minutes
Without congressional authorization and funding,
most presidential proposals are nothing but ideas,
empty of action. Whether a president’s initiatives
are likely to succeed or fail depends on several
factors, including the stage of the president’s term,
the president’s support in Congress, and the level
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of public support for the president’s leadership. (Id.
No. 95)
Format: VHS
THE FEDERAL WORKPLACE (THE
BUREAUCRACY I)
(Episode 118) 30 Minutes
Modern government would be impossible without a
bureaucracy. Yet the bureaucracy is also a
problem. Today’s civil servants, governed by
stringent rules and regulations, are encumbered by
regulatory impediments that would appall their
private sector counterparts. (Id. No. 96)
Format: VHS
THE POWER IMPERATIVE (THE
BUREAUCRACY II)
(Episode 119) 30 Minutes
Although agencies are subject to scrutiny by the
president, Congress, and the judiciary, bureaucrats
are able to achieve power in their own right. This
episode depicts the nature of the federal
bureaucracy and the politics that surround it. (Id.
No. 97)
Format: VHS
THE RULE OF NINE (THE JUDICIARY I)
(Episode 120) 30 Minutes
The writers of the Constitution were determined
that the judiciary be a separate branch of the
federal government but, for practical reasons, did
not spell out the full structure of the federal court
system. (Id. No. 98)
Format: VHS
LEGAL PRECEDENT(THE JUDICIARY II)
(Episode 121) 30 Minutes
In recent years the judiciary has become an
increasingly powerful policymaking body. The
courts have considerable discretion in the way they
interpret these laws. This episode probes
contemporary questions regarding the federal
judiciary, including the debate surrounding
originalism, textualism, judicial review, and judicial
activism. (Id. No. 99)
Format: VHS
BALANCING ACT (ECONOMIC POLICY)
(Episode 122) 30 Minutes
This episode focuses on the economic role of
government: its promotion and regulation of
economic interests; its fiscal and monetary policies;
the politics of economic decision making; and the
management of the public debt. (Id. No. 100)
Format: VHS
THE NATION’S WELFARE (SOCIAL
WELFARE AND EDUCATION POLICY)
(Episode 123) 30 Minutes
What, exactly, the government’s role should be in
alleviating poverty, a problem that affects about one
in seven Americans, is an intensely debated,
partisan issue. (Id. No. 101)
Format: VHS
HEALTH OF THE NATION; HEALTH OF THE
PLANET (HEALTH AND ENVIORNMENTAL
POLICY)
(Episode 124) 30 Minutes
This episode looks at various governmental
attempts to insure a “healthy” America. Issues
discussed range from the work of various research
agencies and regulatory units, to specific
governmental programs, like Medicare and
Medicaid. (Id. No. 102)
Format: VHS
GLOBAL POLITICS (FOREIGN, TRADE AND
DOMESTIC POLICY)
(Episode 125) 30 Minutes
This episode takes a close look at the foreign policy
of the United States and shares the first-hand
experiences of those who were involved in its
formulation. (Id. No. 103)
Format: VHS
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PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND
(FOREIGN, TRADE AND DOMESTIC
POLICY)
(Episode 26) 30 Minutes
Since September 11, 2001, the protection and
defense of the United States has occupied center
stage. This episode not only looks at the nation’s
response to the terrorist attacks, but also examines
the defense and “peace keeping” policy of the
country in the post-Cold War era. (Id. No. 104)
Format: VHS
IN SEARCH OF THE LAW AND ORDER
1998
* THE LIMITS OF JUSTICE
58 minutes
When a juvenile gang stormed a Boston church
during the funeral of a rival gang member, local
community leaders and law enforcement officials
decided that it was time to cooperate with each
other and make a change. Parole officers and
police personnel aggressively patrol the streets at a
team, to enforce probation and deter violence;
streetwise mentors partner with at-risk youth,
helping them to deal with the police, the courts, and
life in general; and organizations like the Log
School and the Community Academy provide
education, day care, job training, and food. This
program documents the remarkable effectiveness
of these alliances, which for two years have helped
to totally eliminate juvenile homicide in Boston. (Id.
No. 569)
Format: VHS
LAW AND ORDER: AN INSIDE VIEW OF
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
2001
One of the ways that the Constitution ensures our
rights to life, liberty, and property is by providing for
an impartial criminal justice system. In this 2-part
series, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and police
officers take us through the entire process of
jurisprudence, from investigation and arrest
procedures to courtroom proceedings and
sentencing. Both programs point out any
differences applicable to juvenile law. Legal
concepts such as misdemeanor, felony, Miranda,
probable cause, indictment, and right of appeal are
clearly explained. These videos provide an
excellent resource for the political science or legal
studies classroom.
IT’S THE LAW
30 Minutes
The laws of the criminal justice system are framed
first and foremost by the United States Constitution,
the document that gives our government its
powers, limits those powers, and ensures our rights
to life, liberty, and property. While the system is
designed to bring criminals to justice, it must also
meet the standards of due process set forth in the
Constitution. The criminal justice system, then, has
two functions: protect the public safety and
maintain the public confidence.
In this program, lawyers, prosecutors, and judges
explain the differences between misdemeanors,
felonies, the various degrees of crimes, and the
elements of a crime. Investigation procedures in the
gathering of evidence and statements are
discussed. Legal experts and police officers clearly
illustrate such concepts as 5th Amendment rights,
Miranda warnings, the "stop and frisk" rule, search
warrants, and the "knock and announce" rule.
Probable cause and arrest procedures are also
demonstrated. (Id. No. 647)
Format: DVD
ORDER IN THE COURT
30 Minutes
Once a person is arrested for a crime, it is up to our
court system to determine whether the individual is
guilty or innocent. In this program, a variety of legal
experts take us through pretrial and trial
procedures, pointing out along the way the
differences between adult and juvenile
proceedings.
Judges and lawyers navigate us through the pretrial
process, beginning with the establishment of
probable cause and formal charging by grand jury
or preliminary hearing. Indictment, pretrial release,
bail, and arraignment are also discussed.
The entire courtroom process is explored from plea
bargaining and trial by jury to the adversary system
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of direct examination, cross-examination, and
rebuttal. Such concepts as an alibi, burden of proof,
and reasonable doubt are clearly explained. Finally,
our panel of experts comments on a sentencing
hearing and punishment, along with the defendant’s
constitutional right to appeal. (Id. No. 646)
Format: DVD
MARTIN LUTHER KING: “I HAVE A DREAM”
60 Minutes, 2005
“I have a dream” On August 28, 1963, Martin
Luther King spoke these words as he addressed a
crowd of more than 200,000 civil rights protesters
gathered at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington,
DC.
Two months earlier, President John Kennedy had
sent a civil rights bill to Congress, but it was struck
down. Although Kennedy was concerned about the
possibility of widespread violence during this
protest, he realized he was powerless to stop it and
embraced the movement instead.
Known as the “March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom,” the country expected to hear King
deliver strong words to his opponents. Instead, his
“I Have a Dream” speech was one of heartfelt
passion and poetic eloquence that still echoes in
our memory.
Nearly a year after the march on Washington,
Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The
Act banned racial discrimination in public places, in
public education and enforced the constitutional
right to vote. (Id. No. 671)
Format: DVD
MIGHTY TIMES: THE LEGACY OF ROSA
PARKS
42:25 minutes, 2002
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks sparked a
revolution by sitting still. Her simple act of defiance
against racial segregation on city buses inspired
the African American community of
Montgomery, Alabama, to unite against the
segregationists who ran City Hall.
Over the course of a year, the Montgomery Bus
Boycott would test the endurance of the peaceful
protesters, overturn an unjust law and create a
legacy that continues to inspire those who work for
freedom and justice today. "Mighty Times: The
Legacy of Rosa Parks" revisits this familiar
historical event and finds new stories that introduce
new heroes. (Id. No. 591)
Format: VHS
MOYERS COLLECTION: IN SEARCH OF
THE CONSTITUTION
CONTEMPORARY LIFE VERSUS THE
CONSTITUTION
60 Minutes
Examines the two controversies today that have
become tests of the Constitution – the use of
mandatory drug testing by companies and the
establishment of widely-accessible « dossiers’ of
personal information on computers, which the
Supreme Court has ruled are not protected by the
Constitution. (Id. No. 116)
Format: VHS
FOR THE PEOPLE
60 Minutes
Examines the impact of the Constitution on the
lives of American citizens, as seen in three
landmark Supreme Court cases – Engel v.Vitale
(school prayer) Keyishian v.Board of Regents
(academic freedom), and Bower v, Hardwick
(sodomy). (Id. No. 117)
Format: VHS
GOD AND THE CONSTITUTION
58 Minutes
Dr..Martin Marty and Leonard Levy examine the
legality of school prayers. The program also
explores the issues of religious symbols on
municipal property as well as tax-exempt status for
religious institutions. (Id. No. 118)
Format: VHS
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IN THE BEGINNING
60 Minutes
Features discussions with three prominent
historians, Michael Kammen, Forrest McDonald
and Dr.Oliver Taylor, about the roots of the
Constitution and its impact on our society since its
writing. (Id. No. 119)
Format: VHS
JUSTICE HARRY A BLACKMUN : MAN OF
THE MIDDLE
60 Minutes
Provides an in-depth look at the Supreme Court
Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe
v.Wade, the case that granted women
constitutional protection for abortion. He examines
the issue of privacy in the life of Americans, and
discusses the emotional and moral challenges of
interpreting the Constituion today. (Id. No. 120)
Format: VHS
JUSTICE LEWIS F. POWELL
60 Minutes
Powell discusses a variety of issues including
Watergate, the Constitution of the former Soviet
Union, the death penalty, reverse discrimination,
the working of the Court, and corporal punishment.
(Id. No. 121)
Format: VHS
JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR
60 Minutes
The Supreme Court’s first female Justice discusses
her role on the Court and the Constitution. (Id. No.
122)
Format: VHS
MORTIMER ADLER : TEACHING THE
CONSTITUTION
60 Minutes
Adler discusses American’s lack of familiarity with
the Constitution, the checks and balances provided
by the Supreme Court, “life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness” and the welfare state, foreign policy,
and legislating morality. (Id. No. 123)
Format: VHS
MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN
58 Minutes
A visit with former Supreme Court justice William
J.Brennan Jr., who has been called America’s most
unyielding defender of individual rights. Brennan
served through seven presidencies and wrote close
to 500 majority opinions. (Id. No. 124)
Format: VHS
RONALD DWORKIN : THE MEANING OF
THE CONSTITUTION
60 Minutes
Ronald Dworkin, an American professor of
jurisprudence at Oxford University shares his views
on the current debate over the meaning of the
Constitution and its relevance to Americans today.
(Id. No. 125)
Format : VHS Location : AL
STRICTLY SPEAKING
60 Minutes
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese and Judge
Robert Bork discuss the original intent of the
framers of the Constitution – on abortion,
presidential powers, and big government. (Id. No.
126)
Format: VHS
OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
2004
This four part series explains the three branches of
our government. Each program presents the
specific functions of the branches and how each
overlaps the other. Completing this series is the
program on the presidential election process.
THE PRESIDENCY
(Episode 1) 30 Minutes
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This program explores the Presidency, its influence
and power, and its relationship to the Legislative
and Judicial Branches. (Id. No. 128)
Format: VHS
THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
(Episode 2) 30 Minutes
The authors of the Constitution established
Congress, the legislative branch. Congress is an
arena for expressing opinions, agreeing,
disagreeing, and for compromise. This program
examines the role of Congress, its organization,
powers and responsibilities, and requirements to
serve. (Id. No. 129)
Format: VHS
THE SUPREME COURT
(Eisode 3) 30 Minutes
People have often had to struggle and protest to
achieve their rights. The Supreme Court is the
branch of government to make sure the ideal of
equal justice under the law is upheld in practice.
(Id. No. 130)
Format: VHS
ELECTING A PRESIDENT : THE PROCESS
(Episode 4) 30 Minutes
From the early days of presidential elections to the
Florida Bush/Gore election recount fiasco, students
will see first hand how the election process
operates. This program explains the oftentimes
confusing popular vote versus the electoral vote.
(Id. No. 131)
Format: VHS
PRESIDENTS
3 DVDs, 360 Minutes, 2005
The Presidents is an unprecedented eight-part
survey of the personal lives and legacies of the
remarkable men who have presided over the Oval
Office.
From George Washington to George W. Bush, the
Presidents gathers vivid snapshots of all 43
Commanders in Chief who have guided America
throughout its history-and analyzes their powerful
personalities , weaknesses, and major
achievements. Based on the book To the Best of
My Ability, edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner James
McPherson, The Presidents features rare and
unseen photographs and footage, unexpected
insight and trivia from journalists, scholars, and
politicians such a Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley,
Wesley Clark, Bob Dole, and former President
Jimmy Carter. Viewed within the changing contexts
of each administration, the Presidency has never
seemed more compelling and human. (Id. No.
674)
Format: DVD
RALPH BUNCHE: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY
117 minutes, 2001
In 1949, Ralph Johnson Bunche (1903-1971)
successfully negotiated armistice agreements
between Israel and four neighboring Arab nations.
For this outstanding feat, he was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize. It was the first time ever that
the prestigious prize had been awarded to a person
of color and it catapulted Bunche into worldwide
celebrity. However, it was no the first or the last
time that Ralph Bunche would make history. The
global reach of his work can be seen today in the
peacekeeping strategies and operations which he
created as United Nations Under-Secretary
General. Bunche’s living legacy also includes
major contributions to world decolonization, conflict
resolution and advancements in human and civil
rights at home and abroad.
The documentary features takes an in-depth look at
Bunche’s early years, the events that shaped his
world view and the forces that powered an
extraordinary career as scholar, civil rights activist,
international peacemaker and U.N. troubleshooter.
(Id. No. 533)
Format: VHS
STATUE OF LIBERTY
60 Minutes, 1985
This documentary tells two stories – that of the
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making of a remarkable work of art, the Statue of
Liberty, and also the story of the idea of liberty.
For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has
been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations
of immigrants. In this compelling portrait of the
statue, Ken Burns explores both the history of
America’s premier symbol and the meaning of
liberty itself. Featuring archival photographs,
paintings and drawings, readings from actual
diaries, letters and newspapers of the day, the story
of this universally admired monument is told.
Although this program is 18 years old, its style,
content, and quality is evergreen. In interviews
with Americans from all walks of life, including
former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, the late
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and the late
writers James Baldwin and Jerzy Kosinski, THE
STATUE OF LIBERTY examines the nature of
liberty and the significance of the statue to
American life. (Id. No. 134)
Format: VHS
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
24 Minutes
The film begins with a brief history of the Supreme
Court as an institution and the effect the court has
had upon American society. Interviews follow with
all of the sitting Justices, in small groups and
individually. (Id. No. 135)
Format: VHS
VOTE FOR ME: POLITICS IN AMERICA
1996
An entertaining video series that looks at American
culture as reflected in political campaigns across
the United States. This series received the highest
awards in broadcast journalism, a Peabody as well
as a DuPont award. Although the series is eight
years old, only the candidates and automobile
styles have changed.
This four-hour series travels across the country
showing how politics are really played in the U.S. It
is entertaining, funny, and full of revealing behindthe
scenes moments. If you want to show what
America looks like, this is it. It's the perfect way for
students of American politics to understand the
campaign and election process, from the smallest
precincts all the way to the White House.
POLITICS 101
50 Minutes
Part 1 shows what candidates do, and have done,
to get voter's attention. How well-run street
organizations get out the vote in Chicago. A portrait
of the master of person-to-person campaigning in
Rhode Island. A desperate California gubernatorial
candidate (1994) stages a 29-hour bus trip photoop
marathon. A New York "attack dog" consultant
travels to Alabama to craft a negative ad campaign.
(Id. No. 137)
Format: VHS
MAKING A BIG NOISE
62 Minutes
Part 2 studies what voters do to get politicians'
attention. How a senior citizen's retirement haven
turns out 93 per cent majorities for its candidates.
The tough, revealing story of changing ethnic
coalitions, where naked self-interest is the order of
the day. (Id. No. 138)
Format: VHS
POLITICAL JUNKIES
Part 3, 25 Minutes
This part looks at Louisiana teenagers in a mocklegislature
and the intense small town politics of
Johnson, Rhode Island to see where politicians
come from. (Id. No. 139)
Format: VHS
THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF MAGGIE
LAUTERER
Part 4, 87 Minutes
A remarkable cinema-verite behind the scenes look
at what it really takes to run for office in America.
First-time-candidate from North Carolina Maggie
Lauterer decides to run for Congress and has to
learn how to beg for money on the phone, how to
come up with 30-second policy soundbites, and
how to try to run a clean campaign in the face of
withering negative attacks. And we the viewers
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learn along with her, sharing her exhilaration and
her setbacks. (Id. No. 140)
Format: VHS
THE WEST
The West is an eight-part documentary series,
which premiered on PBS stations in September
1996. This multimedia guided tour proceeds
chapter-by-chapter through each episode in the
series, offering selected documentary materials,
archival images and commentary, as well as links
to background information and other resources of
the web site.
THE PEOPLE (TO 1806)
(Episode 1) 82 Minutes
The West begins as the whole world to the people
who live there. It becomes a New World when
Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible
visions. And almost three centuries later, when
Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest
Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for
a young nation's continent-spanning dream. (Id.
No. 142)
Format: VHS
EMPIRE UPON THE TRAILS (1806 TO 1848)
(Episode 2) 84 Minutes
Americans head west along many pathways --
following the fur trade into the mountains, fighting
for self-determination in Texas, seeking religious
freedom in Utah or a better life along the Oregon
Trail. But whatever direction they travel, they move
closer with every step to a “Manifest Destiny” that
will make the West their own. (Id. No. 143)
Format: VHS
SPECK OF THE FUTURE (1848 TO 1856)
(Episode 3) 84 Minutes
The Gold Rush brings the whole world to the West,
as 49ers from Asia, South America and the eastern
states scramble for “a share of the rocks,” littering
the hills with mining towns and creating the West’s
first metropolis. But in the push to strike it rich,
many are violently pushed aside. (Id. No. 144)
Format: VHS
DEATH RUNS RIOT (1856 TO 1868)
(Episode 4) 84 Minutes
Civil war comes early to the West. In “Bleeding
Kansas,” abolitionists battle for free soil. In Utah,
federal troops march against Mormon polygamy.
And along the Rio Grande, oppressed Mexican
Americans rebel. The war between North and
South unleashes brute savagery in the West, and
leaves behind an army prepared for total war
against the native peoples of the plains. (Id. No.
145)
Format: VHS
THE GRANDEST ENTERPRISE UNDER GOD
(1868 TO 1874)
(Episode 5) 84 Minutes
A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental
railroad opens a new era in the West, carrying
homesteaders onto the prairies, bringing cowboys
up the cattle trail from Texas, helping give women
the vote in Utah and sending buffalo hunters onto
the plains, where they drive a symbol of the West --
and a way of life -- to the brink of extinction. (Id.
No. 146)
Format: VHS
FIGHT NO MORE FOREVER (1874 TO 1877)
(Episode 6) 85 Minutes
The federal government tightens its grip on the
West, but three bold spirits remain defiant -- Sitting
Bull, who prophesies his people's greatest victory
but cannot prevent their ultimate defeat; Brigham
Young, who must sacrifice a spiritual son to save
his church; and Chief Joseph, who triumphs in
defeat as an indomitable voice of conscience for
the West. (Id. No. 500)
Format: VHS
THE GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE (1877 TO 1887)
(Episode 7) 84 Minutes
Newcomers arrive by the millions, bringing a new
spirit of conformity to the West. Indian children are
taught to forsake their heritage, Mormons are told
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to abandon a tenet of their faith, and new laws deny
Chinese and Mexican Americans a place in society.
Yet the legend of the “Wild West” lives on, thanks
to the greatest showman of the age. (Id. No. 147)
Format: VHS
ONE SKY ABOVE US (1887 TO 1914)
(Episode 9) 62Mintues
As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native
Americans take up the Ghost Dance, trusting in its
power to restore a lost way of life until their hopes
are crushed at Wounded Knee. The new century
marks a new era in the West, an age of aqueducts
and smelters. But the West remains what it has
always been, a world waiting for a dream. (Id. No.
148)
Format: VHS
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADERS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
40 Minutes, 2004
The 20th century was a time of great and sweeping
changes all over the world. American society
underwent a metamorphosis of unprecedented
propositions. Learn about the African-American
leaders who emerged during this era of trasition to
play important roles and to make a difference not
only for members of their own race. But for all of
the citizens of the United States. (Id. No. 627)
Format: DVD
AMERICAN ATHLETE
(Episode 127 E) 19:47 Minutes
Learn how American sports idols, from male golfers
and auto racers to woman boxers and basketball
stars, have become the men and women they are
today. In this episode, tennis pro Andre Agassi,
track and field champ Carl Lewis and baseball
legend Reggie Jackson kid around with Byron
Allen. (Id No. 667)
Format: DVD
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
ANSEL ADAMS
100 minutes, 2002
For the centennial of the artist's birth, Ric Burns
has created an elegant, moving, and lyrical portrait
of this quintessentially American photographer. The
documentary weaves together archival footage,
photographic images, dramatic readings of the
artist's own writing, and interviews with leading
photographers, historians, curators, naturalists, as
well as Adams's family, friends, and colleagues, to
tell the story of a man who was at once a visionary
photographer, a pioneer in photographic technique,
and an ardent crusader for the cause of
environmentalism. (Id. No. 607)
Format: DVD
SINS OF OUR MOTHERS
60 minutes, 1989
A Gothic tale about sin and redemption in 19thcentury
New England and the impact of a legend
on one very small town in Maine. At the heart of
the story is a woman named Emeline Gurney who
was sent by her impoverished parents to work in
the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell was an
extraordinary community, the only mill town
specifically designed to employ and accommodate
young women workers from all over the northeast.
(Id. No. 531)
Format: VHS
AMERICA’S NEW RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE
60 Minutes, 2002
From the public television series Religion and
Ethics NewsWeekly, this documentary shows
America as having the most religious diversity in
the world. New immigrants to America from all over
the world have brought their religious traditions. We
see that there are many ways of understanding
what we call God. In this video we visit Buddhists,
an African- American Muslim going to Hajj, Hasidic
Jews in Crown Heights-Brooklyn, Hindus in
northern Virginia, and three religious communities
in the most diverse religious city in the world - Los
Angeles. (Id. No. 151)
Format: VHS
BILL MOYERS: WORLD OF IDEAS
MAYA LIN
54 minutes, 2003
One of the rare few who have managed to excel in
both art and architecture, Maya Lin creates places
of refuge and contemplation in highly public
spaces. Constructed on an intimate human scale,
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they invite visitors to touch, feel, respond, and
reflect. In this program, the acclaimed sculptor and
architect talks with Bill Moyers about a life and a
career that has been shaped by her Asian-
American heritage and a profound respect and love
for the natural environment. (Id. No. 590)
Format: VHS
* BROOKLYN BRIDGE
60 Minutes, 1981
This award-winning film by Ken Burns recaptures
the drama, struggles, and personal tragedies
behind the greatest of all achievements of
America's industrial age, THE BROOKLYN
BRIDGE. Largest bridge of the era, its construction
entailed enormous problems and ingenious
solutions. Witness the human heroics behind the
bridge that seized America's imagination in the
1880s. Discover the enduring charm and beauty of
a granite-and-steel masterpiece. (Id. No. 152)
Format: VHS
COVERING CATASTROPHE
45 minutes, 2002
While many documentaries commemorate the
tragic events of 9/11, this documentary sees those
events through the eyes of the broadcast journalists
who where there. It discloses their raw emotions in
experiencing and covering this catastrophe. Based
upon a Bonus Book of the same name, COVERING
CATASTROPHE is gripping and fast-paced,
bringing to life the first hand accounts of 13 local
and national broadcast journalists on the front line
who risked their lives by running toward the
disaster. (Id. No. 157)
Format: VHS
EVERY WOMAN
(Episode 101E) 19:04 Minutes
Learn how American women with careers in
science, medicine, law, public interest,
entertainment, sports and fashion earned the
recognition they deserved. In this episode: Nina
Zagat, publisher of the Zagat restaurant guide,
Cathy Hughes, radio mogul and Mavis Leno,
human rights advocate. (Id No. 667)
Format: DVD
EXPLORING RELIGIOUS AMERICA
90 Minutes, 2002
How religious is America? How are Americans
religious? Based on a survey of religious tolerance,
beliefs and practices in the U.S. today,
EXPLORING RELIGIOUS AMERICA presents data
and video stories in four areas: religious diversity,
Protestants, Catholics, and spirituality in America.
Leading scholars comment on the stories
videotaped across the country. Muslims and their
neighbors in suburban Atlanta face the challenge of
religious tolerance. Segments on mainline
Protestants in Virginia, evangelical Protestants in
Georgia, and African-American Protestants in
Indianapolis reflect the changing influence of
Protestant ideas and ideals. Irish-American and
Hispanic Catholics in Chicago show the meaning of
their faith. Spiritual seekers apart from organized
religion, yet within it, illustrate the importance of
spiritual experience in America. (Id. No. 171)
Format: VHS
FEEDING THE BEAST: AN INSIDE LOOK AT
THE NEWS MEDIA
22 minutes, 2001
Keeping people informed 24/7 demands a neverending
stream of news items—each one filled with
material to be edited, facts to be checked, and
decisions to be made as the clock steadily ticks.
This ABC News program takes an unvarnished look
at the Chicago Tribune, ABC’s World News
Tonight, and WJLA, an ABC affiliate, providing
insider insights into what goes on at America’s
newspapers and TV stations as they scramble to
feed the beast. (Id. No. 554)
Format: DVD
GLOBALIZATION AND THE MEDIA
22 Minutes, 2004
As globalization of trade rapidly expands, the
mainstream media is being accused of
inadequately reporting the issues. This program
canvasses some of the dissent by exploring
conflicts of interest within the media and showing
how technology, such as the camcorder and the
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Internet, is challenging the monopoly of big news
broadcasters. Differences between mainstream and
"indie" media are highlighted in coverage of the
economic summits and related protests in Genoa
and Seattle. Among those interviewed are Danny
Schechter, director of Mediachannel.org; Katharine
Ainger, editor of New Internationalist magazine;
and Chris Cramer, president of CNN International
News. (Id. No. 650)
Format: DVD
HUB OF THE WHEEL
1988
COPING WITH CONFLICT
Conflict, differences between people caused by
differing values, goals, or a variety of other
circumstances, is a natural part of life. Coping with
concflict focuses on the ways in which conflict can
be used for positive outcomes. (Id. No. 176)
Format: VHS
IN AMERICA
In America traces the history of immigration to the
United States and explores the immigration
experience of five different peoples.
THE ASIAN-INDIAN STORY
25:58 minutes, 2003
Sreenath Sreenivasan reports on technology trends
in a weekly segment “Tech Guru” for WABC in New
York. Raj Desai is currently the executive director
of the The Indus Entrepreneurs, a not-for-profit
organization focused on fostering and nurturing
entrepreneurship. Karen Leonard is a professor of
anthropology and specializes in South Asian and
Asian American history. Tejinder (Ted) sibia
developed a popular website
(http://www.sikhpioneers.org) chronicles the history
of Asian Indian immigration to North America. (Id.
No. 575)
Format: VHS
INTEGRATING MEDIA INTO THE
CLASSROOM
2005
In this inspiring and informative two-part series and
Facilitator’s workbook, educators and media
specialists with firsthand experience of the
challenges and rewards of integrating media into
the classroom share their in-depth knowledge.
Watch these videos to gain insight into how you
can use technology to improve your lessons, create
a more constructivist learning atmosphere, increase
student understanding and retention, and motivate
your students to learn as never before.
THEORY AND RESEARCH
28 Minutes
“To be able to integrate as many of the multiple
intelligences as possible into a single codified
approach is extremely powerful and beneficial,”
says media theoretician Lou Fournier Marzeles. In
this video, he and other recognized experts review
the history of educational media and then clearly
state the case for media as a powerful—and highly
effective—classroom tool. “By using a lot of images
in the classroom, are we really going to raise our
test scores?” asks Dr. Lynell Burmark, author of
Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn. “The
answer to that is unequivocally Yes.” Program
segments include “History and Context,”
“Supporting Research,” “Delivery Modes and
Methods,” “What Media Can Do for My Students,”
and “The Future of Media in the Classroom.” (Id.
