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Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Destination America Fighting the tide God in America The Wide Angle Collection: Human Stories, Global Issues Voyageur experience in global geography War (Television program : 2007) Wonderful World of Albert Kahn Wor(l)ds of changeSummary: This episode of the four-part documentary series highlights how electricity became a part of every American's life. After 1880, Thomas Edison launched the electric-lighting era, and power plants spread to cities. Few private utilities wired rural areas, citing its cost. But if private firms refused to do it, the government would. Arthur Morgan and David Lilienthal, leading the Tennessee Valley...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Until I knew I was a Kurd, I didn't know who I was. Now I know who I am and I am willing to die for it.-the words, not of a battle-hardened guerrilla, but of a teenage girl from Australia. This program shows little children singing that the Kurds will live forever as jets roar overhead; it introduces us to warlords and guerrilla camps; and it demonstrates how people who are threatened by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat No. 2. Washington, D.C.: In a dramatic newsreel interview at the White House, the Chief Executive reviews the accomplishments of his two-months-old administration, promising further legislation designed to better economic conditions throughout the United States and to improve the financial standing of the industrial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: You'll never be free until we are free, said Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the white citizens of South Africa-and thanks to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, blacks and whites alike are finally free to put down the burden of guilt and come together as one people. This program follows a busy day in the life of Nobel Laureate Tutu in 1996, which begins with a tour through his Cape Town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Get your students ready to sew! This video covers safety in the sewing lab, notions for sewing, hand-sewing basics, and an introduction to the sewing machine. Sewing projects include a pillowcase, fleece hats and mittens, a tote bag, name pennants, pillows, and other easy projects from Haan Crafts and To-Sew. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In December 2003, Afghanistan convened a loya jirga in order to adopt a constitution. This Wide Angle documentary details the experiences of two aspiring Afghan delegates at the gathering, showing them literally risking their lives to participate in the future of their country. The program also examines the frantic preparations of an international and Afghani logistics team scrambling to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: By June 1944, there are signs on both sides of the world that the tide is turning. Through historic footage and interviews, Ken Burns’ Pride of Our Nation brings us to June 6: D-Day. A million and a half Allied troops embark on one of the greatest military operations in history - the invasion of France. It is the bloodiest day for America since the Civil War. In the Pacific, Marines encounter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Hour five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with “godless communism.” As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Just because we can extend life, should we? Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care every year. Medicare alone costs taxpayers over
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Hour three explores how religion suffused the Civil War. As slavery split the nation in two, Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders turned to the Bible to support their cause. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass condemned Christianity for sanctioning slavery. In the White House, Abraham Lincoln struggled to make sense of the war’s carnage and the death of his young son....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: No sooner had Europe declared an end to its Great War than the seeds of new conflict were sewn-in the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. With typical global awareness, photography patron and archivist Albert Kahn chose to document the historic changes occurring in the colonial Middle East. This program traces his team's expeditions into Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine as Western powers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, a treatise that would forever change our understanding of how work, value, and money are interrelated. This program details Smith's life and traces the impact of his work as Europe began the arduous transition from mercantilism to the laissez-faire philosophy of the Physiocrats. After Smith, labor was seen as the source of a country's wealth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What, if anything, has American military power achieved in Iraq? What are the origins of the fractured nation's sectarian warfare? Are Iraqi security forces more dangerous than Islamist insurgents? This documentary features reports that U.S. and Iraqi government forces can be linked to the country's most dire security problems. Featuring interviews with high-ranking officials in the Interior...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In Colombia, government and paramilitary forces are terrorizing the populace to deprive the FARC and NLF guerrillas of civil support. But far from stamping out the war, this policy has led to an escalation that threatens to destroy the country. This program combines newsreel and documentary footage of life and death in Colombia's rural districts, cities, and guerrilla camps with interviews to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Although rich in oil, gas, lumber, and many other natural resources, Russia is experiencing difficulty building a free-market economy. From the heart of Moscow and nearby areas, this program investigates major challenges that Russian companies face following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Interviews with resource managers and business leaders-along with spectacular views of the Kremlin, Red...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Poverty, unstable government, and disadvantages in trade have virtually eliminated food security in Malawi. This program explores the African country's struggles on both a personal and national level, interviewing frustrated civil servants and impoverished citizens, and reflecting widespread despair over WTO policies and the government's inability to subsidize the agriculture of its own people....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: US delegate in United Nations castigates the Soviet Union for being dishonest about Korea
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: This undercover report documents the stark poverty and extreme repression in North Korea that exist alongside spectacular cultural events and age-old customs unfettered by political ideology. Posing as a tourist, broadcast journalist Janet Choi risked arrest to get an inside look at one of the planet's most secretive-and brutally totalitarian-countries while under surveillance by a police "tour...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Historical footage montage of UN. Includes the founding conference in 1945 and various world leaders addressing the UN assembly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: Germany joins League of Nations at 7th Assembly of League of Nations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1926
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Summary: Elegant, flowing, and steeped in mythology, the kimono has survived for fifteen hundred years as a symbol of Japanese tradition and a mirror of Japan's evolving culture. From medieval courtesans adorned in sensual finery to samurai warriors whose clothing signified their military allegiance, anyone donning a kimono accepted and perpetuated its meanings. Today, knowledge of its traditions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: As a peacekeeper, the UN has had dubious results. It did nothing for Darfur. Its 17,000 blue helmets have failed to stop the violence in North Kivu. And it never reached a resolution on whether to intervene in Myanmar. Is the United Nations terminally paralyzed-and does the democratic world need a new forum of its own? That is the two-part question in this Oxford Union-style debate as panelists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Laying foundation stone for League of Nations building at Geneva Stone is also used as a time capsule, and they put documents; etc. into opening in middle of stone
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1929
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Summary: In this episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series, viewers will discover the story behind the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO, a group centered in the western Pacific and Asia. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration explores a few of the eight-member nations - Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines - and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008