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: Khrushchev thanking Nixon
Format: software, multimedia
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: In decades past, Native-American artists who wanted to sell to mainstream collectors had little choice but to create predictable, Hollywood-style western scenes. Then came a generation of painters and sculptors led by Allan Houser (or Hazous), a Chiricahua Apache artist with no interest in stereotyped imagery and a belief that his own rich heritage was compatible with Modernist ideas and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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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: Russian Revolution & Vladimir Lenin: Good close shot Lenin leaning from train to shake hands with people, soldiers, parade w/ lots of banners, Lenin speaking to crowd of Russian soldiers & sailors.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: Iran, one of the most volatile nations in the Middle East and long hostile to the United States, may be developing nuclear weapons. How should the United States deal with this possibility? Should the United States tolerate a nuclear Iran? Rethink your point of view with this Intelligence Squared U.S. Oxford-style debate.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VIVSummary: For some, modern science debunks many of religion's core beliefs, but for others, science is unable to answer questions of God's existence or the origins of the universe. Can science and religion co-exist? Does science refute God?
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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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: 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: Vice President Nixon visit to Latin America
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Summary: How improbable is it that life arose on Earth from inorganic matter? Could the process have involved a type of chemistry different from that which is known today? Using an expansive definition of life, chemist Lee Cronin is exploring these questions by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using molecules that can assemble, replicate, and compete. In this provocative TEDTalk Cronin shares...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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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: Only the off-beat humor of writing great James Thurber could bring to life a “hero” like Jack Smurch, played by Brad Davis (Midnight Express) Fortified only with a gallon of gin and a salami, Smurch bests even Lindbergh with the first non-stop around-the-world flight. During the four days he’s airborne, this unknown kid becomes a world hero. But on the ground a young reporter, anxious to tell...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Summary: Khrushchev denounces Stalinism
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Unrest in Middle East - Nasser and Khrushchev
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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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: Nikita Khrushchev and Eduard Menzincescu insult delegates at UN assembly.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1960
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Summary: Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt Items in this compilation include, * FDR's speech made at the Democratic National Convention, in Chicago on 7/2/32 * His first inaugural address, given on 3/4/33 * A fireside chat on the bank...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1990
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Summary: Miami assassination attempt on FDR
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1933
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Summary: Henry Ford meets Franklin Roosevelt to discuss New Deal and their differences
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: World War II - President Franklin Roosevelt meets top industrialists and speaks on the dangers from spies and traitors
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940