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 AMESummary: The U.S. Constitution is the world's oldest written charter of government in continuous effect. Much of the success of this document can be attributed to the way the Constitution has changed to meet the needs of the American people. The framers of the Constitution wisely anticipated the need to make changes to the Constitution as the world itself changed. Between 1787, when the Constitution was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Rome was once the center of Christian persecution, but the martyrdom there of Paul and Peter began the unfolding of a historical epic that ended with the seat of empire becoming the spiritual capital of the Western Latin church. This program charts the development of Roman Catholicism, traveling to the ancient Port of Ostia, churches in Ravenna, and a remote Celtic monastery to show how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Khrushchev thanking Nixon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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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: 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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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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: Unrest in Middle East - Nasser and Khrushchev
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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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: 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: 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
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Summary: Abe Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner’s Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer’s barn on fire when he thinks he’s been treated unfairly, and his son, Sarty, is horrified. Snope escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Summary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series follows the life and career of Admiral Chester Nimitz, one of the greatest Navy commanders in U.S. history. Raised on the plains of Texas, Nimitz had never seen an ocean when he entered the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, at the beginning of the 20th century. Yet, 40 years later he rescued the Pacific from the tyranny of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually dependent on events in the West. Although often overlooked, the western theatre saw some of the conflict's bloodiest encounters, such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and featured iconic leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVSummary: 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: Uncover the events leading up to the tragic assassination of President Abraham Lincoln with this A&E Special. This program untangles the myths and misconceptions, and offers a deeper understanding of the emotional state of the country in April, 1865, that precipitated such an act of violence.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series transports viewers to the summer of 1961 as President John F. Kennedy addresses the United States in a televised address to explain the significance of the situation in the now-divided city of Berlin, Germany. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration is a graphic portrayal of the steps this nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Khrushchev denounces Stalinism
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Decades after his death, Ernest Hemingway is still one of the most widely studied American authors. His major works are still in print-some in as many as 20 languages-including The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. It is the art of Hemingway's storytelling that forms the heart of this program from the American Masters series, the point of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Harold Krebs (Richard Backus) went off to fight World War I, “the war to end all wars.” Then he came home…and found himself wishing it had never ended. Harold finds he doesn’t fit in anymore. He’s outgrown his old life and now needs peace and quiet to work things out for himself. Yet he’s pressured by his loving but misunderstanding mother (Nancy Marchand) to rejoin a community in which he...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1976