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: 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: Adoring crowds welcome Hitler to Sudetenland
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: Austrian Anschluss (Nazi invasion of Austria); Adolf Hitler in parade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: World War II - Adolf Hitler visits Nazis injured in the assassination attempt against him
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1944
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Summary: Nazi propaganda film in Vienna, 1938, intended to show that the Austrians support Anschluss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: Hungarian leader meets with Hitler, leaves for home
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: Hitler gives speech at huge Nazi rally, Goering and Goebbels present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: Nazi propaganda film portrays Jews in negative light; Anti-Semitic/racist stereotypes of greed/shrewdness in Warsaw Ghetto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1939
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Summary: Anti-Semitism (such as book burning) under Hitler (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Anti-Semitism (such as book burning) under Hitler (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Paul von Hindenburg's funeral, power passes to Adolf Hitler
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1934
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Summary: Hitler’s abortive “putsch” in Munich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1923
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Summary: Henry Ford meets Franklin Roosevelt to discuss New Deal and their differences
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: Saudi King Abdul Ibn Saud in India
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Summary: Retrospective on Dien Bein Phu siege (Vietnam, Indochina)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: Peace talks Vietminh-French; footage of Indochina battle continuing in the meanwhile
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: Vietminh takeover in Hanoi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1954
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Summary: World War II - Mussolini and associates are killed at Lake Como
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945
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Summary: In this video, author David K. Shipler returns to Israel to revisit the issues of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. In that book, Shipler explored fundamental conflicts and tensions dividing Israel in 1988. In this program, Shipler returns to visit Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs from that documentary and re-examines the deeply symbolic and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: Kaiser Wilhelm I and Archduke Franz Ferdinand on a hunting trip with their rifles talking jovially
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1914
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Summary: King George V of England visits his first cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The next year, World War I began.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1913
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Summary: Trotsky reviews Soviet Army
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917