Summary: Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERSummary: When the time comes for getting away from it all, Bavaria offers a wide range of options. This program introduces questions and answers related to shopping for vacation supplies and arranging for lodgings. Settings include a department store, a country hotel, a hostel in the Ammergauer Alps, and an ancient Benedictine convent located on Frauen Island, in the Chiemsee.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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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: Germany annexes Austria
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: World War II - German newsreel of invasion of Low Countries. German Voiceover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Berlin Airlift begins (German VO)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Summary: Revolution in Berlin at end of World War I. Brandenburg Gate, mass demonstration; group of Americans pose victoriously; defeated German solders on parade; a young boy goosesteps alongside the column (a great foreshadowing of how Germany's defeat will give
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: More than 10% of Americans have German blood in their veins. Their ancestors came as religious and political refugees, but their dream of building a German society within America was largely shattered by the two world wars.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: World War II - German newsreel of invasion of Luxembourg by the Nazis. German Voiceover.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: This program focuses on Berlin, where Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and John Heartfield politicized the anarchist Dada movement, uniting it with the extreme Left. Nearby, the newly formed Bauhaus School, led by founder Walter Gropius and other influential architects and artists, encouraged students to reject history and embrace new techniques, materials, and styles. The film also features Gerhard...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The origins of the Book of Kells are uncertain; it was written and illustrated around the year 800, but the monastery where it originated has not been identified. It contains the Latin text of the four Gospels, with some pages in elaborate color; almost every page has brightly-colored birds and animals, and there are portraits of the four evangelists. This program not only shows but identifies...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In Germany, trains, subways, and trams provide convenient ways to get around. This program looks at how to buy train and cable car tickets and how to order meals. Featured activities include sightseeing in the Bavarian Alps, lunching at the award-winning Paulaner Imtal restaurant in Munich, eating Kaiserschmarren in Oberammergau, and dining on Japanese cuisine at Munich's No Mi Ya restaurant.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series, viewers will learn of the efforts put forth by our soldiers in Germany to show German youth the ways of democracy through the Armed Forces Assistance Program. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration shows the hardworking service personnel of the army voluntarily working with Germany’s future...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program puts the focus on leisure activities, including visiting Rischart's Backhaus, to learn how salt-topped pretzels were invented, and Ettal Abbey, to see how its famed liqueur is made; taking a hot-air balloon excursion; buying high-fashion sunglasses; unwinding at the legendary Schumann's American Bar; and dancing the night away at The Atomic Cafe, a 1970s-style disco. "Was machst du...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Rhine valley-a treasury of medieval art, and, as this program shows, the cradle of what we now think of as distinctly German imagery. Foremost among Cologne's late-Gothic painters was Stefan Lochner, who injected drama and excitement into familiar biblical scenes. At about the same time, Johannes Gutenberg pioneered a printing revolution in the Rhine town of Mainz, leading to one of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Hindenburg at celebration for end of the occupation of the Rhineland by the French
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1926
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Summary: Rows of seated nurses in uniform with masks over their mouths holding newborn babies; baby boom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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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: Narrated segment discussing German unity, showing group calisthenics in a stadium, German industry at work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1933
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Summary: Strategic bombing by the Allies undoubtedly had a crippling effect on German war production but what about the human toll on morale - and lives - of civilians? This classic program incorporates authentic WWII archival film footage and accounts from soldiers on both sides of the battleline.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: By the 1960s, Latin America's avant-garde movements had matured into a range of literary styles that were firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape. At the same time, there emerged a new and distinctive accent to Latin American literature that was no less authentic than its forebears. This program surveys the artistic phenomenon, manifested most notably in magical realism, that came to be...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: German newsreel on the making of newsreels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Summary: Likening the beauty and complexity of DNA to an epic poem, this program revolves around the idea that we all carry the story of life on Earth in our genes, and that the similarities between species may play a more significant role in that story than previously thought. A visit to Iceland's hot springs reveals heat-, acid-, and salt-resistant organisms called Archaea-primordial versions of which...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Whether shopping or sightseeing, going to work or going to college, travel and conversation are both a part of everyday life. This program demonstrates how to say where one lives and works and what one does for a living, how to ask for and give directions, and how to ask what the costs of things are. The BMW factory, an all-organic supermarket, the renowned Borstei apartments, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006