Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series tells the story of the Hungarian Revolution as seen through the eyes of its freedom fighters. Beginning at the end of October 1956, the revolution against the government’s Soviet-imposed policies caused thousands of Hungarians to find refuge in neighboring Austria and Yugoslavia. In response, the U.S. Army launched “Operation...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Peace talks Vietminh-French; footage of Indochina battle continuing in the meanwhile
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: Emerging from the First World War as a leading economic and geopolitical power, America entered a phase of unprecedented prosperity and cultural change-an era often described as the Jazz Age. In this program, teacher and historian Ben Walsh uses archival and newsreel footage to outline and comment on the period, from the Treaty of Versailles to the Wall Street crash of 1929. The video...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Vietminh takeover in Hanoi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: Retrospective on Dien Bein Phu siege (Vietnam, Indochina)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: Vice President Nixon visit to Latin America
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Summary: Airlift of French wounded from Dien Bien Phu siege
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: Richard Nixon "Checkers" speech, says their money is honest
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1952
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Summary: Khrushchev thanking Nixon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: A year before his 1998 death, Eldridge Cleaver granted what would be his last in-depth interview to critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cleaver discussed his life as a civil rights activist, former Black Panther, and author. This program includes film from that interview, along with audio from a 1975 Gates/Cleaver interview conducted in Paris. Archival footage and commentary from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: Political trials in Havana, Cuba (after revolution)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Presenting archival footage from the anti-communist turmoil of the 1950s, this program takes viewers back to an America turning against itself, an America pushed into a state of paranoia by one man-Senator Joseph McCarthy. Historian Ben Walsh serves as a helpful guide to these newsreel materials while also making use of insightful excerpts on the topic from the 1984 Bill Moyers series A Walk...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Richard Nixon speaking to the press after losing the California gubernatorial election
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: Castro at rally in Havana;(biased) narration indicates that summary trials and executions of Batista followers are under reconsideration; great indication of Castro's popular power in the years after the revolution
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Fidel Castro in Havana, with guerrillas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Rome was once the center of Christian persecution, but the martyrdom there of Paul and Peter began the unfolding of a historical epic that ended with the seat of empire becoming the spiritual capital of the Western Latin church. This program charts the development of Roman Catholicism, traveling to the ancient Port of Ostia, churches in Ravenna, and a remote Celtic monastery to show how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture pays tribute to combat medics and their intimate role with the infantryman in battle. Also in this film from the National Archives and Records Administration is an interview of Major Robert Glazier, Cleveland, Ohio, veteran of eight campaigns and Battalion Commander of the 3rd Infantry, by Colonel William Quinn.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: American troops patrol in Korea; Korean War
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951
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Summary: This dramatization of Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens with Jakob Engstrand attempting to convince Regina, his daughter and a maid in the Alving household, to come work for him. She refuses, happy with her position in a proper household, but we are soon introduced to scandal and moral debate when we learn from Mrs. Alving that Regina is actually the daughter of the philandering late Mr. Alving...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Americans and British in action near Taegu; Korean War
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: George Marshall announces that the UN troops will withdraw from Korea if Communists make sincere steps toward peace
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951
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Summary: Action around "Heartbreak Ridge"; big helicopters prove useful in Korean War battle
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951