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: 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: Presidential campaign of 1912. Shots of Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt campaigning.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1912
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Summary: General John Joseph Pershing retrospective: Pershing at desk, cavalry in Mexican expedition against Pancho Villa; Pershing observing troops.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: Russian Revolution & Vladimir Lenin: Good close shot Lenin leaning from train to shake hands with people, soldiers, parade w/ lots of banners, Lenin speaking to crowd of Russian soldiers & sailors.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: This training video will demonstrate how to properly disassemble any kind of diesel engine, while inspecting each part for signs of wear, cracks, and damage. Viewers will learn the importance of part organization, detailed part inspection, proper part alignment, the use of special engine disassembly tools and the importance of thorough part cleaning.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2015
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Summary: This video will review the most common methods for servicing and rebuilding a diesel engine cylinder head. It will explain how to disassemble, inspect, machine and reassemble different types of diesel cylinder heads, including the complexity of a thorough valve job and the importance of checking the head for cracks, warping, and other forms of damage.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2015
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Summary: This video provides a detailed overview of diesel engine technology and theory, including: a walk through of a standard four-stroke cycle piston engine; an overview of the injection system; a review of the bottom end and cylinder block, with its pistons, crankshafts and bearings; and the cylinder head in the top end, including the head gasket, intake manifold, valve train, and more.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2015
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Summary: World War I: "80 Minutes To Berlin": squadron of biplanes in flight; aviation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: Dublin destruction after Easter Rising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: WWI - Liberty Loan Parade and Rally
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: Demonstration of “liquid fire” (flamethrower) English title refers to beating the "huns" (Germans) at their own game.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: World War I: US General Pershing decorates French General Petain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: “America's pirate chasers”: American speed boats in action (high-speed wooden craft)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: WWI - American celebration of Armistice
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: Dublin destruction after Easter Rising.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: American airplane factory, WWI era: title says "Americans bid for Air Mastery"; early assembly line; workers tune engines on row of biplanes; shots of planes taking the air and maneuvering.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: Soviet film showing the advances in the USSR since the Revolution. VO is in Russian. Quick succession of shots including Lenin, logging, children getting food, factories, rocket taking off, etc.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: May Day Bolshevik rally in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Russian Revolution. Soldiers & workers, crowds, banners, speakers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: Russian Revolution: Fighting near Petrograd after Bolshevik seizure of power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: David Lloyd George. He became Secretary of War and then Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1916.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: Menshevik Counter-Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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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