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Summary: The tale of the Alamo is one of courage, resolve and loss, but the human drama has obscured the role that technology played in the fatal standoff. Going beyond the obvious importance of Bowie knives and Kentucky rifles, learn how the Mexican army used music, uniforms, and other psychological tactics to keep the Alamo's defenders off guard. Forensic evidence and archival material help highlight...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004

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Summary: Presidential campaign of 1912. Shots of Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt campaigning.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1912

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Summary: Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong - a premise he supports with intriguing research and explains in his lucid, approachable book Stumbling on Happiness. In this TEDTalk, Gilbert pursues that idea through a discussion that touches upon brain architecture, experience simulation, impact bias, our "psychological immune system," synthetic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Are the results of scientific experiments affected by the desired outcome of the researcher conducting the trials? In this TEDTalk, psychologist Dan Ariely tells two personal stories that explore a subtle and perhaps subconscious bias that can lead to a scientific conflict of interest. "The most difficult thing," Ariely says, "is to recognize that sometimes we, too, are blinded by our own...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Summary: David Lloyd George. He became Secretary of War and then Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1916.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916

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Summary: General John Joseph Pershing retrospective: Pershing at desk, cavalry in Mexican expedition against Pancho Villa; Pershing observing troops.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916

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Summary: Consecration of Tomb of Unknown Soldier, USA: Woodrow Wilson and Marshal Foch present.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1919

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Summary: Death of former President Woodrow Wilson. Footage of last public appearance

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1924

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Summary: Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? How does one reconcile a commitment to nonviolence when faced with violence? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: The president has no greater responsibility than representing the nation on the world stage. Securing a stable world in which American interests can be asserted and defended has been a basic part of the president's job description from the very beginning of our constitutional history. This program profiles the lives of four men as they engage in this task at some of the most critical times in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000

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Summary: President Woodrow Wilson on train tour to promote the League of Nations

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1919

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Summary: In the Samburu district of Kenya, women have only the rights they can seize for themselves. To break free from spousal abuse, forced marriage, genital mutilation, and the spread of HIV/AIDS-and to defend themselves against rape by local British soldiers-a group of abandoned Samburu women founded Umoja, a village off-limits to men. Two decades on, the tiny community is thriving, but in a growing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: This program explores the pressures on female adolescents in the Third World through the stories of four young Kenyan women growing up in a time of cultural upheaval: Christine, a Masai who escaped an arranged marriage so she could study law; Dekha, brought up in a rigidly patriarchal Muslim town, who aspires to be a doctor; Anastasia, who works on her family's farm while yearning to become a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: In Africa, views on sex vary widely from conservative to liberal and from traditional to progressive. Topics covered in this program include gay rights, protected under the law only in post-apartheid South Africa; the practices of female genital excision and "dry sexual intercourse"-each described in detail-as they relate to severe female health issues and the violation of a woman's right to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: n the villages of sub-Saharan Africa where traditions are still strong, art is an integral part of daily life. This illuminating program examines the symbolism, aesthetics, and functionality of African art through the vast region’s sculpture, masks, architecture, ornaments, clothing, and utensils. In addition, indigenous African religious beliefs are explored through rituals—a spiritual form of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Belgium's Tervuren Museum contains the world's largest collection of Central African art, which consists of approximately 250,000 pieces. Noted journalist Paul Solman discusses the power and the true price of this collection with art historian Ramona Austin and journalist/author Adam Hochschild. In the immense Congo region, there are more than 250 different cultures, so there is a broad range...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: The outbreak of World War II saw two motion picture experts from Germany and the United States battle each other with as much ferocity as any army or navy. Their respective missions: to ignite a public desire to wage and win a global conflict. This Bill Moyers program contains an interview with Fritz Hippler, chief filmmaker for the Nazi Party. Hippler unrepentantly claims to have spoken to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: Award-winning director Lance Tracy balances serious science with tongue-in-cheek humor to create a documentary scrutinizing the scope and effects of pornography that is informative, compelling, and unsettling. Constructing an experiment to identify attitudinal and behavioral changes that manifest as a result of viewing porn—a study in the manner of the Annenberg School of Communications and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Once accepted as a cultural norm in Africa, domestic violence is increasingly recognized for what it is-an assault on the rights and well-being of women, as well as a major impediment to progress on the continent. This program examines the issue in Ethiopia and South Africa, focusing on efforts to reduce and hopefully eliminate violence against women. Viewers meet survivors of domestic abuse...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: Over 100 million children worldwide have never spent a day in school. One in four does not complete even five years of basic education. Now, 182 nations have promised to provide access to free and compulsory education for every child in the world-by 2015. To test the reality of that sweeping commitment, this Wide Angle installment profiles children in Japan, Kenya, Benin, Brazil, Romania,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: The 2009 installment in Wide Angle's Time for School series reenters the lives of seven students in seven different countries, offering a glimpse of the worldwide battle to get what most American children take for granted: a basic education. These riveting case studies in India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Benin, Brazil, Japan, and Romania feature young teenagers embracing academic challenges that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: In 2003, the Wide Angle program Time for School profiled children in seven countries-Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya, and Romania-as they started their first year of school, often in the face of great adversity. Three years later this Wide Angle episode returns to visit each child, updating the progress of their educational and personal development. The similarities and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: In this TEDTalk, computer scientist Luis von Ahn explains that every time we retype squiggly CAPTCHA letters for online verifications, we are simultaneously helping to digitize old books. The success of his CAPTCHA program led von Ahn to develop more ways to utilize ordinary online activity, or "crowdsource" - resulting in the language-learning site Duolingo, which aims to help users master a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Summary: Ads targeting girls between the ages of 8 and 12 employ an increasing level of sexuality. Are advertisers responding to neo-feminist notions of "girl power" or are they leading girls toward harmful self-images? This program examines the trend by following a group of tween girls through their daily lives, recording their perceptions of fashion, celebrities, boys, and themselves. Interviews with...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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