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AV 005.3 TES
Test designer supreme II: for Windows. [Version] 1.2. Long
Beach,
Designer Supreme II offers the latest teacher productivity
tools for designing tests in a variety of formats.
AV 025.04 INT
Internet
Searching Skills.
1998. Hosted by Eleanor Mondale. Helps students and
educators who are somewhat familiar with the Web learn
effective search strategies to find the information they
need easily. The video guides viewers through a model
problem while presenting essential and transferable
concepts.
AV 070.4 NEWS
News
writing.
Collection, 1995. Covers most aspects of journalism and
news reporting.
AV 070.5 PIN
Pinpoint.
does the following: questionnaire design and publishing,
data collection, survey analysis and presentation.
AV 113.4 SAL
1998.
AV 152.4 WHA
What's your attitude: getting in the mood to work. Human
Relations Media, n.d. This video and resource guide seek to
help those entering the work force by identifying the most
important attitude issues they will confront.
AV 153.6 ART
The art
of listening.
1993. Teaches practical techniques to use immediately.
AV 153.8 POW
Power of
choice.
Publishers, 1988. Learning to make your own good choices
while growing up.
AV 155.2 BUI
How to
build a winning attitude.
One of several lessons presented at SuperCamp.
AV 155.2 SEL
Self
esteem.
1991. Discussed self concept and learning to think
positively about yourself.
AV 158 COP
Coping with pressures.
Publishers, 1988. Explores living and dealing with the
pressures and stresses of every day life.
AV 170 ACT
Acting on your values. San Francisco, Ca.: Live Wire Video
Publishers, 1991. Explores values and making decisions
based on them.
AV 170 FOC
Focus on Your Values and Accomplish Your Goals. Franklin Quest
Co., 1996.
AV 172 PAT
Patroitism and you [videorecording]. Washington, DC : Committee
for Citizen Awareness, 2003. Discussion questions enclosed.
Features Secretary of State Colin Powell, War veterans
former Senator Rober Dole and Senator Max Cleland, Chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Senator Joseph
Biden, Chairman of the House International Relations
Committee, Congressman Henry Hyde. Also features cameo
appearances by numerous high school students. Is a
25-minute exploration of the role of patriotism in
America-its obligations and benefits both in our daily lives
and in time of international crisis.
AV 174 TOP
Top 9 1/2 positive work habits. Vancouver, Washington : The
School Company, 1996. How to develop good work habits.
AV 174 WOR
Work
maturity skills: follow my directions.
: Education Associates, Inc., n.d. Guidance in how to
follow directions at work.
AV 174.95 CLO
The Clone Age. Bethesda, Md : Discovery Communications, Inc.,
1999. Cloning was the stuff of science fiction, until the
sheep named Dolly made the process frighteningly real. This
video explains the science that undergirds the controversial
practice of cloning. Students learn how cells function, and
how we manipulate their reproduction. They also tackle some
of the ethical dilemmas of cloning.
AV 179 MIG
Mighty Times : The Legacy of Rosa Parks. Montgomery, Al:
Southern Poverty Law Center. On
December 1, 1955,
Parks sparked a revolution by sitting still. Her simple act
of defiance against racial segregration on city buses
inspired the AFrican american community of Montgomery,
Alabama, to unite against the segregationist who ran City
Hall.
AV 200 PIL
Pillars of faith : religions around the world. W. Long Branch,
NJ : Kultur International Films, 1996, c1998.
AV 291.1 CEL
The Celts: rich traditions and ancient myths. Beverly Hills,
Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox, 1986. The heroic Celts are
a memory, part legend, part myth.
AV 292 THO
Those fabulous folks on Mount Olympus. Colorado Springs, CO. :
Contemporary Drama Service, c1986. A humorous introduction
to Greek and Roman mythology.
AV 292.1 POW
The powerful gods of Mount Olympus. New York : New Video Group,
1996. Part of the Ancient Mysteries series narrated by
Leonard Nimoy.
AV 299.78 PEY
The peyote road: ancient religion in contemporary crisis. San
Francisco, Calif. : Kifaru Productions, 1993. This video
addresses the United States Supreme Court "Smith" decision,
which denied protection of 1st Amendment religious liberty
to the sacramental use of Peyote for Indigenous people, one
of the oldest tribal religions in the Wesstern Hemisphere.
AV 302.2 ART
The art of effective communication. Indianapolis, Indiana : Jist
Works, Inc., 1995. The key to good working relationships is
communication. How you communicate yourself to prospective
employers can be the difference between several weeks of
"pounding the pavement," or immediate job offers.
AV 303.3 LEA
Leading & teaching leadership: a values based approach. Calhoun,
Kentucky : Nimco, Inc., n.d. Leadership.
AV 303.6 IMA
Images of America: war. San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.S.A.,
Inc., n.d. This program takes the perspective of Americans'
perception of war over more than two hundred years.
AV 305 CLA
Frontline: a class divided. New York: Documentary Consortium of
public television stations:, 1992. Jane Elliott, a third
grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, gives her pupils a unique
lesson in discrimination.
AV 305 CLA
Peters, William. A class divided : then and now. New Haven,
Ct.: Yale University Press, 1987. For two days after Martin
Luther King, Jr., was killed, Jane Elliott, a third grade
teacher, gave her students a lesson in discrimination.
AV 305 LIF
Life's turnaround series: silver lining: four genuine role
models. Calhoun, Kentucky : Nimco, Inc., n.d. Highlights
four young adults and their abililty to turn their lives
around.
AV 306.09 BLA
The blame game : [videorecording]. [New York]: AVC News Special
Presentation, 1994. John Stossel. Examines the excesses of
the "victims movement" and how this tendency to blame our
misfortunes on anyone but ourselves affects public policy
and the workplace.
AV 307.76 IMA
Images of America: city. San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.SA.
Inc., n.d. A visual history of the past hundred years. Art,
historical narrative, and music are used to tell the story
AV 320 ROM
Romano, Leonard F. A look at history through political cartoons
: book 1-nuclear weapons & energy. Logan, Iowa : Perfection
Form Company, 1990. Teaching materials and transparencies
on political cartoons highlighting nuclear weapons and
energy.
AV 320 ROM
Romano, Leonard F. A look at history through political cartoons
: book 2-consumer education. Logan, Iowa : Perfection Form
Company, 1990. Teaching materials highlighting political
cartoons about consumer education.
AV 320 ROM
Romano, Leonard F. A look at history through political cartoons
: book 9-global studies I. Logan, Iowa : Perfection Form
Company, 1990. Teaching materials and transparencies on
political cartoons concering global studies.
AV 320 ROM
Romano, Leonard F. A look at history through political cartoons
: book 10-global studies II. Logan, Iowa : Perfection Form
Company, 1990. Teaching materials and transparencies of
political cartoons concering global studies.
AV 320 ROM
Romano, Leonard F. A look at history through political cartoons
:
book 6-a historical look at the constitution.
: Perfection Form Company, 1990. Teaching materials and
transparencies on political cartoons highlighting historical
perspectives on the constitution.
AV 320 ROM
Romano, Leonard F. A look at history through political cartoons
: book 8-presidents. Logan, Iowa : Perfection Form Company,
1990. Teaching materials and transparencies on political
cartoons highlighting presidents.
AV 320 ROM
Romano, Leonard F. A look at history through political cartoons
: book 4-American history. Logan, Iowa : Perfection Form
Company, 1990. Teaching materials and transparencies on
political cartoons highlighting American History.
AV 320 ROM
Romano, Leonard F. A look at history through political cartoons
: book 7-law & related issues. Logan, Iowa : Perfection
Form Company, 1990. Teaching materials and transparencies
on political cartoons highlighting nuclear weapons and
energy.
AV 323 SIM
Simple justice. PBS Video, 1993. Recounts the legal strategy
and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme
Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka.
AV 323.08 AME
America's civil rights movement: a time for justice :
[videorecording]. Montgomery, Ala.:, Teaching Tolerance;.
America's Civil Rights Movement depicts the battle for civil
rights as told by those who experienced it.
AV 323.08 EYE
Eyes on the prize I. Boston, Ma.: Blackside, Inc.;, 1991. This
video relates the story of the triumphs and tragedies of
blacks and whites in the South as they tested their power to
affect change and bring about Civil Rights legislation.
AV 325.24 Imm
The
Immigrant Experience: The Long, Long Journey.
: Coronet/MTI Films and Video, [1995].
AV 327.12 SPI
Spies among us. New York : distrubuted by New Video Group, 1998,
1996. Documents the rising fear and suspicion of communist
spies in the United States during the cold war.
AV 330 ECO
Cliffs study ware for economics. [Version] 4.3+. Lincoln,
Nebraska : Cliff Notes, Inc., 1993. Program covers a wide
variety of economic topics.
AV 330 WHA
What is...? what is economics? San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron
U.S.A., Inc., n.d. Students are part of a bicycle
messenger's journey on a fast-paced ride through cities of
the past and present to learn about the world of economics.
This quick course introduces basic terms and economic
concepts to help demystify a sometimes baffling and complex
topic for students by translating economics into everyday
situations.
AV 331.25 TEN
10 easy ways to keep your job! Human Relations Media, n.d.
Introduces students to important practices they can use to
keep any job.
AV 331.7 CAR
Careers
in the real world: job search skills.
: Nimco, Inc., n.d. How to search for a job.
AV 331.7 HIS
The Hispanic experience: legislative aide/dietician.
Bloomington, Ill. : Meridian Education Corporation, n.d.
Career opportunities.
AV 331.7 HIS
The Hispanic experience: Camera person/restauranteur/interior
designer. Bloomington, Ill. : Meridian Educational
Corporation, n.d. Career opportunities.
AV 331.7 HIS
The Hispanic experience: FBI agent/home health
provider/structural engineer.
Bloomington, Ill. :
Education Corporation, n.d. Career opportunities.
AV 331.7 HIS
The Hispanic experience: movie/tv extra/pathologist.
Bloomington, Ill. : Meridian Education Corporation, n.d.
Career opportunities.
AV 331.7 OPT
Options
after high school. Bloomington, Ill. :
Education Corporation, 1997. Career opportunities.
AV 332.4 MON
Money: history in your hands. American Numistmatic Association,
1995. Money provides a unique and fascinating insight into
art, culture, religion and politics. James Earl Jones
narrates this story illustrating the coins and lives of
Jesus Christ, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Abraham
Lincoln, Hercules, Daniel Boone and others.
AV 332.6 TRI
Trillion dollar bet. South Surlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video,
2000. How a brilliant investment strategy created worldwide
financial panic.
AV 338.2 REF
The refinery film. San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.S.A., Inc.,
n.d. Join McLean Stevenson making hydrocarbon "soup" in the
"kitchen" of an oil refinery. Students see how science and
technology are working to create hundreds of useful products
from crude oil.
