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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Witness to History is a series of award winning documentary films that focus on specific moments in history. Using archival footage and voice over narrative, these videos give the viewer a "you are there" sense of world events. Each film is between 12-15 minutes and is ideal as either a discussion starter or to reinforce a lesson plan. Popular with teachers all over the world, each of these titles reinforces important points in history.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Newtown school shooting. Aurora theater shooting. Tucson supermarket shooting. Are visceral reactions to tragedies trumping the words of our forefathers? Should we allow fear and the growing concern over public safety to limit our civil liberties? Dead Patriot Films presents Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, a documentary that brings audiences to the center of the controversy over the issue that is dividing our nation - gun control. Narrated by...
Publisher
Carson Johnson Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film explores the three questions crucial to determining fair use exemptions and presents illustrative examples from nonfiction, fiction, and experimental films that use pre-existing footage, music and sound from other individuals' creations--without permission or paying fees. Through on-camera interviews with noted documentarians, film and legal experts, OPF also reviews relevant court cases and clarifies legal issues regarding trademark, parody,...
4) Glory
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A gripping historical film about the first black volunteer regiment in the Civil War and their white commander. Based on the novel by Lincoln Kirstein.
"...always interesting period film, well photographed by English cinematographer Freddie Francis."--Chicago Reader
"Still one of the best war epics ever made, with all around fantastic performances..."--Film Threat
"A stirring and long overdue tribute to the black soldiers who fought for the Union...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn litteraly transformed a generation's conscience. Zinn talks about those who have no voice in the official History : Slaves, Indians, deserters, textile workers, union men.Between 1900 and 1920, more than 14 million immigrants arrived in the United States. They came...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. The collection includes a number of great episodes from the series, including American Experience 1964. 1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was the year when Berkeley students rose up in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. The collection includes a number of great episodes from the series, including American experience the rise and fall of Penn Station. In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. The collection includes a number of great episodes from the series, including American Experience The Amish - Shunned. what is it like to be cut off from your faith and your family? The Amish: Shunned follows seven people who have chosen to leave their closed and tightly-knit communities for the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. The collection includes a number of great episodes from the series, including American Experience The Poisonor's Handbook. In the early 20th century, the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest, with radioactive radium, thallium, and morphine in everyday products....
10) The red pill
Publisher
Jaye Bird Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When feminist filmmaker Cassie Jaye sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men's Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. Jaye had only heard about the Men's Rights Movement as being a misogynist hate-group aiming to turn back the clock on women's rights, but when she spends a year filming the leaders and followers within the movement, she learns the various ways men are disadvantaged and discriminated against....
11) Open secret
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"Newlyweds come to visit groom's friend, only to discover him missing; and their investigation uncovers evidence of a ring of anti-semites terrorizing the neighborhood"--IMDb.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society...
13) Vacation
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1983
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
When a typical American family takes a cross-country vacation, it can only mean one thing: total disaster!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What is it like to actually run for office? To organize campaigns? To get out the vote? To produce negative ads? To build legislative coalitions? All this and more is part of Vote for Me: Politics in America, the Peabody Award-winning four -hour public TV series that travels across the country to show us how politics is really played in the U.S. Entertaining, funny, and full of revealing behind-the-scenes moments, Vote for Meis the perfect way for...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer remains one of the most quoted writings in American literature. Yet Niebuhr's impact was far greater, as presidents and civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. often turned to Niebuhr's writings for guidance and inspiration on the most volatile political and social issues of the 20th century. Niebuhr rose from a small Midwest church pulpit to become the nation's moral voice - an American conscience -during...
17) Big eyes
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With Mexico playing a growing role in business today, it's essential to give your employees proper training to work effectively with Mexicans. Every day corporations are losing business and money because of poor communication and lack of understanding. With the Doing Business in Mexico video training program, you'll get essential insight into this critical market and its diverse people. You'll learn how to see Mexicans as they really are, and how...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To succeed in international business in Argentina, you need proper preparation. Failure to understand this proud culture will cost you time, money, or worse. Doing Business in Argentina is a complete training program with culture tips to help you and your employees be more profitable in one of South America's largest markets. In this expert program, you'll be welcomed into the offices of top executives and discover the essentials of Argentina business...
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