No. 656)
Format: DVD
PRACTICE AND CASE STUDIES
30 Minutes
Welcome to the multimedia learning environment!
In this video, middle school, high school, and
college media specialists and instructors invite
viewers into the classroom to see for themselves
how colleagues are tapping into the power of media
to improve teaching and enhance learning. Drawing
on their direct experience, they offer practical
advice, tips, and examples to show how to use
media to support instructional strategies, develop
ideas on teaching, and engage students. Program
segments include “Why Use Media,” “Choosing
Media,” “Preparing Media for the Classroom,”
“During and After,” and “Case Studies”—footage of
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real educators who are really putting theory into
practice. (Id. No. 657)
Format: DVD
* ISLAM IN AMERICA
Part I 24 minutes; Part 2-27 minutes, 2000
Reflecting the United States as a global village, this
documentary, produced by Monitor TV, looks at five
Muslim groups throughout America practicing their
faith, showing how their lives and their faith
intertwine. (Id. Nos. 567 & 568)
Format: VHS
KING COBRA
60 Minutes, 1992
The intriguing story of this legendary monarch. It
can produce enough venom in one bite to kill a
hundred people and, using rare footage, we see the
King Cobra on its journey through the rainforest.
(Id. No. 182)
Format: VHS
MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
1992
GIANT BRAIN
58 Minutes
This is a video about the history of computers. It
traces the history of computers up to and including
the ENIAC. It also gives an excellent introduction to
the binary system and the stored-program concept.
It was written by Fiona Holmes. (Id. No. 183)
Format: VHS
THE PAPERBACK COMPUTER
58 Minutes
Shows how complex room-sized calculators
evolved into desktop machines that a child can use.
Discusses the development of microprocessors and
the arrival of the first generation to grow up with
computers. (Id. No. 184)
Format: VHS
THE THINKING MACHINE
58 Minutes
This video is devoted to artificial intelligence and
what computer scientists, psychologists, and
philosophers have learned about human
intelligence in the process of trying to teach
computers to "think." It was written and produced
by Jon Palfreman. (Id. No. 185)
Format: VHS
THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
58 Minutes
Examines the social revolution wrought by
computers, and the price: loss of privacy and of a
sense of place, information pollution, and the nearcatastrophes
that can occur when computer
networks take on a life of their own. (Id. No. 186)
Format: VHS
MEDIA HYPE: WHEN NEWS COVERAGE
GOES TOO FAR
41 minutes, 2002
The Center for Media and Public Affairs reports that
during the 1990s the homicide rate in the U.S.
dropped 50 percent, yet homicide news coverage
increased by an incredible 700 percent. In this
program, the Center’s Bob Lichter and the Threat
Assessment Group’s Greg McCrary join ABC News
anchor John Stossel to examine some of the
factors that contribute to the exaggeration of risks
and dangers in the news media. Recent stories
involving murder, shark attack, road rage, and
carjacking are cited as examples of reporting that
was skewed by the overuse of frightening headlines
and images, incomplete research, and the tacit rule
"If it bleeds, it leads." (Id. No. 551)
Format: DVD
MOYER’S COLLECTION
THE STORIES OF MAXINE HONG
KINGSTON
60 Minutes, 1990
When Maxine Hong Kingston was growing up in
California, she listened to her parents' stories and
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memories of their native China. In her highly
acclaimed memoirs, The Woman Warrior and
China Men, she linked those tales of tradition to the
story of her own American experience, blending
childhood memory, meditation, and magic. These
books are the most widely taught ones by a living
American author on college campuses today. In
this program with Bill Moyers, Kingston discusses
new images of America as a "melting pot" where
the dutiful notions of the Puritans blend with the
Monkey Spirit of the Orient to produce a new
American consciousness. (Id. No. 204)
Format: VHS
MULTICULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
27 Minutes, 2001
America's culture is unique because people from
every corner of the globe have contributed to it. The
more diverse a culture is, the richer it is. The
citizens of the United States must be ready to
embrace their country's diversity and to celebrate it.
No ethnic, racial, or religious group is superior to
any other. To be tolerant and to truly accept that we
are all different but equal must be America's goal
for the 21st Century. The message conveyed by
this video is that we should not fear those who are
different from us. Rather, we should seize the
opportunity to learn from other people and to enjoy
what they can share. (Id. No. 628)
Format: DVD
NEWS HOUR
* NEW IRAQ
16.24 minutes
(Id. No. 528) Format: VHS
* DANGEROURS NEIGHBORHOOD
12.24 minutes
(Id. No. 528) Format: VHS
NEWS WRITING
1996
This telecourse, with overview program, covers
both traditional and emerging journalism styles in
broadcast and public relations writing as well as
print journalism. The lively half-hour programs
document behind-the-scene news action; outline
how to start, develop and polish hard news and
feature stories; and explore related styles along
with issues of language use, media ethics and
media law. More than 100 American broadcast and
print jounalists are interviewed offering their advice,
opinions and humor, including Helen Thomas,
Susan Antilla, Charles Kuralt, Bob Woodward, Sam
Donaldson and Andy Rooney.
NEWS WRITING - OVERVIEW PROGRAM
(Episode 101)
Peter F. Berkow, host and producer of the 15-part
series talks about his work on the series and how it
was produced. (Id. No. 206)
Format: VHS
WHAT IS NEWS?
(Episode 102)
Examines how journalists determine what the
public needs and wants to know. Reporters and
editors discuss editorial decision-making and define
news as it relates to journalism ethics and the news
writing process. (Id. No. 207)
Format: VHS
HARD NEWS LEADS
(Episode 103)
Shows the power and process of the summary lead
in newspaper, broadcast and public relations
writing. A broad spectrum of writers discuss and
demonstrate this basic journalism tool. (Id. No.
208)
Format: VHS
NEWS WRITING LANGUAGE AND STYLE
(Episode 104)
Explores the specifics of print journalism style —
from the AP to Rolling Stone magazine — focusing
on accuracy and detail, enlivened by humor as
Dave Barry and other writers confess their
language sins and steer tomorrow's journalists
toward production of professional and pristine
prose. (Id. No. 209)
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Format: VHS
GOOD WRITING VS. GOOD REPORTING
(Episode 107)
Considers the possibilities of conflict or
compatibility between these two elements. Top
reporters discuss essential issues such as
accuracy, objectivity, fairness and credibility along
with the elements of writing that make a news story
exciting, fun and compelling to read. (Id. No. 210)
Format: VHS
BEAT REPORTING
(Episode 108)
Covers the wide variety of journalism career
opportunities, with glimpses into the working
conditions and daily experiences on crime, sports,
business, government, and environmental beats as
well as for general assignment and wire service
reporters. (Id. No. 211)
BROADCAST NEWS WRITING
(Episode 109)
Compares the similarities and differences of
broadcast and print journalism, with insightful
comments from a host of radio and television
journalists—among them Sam Donaldson, Charles
Kuralt and Kurt Loder—and follows a young
reporter as he assembles a daily news package.
(Id. No. 212)
PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING
(Episode 110)
Demonstrates the interaction of journalists and
public relations people. Professionals discuss the
similarities of writing press releases and hard news
stories, while sympathetic and unsympathetic
journalists comment on the role of public relations
in the news. (Id. No. 213)
THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM
(Episode 115)
Introduces a reporter’s on-the-job ethical
challenges. Journalists from a variety of beats
discuss issues such as conflict of interest, honesty,
thoroughness, objectivity, privacy and balance. One
reporter demonstrates real-life ethical decision
making as she covers a controversial local story.
(Id. No. 214)
NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE: THE
STORY OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON &
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
1999
FAILURE IS IMPOSSIBLE
91 Minutes
Ken Burns and Paul Barnes describe the longlasting
friendship between women’s rights
advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony in this PBS documentary. In this second
program follows Stanton and Anthony’s work from
1868 until their deaths. Narrated by Sally
Kellerman. (Id. No. 215)
Format : VHS
PATH TO PUBLICATION: ADVICE FROM
AUTHORS, EDITORS, AND AGENTS
2005
This seven-volume series takes viewers inside the
prestigious Squaw Valley Community of Writers
workshops, where the faculty comprises significant
authors such as Amy Tan, Anne Lamott, Richard
Ford, Janet Fitch, and Mark Childress as well as
agents, editors, and publishers from New York and
Los Angeles. Each volume contains two complete
program segments and focuses on a different
aspect of writing. An essential resource both for
novices looking to improve their technique and for
experienced writers who are polishing their
manuscripts and looking for agents. Each DVD also
provides background on the speakers, information
about the Community of Writers, and previews of
the other volumes in The Path to Publication. 7-part
series, 82-127 minutes each.
ELEMENTS OF WRITING
111 Minutes
This volume concentrates on successful
storytelling. In a talk called “Scene, Summary,
Silence,” writer/educator Al Young tells how to
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engage readers and keep a story moving by
creating believable narrative and maintaining a
balance between scene and summary. A panel
discussion moderated by Mark Childress follows, in
which authors Olga Carlisle, James Brown, Lynn
Freed, and Al Young examine the influence of their
birthplaces on their work. With honesty and humor
they answer questions including Do you think you’d
be a writer if you came from another place in the
world? and What impact did leaving your
birthplaces have on your writing? (Id. No. 633)
Format: DVD
PATHS TO POWER: AN EDUCATOR’S
GUIDE TO THE CENTURY
1999
Hosted by Antonio Mora, formerly of Good Morning
America, and narrated by ABC News anchor Peter
Jennings, Paths to Power—a custom-made
educators’ version of the ABC News’ landmark
retrospective The Century—encapsulates the broad
issues and events that are essential to a deep
understanding of the 20th century. This 12-part
series has been designed with teacher input to
closely correlate with the textbooks commonly used
in the American history curriculum today.
* MASS COMMUNICATION
PART 2 TOWARD A GLOBAL VILLAGE
32 minutes, 2000
With the advent of affordable television sets, the
influence of the media on American life
mushroomed, all too frequently blurring the line
between advertising and information, fiction and
fact. This ABC News program anchored by Peter
Jennings focuses on the way in which both the
silver screen and the television screen have
reflected America’s national culture and even
shaped the country’s perception of events during
the turbulent decades of the latter half of the 20th
century. (Id. Nos. 570)
Format: VHS
REBUILDING GROUND ZERO:
ENGINEERING THE FUTURE
52 minutes, 2002
What's to be done with the site on which the World
Trade Center once stood? New York city planners,
architects and community leaders struggled - with
tact and appropriate delicacy - to devise a structure
that paid homage to the thousands of lives lost and
a land-use solution that satisfied all interests. With
animated graphics we get an awesome forward
look not only at Ground Zero, but the changes in
the underground trains and subway lines. Now, with
the recent announcement that Daniel Libeskind has
won the worldwide architectural design competition,
work can begin in earnest to rebuild the World
Trade Center - as well as a wide swath of
downtown Manhattan. Using the very latest
materials and energy sources - as well as taking
into account the structural and technical problems
exposed by the disaster - architects plan one of the
most progressive, gutsy buildings every conceived.
(Id. No. 175)
Format: VHS
SHE SAYS: WOMEN IN THE NEWS
2002
Winner of the 2002 Emmy Award in the
'Outstanding Informational Programming- Long
Form' category. SHE SAYS examines how women
in the news business have changed journalism, the
culture and the world. Ten of the country's most
powerful and innovative television, radio and print
journalists are featured in SHE SAYS, spanning
decades of insight and experience - from Helen
Thomas, the first female dean of the White House
Press Corps, to Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize
winning columnist. Through interviews rich with
anecdotes, both humorous and wrenching, SHE
SAYS chronicles how the presence of women has
expanded the news agenda, changed the
newsroom culture and the larger society. (Id. No.
596)
Format: VHS
TAKING A STAND: THE BULLYING
PREVENTION SERIES
2006
No longer a simple matter of schoolyard scuffles
and “boys will be boys,” bullying is now recognized
as a major threat to the education of America’s
young people. Research shows that intimidation
and humiliation among students involve both
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genders, affect young people of every background,
and have become even more widespread with the
help of digital technology. This three-part series
helps students and teachers identify bullying
activity, confront the instigators of it, and assist the
victims—with the ultimate goal of preventing
bullying in all its forms. Behavior and tactics
specific to boy bullies, girl bullies, and cyberbullies
are discussed at length in each of the respective
videos, addressing the complexity of the issues
with dramatized scenarios and peer discussions.
CYBERBULLIES
19 Minutes
Chat rooms, blogs, and instant messaging have
become standard forms of communication for many
young people. Unfortunately, they have also
become popular ways to bully and harass others.
This program is designed to prevent children and
teenagers from falling victim to cyberbullying, using
dramatizations and Q & A discussions to expand
awareness of the issue. The video discusses
cyberbullying warning signs, common patterns of
abuse, and questionable online activities and
destinations to stay away from. It also presents
strategies for responding when cyberbullying
occurs, and outlines legal problems involving
privacy and libel that young Internet users should
be aware of. (Id. No. 649)
Format: DVD
THIS FAR BY FAITH
2003
THERE IS A RIVER
(Episode 1) 60 Minutes
Explores the evolution of African American religious
thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans
brought to America to the influence of Christian
teachings imposed on slaves in the new world. It
tells the story of Sojourner Truth and Denmark
Vesey. (Id. No. 241)
Format: VHS
GOD IS A NEGRO
(Episode 2) 60 Minutes
Takes place after Emancipation, as the minister
and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black
church to engage newly freed blacks in the political
realm. (Id. No. 242)
Format: VHS
GUIDE MY FEET
(Episode 3) 60 Minutes
It is the story of two southern migrants, born a
generation apart, both seeking to bring the reality of
the streets into the church. In Chicago, Thomas
Dorsey, a pianist with blues singer Ma Rainey,
invents gospel music. (Id. No. 243)
Format: VHS
FREEDOM FAITH
(Episode 4) 60 Minutes
Faith sustained black families through the
oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 50s by
providing the courage needed to fight Jim Crow.
(Id. No. 244)
Format: VHS
INHERITORS OF THE FAITH
(Episode 5) 60 Minutes
Follows those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside
of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba, and it
also explores the role of the Nation of Islam. (Id.
No. 245)
Format: VHS
RISE UP AND CALL THEIR NAMES
(Episode 6 ) 60 Minutes
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith
Pilgrimage, beginning in Massachusetts. They pray
and seek to heal the country’s wounds of slavery
through prayer vigils at historical slave sites. The
pilgrims reach Goree Island in Senegal with a
stronger sense of self and purpose. (Id. No. 246)
Format: VHS
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* WATCH WHAT YOU SAY: FREE SPEECH
IN TIMES OF NATIONAL CRISIS
38 minutes, 2002
In America, freedom of speech is a cherished
fundamental right. Must it be curtailed during
emergencies or wars? In this program, ABC News
anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent John
Donvan explore the penalties of political dissent in
the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon. News footage and
a round table discussion with media personalities,
journalists, and others who have suffered the
consequences of voicing unpopular opinions reveal
a disturbing yet unsurprising intolerance for such
comments during a period of national crisis. (Id.
No. 582)
Format: VHS
WOMAN’S WORLD
A woman’s World is a weekly series that features
films about Muslim women. This film examines
how women in Pakistan went from living in a
secular society that offered them many freedoms,
to living under an extreme version of Islamic law
called the Hudood ordinances.
FOR A PLACE UNDER THE HEAVENS
Part 2 (Episode 130-E), 29:30 Minutes
In Part 2 award winning filmmaker Sabiha Sumar
continues her conversions with Muslim scholars,
feminists and family friends. They discuss the
plight of women in Pakistan and explore what some
are doing to regain their rights. (Id No. 667)
Format: DVD
MALALAI
(Episode 131E), 59:29 Minutes
In this feature presentation, filmmaker Polly Hyman
follows Afghanistan’s first female police officer,
Malalai, as she skillfully mediates a dispute
between quarrelling neighbors, hears stories of
abuse from several Afghan women, and even takes
on a murder investigation (Id No. 702)
Format: DVD
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ARCHITECTURE TO ZUCCHINI
120 Minutes, 2005
Architecture to Zucchini is an exploration of socially
responsible businesses and the passionate leaders
who drive them. These are the pioneers who have
put the principles of sustainability to work. In the
process, they've built thriving businesses and
sparked regional economic development. It also
features insights from leaders of nationally
recognized organizations that serve industry,
education, communities and government. Through
interviews and tours, these interviews reveal the
impact of merging economic, social and
environmental considerations in their business
plans and operations. And they share everything
from lessons learned to the challenges they've
faced – even the unexpected opportunities for
strategic alliances, within and outside their
industries.
Interviews and tours include the business leaders
of: Carrington Barrs, Stahlbush Island Farms, Norm
Thompson, Zenger Farm, New Seasons Market,
The Collins Companies, ShoreBank Pacific, Hot
Lips Pizza. Interviews with experts include:
Spencer Beebe, Founder, Ecotrust; Anthony
Cortese, Co-founder, Second Nature and Natural
Step U.S.; Martin Goebel, President, Sustainable
Northwest; Regina Hauser, Director, Oregon
Natural Step Network. (Id. No. 693)
Format: DVD
THE ART OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
27 Minutes, 2004
This award-winning video relates helpful tips on
improving your verbal, nonverbal, listening, and
written communication skills. Viewers will learn that:
What they do with their bodies while speaking or
listening is just as important as the words they
speak; there’s more to verbal communication than
merely selecting the right words; difference
between hearing and listening. Communication is
an essential part of every business, every family,
and every relationship! This DVD impacts each of
these important life skills. (Id. No. 677)
Format: DVD
BACK TO BASCIS: A FIVE PART SERIES
ON BUSINESS
2005
No more jitters on the first day of work. Back to the
Basics is a five-part series designed to introduce
young adults to the work world. It addresses the
issues of Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution,
Etiquette, Communication Skills, Stress
Management, and Professional Image.
Specialists in career planning, organizational
behavior, and workplace wellness share their
advice on how to navigate the business world
successfully. A diverse group of young adults also
share their experiences in the workforce, giving the
viewer a complete look at what works and what
doesn’t.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
22 Minutes
Presentations, reports, video conferences, e-mail,
telephone calls—more than ever, excellent
communication skills are a prerequisite for entry
into all sorts of careers. This video provides
guidance in strengthening both verbal and
nonverbal communication. Stresses the importance
of carefully targeting the message to be conveyed,
minimizing outside distractions, listening attentively,
and developing an awareness of body language.
(Id. No. 503)
Format: DVD
CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND ETIQUETTE
21 Minutes
Illustrates how to courteously resolve
office conflicts by depersonalizing them, opening
the lines of communication, and examining all
options in order to come to an agreement.
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Brainstorming with coworkers is presented as a
means of developing consensus. (Id. No. 504)
Format: DVD
PROBLEM SOLVING
18 Minutes
Demonstrates problem-solving skills for workers in
wide range of occupations. Key elements of
successful problem solving, such as staying
focused, collecting all of the pertinent data,
examining the situation from multiple perspectives,
and knowing when to ask for assistance, are
highlighted. In addition, role-play, active listening,
and a positive attitude are offered as proactive
measures to help reduce the frequency and
severity of work-related problems. (Id. No.505)
Format: DVD
PROFESSIONAL IMAGE
23 Minutes
Investigates not only the visible factors of proper
attire and hygiene, but the issues of attitude,
professional self-esteem, familiarity with
technology, and knowledge of business trends as
well. The image a person communicates through
written correspondence and in after-hours settings
is also addressed. (Id. No. 506)
Format: DVD
STRESS MANAGEMENT
20 Minutes
Identifies workplace stressors and offers guidelines
for reducing their impact to a safe level. Proven
principles of stress management, including proper
nutrition, adequate rest, and non-work-related
pastimes, are emphasized as keys to good health
and better overall job performance. (Id. No. 507)
Format: DVD
BASIC CLERICAL SKILLS
2004
This two-part series focuses on key concepts to
help young adults put their best foot forward when
joining the work force in an entry-level position. The
basic skills needed to survive and prosper in a
business office are addressed: how to file, sort
mail, organize a desk for maximum efficiency,
prioritize tasks, and provide good customer service.
Viewers also learn about punctuality, dependability,
and neatness—three important skills that every
employee needs on every job.
COMMENDABLE CUSTOMER SERVICE
16 Minutes
Everyone talks about "customer service." What is it,
and why is it so important? As the frontline
employee, the customer service representative is
the most valuable and visible person to the
customers—the one they go to first for every type
of information and assistance. In this program,
viewers will see how to provide exceptional
customer service with a smile, a professional
appearance, and a positive attitude. It covers the
basics—fielding questions, solving problems,
cheerfully responding to customer requests—and
much more. And because
so much interaction takes place over the telephone,
viewers will learn how to stay in control when
dealing with demanding or rude customers, how to
actively listen, and how to come up with solutions
that satisfy. (Id. No. 508)
Format: DVD
BENCHMARKING FOR COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE
BENCHMARKING IN PRACTICE
27 Minutes, 1997
Managers from Xerox, Price Waterhouse, and
several other organizations discuss the major
processes involved in benchmarking--preparation,
analysis of information, taking action,
and reviewing the results of effectiveness. Xerox
managers reveal how their company handles
requests for bechmarking information from other
companies. Workers discuss the importance of
employee involvement. Expert Robert Camp
examines the pitfalls of benchmarking, including the
problem of confidentiality when sharing information
with other companies. (Id. No. 255)
Format: VHS
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THE POWER OF BENCHMARKING
24 Minutes
This program demonstrates how internal, external,
and process benchmarking practices help
companies improve their competitive positions.
Johnson & Johnson compares financial report filing
in several branches and discovers ways to
accelerate the process. Xerox matches prices and
procedures with a Japanese competitor and
improves its bottom line. By comparing its
processing with that of a local bakery, a British
aerospace parts manufacturer finds ways to
process a variety of materials more efficiently. (Id.
No. 256)
Format: VHS
BEST OF 2004: CLIO GOLD PLUS
45:22 Minutes
Yearly the Clio Awards are given to best work from
Ad agencies and production houses all over the
world. To look at the Clio reel is to see some of the
world’s most powerful ads. The Best of 2004 reel
instructs students of the craft, and it celebrates one
of the most interesting and influential art forms in
modern culture.
Clio supports an honest, democratic and nonpolitical
system of judging. Each piece is judged on
its own merits. First the jury votes a shortlist of the
best work. From those finalists, the jury then
determines which pieces, if any, are worthy of a
statue. (Id. No. 586)
Format: DVD & VHS
BUFFET & GATES ON SUCCESS
57 Minutes, 1998
On a sunny spring day in Seattle, business
students at the University of Washington were
treated to a rare public dialogue. On stage were
the two wealthiest men in America—Warrant Buffet,
Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and
Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates.
Though they differ considerably in their careers,
these two business leaders and unlikely friends
share an extraordinary appreciation of the qualities
that matter most in work and in life. This frank,
funny, personal conversation reveals philosophies
common to both men: Be willing to take risks,
surround yourself with people whom you respect
and trust, and love what you do. (Id. No. 680)
Format: DVD
BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS
2005
This series will help students learn and use basic
communication skills such as listening, speaking,
writing, and reading; taking and giving instruction;
receiving and placing messages; attending and
speaking at meetings; reading and writing letters,
reports, manuals, blueprints, charts, and graphs.
Each program enhances students’ understanding of
the importance of these skills by taking them on site
in the business world to see how people use these
skills in everyday work.
BUSINESS PRESENTATIONS
15 Minutes
An oral presentation is a way for businesses to
provide information to a group of people. The
advantages of an oral presentation over a written
one are discussed. The two parts of the
presentation, the preparation and the delivery, are
explored. (Id. No. 509)
Format: DVD
JOB INTERVIEW
15 Minutes
In this program, viewers will learn how to take the
nervousness associated with a job interview and
replace it with confidence. The importance of
researching and preparing for an interview is
stressed as well as the need for follow-up. (Id. No.
510)
Format: DVD
NEGOTIATING
15 Minutes
In business, negotiation takes place every day.
Negotiating occurs when two or more people are
trying to get each other to do something. This
program looks at the fundamentals of negotiation:
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identifying each person’s goals; building a
persuasive argument; creating win-win situations
through creative compromise. (Id. No. 511)
Format: DVD
BUSINESS ETHICS: A 21ST CENTURY
PERSPECTIVE
15 minutes, 2000
Globalization of Commerce has added new shades
of gray to the complex subject of business ethics.
In this program, Frank Daly, corporate ethics officer
at Northrop Grumman; Thomas White, director of
the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola
Marymount University; and David Vogel, of the
Haas School of Business, analyze the challenges
to making ethical choices in the Information Age.
Issues raised include the need for multinationals to
agree on a set of core international business
values, the impact of ever-shrinking time frames on
the decision-making process, and the necessity of
secure data transmission. (Id. No. 547)
Format: DVD
BUSINESS ETHICS: BOTTOM LINE
29 Minutes, 2004
Is today’s corporate culture, characterized by
exorbitant CEO salaries, downsizing, and benefit
reductions, alienating employers from employees?
What moral obligations do companies have to the
people who work for them, and to the communities
they serve? In this program, a group of business
experts examine these issues, and discuss how
companies can do "the right thing" and still improve
their bottom lines. Experts include the president
and CEO of a large corporation, a senior fellow at
the Brookings Institution, and a former executive
committee member of Johnson & Johnson. (Id. No.
512)
Format: DVD
BUSINESS ETHICS: TRUTH IN
ADVERTISING
28 Minutes, 2004
In today’s high-tech, multimedia business
environment, ads must be slick, sensational, and
sophisticated if they hope to stand out from the
competition. This program examines how truth in
advertising has gotten lost in this competitive
frenzy, and how consumers can learn to separate
fact from fiction in the confusing barrage of hype
and half-truths. Two advertising executives discuss
how companies develop ads, and how consumer
audiences are targeted. (Id. No. 683)
Format: DVD
CAREER ADVANTAGE: STRATEGIES FOR
SUCCESS
2004
This series guides students through the three
phases of career development—Self-Knowledge
and Exploration, Career and Educational
Exploration, and Career Planning and
Implementation. As students create a step-by-step
work search strategy based on personal
background, life goals, and current and potential
skills, they will also observe a variety of people in
the work force who describe their experiences,
decisions, and ambitions.
CHANGING WORKPLACE: TECHNOLOGY
AND GLOBALIZATION
28 Minutes
Focuses on how technology has changed work,
and outlines basic concepts of how and where work
can happen. Students are introduced to the
principles of global business and the skills essential
to stay employable in a global economy. (Id. No.
514)
Format: DVD
CEO EXCHAGE: CONVERSATIONS IN
LEADERSHIP
This remarkable 20-part series, moderated by
CNN’s Emmy Award-winning journalist Jeff
Greenfield, uses in-depth interviews with
internationally recognized and respected CEOs to
shed light on those managerial, organizational, and
technological issues that are shaping the
marketplace of ideas. In addition, this
comprehensive business library also explores the
personal side of commerce, as industry icons
discuss the values and experiences that shape and
influence their business philosophies, strategies,
and decisions.
