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 installment of the Famous Composers series introduces the life and work of Italian-born composer Giuseppe Verdi. The film begins by painting a portrait of the village Verdi was born in, then a part of the French Empire, and his childhood there as part of his Roman Catholic family. Following Verdi to Milan at the age of twenty, the film outlines the composers devlopment as a composer and as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: 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 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STOSummary: David Lloyd George. He became Secretary of War and then Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1916.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: President William Howard Taft
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1908
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Summary: President William Howard Taft (died 1930, but this is image during his lifetime)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1910
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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: 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: Demonstration of “liquid fire” (flamethrower) English title refers to beating the "huns" (Germans) at their own game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: World War I: US General Pershing decorates French General Petain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: “America's pirate chasers”: American speed boats in action (high-speed wooden craft)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: WWI - American celebration of Armistice
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: World War I: "80 Minutes To Berlin": squadron of biplanes in flight; aviation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: Dublin destruction after Easter Rising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: WWI - Liberty Loan Parade and Rally
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: Dublin destruction after Easter Rising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: American airplane factory, WWI era: title says "Americans bid for Air Mastery"; early assembly line; workers tune engines on row of biplanes; shots of planes taking the air and maneuvering.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: This installment of the Famous Composers series offers an introduction to the life and work of German composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner. Wagner's musical interests were initiated by his stepfather's involvement in theater, an influence that remained important to the composer and his philosophy of “the total work of art.” His adult life is characterized by a tumultuous marriage, troublesome debt,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the 21st-century landscape of shopping malls and skyscrapers, capitalism appears irreligious-but beneath its secular veneer lie theological principles born in the 1500s. This program examines the rise of the Protestant work ethic and the religious foundations of Western industry; it also reveals a Protestant consciousness at the heart of social activism and the opposition to extreme...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: World War I: Bombed-out city near Verdun; France; destruction; devastation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: WWI - Allied military leaders: Douglas Haig, General Petain, Clemenceau, US Secretary of War Newton Baker, General Tasker Bliss, General Lejeune
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: The populist governor of Louisiana and United States senator, Huey Long captured the American imagination with his dramatic speeches and promise of “Every man a king.” “The Kingfish” governed during the Great Depression, advocating public works and spending money on state highways, hospitals, schools, and old age pensions. Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns examines Long’s extraordinary career from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1985