Summary: On September 30, 2010, a NASA space telescope called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, completed its sweeping goal: to record observations of the entire sky in infrared light. The WISE science team is now sifting through the telescope's two million images to spot objects that no astronomer has ever seen before. WISE's most intriguing finds will include mysterious objects called...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: US delegate in United Nations castigates the Soviet Union for being dishonest about Korea
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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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,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The Mandelbrot set-someone has called it the thumbprint of God-is one of the most beautiful and remarkable discoveries in the entire history of mathematics. With Arthur C. Clarke as narrator and interviews with a number of notable mathematicians, including Benoit Mandelbrot, this program graphically illustrates how simple formulas can lead to complicated results: it explains the set, what it...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Germany joins League of Nations at 7th Assembly of League of Nations.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1926
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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
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1929
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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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Are one-sided limits unfair? And how does infinity fit into the equation? This program provides the requisite rules and notations for working with left- and right-hand limits. Limits involving infinity are also described, highlighting the concepts of increasing and decreasing without bound and vertical and horizontal asymptotes. Determining limits by inspection is covered as well.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this program, Professor Marcus du Sautoy addresses mathematical advances of 20th-century Europe and America. Topics include Georg Cantor’s exploration of the concept of infinity; chaos theory, formulated by Henri Poincaré; Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems; the work of André Weil and his colleagues with algebraic geometry; and the influence of Alexander Grothendieck, whose ideas have...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The Mystery of Jan van Eyck tells the stories of some of the Flemish master's most significant paintings-The Ghent Altarpiece, The Arnolfini Marriage, The Dresden Triptych, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, and Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy, to name only five-with quiet authority and deep respect. Composed of stills and highly detailed close-ups supported by informative analysis and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The great immigration from Europe ended in the 1920s. Today these descendants of the immigrants are trying to rediscover their heritage. How do they now view the Old World? And how do they view America's future?
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Nearly everyone on the planet knows of the United Nations, but far fewer understand the important functions it performs in our complicated world. Michael Douglas narrates this compelling introduction to the work of the organization. Outlining the UN's creation and history, and incorporating interviews with Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other prominent leaders, the program illustrates the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: At its height, the Achaemenid Empire of ancient Persia embraced all previous civilized states of the ancient Near East-a multinational empire without precedent. This program presents the history of the First Persian Empire, with particular attention paid to the historic architecture of the period's major cities and palaces. Insights into the development of the region by rulers such as Cyrus the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program explores the central values of Japan, Germany, and the U.S. and focuses on what drives each of these societies. America's hallmark is individualism, Japan's the preeminence of the group; in America, freedom and diversity are primary values; in Japan, conformity and a powerful sense of nationalism prevail. Germany stands between the two, asserting individualism but striving, more...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This informative program provides an accurate profile of the United Nations-its organization, structure, and purpose. It covers the organization from its history and status as an international zone in New York City, to explanations of its role as mediator between developed and developing nations, which often find themselves politically divided. UN officials offer candid revelations about...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In 1925 Luigi Pirandello brought his troupe to England as part of a worldwide tour. This program re-creates one day in London as "The Einstein of the Theater" watches his plays and, away from the footlights, confronts the paradoxical nature of his life. Portions of Six Characters in Search of an Author; Henry IV; Right You Are, If You Think You Are; and The Rules of the Game are meticulously...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This film explores how Indris Seid Yimer and Emyet Assen Woraki's lives have been transformed since 1984, when their Wollo area community was engulfed in a famine described by BBC journalist Michael Buerk as "the closest thing to hell on Earth." Featuring contributions from entrepreneur Samuel Alemu and financier Ermyas Amelga and showcasing the UNESCO World Heritage site in Lalibela.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Historical footage montage of UN. Includes the founding conference in 1945 and various world leaders addressing the UN assembly.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: After explaining how to evaluate a patient experiencing a dysrhythmia, this program provides an in-depth examination of cardiac dysrhythmias of the atrioventricular node and the ventricles. Normal sinus rhythm and its associated waveform are correlated and then compared to the waveforms of junctional arrhythmias, first-degree AV block, second-degree AV block (Mobitz Types I and II),...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Its size, geography, economic strength, and military potential assure Germany a central role in shaping the post-Cold War world. Despite its strengths, though, Germany also faces a number of challenges in the post-unification era. To understand better the profound changes taking place in Germany today, this program profiles individuals and families from both former East and West Germany and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009