AV 342.73 CON
Executive privilege and delegation of powers. Burlington, VT. :
The Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1984. A wide variety of
constitutional issues are address in this series.
AV 342.73 CON
War powers and covert action. Burlington, VT. : The
Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1984. This series covers a wide
range of constitutional issues.
AV 342.73 CON
Nomination, Election, and Succession of the President.
Burlington, VT. : The Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1084. This
series covers a wide variety of constitutional issues.
AV 342.73 CON
Criminal justice and a defendant's right to a fair trial.
Burlington, VT. : The Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1984. This
series covers a wide variety of constitutional issues.
AV 342.73 CON
Crime and insanity. Burlington, VT. : The annenberg/CPB
Collection, c1984. This series covers a wide variety of
issues on the constitution.
AV 342.73 CON
Crime and punishments. Burlington, VT. : The Annenberg/CPB
Collection, c1984. This series covers a wide variety of
issues about the constitution.
AV 342.73 CON
Campaign spending. Burlington, VT. : The Annenberg/CPB
Collection, c1984. This series covers a wide variety of
issues on the consitituion.
AV 342.73 CON
National security and freedom of the press. Burlington, VT. :
The Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1984. This series covers a
wide variety of issues about the constitution.
AV 342.73 CON
School prayer, gun control, and the right to assemble.
Burlington, VT. : The Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1984. This
series covers a wide variety of issues about the
constitution.
AV 342.73 CON
Right to live, right to die. Burlington, VT. : The Annenberg/CPB
Collection, 1984. This series covers a wide variety of
issues about the constitution.
AV 342.73 CON
Immigration reform. Burlington, VT. : The Annenberg/CPB
Collection, c1984. This series covers a wide variety of
issues about the constitution.
AV 342.73 CON
Affirmative Action versus reverse discrimination. Burlington,
VT. : The Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1984. This series
covers a wide variety of issues about the constitution.
AV 342.73 CON
Federalism. Burlington, VT. : The Annenberg/CPB Collection,
c1984. This series covers a wide variety of issues about
the constitution.
AV 342.73 USC
U.S. Constitution. [S.l.] : Agency for Instructional Technology,
[1990?]. Limited government and the rule of law,
federalism, separation of power with checks and balance,
freedom of expression.
AV 355 MOD
Modern Marvels : bombs. New York : A&E Television Network, 1996.
AV 355.02 WEA
Weapons at war : future weapons. New York : A&E Television
Network, 1996.
AV 358 BIO
Bioterror. South Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video, c2001.
Reporters, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, Bill Broad;
narrator, Will Lyman. Journalists from the New York Times
investigate the hisory of biological weapons and warfare.
AV 358 TWE
20th Century with Mike Wallace : insidious killers chemical and
biological weapons. New York : A&E Television Network,
1996.
AV 362.82 MEN
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. MPI Home video, 1997.
Host Barbara Walters takes an eight-month journey of
rediscovery as these frustrated couples, baring souls and
fangs, allow cameras to witness them arguing over their
stresses and struggles from their living rooms,
support-group sessions, and finally from a live television
studio in front of John Gray himself.
AV 363.17 CHE
Chernobyl nuclear disaster : Monday, April 28, 1986. Oak Forest,
Il : MPI Home Video, c 1986. Ted Koppel.
The
nuclear accident. Discussions regarding its impact on the
Soviet people and the future of nuclear energy.
AV 363.3 TER
Terrorism : the new world war. [Oak Forest, Ill.] : MPI Home
Video, 1989. Presenter : Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, David
Brinkley. American television news compilation of terrorist
events of the 1970's and 1980's, from around the world.
AV 364.4 LIF
Life's turnaround series: crystal clear: the truth about
consequences. Calhoun, Kentucky : Nimco, Inc., n.d. How to
turn a bad situation in life into a better one.
AV 371.2 BEF
Before it's too late: dropout prevention. Calhoun, Kentucky :
Nimco Products, 1990. Why do young people leave school?
This question is answered by twelve young dropouts who have
ended up in prison; young mothers who struggle to care for a
baby and continue in school; teens who left home and school
because of parental abuse; and a few lucky kids who found
their way back to school through a unique alternate
educational program.
AV 371.3 PAG
PageMaker 5.0: video training series: executive training for the
successful Macintosh and Windows user. Ormond Beach, Fl.:
Florida Marketing International, Inc., c1993. Information
provided on setting up PageMaker in Windows or on a
Macintosh and learning the various components of this
application.
AV 391 IMA
Images of America: dress. San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron
U.S.A., Inc., n.d. Using authentic visuals, students can
look at the clothes Americans wore during the past century
and why they wore them.
AV 392 DAT
Dating : [videorecording]. Cerebellum corporation, 1998. Gray,
Dr. John. Relationship expert and best selling author Ddr.
John Gray, demystifies the evocative and often puzzling
world of dating.
AV 392 FRI
Friendship and dating. San Francisco, Ca.: Live Wire Video
Publishers, 1988. Friendship and dating are discussed in
this video.
AV 415 PAR
Parts of speech. Scottsdale, Arizona : Teacher's Video Company,
n.d. Students teach the lesson with skits, graphics and
humor.
AV 419 ASL
ASL Faces; reciprocal signals, affect faces and non-manual
markers. HMB Productions, 1999.
AV 419 SIG
Sign-Toons. Portland, OR : Sign Enhancer's. Linda Bove, Sesame
Street. Looney tunes cartoons, To Duck...or Not to Duck, A
Tale of Two Kitties, and Grampy in "House Cleaning Blues".
AV 419 WIL
Wild, Wild Wits. Salem, Oregon; : Sign Enhancers, Inc, 1995.
AV 421 PUN
Punctuation power. Scottsdale, Arizona : Teacher's Video
Company, n.d. Students do the teaching in this video with
skits, graphics and humor.
AV 460 PRA
Practice makes perfect Spanish. Knoxville, TN. : The Learning
Company, Foreign Language Division, 1996/. A database of
over 2,33 practical Spanish words, linked with recordings of
native speakers and photos.
AV 500 BES
The best mind since Einstein. WGBH Educational Foundation, 1993.
Science education.
AV 507 SCI
Scientific problem solving. Tell My Why Sales Company, 1992.
Understanding Science is a thought provoking series designed
to aid the instructor in explaining difficult scientific
concepts in an easy to understand format.
AV 510 BY
By the numbers. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Monterey Media Inc.,
1999. From the smallest micro-organism to the planets and
the stars, life can be a wondrous journey of discovery where
almost everywhere and everything is affected by numbers.
Enter the enciting world of mathematics with host Danny
Glover.
AV 510 MAT
Math head : Makes critical math skills a no-brainer. Emeryville,
CA. : Theatrix Interactive, Inc., 1996. The following math
skills are highlighted in this program: developing
pre-algebra skills; solving word problems; making mental
calculations, computing fractions, decimals, percentages and
equivalencies; building estimation skills; using logical
thinking skills.
AV 510 MAT
Math:
who needs it? Los Angeles, Calif. : FASE Productions,
1999. Features Jaime Escalante and celebrities giving
viewers a new perspective on how math is used in real life.
AV 512 ALG
Algebra smart. Burlington, Ma. : Princeton Review, 1996.
Algebra games on CD-ROM.
AV 516 GEO
World of geometry. Village Video, 1998. Demonstrates the
principles of geometry that are all around us.
AV 516.22 PYT
The Pythagorean theorem. Tulsa, Oklahoma : Allied Video
Corporation, 1993. The Pythagorean theorem utilizes the
power of animatd graphics to help students conceptualize
this important mathematical concept.
AV 530 MAT
Matter. Tell Me Why Sales Company, 1992. Understanding Science
is a thought provoking series designed to aid the instructor
in explaining scientific concepts in an easy to understnad
format.
AV 530 MEC
The mechanical universe...and beyond. S. Burlington, VT : The
Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1985/1987. A visually splendid
introductory physics course, these tapes combine computer
graphics and dramatic reenactments of the history of science
with introductory lectures by Caltech's David L. Goodstein.
This in-depth adventure of the mind traces the interaction
of ideas from Aristotle to Enstein to explain the therories
of Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton.
AV 536 HEA
Hear and temperature. Teacher's guide. Humans have always been
feverish about temperature. But why? Learn how varying
temperatures affect matter and see how pressure affects
temperature. Find out why we need precise measurements of
heat and why the Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin scales are
so different.
AV 539 ATO
Atoms: videoquiz. Scottsdale, Arizona : Teacher's Video company,
[2000]. In an energetic program, students match wits
against comical quiz masters who make learning fun and
captivating. Colorful computer graphics and clear
explanations reinforce important concepts including nucleus,
protons, neutrons, and electrons.
AV 540 CHE
Chemical equilibrium. Princeton, NI : Films for the Humanities,
Inc., 1992. The Equilibrium Constant,Dynamic Equilibrium,
Reaction Tendencies,The Haber Process, Reaction Kinetics,
Unsteady Steadiness.
AV 540 ELE
Understanding:uncertainty. Teacher's guide. How can a science
be based on the principle of uncertainty? Who was
Shroedinger's cat, and why can't you pet it? The tape is
definitive guide to quantum mechanics, a complex world of
constant flux. Explore the dual properties of light, and
learn how the discovery of quarks changed physics forever.
Also, see why Newton's laws get arrested in the subatomic
universe...and how this realization led Einstein to develop
AV 540 INV
Invention: elements and compounds. Teacher's guide. Put on your
lab coat and revisit some of the most important science
concoctions of all time. Learn about Madame Curie's
discovery of radioactivity. See how reverse osmosis extracts
salt molecules from seawater and provides us with our most
important beverage--water. Dig up the roots of aspirin and
find out how it relieves pain. Whether by accident or
design, scientists are continually figuring out ways to
manipulate nature's elements for our own benefit.
AV 540 MOL
Mole Concept. Princeton, NI : Films for the Humanities, Inc.,
1992. The Mole, Combining Gas Volumes, Gas Volumes,
Relative Mass, Relative Atomic Mass, Avogadro's Hypothesis.
AV 540 WOR
The World of chemistry. Burlingon, Vermont : The Annenberg/CPB
Collection, 1990. Journey through the exciting world of
chemistry with Nobel laureate Roald Hofmann as your guide.
The foundations of chemical structures and their behavior
are explored through computer animation, demonstrations, and
on-site footage at working industrial and research labs.
Distinguished scientists discuss yesterday's breakthroughs
and today's challenges.
AV 540 WOR
The World of chemistry. Burlingon, Vermont : The Annenberg/CPB
Collection, 1990. Journey through the exciting world of
chemistry with Nobel laureate Roald Hofmann as your guide.