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CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP
57 Minutes, 2004
With a softening economy reducing revenues and
stiffening competition in the high-tech sector, a time
comes when even the most successful business
plans must be adjusted. This program filmed at the
Haas School of Business at the University of
California, Berkeley, brings together Carly Fiorina,
chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and John
Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems,
to confront the challenges of leadership during
times of change. In addition, MBA students and
faculty ask questions about Fiorina’s and
Chambers’ successes and failures. (Id. No. 685)
Format: DVD
CHALLENGE TO AMERICA: COMPETING IN
THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY
2003
THE CULTURE OF COMMERCE
58 Minutes
This program explores the systemic differences
between the individualistic capitalism of America
and Britain, and the communitarian capitalism of
Japan and Germany. It shows how both Japan and
Germany embrace more collaborative relations
between labor and management, government and
business, and even among businesses than the
more laissez-faire American system. Both Japan
and Germany invest heavily in worker training and
long-term employment guarantees. The Japanese
system is dominated by families of companies
which finance and own each other; the German
system by banks which are investors as well as
lenders; the American system by entrepreneurs
and absentee, mutual-fund type owners and
managers who wield great power. (Id. No. 278)
Format: VHS
OLD WAYS, NEW GAME
58 Minutes
In very human ways, this program shows the
stakes of the global economic competition for
individual Americans and for the nation. It also
shows how major American companies are faring in
their battles with Japanese and German
competition. The program moves from an up-todate
look at mass production, craft production, and
lean production in the auto industry to races for
"voice" computers and laptops, as well as the
Japanese drive to challenge America’s lead in
basic research by setting up labs in the U.S. and
hiring top American scientists. (Id. No. 279)
Format: VHS
WINNING STRATEGIES
58 Minutes
This program shows some of the concrete
strategies that American companies, communities,
and political leaders are using to recapture
America’s competitive edge and improve efficiency
and productivity: instituting new labor-management
practices to improve human relations on the
production line and the quality of the workplace and
emphasizing zero-defect philosophy, technological
innovation, longer time-horizons, and attention to
the customer. The program also raises such
questions as apprenticeship training, tax incentives,
and government industrial policy. (Id. No. 280)
Format: VHS
COLA WARS: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
51 Minutes, 2004
This program examines how brand identity is
influenced by consumer perceptions through the
struggle between Coca-Cola, icon of American
culture, and rivals Qibla Cola and Mecca Cola for
market share in Muslim locales. Qibla’s Zafer Iqbal
and Mecca’s Tawfiq Mathlouthi tell the story of two
opportunistic, politically correct Davids taking on a
marketplace Goliath—and each other—while Coke
executives share their plan for defense against a
commercial threat that is as serious as it is
unprecedented. (Id. No. 513)
Format: DVD
COMMANDING HEIGHTS
2002
This PBS series tells the inside story of our new
world economy, the struggle between
governments and markets, and the battle over
globalization. This series looks at the issues that
have defined the wealth and fate of nations and
shows how the battle over the world economy will
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shape our lives in the twenty-first century.
Based on a book by Daniel Yergen, it is an indepth
documentary that tells the inside story of
our global economy and what it means for
individuals around the world. Filmed over two
years on five continents, the series is built around
dramatic stories and interviews with world leaders
and thinkers from twenty different countries —
including former President Bill Clinton, Vice
President Dick Cheney, former USSR President
Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vicente
Fox, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer,
Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, former
Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, British
Chancellor Gordon Brown, former Speaker Newt
Gingrich... and many more.
THE BATTLE OF IDEAS
(Episode 1) 60 Minutes
“The Battle of Ideas” tells the story of how, for much
of the twentieth century, the world moved toward
more government control - whether the centrally
planned economies of the communist world or the
“mixed economies” of Europe and the developing
world or the United States’ regulated capitalism.
Episode One captures that struggle through the
lives of two men, whose ideas had much more
influence on shaping our world than most people
know. One was John Maynard Keynes, the elegant
Englishman who advocated government
intervention to control the booms and busts of
capitalist economies. The other was Frederick von
Hayek, the Austrian émigré who argued that
government intervention in the economy would
erode human freedom and was doomed to failure.
Their struggle played itself out through the great
drama of depression, another world war, postwar
recovery and economic boom, and economic
downturn. Keynes’ ideas dominated for decades.
Hayek labored in the shadows, mostly ignored -
and increasingly forgotten. (Id. No. 282)
Format: VHS
THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE
(Episode 2) 60 Minutes
This episode tells the story of how the world
“changed its mind,” focusing on the United States,
Britain, and the developing world. Keynes passed
from the scene not long after his last triumph - the
creation of the postwar economic system. But his
impact remained profound, as rising standards of
living around the world brought prosperity and
what became known as the “thirty glorious years.”
Hayek sunk into obscurity. Then the “thirty
glorious years” collapsed into the deep recession
of the 1970s, the worst since the Great
Depression. The Keynesian system no longer
seemed to be working. Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan embraced
Hayek and his philosophy and redirected the
course away from reliance on government to a
focus on the power of market forces. But would
this new consensus survive corporate scandals, a
stock market bust, recession - and a new war? (Id.
No. 283)
Format: VHS
THE AGONY OF REFORM
(Episode 3) 60 Minutes
In the twentieth century, most of the world’s
nations sought to create prosperity through
government control of their economies - from the
totalitarian central planning of the communist world
to democratic nations that tried to develop their
economies by nationalizing industries and
protecting them from foreign competition.
Yet in the 1980s those policies began to fail
dramatically. “The Agony of Reform” tells the
story of how these systems stopped working and
how new leaders turned towards competition and
markets, with much social turmoil - and varying
degrees of success. The most dramatic change of
all came on the edge of the Soviet Empire, in
Poland, where a shipyard electrician named Lech
Walesa took on the entrenched power of the
Soviet state and - with much courage, plus some
crucial advice over lunch from Margaret Thatcher
- brought down communism in Poland. What
began in the shipyards of Poland would eventually
topple the entire Soviet system. (Id. No. 284)
Format: VHS
FROM MARX TO MARKETS
(Episode 4) 60 Minutes
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The Soviet Union itself seemed impregnable, a
military superpower on the march in the late 1970s
and early 1980s. But a British double agent, Oleg
Gordievsky escaped across the Finnish border - the
KGB hot on his tail - with an extraordinary
message to the West - the Soviet economy was
failing from within. Mikhail Gorbachev came to
power, wondering why a nation that could put a
satellite in orbit could not provide panty hose for
its women. But he came with too little too late,
and the Soviet Union collapsed. Russia became an
independent country. Now Boris Yeltsin and the
“young reformers” would try to put in place a market
system in a country already in a state of advanced
chaos. They tried “shock therapy,” rapid transition
to capitalism. But concerted opposition from the
communists and their allies stalled reform. The
transition from central planning brought instability
and upheaval that plunged a large portion of the
population into poverty.
The tumult also leads to one of the biggest
privatization projects in history. As the
commanding heights of the Russian economy pass
into private hands, a titanic battle for control over
the assets of the former USSR takes place: a battle
between members of the former Soviet
Nomenklatura - the “Red Directors” - and a new
generation of Russian businessmen - the
Oligarchs. The young reformers are caught in
between. The outcome will determine Russia’s
future. (Id. No. 285)
Format: VHS
THE PROMISE AND THE PERIL
(Episode 5) 60 Minutes
By the early 1990s, most of the world had shifted to
market capitalism, setting the stage for the rapid
growth of a new global economy. Falling trade
barriers and unrestricted capital flows, fueled by
technological innovation and a new mobile global
workforce, would all combine to transform the
world economy. “The Promise and The Peril”
examines the global economy in the 1990s,
focusing on the story of President Bill Clinton’s
embrace of free trade - and how Democrats
became his opponents and Republicans his allies.
It confronts such issues as the impact of free trade
on the developing world and on American workers,
the sometimes perilous effects of globalized
economies, China's emergence as the workshop of
the world, and how and why Japan is slipping
behind. (Id. No. 286)
Format: VHS
THE NEW RULES OF THE GAME
(Episode 6) 60 Minutes
This episode tackles the issue of how our
interconnected world can suffer from global
economic contagion. A crisis in Southeast Asia
reaches around the world and onto Wall Street,
threatening to bring down the American economy
in ways that most Americans never knew at the
time. World leaders and international institutions
confront financial collapse in the developing world
and the sometimes-violent debate over
globalization. This underlines the need for new
rules in the era of globalization, but also makes
clear the widely different and bitterly fought views
of what those rules ought to be. Fear and
uncertainty created by war and terrorism and an
economic slump have undermined confidence in
globalization. This program cuts through the
rhetoric to portray what globalization really is and
what it could mean for us in the twenty-first century.
(Id. No. 287)
Format: VHS
COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR PROJECT &
TEAM MANAGEMENT: THE SOFT SKILLS
VIDEO
29 Minutes, 2006
The program is organized into a series of enjoyable
(often funny scenario clips that explain the essence
of a typical human behavior). You’ll see typical
characters, such as The Fidget, The Over-reacter,
The Notetaker, The Spy, The Shift-Eyes, The
Faker, The Slouch, The Hesitater, The Nose, The
Rambler, The Timewaster, The Slow Speaker, The
Bookworm, The Mumbler, The Bossyboot, the
Egotist, and Mike Said, who always follows
somebody else. Try to understand these
characters and learn behavioral skills by gaining
useful experience for engineering project & team
management. Furthermore, this program offers
enjoyable discussion topics for professional teams
and students, to learn social, communication,
interviewing, team building and soft skills for
management in general. (Id. No. 686)
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
51 Minutes, 2004
Corporate social responsibility is not a high-minded
luxury when bad press puts a chokehold on
business growth and profits. This program looks at
how product and service providers develop and
implement better business practices to satisfy
shareholders, customers, employees, and the
community. Companies such as Shell, DHL, Nike,
and GlaxoSmithKline—placed on the hot seat by
Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, Oxfam, and
other watchdog groups—explain how they dealt
with environmental impact management, ethical
supply chain management, equitable treatment of
employees, proactive addressing of consumer
disgruntlement, and accurate assessment of
shareholder sentiment. (Id. No. 515)
Format: DVD
CREATING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION
LEARNING TO SURVIVE
29 Minutes
This program focuses on the key characteristics of
long-surviving companies that use organizationallearning
techniques, and on the specific techniques
they use. The benefits of pooling collective
intelligence to improve performance are discussed,
along with strategies that can be used to stimulate
and release creative thought. (Id. No. 289)
Format: VHS
EARTH KEEPING
MASTERING THE MARKETPLACE
60 Minutes
(Id. No. 302)
Format: VHS
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1995
FINANCIAL PLANNING AND WORKING
CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
37 Minutes
This program explains the following concepts:
Financial Forecasting; Working Capital Policy;
Cash and Marketable Securities; and Accounts
Receivable and Inventory. (Id. No. 303)
Format: VHS
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT
40 Minutes
This program explains the following concepts: Risk
and Rates of Return; the Time Value of Money; and
Bond and Stock Valuation. (Id. No. 304)
Format: VHS
INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT
51 Minutes
This program provides an introduction to the
following concepts: an Overview of Financial
Management; Financial Statements; Analysis of
Financial Statements; and the Financial
Environment. (Id. No. 305)
Format: VHS
STRATEGIC LONG-TERM FINANCIAL
DECISIONS
76 Minutes
This program explains the following concepts:
Capital Structure and Leverage; Dividend Policy;
Common Stock and the Investment Banking
Process; Long-Term Debt; Hybrid Financing;
Corporate Restructuring; and Multinational
Financial Management. (Id. No. 306)
Format: VHS
ETHICS IN CORPORATE AMERICA: A
CRISIS OF CREDIBILITY
36 Minutes, 2004
This NewsHour program scrutinizes the state of
business ethics in an America riddled with financial
fraud. In segment one, correspondent Paul Solman
and Columbia Business School’s Barbara Toffler
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cite Arthur Andersen and Stew Leonard, Sr., as
examples of ethics gone awry. Segment two
gathers the opinions of veteran business journalists
Adam Smith, Carol Loomis, Allan Sloan, Jim Grant,
and Andrew Tobias on the practices of Enron,
Tyco, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch. And, after
summarizing the evolution of compensation models
in the stock analysis industry, segment three
examines the conflicts of interest that have led
investment stock analysts astray. (Id. No. 651)
Format: DVD
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: ETIQUETTE AND
WORK HABITS FOR NEW EMPLOYEES
22 Minutes, 2005
A bad first impression is hard to shake…something
Jason, Marita, and Chris are about to find out on
their first day at work. This video will save your
students from common workplace blunders by
showing them how to present a polished
appearance, use positive body language, and
demonstrate a can-do work ethic. Donna Panko, a
professional corporate image consultant, shares
her knowledge while the Wall of Wasted
Opportunities—an animated rogues’ gallery of
employees who blew their first impression—
memorably drives the program’s message home.
(Id. No. 516)
Format: DVD
FROM THE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
1995
COMPETING TOMORROW IN THE GLOBAL
ECONOMY
28 Minutes
A seminar with Professor Robert Hayes on
corporate restructuring; Professor Alfred Chandler
on the dynamics of capitalism; and Professor Jay
Lorsch on corporate management. (Id. No. 307)
Format: VHS
AMERICA'S COMEBACK STRATEGY
28 Minutes
A seminar with Professor Bruce Scott on national
economic policy; Professor Michael Porter, author
of The Competitive Advantage of Nations; and
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter on innovation
within corporations. (Id. No. 308)
Format: VHS
GLOBAL BUSINESS: NEW WAYS TO
IMPROVE THE BOTTOM LINE
2004
In today’s swiftly evolving world economy, change
is a fundamental determinant of business planning.
With a primary focus on Europe, this outstanding
10-part series—created for instructional use—
provides diverse case studies of international
companies that exemplify core business concepts
in action.
VALUE OF BRAND NAMES
29 Minutes
In the consumer goods industry, branding is
crucial to market penetration. Using Alessi’s
superlative line of home furnishings and
Nestlé’s well-known Nescafé coffee as
examples, modules one and two of this
program seek to understand the cachet that
surrounds brand names, which gives the
products associated with them an added
appeal. Module three goes inside the U.K.
offices of advertising giant Young & Rubicam
to investigate how brands are developed and
maintained. (Id. No. 688)
Format: DVD
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
30 Minutes
How do companies tap the information locked up in
the minds of their employees? The three modules
of this program compare various corporate learning
systems designed to increase knowledge and
promote the sharing and archiving of data. Case
studies feature the 70,000-employee consulting
firm Arthur Andersen; the European Automobile
Manufacturers Association, Daimler Benz, and
Volvo; and Switzerland’s ABB, the world’s largest
power company. (Id. No. 689)
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Format: DVD
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
28 Minutes
High-tech innovation has triggered an avalanche of
new business opportunities. Module one of this
program examines how information technology is
changing the airline business in Hong Kong. In
module two, the impact of the evolving Internet
infrastructure on markets and business
organization is discussed. In module three, tomatogrowing
in Iceland is a case in point for the way
technological advances are allowing traditional
industries to alter their production methods. (Id.
No. 690)
Format: DVD
GLOBAL TRADE DEBATE
42 Minutes, 2001
As tensions mount between big business and an
increasingly powerful activist lobby, the gulf
between their positions has never been clearer.
This program offers a balanced look at the reality of
globalization in an effort to address the issues that
underpin the angry rhetoric. Since the founding of
the International Monetary Fund, the world has
seen a 12-fold increase in global trade. But local
economies and the environment have paid a heavy
price. Consumers and governments alike must
require responsible business practices and cleaner
energy, or the global marketplace—potentially
beneficial in so many ways—may turn out to be
unsustainable. (Id. No. 316)
Format: VHS
HUB OF THE WHEEL
2003
This series teaches the interpersonal skills
necessary to succeed as an office professional. It
focuses on the human side of the office
environment, and in clear, believable
demonstrations, offers workable solutions to
common office challenges.
MANAGING YOUR TIME
18 Minutes
Because office support personnel often work for
several people, their time management
responsibilities and problems are complicated. And
because time is the future, finding a workable
management scheme is a must. This program
highlights the importance of time planning and
provides details for developing a proactive time
plan. This program also describes techniques for
protecting the plan once it is established. (Id. No.
517)
Format: DVD
IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER F.
DRUCKER & PETER M. SENGE: LEADING
IN A TIME OF CHANGE
42 Minutes, 2001
The Drucker Foundation presents a conversation
with Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge, hosted
by Frances Hesslbein. In this dynabmic package—
which includes a video and companion workbook—
two great minds of modern management share
their wisdom on how leaders can prepare
themselves and their organizations for the
inevitable changes that lie ahead. (Id. No. 331)
Format: VHS
JACK WELCH: ICON OF LEADERSHIP
57 Minutes, 2004
This program, guest-hosted by CNBC’s Stuart
Varney, profiles Jack Welch, dubbed Most Admired
CEO of the Century by Forbes and lauded by
Fortune as “perhaps the most admired CEO of his
generation.” General Electric’s former chairman
and CEO shares his commonsense philosophy and
the leadership initiatives that transformed GE and
revolutionized the world of business. In addition,
MBA students and faculty from the University of
Michigan Business School ask questions about the
difference between creating an edge and creating
fear, whether the GE leadership model can be
transferred to governmental agencies, and Welch’s
worst professional decision. (Id. No. 669)
Format: DVD
KEYS TO SUCCESS IN BUSINESS
30 Minutes, 2004
Starting a business is like learning a musical
instrument—certain steps and practices are
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required, or you just make noise. This video shows
aspiring entrepreneurs ten principles for creating a
solid, profitable company. Developing a realistic
plan, seeking guidance from experienced mentors,
building rapport with suppliers, and maintaining
client relationships are a few of the subjects
covered. With in-depth interviews featuring young
owner/managers of recent computer gaming and
graphics start-ups, Keys to Success in Business
provides specific advice on recognizing, enhancing,
and fine-tuning company strengths, and on
increasing harmony among partners. (Id. No. 518)
Format: DVD
LEADERSHIP FOR SUCCESS
26 Minutes, 2004
This DVD outlines the five steps to becoming a
successful leader and discovers the hallmarks of
leadership. Visualization, motivation, organization,
and certain requisite interpersonal skills will lead
students to success. (Id. No. 681)
Format: DVD
LEADERSHIP, TEAM BUILDING, AND
DECISION MAKING
26 Minutes, 2004
Every day, people are faced with pressures to be
reliable teammates, to become extraordinary
leaders, or to make important decisions. As
members or leaders of a group, we are confronted
with decisions constantly; some may be ordinary,
and some may test our morals and our beliefs. The
ability to make sound, and sometimes quick,
decisions can mean the difference between
success and failure. In extreme cases, even lifealtering
errors may be avoided if you learn what it
truly means to be a positive team member, a
dynamic leader, and an excellent decision maker.
(Id. No. 682)
Format: DVD
LEARN PUBLIC SPEAKING
60 minutes, 2000
This DVD helps to overcome the fear of public
speaking and deliver the message with style and
flair! Using proven attention-getters, illustrations
and delivery suggestions, this DVD also helps to
organize thoughts and present them in a clear and
persuasive manner. (Id. No. 548)
Format: DVD
LIVING AND WORKING SUCCESSFULLY IN
BUSINESS: VIDEO COURSE
3 Parts, 300 Minutes, 2001
This course is designed specifically to be an easyto-
follow, comprehensive video course to help
anybody get the inside view of what business
ownership is all about, and to teach them the skill
and give them the tools they will need to make their
dream of owning a small business a success.
As a small businesswoman herself, Joyce Arbic
has spent more than 20 years getting it right for
herself. "I want to keep other people from making
the mistakes I made," says Arbic. "A small business
can control your life, demanding nearly all of your
time, adding a great deal of stress to your life. My
course teaches you how to stay in control and still
have time for yourself, your family and your
friends." While other courses teach you theory,
"Living and Working Successfully in Business"
teaches success! (Id. No. 655)
Format: VHS
MADE IN AMERICA?
1992
THE AUTOMOBILE STORY
(58 Minutes)
Once automobile manufacturing was the pride of
American industry - until Toyota adapted American
mass production methods to Japanese standards.
Only now are embattled American auto makers
trying to reverse history by using Japanese success
strategy in pl anning, design, engineering, and
manufacturing. (Id. No. 335)
Format: VHS
NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL POLICY
(58 Minutes)
This program looks at the enormous costs, the
huge risks, and the potential payoffs in the
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commercial Aircaft industry. How does a company
break into a field requiring billions of start-up
dollars? What kind of skills do workers need? How
did Airbus save the dying European Aircaft industry
and bypass America’s now-troubled McDonnell
Douglas? Boeing is still number one, but major
components of its jets are now made in Japan.
What does this portend about the US position in the
high stakes global economy? (Id. No. 336)
Format: VHS
WINNERS AND LOSERS
(58 Minutes)
Many nations have fought for and won a piece of
the clothing industry pie, and the global economy
has produced big winners. But there are also
losers. The United States once counted on
manufacturing most of its clothes its citizens wore,
but half the business has gone to low-wage Third
World countries—and more would have fled but for
import quotas. As a result, many American
manufacturers struggle, American workers have
lost their jobs, and Americans pay higher prices for
their clothes. Is it worth it? (Id. No. 338)
Format: VHS
MANNERS AT WORK
20 Minutes, 2006
Knowledge of etiquette is a basic business skill.
Viewers will learn how to make and acknowledge
introductions, the hidden message of the
handshake, cubicle courtesy, and electronic
etiquette. (Id. No. 672)
Format: DVD
MARKETING: STANDARD DEVIANTS CORE
CURRICULUM
2004
This persuasive six-part series combines serious
academic content with a humorous presentation
style to help make the subject of marketing more
accessible. Used as a supplement to lectures, as a
pre-exam review, or for independent study, each
program skillfully employs elements such as clever
mnemonics, high-tech computer graphics, and
entertaining vignettes to boost retention and
confidence while driving home core concepts
through concise explanations and case studies.
FOUR P’S, Part 1: PRODUCT AND PRICING
16 minutes
Product, price, place, and promotion are the nuts
and bolts of the marketing plan, and apply equally
to deodorant and action figures. After a quick
overview of the Four P’s, this program focuses on
the first two: product and price. In part one, the
classification of consumer products is divided up
into convenience, shopping, and specialty products,
while the product life cycle is tracked from
introduction to decline. Part two spotlights pricing
strategies—including skim, penetration,
competitive, cost-based, and target-profit
approaches—and price elasticity. (Id. No. 555)
Format: DVD
FOUR P’S, PART 2: PLACE AND
PROMOTION
(16 minutes)
This program concentrates on the final two of the
Four P’s: place, also known as distribution, and
promotion. Part one covers distribution channels;
horizontal and vertical channel conflict; and the use
of corporate systems, administered systems, and
contractual systems, such as franchises, to
alleviate channel conflict. In part two, a pair of
clones and other experts explain the objectives of
promotion—to provide information, increase
demand, stabilize sales, or accentuate a product’s
value—and detail the components of the
promotional mix: advertising, public relations, direct
marketing, and sponsorship. (Id. No. 556)
Format: DVD
MARKETING PLANNING
27 minutes
True or false? "A good product will sell itself." In
this program, a swashbuckling swordsman and
other experts answer that question with a thorough
summary of the marketing process—covering
mission statements, business and marketing
objectives, and market share—and the marketing
plan, which addresses situational analysis and
goals. The tools involved in creating a marketing
plan are described as well, including the BCG
matrix; strategic business units, with their stars,
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cash cows, question marks, and dogs; SWOT
analysis; and trend analysis. (Id. No. 557)
Format: DVD
MARKETING RESEARCH AND
INFORMATION
9 minutes
Who needs that product, anyway?" This program
provides the inside scoop on how to gather
consumer data. Sources of secondary information
from the government—including the Statistical
Abstract of the United States and materials
obtained through FOIA requests—and from
syndicates such as ACNielsen are considered.
Methods of gathering primary information, such as
focus groups, one-on-one interviews, surveys, and
experiments, are also examined. (Id. No. 558)
Format: DVD
SEGMENTING, TARGETING, AND
POSITIONING
(14 minutes)
No product can be all things to all people—not even
Wheelie Cheese. In this program, the principles of
carving up a market are addressed. Topics under
investigation include market characteristics such as
demographics, lifestyle, usage level, geographic
area, and benefits sought; the 80/20 Principle;
undifferentiated, concentrated, and differentiated
targeting strategies; and positioning strategies
based on benefit, user, occasion of use, product
class, price and quality, and competitor. (Id. No.
559)
Format: DVD
WHAT IS MARKETING?
15 minutes
Is there a market for bacon-scented sun block?
Yes—at least in theory. After explaining basic
terminology such as needs, demands, and markets,
this program outlines the three strategies for
inducing potential customers to purchase
merchandise—the product orientation, selling
orientation, and marketing orientation—and defines
the marketing concept, where product promotion is
tailored to a target audience. (Id. No. 560)
Format: DVD
TEACHER’S GUIDE
This series comes with a free CD-ROM packed with
ready-to-print program outlines, handouts
containing key terms, tips for teachers, and sectionby-
section quizzes—including answers. (Id. No.
561)
Format: DVD
THE MOYERS COLLECTION
ETHICS IN THE WORKPLACE: JOANNE
CUILLA
(30 Minutes)
A Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania, Joanne Ciulla teaches
career-minded students to think critically about the
role of ethics in management. She brings a
background in philosophy to her classroom, where
future CEOs study ethics and management in
business. In this program with Bill Moyers, Ciulla
discusses the role of ethics in the world of business
and the meaning of work in our culture. Ciulla notes
that people’s lives are often dominated by their
work, sacrificing their families in the process. "Is
that the kind of sacrifice you want people to make?"
she asks. (Id. No. 345)
Format: VHS
PETER DRUCKER
(30 Minutes)
In a lifetime that spans nearly a century, Peter
Drucker is one of America’s foremost experts on
the subject of change. Widely known as the father
of modern management, he has advised
governments and corporations throughout the
world, written dozens of books that have been
translated into numerous languages, and even
penned a column for The Wall Street Journal. In
this program with Bill Moyers, Drucker examines
some of the stiff challenges facing America. (Id.
No. 347)
Format: VHS
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THE PATH TO POWERFUL
PRESENTATIONS IN OTHER WORDS: HOW
I WENT FROM CHUMP TO CHAMP
45 minutes, 2003
Darren LaCroix shares his secrets for effective
public speaking and gives tips on how to develop
and improve oral presentation skills. (Id. No. 613)
Format: DVD
PERSON-TO-PERSON SKILLS:
EXCELLENCE IN CUSTOMER SERVICE
2005
This series of workshops-on-video teach viewers
to listen, understand, and accept the needs, wants,
and feelings of customers; to communicate their
own thoughts and feelings to customers; to
neutralize and resolve conflicts, both in person and
over the phone; and to face and resolve problems
resulting from failure of communication, inadequate
service, and errors.
CUSTOMER SERVICE BY TELEPHONE
20 Minutes
This program offers some useful tools for using the
telephone to communicate with customers, and it
highlights some of the things customers find most
irritating about phone communication: the
unanswered phone, answering without identifying
yourself, the customer kept on hold for what seems
like forever, multiple transfers to other extensions
or people, and so on. (Id. No. 519)
Format: DVD
A REPORT FROM THE HARVARD
BUSINESS SCHOOL: LEADERSHIP
26 Minutes, 1998
Title on cassette label: Leadership. Harvard
Business School Professor John Kotter shares his
views on the qualities of leadership and examines
them in action by discussing legendary Japanese
CEO, Matsushita, founder of the company that
bears his name; General Electric's Jack Welsh; and
Walmart's Sam Walton. Emphasizing the
importance of good leadership from the executive
suite to the shop floor, Kotter distills leadership into
its key elements: the ability to strategize, to inspire
confidence and enthusiasm, and to motivate all
workers. Kotter provides a profile of the basic
leadership personality. (Id. No. 357)
Format: DVD
TIME MANAGEMENT FROM THE INSIDE
OUT
75 Minutes, 2005
Building upon the success of her bestselling book
"Organizing from the Inside Out," Julie Morgenstern
offers an entirely new, breakthrough system for
taking control of your schedule and your life. In this
program, Julie offers invaluable new insights and
tools that will help viewers take control of their time,
and help each of us have the time for what's really
important in our lives. (Id. No. 684)
Format: DVD
TOUGH AT THE TOP: BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT STYLES
13 Minutes, 2005
To achieve their business objectives, managers
must blend their skill and experience with one or
more management styles in order to communicate
their plans and concerns with their staffs. This
attention-grabbing program from Australia goes
over the top to dramatize five basic business
management styles: autocratic, persuasive,
consultative, participative, and laissez-faire. After
each skit, the preceding situation is analyzed and
the likely outcomes are considered. On-screen lists
of style characteristics and the advantages and
disadvantages that go along with them reinforce the
learning experience. (Id. No. 673)
Format: DVD
WALL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW
PRICE
98 Minutes, 2005
WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE is
a feature length documentary that uncovers a retail
giant's assault on families and American values.
The film dives into the deeply personal stories and
everyday lives of families and communities
struggling to fight a goliath. A working mother is
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forced to turn to public assistance to provide
healthcare for her two small children. A Missouri
family loses its business after Wal-Mart is given
over $2 million to open its doors down the road. A
mayor struggles to equip his first responders after
Wal-Mart pulls out and relocates just outside the
city limits. A community in California unites, takes
on the giant, and wins! (Id. No. 687)
Format: DVD
TOUGH AT THE TOP: BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT STYLES
13 Minutes, 2005
To achieve their business objectives, managers
must blend their skill and experience with one or
more management styles in order to communicate
their plans and concerns with their staffs. This
attention-grabbing program from Australia goes
over the top to dramatize five basic business
management styles: autocratic, persuasive,
consultative, participative, and laissez-faire. After
each skit, the preceding situation is analyzed and
the likely outcomes are considered. On-screen lists
of style characteristics and the advantages and
disadvantages that go along with them reinforce the
learning experience. (Id. No. 673)
Format: DVD
WALL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW
PRICE
98 Minutes, 2005
WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE is
a feature length documentary that uncovers a retail
giant's assault on families and American values.
