Summary: Best-selling cookbook author and chef, Lidia Bastianich, shares her Bolognese Antica sauce - made with milk - and serves it over fresh spinach tagliatelle. She then demonstrates her favorite besciamelle sauce and begins assembling a delicious pasticciata, or spinach pasta lasagna. This ribbon pasta is enjoyed with her son Joseph who joins Lidia at the end of the show for some great wine...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program looks at the many roles played by muscle and skin in our everyday lives. Topics include muscles and movement; cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscle; detailed structure of a skeletal muscle; types of muscle contraction and movement; muscles and posture; homeostasis; and the important roles played by skin, hair, nails, and glands.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Action Painting, English style. Artist William Green at work. (VO implies anyone can do this, then says that Green is "following in the footsteps of American James Pollock who developed action painting when he accidentally spilled a pot of paint and lik
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1957
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Summary: Building on the extremely popular First Look at Careers, this 2-part video set takes an alphabetic Second Look at Careers. We've taken 40 occupations from the Children's Dictionary of Occupations, and brought them to life using real people at work. Students learn about the tools of the trade and the tasks performed on the job. They hear from workers who will tell them how to prepare for each...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A good start to school depends on three fundamental gifts: the ability to communicate effectively, a talent for fitting in well with others, and an ambition to learn. This program tracks the challenges, setbacks, and successes in the lives of a half-dozen five-year-olds as they prepare for the world of organized education. When it comes to school readiness, why is Ben, the smallest of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: With its images of violence, war, and radically foreign cultures, the stark realities presented by the new medium of television made an impression on those who studied the mind and behavior, causing them to reexamine the very essence of what it means to be human. This program features archival footage of the 20th century's most influential social scientists as they strive to define human...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Brings the fluid power industry into your classroom. A broad overview of the many applications of hydraulics and pneumatics is summarized. Everything from the steam engine to the space shuttle to a huge robotic dinosaur eating an airplane is shown in this highly entertaining program. A few of the subjects covered include: advantages of hydraulic versus pneumatic systems, small power equipment,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: CCC crews at work, etc.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1934
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Summary: Like the Eiffel Tower, the French consider their mother tongue a historical monument - and the languages beyond France’s borders indispensable tools. This program spotlights the Dicos d’Or “Golden Dictionaries” national dictation contest while profiling an Alsatian electrician who goes to work each day in Germany. The video also features everyday people who talk about languages besides French...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994
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Summary: This program focuses on three instructors singled out as "great teachers. One teacher's infectious enthusiasm, another's solid dedication, and a third's sense of humor foster self-esteem in even the most difficult students. This is an interesting study of three very different educational "styles" that produce the same positive educational results.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: How do advertisers get your telephone number or e-mail address? Do they have your social security number too? This timely video addresses your concerns about keeping personal information private. We hear from experts following this important issue and learn what steps we can take to safeguard our privacy. You will find out just how much information is already legally available to people who...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: With the same humor and humanity he exuded in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore - former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner - spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid car to inventing a new, hotter "brand name" for global warming. In this TEDTalk Gore is "easygoing, knowledgeable, and funny," says...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: High Schools That Work is the nation's first large-scale effort to unite educational stakeholders at all levels with the objective of re-engaging what some have called the forgotten majority in U.S. high schools. In this interview, founding director Gene Bottoms, Ed.D., talks with Hedrick Smith about the HSTW program in general and Corbin High School, Kentucky-an exemplary case study-in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Last year's Spring Fling at Jefferson High School was a total disaster-and this year's student committee doesn't want it to happen again! But can the group put aside the past and work together constructively to create a successful dance? This video uses scenario analysis to model four key conflict resolution strategies: taking the person out of the problem; focusing on issues, not egos; being...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program includes conversations with airline machinist Marv Sandrin, and Northwest Vice President, Richard Anderson. Sandrin is former president of District Lodge 143 of the Machinists' Union. He was employed at Northwest Airlines before the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) gave him and his union an ownership stake in the company. Under that ESOP, unions gave up
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This comprehensive overview assesses a number of noninvasive ways to look inside the human body. Segment one addresses the limitations of X-ray and fluoroscopic technologies and introduces computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound. Segment two describes how images are digitized and discusses the practical difficulties in achieving a clear image. Segment three demonstrates...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Amidst a gloomy climate of failing schools and the stringent No Child Left Behind legislation, some communities have created a small revolution, achieving gains with children others had given up on—with implications for schools nationwide. In this penetrating documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith travels from inner city to rural town to observe how some districts and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: James Comer, M.D., M.P.H., has spent decades promoting a focus on child development as a way of improving schools. In this interview, he and Hedrick Smith analyze the Comer Process, a school- and system-wide psychosocial intervention grounded in conflict mitigation, behavior modeling, power-sharing, and all-around involvement of teachers, parents, students, and other stakeholders. "Our program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: City planning that puts people before cars, sculptural museums that are as artistic as the masterpieces they contain, commercial spaces that redefine retail—these are some of the paradigm-shaking ideas of today’s architects at work. This compilation of recent NewsHour segments introduces viewers to Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Scully, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: A rabbi's duties encompass far more than Torah study and synagogue services. In this program, viewers accompany a group of rabbis as they inspect and reinforce adherence to kosher laws. Businesses subject to inspection include a bakery, a fish processing facility, and a slaughterhouse-all of which undergo intense scrutiny regarding their equipment, supplies, food additives, and employee...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This Science Screen Report explains the forces that come into play when a cyclist puts on the breaks, a pitcher throws a curve, and an airplane takes to the sky. Focusing on such concepts as acceleration, terminal velocity, friction, and balanced and unbalanced forces, the program also delineates Newton's laws of motion and Bernoulli's principle of pressurized air and fluid behavior. For...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program brings 1870s Montmartre and the Moulin de la Galette to life through Renoir's romanticized vision and history's less generous account. Beginning with Renoir's life on the Rue Cortot, the video contrasts the artist's idealism with the realities of poverty and left-wing radicalism that pervaded the locale. In addition, it sheds light on the painting's composition; the art...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Ever since there has been work to do, people have looked for easier ways to complete their tasks. These imaginative videos offer fresh perspectives on how machines are used to make work easier. Animation, graphics, video, and narration are combined to vividly explain the basic physical concepts associated with work, energy, and the six simple machines. Special appearances by a hard-working...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: African-American journalist Jayson Blair has been pilloried as the personification of affirmative action out of control. Was it race that fueled his rapid promotions at The New York Times and prompted management to essentially ignore reports of his inaccurate work? In this ABC News program, correspondent Bob Jamieson chronicles the sensational rise and fall of Jayson Blair. Afterward, anchor...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006