Summary: For decades, the medical establishment has focused on producing pharmaceutical weapons to fight cancer-but some scientists are disillusioned with that approach. This program looks at developments in late-20th-century cancer research, showing how environmental and dietary studies have become marginalized. Biostatistician John Bailar laments conventional wisdom, calling for more preventive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With debate over the war in Iraq still dominating policy discussions, The Case for War, a part of the PBS film series, America at a Crossroads, follows former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle as he travels the globe, defending and debating the neoconservative case for an assertive American foreign policy. From a conversation with Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of Arabic newspaper Al Quds...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Technological innovations are penetrating ever more deeply into the substance of society-faster, in fact, than people can assimilate them. As ethical dilemmas and unforeseen consequences pile up, will techno-enthusiasts succeed in weaving a net that will ultimately trap us all? Following a concise summary of Technoscience, this disturbing program addresses diverse topics such as virtual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt arrives in England, comments on war in Korea (saying it's to prevent war)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: This final episode describes the Cold War as a continuation of the “war of the world” in which millions died in proxy wars conducted by the two superpowers. World War II may have been the central act of an epic struggle between rival empires, but the Cold War continued the turbulence that marked the entire 20th century as the most violent period in history. The end of the Cold War led to great...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: While the doughboys were fighting the war "over there," Americans at home were busy supporting it. This program looks at the domestic issues facing the United States during its involvement in World War I. Included are discussions of the changing industrial workforce, the growth of the women's suffrage movement, African-American migration to the North and the racial tensions that followed,...
Format: software, multimedia
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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: When asked to describe birth from a baby's perspective, a group of women talk about fear, elation, and other feelings-while their male counterparts summon only physical sensations. What causes such a contrast? This program explores the divergent emotional tendencies of men and women, throwing gender differences into bold relief through spontaneous theatrical exercises and expert commentary....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Why do girls demonstrate greater reading and writing ability than boys? Is the female brain hardwired for faster verbal development? Should men let women do the talking? This program studies language differences between the sexes and explores the possibility that many communication skills are gender-specific. Following two teams of well-educated adults as they undergo a crash course in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: World War I altered the economic landscape of Europe and inadvertently contributed to World War II. In this program, we see how the interruption of American economic aid following the 1929 stock market crash caused havoc in the post-war European economy. The Treaty of Versailles, Germany's inability to repay its war debt, and its chronic inflation problems are discussed. Germany's problem with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This first episode posits that economic volatility, ethnic conflict and empires in crisis combined to spawn the 20th century’s bloodiest conflicts. This led to the rise of the brutal regimes of Germany, Japan and Russia, the “age of genocide” and a preoccupation with racial purity. It gives an excellent work up to the 20th century in conflict. Spanning Asia and Europe, it portrays the human...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: With the Al Qaeda weakened and Bin Laden dead, is it time to declare the War on Terror over? The teams debate the definition and merits of the War on Terror, shortly after the death of Bin Laden and the Arab Spring.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Likened to "a strange religion. with millions of invisible believers," Radio Free Europe gave listeners in Eastern Bloc countries a much-needed alternative to government media. This program examines the impact of RFE broadcasts on Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania and the lengths to which Romanian authorities went to suppress U.S.-backed radio. Viewers learn how the 1977 Vrancea Earthquake enabled...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Spotlighting techniques provided by parents, teachers, and childcare professionals, this program features helpful strategies for early childhood education. Topics include the importance of art, science projects in the home, integrating math activities, and learning through building with blocks. Hosted by former schoolteacher and veteran mom Debi Gutierrez.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this program, Michael Wood tells how a foreign multinational, Britain's East India Company, gradually and almost by chance took power over great swathes of the Indian subcontinent; how after the shock of the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion, the British state assumed total control over the country and transformed it into the Raj; and how the freedom movement, epitomized by Mahatma Gandhi, succeeded in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In 1971, President Nixon declared war on cancer, envisioning a cure within five years. What mechanisms-financial, political, and medical-did his announcement set in motion? Are we any closer to winning the war? This program takes on those questions, examining milestones in cancer research and studying forces outside the scientific world that have driven or hindered anti-cancer efforts....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Packing the trunk, finding the right road, parking in a tight spot-are these masculine tasks, best accomplished with a man's mechanical aptitude and spatial reasoning? This program resists broadly brushed stereotypes, but does identify disparities in the ways men and women operate machines, manipulate tools, focus on tasks, and navigate. Accompanying two teams as they race to organize and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This episode of Reconstruction shows how, in just a few years, a series of stunning events - the Emancipation Proclamation, the Fourteenth Amendment granting ex-slaves citizenship in 1868, the enfranchisement of blacks the following year - reversed centuries-old patterns of race relations in America. People who for generations had been the property of others were now free to run their own lives.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: Is the war on drugs in the U.S. causing greater societal harm than the problem of drug abuse itself? This provocative program features interviews with Bruce Benson and David Rasmussen, co-authors of Illicit Drugs and Crime; Eric Sterling, former Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee; Joanne Page, director of the Fortune Society; and others. Together they indict flawed initiatives that have...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The war of the sexes, like any war, needs leaders and followers. Using a military-style competition between male and female test subjects, this program examines the different ways in which men and women exercise power, set goals, construct hierarchies, and perform teamwork. A chain of command, incorporating clearly defined roles and responsibilities, quickly materializes among the male...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program illustrates the events of World War I as it was waged in the conflict's primary theater of operations, Europe. Topics include the root causes of the war and the military alliances that ignited it; the introduction of modern weaponry such as machine guns, poison gas, fighter planes, and U-boats; America's decisive involvement, including the participation of women and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Looks, personality, intellect, bank account-the reasons for attraction can't be predicted. Or can they? This program investigates ways that men and women evaluate potential lovers and life partners, and shows how male and female criteria may be more similar than many think. Creating a relaxed, club-like setting in which a small group of singles meet, flirt, and discuss their goals, the program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The construction industry is big business, involving hundreds of professions and specialty areas. This program offers a fast-paced survey of the skilled construction trades, providing a sense of the diversity of jobs available, as well as comparing the wages of construction trades to other industries. Along with dozens of scenes from construction projects on a variety of scales, apprentices and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This episode of Reconstruction shows how the whole Southern world was turned upside down. And yet, despite these challenges and terrible racial violence in this period, so much was accomplished. Reconstruction brought public schools to the South for the first time. Black Southerners were elected to local and national offices. And the nation committed itself to equality under the law for all...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004