Summary: Produced 20 years after Sartre's death in 1980, this program assesses the philosophical legacy of one of France's most renowned intellectuals. The documentary features extensive film footage of Sartre conducting lectures, as well as several interviews. A host of friends, scholars, and philosophers, including Jean-Toussaint Desanti, J. B. Pontalis, Gerard Wormser, and Bernard-Henri Levy, discuss...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Produced 20 years after Sartre's death in 1980, this program assesses the philosophical legacy of one of France's most renowned intellectuals. The documentary features extensive film footage of Sartre conducting lectures, as well as several interviews. A host of friends, scholars, and philosophers, including Jean-Toussaint Desanti, J. B. Pontalis, Gerard Wormser, and Bernard-Henri Levy, discuss...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How accurate is the term "identical twins"? Can a cell-for-cell likeness between two siblings really exist? And what does that say about the supposed uniqueness of each human being? This program examines the genetics, physiology, and psychology behind such questions as it presents fascinating real-world case studies of identical twin development. Viewers meet monozygotic twins raised apart and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Despite their shared genetic makeup, some "identical" twins don't appear identical at all-raising important questions about the role of environment in human development. This program explores several ways in which monozygotic twins grow and change on separate paths as well as the epigenetic, anatomical, and psychological factors involved. With the help of 4D scanning and CGI graphics, viewers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This episode of New York: A Documentary Film details New York's enormous growth as a booming commercial center and multi-ethnic port, and the mounting tensions that set the stage for the nation's bloodiest riot. Filmmaker Ric Burns examines how New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into one of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Why is an original painting preferred over a known forgery? In this TEDTalk, psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists - that beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is. Bloom points to the fact that erotic attraction to another may vanish upon learning that that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This episode of New York: A Documentary Film begins by identifying the key themes that shaped New York's history: commerce and capitalism, diversity and democracy, transformation and creativity. Filmmaker Ric Burns charts the development of the city founded by the Dutch as a purely commercial enterprise, first as New Amsterdam, a freewheeling enclave of trade and opportunity; then as the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003