Summary: Lipstick factory
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Nebraska in the 1880s: bleak, lonely, and far from what you’d expect the Wild West to be. But for a naïve Swedish immigrant (David Warner), the frontier parlor of The Blue Hotel represents the quintessential Western fantasy. No one can convince The Swede that his dime-store notions about the West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him, and in his terror he turns everybody...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1984
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Summary: Is the U.S. so divided into communities of the like-minded that people have stopped hearing any political opinion that differs from their own? This program reported by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos explores the polarizing phenomenon known as "the big sort" and how that detrimental force is reshaping activism, influencing the media, and suppressing bipartisan discourse in Congress. Stopovers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: According to the World Health Organization, depression is the number one cause of disability in the U.S. today, with an economic cost exceeding
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Everyone has to find his own song, says Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, and he found his in the blues. From music and literature he has shaped a philosophy of life and some of the country's most compelling dramas, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Fences. In this program, Wilson talks about finding an African American cultural identity and what he sees as the false...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Will rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing, and industry increase the demands for fresh water beyond the finite supply? This program examines the role of high-level corporate and political players in the shrinking availability of what is already the most precious substance on Earth. Viewers follow numerous worldwide examples of the struggle for the basic right to water-from local...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In this gritty program, filmed cinema verite-style, five small-time African-American dealers living in Baltimore openly talk about "slingin' drugs" in the uncensored language of the streets. Clips of drug use, violence, and arrests interspersed with onscreen statistics provide contexts for interviewer questions about life and death in Mobtown's drug culture. Will these young men end up in a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Section one of this program features probably the most celebrated American package of all time: the Coca-Cola bottle, which has retained its essential shape-as easily recognizable to the touch as to the eye-since 1916. In section two, artisan Gerrit Rietveld's Red and Blue Chair, a furniture style debuted in 1919 in the pages of the influential Dutch magazine De Stijl and symbolic of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010