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Age of terror End: media at the tipping point Global business Hispanic Americans (Princeton, N.J.) Holy wars (New York, N.Y.) Islam and Christianity: a comparative analysis Rx for survival: a global health challenge South-Western introduction to business Southwestern introduction to business Wandering tribes of EuropeSummary: This video examines THC and the cannabinoids marijuana, hashish, and hash oil. Expert commentary is presented by former NFL player Charles Hunt, a pharmacist, a police officer, addiction counselors, a historian, a pastor, recovering addicts, and others. Together, they explain the history and biological effects of THC, investigating its use, abuse, and hazards, and its reputation as a gateway drug.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: As controversy swirls around the issue of same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian couples in North America and abroad are speaking out for the right to marry. Filmed in British Columbia after the legalization of same-sex unions, this program introduces the victorious litigants, who share their views on marriage, religious and political opposition, child adoption, and, most of all, love. Interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Rome was once the center of Christian persecution, but the martyrdom there of Paul and Peter began the unfolding of a historical epic that ended with the seat of empire becoming the spiritual capital of the Western Latin church. This program charts the development of Roman Catholicism, traveling to the ancient Port of Ostia, churches in Ravenna, and a remote Celtic monastery to show how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: They help to construct the human body. They drive every chemical reaction that takes place inside it. Likewise, they are manufactured by the body during the process of protein synthesis. This program studies the functions and characteristics of enzymes, among the most important proteins in our physiology. Viewers learn how enzymes are highly specific in their activity and form an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Ernesto "Che" Guevara was both a romantic and a rebel, honored by many for his commitment to liberation yet vilified by others as a rogue. This compelling program traces the life of a man whose idealism and determination gripped the imagination of an era. Interviews with family members, partisans, enemies, and others-including the photographer who immortalized him-share their recollections and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Using large-scale reenactments of 15th-century warfare, detailed maps, graphics, and expert commentary by Dr. David Chandler, military historian and former Head of War Studies at Sandhurst, this informative program explores the roots and the results of the brutal and exhausting civil war between the houses of York and Lancaster. From St. Albans to Bosworth Field, the program provides a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In the consumer goods industry, branding is crucial to market penetration. Using Alessi's superlative line of home furnishings and Nestle's well-known Nescafe 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Unlike the founders of Christianity and Judaism, much is known about the life of Muhammad, enabling Muslims to closely emulate him. This program featuring Islam scholars Ibrahim Kalin and Amina Wadud and Beeson Divinity School's Timothy George examines the life of Muhammad in detail. From his birth in 570 to his death in 630, it covers key experiences both before and after his transformation to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Water and stone are the elements of Rome; joined in fountains, they create the essence that is the Eternal City. This program looks at the history, the architecture, and the artistry of Rome's fountains, following Giovanni Battista Faldi's 1691 guide and juxtaposing his marvelous drawings with the living reality. Among the fountains examined are the Fontana di Trevi, Santa Maria in Trastevere,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program examines the forces behind European determination to capture Palestine, linking the belligerence of medieval Crusaders with their piousness. Drs. Klaus Herbers of Friedrich Alexander University and Patrick Franke of Martin Luther University draw surprising parallels between East and West, focusing on martyrdom as a vital component of the Crusader's motivation, interreligious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Poetry Hall of Fame showcases more than 130 of the world’s best-known poems cleverly performed and artistically interpreted by The First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests. Simply an incredible collection of great writers and a wonderful journey through great poems. Within these words one may find all the love, joy, hope, fear, enchantment, and humor that is the human spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1993
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Summary: By detailing key incidents ranging from the Dawson's Field hijackings to the Luxor massacre, this program charts the ever-widening holy war that is pitting Islamists against Zionists and the Arab world against the West. The Kach Party's Noam Federman; Bassam abu Sharif, founder of the Palestine Democratic Party; Abdel Aziz Rantisi and Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, operational and spiritual leaders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Military conflict accompanied the spread of Islam during the Middle Ages. This program reveals the ironies of that union between war and faith: how Islam was adopted rather than marginalized by invading Mongols; how the rise of strict Islamic orthodoxy countered the scholarly advances of Arabic culture, weakening the empire; and how European appreciation of Islamic culture grew after the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With the increasing popularity of YouTube, video blogs, Internet-based newscasts, Slingbox, and made-for-mobile content, has the time finally come to turn off the TV? This exploration of whether-or when-nontraditional video will topple commercial television looks at how New Media is changing the way video is both created and consumed. In the process, host Jian Ghomeshi gathers the insights and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program shows how simple and logical it all was-one step at a time, from the bitter defeat of World War I and the humiliating Treaty of Versailles, the wrangling of the Weimar democracy, the economic crisis.. Then the fear of Communism, the threat of violence, and the Nazi promise of law and order was so seductive that the mass of Germans were willing to overlook a little repression here...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: By the 6th century, the migrating peoples of Europe had begun to settle down, establishing the boundaries of their domains-but not of their ambitions. Who would become the heirs of the Roman Empire and the allies-and enemies-of the Church? This program reconstructs the development of key non-Roman kingdoms including those of the Ostrogoths in Italy, the Merovingians in Gaul, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: It's difficult to imagine a world without antibiotics and yet, before the twentieth century, there weren’t any. The discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin, and the subsequent development of more “wonder drugs,” transformed the face of modern medicine. This program chronicles these successes as well as the growing threat posed by new strains of germs, such as tuberculosis and staph, that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Video games have come a long way since Pong and Pac-Man, and the development of that
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: An ambitious stepmother, a pragmatic father, impassioned sweethearts, and starry-eyed suitors are all sent spinning in Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners-and errors. Directed by Max Stafford-Clark and recorded at The Theatre Royal in Bath, this production of She Stoops to Conquer played to rave reviews. Staged with authentic costumes and sets, the commonly anthologized play makes an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program profiles cases of Iranian-sponsored terrorism via the Hezbollah and the PLO as well as Argentina's dirty war, when the government used terror tactics against its own people. U.S.-backed insurgency in Nicaragua via the Contras is also analyzed. Joseph Kennedy II; Duane Clarridge, former chief of the CIA's Latin American division; and Bayardo Izaba, of the Nicaraguan Center for Human...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This inspiring documentary examines the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps—the Tuskegee Airmen. These 450 black men fought the Nazis in World War II and, back in America, they fought prejudice, bigotry, and racism. Extraordinary airmen, they remain today the only fighter group never to have lost one of their bombers to enemy fire. Trained by the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: In 1992, the market value of Microsoft-the tiny startup founded by Harvard dropout Bill Gates-exceeded the value of General Motors. Since then, Gates, the high-tech wunderkind, has amassed a huge personal fortune and become one of America's most influential and controversial corporate players. This program examines Gates's forceful management style against the backdrop of allegations that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The subject of women and their roles at home and at work is one of the major and continuing stories of the day. Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropologist and author, has written on topics ranging from the social consequences of the AIDS epidemic to life with her celebrated parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. One of her primary areas of interest is the social consequences of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program analyzes terrorism used in the name of national liberation through studies of covert wars for independence in British Palestine, British Malaya, French Algeria, apartheid South Africa, and Northern Ireland. Bruce Hoffman, co-author of Countering the New Terrorism, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu offer their insights, while former Irgun commander Shraga Alis; former Malayan Communist...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005