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: 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: 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 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: This episode of Rockets! looks at post-WW II rocketry and the creation of the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The U.S. military developed the science and technology that would explore the outer reaches of the earth's atmosphere. This effort was redirected during the Cold War, fueled by a desperate race with the U.S.S.R. to deploy nuclear-tipped ICBMs, and later to orbit the first...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: World War II - RAF Rocket attack on Nazi positions in Normandy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1944
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Summary: By 1945, propaganda machines that had geared populations for war now have to prepare them for peace. With the beginning of the Cold War, enemies become partners and allies now foes. The "free French" retake their beloved city of Paris under the leadership of Charles De Gaulle and Nazi collaborators are outed and publicly humiliated. Meanwhile American sleuths go searching for "evidence" to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: X-15 rocket plane flight
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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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: In 1941, Stalin appeals to Russian nationalism to convince millions to take up arms against German invaders, among them a sniper named Lyudmila Pavlichenko who inspires others to fight and survive. In Canada a young woman named Veronica Foster becomes Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl and brings women into the workforce. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Allies have the mighty Americans on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Sidewinder heat-seeking missile test
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: When Adolf Hitler begins his campaign of conquest in 1939, most Germans actually don't want war. But Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels use every tool of propaganda to change their minds. German pride is invoked to justify the invasion of Poland and France. Messages of hatred are used to persuade Germans that minorities should be stripped of their rights, deported or sent to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: World War II - Military Technology. Rocket firing planes, boats and vehicles on display.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945
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Summary: President Kennedy watches military display at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Row of cameramen at Kennedy Press conference at the capitol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: V-2 Rocket in Flight
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy speaking to UN after Dag Hammerskold's death (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Excerpt of JFK Inaugural Address
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy speaking to UN after Dag Hammerskold's death (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: President Kennedy's UN speech intercut with shots of activity around the Berlin Wall (German VO)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: John F. Kennedy speaks to announce his Tax Cut plan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy meets President Charles de Gaulle in Paris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Juno Rocket launches Explorer VII satellite
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010