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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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...
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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 Dimitri Shostakovich in 8 lectures of 45 minutes each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.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: 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: Hollywood icon John Huston shares numerous insights and experiences in this classic Bill Moyers interview, filmed five years before the director's death in 1987. Answering questions on art and personal adversity at his secluded Mexican villa, Huston also allows Moyers to join him behind the camera during the shooting of Annie. Topics include the many false starts that prefaced Huston's career;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1982
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Summary: President Reagan speaks in White House ceremony to honor Iranian Hostages (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: Emerging from the First World War as a leading economic and geopolitical power, America entered a phase of unprecedented prosperity and cultural change-an era often described as the Jazz Age. In this program, teacher and historian Ben Walsh uses archival and newsreel footage to outline and comment on the period, from the Treaty of Versailles to the Wall Street crash of 1929. The video...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Representative Harold Washington says Reagan Administration is allowing a regression on Civil Rights
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1982
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Summary: Montage of scenes of Theodore Roosevelt
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1902
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Summary: House Budget Committee hearing, David Stockman suggests reducing the budget deficit by rounding social benefit checks down to next whole dollar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1982
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Summary: David Stockman defending Reaganomics in hearings, Rep. Charles Rangel grills him
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: This A&E Special chronicles the dual climax of World War II: the sweeping Allied advance in Europe that crushed the Third Reich and the final thrust in the Pacific that destroyed Imperial Japan. The Nuremberg trials and the start of the Cold War are also discussed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Anwar Sadat assassination
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: August 16, 1945: the end of World War II and the capture of Aisin-Gioro Puyi, Manchukuo's Japanese-controlled regent, by the Soviet Army. This program depicts what befell the former Chinese emperor during his captivity in Russia, his eventual extradition to Communist China, and his troubled life under Mao's regime. Through archival footage, detailed interviews, and excerpts from Puyi's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: President McKinley takes the Oath of Office.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1901
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Summary: From the day that 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra.” Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent. Ansel Adams, from the PBS American Experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: President William McKinley speaking at the Buffalo Exposition. He was assassinated the next day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1901
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Summary: Aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1906
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Summary: This dramatization of Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens with Jakob Engstrand attempting to convince Regina, his daughter and a maid in the Alving household, to come work for him. She refuses, happy with her position in a proper household, but we are soon introduced to scandal and moral debate when we learn from Mrs. Alving that Regina is actually the daughter of the philandering late Mr. Alving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Groomed for power by the Dowager Empress, three-year-old Aisin-Gioro Puyi ascended China's imperial throne in 1908. This program illustrates the early years of his sporadic reign, his education under Scottish tutor Reginald Johnston, and the shifting of his political fortunes at the mercy of international events. Puyi's eviction from the Forbidden City during his teenage years, his Westernized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: They had front row seats to one of the most shocking and oppressive dramas to unfold in modern China: the Tiananmen Square Massacre. They were the men and women stationed at Australia's embassy in Beijing, who saw the very best and the very worst of human behavior. 25 years later, Australia's eye-witnesses to that dark chapter tell how they hid from gunfire, harbored and helped key targets, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014