The foundations of chemical structures and their behavior
are explored through computer animation, demonstrations, and
on-site footage at working industrial and research labs.
Distinguished scientists discuss yesterday's breakthroughs
and today's challenges.
AV 541.1 ELE
The elements. Teacher's guide. Tempted to snore over the
Periodic Table of Elements. Not after poet Roger McGough, in
inspired dramatic fashion, traces the evolution of chemistry
from the Greeks to present day. In Part One, McGough reveals
the madness of mercury, the folly of gold, and the shadowy
art of alchemy. Part Two explores how early scientists
turned alchemy into chemistry, ultimately building this new
discipline around the periodic table.
AV 546 POW
The power of the periodic table. Scottsdale, Arizona : Teacher's
Video Company, n.d. Entertaining skits, colorful graphics,
tasteful humor, and effective reptition make ths a memorable
lesson on the periodic table.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: air in motion. Teachable Tech, Inc.,
1998. All about the air and the weather systems that create
weather.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: climate: a world of weather. Teachable
Tech, Inc., 1998. The role climatology plays in the weather
we experience.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: extremes in the water cycle. Teachable
Tech, Inc., 1998. Floods, droughts and extreme weather is
discussed.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: forecasting: then & now. Teachable Tech,
Inc., 1998. How meteorologists predict the weather.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: hurricanes. Teachable Tech, Inc., 1998.
How tropical storms form.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: look up! Teachable Tech, Inc., 1998.
Cloud formations and what they mean.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: snow, ice & cold. Teachable Tech, Inc.,
1998. All about winter storms.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: sun, seasons and the sky. Teachable Tech,
Inc., 1998. The basic concepts about weather.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: thunderstorms: the weather machine.
Teachable Tech, Inc., 1998. Discusses the forces that cause
lightning and other sever weather.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: tornadoes. Teachable Tech, Inc., 1998.
Discusses the facts about tornadoes.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom: water: oceans to air. Teachable Tech,
Inc., 1998. The water cycle is explained, from humidity to
precipitation.
AV 551.5 WEA
The weather classroom : the hows, whys and wonders of weather.
Teachable Tech, Inc., 1998. Teacher's guide that
accompanies the series of videos on weather by the same
name.
AV 551.6 ECO
EcoSpeak: the greenhouse, the "hole" in the ozone, smog. San
Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.S.A., Inc., n.d. Discusses
environmental changes taking place due to greenhouse effect,
the hole in the ozone and smog.
AV 551.6 HOL
The hole in the ozone. San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.S.A.,
Inc. Discusses the theory that climatic changes are taking
place as a result of the hole in the ozone.
AV 571.6 CEL
Cells. Bethesda, MD : Discovery Communications, Inc., 2000.
It's been 335 years since the4 fidrst microscope was
invented in 1665. Yet we're still looking through that small
lens and seeing the world on a whole new level. Get a
larger-than-life look at human and plant cells. Gain an
understanding of their primary functions and watch these
tiny building blocks of life in action.
AV 573.1 GEN
Genetics: fundamentals and frontiers. Seattle, Washington :
Videodiscovery, Inc., c1996. Contains visuals that can be
adapted to any biology curriculum. Every major topic of this
emerging discipline is illustrated with photos, graphics,
and an extensive collection of film, video, and animated
sequences.
AV 576.64 VIR
Viruses: the greatest threat to the survival of our species. San
Ramon, Calif. : IVN communications, Inc., n.d. As we near
the 21st century, man and microbe continue to be at war. One
of those on the front lines is Dr. Robert Gallo. He has
spent his life at hte National Institutes for Health
deciphering the puzzles of human viruses.
AV 581.5 SON
Sonoran desert: a multimedia field trip to the cactus desert of
Arizona. Watlingtonk, Oxon, U.K. : Ransom Publishing, n.d.
With over 400 desert scenes to explore and more than 100
species represented, students can visit the desert and find
new things with each use.
AV 613.2 DIE
Diet for a new America : Your health, your planet. New York, New
York : Wellspring Media, 1993. How your food choices affect
your health, happiness and the future of life on earth. Our
current diet is a recipe for disaster. We can do much
better.
AV 613.7 BES
The best of: American tai-chi. Sound Beach, NY: Artistic Fideo,
1997. An amazing variety of Tai-Chi demonstrations by 20
teachers and masters at the "Tai-Chi Farm" in Warwick, NY.
AV 613.7 DEN
Denise Austin mat workout based on the work of J.H. Pilates.
Santa Monica, CA : Artisan Home Entertainment Inc., 2000.
TV's renowned home fitness star mixes exercises inspired by
J.H. Pilates with yoga, creating two neditative, 20-minute
workouts for people of all ages and fitness levels.
AV 613.7 YOG
Yoga journal's Yoga for strength. Gaiam, Inc, 1996. Rodney Yee.
Increased strength brings about increased vitality and
greater resistance to everyday stress. Two powerful workouts
are presented.
AV 613.8 DRU
Drugs and alcohol, part I & II. San Francisco, Ca.: Live Wire
Video Publishers, 1988. Explores drug and alcohol abuse,
providing students with activities that show them
alternatives to drug use.
AV 613.81 DRI
Drinking and driving. San Francisco, Ca.: Live Wire Video
Publishers, 1988. Explores alternatives to drinking and
driving.
AV 613.90 SEX
Sex. San Francisco, Ca.: Live Wire Video Publishers, 1988.
Concerns making positive choices in sexual relationships.
AV 616.85 DEP
Depression and suicide : [videorecording]. San Francisco, Ca.:
Live Wire Video Publishers, 1988. Discusses depression and
alternatives to suicide.
AV 616.85 DYI
Dying to be thin. South Burlington, VT: NOVA, 2002. Video
introduces you to students, ballet dancers, fashion models
and other young women who are seeking recovery or have
conquered their disease.
AV 620 ENG
Engineering disasters. New York,New York: A&E Home Video, 1996.
AV 623.4 KAB
Kaboom! Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, c1997.
Documentary on the history of explosives from ancient
to the Persian Gulf War.
AV 628.1 CAD
Cadillac desert. United States : PBS : Columbia TriStar
Television, 1997. This fascinating documentary describes
how William Mulholland delivered a river to Los Angeles in
1913. Mulholland, who rose from ditchdigger to
superintendent of the L.A. water system, found a solution to
escalating water problems in a remote valley 250 miles to
the north. After the city securred water rights to the
valley's Owens River, he spent six years building an
aqueduct across the blistering Mojave Desert, a monumental
engineering feat. The program also recalls the shady land
speculations behind the deal, how northern ranchers fought
back and the great desaster that destroyed Mulholland.
AV 628.1 CAD
Cadillac desert. United States : PBS : Columbia TriStar
Television, 1997. An American
nile charts the
River's 100-year transformation from a wild desert river to
the most controlled, litigated, regulated,and over-allocated
river in history. The first river to come under complete
human control, the Colorado can now be turned off, down to
the last drop. Is this an ecological disaster, the ultimate
economic folly, or the perfection of a technological ideal?
This program recalls the opening of the West to settlers,
the construction of the Hoover Dam and the bitter political
battles over the potential damming of the Grand Canyon.
AV 628.1 CAD
Cadillac desert. United States : PBS : Columbia TriStar
Television, 1997. Fierce battles raged around the
transformation of California's Central Valley from semiarid
desert, where 300 Native American tribes thrived, into the
most productive and environmentally altered agricultural
region in history. Begining in the 1920's when small frms
began pumping ground water. The mercy of companies have
played in the ebb and flow of water. The program follows the
recent trend in which water is diverted away from
agriculture and towards cities and wildlife.
AV 628.1 CAD
Cadillac desert. United States : PBS : Columbia TriStar
Television, 1997. Last oasis takes viewers abroad to
investigate a new era of water scarcity. Visits to India and
China illustrate how America's large dams become examples
for water projects overseas. In Mexico City, we follow the
struggle to provide water for 20 million people. The city is
sinking--up to 12 inches a year in some section--because the
aquifers are so overdrawn. A
journed to the
explores whether conflicts over water could lead to war.
Back in the United States, Last oasis looks to the furure
conservation and recycling.
AV 629.4 FRO
From the earth to the moon : Outstanding miniseries. HBO : [Los
Angeles, Calif.]. Part 1: Can we do this?, Part 2: Apollo
1, Part 3: We have cleared the tower, Part 4:1968, Part
5:Spider, Part 6:Mare tranquilitatis, Part 7: That's all
there is, Part 8: We interrupt this program, Part 9: For
miles and miles, Part 10: Galileo was right, Part 11: The
original wives club, Part 12: Le voyage dans la lune. For
four decades we've sent astronauts into space to explore the
mysterious unknow. Here's your chance to retrace their steps
through the stories of the men, women, and children who
lived these historical events. Take off with Alan Shepard,
Buz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and other heroes as they pioneer
our space program, risking life and limb. Relive the sheer
terror of the first fiery explosions and overpowering
elation that came to a nation waiting in anxious
anticipation for the first American to step on the Moon.
AV 634.9 MAN
Managing
our national forests. Memphis, Tenn.:
Foundation;, n.d. Addresses the issues concerning the
practices and policies in use today by the U.S. Forest
Service in managing our national forests.
AV 640 HAV
Having
the time of your life: time management.
: Nimco, Inc., n.d. How to manage your time at work.
AV 640 REA
Reasoning and risk. San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
Presents ways to evaluate and assess risk taking as a life
skill.
AV 646.7 COM
Communicating with parents. San Francisco, Ca.: Live Wire Video
Publishers, 1988. Good tips on communicating effectively
with parents are provided.
AV 646.7 RAI
Raising your parents. San Francisco, Ca.: Live Wire Video
Publishers, 1988. Understanding family and family dynamics
is disucssed.
AV 652 SPI
Spies: code breaking. Columbia House Company, 1993. The ability
to break enemy codes was the key to success during World War
II.
AV 686.43 ODY
The unknown world. South Burlington, VT : WGBH Video, c1996.
Looks at the world of microorganisms which are very much
present but unknown to us because of their tiny size.
AV 700 ART
Microsoft art gallery. Roselle, Ill. : Microsoft Corporation,
1994. The collection of the National Gallery, London.
AV 700 LAN
Landmarks of western art: the medieval world. West Long Branch,
New Jersey : Kultur, n.d. This episode features the work of
Masaccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Geotto and Botticelli.
AV 700 LAN
Landmarks of western art: the Renaissance. West Long Branch, New
Jersey : Kultur, n.d. This episode features the work of
Leonardo da Vince, Raphael, Holbein and Michaelangelo.
AV 700 LAN
Landmarks of western art: Baroque to neoclassicism. West Long
Branch, New Jersey : Kultur, n.d. The work of Valasquez,
Caravaggio, Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Rubens is featured.
