Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
This program is about the Elizabethan relish of words -- their resonances, onomatopoeia, alliteration and antithesis. How Shakespeare uses language to define character, and how his characters use heightened language to achieve the intentions.
62) Walt Whitman
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities [distributor]
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Shows how Walt Whitman sought to express America and his love for her in his poetry, and how he had to create a whole new poetic language, using ordinary words and everyday speech rhythms, to paint a personal verbal portrait of his country as it changed from an agrarian to a tumultuous industrial society.
63) George Orwell
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
A documentary, which introduces the life and work of George Orwell. Using archival material, live interviews, and visits to the places where he lived, explores and explains the author's development as a social/political thinker and stylist.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"This ABC News program studies the connections between 9/11, the American economy, and the workforce of undocumented labor on which that economy increasingly depends. Interviews with Arizona border patrol agents evoke their frustrations and reveal the perils faced by many Mexicans who attempt desperate wilderness crossings. Contrasts between President Bush's proposed guest worker program and the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to crack down...
65) Electrochemistry
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Shows how the common, everyday battery works and the basic principles involved with it. Illustrates the terminology and processes of electrochemical reactions, how half-cell potentials can be determined, and how electrochemistry is at work in the commercial Leclanche cell, as well as the processes of corrosion and electrolysis.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Analyzes how flight evolved. Presenting a number of theories, the program examines how insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats each took to the sky. Convergent evolution and echolocation are also discussed.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Simon Bolivar, aristocratic revolutionary, and of the forces that rendered modern Latin America. Also presented are the issues and circumstances that caused Spain to relinquish its colonies, with an examination of the political and social trends and national heroes involved.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"In this program, a broad cross-section of Saudis--parents and neighbors of the accused hijackers, editors of Arab News and Asharq Al Awasat, political and military analysts, a psychologist, and others--give their perceptions of events and issues involving September 11th."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As the anchor of the global economy, the Federal Reserve Bank handles more money than any other bank in the world. This program explores the far-reaching responsibilities of the Federal Reserve in setting interest rates, regulating other U.S. banks, and making new money. For the first time, cameras go inside the Fed's network command center, the hub of the electronic payment system called FEDWIRE where banks and big institutions pay each other and...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
ABC News correspondent Judy Muller reports on the quality of life along the international border between El Paso and Juarez since the implementation of NAFTA. Program concludes with a discussion between Ted Koppel and Fernando Macias, leader of a consortium of American and Mexican officials charged with managing change along this new economic frontier.
71) War machine
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"This program examines what happened when some of the brightest minds of the Industrial Revolution applied their skills to the field of battle. Host Dan Cruickshank takes viewers on a tour of military innovation, from camouflage and rifled gun barrels to David Bushnell's ingenious submarine and William Congreve's terrifying war rockets, which brought combat under the waves and into the skies. Some less spectacular but farther-reaching inventions motivated...
Series
Religion and culture volume pt. 2
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"More than half a century has passed since the Scopes trial created deep divisions between the religious and scientific communities. In the intervening years, the two camps have found areas of compatibility: the big bang discovery, for example, was not thouroughly inconsistent with the biblical story of creation. Recently, however, the rift between empiricists and theologians seems to once again be widening. This program will explore the conflict...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Sabeer Bhatia, inventor of Hotmail, Narayan Murthy, founder of Infosys, and other industry leaders attest that globalization has raised the standard of living in developing economies through high-tech opportunities, foreign investment, and debt relief. Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs and other experts point out that the world market is being exploited through shortsightedness, including the aggressive deployment of genetically modified crops, environmental...
75) The Islamic wave
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Examines the sociopolitical landscape of Islamic hotspots in the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sudan and elsewhere. Film also examines Islam's increasing popularity and considers the use of violence by Muslim extremists to attain their goals.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
"This program waits with a group of geologists as they monitor the signs from Mount Pinatubo and try to determine exactly when it will erupt. Showing previously unaired footage, it follows the days immediately preceding the June 1991 eruption, the eruption itself, and the aftermath. The program examines the methods volcanologists use to make their predictions, their accuracy, and the repercussions when predictions are wrong.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Follows three generations of African-Americans from Mississippi as they battle extreme poverty and illiteracy. Living in a trailer without running water or lights, matriarch LaLee Wallace watches her grandchildren struggle in school, paralleling the efforts of the West Tallahatchie School System to raise standards, attract qualified teachers and find supplies, or risk takeover by the state. These intertwined stories are a sober exploration of the...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Christy Mahon, a cloddish shy young farmer, appears at the local pub in a village on the wild coast of Mayo, bearing the news that he has recently murdered his father with one blow of a spade while they were out digging potatoes. To his delighted astonishment, he is hailed as a hero in the town where he is a stranger and begins to bask in unexpected adulation.
Series
Standard Deviants core curriculum. Chemistry volume program 9
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Explains Boyle's Law, Graham's Law, Dalton's Law, the Kinetic Molecular Theory, the Ideal Gas Equation, partial pressures, diffusion, effusion, kinetic energy including ion-dipole, dipole-dipole and London dispersion forces, hydrogen bonds, phase diagrams and vapor pressure.