Summary: As we reach and move beyond our 40s, imperfections in our physiology-many that we have unknowingly carried for years-begin to reveal themselves. This episode explores the human body's ability to draw on its own reserves when things go wrong. During a routine checkup, 53-year-old Alan is found to have a life-threatening thoracic aneurysm in the blood vessel supplying his vital organs. Viewers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: During the first few years of life, the body builds up key survival mechanisms while facing some of its most deadly enemies. This program explores that process of defense-building and what happens when those defenses are compromised. Nine-year-old James's heart is so malformed it could collapse at any time. To survive, he must endure one of the most severe traumas a body can face-a heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: At about 20 years of age, the body's defenses reach their peak strength-but danger can still strike even the most robust system. This program reinforces that unfortunate irony, exploring medical challenges and complications occurring in otherwise healthy young adults. Hit by a speeding car, Rubinda receives almost immediate help-from medics and from her own body's defenses. Charlotte has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: As the human body transitions into the teen years, it grows stronger and more resilient than ever, with an immune system nearing full strength. This program reveals the teen body's newfound power and independence, which, unfortunately for many teens, means more dangerous behavior. Rushed to the emergency room with stab wounds to his chest, 17-year-old Mohammed needs a lung drain to help him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: What happens to a mother's body as it undertakes the mission of delivering a baby? How does the body of a newborn react when there are complications in the delivery room? As this program shows, the riskiest day of anyone's life is the day of his or her birth. At only two hours old, baby Gabriel faces grave danger with a condition called Meconium Aspiration Syndrome. Baby Arnav's umbilical cord...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Despite its slowed responses in old age, the human body, with help from modern medicine, can still fight injury and illness. This program demonstrates that sustained ability by following medical cases involving patients as advanced as age 80 and older. Entering the hospital with intense chest pain, Geoffrey finds he is facing a tiny enemy-a blood clot in one of the vessels feeding his heart....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program savors the peaceful splendor of autumn in Kyoto. First, visits to Kozan-ji Temple, an example of early Kamakura architecture and repository of a painting by Toba Sojo; Sanzen-in Temple, immortalized by 18th-century poet Ueda Akinari; and many other temples offer views of the region's beautiful red-colored maples. Then, the video covers the autumn festival in Arashiyama, the Jidai...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The story of a woman who borrows her friend's necklace, only to lose it, this dramatization of Maupassant's cynical and caustic tale will delight students of all levels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A gripping story that explores the ambiguities between the supernatural and the natural, this dramatization portrays one man's descent into the "fantastic" and his ensuing madness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program reveals the pristine vistas of winter in Kyoto. Set against a backdrop of snow, New Year's festivities-the Okera-mairi ritual at Yasaka Shrine, the tolling of the bell at Kiyomizu Temple, pilgrimages to the temples of the seven gods of fortune, the calligraphy festival at Kitano Temmangu Shrine, the naked dance at Hokaiji Temple, and other events-as well as the Devil Dance festival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: For adolescents making the transition to young adulthood, risk-taking activities are an essential part of the process. With this program, you can help your students to distinguish between positive risks-like trying out for a sport or learning to drive-and negative risks as well as to seriously consider the ramifications of substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, road rage, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: If a teenager is psychologically resilient, he or she has the ability to "bounce back" after something negative happens. This program explains how young adults can develop that resilience, increasing the likelihood that they'll recover from adolescent stresses and crises without developing deep or lasting psychological problems. A case study of a traumatized young woman who turned to drugs as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: A student's first step to dealing constructively with stress is understanding it: what it is, how it works, and why it's such a powerful force in a teenager's life. Use this program to show your students how to take control of stress! It distinguishes between positive and negative stressors, describes how the body reacts to stressors, explores common causes of teen stress, and suggests ways to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program captures the essence of spring in Kyoto. First, the program presents the region's gorgeous displays of cherry blossoms and other flowers at Heian Jingu Shrine, built to commemorate Kyoto's 1,100 years as capital of Japan; in Maruyama Park; by Togetsu Bridge; and at a number of famous temples. Next, traditional seasonal events are profiled, including the Miyako-odori and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program explores the glories of summer in Kyoto. The video starts with a tour of the Kurama-dera Temple, spotlighting its history as a shrine to the Sonten trinity, its fire festival and bamboo-cutting ceremony, and the locale's natural beauty. It continues with visits to the gardens of the Tendai Buddhist Manshu-in Temple and Zen Buddhist Ryoanji Temple, as well as to the Gion festival,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Eating for optimal health can be a formidable task-especially during the teens and twenties, when metabolic changes, new social situations, and more challenging responsibilities can turn life upside down. In this program, young adults discuss the diverse elements that go into making healthy food choices. Topics include the components of a balanced diet, how to interpret food labels, and how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program examines the role of exercise, dieting, and other weight control strategies in attaining optimal health while skewering fad diets and risky or useless products, which only serve to undermine healthy weight management. Psychosocial factors that distort views on what constitutes a healthy look and weight are also considered, as young adults explore the dynamics of body image and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With a novelist's attention to psychological detail, a diarist's love of personal history, and a moralist's penchant for spinning parables, the Roman writer Plutarch created an altogether new kind of biographical history with his Parallel Lives, a series of paired portraits of major figures from classical Greece and Rome. In this program, Plutarch himself is held up for scrutiny, and he gives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Few literary works have inspired as diverse and impassioned opinions as Machiavelli's The Prince. While some have denounced it as epitomizing the immorality and cynicism of despotic political rulers, others have considered it a paragon of pragmatism and lucidity in political affairs-including Napoleon Bonaparte, who deemed The Prince the only book that deserved to be read. In this program, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program chronicles the life and work of John Locke, the 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist considered by many to be the first notable thinker of the Enlightenment. Without a doubt, Locke's legacy is vast: his articulation of empiricism laid the intellectual groundwork for an explosion of scientific activity that continues to this day, and his political philosophy is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Thomas More's Utopia, one of the most significant texts of English humanism, has become the ideal for a society based on fundamental human principles of fairness and justice. This program follows the progress of More's intellectual development, from his early friendship with the influential humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, to his rise to power as a member of Parliament and later Chancellor of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, a treatise that would forever change our understanding of how work, value, and money are interrelated. This program details Smith's life and traces the impact of his work as Europe began the arduous transition from mercantilism to the laissez-faire philosophy of the Physiocrats. After Smith, labor was seen as the source of a country's wealth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: If wisdom were given me under the express condition that it must be kept hidden and not uttered, I should refuse it. Thus wrote the 1st-century Roman philosopher Seneca in one of the many letters he wrote to his disciple, Lucilius. These letters were later collected together to form Moral Epistles, one of the central ethical works of the classical period. This program examines Seneca's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In 1941, Stalin appeals to Russian nationalism to convince millions to take up arms against German invaders, among them a sniper named Lyudmila Pavlichenko who inspires others to fight and survive. In Canada a young woman named Veronica Foster becomes Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl and brings women into the workforce. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Allies have the mighty Americans on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009