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...
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 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMEGreenberg, 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: Khrushchev thanking Nixon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Mussolini observes giant 100K rally in Rome on anniversary of Fascist power;
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1929
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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: In this episode, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to battle unemployment in the Great Depression, created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which spawned a “golden age” for the parks through major renovation projects. In a groundbreaking study, a young NPS biologist named George Melendez Wright discovered widespread abuses of animal habitats and pushed the service to reform its wildlife policies. Congress...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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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: Nikita Khrushchev and Eduard Menzincescu insult delegates at UN assembly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1960
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Summary: Khrushchev visits Nasser in Egypt
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Summary: Khrushchev visits DeGaulle
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1960
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Summary: Khrushchev and Mao in Beijing rally to commemorate the Revolution, the western VO is quite critical of Communism
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Supreme Soviet meeting, Khrushchev announces the U-2 shoot-down
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1960
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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: Alongside the glittery promise of nanotechnology sits a Pandora’s box of potential concerns that range from worrisome applications like nano-enhanced surveillance devices and weapon systems to unintended consequences such as nanopollution and nanotoxicity. This program takes a balanced look at the debate over potential nanotech risks as it presents viewers with the informed opinions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: A great many materials can impact the environment in a negative way-and while the by-products of manufacturing are a significant factor, pollution can also consist of discarded and post-consumer items. This program explores how pollution can affect the air, water, and land in the form of gases, liquids, and solids. Viewers learn about substances that constitute pollution, such as petroleum...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: An excellent example of governmental and community cooperation in the face of long-standing legal enmity, this program explains how the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are working to eliminate hazardous concentrations of airborne dust from the Owens Lake lakebed-drained nearly dry to supply L.A. with water. The biggest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program from the Famous Composers series introduces the life and work of Russian-born composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky. The film provides an overview of Stravinsky's childhood, which involved a sound musical education but pressure from his parents to pursue law, and the surrounding political turmoil in Russia. Not until Stravinsky's father died did he fully shift his concentration from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns explores how the post-World War I economic boom, the rise of consumer culture, and the birth of new mass media industries fueled the convergence of an incredible array of human and cultural energies, ending with the stock market crash of 1929 and the construction of the Empire State Building. In just over a decade, New...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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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: During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns documents how the dramatic events that followed the Crash of ’29 fueled the greatest financial depression in American history and plunged the city and the nation into economic gloom. In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New Deal, which permanently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010