AV 700 LAN
Landmarks of western art: Rococo to revolution. West Long
Branch, New Jersey : Kultur, n.d. This episode features the
work of Watteau, Boucher, Hogarth, Gainsborough and
Reynolds.
AV 700 LAN
Landmarks of western art: romanticism. West Long Branch, New
Jersey : Kultur, n.d. As the strict classical disciplines
of the eithteenth century began to fade, two very different
movements came to prominence. Romanticism has had a profound
impact on the history of western art.
AV 700 SIS
Sister Wendy's grand tour. Beverly Hills, California : BBC and
CBS Fox Video, 1994. Sister Wendy takes you through Venice,
Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and more of the the Continent's art
capitals to discover the Western World's greatest art and
the artists who created these masterpieces.
AV 709.04 TAS
Taschen, Benedikt. Miro` : posters. Germany : 1996. Six
posters by Miro along with explanations of each.
AV 720 SUP
Super Structures of the world: skyscrapers. Seattle, Wash. :
Unapix Entertainment Inc., n.d. From the 1920's through
today's structures, Skyscrapers illuminates the amazing
designs and monumental human efforts that have forever
altered urban landscapes.
AV 726 GOT
Gothic cathedrals. New York : New Video Group, 1995. The Gothic
cathedral stands as a rich and complex design devoted to the
celebration of all we hold most sacred.
AV 778.3 INV
The invisible world. [Washington, D.C.?] : Burbank, CA :
National Geographic Video ; Dist. by Warner Home Video,
c1994, c1979. NARRATOR: Richard Basehart. An exploration
of the world as seen through modern cameras and imaging
devices. Includes slow-motion, micro- and high speed
photography.
AV 780 FAN
Walt Disney's Fantasia. Fantasia : Walt Disney Company, 1990.
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, The Nutcracker Suite, Dance of
the Sugar Plum Fairy, Chinese Dance, Dance of the Reed
Flutes, Arabian Dance, Russian Dance, Waltz of the Flowers,
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Rite of Spring, Symphony No. 6, I
Allegro ma non troppo, II Andante molto
mosso, III Allegro,
IV Allegro, V Allegretto, Dance of the Hours from the opera
"La Gioconda", A Night on Bald Mountain, Ave Maria.
Remastered original soundtrack edition from the Disney film
"Fantasia".
AV 780 GLO
Global celebration: authentic music from festivals & celebrations
around the world. New York : Ellipsis Arts, 1992. 4
compact discs. Music of some of the most joyful, uplifting,
strange and wonderful celebrations on earth.
AV 780 MUS
The music of Disney: legacy in song. The Walt Disney Company,
1992. Sixty years of Disney music.
AV 780 SIN
Sing America: patriotic collection. New York : Sony Music
Special Products, n.d. The Star Spangled Banner, Over
There, Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Army Goes Rolling
Along, Columbia Gem of the Ocean, God Bless the USA, Yankee
Doodle, Anchors Aweigh, America The Beautiful, This Is My
Country, Stars and Stripes Forever, The Marines Hymn, When
Johnny Comes Marching Home, God Bless America, Air Force
Song, You're A Grand Old Flag, America, This Land Is Your
Land, Semper Paratus, Armed Forces Medley. Patriotic songs
of America.
AV 780 WAD
Wade in the water: African American sacred music traditions.
Washington D.C. : Center for Folklife Programs & Cultural
Studies, 1994. Vol. 1 African American Spirituals: The
Concert Tradition, Vol.2 African American Congregational
Singing, Vol.3 African AmericanGospel: the Pioneering
Composers, Vol. 4 African American Community Gospel.
African American music.
AV 780.89 BIR
Birch, Sharon. Touch the sweet earth. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon
Records, 1995. The music of Sharon Birch is Navajo,
centering on Navajo prayers, chants, traditions and family.
AV 780.89 BLA
Black Lodge Singers. Enter the circle. Phoenix, Arizona :
Canyon Records, 1997. Recorded live at Coeur d' Alene,
these songs capture the pulse of the pow-wow.
AV 780.89 BLA
Kid's pow-wow songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1996.
These songs were created for children to dance during
pow-wows or anytime just for fun.
AV 780.89 BLA
Black Lodge Singers pow wow songs: recorded live at White Swan.
Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1996. The Black Lodge
Singers are one of North America's leading pow-wow groups
and this album, recorded near their home in White Swan,
Washington shows why they are in demand as a host drum.
Their original songs are popular throughout the pow-wow
circuit.
AV 780.89 CHI
Drum dance of the Dogrib. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
1998. This recording showcases the music of the Dogrib
Nation of Northwest Territories, Canada a part of the
northern Athabascan peoples who call themselves Dene.
AV 780.89 HOP
Hopi butterfly. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1998. The
Butterfly Dance, a traditional social dance of the Hopi, is
held in August after the gathering of the harvest and
presentation of the Snake Dance. It is a thanksgiving dance
for the harvest, chiefly for the corn crop and features
dancing by young Hopi maidens wearing elaborate headdresses.
This rare and unique recording is the first commercially
released recording of an actual Butterfly Dance in progress.
AV 780.89 KIO
Kiowa: traditional Kiowa songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon
Records, 1998. The Kiowa people have always been regarded
as one of the great tribes of the plains. This collection
provides a good sampling of Kiowa songs and includes gourd
dance, horse stealing, war dance, ruffly and "49" dongs.
AV 780.89 NAK
Nakai, Carlos. Emergence: songs of the rainbow world. Phoenix,
Arizona : Canyon Records, 1992. The Native American flute
is an ancient instrument native to the Woodlands and Plains
peoples of North America. It was used to create a soothing
moment in times of rest, for the courting of young women in
camp, or to aid in healing.
AV 780.89 NAT
Natay, Ed Lee. Natay: Navajo singer. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon
Records, 1966. A collection of Navajo, Hopi, Kiowa, Tewa,
Zuni and Pueblo songs.
AV 780.89 NAT
Native music of Northwest Mexico: Tarahumara, Warihio, and Mayo.
Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1998. The music of the
native groups of northwest Mexico is a blend of indigenous
and Spanish traditions.
AV 780.89 NOR
Northern Cree Singers. Pow-wow songs recorded live at Lummi.
Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1995. Recorded live at
the Friendship Pow-Wom at Lummi, Washington, the Northern
Cree Singers, of Alberta, Canada, capture all the energy and
color of the pow-wow in their vibrant singing.
AV 780.89 OLD
Old time O'odham fiddle music. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon
Records, 1997. Utilizing instruments originally introduced
by Spanish missionaries, the fiddle band sound is highly
unique with violins, guitar, and drums playing polkas,
two-steps, and mazurkas.
AV 780.89 PEY
Peyote ceremonial songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
1998. Since the mid-1800's the Native American Church, an
intertribal religion, has developed a philosophy and ritual
around the use of the peyote catus. The peyote ceremony
includes prayers and quiet meditative songs accompanied by
rattle and water-drum.
AV 780.89 POR
Traditional Lakota songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
1997. This collection of traditional Lakota pow-wow songs
is beautifully sung by one of the greatest groups of Native
American voices, the Porcupine Singers.
AV 780.89 POW
Pow-wow! southern styl pow-wow songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon
Records, 1998. These songs, which form a bridge between the
older traditions of the warrior societies and newer
traditions of the inter-tribal pow-wow, demonstrate the
dynamism and vitality of Native American culture.
AV 780.89 PRI
Primeaux, Verdell. Walk in beauty: healing songs of the Native
American Church in Sioux and Navajo. Phoenix, Arizona :
Canyon Records, 1995. These healing songs are meant to
facilitate meditation and prayer and provide comfort and
peace for the singers and listeners.
AV 780.89 PRI
Primeaux, Verdell. Sacred path. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon
Records, 1997. Healing songs are a harmonized chanting from
the Native American Church without the accompaniment of the
peyote water-drum or rattle and are meant to facilitate
meditation and prayer; providing comfort and peace for the
singers and listeners.
AV 780.89 PUE
Pueblo songs from San Juan. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
197. This collection of songs from the San Juan Pueblo in
New Mexico provides a musical window to one of the oldest
cultures in North America. These hunting, fertility,
honoring and social songs have been sung and passed from
generation to generation.
AV 780.89 SHE
Shenandoah, Joanne. Joanne Shenandoah. Phoenix, Arizona :
Canyon Records, 1989. Through her contemporary ballads,
Joanne presents the philosophy and experiences of today's
Native American. She has drawn upon her Iroquois heritage in
establishing an international reputation as one of the
foremost Native American recording artists.
AV 780.89 TOO
The drums of poundmaker: Cree pow-wow songs. Phoenix, Arizona :
Canyon Records, 1997. This collection features contemporary
pow=wow style songs as well as the northwest
style of hand drumming.
AV 780.89 TRA
Traditional Navajo songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
1998. Traditional Navajo songs recorded from 1952 through
1963 by various Native American artists. This collection
brings together social songs including love songs, squaw
dance songs, and ceremonial songs.
AV 780.89 TRA
Traditional Apache songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
1998. This collection brings together the traditional music
of the San Carlos and White Mountain Apache tribes.
Containing both ceremonial and social songs and provides a
rare glimpse into the rich imagery of traditional Western
Apache culture.
AV 780.89 TRA
Traditional Lakota songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
1998. This collection of seventeen traditional Lakota (also
known as Sioux) songs is by one of the great native singers
of all time, Wiliam Horncloud, and includes honor songs,
love songs and rabbit songs. Born in 1905, Horncloud learned
songs reaching back into the 1800's and was instrumental for
keeping Lakota culture alive.
AV 780.89 TRA
Traditional O'odham songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
1998. Traditional, social and ceremonial music of the
Tohono O'odham people (who were formally called Papago). The
sound of human voice is accompained by gourd rattel and
basket drum in these unique and disappearing songs from
peoples of the Arizona deserts.
AV 780.89 TRA
Traditional music from Warm Springs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon
Records, 1988. These songs represent the traditional music
of the native people of the Warm Springs Reservation
(comprised of fourteen tribal groups including Warm Springs,
Wasco, and Northern Paiute) located in Oregon.
AV 780.89 TRA
Traditional voices: historic recordings of traditional Native
American music. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1998.
Since 1951, Canyon Records has specialized in the production
and distribution of traditional and contemporary Native
American music. This collection is drawn from recordings
made in the 1950's and 1960's and includes rare songs by
historically important singers from over twenty tribes of
the United States and Canada. It offers a unique glimpse
into the rich and varied tribal cultures of Native America
through their songs and dances.
AV 780.89 TRE
Trejo, Judy. Circle dance songs of the Paiute and shoshone.
Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1997. This recording is
a collection of circle dance, flag and pinenut blessing
songs in the Paiute and Shoshone languages.
AV 780.89 URB
Urban Indian. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1997. The
Redhouse Family features the talented sons and daughters of
Navajo singer Rex Redhouse. The spirit of their tribal
heritage infuses the contemporary jazz performances of these
nine original songs.
AV 780.89 UTE
Utes: traditional Ute songs. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records,
1998. This recording demonstrates three musical traditions
of Ute culture--the Bear Dance (which is uniquely Ute), the
Sun Dance, and the War Dance.
AV 780.89 WAI
Southern scratch: "em-we:hejed"-"for all of you" Phoenix,
Arizona : Canyon Records, 1994. Waila music is usually
played at an all-night feast, or piest, to celebrate saint's
feast days, weddings, birthdays or graduations. Generally,
the music begins at sundown and ends at sunrise. The
earliest reference t the existence of Tohono O'odham fiddle
bands was in the late 1860's. Musicians do not read music
and play by ear. Many waila tunes are adaptations of music
heard on radio stations. Waila is dance music of the Sonoran
desert.
AV 780.89 YAQ
Yaqui ritual and festive music. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon
Records, 1998. Much of Yaqui life centers around the
colorful songs and dances of their religious fiestas. Using
voice, indigenous and Spanish instruments, these songs
provide a glimpse into the rich pageantry of Yaqui culture
and heritage.
AV 780.89 YOU
Songs of the Blackfeet. Phoenix, Arizona : Canyon Records, 1998.
The Young Grey Horse Society has influenced many great
pow-wow singers and dnacers over the yers. The Society was
dedicated to preserving traditional Blackfeet ways for
future generations.
AV 781 MUS
The music behind the magic: the musical artistry of Alam Menken,
Howard Ashman & Tim Rice. Burbanc, Ca. : The Walt Disney
Company, 1994. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast,
Aladdin. Musical scores and vocals from three Disney
animated films, the Little Mermain, Beauty and the Beast and
Aladdin.
AV 781.65 JAZ
Jazzmakers. San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.S.A., Inc., n.d.
Kenny Burrell, Nancy Wilson and Richie Cole. Features
outstanding jazz artists accompanied by their voice-over
comments.
AV 781.65 JAZ
Jazzmakers. San Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.S.A., Inc, n.d.
Art Blakey and Marian McPartland. Features outstanding jazz
artists accompanied by their voice-over comments.
AV 791.06 ROL
"Roller coaster!" Boston, Mass. : WGBH Education Foundation,
1993. How roller coasters work.
AV 791.4 UTA
Utl Hagen's acting class. New York, New York : Insite Media,
2002. "Ms. Hagen has been confirmed time and again over the
last six decades as one of the major American Theatrical
talents of this century.".
AV 792 ADL
Stella Adler : awake and dream! [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision,
c. 1989. A biographical portrait of acting coach, stella
Adler, as seen by herself, her students and colleagues. An
exponent of Stanislavsky's acting methods.
AV 792 HOW
How the theatre began. Colorado Springs, CO. : Meriwether
Publishing Ltd., c.1995. An introduction to the history of
drama.
AV 792 OPE
Opening night. Minneapolis, MN. : MECC, 1995. Software helps
user create an entire theater experience.
AV 792.09 LIF
Life and death in Britain's ancient theatres. New York : New
Video Group, 1996. History and mystery surrounding British
theatre.
AV 796 EXT
Extreme machines: volume 1. New York : BMG Entertainment, 1997.
Speed alongside trains, cars and rollercoasters from past
and present. Experience the most powerful machines to ever
ride the rails, from Big Boy steam engines, to today's TGV,
guided by onboard computers to speeds exceeding 300 m.p.h.
AV 796 EXT
Extreme machines: volume 2. New York : BMG Entertainment, 1997.
Soar away with a provocative look at aviation machines.
Discover unprecedented superplanes like the Stealth bomber,
invisible on radar, and the F22 fighter, a 21st century work
in progress.
AV 796 EXT
Extreme machines: volume 3. New York : BMG Entertainment, 1997.
Crest the horizon or plumb ocean depths with unconventinal
mechanical inventions. Explore diving technology that
originated with SCUBA. See how machines like rebreathers may
provide the ultimate underwater experience, free diving.
AV 796.5 EVE
Everest [videorecording]. South Burlington, VT : Boston Video,
1998. Narrated by Jodie Foster. In the wake of the 1996
disaster that took eight climbers in a single day,
scientists follow a team of hickers to measure, for the
first time ever, the toll high-altitude climbing takes on
the heart, lungs, blood and brain. Why do seemingly rational
people make poor, sometines fatal decisions as they approach
the peak?.
AV 808.04 BRA
Brandvik, Mary Lou. Writing process activities kit : 75
ready-to-use lessons and worksheets for grades 7-12. West
Nyack, N.Y. : Center for Applied Research in Education,
c1990.
AV 808.07 NOD
Noden, Harry R. Image grammar : using grammatical structures to
teach writing. Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Heinemann, 1999.
This book is based on the premise that a writer is like an
artist who paints images, using grammatical structures as
tools. Includes a companion CD containing more than sixty
lesson strategies and one hundred illustrative examples.
AV 808.1 NAT
Nature: giver of blessings. Salt Lake City, Utah : Bonneville
Worldwide Entertainment;, 1998. This program shows the
stunning beauty of Japan and its spectacular natural
resources. Haiku poetry, a Japanese tradition, and Basho,
one of Japan's greatest haiku poets are introduced. The
harmony with nature and goal to become one with it are
visually illustrated in this breathtaking segment.
AV 808.5 BEP
Be prepared to speak [videorecording]. San Francisco, CA :
Kantola Skeie Roductions, 1985. This comprehensive course
includes how to write a speech, what to practice and how to
get yourself mentally prepared.
AV 808.82 BER
Bernice bobs her hair. [New York]; : Monterey Media Inc., 1976.
Screen translations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary work.
Starring Shelley Duvall and Bud Cort. It's the hot summer
of 1919. Visiting her cousin Margorie, sweet-but-dull
Bernice is transformed into a smooth-talking man-trap by her
vampish kin. However the 'make-over' works too well,
captivating every boy's interest...even Marjorie's boyfriend
Warren. The now worldly Bernice has the last laugh...a
clever and ironic twist.
AV 808.85 MAR
Martin Luther King: I have a dream. MPI Home Video, 1988. When
200,000 civil rights marchers gathered at the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, they expected to hear
strong words from Martin Luther King. What they did not
expect was a speech of such heartfelt passion and poetic
eloquence that it echoes still in our memory.
AV 809 DAN
Dante's inferno. Princeton, New Jersey : Films For The
Humanities, 1996. The first eight cantos of Dante's
Inferno. The feeling of Dante's poem is conveyed through
juxtaposed imagery that conjures up a contemporary vision of
hell, and its meaning is deciphered by eminent scholars in
visual sidebars who interpret Dante's metaphors and
symbolism.
AV 809 MED
The medieval mind: the circles of light: the divine comedy.
Princeton, New Jersey : Films For The Humanities, 1998. A
vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven provides a strngely
surrealistic view of medieval attitudes on religious dogma
and the price of disobedience.
AV 809.1 AME
America in Portrait. Includes the works of Robert Frost, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe, Carl Sandburg, EDgar Lee
Masters, and Geoffrey Chaucer. Program includes: Spoon
River Anthology, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, To
Helen, I Am the People, the Mob, The Deacon's Masterpiece,
and I Dream a World.
AV 809.1 HOW
How to appreciate poetry. Scottsdale, Arizona : Teacher's Video
Company, n.d. Students do the teaching in this video with
skits, graphics and humor.
AV 809.2 ORI
The Origin of the drama and the theater. Huntsville, Tex. :
Educational Video Network, 1991. pt. 1. The origin of the
drama--pt.2. The origin of the theater. Documents the
development of drama from ancient Greek religious festivals
as well as the development of theater structures.
AV 810 AUD
An Audio-visual history of American literature [videorecording].
Chicago, IL: Clearvie/eav, 1985. Part one 1600's through
1800's, part two late 1800's through 1980's.
AV 810 HUC
Huck Finn. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications, Inc., 1996.
Historian, educators and biographers explore the controversy
this book created, its themes and shades of humor.
AV 810 MOB
Moby Dick. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications, Inc., 1996.
Covers the themes of racial intolerance, good and evil, the
known and unknown along with poortraits of the author, who
became America's first literary sex symbol.
AV 810 SCA
The scarlet letter. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications,
Inc., 1996. A tale of sin and salvation in 17th century New
England. The contorted love triangle of Heser prynne, Arthur
Dimmsdale and Roger Chillingsworth results in tormented
consequences of human desire. The themes of vengeance,
guilt, hypocrisy and repressive religion are explored.
AV 811 POE
Poetry & songs of the Civil War. OnDeck Home Entertainment,
1999. Film footage, archival photography and illustrated
drawings are woven between words and music to retell the
gripping story of the tragic war between the North and the
South.
AV 812 MIL
Miller, Arthur. The crucible. New York : HarperCollins
Publishers, Inc., 1972. First produced in 1953, at a time
when America was going through the McCarthy Era, this play
explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass
hysteria, personal spite and collective evil.
AV 820 MAR
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein, the making of the
monster. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, Inc.,
c1994. The Shelleys and Byron wiled away part of a rainy
summer in Switzerland reading a writing ghost stories;
Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's contribution. But
Frankenstein is more than a great ghost story. Its
theme-that we do not know the monsters our minds can
create-is perhaps even more valid today. The program
contains clips from the Boris Karloff film, the prototype of
movie monsters, and authors Ann Rice and Ann Mellor add
their insights into this book.
AV 820 PRO
A Prologue to Chaucer. Princeton, NJ. : Films For The
Humanities, c1993. Relates the characters and themes of
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to everyday life in
14th century England. Period art is combined with location
photography that retraces the April pilgrimage to Archbishop
Becket's shrine at Canterbury; excerpts are read from
various tales; and the famous beginning is heard in Middle
English.
AV 821 CAE
The Caedmon trasury of modern poets reading their own poetry.
New York : Caedmon, c. 1957. Poets reading their own work.
AV 821 GLO
The Glorious romantics. Malibu, California : Monterey Home
Video, 1994. A lover's delight lay in the words of Byron,
Keats, and Shelley as they caress the English language with
their poetic phrases.
AV 821.7 RIM
Rime of the ancient mariner. New York: BBC Worldwide Americas,
Inc., 1995. Film about Samuel Taylor coleradge and his
classic poem.
AV 822 ALI
Alice In Wonderland. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications,
Inc., 1996. This Lewis Carroll classic is explored with
professors of literature, biographers and contemporary
artists, while capturing a world of madcap tea parties,
disappearing felines and flamingo croquet through puppets,
animation and a rock video.