The film dives into the deeply personal stories and
everyday lives of families and communities
struggling to fight a goliath. A working mother is
forced to turn to public assistance to provide
healthcare for her two small children. A Missouri
family loses its business after Wal-Mart is given
over $2 million to open its doors down the road. A
mayor struggles to equip his first responders after
Wal-Mart pulls out and relocates just outside the
city limits. A community in California unites, takes
on the giant, and wins! (Id. No. 687)
Format: DVD
WORDS OF CHANGE
2004
This penetrating series examines the literary
legacies of Seneca, Plutarch, Machiavelli, Thomas
More, John Locke, and Adam Smith: six of western
history’s most influential writers in the fields of
philosophy, political science, and economics. Their
words changed their worlds—and continue to
shape ours.
ADAM SMITH: THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
19 minutes
In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of
Nations, a treatise that would forever change our
understanding of how work, value, and money are
interrelated. This program details Smith’s life and
traces the impact of his work as Europe began the
arduous transition from mercantilism to the laissezfaire
philosophy of the Physiocrats. After Smith,
labor was seen as the source of a country’s wealth,
not its stores of gold or silver. Ironically, The Wealth
of Nations would both inspire Karl Marx’s socialist
ideas and facilitate the rise of liberalism, upon
which the capitalist economies of subsequent
centuries would be built. Quotes from The Wealth
of Nations are woven into the narrative, including
the famous passage describing how an “invisible
hand” guides individuals towards the common
good. (Id. No. 550)
Format: DVD
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21st-CENTURY BARD: THE MAKING OF
TWELFTH NIGHT
When the decision was made by Britain’s Channel
4 to film a TV adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth
Night, the result was a gloriously irreverent,
deliciously colorful production in which the twins
Viola and Sebastian—Parminder Nagra and Ronny
Jhutti—are re-imagined as shipwrecked asylum
seekers adrift in a surreal contemporary London. In
this fascinating four-part series, the people who
made it all happen explain how it was done. Clips
from the movie are included throughout. 4-part
series, 25 minutes each.
TECHNOLOGY OF FILM
25 Minutes, 2003
Computers are changing everything, including
filmmaking. This program illustrates the digital
postproduction process through numerous editing
examples taken from Twelfth Night. Key crew
members—a film editor, sound designer, sound
recording engineer, digital effects artist, and
others—share their expertise with setting the film’s
pace and rhythm, constructing sequences with
different types of shots, crafting the soundscapes
that support the action and help tell the story,
recording and mixing the music, creating skyscapes
for the blue screen, and grading the lighting.
(Id. No. 635)
Format: DVD
* THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY
FINN: UDERSTANDING A CLASSIC
34:00 minutes, 1998
Few works in American literature address issues as
timeless as those explored in Mark Twain’s
controversial novel, Huckleberry Finn. In this
program, three scholars, including noted Twain
biographer Justin Kaplan, examine the work and its
various themes—race, cruelty, consequences of
greed, meaning of civilization, and the nature of
freedom. The author’s life is traced from his days
as a printer’s apprentice, riverboat pilot, and
journalist, to renowned author. Twain scholars
Shelley Fishkin and David Lionel Smith discuss
African-American influences from Twain’s
childhood that are reflected in the work, and suffest
that these references, misinterpreted by readers,
form the basis for charges that Twain was a racist.
Incidents from his life, including his vehement antislavery
and anti-racist articles couched in irony,
provide convincing counterpoint to the charges.
(Id. No. 592)
Format: VHS & DVD & AL
ALICE WALKER: EVERYDAY USE”
26 Minutes, 2003
Maggie sees the old family quilt—an heirloom
already promised to her—as something with
practical utility as well as tradition. Her educated,
social activist sister wants to hang it on the wall as
folk art. With whom will their mother side? A study
in class differences and the reclamation of Black
history, Alice Walker’s short story "Everyday Use"
is beautifully realized in this dramatization. (Id. No.
632)
Format: DVD
AMERICAN AUTHORS
1991
The United States has been home to some of the
world's greatest poets, novelists, essayists and
short story writers. This 10-part series surveys the
works of such famous American writers as Emily
Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest
Hemingway. The programs feature biographical
profiles as well as extensive readings from the
authors' works.
EDGAR ALLAN POE: THE LITERATURE OF
MELANCHOLY
(Episode 101) 29 Minutes
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Through dramatization and discussion, this
program examines Poe's personality and his
view of the intellectual as a superior but isolated
being. It also investigates Poe's invention of the
detective story, his understanding of horror,
violence and paranoia, and his use of poetry to
exalt melancholy and romantic love. (Id. No. 373)
Format: VHS
AMERICAN GOTHIC: HAWTHORNE AND
MELVILLE
(Episode 102) 26 Minutes
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, 19th
century New England contemporaries, were both
innovative symbolists whose focus on harsh
realities and basic conflicts laid the foundations for
later developments in the American novel.
Readings and discussions of their major works are
presented against the backdrop of archival prints
and paintings, original graphics, and photography.
(Id. No. 374)
Format: VHS
JACK LONDON: A LIFE OF ADVENTURE
(Episode 107) 26 Minutes
Jack London writing explored discipline, social
justice, adaptability, and individual survival.
Readings from his works - combined with his own
photographs - help viewers comprehend the life
experiences that shaped his writing. His influence
on the action-adventure genre is also analyzed.
(Id. No. 375)
Format: VHS
THE LIFE OF CARL SANDBURG
This program offers a profoundly human portrait of
Carl Sandburg through excerpts from the poet's
autobiography, readings of his poems, and
photographs of locations he described. Included
are excerpts from his writings on world peace and
the brotherhood of man, as well as discussion of
his fascination with Abraham Lincoln, which led him
to write a critically-acclaimed biography of the 16th
President. (Id. No. 376)
Format: VHS
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: THE MAN
(Episode 110) 26 Minutes
Ernest Hemingway, who used the themes of
violence, bravery, and self-discipline throughout his
works, is one of America's best-known and widelyread
authors. Leading Hemingway authority Carlos
Baker documents the close relationship between
Hemingway's life and his fiction. (Id. No. 377)
Format: VHS
HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND
28 Minutes
(Id. No. 378)
Format: VHS
WORLD OF MARK TWAIN
(Episode 13) 29 Minutes
No ideas but in things," Williams's aesthetic dictum
sought to capture, not analyze. A collage of
documentary footage, interviews, animation, and
dramatization capture the poet's often-visual work
and intense life. (Id. No. 379)
Format: VHS
THE AMERICAN CINEMA
Produced in 1995 for the Annenberg CPB
Collection by the New York Center for Visual
History in association with KCET/Los Angeles and
the BBC, this is an instructional video series on
U.S. film history for college and high school
classrooms and adult learners. Using clips from
more than 300 of the greatest movies ever made,
this series explores film history and American
culture through the eyes of over 150 Hollywood
insiders, including Clint Eastwood, Steven
Spielberg, and Michael Eisner. In-depth treatments
present film as a powerful economic force, potent
twentieth-century art form, and viable career option.
CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD TODAY
30 Minutes
“Classical Hollywood Today” offers interviews
withcontemporary directors, European filmmakers,
scholars, and critics, as well as studio-era veterans
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who probe Hollywood’s influence on both American
and world culture. (Id. No. 384)
Format: VHS
THE COMBAT FILM
60 Minutes
Beginning with World War II combat films produced
under directives from the federal government, this
program examines the role of the combat film in
filling a social and political need. Critics and
directors describe the evolution of these films, the
rise of the Vietnam film, and the influence of the
newsreel documentaries and TV news on the
genre. (Id. No. 385)
Format: VHS
THE EDGE OF HOLLYWOOD
60 Minutes
While many of the old rules are still in force,
independent filmmakers today often add their
dissenting voices to the forum. This program looks
at some alternative visions from new talents
including Spike Lee, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jim
Jarmusch, and Quentin Tarantino. With limited
budgets, they are challenging the stylistic status
quo of the Hollywood film. (Id. No. 386)
Format: VHS
FILM IN THE TELEVISION AGE
60 Minutes
Television first arrived in American homes just as
the Hollywood studio system was collapsing. As the
new medium took hold, so did a new era of motion
picture entertainment. Top directors, actors, and
film scholars trace the influence of each medium on
the other - from the live and fresh dramas of the
Golden Age of Television, and the growth of
Hollywood spectacles, to the megalithic
entertainment industry of today. (Id. No. 387)
Format: VHS
FILM LANGUAGE
60 Minutes
“Film Language” illustrates basic terms such as
tracking shots and zooms and provides a primer on
editing technique. (Id. No. 388)
Format: VHS
FILM NOIR
60 Minutes
These cynical and pessimistic films from the 1930s
and ‘40s touched a nerve in Americans. Historians
link the genre’s overriding paranoia to Cold Warrelated
angst over the nuclear threat and the
Hollywood blacklist. In addition, a cinematographer
demonstrates the creation of noir lighting, which
gave films their peculiar look and emphasized the
themes of corruption and urban decay. (Id. No.
389)
Format: VHS
THE FILM SCHOOL GENERATION
60 Minutes
Maverick filmmakers of the 1960s and ‘70s,
including Brian DePalma, Martin Scorsese, and
Steven Spielberg, capitalized on new technology
and borrowed from classical Hollywood and French
New Wave as they reinvented the American film.
The financial and cultural forces that contributed to
their success and commercial clout are explored.
(Id. No. 390)
Format: VHS
THE HOLLYWOOD STYLE
60 Minutes
In the classical Hollywood film, the story is primary.
Filmmakers rely on style - structure, narrative, and
visual elements - to effectively tell their story.
Martin Scorsese and Sydney Pollack are among
the premier directors who discuss how the classical
Hollywood style, evolving and yet enduring over
time, informs their work. (Id. No. 391)
Format: VHS
ROMANTIC COMEDY
60 Minutes
Breezy and silly to witty and intelligent, romantic
comedies have been with us since the 1930s. But
the surface humorhas often just barely masked
issues of gender and sexuality. This program looks
back on screwball comedies including It happened
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One Night and His Girl Friday. Directors James
Brooks and Nora Ephron present interpretations of
the genre that reveal the underlying social and
psychological messages. (Id. No. 392)
Format: VHS
THE STAR
60 Minutes
Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Dustin Hoffman — these,
among many others, are names synonymous with
Hollywood. Early on, Hollywood saw that
recognizable talent could minimize the financial
risks of film production. Critics, film scholars, and
studio publicists view the stars from many angles:
as marketing tools, cultural icons, and products of
the industry. Joan Crawford headlines as a case
study of the cultural phenomenon of stardom. (Id.
No. 393)
Format: VHS
THE STUDIO SYSTEM
60 Minutes
This program surveys Hollywood’s industrial past
during the era of contract players and directors,
studio police forces, and colorful movie moguls. It
also looks at the filmmaking environment of today
with studio heads Michael Eisner, Howard Koch,
and others. Paramount Pictures, one of the oldest
and most successful of the Hollywood studios,
serves as a case study. (Id. No. 394)
Format: VHS
THE WESTERN
60 Minutes
The Western is an American myth that has been
translated by other cultures and reinterpreted time
and again, but never dies. With clips and critical
commentary on westerns from John Ford’s
Stagecoach through the work of Arthur Penn, Sam
Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood, this program
traces the aesthetic evolution of the genre, as well
as its sociological importance. (Id. No. 395)
Format: VHS
WRITING AND THINKING ABOUT FILM
30 Minutes
“Writing and Thinking About Film” provides a
formal and cultural analysis of a classical
film sequence. It serves as a critical how-to guide
for those new to film critique. (Id. No. 396)
Format: VHS
AMERICAN CULTURAL MASTERS
This series showcases legendary figures in
American music and cultural life. Using film and
concert footage, vintage photographs, and
interviews, this series highlights the special
contributions these individuals have made to world
culture.
SATCHMO: LOUIS ARMSTRONG
(Episode 108)
This program explores the world of legendary
trumpeter, singer, jazz pioneer, and all-round
entertainer Louis Armstrong, a man who became a
symbol of 20th century American culture. (Id. No.
397)
Format: VHS
MIDNIGHT RAMBLE
60 minutes, 1994
This documentary recounts the little-known story of
a remarkable independent film industry outside of
Hollywood that produced close to 500 movies for
African-American audiences between 1910 and
1940. These “race movies” were often shown at
segregated screenings, many of them after hours.
They were called “midnight rambles.” They
provided black moviegoers with images that didn’t
demean them, but, rather, depicted them as real
people. The story of this forgotten chapter in
America’s movie history focuses on black filmmaker
Oscar Micheaux, a controversial director who wrote
and directed more than 40 features. Using recently
discovered films and interviews with black actors
and critics who worked in the race movie business,
Midnight Ramble explores the rise and decline of a
unique film industry. (Id. No. 530)
Format: VHS
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AMERICAN LITERATURE ON VIDEO
WILLA CATHER’S AMERICA
60 Minutes, 1988
Willa Cather is the only the first-rate American
writer whose work examines the growth of America.
This is not a hyperbolic statement, but an
astonishing fact, considering how short a time back
even the longest roots in America go. This
program shows us her interest in places as well as
in people, her preference for large, empty spaces—
the red grass prairie of My Antonia, the sculptured
canyons of New Mexico that form the backdrop for
Death Comes to the Archbishop, the gray caverns
of New York. (Id. No. 398)
Format: VHS
AMERICAN PASSAGES: A LITERARY
SURVEY - 2003
16 parts - 30 Minutes each
This series explore works of fiction, prose, and
poetry within their historical, social, and cultural
contexts.
NATIVE VOICES
Part 1
Native Americans had established a rich and highly
developed tradition of oral literature long before the
writings of the European colonists. This program
introduces Native American oral traditions through
the work of three contemporary authors: Leslie
Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Simon Ortiz
(Acoma Pueblo), and Luci Tapahonso (Navajo).
(Id. No. 399)
Format: VHS
EXPLORING BORDERLANDS
Part 2
Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa tells us that the
border is “una herida abierta [an open wound]
where… the lifeblood of two worlds is merging to
form a third country - a border culture.” This
program explores the literature of the Chicano
borderlands and its beginnings in the literature of
Spanish colonization. (Id. No. 399)
Format: VHS
UTOPIAN PROMISE
Part 3
When British colonists landed in the Americas, they
created communities that they hoped would serve
as a “light onto the nations.” This program
compares the answers of two important groups, the
Puritans and Quakers, and exposes the lasting
influence they had upon American identity. (Id. No.
400)
Format: VHS
SPIRIT OF NATIONALISM
Part 4
The Enlightenment brought new ideals and a new
notion of selfhoodto the American colonies. This
program begins with “the self-made man” in
Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, and then turns
to the development of this concept in the writings of
Romanticist Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Id. No. 400)
Format: VHS
MASCULINE HEROES
Part 5
In 1898, Frederick Jackson Turner declared the
frontier as the defining feature of American culture.
This program turns to three key writers of the early
national period - James Fenimore Cooper, John
Rollin Ridge, and Walt Whitman. (Id. No. 401)
GOTHIC UNDERCURRENTS
Part 6
What was haunting the American nation in the
1850s? The three writers treated in this program –
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Emily
Dickinson - use poetry and prose to explore the
dark side of nineteenth-century America. (Id. No.
401)
Format: VHS
SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
Part 7
How has slavery shaped the American literary
imagination and American identity? This program
turns to the classic slave narratives of Harriet
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Jacobs and Frederick Douglass, as well as the
fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe. (Id. No. 402)
REGIONAL REALISM
Part 8
Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn remains a classic of American literature. This
program compares Twain’s depiction of Southern
vernacular culture to that of Charles Chestnutt and
Kate Chopinand, in doing so, introduces the
hallmarks of American Realism. (Id. No. 402)
Format: VHS
SOCIAL REALISM
Part 9
This program presents the authors of the American
Gilded Age, such as Edith Wharton, and juxtaposes
them with social realists like Anzia Yezierska.
These writers expose the double world that made
up turn-of-the-century New York: that of the elite
and that of the poorest of the poor. (Id. No. 403)
Format: VHS
RHYTHMS IN POETRY
Part 10
Amidst the chaos following World War I, Ezra
Pound urged poets to “Make it new!” This program
explores the modernist lyrics of two of these poets:
William Carlos Williams and Langston Hughes.
What is modernism? How did these poets start a
revolution that continues until this day? (Id. No.
403)
Format: VHS
MODERNIST PORTRAITS
Part 11
Jazz filled the air and wailed against the night.
Writers such as Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald
forged a new style: one which silhouetted the
geometry of language, crisp in its own cleanness.
(Id. No. 404)
Format: VHS
MIGRANT STRUGGLE
Part 12
Americans have often defined themselves through
their relationship to the land. This program traces
the social fiction of three key American voices:
John Steinbeck, Carlos Bulosan, and Helena María
Viramontes. (Id. No. 404)
Format: VHS
SOUTHERN RENAISSANCE
Part 13
This program uncovers the revisioning of Southern
myths during the modernist era by writers William
Faulkner and Zora Neale Hurston. (Id. No. 405)
Format: VHS
BECOMING VISIBLE
Part 14
This program guides the viewer through the works
and contexts of ethnic writers from 1945-1965.
Starting with the works of Ralph Waldo Ellison,
Philip Roth, and N. Scott Momaday, we explore the
way writers from the margins took over the center
of American culture. (Id. No. 405)
Format: VHS
POETRY OF LIBERATION
Part 15
The artists of the 1960s wanted an art that was
relevant. They wanted an art that not only spoke
about justice, but also helped create it. This
program explores the innovations made in
American poetry in the 1960s by Allen Ginsberg,
Amiri Baraka, and Adrienne Rich. (Id. No. 406)
Format: VHS
SEARCH FOR IDENTITY
Part 16
Contemporary prose writers began creating a new
American Tradition comprised of many strands,
many voices, and many myths about the past. This
program explores the search for identity by three
American writers: Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra
Cisneros, and Leslie Feinberg. (Id. No. 406)
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ARTHUR MILLER AND THE CRUCIBLE
29 Minutes, 1981
In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy set up the
Un-American Activities Committee to combat the
growing “threat” of communism in the U.S.
Playwright Arthur Miller was one of many writers
summoned to testify at this political witch-hunt.
Miller, who was nearly ruined, said that until that
time he had not understood the “inexplicable
darkness” that prevented people from seeing evil
and denouncing it—the central theme in The
Crucible, based on the Salem witch trials.
Interweaving rarely seen excerpts from the BBC
production of the play with dramatizations of
congressional hearing testimony, this powerful
documentary highlights fundamental themes in
common with both, and their influence on the
playwright’s development. (Id. No. 634)
Format: DVD
BLACK WOMEN WRITERS
28 Minutes
Many black men in America say they are getting a
bum rap from a most unlikely source—black
women writers! They accuse these writers of
achieving success by focusing criticism on black
males. In this specially adapted Phil Donahue
program, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace, Ntosake
Shange, Angela Davis, and Maya Angelou argue
that the criticism heaped on them is a reflection of
the problem of self-image these men have. (Id. No.
407)
BLUES
THE BLUES, executive producer-Martin Scorsese,
consists of seven feature-length films, by seven
different directors, each exploring the blues through
their own personal style and perspective.
FEEL LIKE GOING HOME
(Episode 1) 30 Minutes
Directed by Martin Scorsese, pays homage to the
Delta blues. Musician Corey Harris travels through
Mississippi and on to West Africa, exploring the
roots of the music. The film celebrates the early
Delta bluesmen through original performances and
rare archival footage. Performers in this film are:
Corey Harris, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Salif
Keita, Habib Koite, Taj Mahal, Ali Farka Toure, and
others. (Id. No. 408)
Format: VHS
THE SOUL OF A MAN
(Episode 2) 30 Minutes
Written and directed by Wim Wenders (Buena Vista
Social Club; Paris, Texas; Wings of Desire)
explores the lives of his favorite blues artists – Skip
James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J.B. Lenoir – in a
film that is part history and part personal
pilgrimage. (Id. No. 409)
Format: VHS
THE ROAD TO MEMPHIS
(Episode 3) 30 Minutes
Directed by Richard Pearce, traces the musical
odyssey of blues legend B. B. King in a film that
pays tribute to the city that gave birth to a new style
of blues. (Id. No. 410)
Format: VHS
WARMING BY THE DEVIL’S FIRE
(Episode 4) 30 Minutes
Written and directed by Charles Burnett, presents a
tale about a young boy’s encounter with his family
in Mississippi in the 1950’s, and intergenerational
tensions between the heavenly strains of gospel
and the devilish moans of the blues. (Id. No. 411)
Format: VHS
GODFATHERS AND SONS
(Episode 5) 30 Minutes
Directed by Marc Levin, travels to Chicago with hiphop
legend Chuck D (of Public Enemy) and
Marshall Chess to explore the heyday of Chicago
blues. (Id. No. 412)
Format: VHS
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RED, WHITE & BLUES
(Episode 6) 30 Minutes
Joins musicians such as Van Morrison, Eric
Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Tom Jones performing and
talking about the music of the early sixties British
invasion that reintroduced the blues sound to
America. (Id. No. 413)
Format: VHS
PIANO BLUES
(Episode 7) 30 Minutes
Directed by piano player and Hollywood
director/actor Clint Eastwood, explores Eastwood’s
life long passion for piano blues, using a treasure
trove of rare historical footage in addition to
interviews and performances by such living legends
as Pinetop Perkins and Jay McShann, as well as
Dave Brubeck and Marcia Ball. (Id. No. 414)
Format: VHS
CHAOS AND ORDER: MAKING AMERICAN
THEATER
68 Minutes, 2006
The American Repertory Theater is one the most
respected and innovative dramatic institutions in
the United States. Through the prism of the A.R.T.,
this program explores the organizational and
creative challenges facing today’s theater
community and describes the flexibility and
resilience arts groups must have to survive in
today’s cultural climate. F. Murray Abraham, Debra
Winger, and numerous other renowned
performers—along with groundbreaking directors
Andrei Serban, Peter Sellars, and Robert
Woodruff—join A.R.T. technicians and artisans in
illuminating the precarious condition of American
theater. Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones
narrates. (Id. No. 643)
Format: DVD
* CHARLES JOHNSON
29 Minutes
This program shows how Charles Johnson, a
quintessential multicultural novelist, blends black
folk tales, Zen parables, 18th-century picaresque
novels, and 20th-century philosophy into
storytelling of remarkable vitality. Here, Johnson
explains that he explores metaphysical questions
against the backdrop of black American life.
Oxherding Tales and Middle Passage are odysseys
in search of individual identity and common values
among conflicting cultures. Johnson concludes, "I
am looking for the universal in particulars of black
experience. We are cultural variations on one world
experience." (Id. No. 415)
Format: VHS
CONNECT WITH ENGLISH
1998
CONNECT WITH ENGLISH was produced for
students learning English, who are at the high
beginning through low and high intermediate.
Each episode comes in two parts. The first part is a
continuing story about Rebecca, an aspiring singer
on a journey across America. Each episode
touches on life's important issues: leaving home,
parenting, education, work, love, success, and loss.
In the second part of each episode we meet reallife
immigrants and students who discuss the
similarities between Rebecca's experiences and
their own.
INTRO & MEET THE DISCUSSION GROUP
(Id. No. 416)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 1-4
(Id. No. 417)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 5-8
(Id. No. 418)
Format: VHS& DVD
EPISODES 9-12
(Id. No. 419)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 13-16
(Id. No. 420)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 17-20
(Id. No. 421)
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EPISODES 21-24
(Id. No. 422)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 25-28
(Id. No. 423)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 29-32
(Id.No.597)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 33-36
(Id. No. 424)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 37-40
(Id. No. 425)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 41-44
(Id. No. 426)
Format: VHS & DVD
EPISODES 45-48
(Id. No. 427)
Format: VHS & DVD
CONVERSATION WITH ARTHUR MILLER
45 Minutes, 2005
In this program, Arthur Miller talks candidly with
Mike Wallace about his youth, particularly his
relationship with his father, and the real-life
antecedents for many of the characters in his plays.
From the critical acceptance of Death of a
Salesman to his marriage with Marilyn Monroe, the
program offers a rare glimpse of one of America’s
greatest contemporary playwrights, with abundant
previously unreleased photos and footage. (Id. No.
641)
Format: DVD
DIRECTORS: STEVEN SPIELBERG
60 Minutes, 2000
A man whose films have almost single-handedly
revolutionized the motion picture industry, Steven
Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood’s most celebrated
director of the modern era. His name, when
associated with any film, automatically signifies the
highest level of quality and entertainment value. A
two-time Academy Award winner for “Best
Director,” Spielberg has directed such
contemporary classics as jaws, Close Encounters
of the Third Kind, The Inidana Jones Triology, E.T
the Extra-Terrestrial, the Color Purple, Jurassic
Park, Schindler’s List, Amistad and Saving Private
Ryan. Actors who discuss Spielberg’s mastery of
his craft include Laura Dern. Harrison Ford,
Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Jeff Goldblum, Ben
Kingsley, Liam Neeson and Roy Scheider. (Id. No.
700)
Format: DVD
‘DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?’: DOWN
SOUTH
2005, 60 Minutes
This program follows Robert MacNeil down the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Appalachia,
Louisiana. Cajun Country, and the Tex-Mex border
to examine Southern dialects and accents and the
influences of French and Spanish on American
English. Linguist Walt Wolfram, Columnist Molly
Ivins, pop country singer Cody James, and others
talk about regional differences in vernacular, the
steady displacement of Southern coastal dialect by
inland dialect, the accents of JFK and LBJ, and the
Texas border town of El Cenizo, where Spanish is
the official language. Recordings of Eudora Welty
and Appalachian storyteller Ray Hicks are included,
as well as WPA recordings from around 1940.
Web links included. A computer with a DVD-ROM
is required to access them.
(Id. No. 637)
Format: DVD
‘DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?’: OUT WEST
2005, 60 Minutes
In this program, Robert MacNeil heads to California
to take part in meaningful dialogues on Spanglish,
Chicano, Ebonics, and “Surfer Dude: before going
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to Seattle to consider the implications of voiceactivation
technology. Linguist Carmen Fought,
Stanford University’s Cliff Nass, Screenwriters Amy
Hecering and Winnie Holtzman, and others speak
their minds about Spanish in America, why teens
create their own language, gay self-empowerment
by redefining discriminatory terms, the co-fronting
sound shift, and whether technology will reinforce
or waken racial/regional stereotypes. The teaching
of standard English withut devaluing or denigrating
cultural linguistic differences is addressed. Web
links included. A computer with a DVD-ROM is
required to access them.
(Id. No. 638)
Format: DVD
‘DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?’: UP NORTH
2005, 60 Minutes
In this program, Robert MacNeil canvasses the
North to learn firsthand about linguistic dialect
zones, the tension between prescriptivism and
descriptivism the impact of dialect on grapholect,
the northern cities vowel shift, the roots of African-
American English, minority dialects and linguistic
profiling, biases against nonstandard speech, and
the general perception of the U.S. Midland dialect
as “normal American.” Hip-hop street talk, IM slang,
Pittsburghese, and Gullah and Geechee are
sampled, and Bill Labov, the dean of American
linguists; Jesse Sheidlower, American editor of the
augustOED; and New York magazine’s John Simon
are featured. Web links are included. A computer
with a DVD-ROM is required to access them.
(Id. No. 639)
Format: DVD
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
PRONOUNS, ADJECTIVES, AND THE
PRESENT TENSE
The study of English begins with a look at
pronouns—those little words like “we,” “she” and “I”
that take the place of nouns and keep your
sentences nice and neat. This DVD also teaches
how to use adjectives and cover possessives. (Id.
No. 536)
Format: DVD
PREPOSITIONS, QUESTIONS, AND TIME
This DVD teaches propositions, words that
describe the relationship between a noun and some
other word; pointer words like “this,” “that” and
“there.” It also covers Days of the week, the
months, the seasons, then move those hands
around the clock from morning to midnight. (Id. No.
