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...
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: Khrushchev visits Nasser in Egypt
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Greenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Dimitri Shostakovich in 8 lectures of 45 minutes each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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Summary: (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 ANCCall number: DVD 930 ANC
Summary: Golda Meir had already retired from public life when she was elected to serve as prime minister of Israel. Thrust into the role at a critical time in her nation's history, she strove to balance many conflicting issues: Arab-Israeli hostilities, U.S. support, and the desire to maintain the upper hand in the Middle East. This program presents a multifaceted portrait of Golda Meir drawn by those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: 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: The 1960s bring new progress in the quest for freedom, but this is also an explosive decade that threatens to tear apart the fabric of society. President Kennedy is assassinated, and Lyndon B. Johnson pursues the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated, leaving behind an impressive and growing legacy of non-violent civil rights resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Does the world's general idea of the Islamic faith focus too much on local cultural traditions and not enough on core beliefs? In this TEDTalk , journalist Mustafa Akyol discusses ways in which some practices, such as wearing a headscarf, have become linked in the popular mind to Islam's actual creed. Pointing out divergences between actual Koranic injunctions and how the religion is expressed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: A selection of Frost’s poems chosen to suit a perfect New England autumn day. Filmed in the beautiful farm country of Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: From the day that 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra.” Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent. Ansel Adams, from the PBS American Experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Khrushchev thanking Nixon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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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: Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently. In this episode we ask what it means to be Hispanic-and find that the answer lies in the tangled histories of European, Native American and African peoples. Crisscrossing Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean, and the Southwest, Professor Gates reveals stories of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: America continues to make tremendous strides through the prosperity of the 1980s, 1990s, and into the new millennium. The nation's mettle is severely tested by the tragedy of September 11, 2001, but the people of the United States rally together. New York City comes to stand as a symbol of American diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Many Americans descend from a variety of European ethnicities, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal are textbook examples of Americans with a rich medley of European immigrant stories in their family trees. Delve into their deep American roots in early colonial communities and meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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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: President Reagan speaks in White House ceremony to honor Iranian Hostages (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Greenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Igor Stravinsky.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRAVINSKY, IGOR GRESummary: Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia - meaning that his perception of words, numbers, and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. In this TEDTalk, the linguist, writer, and educator shares his art, his passion for languages, and a glimpse into his unique way of perceiving the world. Tammet is the author of Born on a Blue Day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: President Reagan speaks in White House ceremony to honor Iranian Hostages (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: Few in a suburban Australian neighborhood would know that a part-time nanny and cleaner, living here for many years, is wanted in her native Chile where she's accused of violent crimes committed in the service of General Augusto Pinochet's intelligence agency. As Chile prepares extradition papers, Foreign Correspondent follows a twisted trail leading from Santiago to Sydney and a woman named...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Summary: Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, specializes in the big questions: What does it mean to be human? If we could live forever, would we choose to? Can we improve our human nature with technological enhancements? In this TEDTalk, the philosopher and transhumanist examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter our fundamental nature to deal with our...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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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