Summary: Wherever political, religious, racial, or ideological interests collide, diplomacy and tolerance historically yield to the barbarity of war. In this program, political scientist Charles-Philippe David; Jean-Louis Dufour, editor-in-chief of the magazine Defense; and historians Robert O'Connell, Andre Corviser, and Laurent Henninger trace the history of warfare from its remote origins to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This multi-part NewsHour program provides a powerful retrospective on the Vietnam War and its ongoing influence, from both the American and Vietnamese points of view. Special attention is given to the war's long-term impact on the U.S. military, the news media, American protest movements, and the inhabitants of Vietnam. Long-time journalists Morley Safer and Haynes Johnson; Representative Bobby...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Emerging from under the cloud of bankruptcy, Northwest Airlines has cut
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: A cornerstone of the United Nations, the Security Council takes on some of the organization's most difficult duties. This program highlights the Council's role in preventing conflicts, resolving disputes, and occasionally initiating military action against an aggressor. Beginning in the era of the original "P-5" membership-the U.S., the U.S.S.R., China, France, and Great Britain-the video...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Islamic movements throughout the Muslim world are demanding an Islamic state. What is an Islamic state? What is its relationship to the people, and how democratic can it be? In this program, Dr. Hassan Turabi, widely regarded as the architect of the Sudanese Islamic state, describes the ideal Islamic state and its ideology; he also discusses the issues of human rights, women's rights, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In the Martin Amis novel London Fields, a cynical and disjointed society hurtles toward doomsday; in Amis's follow-up book, Time's Arrow, the narrative follows an absurdly reversed course-backward from the Holocaust to purity and innocence. Bill Moyers talks with Martin Amis about humanity's present condition and the ongoing conflict between fundamentalism and secular values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Coffee is second only to oil as the world's most valuable traded commodity, but small-scale producers rarely profit from it. This program reveals the hardship and uncertainty faced by coffee farmers in Guatemala, and how many are taking steps to obtain better prices and build better lives. Analyzing the country's traumatic history and the lingering effects of its civil war, the video sheds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: 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. Grim battles unfold: Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg. Famous generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee lead the war between the North and the South. Lincoln speaks eloquently at Gettysburg, and just a year and a half later is brutally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: When is war justified? What is worth dying for? Does protesting work? Is world peace possible? In this politically balanced program, children and teens express themselves with passion, intelligence, and insight as they grapple with these questions. "I made this documentary to give children a voice as well as encourage adults to reflect on what we are teaching tomorrow's citizens," says...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A seldom-discussed dimension of the war on drugs is the plight of impoverished farmers in the developing world. This program tells the story of Peru's struggling cocaleros, whose livelihoods and ancient agricultural traditions have become a casualty of antidrug policies. Shot on the steep hillsides where Peruvian growers have produced the crop since pre-Columbian times, as well as in villages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This shocking and highly innovative documentary reveals the scale and effects of war on the modern world: people fight for their land, their religion, their ideas, and sometimes, solely their survival. Following combatants in 16 wars over the same 24-hour time period, the program tells the stories of a range of fighters-from child soldiers to women commandos and UN peacekeepers to army...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Northern Spain has produced some of the world's most celebrated artists, including Picasso, Miro, Dali-and Goya, who foreshadowed modern painting with his dark political consciousness. This program studies the artistic and social turmoil that engulfed Spain as the 20th century loomed, dawned, and rolled forward. Recounting Franco's tyranny against free expression, the program looks at Spanish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: It's the revenge of power on those that dare to challenge it. So begins this program on Goya's haunting painting of defiance and despair, The Third of May 1808. The video keenly conveys the circumstances of the Spanish uprising against the French, relates Goya's deafness to his darkening artistic vision, examines Goya's painting technique, analyzes The Third of May's symbolism, illustrates the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Life is risky—which is why people buy insurance. But when disaster overwhelms conventional insurance systems, should the state step in? In this program, economics expert Niall Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to evaluate the free market’s ability to help victims of the catastrophe. Ferguson then delves into one of the earliest insurance schemes, the Scottish Ministers’ Widows Fund;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: As neural research and digital technology converge, many scientists envision a so-called singularity event in which humans and computers become inseparable. This program explores that possibility, focusing on the work of key players in brain research and artificial intelligence. Drs. Jose Delgado, Miguel Nicolelis, and Philip Kennedy-all pioneers in brain/computer interfacing-explain their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Where do you get your news today? In What's Happening to the News, Frontline examines the mounting pressure for profits faced by America's network news divisions and daily newspapers as well as growing challenges from cable television and the Internet. As correspondent Lowell Bergman talks to network executives, newspaper editors and publishers, bloggers, Wall Street analysts, and key players...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: England, Scotland, and Ireland had been locked in all-out conflict for two years-and the largest battle was yet to come. This program looks at the period of the worst violence in the English civil war and the emergence of the king's chief nemesis, Oliver Cromwell. Dramatic reenactments filmed on location bring to life the largest battle of the war, at Marston Moor in York, and its most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A cancer diagnosis is always bad news, but the words "You have cancer" don't necessarily instill the fear and confusion they did three decades ago. This program demystifies cancer by explaining how varieties of the disease typically begin and develop. The program also highlights some of the innovative treatments that are helping more and more patients to become cancer survivors. In addition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama is a former neoconservative who argued for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein-then changed his mind before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. What caused his reversal? If the war had gone differently, would he have revised his opinion again? What strategies does he envision for promoting global democracy in the future?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In this episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series, viewers will learn of the efforts put forth by our soldiers in Germany to show German youth the ways of democracy through the Armed Forces Assistance Program. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration shows the hardworking service personnel of the army voluntarily working with Germany’s future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns documents how the dramatic events that followed the Crash of ’29 fueled the greatest financial depression in American history and plunged the city and the nation into economic gloom. In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New Deal, which permanently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Micro-lending, capitalism, and off-shoring are the topics of discussion in this compilation of NewsHour segments. Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus, economist Hernando de Soto, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas L. Friedman are featured. Episodes include…* Bootstrap Capitalism: Paul Solman and Mohammad Yunus discuss the merits of micro-lending using U.S.-based Good Faith, a venture capital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program presents the Spanish-American War as the defining event of America’s rise to superpower status.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Summary: The U.S. Army Reserves have sent 155,700 deployments to Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. Yet rarely is there an opportunity to see the personal effects inside the homes and lives immediately following a “call to duty.” Kansas to Kandahar, a part of the PBS America at a Crossroads series, is an up-close look at the physical and emotional challenges of these citizen soldiers who are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007