537)
Format: DVD
POSSESSIVES, VERB + INFINITIVE AND
THE PAST
Possessives gives the ability to say what belongs to
one and what does not. But possessives in English
can be a little bit tricky. This DVD also shows how
to stretch the conversations by using the present
simple tense with an infinitive and tackles the past
tense. (Id. No. 538)
Format: DVD
REGULAR & IRREGULAR PAST AND
ADVERBS
This DVD explains the “regular” verbs. They are
solid, predictable, reliable, and regular and should
be added an “-ed.” Irregular verbs are tricky verbs
and are unpredictable, unreliable, and don’t follow a
regular pattern. Adverbs describe how to do the
things one does. (Id. No. 539)
Format: DVD
ENGLISH IN AMERICA
2003, 52 minutes
When Massasoit hailed the Plymouth settlers in
their own language, they might have taken it for a
sign that English would dominate the New World.
Packed with surprising etymologies and intriguing
stories, this program traces the dynamic
relationship between English and America,
exploring the linguistic influence of westward
expansion, cowboy culture, slave culture, and
encounters with the French and Spanish
languages. Key works examined include The New
England Primer and Webster’s The American
Spelling Book. (Id. No. 553)
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ENGLISH PACK
ENGLISH PUNCTUATION
60 minutes, 2002
The rules of punctuation may not seem enjoyable
or entertaining, but the Standard Deviants can at
least help out in making the rules memorable with a
cast of enthusiastic young performers. This DVD
covers in a series of lessons that focus on the rules
for employing periods, questions marks, and
exclamation points. The uses of commas,
semicolons, and colons are covered in a similarly
lively manner, with useful tips, such as the
"Furthermore Rule" to test the suitability of a
semicolon. Following each set of lessons is a quiz
that the student can take or skip, and the
"Exclamation Exam," a comprehensive test
covering all the material on the DVD, can be taken
at the finish. There's only so much that can be done
to make punctuation exciting, but the Standard
Deviants do offer a multitude of offbeat examples.
(Id. No. 562)
Format: DVD
GRAMMAR FOR ALL
93 minutes, 2004
The lessons on this DVD have been prepared by a
panel of serious academics. And the performers do
their best to liven up presentations of basic
concepts. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts
of speech are explained with some offbeat
examples While introducing a section on verbs, a
young woman mentions that a "funky thing" verbs
can do is function as other parts of speech.
Eventually all parts of speech are covered, and
basic sentence structures are introduced. At the
end of each set of lessons a quiz is presented,
which a student can either take or skip. After
proceeding through all the lessons on this DVD
(which contains about two hours worth of material),
a student can take the "Gram Slam," a
comprehensive exam. (Id. No. 563)
Format: DVD
WRITING BASICS
135 minutes, 2002
This DVD begins with the warning that English
Composition is meant to be used in conjunction
with a class, not as a replacement. But this video is
probably the most valuable one could watch before
beginning high school or college career. In fact,
even for those in the real world, English
Composition can help to brush up the writing skills.
Whether to write a lab report, a critical review, or a
case study or summarize professional articles, this
video gives the know-how to write an effective
paper from brainstorming through revision. (Id. No.
564)
Format: DVD
EROICA!: A DOCUMENTARY FILM
2003, 76:19 Minutes
EROICA! follows these Grammy-nominated, New
York-based musicians through one eventful year,
2000 to 2001. In search of a new symphony to play
in addition to its signature piece and namesake,
Beethoven’s Eroica, the Trio commissions
composer Kevin Kaska to write a tailor-made triple
concerto. Timelines are created, rehearsals are
slated and a premiere performance is scheduled:
November 9, with the St. Louis Symphony.
But as this deadline grows closer and personality
conflicts clash with creative processes, the stakes
become increasingly higher. Will Kaska deliver the
final movement in time and will the piece survive
frantic, last minute changes? And in the midst of
upheavals regarding family, friendships and post-
9/11 New York City, will the show go on?
EROICA! offers a suspenseful look at collaborating
artistically with close friends as well as a glimpse
into the solitary, stressful world of the classical
music composer. Friends since they were young
prodigies at music camps and then as students at
Juilliard, the women of the Trio juggle a demanding
international tour schedule while handling music,
marriage and motherhood. What binds them
together are their fiercely loyal friendships and
uncompromising work ethics.
Tracking the tensions involved in the everyday lives
of the Trio, Director Alan Miller tells the story of the
first all-female chamber ensemble to reach the top
of its field – not only through breaking gender
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barriers and redefining genres but by playing the
music it loves. (Id. No. 622)
Format: DVD
FIELD MUSEUM: EARTHLY TREASURES
28 Minutes, 2003
Ceiling-high totem poles, two enormous African
elephants locked in perpetual battle, and Sue—the
world’s largest, most complete, and best preserved
T. rex ever found—are only a few of the more than
20 million earthly treasures at The Field Museum,
in Chicago. Viewers will deepen their
understanding of and respect for the diversity and
interdependence of nature and all humankind with
this program—a video exploration of the museum’s
ever-growing encyclopedic collections from which is
constructed the truly unparalleled epic story of the
Earth and its people. (Id. No. 640)
Format: DVD
GREAT MUSEUMS FOR ART
2003
Art is for everyone! Take your class on a virtual
field trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and
three other renowned American museums with this
outstanding series. Magnificent gallery footage and
interviews with experts passionate about art make
this an experience not to be missed. A part of the
award-winning Great Museums series.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE
ARTS: ART GETS A START IN AMERICA
30 Minutes
Founded when Jefferson was president and the
Revolution was still a part of living memory, the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in
Philadelphia—the nation’s first art museum and art
school—is home to more than two centuries of
American artwork. This program goes behind the
scenes at the Academy so viewers can see for
themselves the evolution of painting in America—
and even get a glimpse of student artists at work!
(Id. No. 644)
Format: DVD
GREAT MUSEUMS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES
2003
No student should have to grow up without a
chance to experience great museums! Take your
class to six of America’s finest with this outstanding
series that honors people and values, events and
artifacts, that have helped make this country what it
is today. Ideal for social studies curriculums
exploring U.S. history and culture. Six 27-minute
videos.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: VOLUMES TO
SPEAK
30 Minutes
Today’s Library of Congress is not only the
repository of the nation’s life story, it’s arguably the
“ultimate museum,” documenting civilizations from
around the world. This program immerses viewers
in history through a selection of cultural treasures
archived among the library’s more than 130 million
items, including Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration
of Independence, the maps carried by Lewis and
Clark, and the typewritten script of Martin Luther
King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. (Id. No. 652)
Format: DVD
HERMAN MELVILLE: MOBBY DICK
41:00 Minutes, 1997
Moby Dick, Melville’s classis sea tale of revenge
and spiritual depravity, has earned its exalted
status and its ranking as one of the most studied
works in the canon of American literature. The
program brings together leading Melville scholars to
analyze this important work, and investigates the
life of the man who wrote it from literary,
philosophical, and social perspectives. Topics
include the influence of the Bible, Shakespeare,
Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville’s own conflicted
life, from his father’s bankruptcy to his adventures
as a sailor in Polynesia. Themes include the
universal brotherhood of man, the malignancy
lurking within nature, and the nihilistic quality of the
color white. (Id. No. 571)
Format: VHS & DVD
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HOLLYWOOD HIGHLIGHTS USA
2005
Behind-the-scenes in Hollywood and the movie
business; interviews with the stars, sneak previews
of films, and filmmakers' personal insights into
movie-making.
* EPISODES: 350E & 351E, 20:24 & 20:42
minutes
(Id. No. 609)
Format: VHS
* EPISODES: 405E & 406E, 20:00 & 21:43
Minutes
(Id. No. 610)
Format: VHS
IT’S A MALL WORLD
47 Minutes, 2006
An ideal discussion-launcher for sociology courses,
this program examines cultural and psychological
aspects of what is now an archetypal suburban
experience: shopping at the mall. Visiting
“cathedrals of consumerism” throughout North
America—from the Southdale, Minnesota,
progenitor of the enclosed retail mall to the
absurdly spectacular Grand Canal Shoppes and
Desert Passage in Las Vegas—the video raises
fundamental questions about consumer identity and
diversity. Evoking “experience retail” as a
conceptual counterpoint to Internet-driven home
shopping, the program also catalyzes inquiry into
the relationship between economics, architecture,
and human interaction. (Id. No. 701)
Format: DVD
JAZZ
A virtuoso performance by acclaimed filmmaker
Ken Burns, JAZZ celebrates the music of
America—from blues and ragtime to swing, bebop
and fusion. With JAZZ, Ken Burns reaches the high
note of his epic trilogy on American life that began
with THE CIVIL WAR and continued with
BASEBALL. This 10 part PBS series has a total
running time of 19 Hours.
GUMBO: BEGINNINGS TO 1917
(Episode 1) 90Minutes
JAZZ begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century
America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound
of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean
rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a
richly diverse musical culture. Here, in the 1890s,
African-American musicians create a new music
out of these ingredients by mixing in ragtime
syncopations and the soulful feeling of the blues.
Soon after the start of the new century, people are
calling it jazz.
Meet the pioneers of this revolutionary art form: the
half-mad cornetist Buddy Bolden, who may have
been the first man to play jazz; pianist Jelly Roll
Morton, who claimed to have invented jazz but
really was the first to write the new music down;
Sidney Bechet, a clarinet prodigy whose fiery
sound matched his explosive personality; and
Freddie Keppard, a trumpet virtuoso who turned
down a chance to win national fame for fear that
others would steal the secrets of his art.
The early jazz players travel the country in the
years before World War I, but few people have a
chance to hear this new music until 1917, when a
group of white musicians from New Orleans arrives
in New York to make the first jazz recording. They
call themselves the Original Dixieland Jazz Band,
and within weeks their record becomes an
unexpected smash hit. Americans are suddenly
jazz crazy, and the Jazz Age is about to begin. (Id.
No. 429)
Format: VHS
THE GIFT: (1917-1924)
(Episode 2) 120Minutes
Speakeasies, flappers, and easy money - it's the
Jazz Age, when the story of jazz becomes a tale of
two great cities, Chicago and New York, and of two
extraordinary artists whose lives and music will
span almost three-quarters of a century - Louis
Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
Armstrong, a fatherless waif who grew up on the
mean streets of New Orleans, develops his great
"gift" - his unparalleled musical genius - with the
help of King Oliver, the city's top cornetist, and in
1922, follows him to Chicago, where Armstrong's
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transcendent sound and exhilarating rhythms
inspire a new generation of musicians, white and
black, to join the world of jazz.
Meanwhile, Ellington, raised in middle-class
comfort by parents who told him he was "blessed,"
outgrows the society music he learned to play in
Washington, D.C., and heads for Harlem. There he
absorbs the stride piano rhythms of Willie "The
Lion" Smith and forms a band to create a music all
his own - hot, blues-drenched, and infused with the
gutbucket growls of his new trumpet player, Bubber
Miley.
As the Roaring Twenties accelerate, Paul
Whiteman, a white bandleader, sells millions of
records playing a sweet, symphonic jazz, while
Fletcher Henderson, a black bandleader, packs the
dance floor at the whites-only Roseland Ballroom
with his innovative big band arrangements. Then, in
1924, the year Whiteman introduces George
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Henderson brings
Louis Armstrong to New York, adding his
improvisational brilliance to the band's new sound -
and soon Armstrong is showing the whole world
how to swing. (Id. No. 430)
Format: VHS
OUR LANGUAGE: (1924-1929)
(Episode 3) 120Minutes
As the stock market continues to soar, jazz is
everywhere in America, and now, for the first time
soloists and singers take center stage, transforming
the music with their distinctive voices and the
unique stories they have to tell.
Tonight we meet Bessie Smith, Empress of the
Blues, whose songs ease the pains of life for
millions of black Americans and help black
entrepreneurs create a new recording industry
around the blues; Bix Beiderbecke, the first great
white jazz star, who is inspired by Louis Armstrong
to dedicate his life to the music and in turn inspires
others with solos of unparalleled lyric grace, only to
destroy himself with alcohol at age 28; and two
brilliant sons of Jewish immigrants, Benny
Goodman and Artie Shaw, for whom jazz offers an
escape from the ghetto and a chance to achieve
their dreams.
In New York, we follow Duke Ellington uptown to
Harlem's most celebrated nightspot, the gangsterowned,
whites-only Cotton Club, where he
continues blending the individual voices of his band
members to create harmonies no one has imagined
before, then gets the break of a lifetime when radio
carries his music into homes across the country,
bringing him national fame.
And in Chicago, where he has returned to find
himself billed as "The World's Greatest Trumpet
Player," we listen as Louis Armstrong combines the
soloist's and vocalist's arts to create scat singing,
then watch as he charts the future of jazz in a
series of small group recordings that culminates in
his masterpiece, West End Blues. Called "the most
perfect three minutes of music" ever created,
Armstrong's astonishing performance lifts jazz to
the level of high art, where his genius stands alone.
(Id. No. 431)
Format: VHS
THE TRUE WELCOME: (1929 - 1934)
(Episode 4) 120Minutes
In 1929, America enters a decade of economic
desperation, as the Stock Market collapses and the
Great Depression begin. Factories fall silent, farms
fall into decay, and a quarter of the nation's
workforce is jobless. In these dark times, jazz is
called upon to lift the spirits of a frightened country,
and finds itself poised for a decade of explosive
growth.
New York is now America's jazz capital. On
Broadway, Louis Armstrong revolutionizes the art of
American popular song and displays a flair for
showmanship that makes him one of the nation's
top entertainers. In Harlem, Chick Webb pioneers
his own big-band sound at the Savoy Ballroom,
where black and white dancers shake the floor with
a new dance called the Lindy Hop. And in the city's
clubs, pianists Fats Waller and Art Tatum dazzle
audiences with their stunning virtuosity.
But it is Duke Ellington who takes jazz "beyond
category," composing hit tunes with a new
sophistication that has critics comparing him to
Stravinsky. Now the nation's best-known black
bandleader, Ellington tours in his own private
railcar, transcending stereotypes with an elegant
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personal style that disarms prejudice and inspires
racial pride.
Meanwhile, Benny Goodman is making a name for
himself, broadcasting big-band jazz nationwide,
based on Fletcher Henderson's arrangements. In
1935, Goodman takes his band on tour, but in most
towns people ask for the old, familiar tunes. Then,
finally, at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, the
dancers go wild when they hear Goodman's bigband
beat. By the end of the night, the Swing Era
has begun. (Id. No. 432)
Format: VHS
SWING: PURE PLEASURE: (1935 - 1937)
(Episode 5) 90Minutes
As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as
close as it has ever come to being America's
popular music, providing entertainment and escape
for a people down on their luck. It has a new name
now - Swing - and for millions of young fans, it will
be the defining music of their generation.
Suddenly, jazz bandleaders are the new matinee
idols, with Benny Goodman hailed as the "King of
Swing," while teenagers jitterbug just as hard to the
music of his rivals - Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie
Lunceford, Glenn Miller, and the mercurial Artie
Shaw.
But the spirit of Swing isn't limited to the dance
floor. In New York, Billie Holiday emerges from a
tragic childhood to begin her career as the greatest
of all female jazz singers. And in Chicago, Benny
Goodman and Teddy Wilson prove that, despite
segregation, there is room in jazz for great black
and white musicians to swing side-by-side on
stage.
At Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, however, there is
room for only one King of Swing, and on May 11,
1937, Benny Goodman travels uptown for a
showdown with Chick Webb. It's billed as "The
Music Battle of the Century," and more than 4,000
dancers crowd the floor to urge both champions on.
But when it's over, there's no doubt who wears the
crown. (Id. No. 433)
Format: VHS
SWING THE VELOCITY OF CELEBRATION:
(1937 - 1939) (Episode 4) 105Minutes
As the 1930's come to a close, Swing-mania is still
going strong, but some fans are saying success
has made the music too predictable. Their ears are
tuned to a new sound - pulsing, stomping, suffused
with the blues. It's the Kansas City sound of Count
Basie's band and it quickly reignites the spirit of
Swing.
By 1938, Basie and his men are helping Benny
Goodman bring jazz to Carnegie Hall. After the
show, they travel uptown to battle Chick Webb to a
draw at the Savoy Ballroom. And that summer, they
turn 52nd Street into "Swing Street," performing
nightly at the Famous Door. Soon Basie's lead
saxophonist, Lester Young, is challenging Coleman
Hawkins for supremacy, matching the old saxmaster's
muscular sound with a laid-back style of
his own. Young teams with Billie Holiday for a
series of recordings that reveals them as musical
soulmates, and tours with her in Basie's band until
she leaves to join Artie Shaw. But America isn't
ready for a black woman who swings with white
musicians and Holiday is soon back in New York,
pouring her outrage into the anti-lynching ballad,
Strange Fruit.
By the decade's end, Chick Webb has taken a
chance on a teenage singer named Ella Fitzgerald
and achieved the fame he dreamed of. Duke
Ellington has been hailed as a hero in Europe, amid
anxious preparations for war. And weeks after that
war begins, Coleman Hawkins startles the world
with a glimpse of what jazz will become,
improvising a new music on the old standard, Body
and Soul. (Id. No. 434)
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DECTICATED TO CHAOS: (1940 - 1945)
(Episode 7) 120Minutes
When America enters World War II, jazz is part of
the arsenal. In Europe, where musicians like the
Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt continue to play
despite a Nazi ban, jazz is a beacon of hope. In
America, it becomes the embodiment of
democracy, as bandleaders like Glenn Miller and
Artie Shaw enlist, taking their swing to the troops
overseas.
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For many black Americans, however, that sound
has a hollow ring. Segregated at home and in
uniform, they find themselves fighting for liberties
their own country denies them, as authorities
padlock the Savoy Ballroom to keep servicemen off
its integrated dance floor, and military police patrol
Swing Street, breaking up fistfights sparked by
prejudice and pride.
Despite such injustices, jazz answers the call
during the war years. Duke Ellington sells war
bond, and premieres his most ambitious work ever,
the tone portrait Black, Brown and Beige, as a
benefit for war relief. His band at a peak, Ellington
is helped now by the gifted young composer Billy
Strayhorn and continues manipulating his players'
talents, turning his orchestra into an instrument with
which he creates music of astonishing perfection.
Yet underground and after-hours, jazz is changing.
In a Harlem club called Minton's Playhouse, a
small band of young musicians, led by the trumpet
virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie and the brilliant
saxophonist Charlie Parker, has discovered a new
way of playing - fast, intricate, exhilarating, and
sometimes chaotic. A wartime recording ban keeps
their music off the airwaves, but soon after the
atom bomb forces Japan's surrender, Parker and
Gillespie enter the studio to create an explosion of
their own. The tune is called Ko Ko, the sound will
soon be called "bebop," and once Americans hear
it, jazz will never be the same. (Id. No. 435)
Format: VHS
RISK: (1945 - 1955)
(Episode 8) 120Minutes
The postwar years bring America to a level of
prosperity unimaginable a decade before, but the
Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation makes
these anxious years as well. In jazz, this underlying
tension will be reflected in the broken rhythms and
dissonant melodies of bebop, and in the troubled
life of bebop's biggest star, Charlie Parker.
Nicknamed "Bird," Parker is a soloist whose ideas
and technique are as overwhelming for musicians
of his generation as Louis Armstrong's had been a
quarter-century before. He is idolized — his
improvisations copied, his risk-all intensity on stage
imitated, and his self-destructive lifestyle adopted
as a prerequisite for inspiration. Parker's example
helps bring a narcotics plague to the jazz
community, and when he dies, wasted by heroin at
age 34, drugs are as much a part of his legacy to
jazz as the genius of his music.
But Parker is not the only bebop innovator. His
longtime partner, Dizzy Gillespie, tries to popularize
the new sound by adding showmanship and Latin
rhythms, while pianist Thelonius Monk infuses it
with his eccentric personality to create a music all
his own. Except for jazz initiates, however, few
people are listening. Teens now swoon for pop
singers and dance to rhythm and blues.
Searching for a new audience, California musicians
create a mellow sound called cool jazz, and Dave
Brubeck mixes jazz with classical music to produce
a million-seller LP. But one man remains
determined to give jazz popular appeal on his own
terms, the trumpet player Miles Davis. A one-time
Parker sideman who has finally broken heroin's grip
on his career, Davis is moving beyond the cool
sound he inspired and stands poised to lead jazz in
a new direction. (Id. No. 436)
Format: VHS
THE ADVENTURE: (1956 - 1960)
(Episode 9) 120Minutes
In the late 1950s, America's postwar prosperity
continues, but beneath the surface run currents of
change. Families are moving to the suburbs,
watching television has become the national
pastime, and baby boomers have begun coming of
age. For jazz, it is also a period of transition when
old stars like Billie Holiday and Lester Young will
burn out while young talents arise to take the music
in new directions.
Jazz still has its two guiding lights. In 1956, the first
year Elvis tops the charts, Duke Ellington
recaptures the nation's ear with a performance at
the Newport Jazz Festival that becomes his bestselling
record ever. The next year, Louis Armstrong
makes headlines when he condemns the
government's failure to stand up to racism in Little
Rock, Arkansas, risking his career while musicians
who dismissed him as an Uncle Tom remain silent.
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Meanwhile, new virtuosos emerge to push the limits
of bebop: saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins; jazz
diva Sarah Vaughan; and the drummer Art Blakey,
whose Jazz Messengers will become a proving
ground for young musicians over the next forty
years. But the leading light of the era is Miles Davis
— a catalyst constantly forming new groups to
showcase different facets of his stark, introspective
sound; a popularizer whose lush recordings with
arranger Gil Evans expand the jazz audience; and
a cultural icon whose tough-guy charisma comes to
define what's hip.
As the turbulent Sixties arrive, however, two
saxophonists take jazz into uncharted terrain. John
Coltrane explodes the pop tune My Favorite Things
into a kaleidoscope of freewheeling sound, while
Ornette Coleman challenges all conventions with a
sound he calls "free jazz." Once again, the music
seems headed for new adventures, but now, for the
first time, even musicians are starting to ask, Is it
still jazz? (Id. No. 437)
Format: VHS
A MASTERPIECE BY MIDNIGHT:
(1960 – Present) (Episode 10) 120Minutes
During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Critics divide
the music into "schools" - Dixieland, swing, bebop,
hard bop, modal, free, avant-garde. But most young
people are listening to rock 'n' roll. Though Louis
Armstrong briefly outsells the Beatles with Hello
Dolly, most jazz musicians are desperate for work
and many head for Europe, including bebop
saxophone master, Dexter Gordon.
At home, jazz is searching for relevance. During the
Civil Rights struggle, it becomes a voice of protest.
Before his early death, the avant-garde explorer
John Coltrane links jazz to the Sixties quest for a
higher consciousness with his devotional suite, A
Love Supreme. And Miles Davis, after conquering
the avant-garde with a landmark quintet, combines
jazz with rock 'n' roll by using electric instruments to
launch a wildly popular sound called Fusion.
In the 1970s, jazz loses the exuberant genius of
Louis Armstrong and the transcendent artistry of
Duke Ellington, and for many their passing seems
to mark the end of the music itself. But in 1976,
when Dexter Gordon returns from Europe for a
triumphant comeback, jazz has a homecoming, too.
Over the next two decades, a new generation of
musicians emerges, led by trumpeter Wynton
Marsalis - schooled in the music's traditions, skilled
in the arts of improvisation, and aflame with ideas
only jazz can express. The musical journey that
began in the dance halls and street parades of New
Orleans at the start of the 20th century continues.
As it enters its second century, jazz is still brand
new every night, still vibrant, still evolving, and still
swinging. (Id. No. 438)
Format: VHS
* JOHN STEINBECK
45 minutes, 1996
John Steinbeck, as this film portrait of his life and
work convincingly shows, was more than a realist
chronicler of the Great Depression. His rich fantasy
life and his fascination with Arthurian tales provide
another dimension to his work. Failure to
appreciate this side of Steinbeck has caused the
disparity between his popularity with readers and
his dismissal as "popular" by the literati. Drawing on
archival photographs and film as well as specially
shot footage in the locations he made famous—
places like the Salinas Valley, Monterey, Carmel,
and Big Sur—this program sets his writings and his
life in perspective, providing a new interpretation of
Steinbeck’s work. (Id. No. 439)
Format: VHS
HOLLYWOOD AND THE MUSLIM WORLD
60 Minutes, 2003
The American Movie Channel (AMC) produced
this documentary that measures the impact of
American TV and movies in the Middle East.
Videotaped before the U.S. war in Iraq, it
explores the Muslim world’s perception of
American culture, and how these perceptions
shape its society. In a restrained tone, the film
states at the beginning “American culture is
threatening Arab and Muslim identity.”
Shot on location in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and
Qatar, this program raises questions and gives
answers about the cultural and political impact of
American culture on Arab identity. The
documentary includes a tour of the television
network Al Jazeera and features a discussion about
the power of television images with two of the
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organization’s more popular correspondents.
There are interviews with a broad spectrum of
Muslim society, from ordinary teenagers, to an
executive at Hezbollah’s Al Manar television, to
Egypt’s Oprah-like TV host. (Id. No. 440)
Format: VHS
JOYCE CAROL OATES
28 Minutes, 1994
When her feminist appreciation of the ultimate
masculine sport, On Boxing appeared, the book
surprised many of Joyce Carol Oates’ readers and
critics. It shouldn’t have. Her fiction is a place
where brutality and danger are never far away,
where security is an illusion and civilized behavior a
thin veneer, and where power is the key to human
relationships. In this program, Joyce Carol Oates
discusses her work as both a writer and teacher,
her craft and methods, and the major themes of her
novels, short stories, and poems: the moral and
social conditions of a generation too familiar with
aggression, violence, and anger. (Id. No. 441)
Format: VHS
MAGNIFICIENT WELLES: THE RISE AND
FALL OF ORSON WELLES
2002
In 1941 Citizen Kane rocketed Orson Welles into
boy genius Hollywood stardom, a trajectory rarely
witnessed before or since. It won the New York
Film Critics Circle for Best Picture and was
nominated for nine Academy Awards. Only in his
mid-20s, he was given complete artistic control
over his next film, The Magnificient Ambersons, the
movie he thought was certain to be his
masterpiece. (Id. No. 442)
Format: VHS
MARK TWAIN
225 minutes, 1994
Nearly three years in the making and drawing from
63 hours of material, thousands of archival
photographs and nearly 20 interviews with top
writers and scholars, Mark Twain is the story of
Twain’s extraordinary life-full of rollicking
adventure, stupendous success and crushing
defeat, hilarious comedy and almost unbearable
tragedy. Told primarily through the words of Twain
himself, viewers of all ages will be personally
introduced to this compelling yet contradictory
genius, who said with some justification, “I am not
an American, I am the American.” (Id. No. 609)
Format: DVD
MOYERS COLLECTION
AUGUST WILSON
30 Minutes
Wilson discusses the importance of blues in his life
and his writings. Talks about finding an African-
American cultural identity and what he sees as the
false portrayal of black America on television. (Id.
No. 443
Format: VHS
BHARATHI MUKHERJEE : CONQUERING
AMERICA
30 Minutes
Mukherjee discusses America’s newest immigrants,
the Asians, and the building resentment and
tensions between the country’s various cultures.
(Id. No. 444)
Format: VHS
DANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE ROAD
60 Minutes
This program profiles Stanley Kunitz, one of
America’s leading poets. Kunitz reads his poetry
and discusses his work in extensive interviews.
“You don’t choose the subject [of your poetry],
“says Kunitz, “it chooses you.” He asserts that
poets must aim simply to “be as true as we can to
the grain of life.” Kunitz also stresses the
importance of reading poetry aloud: “It is important
to test your poems against the ear,” he says. “The
page is a cold bed.” (Id. No. 445)
Format: VHS
E.L.DOCTOROW
30 Minutes
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In this program, Doctorow comments that the best
writers are a nuisance to society because they
prefer the comfortable truth to the comfortable lie.