AV 822 FRA
Frankenstein. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications, Inc.,
1996. Vivid dramatizations and interviews illuminate the
terrifying question that has troubled readers for centuries:
Is there a little bit of Frankenstein's monster in all of
us? Feel the power of this horrific creature, and understand
why this masterpiece continues to shock readers.
AV 822 GUL
Gulliver's travels. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications,
Inc., 1996. A satirical look at Swift's four make-believe
voyagesthat examines the lessons Swift's voyages have for us
today.
AV 822 LEM
Le morte d'Arthur. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications,
Inc., 1996. Explore the facts behind the legend. Journey to
the possible site of Camelot, comparing history to legend.
AV 822 ORI
The origin of the species. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery
Communications, Inc., 1996. The Origin of the Species was
the birth of an idea that has reshaped our view of man's
place in the universe. Examine this work through the
scholars and modern creationists to see how the theory of
"Natural Selection" has been used to advance and challenge
science and religion.
AV 822 WAR
The War of the worlds. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications,
Inc., 1996. Computer animation, original footage and scenes
from the movie tell the amazing story, as biographers of the
author profile Wells, a complicated man with a dichotomy of
beliefs and a passion for science, politics and women.
AV 822.3 JUL
Julius Caesar [videorecording]. Turner Entertainmlent C., 1953.
Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John
Gielgud as Cassius and Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar.
AV 822.3 MAC
Macbeth. New York : HBO Video, 1988. Michael Jayston, Barbara
Leigh Hunt, Ralph Nossek, Gary Watson, Richard Warner, David
Weston. A powerful story of kingship achieved through
betrayal, deceit and murder.
AV 822.3 RED
The reduced Shakespeare company : [videorecording]. Acorn Media,
2001. Abridged. Adam Long, Reed Martin and Austin
Tichenor. A three man comedy troupe does a high-speed, fast
and funny routine of several Shakespeare plays.
AV 822.3 SHA
Romeo & Juliet. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures;, cc1968.
Shakespeare's classic romance, Romeo & Juliet is portrayed
in this film version.
AV 822.3 SHA
Julius Caesar. Los Angeles, CA.: Republic Pictures Corp.,
1970.
Julius Caesar's jealous rivals in the Roman senate wish to
rob him of his power by taking his life. Based on the play
by William Shakespeare.
AV 822.3 SHA
Romeo
& Juliet. Multimedia PC. Oxford, England:
Cyberbetics Ltd, 1995. CD-ROM version of William
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
AV 822.3 SHA
William
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Fox Video, 1996.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes. Baz Luhrmann's
unconventional adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic
love story. The setting has been moved from its Elizabethan
origins to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach.
AV 822.3 SHA
Romeo & Juliet. New York : Bantam, Doubleday Dell Audio
Publishing, 1993. The Renaissance Theatre Company presents
Romeo & Juliet.
AV 822.3 SHA
Macbeth. New York : HBO Home Video, 1978. Ian McKellen, Judi
Dench. Motion picture version of the famous play by
Shakespeare.
AV 822.3 SHA
Macbeth : Columbia Tristar ; produced by Hugh Hefner and Andrew
Braunsberg, directed by Roman
Polanski.
: Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1971. Jon Finch, Francesca
Annis, Martin Shaw. Shakespeare's famous play.
AV 822.3 SHA
Twelfth night. Princeton, New Jersey : Films For The Humanities,
1998. The acclaimed Kenneth Branagh production for the
Renaissance Theatre Company of Shakespear's lyrical play,
classed as a comedy because order is restored, evil
punished, and all who deserve it live happily ever after.
AV 822.3 SHA
The merchant of Venice. Van Nuys, Calif. : ATV Network LTD.,
1993. After enduring a lifetime of persecution, Shylock,
the money lender, has his chance for revenge. He takes to
court a respected merchant who has defaulted, demanding
payment of the agreed upon penalty: a pound of flesh.
AV 822.3 SHA
Midsummer night's dream. Water Bearer Films, 1993. The
"capriciousness of lovers" is the theme of this romantic
comedy. shakespeare presents a group of lovers so
irresponsible in their actions that their freakish behavior
can only be explained by the intervention of supernatural
beings.
AV 822.3 SHA
King Lear. Troy, Michigan : Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.,
1998. The Shakespearn classic of King Lear and the conflict
begin them regarding his kingdom.
AV 822.3 SHA
Much ado about nothing. Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home
Video, 1993. Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves,
Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington. With his wedding a week
away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero.
To distract him, his best friend devises delightful
mischief.
AV 822.3 SHA
The complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare. New York :
Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., n.d. All's Well That Ends
Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of
Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry IV Part 1,
Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2,
Henry VI Part 3, Henry VI Part 4, Henry VIII, Julius Caesar,
King John, King Lear, Love's Labor Lost, Macbeth, Merchant
of Venice, Measure For Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor,
Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello,
Pericles, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of The
Shrew, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus,
Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of
Verona, The Winter's Tale. All 37 of Shakespeare's plays
are presented on videotape by the BBC and Time-Life Films.
AV 822.3.SHA
Shakespeare: his life & work. Auburn, CA : Audio Partners
Publishing Corp., 2000. Performances from 33 plays by Judie
Dench and Timothy West. Biography written and read by
Richard Hampton and David Weston.
AV 822.3 SHA
Romeo & Juliet. USA: CBC Production, 1993. Megan Porter Follows
as Juliet. This famous story of two star-crossed lovers
revolves around the forbidden love between Romero and
Juliet, whos respective families, the Montagues and the
Capulets, are embroiled in a bitter feud that erupts into a
brawl, prompting the Prince of Verona to promise death to
"anyone who disturbs our streets again.".
AV 822.3 SHA
In the Steps of William Shakespeare: London. Bride Media
International.
AV 822.3 SHA
In the Steps of William Shakespeare: Stratford. Bride Media
International.
AV 822.3 SHA
Remeo & Juliet : Renaissance Theatre Company. New York : BBC
Radio, 1993. The Renaissance Theatre Company.
AV 822.3 SHA
Romeo & Juliet [videorecording]. Paramount Pictures, 1968.
Olivia Hussey, Leonrd Whiting, Milo O'Shea, Michael York and
John McEnery. Italian director Franco Zeffirelli stunned
the screen world when he cast two young unknowns to portray
the star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet, but it was a
gamble that resulted in one of the most popular motion
pictures of all time, winning international acclaim and four
Academy Awards nomintations. Shakespear's classic romance
comes to stunning visual life in a refreshinly modern
interpretation, bringing new vitality and insight to the
most durable love story ever written.
AV 822.3 THA
That fellow Shakespeare. Colorado Springs, CO. : Contemporary
Drama Service, c1988. All you ever wanted to know about the
man who wrote those plays.
AV 829 BEO
Beowulf. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
Inc.;, 1991. This journey into Celtic-British culture and
the oral epic tradition leads through Caedmon and Bede and
culminates in a detailed examination of the greatest
masterpiece of the age, Beowulf, and of tis protagonist, who
is our first tragic hero.
AV 882.01 ANT
Antigone. Princeton, New Jersey : Films For the Humanities,
1991. Juliet Stevenson, John Shrapnel, John Gielgud. The
tale of Oedipus and his family comes to an end. Antigone is
not the only victim; Creon also comes to a tragic downfall.
Bureaucratic ritual results in the deaths of Creon's son and
wife, burdening him with guilt as well as grief.
AV 882.01 OED
Oepidus at Colonus. Princeton, New Jersey : Films For the
Humanities, 1991. Anthony Quayle, Juliet Stevenson, Kenneth
Haigh. Version of Oedipus the King, with Oedipus now an old
man, blind and outcast, he wanders through Greece guided by
his daughter Antigone until he comes to Colonus, where he
knows he will die.
AV 882.01 OED
Oedipus the king. Princeton, New Jersey : Films For the
Humanities, 1991. John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Michael
Pennington. This plays tells the beginning of the Oedipus
saga, setting the stage and creating the characters who will
continue the story to its conclusion in Antigone.
AV 882.01 SOP
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Canada: A Corinth Film, 1988. Filmed by
the Famed British actor and director Sir Tyrone Guthrie,
this elegant version of the play adds a brillian stroke-the
actors wear masks, thus preforming their roles just as the
Greeks did in Sophocles' time.
AV 895 ART
The art of war. Bethesda, MD. : Discovery Communications, Inc.,
1996. The philosophies in the book, The Art of War are
examined since they have become a part of military
curriculums, the world of business, economics and politics.
AV 904 PRE
Prepare to survive! Washington D.C. : FEMA, 1996. Learn how you
and your family can be prepared for natural disasters, and
minimize their damage. Includes actual footage of natural
disasters and scenes from disaster films. Advice is given on
taking steps before disaster happen to reduce property
damage and protect lives.
AV 907 HIS
History is... Prentic Hall, 1999. Stephen Ambrose, Doris Kearns
Goodwin, Charles Johnson, Congressman John Lewis, David
McCullough, Richard Snow. Acclaimed historians and writers
describe why it's important to study history and how history
impacts students' lives today.
AV 909 WES
Western Europe in the modern world : teaching unit 1 for high
school modern world history. Mountain View, Ca.: Teacher's
Curriculum Institute;, 1994. Activities and support
materials for teaching Modern Civilization.
AV 909 WES
The western tradition. Burlington, Vermont : The Annenberg/CPB
Collection, 1989. The ideas, events and institutions that
have shaped modern socieities come together in this series
about the history of Western civilization. Viewers will gain
a deeper sense of the nature of history from the analysis of
basic themes and important personalities of each era.
AV 909 WES
Boggis, Jay. The western tradition : study guide. Second
edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Prentice Hall,
Inc., 1996. Study guide for the television course "The
Western Tradition".
AV 909 WES
Boggis, Jay. The western tradition : semester 1 administrative
handbook and faculty guide. Second edition. Upper Saddle
River, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, Inc., 1996. How to
conduct and administer the course of Western History.
AV 909 WES
Boggis, Jay. The western tradition : semester 2 administrative
handbook and faculty guide. Upper
Saddly River,
: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1996. How to conduct and administer
the course of Western History.
AV 909.82 HIS
History of the 20th century : 1910-1969. Oak Forest, Il : MPI
Home Video, 1990, c1980. Vol. 2. 1910-1919, Vol. 4
1930-1939, Vol. 5 1940-1949, Vol. 7 1965-1969. narrated by
Lary Lewman ; credits vary somewhat by episode. Using
newsreels, documentary films and still photographs, the
events of the 20th century are portrayed.
AV 909.97 CRU
Crusades. New York : British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995.
