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Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The two surviving Bielski brothers explain how they commanded the largest Jewish partisan group in occupied Europe during World War II. Survivors relate experiences and stories from this 1,500 member underground resistance group based in Byelorussia forest.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
This documentary takes an ecumenical look at a diverse selection of the world's religious traditions as performed at the Festival of World Sacred Music held in Fez, Morocco. Along with commentary from festival director D. Faouzi Skali and music anthropoligist David Lynch, the program features performances from the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions, including medieval chants, Sufi blessing songs, American gospel and Israeli popular ballads....
6) Voltage
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
The relationship between electric current and voltage is shown through various examples and experiments. Additional experiments show the relationship between temperature and current.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The pace of life has greatly increased, and the escalation of chronic stress is costing people their health, relationships, and careers. In this program, an immunologist, a psychiatrist, and a mental skills coach lay bare the symptoms of chronic stress, the negative impact on the body of continual exposure to adrenalin and cortisol, and biological and psychological factors that influence vulnerability to overstressing. The fight/flight/freeze response...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Examines the custom of arranged marriages in India. Follows the story of one girl and her family as they confront the reality of an impending marriage that was arranged when the girl was barely six years old. An overview of the custom presents it as common among all castes, although many Indians view the practice in a negative light. Education, family wealth, and astrological compatibility are examined as important in determining with whom the marriages...
10) Resistance
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Experiments presented in this program demonstrate the relationship between current and resistance, and between the length and/or the thickness of a wire and the amount of resistance. An electric toy trolley illustrates a practical application of the principle of resistance.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"This illuminating program, filmed during a guided tour of civil rights landmarks, blends potent archival footage and photos with group discussion to sensitively explore race relations in the U.S. Visits to Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta, Orangeburg, and other locations, combined with eyewitness accounts of key events by survivors of those years, steer the group's dialogue. Together, these concerned individuals--white as well as black--grapple...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The program focuses on hwo the basic components of photography--line, shape, form, texture, balance, volume duality, point of view, depth of field, and perspective--contribute to an image's impact on the subconscious mind.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
In an effort to enhance understanding of Shakespeare's plays, this program brings together visuals dealing with Elizabethan London and the Globe theater, theatrical traditions at the time, and sites associated with Shakespeare's life and family. Includes excerpts from performances.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Demonstrations prove that when two coils are placed near each other, any change in the flow of electric current in the primary coil will induce a current in the secondary coil. Experiments explore the factors that increase the induced current, illustrating the relationship between the number of rings in a coil and the ratio of voltage applied to the amount of electricity induced.
18) October 1917
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Documentary presentation of the events of the October Revolution, from the defeat of the Czarist armies and famine in Russia, to the overthrow of Czar Nicholas and the Communist assumption of power. Features Russian and Western newsreel footage and includes footage from Soviet propaganda films dramatizing the events of the Revolution. Also examines the effects of the Revolution in Western Europe.