Never reluctant to address controversial issues, he
has searched for meaning in modern American
history, mingling reality and myth to reveal hidden
corners of the American experience. (Id. No. 446)
Format: VHS
JOSEPH HELLER
30 Minutes
Heller says in this program that sometimes, one
cannot tell the difference between absurdity and
politics. For nearly 30 years, the man who made
« Catch-22 » part of our language, has been
tracing that often elusive line. (Id. No. 447)
Format: VHS
A LIFE TOGETHER : DONALD HALL AND
JANE KENYON
60 Minutes
Husband-and-wife poets, Donald Hall and Jane
Kenyon talk about their careers, their poetry, and
their life together. (Id. No. 448)
Format: VHS
PETER SELLARS : EXPLORING THE
AVANT-GRADE
60 Minutes
Sellars, who has been director of the Boston
Shakespeare Company and the American National
Theater at the Kennedy Center, says that theater
should be hard. It should shake you up and speak
truth to power. In this program, he talks about his
controversial career and his views on the role of the
theater in society. (Id. No. 449)
Format: VHS
POET LAUREATE RITA DOVE
60 Minutes
A Pultizer Prize winner before she was 35, Rita
Dove who curretnly holds the title of Poet Laureate
of the United States, talks about her life and work,
the relationship between poetry and power, and her
plans for taking poetry to the people. This program
features Dove reading extensive selections from
her works. (Id. No. 450)
Format: VHS
PURE PETE SEEGER
60 Minutes
The wit, wisdom, and song of one of America’s best
known bards comes to life in this program, which
offers a rousing musical portrait of the beloved and
often controversial folk singer, songwriter,
storyteller, and activist. (Id. No. 451)
Format: VHS
TOM WOLFE
60 Minutes
Tom Wolfe helped invent the New Journalism in the
1960’s and has become the guru of popular culture.
His beat ever since has been scrutinizing America’s
obsessions, while his books and essays have
become icons of our times. (Id. No. 522)
Format: VHS
TONI MORRISON : A WRITER’S WORK
60 Minutes, 1994
Toni Morrison exists in two worlds : the visible
world, bustling around her, and the world of her
novels, whose characters tell about an interior
reality hidden from the eyes of strangers. In her
work, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has
transported millions of readers into the experience
of being black in America and confronting the
realities of race. In this program with Bill Moyers,
Morrison discusses the characters in her work, the
people in her life, the power of love, and how the
invented world of fiction connects to life. (Id. No.
452)
Format: VHS
WHERE THE SOUL LIVES
60 Minutes
Produced by Public Affairs Television, Inc. and
David Grubin Productions, Inc., c1989. This
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program in the "Power of the Word" series features
the poets Robert Bly, Lucille Clifton, and W.S.
Merwin, reading their works and discussing them.
Robert Bly often uses music to emphasize the
spiritual nature of poetry. He believes that the aim
of poetry is to "drop us into the moist, nurturing
underworld where the soul lives." Lucille Clifton's
works often focuses on experiences specific to
women, and is also influenced by her black
heritage. W.S. Merwin examines human
relationships, including our relationship with nature.
Moyers demonstrates that poets have the power of
the word to create a world of thought and emotions
others can share. $89.95 (Id. No. 453)
Format: VHS
WORLD OF IDEAS : ALICE WALKER
58 Minutes, 2001
A leading voice among American writers, Alice
Walker has published books of influential poetry,
novels, short stories, essays, and criticism. In this
program, Ms. Walker talks with Bill Moyers about a
range of subjects, including The Color Purple,
whose themes are as relevant today as they were
when she wrote the book in 1982; the way in which
her life experiences and ancestry are reflected in
her writing; and her latest collection of poems,
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. (Id.
No. 636)
Format: DVD
NATIVE AMERICAN NOVELISTS
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
50 Minutes
(Id. No. 454)
Format: VHS
ON THE ROAD WITH JACK KEROUAC :
KING OF THE BEATS
73 Minutes, 2001
This is the award-winning biography of the King of
the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac’s writings,
including his extraordinary novel “On the Road,”
took American literature to new levels of creativity
and in the process inspired unprecedented social
and cultural change. Kerouac’s life is examined
through fascinating rare documentary footage and
revealing interviews with some of Kerouac’s life is
examined through fascinating rare documentary
footage and revealing interviews with some of
Kerouac’s most famous contemporaries such as
Allan Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William
Burroughs. Beginning with his Catholic boyhood,
through his development as one of the most
important modern American authors, to his selfdestructive
demise at the age of 49. On theRoad
with Jack Kerouac King of the Beats is both an
accurately detailed documentary and a moving
drama. (Id. No. 455)
Format: VHS
PATH TO PUBLICATION: ADVICE FROM
AUTHORS, EDITORS, AND AGENTS
2005
This seven-volume series takes viewers inside the
prestigious Squaw Valley Community of Writers
workshops, where the faculty comprises significant
authors such as Amy Tan, Anne Lamott, Richard
Ford, Janet Fitch and Mark Childress as well as
agents, editors, and publishers from New York and
Los Angeles. Each volume contains two complete
program segments and focuses on a different
aspect of writing. An essential resource both for
novices looking to improve their technique and for
experienced writers who are polishing their
manuscripts and looking for agents.
WHAT TO WRITE
110 Minutes
In segment one of this volume, screenwriter Gill
Dennis gives a presentation that addresses how to
find the story, develop memorable and realistic
characters, uncover “significant irrelevancies” and
apply them to fiction, and use emotions to develop
story lines. In the second segment, “Psychological
and Spiritual Distress of Writing,” Anne Lamott
provides good advice and great examples as she
gives insights into topics ranging from what to write,
to her fears about getting published, to how she
copes with her critical voice. She also talks about
what to do when your work doesn’t get the
response you were hoping for. (Id. No. 699)
Format: DVD
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SAUL BELLOW
52 minutes, 1994
Saul Bellow is arguably the premier literary figure in
the U.S. in the final decades of the 20th century.
Erudite and entertaining, a novelist whose work
booksellers and librarians shelve not under fiction,
but under literature, Bellow has seen his work both
transformed to the popular silver screen and graced
with the Nobel Prize for Literature. In this program,
he talks about himself and his characters; his
childhood, parents, and education; how he came to
be a writer; his views of the world and the people
who inhabit it; and the role of ideas in literature.
(Id. No. 529)
Format: VHS
SHAPING THE WAY WE TEACH ENGLISH:
SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES AROUND THE
WORLD
2006
"Shaping" consists of 14 modules that focus on
such topics as learning strategies, integrating skills,
managing large classes, critical thinking,
assessment, and teaching young learners.
INSTRUCTORS’ MANUAL
The extensive Instructor's Manual guides the
teacher trainer in presenting the video, and
encourages viewers to adapt the materials to their
local context. 3 DVDs. (Id. No. 624)
Format: DVD
READINGS AND RESOURCES
The CD of Readings and Resources gives viewers
a wide variety of material to supplement the video.
The complete set has adequate material for
multiple teacher training sessions that could extend
over a period of many months. (Id. No. 625)
Format: DVD
SIX POETS: SEARCHING FOR RHYME AND
REASON
2006
Providing extensive biographical profiles and
readings from each writer’s most famous works,
this series explores the lives and literary legacies of
six major poets: John Donne, Walt Whitman, Emily
Dickinson, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and W. H.
Auden. 6-part series, 20 minutes each.
EMILY DICKINSON
20 Minutes
While many of her literary peers achieved notoriety,
“the woman in white” remained virtually unknown—
by choice. The self-imposed obscurity of Emily
Dickinson is just one of many aspects of her life
that this program explores. Blending
daguerreotypes, paintings, manuscripts, excerpts
from Dickinson’s letters, and readings from nearly a
dozen of her poems, this program presents the
biography of one of America’s most unique and
influential voices in poetry. Id. No. 642)
Format: DVD
TEACHING JAZZ CHANTS TO YOUNG
LEARNERS
27 Minutes, 2006
Ms. Carolyn Graham, a leading teacher of English
as a Foreign Language and professional jazz
musician presents the rhythm, stress, and
intonation of natural American English in a unique
presentation through rhythmic chanting. Filmed in
New York City, the video takes the teacher through
a step-by-step process of writing and using jazz
chants. The Instructor's Manual guides the teacher
trainer in presenting the video, and encourages
teachers to write their own jazz chants that
relate to the needs and interests of their own
students. Though particularly applicable to children,
the technique can be used with all ages of English
language learners. (Id. No. 665)
Format: DVD
TONI MORRISON
29 Minutes
This program introduces one of the greatest
contemporary American authors: winner of the
1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, "a literary Moses
stripping away the idols of whiteness and blackness
that have prevented blacks from knowing
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themselves." Readings from Beloved and Jazz
show how she returns to the pain of slavery and
segregation to restore wholeness to the black
psyche. "The past," Morrison says, "is more infinite
than the future... It’s avoiding it, deceiving
ourselves about it, that paralyzes growth." (Id. No.
456)
Format: VHS
TONI MORRISON UNCENSORED
30 Minutes, 2004
In this compelling program, world-renowned author
Toni Morrison candidly answers questions
regarding how she became a writer, the pain of
empathizing with her characters, the sensual nature
of her novels, and how it felt to win the Nobel Prize.
In addition, she pulls no punches discussing how
she first became aware of her racial otherness, how
writing for a black audience has kept her work from
becoming derivative, the societal uses of racism,
and how racism leads to barbarism when
individuals abdicate their humanity. (Id. No. 630)
Format: DVD
U.S. EXPRESS
U.S. express is a new exhibition that showcases
the History of video as an art form in the U.S. The
program presents examples of the video graphics
experiments, Documentaries, and narrative shorts
combined with examples of artists’ work in this field
beginning in the early 1970s.
This program is a window on to aspects of
contemporary life in the United States not often
features in mainstream commercial media.
Beginning in the mid-1960s before MTV or the
matrix, before videocassettes or the internet, artists
picked up the newly introduced home video camera
and discovered a powerful tool for creative
expression. The four Feature-length programs in
this exhibition comprise a Comprehensive survey of
this new art form -- from early Community video to
more contemplative current art video. There are
more than 80 short videos made by 50 artists. (Id.
No. 598)
Format: DVD
VISIONS OF LIGHT: THE ART OF
CINEMATOGRAPHY
92 Minutes, 2000
Experience the dazzling story of cinematography as
seen through the lenses of the world's greatest
filmmakers and captured in classic scenes from
over 125 immortal movies. Discover Gordon Willis's
secrets of lighting Marlon Brando in "The
Godfather" and Greg Toland's contributions to
"Citizen Kane." Hear William Fraker on filming
"Rosemary's Baby," Vittorio Storaro on his use of
color and light in "Apocalypse Now" and much,
much more. From black and white to Technicolor,
silent to "talkie," glittering Hollywood musical to film
noir and art film to blockbuster, this critically
acclaimed masterpiece presents movies in a new
and unforgettable light! (Id. No. 668)
Format: DVD
VOICES AND VISIONS
A video instructional series on American poetry for
college and high school classrooms and adult
learners; The lives and works of 13 renowned
American poets are interpreted through dramatic
readings, archival photographs, dance,
performances, and interviews in this inspiring
series. Illustrative poems in each program are
accompanied by insights into their historical and
cultural connections. The series covers the
terminology of poetry and the larger role of poets in
American and world literature studies. Poets
include Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Emily
Dickinson, and Elizabeth Bishop.
ELIZABETH BISHOP
(Episode 1) 56 Minutes
A very private person, Bishop enjoyed a
multinational lifestyle. From her childhood in Nova
Scotia to journeys in Brazil, this program illustrates
the geographic soul of her life and works with
scenes from her poems. (Id. No. 457)
Format: VHS
HART CRANE
(Episode 2) 57 Minutes
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Diverse locations and dramatizations of his life
illustrate Crane's poetry and his greatest work, "The
Bridge." (Id. No. 458)
Format: VHS
EMILY DICKINSON
(Episode 3) 57 Minutes
Of retiring mind, never venturing beyond the
precincts of her family home, Dickinson
nonetheless crafted passionate metaphysical
poetry that represented a broad range of
imaginative, and tough-minded experience. (Id.
No. 459)
Format: VHS
T.S. ELIOT
(Episode 4) 52 Minutes
Tom, as his friends knew him, came to personal
happiness and professional confidence late,
despite the bold originally of “Prufrock” and the
probing, meditative style of “Four Quarters” that
made him celebrated throughout the world. (Id.
No. 460)
Format: VHS
ROBERT FROST
(Episode 5) 57 Minutes
Despite of gentle grandfatherly appearance, Frost
was a man of many interests and strong opinions
who did not hesitate to vigorously explore the
darker forces of nature and the human condition.
(Id. No. 461)
Format: VHS
LANGSTON HUGHES
(Episode 6) 56 Minutes
Hughes wrote of the beauty, dignity, and heritage of
blacks in America. Interviews, music, and dance
performances convey his work and influence,
discussed by James Baldwin and biographer
Arnold Rampersad. (Id. No. 462)
Format: VHS
ROBERT LOWELL
(Episode 7) 56 Minutes
Lowell’s political passion is threaded throughout
much of his greatest poetry. The author of works
such as “Lord Weary’s Castle” and “Life Studies”
reads from his own work. (Id. No. 463)
Format: VHS
MARIANNE MOORE
(Episode 8) 59 Minutes
Passionate about baseball as well as poetry, Moore
was both funny and formidable. Her most
memorable poems, though in idiosyncratic form,
display her power of observation and her moral
force. (Id. No. 464)
Format: VHS
EZRA POUND
(Episode 10) 56 Minutes
Another tortured soul, Pound was the most
controversial of American Poets. An artistic
catalyst and author of brilliant cantos, he played a
pivotal role in the Modernist movement. (Id. No.
466)
Format: VHS
WALLACE STEVENS
(Episode 11) 57 Minutes
A successful insurance executive as well as an
acclaimed poet, Stevens utilized a flamboyant
verbal technique to illustrate his philosophical
version of American life. (Id. No. 467)
Format: VHS
WALT WHITMAN
(Episode 12) 55 Minutes
Brilliant readings of Whitman's poems demonstrate
his American vision and style and vividly convey
their poignance and sheer power. Whitman's
sources, including Emerson, the King James Bible,
opera, and political oratory, are revealed. (Id. No.
468)
Format: VHS
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* WILLIAM FAULKNER
45 Minutes
(Id. No. 469)
Format: VHS
WORLD OF ART: WORKS IN PROGRESS
1997
Each program in this art appreciation series is
devoted to a contemporary artist who takes one or
more works of art from start to finish. Listening to
the artists and observing their working process
provides insight into the artworks themselves. The
series emphasizes effective visual communication,
problem solving, and critical thinking as large,
often collaborative, projects are seen through to
completion. The series includes painting,
photography, sculpture, video, and performance art
LORNA SIMPSON
(Episode 1) 30 Minutes
Lorna Simpson, photographer, explores the
ambiguous terrain connecting words and images in
large-scale landscapes silkscreened on felt. (Id.
No. 470)
Format: VHS
GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA
(Episode 2) 30 Minutes
Mexican performance artist, poet, journalist, and
activist, calls attention to relations between the U.S.
and Mexico. (Id. No. 471)
Format: VHS
BILL VIOLA
(Episode 3) 30 Minutes
Bill Viola, video artist, combines video and sound in
intriguing ways, as seen in The Greeting,
a piece created for the Venice Biennale. (Id. No.
472)
Format: VHS
HUNG LIU
(Episode 4) 30 Minutes
Hung Liu, painter, comments on traditional
Chinese society as she paints a series of works on
the Last Emperor and his court. (Id. No. 473)
Format: VHS
BEVERLY BUCHANAN
(Episode 5) 30 Minutes
Beverly Buchanan, photographer, sculptor,
and painter, focuses on an important symbol of
rural Southern culture: the shack. (Id. No. 474)
Format: VHS
JUNE WAYNE
(Episode 6) 30 Minutes
June Wayne, printmaker and painter, reveals
her interest in science and scientific discovery as
she works on a new print in New York City. (Id.
No. 475)
Format: VHS
MILTON RESNICK
(Episode 7) 30 Minutes
Milton Resnick one of the last living members of the
New York School of painters, also known as the
Abstract Expressionists, creates five large oil
paintings over eight months. (Id. No. 476)
Format: VHS
JUDY BACA
(Episode 8) 30 Minutes
Judy Baca, painter and activist known for her
mile-long mural in Los Angeles depicting
Chicano history, works on two public art projects
in Southern California. (Id. No. 477)
Format: VHS
GOAT ISLAND
(Episode 9) 30 Minutes
Goat Island, a performance group that uses
visual imagery, music, dance, and narrative,
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rehearses and performs a new piece on a U.K.
tour. (Id. No. 478)
Format: VHS
MIERLE UKELES
(Episode 10) 30 Minutes
Mierle Ukeles, artist-in-residence at the New
York City Department of Sanitation, works on an
installation at the Fresh Kills landfill. (Id. No. 479)
Format: VHS
YANNI: ONE ON ONE
60 Minutes
(Rights: Educational & Broadcast)
Yanni participates in a unique presentation at
Interlochen Center for the Arts - one of the nation's
leading artistic institutions. Students at the
Interlochen school and from around the world join
Yanni in an enlightening and far-reaching debate
about music, creative vision, and his unique
compositional style. (Id. No. 480)
Format: VHS
ZORA NEALE HURSTON: A HEART WITH
ROOM FOR EVERY JOY
42 Minutes, 2005
“I have the strength to walk my own path, no matter
how hard, in my search for reality, and not cling to
the splendid wagon of desperate illusions.” A writer
of novels, short stories, folktales, plays, and
essays, Zora Neale Hurston combined a hunger for
research and a desire to penetrate the deepest of
popular beliefs with a truly exquisite narrative
talent. This illuminating biography of Hurston—a
compelling story of a free spirit who achieved
national prominence yet died in obscurity—
examines the rich legacy of her writings, which
include Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching
God, Tell My Horse, and Dust Tracks on a Road.
Interviews with Lucy Anne Hurston, Zora’s niece
and author of the biography Speak, So You Can
Speak Again, and with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.
E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities at
Harvard University, are featured. The program
amply demonstrates that Hurston truly had, as it
said in her high school yearbook, “A heart with
room for every joy.” (Id. No. 629)
Format: DVD
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BEHIND THE HATRED
2002
This series goes to the core of the Arab-Israeli
conflict, tracing the conflict’s history — from the first
Israeli settlers who emigrated to Palestine to the
peace initiative recently proposed by Saudi Arabia’s
Crown Prince Abdullah — this three-hour program
goes behind the rhetoric and examines the roots of
this ancient conflict. BEHIND THE HATRED, was
co-produced with BBC News, New York Times
Television, and NBC News. Interviews with key
American, Israeli and Arab players provide viewers
with historical and biographical context for
understanding the genesis of today’s current crisis.
Among those providing their insights are: former
President Jimmy Carter; Dennis Ross, former
Presidential Envoy to the Middle East; Prince
Hassan of Jordan; Ehud Barak, former Prime
Minister of Israel; Yasser Arafat, chairman of the
Palestinian Authority; Samuel R. Berger, former
National Security Adviser; James Baker, former
Secretary of State; Warren Christopher, former
Secretary of State; and others.
FIGHT FOR PEACE
52 minutes, 2002
A compelling documentary about the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. From the Oslo Accords in 1993,
to the Camp David Accord in 2000, to the recently
proposed peace plan put forth by the Saudis, two
themes still remain unsolved: the obstacles to
peace (land issues, refugees, and Jerusalem), and
the hatred and violence that afflicts both sides.
(Id. No. 481)
Format: VHS
ROOTS OF CONFLICT
(Episode 1) 52 Minutes
How do two peoples come to have a claim for the
same land? Why did the first settlers immediately
clash with the Arab population? This episode
examines these issues and also looks at how the
British, in the First World War, promised Palestine
to both Jews and Arabs, and then passed the
question of settlement to the newly formed United
Nations. (Id. No. 482)
Format: VHS
MORTAL ENEMIES
(Episode 2) 52 Minutes
Through comparative biographies of Yasser Arafat
and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, this
episode examines the current battle between Israeli
troops and Palestinian gunmen through the lens of
the two men’s antagonism. Why have their people,
eight million Palestinians and six million Israelis,
turned to these men as their leaders? Interviews
with close comrades-in-arms, as well as enemies of
both Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon, paint a vivid
picture of these two extraordinary figures. (Id.
No. 483)
Format: VHS
THE QUEST FOR PEACE
(Episode 3) 52 Minutes
From the Oslo Accords in 1993, to the Camp David
accord in 2000, to the recently proposed peace
plan put forth by the Saudis, two themes provide
the glue for this hour: the obstacles to peace —
land issues, refugees, and Jerusalem, among
others – and the hatred and violence that have
been stumbling blocks to finding a peaceful
solution. (Id. No. 484)
Format: VHS
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
THE REAL SADDAM
60 minutes, 2002
This documentary presents the coming of age of
Iraq’s oppressive leader. Saddam Hussein was
born in 1937 on the Tigris River with no running
water, no electricity, and no hope for the future. The
product of dirt-poor uneducated peasants, Saddam
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Hussein grew up during a period of radical
upheavals in Iraq and around the world. Saddam
was raised in a mud hut by his mother and a brutal
stepfather who beat him, regularly called him “son
of a whore”, and taught him to steal sheep and
chickens. Saddam also learned early on to trust
only his extended family and their tribal values, a
philosophy that still colors his worldview. This
documentary offers a rarely seen side of Saddam
Hussein. He’s a Stalin buff, yet a sentimental fellow
who cries easily. The program also documents how
Saddam learned to acquire, keep, and use the
power he so brutally wields. (Id. No. 485)
Format: VHS
UNDERSTANDING IRAQ
60 minutes, 2002
This documentary examines Iraq’s tumultuous
history. Veteran network correspondent Forrest
Sawyer uses his unique perspective throughout this
program to unravel the cutthroat politics that have
shaped Saddam Hussein and the tribal rivalries of
Iraq’s Kurds and Sunni Shi’ia Muslims. During the
Persian Gulf crisis, Sawyer spent eight monthsin
the Middle East reporting from Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Jordan. This documentary
also explores the United States tortured
relationship with Iraq. In the 1980’s, when Iraq was
an “enemy of our enemy,” Iran, the U.S. became an
ally of Saddam’s. This program documents how the
U.S. government approved the sale of anthrax to
Iraq. The documentary also grapples with the
question of what might happen to Iraq if Saddam is
forced out of office. (Id. No. 486)
Format: VHS
CHILDREN FOR SALE
39 minutes, 2004
NBC’s Dateline went undercover with a human
rights group to expose, on video, sex trafficking in
Cambodia. Interviewed for this program, Secretary
of State Powell was asked why sex trafficking had
become such an important issue. His response:
“Because it’s the worst kind of human exploitation
imaginable… it is a sin against humanity, and it is a
horrendous crime.” (Id. No. 572)
Format: VHS
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER: THE
EVOLUTION OF MODERN TERRORISM
54 minutes, 2002
An encyclopedic examination of modern terrorism,
beginning with its roots, its historical evolution to
the present, unveiling the organizational structure
of terrorist groups today. The program investigates
the global war against terrorism, revealing the inner
workings of intelligence and government agencies.
It examines various deterrence mechanisms,
border and immigration safeguards, monetary
controls, and the measures that can be undertaken
to curtail terrorist groups and heal the wounds that
have ripped our world apart. (Id. No. 487)
Format: VHS
DREAMS WITHOUT SLEEP
2002
The views of Kuwaiti director Walid al-Awadi about
the events of September 11 presented; video from
the World Trade Center area shown. (Id. No. 488)
Format: VHS
FRONTLINE
INSIDE THE TERRORIST NETWORK
55 minutes, 2002
This documentary explores the factors that
motivated those men who carried out the attacks on
America on September 11. It traces their
movements across four continents, follows clues
they left behind, and links their direct connection to
bin Laden’s terror network. How could these
conspirators have plotted for years and gone
basically undetected? Former New York Times
Washington Bureau Chief, Hedrick Smith, connects
the dots through interviews with their friends,
teachers, classmates, and acquaintances. In a
documentary/ dramatic fashion we experience their
final hours, and their final minutes. Hedrick Smith’s
closing words capture the underlying tone of this
documentary: “The enduring shock of September
11 is that we did not understand the world we live
in...understand that young men with bright futures
would burn with such hatred, that they would die to
destroy us. They succeeded by commitment and
cunning, we failed of complacency and poor
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imagination. They caught us by surprise because
we did not dream that this could happen here. Part
of what lies buried beneath the ashes at Ground
Zero are America’s delusions.” (Id. No. 489)
Format: VHS
CHASING THE SLEEPER CELL
55 minutes, 2003
The U.S. intelligence called the group “the most
dangerous terrorist cell in America.” This
documentary examines a major, domestic terrorism
case involving Al Qaeda operatives and American
citizens they trained. An American of Yemeni
descent from Lackawanna, New York, Sahim
Alwan and five friends traveled to Afghanistan,
trained in an Al Qaeda camp, and met Osama bin
Laden in the spring of 2001. Alwan was arrested in
September 2002 and has pled guilty to material
support of terrorism. At the time of this production,
he is in federal detention awaiting trial. In this
program, he explains why he went to the camp,
what it was like meeting bin Laden, and the events
that transpired leading up to his arrest. The arrest
of the six men was hailed as a victory in the
domestic war on terrorism. Three top government
government officials, including FBI Director Robert
Mueller discuss the danger of the Lackawanna
group. Some of the tools of counterterrorism are
explained, including the Patriot Act, the material
support statute, the enemy combatant designation
and “extreme measures.” (Id. No. 490)
Format: VHS
LOOKING FOR ANSWERS
60 minutes
Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
were history's most devastating terrorist assault
and the worst failure of U.S. intelligence in 60
years. FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman
and The New York Times investigate CIA and FBI
failure to uncover the hijackers' plot. The film
examines hatred for America among Muslim
fundamentalists, fueled by U.S. support for Israel
and authoritarian Middle East regimes. Anchored
by Bill Moyers. (Id. No. 524)
Format: VHS
TRAIL OF A TERRORIST
60 minutes
"Trail of a Terrorist" details how Ressam and his
accomplice, another Algerian refugee, began
constructing the bomb in November 1999-a month
before the planned attack in Los Angeles. They set
up their operation at a motel in Vancouver, Canada.
(Id. No. 526)
Format: VHS
TRUTH, WAR AND CONSEQUENCES
90 minutes
FRONTLINE traces roots of the Iraqi war back to
the days after 9/11, when Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld created a special intelligence
operation to seek evidence justifying war. These
intelligence reports soon fueled a struggle between
Pentagon civilians and the CIA, State Department,
and uniformed military. The struggle would cause
inadequate planning for war's aftermath, continuing
violence, and political problems for President Bush.
(Id. No. 527)
Format: VHS
IN MEMORIAM - NEW YORK CITY
60 Minutes, 2002
With the Rudolph W. Giuliani as guide, In
Memoriam" New York City, 9/11/02 follows the
mayor and his staff from their first realization of
what had occurred, through despair and tears, to a
newfound strength that would emerge in the spirit
of a new America. The documentary presents a
panoramic and unique historical record of that
fateful day in New York City.
In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01 draws on
unprecedented access to City Hall and the Mayor's
staff, as well as visual material-much of it never
before seen-from still and video cameras of more
that 100 people in and around New York City,
everyday citizens who were eyewitnesses to the
tragic events of the day. Members of the Mayor's
key staff are interviews in the film, including:
Bernard Kerik, Police Commissioner: Thomas von
Essen, Fire Commissioner: Joe Lhota, Operations
Chief of City Government: Sunny Mindel,
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Communications Director: and Beth Petrone, the
Mayor's executive assistant. (Id. No. 491)
Format: VHS
THE ISLAMIC WAVE
50 minutes, 2003
This program surveys the sociopolitical landscape
of Islamic hotspots in the Middle East, Pakistan,
Indonesia, Sudan, and elsewhere. Features
commentary by Musharraf, Qazi Hussain Ahmad,
Dr. Hasan al-Turabi, and other key figures. The
documentary provides background on Islam and
considers the use of violence by Muslim extremists
to attain their goals. (Id. No. 181)
Format: VHS
LIBERTY AND SECURITY IN AN AGE OF
TERRORISM
58 Minutes, 2004
The U.S. is on orange alert, and the citizens of
Midburgh are on the lookout for "suspicious
activity." What should they do when circumstantial
evidence indicating a potential terrorist plot points
to two people of Arab ethnicity? This Fred Friendly
Seminar, produced as part of Columbia University’s
250th Anniversary, explores the balance between
national security and civil liberties in the post-9/11
world. Is one price of vigilance suspicion among
neighbors? Do the demands of security now require
broader government power to investigate and to
detain? Using a hypothetical scenario, moderator
Professor Michael Dorf of Columbia Law School
pushes the panelists to confront these issues.