Traces the origin and development of the Crusades.
AV 917.3 YEL
1988 Yellowstone fires. Bozeman, Montana : Video Visions
Production, 1988. In the summer
of 1988,
National Park was devasted by fire. In the aftermath of this
seeming tragedy, environmentalist learned a valuable lesson
about the nature of fire.
AV 919.04 FUL
Palin, Michael. Full circle. Burbank CA : Time Warner
Entertainment Company, 1998. Number 1, China, Vietnam and
the Philippines; Number 2, Alaska and Russia, Japan and
Korea; Number 3, Borneo and Indonesia, Australia and New
Zealand; Number 4, Chile, Bolivia and Peru; Number 5,
and Columbia , Mexico and USA. The record of Michael
Palin's 245 day journey around the Pacific Ocean starting
and finishing on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait.
AV 920 SCH
Schraff, Anne. 50 great Americans : stories and activities.
Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, Publisher;, 1986. The
stories of 50 Americans of various backgrounds are
highlighted with student activities and questions for
follow-up.
AV 921 ARN
Benedict Arnold. A & E, 01-13-03.
AV 921 BAL
Midwife's tale. PBS Home Video, 1997. The story takes place in
a small Maine town during the decades following the American
Revolution, when social change and religious conflict were
common. This is the true tale of two women, 200 years apart,
linked by a diary one of them left behind.
AV 921 BLA
William Blake: famous author series. New Jersey : KULTUR
International Films, Ltd., n.d. A poet, engraver, painter,
and mystic, William Blake was known for his symbolic
expressions of religious visions. Blake bypassed the church
and believed he experience God directly.
AV 921 CUM
e.e. cummings. Thousand Oaks, CA : Monterey Movie Company, 1997.
Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc. and The great Amwell
Company, Inc. The Harvard-educated writer, who preferred to
sign his name in all lower case, is known for the
eccentricity of the typography and punctuation he employed
to reinforce the rhythm and meaning of words. His poems
truly leap off the page when performed aloud. This program,
which celebrates the beauty of spring, the wonders of love
and the triumph of the individual, is set in a re-creation
of New York's Greenwich Village, where he lived for nearly
forty years.
AV 921 CUR
Madame Curie : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Sidney Franklin
;directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA
Home Video, 1992. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry
Travers, Albert Basserman, Robert Walker, C. Aubrey Smith.
Nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, the film
makes science accessible as it traces the Curies' pioneering
research.
AV 921 DAV
Leonardo da Vinci [videorecording]. New York, New York : A & E
Television Networks, 1997. The incredible story of Leonardo
da Vinci, the original Renaissance man.
AV 921 DIC
An evening with Emily Dickinson. Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc., 1997. Includes the
videos, "The World of Emily Dickinson" and "Emily Dickinson:
A Certain Slant of Light", performed by Claire Bloom and
Julie Harris.
AV 921 DIC
Charles Dickens [videorecording]. New York : A & E Television
Networks, 1995. An unforgettable look at the man whose
originality, compassion and exuberance created some of
literature's most cherished works.
AV 921 DIC
Emily Dickinson. New York : The New York Center for Visual
History, Inc., 1988. Commentary by Adrienne Rich, Joyce
Carol Oates and others. This film illuminates the
passionate genius of this unconventional recluse, recreating
her enviroment.
AV 921 EIN
A. Einstein: how I see the world. Atlanta, Ga. : Turner
Broadcasting System, 1995. To see the world through the
eyes of Albert Einstein is to see some of the 20th century's
most important events from a unique perspective. Although
Einstein was the greatest scientific genius of the century,
this portrait is as much about the humanity of the man as it
is about his legendary accomplishments.
AV 921 EIS
Eisenhower. Boston, MA. : PBS Video, 1993. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, supreme commander of the allied forces, emerged
from World War II as the world's most beloved figure. During
his first presidential term, his popularity continued.
During his second presidential term, Eisenhower's image
became tarnished.
AV 921 EVE
For us the living. Xenon Home Video, n.d. Lawrence Fishburne,
Howard Rollins Jr., Irene Cara and Roscoe Lee Brown. A
Civil Rights activist operating amid the racial fires of the
early 60's in Mississippi's heartland, Medgar Evers
displayed the inner strength, courage and determination
necessary to bring about fundamental social change.
AV 921 FAU
William Faulkner. West Long Branch, NJ : KULTUR International
Films, Ltd.. Faulkner created an immese gallery of vivid
and unforgettable characters in his protrayal of the
southern social aftermath of the Civil War. In most of his
novels set in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County,
Mississippi, her created a complex social structure from
which he explored the southern past, race relations, and the
alienation felt by his contemporaries in that volatile
society.
AV 921 FIT
F. Scott Fitzgerald: the great American dreamer. New York : New
Video Group, 1997. F. Scott Fitzgerald's flamboyant
lifestyle epitomized the excess of the Roaring Twenties. His
classic stories stories made him one on the most important
American authors of the twentieth century. This video
provides an insightful look into the life of the man who
gave the Jazz Age its name.
AV 921 FOP
Armed With Hope. John P. Foppe Seminars, Inc. John Foppe was
born without arms. His disability gives him a unique
perspective onlife. Armed with Hope takes you behind the
scenes into the everyday life of this remarkable man as he
shares his hopes, fears and dreams.
AV 921 FOR
Henry Ford [videorecording]. New York, New York : A & E
Television Networks, 1994. From the Model T. to the V-8,
from backyard mechanic to inventor, this is the definitive
portrait of one of the most influential men of the 20th
century.
AV 921 FRA
Anne Frank [videorecording]. New York, New York : ABC News
Production and A & E Television Networks, 1998. A poignant
encounter with the young girl whose too-brief life bacame a
timeless symbol of courage, perseverance and hope.
AV 921 Gal
Galileo. West Long Branch, NJ 07764 : KULTUR. This is the story
of the Italian astronomer/mathematician who dared to
challenge the accepted traditions of his day.
AV 921 GAN
Gandhi. Burbank, California : Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1982.
Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Johon Gielgud,
Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen. Gandhi led an
entire country to freedom and gave India hope. This award
winning movie portrays Gandhi's life, his principles and
power.
AV 921 GOG
Vincent Van Gogh [videorecording]. New York, New York : A & E
Television Networks, 1997. A colorful portrait of the man
whose paintings are among the most treasured objects on
earth.
AV 921 HUG
Langston Hughes: visions & voices. Seattle, Washington :
Unapix/Miramar, 1988. One of the most influential and
prolific black American writers of the century, Langston
Hughes (1902-1967) was fueled by love for his race and
culture.
AV 921 JOA
Joan of Arc. 1999.
AV 921 KIN
Legacy of a dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. MPI Home Video, 1990.
Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired a nation in troubled times.
This video, narrated by James Earl Jones, examines the life
and times of the civil rights leader, as well as revealing
his enduring legacy.
AV 921 KIN
Our Friend, Martin : a magical movie adventure inspired by the
life of Martin Luther King Jr. Atlanta, Georgia : CBS/Fox
Company, 1998. Featuring the voices of: Ed Asner, Angela
Bassett, Lucas Black, Levar Burton, Danny Glover, Whoopi
Goldberg, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Ashley Judd,
Dexter King, Yolanda King, Robert Ri-Chard, Susan Sarandon,
John Travolta, Jaleet White and Oprah Winfrey. What begins
as a routing class project for a diverse group of
sixth-graders turns into a magical time-traveling adventure
they'll never forget!.
Av 921 KIS
Kissinger and Nixon. Turner Company, 1995.
AV 921 LIN
Maya Lin : A strong clear vision. Santa Monica, CA : Sanders &
Mock Productions, American Film Foundation, 1994. Maya Lin
is a portrait of the artist/architect/sculptor, the daughter
of Chinese immigrants, who designed the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial while a 21 year old undergraduate at Yale. The film
tells the gripping story behind the Vietnam Memorial and
explores a decade of her creative work. Maya Lin's design of
the Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, and the
Juniata Peace Chapel reveals her ability to address major
issues of our times through the healing power of art.
AV 921 MAN
Mandela: son of Africa, father of a nation. Island Pictures,
1997. Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Nelson
Mandala.
AV 921 MEL
Herman Melville. West Long Branch, NJ : KULTUR International
Films, Ltd.. Born to a once-prominent New York family,
Herman Melville grew up in an atmosphere of financial
instability. He tried several jobs to help the family
including work as a bank cherk, a teacher, and a merchant
marine. The latter became the background for many of his
greater works including Redburn and Moby Dick.
AV 921 MIC
Michelangelo [videorecording]. New York, New York : A & E
Television Networks, 1994. Examines the broad canvas of
Michelangelo's life and legacy to probe the very soul of the
artist who in his own lifetime was called genius.
AV 921 MIL
Arthur Miller. Home vision Entertainment.
AV 921 NAP
Directed by Yves Simoneau. Napoleon. A & E, 2003.
AV 921 NEI
Neighbors in Eden. Fairmont, West Virginia : Fairmont Sstate
College, 1992. Hosted by Dr. Jack Hussey. Neighbors in
Eden is a loving celebration of the endurance of four of
America's greatest writers Walden, Hawthorne, Thoreau and
Dickinson.
AV 921 NEW
Sir Issac Newton: the gravity of genius. New York : New Video
Group, 1995. Through a detailed examination of Newton's own
writing, and through interviews with scholars and
scientists, the life and genius of Sir Issac Newton is
explored.
AV 921 POE
Biography: mystery of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: A&E Television
Networks, 1994. Biography presents an indepth look at the
tragic life of one of America's most mysterious writers.
AV 921 POE
Edgar Allan Poe [videorecording]. New York, New York : A&E
Television Networks,1994. An intimate look at one of
literature's most complex and fascinating figures.
AV 921 POW
My American journey: Colin Powell. New York : Random House Audio
Publishing, Inc., 1995. The life and times of General Colin
Powell,who was born in Harlem, and achieved greatness
through his military career.
AV 921 ROO
FDR. Shanachie Entertainment Corp., 1994. Volume 1: The Center
of the World (1882-1921), volume 2: Fear Itself (1921-1933),
volume 3: The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940), volume
4: The Juggler (1940-1945). Narrated by David McCullough.
FDR goes beyond the familiar words and images to explore the
identity of the "real" Roosevelt with fresh eyes and new
scholarship, creating a mosaic that includes archival film
and home movies, audio clips, newly filmed footage of
significant landmarks in FDR's life, and interviews with
family, friends, biographers, and first hand witnesses.
AV 921 ROO
Theodore Roosevelt. Burbank, Calif. : Turner Home Entertainment,
Inc., 1997. This film explores the influences of
Roosevelt's childhood, charts his meteoric rise to the
presidency and explores the turbulent years after he left
office.
