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Educational films. Feature films. Internet videos. Video recording. Videorecording.Summary: In 1908, the first Model T rolled off the assembly line, quickly asserting itself as a dream machine that would take America down the highway and into the future. Bill Moyers shows how that future represented not only a new landscape bustling with high-speed transport and travel, but a new vision of ourselves. He uses film clips, photographs, music, and poetry to trace America's transformation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: It takes approximately an hour to drive from Segovia to Madrid, and in this program viewers find out how to ask for maps, refuel, order snacks, and locate a restroom. Before leaving Segovia, host Yolanda Vazquez asks people what there is to see in that historic town, and examines what life is like for young people who live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1987
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Summary: Viewers witness common driving behaviors like tailgating, not using turn signals, cutting cars off, and other inconsiderate behavior, from inside as well as outside the car. Not only do viewers see how dangerous such behavior can be, but experts give insight into how some incidents can escalate into violence. The SAFE process is explained and demonstrated: Scan, Anticipate, Figure, Execute....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This 48 Hours report uses a pair of violent incidents to challenge assumptions about road rage and air rage. A highway encounter between two middle-aged women that ends in a conviction of manslaughter: road rage or self-defense? An incident in which a young man tries to force the cockpit door of an airliner in flight, only to be brutally subdued by passengers-a trauma that leads to his death:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Tailgating, making rude gestures, and cutting other cars off are only three of the ways that drivers exhibit aggressive behavior-behavior that can provoke road rage, a growing factor in automobile injuries and fatalities. This program spotlights a wide variety of potentially explosive driving situations in order to help students recognize the warning signs of road rage in others and in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: World War II - Piece on the "Burma Road" and supply lines to Chinese battle theater
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945
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Summary: As with many historic American figures of the 19th century, Sojourner Truth's story is incomplete and somewhat mythical, a fact compounded by her having been born a slave. This detailed program traces the lifelong odyssey of a woman who literally walked out of bondage, changed her name in 1843, and traveled the country as an abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Along the way she would meet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Separated by vast and inhospitable distances, Europe and Eastern Asia began to interact in a meaningful way during the second century B.C.-thanks to a growing traffic in spices, fabrics, and other goods along what became known as the Silk Road. It was a collision of culture and tradition that changed the course of world history. Winding tens of thousands of miles between China and several...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Catherine Morland has a too-ordinary life and a feverish imagination. When she gets invited to Bath, she is immersed in a world of elaborate balls and handsome men-and when Henry Tilney takes her to his family estate, she becomes mired in a world of fact and fantasy. Is there a dark mystery behind the locked doors of Northanger Abbey? And why is her budding romance suddenly cut short? Felicity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Let's face it-anger is a fact of life, an emotion everyone can relate to. But it isn't always handled well, and if it surges out of control, the effects can be devastating. This video examines the problems arising from extreme or repressed anger and presents helpful methods for loosening the grip that all-consuming rage can have on one's mind and actions. Viewers learn basic psychological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Renamed Myanmar by its ruling junta, Burma is one of the world's poorest nations due to decades of iron-fisted military control and despite its valuable natural resources and priceless national treasures. This program presents an intriguing glimpse of Burmese life, ranging from washing the sacred Buddha at the Maha Muni Pagoda and the initiation of young Buddhist novices amid the ruins of Bagan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: So your students think hybrids are a new idea? Show them how far hybrid technology has come since the 1800s. This video surveys the historical background of hybrid cars, introduces students to hybrid configurations currently on the road or in development, and explains the basic principles of hybrid system propulsion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Published in 1554, The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes introduced a new genre of writing, the picaresque. This classic, award-winning adaptation of the anonymous masterpiece tells the story of the young and constantly hungry protagonist, Lazaro, whose worldly education on the road through a series of masters presents a sly, often comical critique of 16th-century Spain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Through the eyes of a child, the world can be a wondrous place. Through the eyes of an indigo child, a more enlightened path can be embarked upon. This poignant film co-written by and starring Neale Donald Walsch (author of the bestselling Conversations with God) weaves the journey of a troubled family with the search for understanding that can bring them together. An estranged grandfather,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: For many governments in the new political landscape of Central Asia, supporting America's war on terror translates into a dangerous internal juggling act. This Wide Angle documentary examines the uneasy relationship between forces aligned against the Taliban and the drug lords who control the cultivation of much of the world's heroin. With militias and tribal factions diluting centralized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: There's a murky, tenuous balance between reality and fiction - particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Following National Geographic explorer and correspondent Nick Baker, this program takes a remarkable 5,000-mile road trip along one of the greatest mountain ecosystems in the world-the Rockies. Beginning at the northernmost reaches of the Yukon and ending in the breathtaking parklands of Yellowstone, Baker sets out to explore the natural history of these locations in the wake of an ambitious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Although most actors dream of celebrity, many find satisfaction in modest film and television roles, commercials, and regional theater. This program shows students that side of the profession, interviewing several accomplished performers who—although they are far from being household names—have found steady work on the stage and in Hollywood. Kevin Conway (Invincible, Gettysburg), Melissa Leo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Get set for an adventure that marked a new era in America! Filmmaker Ken Burns presents the hilarious 1903 saga of the first transcontinental automobile trip. On a visionary whim and a
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Karin Muller is an American on a quest to understand other cultures. This program follows her as she begins her journey of discovery along the route of the ancient Incan highway through South America. In Ecuador, she endures tear gas during a labor riot and witnesses backbreaking toil in a crude, antiquated gold mine. On the disputed border between Ecuador and Peru, she watches ordnance troops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: From medicinal shamans to taxi drivers in rusty death traps, this program plunges further into the depth and breadth of life in South America-following American adventurer Karin Muller as she travels the ancient Incan highway. Muller joins Peruvian fishermen plying their trade in handmade reed boats; watches herds of vicuna penned and sheared of their precious wool; absorbs the spectacle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In this program, the need for personal space is explored through the avoidance behaviors people employ to maintain a perceived distance from others, such as falling into a "middle-distance stare" in a crowded subway; the use of a proxy, like a jacket on a barstool, to reserve a place; the attitudes of drivers towards other cars on the road, which can lead to road rage; and the unconscious...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program featuring Michael Wood takes viewers to the India of the early centuries AD, a time that saw Indian civilization grow into a major participant in the first global economy as trade enriched it through contact and exchange. The rediscovered site of Rome's most significant trading port in India and a trip to Madurai, the ancient capital of South India, offer insights into the spice...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008