Panelists include Viet Dinh, a principal architect of
the USA PATRIOT Act; Congressman Barney
Frank (D-MA); Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia
University; James Kallstrom, Senior Advisor for
Counterterrorism to Governor Pataki, State of New
York; Judge Alex Kozinski, of the U.S. Court of
Appeals, Ninth Circuit; Mary Jo White, former U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Kate
Martin, director of the Center for National Security
Studies; Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek
International; Jan Ting, professor of law at Temple
University; Nadine Strossen, president of the
American Civil Liberties Union; First Amendment
attorney Floyd Abrams; James Gilmore, chair of the
Congressional Advisory Commission on Terrorism
Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction; and Jack
Cloonan, former FBI case agent on Osama bin
Laden and al Qaeda investigations. The panelists,
who wrestle with these high-stakes questions in
their daily lives, discuss the implications of the USA
PATRIOT Act, surveillance of suspects, closed
detention hearings, demands for student
information, and just what constitutes an unlawful
enemy combatant. Additional resources are located
online at www.fredfriendly.org. (Id. No. 648)
Format: DVD
THE LIVING MARTYR: INSIDE THE
HEZBOLLAH
53 minutes, 2001
For militant followers of Islam, the highest honor is
to be dubbed “the living martyr,” one who has
committed himself to dying in a suicide attack
against the organization’s enemies. Why do boys
embrace this ideal? How do mothers and sisters
feel? This documentary interviews Lebanon’s
Hezbollah resistance fighters and their families as
well as footage of suicide mission preparation. If
one is trying to understand the political situation in
the Middle East and beyond, Films for the
Humanities strongly endorses this program. (Id.
No. 492)
Format: VHS
LOSS AND RECOVERY: LIBRARIANS BEAR
WITNESS TO SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
2002
The video which focuses on effect of 9/11 attack on
libraries located in lower Manhattan and interviews
with librarians who were in or near the World Trade
Center on that horrific day. In their own words, they
describe what they saw and how it has affected
them personally and professionally. (Id. No. 616)
Format: VHS
NEW YORK FIREFIGHTERS: THE
BROTHERHOOD OF SEPTEMBER 11TH
52 minutes, 2002
Though the New York City fire fighting community
was devastated by the terrorist attacks of
September 11, they proved themselves to be heroic
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even in the midst of personal tragedy. This
documentary, narrated by the award-winning
actress Stockard Channing, profiles the firemen of
Rescue 3, who used strength and solidarity to
prevail against unbearable pain and loss. (Id. No.
524)
Format: VHS
* PEACEFUL TOMORROW
5 min. 47 sec.
The day when the greatest threat to world peace
and harmony happened; the day thousands lost
their lives to the most heinous crime of humanity. It
was also the day when the world awoke and
resolved to work towards everlasting peace and
build bonds of Universal brotherhood. This audio
visual was specially produced and mastered by the
students of SAE to express their emotions on 9/11
disaster. (Id. No. 566)
Format: VCD
REBUILDING AFGHANISTAN
18 minutes, 2003
Seven short TV features woven together, showing
U.S. led efforts to reconstruct Afghanistan’s
agricultural, educational, transportation, media, and
health sectors, as well as to enfranchise women.
(Id. No. 493)
Format: VHS
REMEMBERING SADDAM
50 minutes, 2004
The story of seven Baghdad merchants who
incurred the wrath of Saddam. In 1994 Saddam
ordered the businessmen to Abu Ghraib prison for
allegedly trading in foreign currency as opposed to
the nearly worthless dinar. After spending a year in
hellish prisons and five months in the infamous Abu
Ghraib, they got a 30-minute trial and were
sentenced. Saddam ordered that their right hands
be cut off “to show what happens to those who
undermine our economy.” A secret police video
camera was on hand to record the horrendous acts
and to remind anyone who considered opposing
the brutal dictator of the likely consequences. After
the liberation of Iraq, Don North, a former NBC
Bureau Chief was disturbed on learning of this
senseless cruelty. He sought out the victims and
produced a powerful and poignant documentary. In
addition to the victims’ stories, we hear their wives
and children recount their own suffering at the
hands of classmates and neighbors. Yet, after
Saddam’s fall, you see the love and gentleness
these men have developed for each other that has
emerged from their despair and hope. (Id. No.
494)
Format: VHS
SEARCHING FOR THE ROOTS OF 9/11,
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
50 minutes, 2003
Thomas L. Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prizewinning
New York Times columnist, tries to answer
two of the most puzzling questions to come out of
9/11: What drove young, middle-class Muslim men
to give up their lives to murder almost 3,000
people? And - perhaps more important - why does
their violent act elicit so much support from millions
of ordinary Muslims throughout the world? He
searches out the answers in the Middle East where
the contradictory feelings of so many Muslims are
laid bare: admiration for America’s freedom and
standard of living, combined with anger for what
they see as arrogant behavior in that part of the
world.
Friedman travels to Indonesia and Qatar where
Muslim students bristle at the notion of increased
U.S. support for Israeli violence against
Palestinians, and yet they express their eagerness
to enroll in American universities. Friedman, who
has 25 years experience reporting on the Muslim
world, appears on Al Jazeera television debating a
radicalPalestinian. (His jocular manner can be a
model for surviving those “confrontational
moments” in the public affairs business.) He then
takes viewers on a grim walk through the streets of
the very same Cairo neighborhood that produced
Mohammad Atta - the leader of the September 11
attacks. (Id. No. 238)
Format: VHS
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
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UNDERSTANDING AMERICA’S TERRORIST
CRISIS: WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
106 Minutes, 2004
How did the United States come to be so hated?
Could the horrific events of September 11th be
setting in motion a chain of events far more
significant than the terrorist attacks themselves?
Held before a standing-room audience of 1,350,
this powerful program features celebrated authors
and scholars who examine the terrorist crisis and
ask the all-important question: Why?
Filmed before a live audience, renowned author
Gore Vidal rejects the blind “patriotism” expected
by government officials and the mainstream media,
and investigates U.S. foreign policy throughout
recent history, showing how it has contributed to
the terrorist crisis. With his famous wit and insight,
Vidal also demonstrates the ways in which the “War
on Terrorism” is being used to curtail civil liberties
and shred the Bill of Rights.
Barton Bernstein, Professor of History, Stanford
University, examines the definition of terrorism and
cites U.S. military campaigns perpetrated against
foreign civilians during the twentieth century.
Economist and historian Robert Higgs, Senior
Fellow, The Independent Institute, debunks myths
about the U.S. defense budget that perpetuate
massive corporate welfare and contribute to
America’s vulnerability to terrorism. Thomas Gale
Moore, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, describes
the effects of U.S. global military presence and
explores options that would reduce the terrorist
threat. The forum finishes with a lively question and
answer session. (Id. No. 692)
Format: DVD
WORLD TRADE CENTER: ANATOMY OF
THE COLLAPSE
52 Minutes, 2003
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were
designed to be impervious to an attack by an
airplane. But the events of September 11 revealed
a horrific flaw in the plans.
This program, originally produced for the
educational cable channel, the Learning Channel,
aims to dissect the day in absolute detail. Using
CGI graphics, interviews with witnesses, and
discussions with those who designed and
engineered the buildings, ANATOMY OF A
COLLAPSE clears up many of the day's mysteries.
(Id. No. 691)
Format: DVD
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
GREAT TRANSATLANTIC CABLE
60 Minutes, 2005
More than a century before the Internet, a thirtyeight
year old self made millionaire gambled his
fortune on a risky quest to wire the world. Inspired
by the telegraph wires crisscrossing the American
landscape, New York entrepreneur Cyrus Field
became obsessed with an even grander idea: a
cable that spanned the Atlantic. His daring plan to
connect the continents would call on the best
scientists, the navies of two great powers, the labor
of thousands, and his own unshakable optimism.
This American Experience tells story of a visionary
with a seemingly unbreakable will to connect the
world. Never far from catastrophe, after twelve
years of cajoling and massaging investors, several
abortive attempts to lay the cable, and millions of
wasted
Dollars, Field and his team of engineers finally
succeeded. On July 27, 1866, when the 2000 milelong
was finally in place, Field sent back the first
message to Europe: “Thank God,” he wrote, “the
Cable is Laid.” Since that day, almost 140 years
ago, nothing has broken his communications link,
with Europe-not storms, earthquakes or world wars.
(Id. No. 698)
Format: DVD
RACE TO THE MOON: THE DARING
ADVENTURE OF APOLLO 8
60 Minutes, 2005
On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest
audiences in television history tuned in to an
extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the moon's
surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned
space flight to leave Earth's gravitational pull and
orbit the moon. The historic journey captivated
people around the world; many welcomed a
technological triumph in space after a year marked
by assassinations, riots and war.
As this American Experience production reveals,
however, the mission's success was far from
assured. The Apollo 8 astronauts had just four
months to prepare for the risky lunar orbit, and
catastrophic failure would have brought a halt to
America's goal of putting a man on the moon
before the end of the decade.
With images and audio never before broadcast, this
film recounts the flight many consider to be NASA's
most daring and important. Interviews with Apollo 8
astronauts, their wives, mission control staff, and
journalists take viewers inside the high-stakes
space race of the late 1960s to reveal how a bold
decision by NASA administrators put a struggling
Apollo program back on track and allowed America
to reach the moon before the Soviets. (Id. No.
701)
Format: DVD
CAMBRIDGE CORE SCIENCE SERIES:
BIOBASICS
2005
Use the comprehensive 8-part BioBasics series to
excite your students about life science as you
present the fundamental concepts they’ll need for a
firm foundation in biology! An engaging blend of
computer graphics, interviews with scientists, and
animations will hold their attention as they open
their minds to a wide range of essential life science
topics.
GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
24 Minutes
What does genetic diversity mean, and what is its
relationship to evolution? This video answers that
intriguing question as it summarizes the theory of
natural selection and describes the process of trait
inheritance. Advances stemming from the Human
Genome Project—an ever-deepening
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understanding of life on Earth, improvements in
disease detection and treatment, and applications
of genomics to agriculture, the environment, and
forensic science—are also discussed. (Id. No.
645)
Format: DVD
CRAPSHOOT
53 minutes, 2003
A hazardous mix of solid and liquid waste is flushed
into the sewer every day. With literally billions of
gallons of water passing through municipal sewer
systems - composed of unknown quantities of
chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste,
and food - the question becomes: where does it all
go? And what effect does that have on us?
From ancient times, countries have chosen the
sewer as the waste management system of choice,
flushing untold amounts of household and industrial
contaminants that inevitably resurface in the food
chain; fish swim through rivers choked with waste
water, while processed sewage sludge is spread on
farmland as a fertilizer.
With CRAPSHOOT, filmmaker Jeff McKay takes
viewers on an eye-opening journey around the
world to explore different approaches to sewage,
starting at the 2,500 year old Cloaca Maxima in
Rome, where the modern concept of sewers
began. Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United
States and Canada, this bold documentary
questions whether the sewer is alleviating or
compounding our waste problem. While scientists
warn of links between sewage practices and
potential health risks, our fundamental attitudes
toward waste are being challenged by activists,
engineers, and concerned citizens alike. Does our
need to dispose of waste take precedence over
public health and safety? What are the
alternatives? (Id. No. 574)
Format: VHS
CYBERTERROR: BRINGING DOWN THE
INTERNET
17 Minutes, 2002
When the next terrorist attack occurs, will it be by
air strike or keystroke? This program reveals the
vulnerability of the Internet backbone to paralyzing
hack attacks and measures being taken to close
some of the many holes in the Net. After discussing
the open nature of online communications and how
attacks via landline are conducted, security
consultants demonstrate the ease with which
cyberterrorists can breach wireless networks by
"war driving." Software and insurance companies
as well as law enforcement agencies are cited as
crucial components in what must become an all-out
coordinated anti-terror effort—while there is still
time. (Id. No. 653)
Format: DVD
EARTH DAY SPECIAL
ASSIGNMENT EARTH
30 Minutes
(Id. No. 162)
Format: VHS
DEEP SEA INVASION
60 minutes, 2003
Discover how a ''killer algae'' is causing ecological
disaster around the world.
''It’s like out of a horror movie... but it’s real,'' claims
one marine biologist about the innocent-looking
algae that is actually threatening ecosystems from
the Mediterranean Sea to the California coast. Like
the eerie start of a chilling science-fiction film, the
first small patch of this mysterious seaweed was
discovered off the coast of Monaco in 1989. Today,
the noxious weed covers vast areas around the
globe, causing many marine experts to dub it an
ecological disaster.
NOVA tracks the past, present, and future of this
killer algae, exploring how a supposedly harmless
plant once bred to decorate fish tanks and museum
aquariums escaped into the Mediterranean and
became the monster that now chokes out
indigenous sea-life whereever it spreads. Meet the
biologist who was first to sound the alarm and
discover the shocking story of how this green
monster was first released into the sea. Learn how
this algae now spreads unchallenged on the sea
floor. And see how one possible solution is stirring
debate and igniting controversy. (Id. No. 581)
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Format: VHS
DESTINATION TOMORROW
Magazine series focusing on NASA's research, with
behind-the-scenes views of new scientific
developments, descriptions of how technologies
work, and introductions to researchers working on
future technologies.
EPISODES-101E & 103E, 28:30 minutes &
28:32 minutes
(Id. No. 607)
Format: VHS
EPISODES-105E & 107E, 28:30 minutes &
28:32 minutes
(Id. No. 608)
Format: VHS
EPISODE 501 consists of four exciting segments
about NASA's Aviation Safety Program. In the
"Behind the Scenes" segment, viewers will learn
about the Single ALraft Accident Prevention
Program; in the next segment, viewers will learn
about crashing airplanes for safety at the Impact
Dynamics Research Facility; in the next segment
viewers find out about a unique Icing Research
Wind Tunnel; and viewers find out Turbulence
Detection in the final segment. (Id. No. 161)
Format: VHS
EMPTY OCEANS, EMPTY NETS
55 Minutes, 2003
The world’s fisheries are under increasing
pressure, with approximately 70 percent of the
world’s commercial fish stocks considered fully
exploited or over-exploited. Yet, consumers
demand for fish worldwide is on the rise. EMPTY
OCEANS, EMPTY NETS is a documentary
exploring the immense challenges threatening
marine fisheries worldwide.
EMPTY OCEANS, EMPTY NETS examines the full
extent of the challenges facing the world’s fisheries
and the forces that continue to threaten many
marine fish stocks. It also documents some of the
most promising and innovative work being done to
restore fisheries and protect essential fish habitat.
New market initiatives are explored that give
consumers a powerful vote in deciding how our
oceans are fished. (Id. No. 577)
Format: VHS
ENDANGERED PLANET: THE
ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF GROWTH
60 minutes, 1999
Smog, oil spills, soil contamination, DDT, the ozone
layer—the technological revolution has exacted a
high price; one ultimately paid by our environment.
At first, it was thought pollution was simply a
“natural” byproduct of progress. But as more of the
environment faced serious contamination,
corporations were held accountable for disrupting
the world’s ecological structure.
Endangered Planet explores the sad truths
resulting from the collision between industry and
the natural order and reveals why big business was
allowed to ravage the earth unchecked. Today,
legal limitations and environmental activism have
helped, but has progress arrived too late. (Id.
Nos. 580)
Format: VHS
ENVIRONMENT SPECIAL
BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROW: HRD,
THE HEART OF THE FOREST SERVICE
The U.S. Forest Service maintains and protects
America’s 190 million acres of national forests and
grasslands. To augment its own employees, the
USFS recruits over 10,000 people annually-in
partnership with business, private agenceis,
individuals and organizations-to perform valuable
services on the public lands. This video focusses
on volunteer programs with youth groups and
retired people. (Id. No. 163)
Format: VHS
I NEED EARTH AND EARTH NEEDS ME
20 Minutes
Colleen Dewhurst narrates this program affirming
that the earth is our home ; all living things on earth
depend on each other and all need a quality
environment. Although designed for primary school
students, it is also suitable for adults, stimulating an
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interest in learning more about the environments by
instilling a sense of intimacy between the viewer
and the world he or she lives in. (Id. No. 167)
Format: VHS
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EARTH
57 Minutes
This documentary shows what people are doing to
promote environmental awareness and how they
are cooperating to build a better environmental
future. It features both an overall review of current
environmental issues and interviews with a variety
of business officers and individuals. (Id. No. 168)
Format: VHS
POWER TO PROTECT: THREE STORIES
ABOUT GROUNDWATER
33 Minutes
This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency video
shows real-life problems in hydrogeology, or
ground water management, faced by three New
England communities. Issues discussed include
agricultural contamination, development pressures,
water monitoring, aq uifer mapping and intertown
coordination. (Id. No. 169)
Format: VHS
TRASHING THE OCEANS
9 Minutes
The program calls attention to one of the biggest
environmental problems facing the oceans, the
indiscriminate disposal of garbage, and its effect on
sea life, ships propellers, and the world's beaches.
It also features alarming examples of what
disposable plastic containers are doing to our
oceans. (Id. No. 170)
Format: VHS
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND HUMAN
IMPACT
22 Minutes, 2006
Air and water pollution, the effects of pollution on
health and the environment, deforestation and loss
of wetlands, ozone depletion and global warming,
and the negative impact of agriculture, construction,
and recreation/tourism are discussed. The
program ends with anti-pollution initiatives like
recycling and greater energy efficiency. The key
message? Individuals can make a difference! (Id.
No. 626)
Format: DVD
* INCONVENIENT TRUTH: A GLOBAL
WARNING
96 Minutes, 2006
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the
science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal
history and lifelong commitment to reversing the
effects of global climate change. A longtime
advocate for the environment, Gore presents a
wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful
and compelling way. "Al Gore strips his
presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the
audience to draw their own conclusions in a
charming, funny and engaging style, and by the
end has everyone on the edge of their seats,
gripped by his haunting message," said
Guggenheim. An Inconvenient Truth is not a story
of despair but rather a rallying cry to protect the one
earth we all share. "It is now clear that we face a
deepening global climate crisis that requires us to
act boldly, quickly, and wisely," said Gore. (Id. Nos.
666)
Format: DVD
MASTERS OF TECHNOLOGY
(5-part series) 30 Minutes each
Masters of Technology is a series of 5 half-hour
programs, each a one-on-one conversation with an
exceptional man or woman who has made a
significant impact on technology. The series of
conversations will give viewers a richer
understanding of the cutting edge technologies that
are propelling the world economy.
One leading innovator and technologist has been
chosen from each of five categories: Space
Technology, Internet Technology, Bio- Medical
Technology, Environmental Technology and
Aeronautical Technology. These men and women
are among the most accomplished in their
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respective fields today and can speak with passion
about what they have accomplished and where
their technologies are going.
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
(Episode 1) 30 Minutes
Geoffrey Ballard's revolutionary breakthrough may
single-handedly solve the growing threat of global
warming by eliminating that great polluter: the
internal combustion engine. For years, he was
dismissed as crazy but the dogged engineer
persisted and with a team of dedicated scientists
developed a new, non-polluting fuel source for
automobiles and busses--the hydrogen fuel cell.
Today, the company he founded, Ballard Power is
backed by funding from some of the major
automobile companies. In this program, Ballard
details how he and his team developed the
hydrogen fuel cell--the many bumps along the way-
-and the future prospects for what he calls the
hydrogen economy. (Id. No. 187)
Format: VHS
INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
(Episode 2) 30 Minutes
Vinton Cerf may not be a household name but
without his invention surfing the Internet wouldn't
exist. He is known as the father of the Internet. Cerf
and his research partner Bob Kahn, discovered the
universal language that powers the internet, they
signed the critical software that allowed computer
networks to talk to each other. It's TCP/IP. (Id. No.
188)
Format: VHS
BIO-MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
(Episode 3) 30 Minutes
If you want to find where medicine is headed a
good place to start is the lab of Dr. Robert Langer.
By combining chemical engineering with biology,
Dr. Langer has pioneered breakthroughs that have
saved thousands of lives and eased the suffering of
millions of patients.
Despite resistance in the medical community, he
went on to develop a wafer like device that doctors
could implant in the brain. This wafer allowed
doctors to put in drugs at much higher potency than
normal to attack cancerous brain tumors. His skill
with polymers also led to developing an artificial
skin for burn victims. He is now working on
developing artificial organs. (Id. No. 501)
Format: VHS
AERONAUTICAL TECHNOLOGY
(Episode 4) 30 Minutes
If there is an heir to the Wright Brothers, it is Burt
Rutan. In his Mojave Desert research facility,
Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, turns out
airplane designs that are unlike any that have ever
been seen. Many of his concepts, small wings in
the front of planes, and winglets, found at the end
of wings, have made their way into everyday planes
and fighter jets. Rutan has also pioneered the use
of composites in plane construction because of
their strength and light weight. (Id. No. 189)
Format: VHS
SPACE TECHNOLOGY
(Episode 5) 30 Minutes
Unlike many inventors, Donna Shirley's forte is
working and managing creative teams. She put this
skill to use when she oversaw the NASA team
which sent the toy-like Rover crawling on the
surface of Mars. The mission captured the world's
imagination becoming one of NASA's greatest
successes.
Growing up in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, she was
constantly told that girls couldn't be engineers
much less work for NASA. Yet, from the age of 16
when she got her pilot's license until the present
day, she always proved her critics wrong. (Id. No.
190)
Format: VHS
NOVA
GREAT ROBOT RACE
56 minutes, 2006
Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the
starting gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with
one thing in common: there’s nobody behind the
wheel. Sponsofred by the Pentagon’s research
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agency, this race for robotic, driverless vehicles has
a $2 million prize. Its ultimate goal is to gather new
ideas for the future of unmanned warfare.
With names like Terramax, Highlander, Ghostrider,
and Stanley, these vehicles are armed with cuttingedge
technology, including artificial intelligence,
laser-guided vision, GPS navigation, and 3-D
mapping systems. But can some of the world’s
most advanced robots overcome a grueling, 130-
mile stretch of Nevada’s scorching desert terrain?
NOVA follows the competing engineering teams as
they deal with the glitches, system crashes, and
tight deadlines that threaten to derail them at every
turn. NOVA’s cameras capture the race’s technical
challenges, hilarious pitfalls, and a final twist as a
surprise contender comes up from behind to steal
the race. . (Id. No. 619)
Format: DVD
MARS DEAD OR ALIVE
60 minutes, 2004
Two-thirds of all spacecraft previously launched to
Mars never reached their destination. Now, in a
pioneering and risky mission, twin rovers named
Spirit and Opportunity hurtle toward Mars at 12,000
miles per hour, with Spirit scheduled to touch down
first. In the final “six minutes of terror” a parachute
will open, giant protective airbags will inflate around
the lander, and retrorockets will fire for a few
seconds before Spirit is cut loose, bouncing its way
to what everyone hopes will be a safe landing. To
survive, Spirit will have to function perfectly. It will
also have to be lucky, since there’s no way of
knowing when a sharp rock or a gust of wind will
ruin your day on Mars. Only then will Spirit be able
to roll off the lander and begin its mission as a robot
geologist, searching for clues that can tell us
whether this harsh and barren planet was ever a
place that could have supported life.
Join NOVA for a tense and dramatic behind-thescenes
chronicle of the $820 million Mars
Exploration Rover (MER) project, developed as
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
California. Beginning a year before launch,
NOVA’s cameras follow MER scientists and
engineers through a gauntlet of potentially fatal
problems such as shredding parachutes, punctured
airbags, and short circuits, any one of which could
scuttle the mission before the rovers ever reach the
launchpad.
Then, seven months after launch, re-join NOVA
and the NASA team in mission control for the final
nail-biting minutes of the journey, as Spirit
successfully lands on Maras and begins sending
back its first spectacular images of the Martain
landscape. (Id. No. 579)
Format: VHS
SATURN’S TITAN: VOYAGE TO THE
MYSTERY MOON
56 Minutes, 2006
A billion miles from Earth, Titan is a tantalizing alien
world. Could clues to the origins of life or even
living microbes be hidden under its thick orange
clouds? Saturn’s largest moon has a soupy
atmosphere resembling Earth’s billions of years
ago, and may help reveal how life got started and
whether it exists on other worlds.
But discovering Titan’s secrets demands a bold and
ambitious space mission. It took seven years for
top US and European scientists to design and build
the ingenious Cassini-Huygens space probe. Take
a front-row seat at Mission Control to watch the
launch and the crises that threaten the probe on its
perilous voyage across the solar system.
Along the way, Cassini captures astonishing
images of Saturn’s rings and many new clues to
their mysterious beauty. The climax comes with the
touchdown on Titan. As Huygens penetrates the
orange haze, it unveils a bizarre landscape
drenched in liquid methane, more surprising than
the scientists ever suspected.
Filled with incredible images beamed back during
the mission, NOVA takes a dramatic voyage of
discovery to an exotic world unimaginably far from
our own. (Id No. 621)
Format: DVD
WELCOME TO MARS
60 Minutes, 2005
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Take an astounding look at the red planet in this
interplanetary adventure the picks up where the
acclaimed film Mars Dead or Alive left off. From the
white-knuckle landings of the Mars rovers Spirit and
Opportunity, through months of frustrating setbacks
and elating discoveries, Welcome to Mars captures
the gripping drama and the breathtaking images of
the most significant mission events.
Mission Control and its two robotic explorers face a
daunting task-find proof that liquid water, the
essential ingredient of life, once existed on Mars.
Just days into the mission, euphoria turns to
despair as Spirit suddenly stops communicating
with NASA. With the mission on the line, restoring
communications with the rover becomes a nerveshredding
ordeal before the problem is solved.
Then, Opportunity serendipitously lands near a
scientifically valuable rock outcrop that provides
crucial evidence allowing NASA to announce solid
proof that Mars was once awash in water.
Through unprecedented access, Welcome to Mars
presents a compelling inside story of triumph,
technical ingenuity, and emotional drama packed
with stunning images from an alien world. (Id. No.
578)
Format: VHS
WRIGHT BROTHERS’ FLYING MACHINE
60 Minutes, 2003
For the centennial of the first airplane flight, the
celebrated NOVA science series produced a
dramatic investigation of the Wrights’ amazing
achievement.
To bring the Wrights’ technological genius to life,
this program features authentic replicas of their
brilliantly conceived craft being used in test
flights. The climax is the construction and
maiden flight of a replica Wright 1911 Model B,
the pinnacle of the brothers’ accomplishments
and the world’s first practical passenger-carrying
flying machine, with all the essential technical
features of today’s Aircraft.
In recreating the Wrights’ journey of discovery,
this program begins where the brothers did: with
gliders for testing the efficiency of wing shapes to
produce lift, along with a three-axis control. (Id.
No. 251)
Format: VHS & DVD
SCIENCE SHOW
AGRICULTURAL PEST CONTROL
23 Minutes
(Id. No. 225)
Format: VHS
AIR POLLUTION : INDOORS
26 Minutes
Indoor air pollution is in many ways a self-induced
problem--which makes it no easier to solve.
Painting and other home improvements have
introduced pollutants, thermal insulation and other
energy-saving and water-proofing devices have
trapped the pollutants inside. The result is that air
pollution inside a modern home can be worse than
inside a chemical plant. (Id. No. 226)
Format: VHS
AIR POLLUTION : OUTDOORS
16 Minutes
Describes air pollution problems and the
techniques being used to rid the environment of
pollutants. (Id. No. 227)
Format: VHS
ANTARCTICA ON THE EDGE: IMPENDING
ECOLOGICAL DOOM
52 Minutes
Antarctica is on the brink of destruction. With
temperatures rising, delicate ecosystems which
have been built up over the centuries are on the
verge of collapse. This documentary shows rifts as
wide as football fields opening in ice once hundreds
of feet thick. Fur seals, their health declining, bask
on widening beaches, while Adélie penguins
experience dwindling food sources. Experts predict
that this crisis in Antarctica could portend flood
disaster for many coastal cities around the globe.
