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...
Format: moving image
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: 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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Place a hold to request this item.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: General John Joseph Pershing retrospective: Pershing at desk, cavalry in Mexican expedition against Pancho Villa; Pershing observing troops.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: Located deep in the heart of Africa, Cameroon is one of the continent's best kept secrets. It's an adventure traveler's dream destination, with lush rainforests, arid savannas, towering volcanoes, fantastic wildlife, and a kaleidoscope of cultures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.711 CAMSummary: Until the 17th century, the building blocks of the natural world were a mystery. Of elements there were believed to be four - air, earth, fire, and water - and the science of chemistry had yet to be born. This program identifies some of the first chemical elements to be discovered by spotlighting the work of Hennig Brandt, Robert Boyle, Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestly, Antoine Lavoisier, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Greenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Dimitri Shostakovich in 8 lectures of 45 minutes each.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A year before his 1998 death, Eldridge Cleaver granted what would be his last in-depth interview to critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cleaver discussed his life as a civil rights activist, former Black Panther, and author. This program includes film from that interview, along with audio from a 1975 Gates/Cleaver interview conducted in Paris. Archival footage and commentary from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: Camelot’s court was home to lords and ladies, knights and sorcerers. The mythic tales of King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere inspired stories, books, movies, and a Broadway classic. In this episode of Ancient Mysteries, historians and archaeologists lead us throughout England and Wales in search of Camelot and the truth behind one of the Western World’s most beloved legends.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994
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Dise, Robert L.
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: In this video Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel reflects upon his life, work, and concerns for mankind's future. The celebrated author of Night reconstructed his life after surviving Auschwitz to write, teach, and campaign for human rights. As a journalist, prolific author, and human rights activist, Wiesel focuses on how human beings dehumanize others in order to kill with impunity, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: Both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery. Bacon's Quaker ancestors repudiated slavery long before the rest of the country, in 1780. And Sedgwick's ancestor...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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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: With Black Thursday, and the collapse of the stock market, America heads into the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt builds a New Deal, while, overseas, Adolf Hitler rises to power and invades Poland. Responding to Pearl Harbor, the worst attack in American history to that time, FDR guides the nation through World War II.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1920
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Summary: The Nuremburg Laws. Anschluss. The Munich Agreement. Kristallnacht. As the Nazi government grew in power, Jews recognized the necessity of emigrating en masse from their homelands in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Which countries would step forward to take them in? This chilling program scrutinizes the 1938 multinational conference in Evian-les-Bains, a half-hearted effort to help...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery of DNA's double-helix structure paved the way for the astounding breakthroughs in genetics and medicine that marked the second half of the 20th century. How did they do it? Watson - a Nobel Laureate and former head of the Human Genome Project - opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and Crick hit upon the structure of DNA and then...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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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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Summary: Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INC
Summary: With the same humor and humanity he exuded in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore - former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner - spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid car to inventing a new, hotter "brand name" for global warming. In this TEDTalk Gore is "easygoing, knowledgeable, and funny," says...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: 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: Charles De Gaulle returns to power in France
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958