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Depressions 1929 United States Jazz History and criticism Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Romanticism in art United States History 1919-1933 United States History 1961-1969 United States Politics and government 1919-1933 United States Politics and government 1933-1945 World politics 1919-1932 World politics 1955-1965Filter By Series
Great courses (DVD)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: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: 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: General John Joseph Pershing retrospective: Pershing at desk, cavalry in Mexican expedition against Pancho Villa; Pershing observing troops.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series transports viewers to the summer of 1961 as President John F. Kennedy addresses the United States in a televised address to explain the significance of the situation in the now-divided city of Berlin, Germany. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration is a graphic portrayal of the steps this nation...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Features both new and antique John Deere equipment. Including tractors, combines, pickers, cultivators, planters, plus road construction machines such as dozers, road graders, and wheel loaders. Learn what the machines do and how they do it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TM Books & Video 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALLSummary: President Kennedy watches military display at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Row of cameramen at Kennedy Press conference at the capitol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy speaking to UN after Dag Hammerskold's death (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: President Kennedy's UN speech intercut with shots of activity around the Berlin Wall (German VO)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy meets President Charles de Gaulle in Paris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy speaking to UN after Dag Hammerskold's death (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Excerpt of JFK Inaugural Address
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: John F. Kennedy speaks to announce his Tax Cut plan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: Hollywood icon John Huston shares numerous insights and experiences in this classic Bill Moyers interview, filmed five years before the director's death in 1987. Answering questions on art and personal adversity at his secluded Mexican villa, Huston also allows Moyers to join him behind the camera during the shooting of Annie. Topics include the many false starts that prefaced Huston's career;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1982
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Summary: FDR sailing with a friend
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930
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Summary: Sino-Japanese war, with Japanese VO
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, North Beach Airport, N.Y.: Taking off from the waters of Bowery Bay, the Flying Colonel and his wife are seen in unusual pictures on the start of their flight to Greenland to survey a route across the North Atlantic for Pan American Airways. Reel 2, Freeport, Ill.: A remarkable screen interview with Mrs. Caroline Mattern as she...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the 1935 Toledo Strike. Toledo, Ohio: Huge crowds of picketers patrol the approaches to an automobile factory when negotiations between workers and owners fail. Francis J. Dillon explains the American Federation of Labor's position in the industry.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, New York, N.Y.: Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller, The War of the Worlds, as staged by Orson Welles. Reel 2, London, England: Patients at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street get a great thrill when King George and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on a Nazi SA parade. Berlin, Germany: An unprecedented display of power and organization by the brown-shirted forces of the German Chancellor marks the final pre-election activities of the Social Democrats, with long columns of uniformed men in spirited procession down Unter den Linden from Brandenburg Gate to the Lustgarten, with Swastika banners fluttering over...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the killings of Alexander I of Yugoslavia and France's Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Universal Newsreel brings you the first actual motion pictures of the murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Barthou, shot down in the streets of Marseilles; furious spectators batter the killer to death!
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Washington, D.C.: J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, attacks the methods of lenient parole boards in releasing known criminals. Reel 2, Quantico, Va.: Machineguns rattle as Federal agents "raid" a prop gangster hideout.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010