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: Trotsky reviews Soviet Army
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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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: King George V of England visits his first cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The next year, World War I began.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1913
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Summary: Nothing can amaze quite like an expertly-executed magic trick. Ideally, only the magician knows how truly simple the deception is. After watching Math and Magic, you will know that this trick and its many variants rely on a remarkable property of patterned sequences called Gilbreath's principle--named after an amateur magician who was also a mathematician. Magic is full of such wonders, as you...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 MATSummary: Kaiser Wilhelm I and Archduke Franz Ferdinand on a hunting trip with their rifles talking jovially
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1914
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Summary: Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Kaiser Franz Josef I in Vienna, Austria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1910
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Greenberg, Robert
Summary: Examines the life and works of Robert and Clara Schumann.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRESummary: It’s the hot summer of 1919. Visiting her cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), sweet-but-dull Bernice (Shelley Duvall) is transformed into a smooth-talking man-trap by her vampish kin. However, the makeover works too well; Bernice becomes the belle of the ball, captivating every boy’s interest - including Marjorie’s boyfriend, Warren (Bud Cort) The now worldly Bernice has the last laugh…a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1976
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Summary: It’s 1920 and romance is in bloom at the Biltmore Hotel under its famous clock. For Myra Harper, age 21, it’s time to stop “playing around” and find a husband - and the unsuspecting, handsome, shy, and quite wealthy Knowlton Whitney is the perfect target. Romance, it seems, will work quite well with Myra and Knowlton, for they fall in love… And then it’s time to meet his outrageously eccentric...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1984
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Summary: World War II - Nazi Germany invades France; Adolf Hitler and associates observe ruined Maginot Line; Hitler enters Strasbourg
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Trotsky arrives as exile in Mexico (voiceover refers to his future assassination)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930
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Summary: Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of 80 who bosses her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control. Yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her to the realization that of all her accomplishments, she cannot console herself for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the altar....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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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: 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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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