This is a sobering picture of impending ecological
doom. (Id. No. 228)
Format: VHS
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THE DISPOSABLE SOCIETY
26 Minutes
(Id. No. 229)
Format: VHS
DOWN IN THE DUMPS
26 Minutes
(Id. No. 230)
Format: VHS
DOWN TO THE LAST DROP
26 Minutes
(Id. No. 231)
Format: VHS
FIGHTING POLLUTION
23 Minutes
The war on pollution in all its forms is a pressing
priority that brooks no delay. Although much
remains to be done, the technology to restore our
environment is already in existence. This program
describes three examples of such technology: the
purification of drinking water; urban and industrial
sewage treatment; and vacuum pyrolysis, a
revolutionary procedure that makes possible the
total recycling of troublesome waste products such
as tires. (Id. No. 232)
Format: VHS
FORESTS
23 Minutes
Forests are not just collections of growing trees. A
forest is a complex environment, home to
thousands of intricately interconnected living
species. This program explores three aspects of
the forest: the amazing process of photosynthesis,
by which plants collect solar energy and convert it
into essential compounds; the role of forests in
global weather and in maintaining the balance of
the biosphere; and the threats to our forests. (Id.
No. 233)
NOISE, RADIOACTIVE, AND
ELECTROMAGNETIC POLLUTION
23 Minutes
Only a Rip van Winkle could still be unaware of the
many problems threatening the balance of nature.
This program deals with other, more insidious
forms of pollution: noise pollution, which can
destroy hearing; radioactivity, which affects us at
the cellular level, causing mutations and cancer;
and electromagnetic waves emitted by high-tension
lines and most electrical appliances, which may
also have negative effects on the human body. The
program explores the possible effects of these
three sources of pollution and the controversies
they elicit. (Id. No. 234)
Format: VHS
PRESERVING FORESTS
23 Minutes
Every year, millions of acres of forest are destroyed
by fire, insects, and overcutting. This program looks
at various ways in which forest management and
science can help preserve forests: the battle
against fire and insect pests; and the attempts to
improve tree stock by means of tree genetics, a
promising new technique. (Id. No. 235)
Format: VHS
WASTE DISPOSAL
23 Minutes
(Id. No. 236)
Format: VHS
WATER
23 Minutes
This program looks at the composition and
properties of water and its ability to adopt different
forms and move from one to another as it circulates
continuously between earth, bodies of water, and
the atmosphere. The program also looks at two
specific kinds of water: mineral water, which has
different uses depending on the minerals it
contains; and rain water, which can be a serious
source of pollution for waterways that run through
cities. (Id. No. 237)
Format: VHS
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SCIENCE WORLD
*Episode: 1049-R
27:54 Minutes
*Episode: 1051-I
27:54 Minutes
The 17ty century’s Nicholas Steno was a unique
individual anatomist, then scientist, turned priest,
an he is now on his way to becoming a Saint
Science of the year 2003; Malaria claims more lives
than other disease, and continues to spread
throughout Southern Africa. (Id. No. 664)
Format: CD
*Episode: 1062-I
29:08 Minutes
The Goldman Environmental Prize, considered the
"Nobel Prize for the Environment," is given annually
to grassroots environmental heroes from six
geographic areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and
Island Nations, North America, and South and
Central America. The Prize includes a no-stringsattached
award of $125,000, the largest of its kind.
The Goldman Environmental Prize celebrated its
15th anniversary this year, and a survey of past
recipients for the occasion revealed that their
combined work has positively affected an estimated
102 million people worldwide. (Id. No. 664)
Format: CD
* Episode:1058-I,
26:28 Minutes
The Straw Bale revival is an Ecological solution to a
worldwide housing problem; Libia Gresco of
Buenaventure, Columbia is the 2004 Goldman
Environmental Prize winner from South America; a
look at the U.S. Department of Energy’s renewable
energy center, and the Solar Decathlon they
sponsored in Washington DC; wind power is the
fastest growing power technology in the United
States. (Id. No. 611)
Format: VHS
* EPISODE:1061-R
26:16 Minutes
A private genetics facility in Canada is tinkering
with the genes in goat’s milk, and other items, to
create new products; the United States is one of
the biggest consumers of exotic wildlife, but china
is not far behind; U.S. eye surgeons are now
implanting lens in a person’s eyes; a new blood test
can help determine how long a person with
spreading breast cancer may survive; our
understanding of our planet would increase
dramatically if we do research studies underwater
for extended periods; The 2004 Goldman
Environment Prize Winner from Island Nations is a
founding father of East Timor, the world’s newest
country; it now appears dogs, keen sense of smell
could save their owners from a silent menace
cancer. (Id. No. 611)
Format: VHS
SPACE TECH
EPISODE: 110E
26:03 minutes
Learn how technology, developed for use in space,
helps in the home, makes safer cars, stronger
airplanes, protects against fire, and provides
painless eye checks for children. See astronauts
play with toys in space and doctors translate space
experiments into healing techniques. (Id. No. 612)
Format: VHS
EPISODE: 111E
26:03 minutes
Discover what a premature baby has in common
with the gigantic engines of the space shuttle; how
lasers work inside human arteries; how common
weeds may help life in space; how the Lunar Rover
helps people drive on earth, and how space
technology provides an alternative fuel source. Id.
No. 612)
Format: VHS
TECHNOLODY TODAY
(Episode 134E) 23:22 minutes
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A new weekly magazine series with updates on
technologies and new technological developments.
In this episode: New applications for radio
frequency identification; big advances in the
surgical use of lasers; rebuilding human organs; a
hand-cranked computer for developing countries; a
regeneration project for old mines; controlling
malaria mosquitoes; new waste disposal
technologies; designing sensory hotel rooms; a
new drug treatment for nicotine addiction, closing
the digital divide; improving soil condition with
microbes; and a new trial studies drug
combinations for lowering blood pressure. (Id No.
667)
Format: DVD
UNSPOILED PLANET
This series profiles the areas of the earth that have
remained relatively untouched by humans, and the
fascinating animals, insects and plant life that can
be found there. While some episodes focus on
only one or two animals from a particular region,
other episodes focus on the region itself.
Photography on the series has taken place in
Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Cape Cod,
South Africa, Belize and other international locales.
* SHARKS
(Episode 104E) 21 minutes
(Id. No. 499)
* BUFFALO
(Episode 105E) 21 minutes
(Id. No. 249)
* RATTLESNAKES
Episode 106 E, 22:51 minutes
The rattlesnake is known for its percussive tail and
its venomous bite. A symbol of rebellion and
freedom as well as the center of attention at
hundreds of rattlesnake roundups in the Western
U.S. Learn all about these pit vipers on this edition
of Unspoiled Planet. (Id. No. 600)
Format: VHS
* AVIARY
Episode 108 E, 23:17 minutes
From the coastal plains of Florida to the mountain
regions of the west, the United States hosts a
variety of beautiful and amazing birds. The
gorgeous footage in this episode will make a
budding ornithologist of any viewer. (Id. No. 600)
Format: VHS
* BEAUTIFUL BELIZE
Episode 107 E – 22:58 minutes
Visit Central America’s Finest Zoo for a close
encounter with unusual animals such the tapir
margay, ocelot, the black howler monkey, kinkajou
and coatimundi. (Id. No. 587)
Format: CD
* BEST OF FLORIDA
Episode 113 E, 22:28 minutes
Florida is one of the hottest tourist destinations in
the world. The land, sea and sky of Florida hosts
some of the most unique and interesting wildlife in
the world. Black bears roam the swamplands and
forests, often climbing way up in the trees. Bald
eagles, red-shouldered hawks, osprey and an array
of exotic birds flock to the warm coastal areas to
nest and decorate the sky. (Id. No. 587)
Format: CD
* C.R.O.W.
Episode 109 E, 22:24 minutes
When people are in need of emergency medical
care, we automatically call the rescue squad. But,
who do we call when see an injured wild animal
that needs medical care? In Sanibel Island, Florida
--- there is a team of veterinarians and volunteers
standing by to rescue local wildlife and help them
return to their natural habitat. Life at this animal
clinic is anything but boring and repetitious. One
day they are patching up the cracked shell of a
gopher tortoise hit by a car. The next they are
performing surgery on a bird with a broken wing
And in between, they are rescuing baby raccoons
who are without a mother. Meet the heroes of this
wildlife ER on this Unspoiled Planet. (Id. No. 601)
Format: VHS
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* VENOMOUS REPTILES
Episode 110 E, 23:09 minutes
Snakes are amazing to watch. They captivate us
with their ability to climb trees, crawl along the
ground, and even swim in the ocean without arms
or legs. They fascinate us when they capture and
devour a meal that seems much too large to
swallow. They deceive us with their beauty and
eye-catching patterns but beneath the beauty their
can be danger. Meet some of the world’s most
dangerous snakes on this episode of Unspoiled
planet. (Id. No. 600)
Format: VHS
* ENDANGERED SPECIES: MAKING A
COMEBACK
Episode 111 E, 24 minutes
Meet the animals from across the globe that are
making a comeback from the endangered species
list. These animals are defying all odds and rapidly
growing in numbers, and giving new meaning to the
world, an Unspoiled Planet. (Id. No. 599)
Format: VHS
* WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS
Episode 112 E, 24:48 minutes
Step into the danger zone and meet some the
world’s most dangerous animals on this edition of
Unspoiled planet. (Id. No. 599)
Format: VHS
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AIDS: A GLOBAL CRISIS
27 Minutes, 2004
This program offers an excellent worldview of
AIDS, providing background on the disease’s
history, its transmission and symptoms, innovative
awareness campaigns, and the ongoing search by
scientists from around the globe to find an effective
long-term treatment. Fred Valentine, director of the
Center for AIDS Research at the New York
University School of Medicine; Lawrence Altman,
medical correspondent for The New York Times;
Andrew McMichael, principal investigator for the
Oxford AIDS Vaccine Initiative; and others share
their insights into a pandemic that has already
infected and killed tens of millions. (Id. No. 631)
Format: DVD
* AIDS: THE CHANGED FACE OF AMERICA
52 Minutes
AIDS and the threat of AIDS have caused
enormous changes in American society, from the
dating scene and sexual practices to greater
openness about homosexuals and more open
attacks against them, social and job discrimination,
health care crises, and new tests of human
character: kindness and giving at one extreme, and
the macabre example of companies that sell (and
investors who buy) the insurance benefits of dying
AIDS patients. In this specially adapted two-part
Phil Donahue program, examples of all these and
more show how dramatically AIDS has changed the
face of America. (Id. No. 149)
Format: VHS
* AIDS: THE WOMEN SPEAK
28 Minutes
The AIDS epidemic is affecting more and more
women—women who are HIV-positive, women who
live with HIV-positive partners and children, and
women who are caring for AIDS patients. This
program tells of a grieving mother whose son died
of AIDS; a social worker who almost burned out
after working with AIDS patients for a year; a
woman volunteer AIDS buddy; a friend of a dying
AIDS patient; and the foster mother of an HIVinfected
baby with a 50% chance of survival. Their
stories show the many ways AIDS has affected
women. (Id. No. 150)
Format: VHS
* CLOSER WALK: A FILM ABOUT AIDS IN
THE WORLD
2003
Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's
confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The
film's director and
producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award
nominee for his film Cry of Reason, a profile of the
South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude.
A Closer Walk was conceived with the late
Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health
Organization's response to global AIDS. (Id. No.
565)
Format: DVD & VHS
FRONTLINE/NOVA
SURVIVING AIDS
60 Minutes, 1999
NOVA SURVIVING AIDS, looks at AIDS research
being done in the United States and what scientists
are learning about preserving the immune system
while also marshalling the body’s natural defenses
against HIV in order to keep infected people from
progressing to full blown AIDS. In laboratories and
clinics across the country and around the world,
scientists and doctors have pooled their expertise
to keep people infected with HIV alive and diseasefree
longer than was imaginable at the start of the
epidemic. And now, through what may well be an
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unprecedented cross-fertilization process among
molecular biologists, immunologists, geneticists,
and practicing physicians, a series of discoveries
about HIVinfected patients who have successfully
fought off AIDS for as long as 20 years are being
closely analyzed for clues to the ultimate goal in
this fierce scientific battle—a vaccine. SURVIVING
AIDS tells the story of this ongoing battle through
the experiences of patients like Robert Massie, a
long-term non-progressor.” Massie, a 43-year old
environmental activist and Episcopalian minister,
was infected by a blood transfusion in 1978.
Despite a brief period of illness his immune system
has somehow kept the HIV virus at bay without the
aid of drugs. Surviving AIDS reveals the scientific
community engaged in an enormous and ongoing
struggle, with discoveries traveling from labs to
patients and back. And NOVA brings together the
most promising research with compelling human
stories of the patients and doctors who are devoting
themselves to unraveling one of the most
complicated mysteries in scientific history. (Id. No.
240)
Format: VHS
HEALTH WATCH
The latest news in health and wellness, from
effective ways to battle stress to the newest
medical and surgical innovations.
*EPISODES-314E & 315E
20:40 minutes & 20:40 minutes
(Id. No. 603)
Format: VHS
* EPISODES-316E & 317E
10:04 minutes & 20:27 minutes
(Id. No. 604)
Format: VHS
* EPISODES-321E & 322E
20:40 minutes & 20:02 minutes
(Id. No. 605)
Format: VHS
INNOVATIONS
DIABETES
(Episode 101) 30 Minutes
(Id. No. 177)
Format: VHS
EAST MEETS WEST
(Episode 123) 28 Minutes
This episode looks at how Western scientists,
researchers, and practitioners are looking to the
East to explore the scientific mysteries of tradional
medicines and medical practices. (Id. No. 178)
Format: VHS
ANTARCTIC PARADOX
(Episode 126) 28 Minutes
This program throws light on the life forms that
manage to thrive in the Antarctic region, known to
be coldest, windiest, driest and probably the most
barren place on earth. (Id. No. 179)
Format: VHS
TO HEAR A PIN DROP
(Episode 129) 28 Minutes
(Id. No. 180)
Format: VHS
MOYER’S COLLECTION
SCIENCE OF HOPE: JONAS SALK
30 Minutes
Salk discusses AIDS research and how the
technique of `negotiating’ with the AIDS virus offers
a way of thinking about human beings as `part of,
not apart from’ nature. Salk sees the development
of an AIDS vaccine as `just a matter of time…just a
matter of strategy.’ (Id. No. 203)
Format: VHS
PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS 2003
(5-part series) 30 Minutes each
Pandemic: Facing AIDS is a documentary that
takes a unique look at the worldwide AIDS
epidemic, melding intimate personal stories with a
global perspective. Facing AIDS recounts five
stories of people living with AIDS in countries
around the world - Russia, Thailand, Uganda, India
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and Brazil. It reveals the heartaches and triumphs
of coping with the stigma and effects of this
devastating disease. Showing how AIDS tests
people in unexpected ways, the series chronicles
the minor miracles that occur in the face of doom.
Treatment, prevention, education, mother-to-child
transmission, the stigma of AIDS, and harm
reduction are among the issues explored, as well
as the main obstacles and opportunities faced by
the individuals in the film. The five countries profiled
in Pandemic Facing AIDS represent a cross-section
of cultures and attitudes regarding HIV/AIDS.
INTRODUCTION
(Id. No. 220)
Format: VHS
RUSSIA
(Id. No. 221)
Format: VHS
INDIA
(Id. No. 222)
Format: VHS
BRAZIL
(Id. No. 223)
Format: VHS
THAILAND/UGANDA
(Id. No. 224)
Format: VHS
PULSE
"Pulse," UC Davis Medical Center's Emmy awardwinning
health magazine show, airs in 90 of the top
100 television markets in America. In a style that's
entertaining and reality-based, "Pulse" segments
highlight leading-edge treatments and research,
emotional human-interest profiles and health-care
issues facing Americans today.
Nationally recognized anchor Beth Ruyak hosts the
show, which has been bringing viewers the latest in
health-care news and information for more than 10
years.
* Episodes: 101E & 102E, 22:20 Minutes &
22:18 Minutes
(Id. No. 602)
Format: VHS
* Episodes: 103E & 105E, 22:19 Minutes &
22:18 Minutes
(Id. No. 606)
Format: VHS
* Episode: 111E, 22:22 Minutes
The latest research on the benefit of flavinoides
found in foods, a discussion of Fibromyalgia, and
the effects of performance enhancers for athletes
are included in this episode. (Id. Nos. 588)
Format: CD
* Episode: 113E, 22:19 Minutes
The harmful effects of laser pointers, memory
process research and home-based medical tests
are included in this episode. (Id. Nos. 588)
Format: CD
* Episode: 117-E, 17:25 Minutes
Smoking trends, sick children in the emergency
room and the health effects of coffee are the topics
of this episode. (Id. Nos. 589)
Format: CD
* Episode: 121-E, 22:21 Minutes
This Episode includes depression links,
circumcision decision and chicken study. (Id. Nos.
589)
Format: CD
RX FOR SURVIVAL
HEROES
2006, 115:31 Minutes
This special program presents the stories of
unsung champions who protect people worldwide
from the ravages of threatening disease. Using
highlights from the six-hour series, this special
focuses on the individual heroes whose tireless
perseverance saves millions of lives across the
globe. From young polio warriors in India to armies
of grandmothers in Nepal, the program takes
viewers inside the stirring campaigns that have
brought renewed faith to poor communities from
Africa to South America. (Id. No. 623)
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Format: DVD
TYPHOID MARY THE MOST DANGEROUS
WOMAN IN AMERICA
60 Minutes, 2004
When six members of a wealthy family contracted
typhoid fever in posh Oyster Bya, Long Island, in
August 1906, one question puzzled everyone how
could such an upscale summer enclave become
infected with this highly contagious “slum disease”?
Hired to perform the bacterial detective work,
George Soper soon discovered the source of the
ourbreak was Marly Mallon, a 37 year-old Irish
immigrant took he feared was “walking typhoid
fever factory.” But how could this seemingly healthy
woman, with outward symptoms, infect so many
people?
At a time when the concept of communicable
diseases was not widely understood, the story of
“Typhoid Mary” pitted the new science of
bacteriology against ancient terrors. Mary’s
banishment to a quarantine island off Manhattan
against her will also revealed the newfound power
of health officials to protect the masses, often at the
expense of individual liberties. Today, with the
presence of SARS, HIV-AIDS, influenza, and ebola,
public health policies continue to search for the
proper balance of protection and freedom.
With stirring dramatizations featuring Marian Tomas
Griffin (As the World Turns) and Tony Award –
nominee Jere Shea Guys and Dolls), NOVA
shares Mary Mallon’s dangerous tale, based on the
acclaimed book Typhoid Mary: Captive to the
Public’s Health by Judith Walzer Leavitt. (Id. No.
576)
Format: VHS
WARM SPRINGS
120 minutes
As the only U.S. president re-elected three times,
he brought America out of the Great Depression,
and led us though World War II. But the most
formidable challenge Franklin Delano Roosevelt
ever faced was one the country never saw.
Kenneth Branagh and Cynthia Nixon star in the
stirring true story of one man's search for public
redemption from the depths of personal adversity.
Warm Springs follows Roosevelt's story from the
heady times before he contracted polio (the fifth
cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR was the
Democratic VP candidate in 1920) through the
initial phases of his affliction, subsequent despair,
and eventual rebirth. Roosevelt found hope after
hearing about a young polio victim who learned to
walk again after swimming in the waters of a health
spa near Atlanta. He moved to Warm Springs in
1924, and his initial cynicism about the run-down
conditions and pitiable patients was gradually
replaced by empathy, optimism and inspiration.
Eventually, he decided to buy the inn, with visions
of turning it into the world's first polio-treatment
center. He also found the will to head back to public
life, triumphantly returning to nominate Al Smith for
president at the 1928 Democratic convention. Four
years later, Roosevelt himself would be nominated,
winning the first of four elected terms as president.
(Id. No. 593)
Format: VHS
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50 STATES, 50 CAPITALS
115 Minutes, 2004
Take a trip across America and explore the capital
of each state. Viewers will learn about populations
and major products and how each state got its
name. (Id. No. 654)
Format: DVD
AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS
COLLECTION
AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS
120 minutes, 2004
Twenty-eight parks from Alaska and Hawaii to
Florida are presented in this stunning program. Visit
the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Denali, and
Everglades. (Id. No. 540)
Format: DVD
AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS
120 minutes, 2004
Twenty-seven parks from Maine and Texas to
California are presented in this beautiful program.
You'll tour Acadia, Big Bend, Mesa Verde, the
Petrified Forest, California's King's Canyon, and the
newest national park: Colorado's Black Canyon of
the Gunnison. (Id. No. 541)
Format: DVD
YELLOWSTONE: THE WORLD’S FIRST
NATIONAL PARK
135 minutes, 2004
Tour Yellowstone's incredible geyser country,
including the famous Old Faithful. See the beauty
of Yellowstone Falls and learn the fascinating story
of how wolves have been reintroduced in the park.
(Id. No. 542)
Format: DVD
GRAND CANYON: THE WORLD'S GREAT
NATURAL WONDER
135 minutes, 2004
This breathtaking journey takes you through the
largest canyon on Earth. From intense whitewater
rafting to a leisurely trip via pack-mule, Grand
Canyon National Park offers an amazing diversity
of recreation. (Id. No. 543)
Format: DVD
YOSEMITE: THE WORLD'S MOST
SPECTACULAR VALLEY
110 minutes, 2004
Admire the massive rock formations of Half-Dome
and El Capitan, immortalized by the photography of
Ansel Adams. Discover the wealth of flora and
fauna in this amazing National Park. (Id. No. 544)
Format: DVD
NATURE'S SYMPHONY
60 minutes, 2004
Enter an enthralling paradise of nature's most
stunning spectacles and sounds of music by
Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mozart, Puccini,
Mussorgsky, and other great composers. Travel
wintry alpine lakes and roaring waterfalls to lush
spring meadows with colorful flowers. It's all here,
natures own symphony. (Id. No. 545)
Format: DVD
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
BUILDING THE ALASKA HIGHWAY
60 Minutes, 2005
In May of 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic
wilderness of Alaska and Canada, thousands of
Scenic America
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American soldiers began one of the biggest and
most difficult construction projects ever undertakenbuilding
the Alaska Highway. This program tells
how young soldiers battled mud, muskeg, and
mosquitoes; endured ice, snow, and bitter cold; and
cut pathways through primeval forests to push a
1,520-mile road across one of the world's harshest
landscapes. (Id. No. 694)
Format: DVD
CHICAGO: CITY OF THE CENTURY
4 DVDS, 270 Minutes, 2003
City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic
transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur
traders and Native Americans to a massive
metropolis that was the quintessential American
city of the nineteenth century. The film tells how
innovation, ingenuity, determination and
ruthlessness created empires in what was a
marshy wasteland and describes the hardships
endured by millions of working men and women
whose labor helped a capitalist class reinvent the
way America did business. Along the way, this
program revels in Chicago's triumphs -- among
them the architectural experimentation that gave
the city one of the world's most distinctive skylines -
- and delves into the heart of Chicago's painful
struggles. Bringing to life the Windy City's rich
mixture of cultures, its writers and journalists, its
political corruption and labor upheavals, this film
bears witness to the creation of one of the most
dynamic and vibrant cities in the world.
PART 1: MUDHOLE TO METROPOLIS
90 Minutes
Chicago’s location at the end of a canal that links
the Mississippi to New York makes it attractive to
Yankee speculators as well as Irish canal diggers.
In just a few decades, the remote fur trading
explodes metropolis of the West. Not even the
great fire of 1871 can show the city’s development.
PART 2: REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN
90 Minutes
From the railroads to Marshall Field’s department
store to Cyrus McCormick’s reaper factory to the
stockyards, workers struggle for their share of a
new industrial capitalism. The Haymarket Affair
becomes the most sensational labor incident of the
19th century.
PART 3: BATTLE FOR CHICAGO
90 Minutes
Chicago develops the world’s first skyscraper
downtown with a unique American architectural
style. In its shadows are gambling, prostitution,
corruption, poverty and disease. In 1893,
Chicago’s business elite hosts a World’s Fair,
proudly showing 27 million visitors a glistening,
sanitized city of the future.
BONUS DISC: CHICAGO BY ‘L’: TOURING
THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND ADDITIONAL
INTERVIEWS
75 Minutes
(Id. No. 697)
Format: DVD
MOUNT RUSHMORE
60 Minutes, 2002
High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills
tower four huge carved faces of American
presidents. But is Mount Rushmore a monstrosity,
or a masterpiece? A temperamental artist, Gutzon
Borglum, propelled the project by sheer talent and
guts, even as his ego and obsession threatened to
tear it apart. Relive the hucksterism and hyperbole
of his massive public works project during the Great
Depression. Narrated by Michael Murphy. (Id.
No. 695)
Format: DVD
NEW YORK: THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
(Episode 8: 1946-2003)180 Minutes
The eighth episode of filmmaker Ric Burns' awardwinning
series New York: A Documentary Film
examines the rise and fall of the World Trade
Center whose epic fifty-year history sheds new light
on every theme and issue in the city’s long march
to the center of the world. Propelled forward in the
1960s by the immense power of David and Nelson
Rockefeller and the Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey, the world’s two tallest buildings would
rise despite political controversy, daunting
engineering challenges, withering critical scorn and
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the threat of financial disaster. In the end, a
spectacular 45 minute escapade by a high-wire
artist named Philippe Petit and new York’s
astonishing renaissance would transform the
towers into a worldwide icon-the ultimate symbol of
an economic system that had come to dominate
much of the planet. The episode comes to a climax
with the harrowing events of September 11, 2001—
and the extraordinary response of the city’s people
to the worst crisis in their history. (Id. No. 674)
Format: DVD
HAPPY HOLIDAYS IN PITTSBURGH
2002
Viewers can spend the holidays in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, with Rick Sebak and his crew as
they capture a variety of worship services,
community events, parties and seasonal attractions
in celebration of Hanukah, Ramadan, Christmas
and Kwanzaa. The encore presentation of HAPPY
HOLIDAYS IN PITTSBURGH is a heartwarming
and sometimes wacky take on the customs,
traditions and happenings that distinguish the
holidays around Pittsburgh. (Id. No. 594)
Format: VHS
INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE
90 minutes, 2003
Step inside the imposing gates of the White House
for a revealing visit to the most famous, yet
mysterious building in America. Discover the
human side of this legendary house in candid
interviews with Presidents and First Ladies, and
peek inside the families' rarely-seen private living
quarters. Follow along as a small army of
employees whirls behind the scenes in a frenzy of
activity surrounding a major state dinner. (Id. No.
608)
Format: DVD
LIVING EDENS
BIG SUR: CALIFORNIA’S WILD COAST
Daybreak on California’s Big Sur coast reveals a
frenzy of shearwaters feasting on anchovies near
beds of giant kelp where sea otters prepare a
lunchtime meal of abalones. Afternoon fog bathes
Big Sur’s ancient redwood forests where sparkling
creeks cascade musically toward the coast through
dreamy carpets of lupine. Here, acorn
woodpeckers comically toil and California condors
and peregrine falcons wheel in the sky above.
Elephant seals come here to breed, but for a few
unlucky pups, there is no escape from the violence
of a fierce winter storm. Sunset and moonrise open
a door into an alien underwater world, and a new
dawn inspires a sense that the world around us is
alive and thriving in a Living Eden called Big Sur.
(Id. No. 660)
Format: DVD
DENALI: ALASKA’S GREAT WILDERNESS
60 Minutes, 1997
The Indians called the frozen peak of this great
Alaskan mountain range Denali, or “the high one.”
Most know it as Mount McKinley. This preserved
wilderness comes to life with the thaw of spring and
wildlife winter. Watch as five-week old grizzly clubs
play, a mosse gives birth to her calf, and a wood
frog survives the deep freeze of winter.
Breathtaking shots of dazzling northern lights over
vast and lush wilderness make this an
unforgettable Eden. (Id. No. 661)
Format: DVD
WILD RIVER: THE COLORADO
60 Minutes, 2006
This DVD follows the Colorado River from its
headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park
through Utah’s Westwater Canyon, the national
parks of Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and
Zion, the fragile beauty and rapids of Cataract
Canyon and Grand Canyon, and into Mexico’s Gulf
of California. Set to classical music by some of the
world’s greatest composers, narrated by actor
Joseph Campanella and produced and directed by
John Howe. (Id. No. 662)
Format: DVD
YELLOWSTONE: AMERICA’S SACRED
WILDERNESS
60 Minutes, 2000
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“Exciting things are always happening in
Yellowstone for thirty year. He is our guide through
this extraordinary Eden where wolves and grizzly
bears chase elk, and mountain lions play in the
sunshine. Dramas occur in every season, for
Yellowstone isn’t just the world’s first National parkit
is living proof of our relationship with nature. Id.
No. 663)
Format: DVD
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