Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Canadian investigation into the multi-million dollar diet industry, how the media and diet empires feed off the western obsession with weight loss. Follows one diet merchant's team as they create the "buzz" needed for a successful product launch.

Illustrates how Shakespeare drew his imagery from nature, animals, outdoor sports, ships and the sea, labor, the kitchen, common humanity and shared experiences, and discord.

Filmed on location, this program provides an inside look at the lives of three Navajo children living on a reservation in New Mexico. Examines their diverse life-styles and their shared sense of the importance of ancient Navajo customs.

The Forces of the British Empire suffered 80,000 casualties on the first day of the famous Battle of the Somme - 21,000 men from Britain, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and India died, most in the first horrific half-hour of fighting. It was the worst day in British military history. Yet even after that terrible first day, the Battle of the Somme blazed on for a further four-and-a-half months, heralding the arrival of modern warfare...

This program addresses the mechanics of building the arches found in cathedrals. Chartres and Ely Cathedrals serve as subjects for a discussion of vector equilibrium, lines of thrust, planes of action, buttresses, flying buttresses, and pinnacles. The dome of St. Peter's Basilica and the Beauvais Cathedral are also examined.

The program follows the process of creating a new corporate identity for Digital Animations Group, from sitting down with the client to determine the mission, to brainstorming and pitching proposals, to unveiling the finished product.

The task: design and build an all-in-one camera with an integrated printer that produces instant digital pictures. This program follows a team of industrial and electronics designers at Polaroid's U.K. headquarters as they take on this challenge.

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....

Many Latinos in the American Southwest wear amulets and perform certain practices different from their fellow Latino Catholics--and are discovering only now, to their amazement, that they are descended from Jews who chose conversion rather than death at the time of the great expulsion from Spain in 1492. This program looks at remnants of what was once the great Jewish civilization in Spain: the artifacts, which were Christianized or destroyed; and...