Summary: Experts are increasingly focusing on prevention efforts based on community and family. This documentary looks at two of those efforts. One works with parents addicted to heroin by teaching them how to repair the damage to family wrought by drug abuse, and in spite of it, how to raise strong, resilient children. In a second program, vigilant counselors in Dade County schools watch for kids at...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program documents how domestic abuse within the family affects children, and looks at programs such as The Kid's Club at the University of Michigan where troubled children and families are getting help; Sobriety High, a special school in Edina, Minnesota, that works to reduce alcohol and drug abuse and lower the incidence of violent crimes; and Landmark High School in New York, a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Being part of a team that produces film, TV, or digital content-it's one of the most satisfying jobs in the world. But it also requires hard work, long hours, and a fine-tuned ability to communicate and collaborate. Taking an overview approach, this program explores the challenges and rewards of working in the media industry. Viewers learn about the skill sets of a wide range of creative and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Factory labor: Men work at assembly of an electric motor; child labor in sorting parts industry. At Britain's General Electric company.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1915
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Summary: Women on factory assembly line making lipstick
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: In this program students use a powerful strategy for working toward fulfillment of their life goals: they write the goals down, list potential obstacles, identify people and groups to work with, pinpoint the skills they'll need, and then make a plan of action. Carving out time for both practice and rest, working through technical difficulties, and polishing up their people skills, the teens...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Factory labor: Women do small labor with loops of wires and hammers; woman operates a large press in factory; woman drawing wire or cable out of a machine that cuts the cables to length. At Britain's General Electric company. Women working; working class.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1915
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Summary: The hospitality industry has long been at the forefront of diversity issues due to the very nature of the business-hotels and restaurants both serve and employ people from a variety of backgrounds. This program helps viewers understand the term 'diversity' and appreciate the benefits of respecting differences. The video explains primary differences and secondary differences, defines the four...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Factory labor: Women at benches operate machines; men draw white-hot steel bars out of a press machine; welders with goggles under watch of foreman weld lengths of steel cable together; working class; industrial; sweatshop. At Britain's General Electric
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1915
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Summary: Women working on electronics assembly line
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: The implementation of the 1996 welfare reform act's Charitable Choice provision has proved controversial in the extreme. In this program, supporters and opponents alike give a clear sense of what is at stake as they examine the application of Charitable Choice in Indiana, Massachusetts, and North Carolina-states with distinctly different political cultures and religious landscapes. These...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: While poverty has traditionally been a problem only for the unemployed, a new demographic of Americans has emerged-the working poor. This program explores the disturbing realities that many people in low-wage jobs face every day-such as having to decide whether to pay the rent, buy groceries, or see a doctor. Viewers will learn how standards of living are often measured, how suburban areas have...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program examines the pressures facing working women with small children: salaries too low to pay for proper care and supervision of their children during the work day, inadequate or unavailable child-care facilities, little or no help with household maintenance. The locale of the program is Dallas, but the experiences are national.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the space of 60 years, England transformed itself from a rural economy into an industrial powerhouse. This program tells the story of the innovations and innovators from the Industrial Revolution who changed the world of work, including John Smeaton's ground-breaking experiments with waterwheels, Richard Arkwright's revolutionary thread factories, and James Watt's fateful partnership with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How were people's working lives affected by industrialization, and how did they react to these changes? This program concentrates on the crucial century of radical change between 1750 and 1850, when large numbers of people began for the first time to work in factories rather than on the land, and when agriculture had to adapt to provide for an expanding population. The program also covers the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program shows viewers how to talk in detail about one’s work and how to set up a business meeting. The video also profiles a fruit producer who runs a farm near Reims that has been in existence since 1540 and a volunteer with Les Restos du Cœur, a charitable organization that distributes food packages and hot meals to people in financial distress.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994
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Summary: For a person who has a disability, finding and maintaining a job and gaining acceptance at a company can be a difficult process. This program promotes the development of supportive employment within the community by following four very different individuals with disabilities as they meet their respective employment challenges. The program is designed to encourage people with disabilities to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: As industrial progress continues and the gap between the rich and poor widens, a new labor movement emerges to advocate for workers' rights. The strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts, is a victory for workers; and Susan B. Anthony paves the way for women's right to vote.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: During the 1980s, a new civil rights movement got underway-for people with disabilities. In this program, Larry Paradis, executive director of Disability Rights Advocates, speaks with NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels about the importance of litigation in pressuring companies and communities to comply with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. But are such legal actions actually...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Assisting elderly patients and aged-care facility residents to address their incontinence issues both effectively and with sensitivity is crucial to helping them maintain their dignity and independence. A thorough introduction to the subject of incontinence, this program discusses the four types-stress and urge, functional, overflow and enuresis, and fecal-while offering strategies for managing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Months after his arrival, WCNC-TV news director Keith Connors feels he has assembled a winning team, but beneath the surface the newsroom family is riven by tensions. Promotions and demotions cause the reporters to question their director's motives. One reporter openly rebels after having to cover a story he felt was beneath him. Connors experiences the isolation of leadership's tough decisions...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program examines India's immense child labor problem and the fight against it. The video contrasts this nation's status as the world's largest democracy with the fact that, inside its borders, 80 million children work physically exhausting jobs for minuscule wages. Incorporating interviews with Shanta Sinha, founder of the organization known as MVF, the video illustrates how the group...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Rewrites and rehearsals are the final steps of crafting a play. But how does a playwright interest a theater company in the first place? In this program, Richard Wherret, Alana Valentine, Will Dunne, Ros Horin, and other theater professionals examine the process of rewriting and the role of the playwright in rehearsals-as well as how to sell a play in the drama marketplace. Common pitfalls of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Behind every calmly delivered TV news report is an untold story of on-the-spot decisions, unexpected delays, and last-minute changes. Add to that tension the dangers of working in a war zone and the nightly news becomes quite a drama indeed. In this program, ABC News correspondents, camera operators, producers, and others explain what it takes to record events in dangerous locales such as Iraq,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011