AV 921 ROO
Theodore Rossevelt : An American Lion with Richard Dreyfuss. The
History Channel, 2003.
AV 921 SHA
William Shakespeare [videorecording]. New York, New York : A & E
Television Networks, 1996. An in-depth look at William
Shakespeare, the greatest writer the English language has
ever know.
AV 921 STA
Stalin. Culver City, California : MGM/UA Home Video, 1992.
Robert Duvall leads an international cast through the yeas
when Stalin took over power from the ailing Lenin, to his
own death more than thirty years later.
AV 921 STE
John Steinbeck [videorecording]. New York, New York : A & E
Television Networks, 1998. This deeply moving biography
reveals the tortured soul beneath the acclaimed American
legend whose compassionate, visionary writing challenged the
status quo and touched the soul of a nation.
AV 921 THO
Great Books; Walden. Bethesda, MD : Discovery Channel Education,
1997. Traces Thoreau's life from his childhood to the peace
he found on the shores of Walden Pond.
AV 921 Tru
Truman. HBO, Sept. 9, 1995. The biographical drama of President
Harry S. Truman, an honest, ordinary man whom history has
judged to be one of our country's greatest leaders. Based on
David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
AV 921 TWA
Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain tonight. West Long Branch, New Jersey :
Kurtur, n.d. Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain in a performance
that includes stinging commentary on politics, the art of
living, religion, patriotism, slavery and Man's notion that
he is the Creator's pet.
AV 921 TWA
Mark Twain : His amazing adventure. New York, New York : A & E
Television Networks, 1995. An in-depth look at the man
whose work gave American literature its voice.
AV 921 TWA
Mark Twain's America. USA: National Broadcasting Company, Inc.,
1960. 1993 Shanachie Entertainment Corp. The story spans
Twain's career as prolific writer, Mississippi riverboat
pilot, drama critic, publisher, and world traveler, while at
the same time mirroring the rise of America from frontier
days to world power.
AV 921 TWA
Mark Twain. Burbank, CA : PBS Home Video, 2001. This remarkable
film tells the story of Twain's extraordinary life--full of
rollicking adventure, stupendous success and crushing
defeat, hailarious comedy and almost unbearable tragedy.
With facinating interviews of Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller,
William Styron and many others, the story is told primarily
through the words of Twain himself, so viewers of all ages
can be personally introduced to this compelling yet
contradictory genius, who said with some justification, "I
am not an American, I am the American.".
AV 921 VEL
Velmans, Edith Van Hessen. Edith's Story : Courage, love and
survival during World War II. Auburn,CA : Audio Partners
Publishing Corp., 2000. Winner of the Jewish
Quarterly-Wingate award. Read by Miriam Margolyes,
introduction and epilogue by the author herself. In, 1940
as Germans occupied Holland, Edith van Hessen filled her
diary with details of a typical teenager's life. As the war
escalates she is hidden with a family in plain site of the
Germans.
AV 921 VIG
Hear My Hands : a music video bridging the gap between the deaf
and hearing. Gallaudet University Bookstore, 1994. The
life of Suzie Vigon who is deaf and grows up to become a
positive role model.
AV 921 WRI
Frank Lloyd Wright. Burbank, California : Warner Home Video,
1998. Frank Lloyd Wright is considered the greatest of all
American architects. His controversial life and work are
discussed in detail.
AV 930.1 EAS
Easter Island. South Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video, 2000.
The mute sentinels of Easter Island are mysteries locked in
stone. Nearly 1000 haunting human sculptures are the only
remaining citizens of a vanished culture that existed 1500
miles from the nearest inhabited island. Weighing up to 80
tons each, the "moal" say not a thing. But, with some
investigation, they speak volumes. Take a look behind the
stone faces and discover how such a remolt society achieved
monolithic greatness--and then disappeared.
AV 932 EGY
Egypt: quest for immortality. Alexandria, Virginia : Time Life
Video and Television, 1995. Learn how archaeologists are
penetrating Egypt's long-buried mysteries, from the science
of preparing a mummy for eternity, to the art of composing a
love letter hieroglyphs, to the technology capable of
raising the largest stone buildinge ever erected by human
beings.
AV 932 NIL
The Nile of the pharaohs and Abu Simbel, Philae. . .saved.
Cairo, Egypt : Image Video, n.d. The first film, The Nile
of the Pharaohs discusses the splendour of Egypt 5000 years
ago. The second film, Abu Simbel, Philae. . . rescued from
the water, shows the dismantling and reconstruction of the
temples.
AV 932 PHA
Pharaoh's obelisk. South Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video,
2000. They are massive spires created to glorify and honor
the ancient Egyptian gods. Rising up to 100 feet and
weighing up to 500 tons, these solid granite monuments reach
heavenward, adorned with messages of praise, love and
devotion. 3000 years later, return to the land of the
pharaohs and discover how the ancient Egyptians' nautical
experiences, ingenuity and unwavering faith enabled them to
raise these incredibly heavy monoliths with little more than
sand, rope, wood , brawn and brainpower.
AV 935 MES
Mesopotamia: return to Eden. Alexandria, Virginia : Time Life
Video & Television, 1995. The great world traditions of the
Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all trace the roots of
their civilizations to the river valleys of Mesopotamia's
Fertile Cresent.
AV 937 ROM
Rome: the ultimate empire. Alexandria, Virginia : Time Life and
Television, 1995. From the wilds of northern Europe to the
spice-rich caravan routes of the Near East, Rome's
battle-hardened legions forged a glittering domain that,
even to t he present day, is regarded as "The Ultimate
Empire".
AV 937 ROM
Roman bath : A NOVA Production. South Burlington, VT : WGBH
Boston Video, 2000. While some Roman baths were palatial
and luxurious, the bathhouse wasn't the exclusive haven of
the privileged. Surrounded by sophisticated vaulted ceilings
and revolutionary heating systems, men and women from all
classes and backgrounds bathed, drank, shouted and sang in a
daily ritual that defined what it meant to be Roman. But
after the fall of the Roman Empire, this state-of-the-art
community center bacame a mystery.
AV 938 GRE
Greece: a moment of excellence. Alexandria, Virginia : Time Life
and Television, 1995. The pursuit of intellectual
superiority was matched by the Greeks' admiration for
physical grace and beauty, from the fine arts to the
development of the Olympic games.
AV 939 AEG
Aegean: legacy of Atlantis. Alexandria, Virginia : Time Life
Video and Television, 1995. The story of Atlantis resonates
with mythic tales of a once mighty island empire vanquished
by the sea. What if the accounts passed down to us by the
likes of Plato rest not on fantasy but on an actual
civilization?.
AV 939.21 ODY
The
odyssey of Troy: extraordinary secrets of ancient
unveiled. New York : New Video Group, 1995. In more than
3,000 years since Troy's fabled fall, its mysteries have yet
to be unraveled. The legends of the Trojan Horse, Helen of
Troy and Achilles have fueled some of archaeology's most
celebrated expeditions, yet continue to baffle scholars and
ignite controversy.
AV 939.21 ODY
The Odyssey. Los Angeles, Calif. : Hallmark Home Entertainment,
1997. Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Geraldine Chaplin,
Jeroen Crabbe, Christopher Lee, Irene Papas, Bernadette
Peters, Eric Roberts, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams.
AV 939.21 ODY
Great Books; The Odysseey. Bethesda, MD : Discovery Channel
Education, 1997. Traces the trials and tribulations of a
warrior hero as he makes a decade-long journey back home
after his triumphs in the Trojan War.
AV 940.1 KNI
Knights and armor. New York : A & E Home Video, c1994. Surveys
knights, knighthood and armor of the Middle Ages, discussing
fashion, function and history.
AV 940.4 WWI
WWI: the death of glory. New York : A & E Television Network,
1996. Volume 2 of the series about World War I.
AV 940.4 WWI
WWI: the death of glory. New York : A & E Television Networks,
1996. Volume 1 of the series about World War I.
AV 940.412 DOU
The doughboys : heroes of WWI. Los Angeles : OnDeck Home
Entertainment, c. 1995. Rare film footage from the United
States government archives featuring the American soldiers
of WWI.
AV 940.53 AME
America and the Holocaust: deceit and indifference. Boston, MA.
: PBS Video, 1993. Beginning with the tragic events of
Kristallnacht in 1938 and extending through the liberation
of the death camps in 1945, "America and the Holocaust"
exlores the painful and difficult story of America's
response to the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and
their collaborators.
AV 940.53 ASS
Assignment: Rescue [videorecording} : the story of Varian Fry and
the emergency rescue committee. Menlo Park, CA : Richard
Kaplan Productions. Narrated by Meryl Streep. Varian Fry,
American hero, saved over 2000 refugees trapped in
France from the Gestapo.
AV 940.53 CAR
Cartoons go to war. New York : A & E Home Video, c1995.
Excerpts and interviews showing how and why animated films
were used to boost morale and train soldiers during World
War II.
AV 940.53 DIA
Diamonds in the snow. Waltham, Maryland : Brandeis University,
1994. Thousands of Jewish children lived in the Polish city
of Bendzin before the Nazi Holocaust. Barely a dozen
survived the community's distruction. This documentary tell
the story of three of these children.
AV 940.53 GEN
Genocide. Los Angeles, Calif. : Simon Wiesenthal
Center, 1981.
Narrated by Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles. This is the
story of millions of men, women and children who fell victim
to Hitler's Final Solution. In this multi-image documentary,
Genocide combines historical narrative with actual stories
of ordinary people caught up in the Nazis' reign of terror.
AV 940.53 LIB
Liberation. Los Angeles, Calif. : Simon Wiesenthal Center, n.d.
Narrated by Ben Kingsley, Miriam Margolyes, Patrick Stewart,
Jean Boht, and Whoopi Goldberg. Liberation addresses two
themes in a singel film: the story of the battled waged on
two dronts during the war; the Allied campaign to liberate
Europe and Adolf Hitler's genocidal war against the Jews.
AV 940.53 LON
The Long Way Home : For the survivors of the Holocaust,
liberation was only the beginning. [Los Angeles] : Moriah
Films. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. For the majority of
Holocaust survivors, World War II did not end with their
liberation from Nazi concentration and death camps. As the
personal accounts contained in The Long WAy Home
demonstrate, the battle to rebuild lives and human dignity
contined long after the Allies' victory.
Av 940.53 PEA
Pearl Harbor : legacy of attack. Burbank, Calif. : National
Geographic Society, c 2001. Narrated by Tom brokaw. True
recollections of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
AV 940.53 SCH
Schindler's list. Universal City, Ca.: MCA Universal, 1994.
True story of Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party,
womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more
than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
AV 940.53 SUR
Survivors of the Holocaust. Atlanta, GA : Turner Home
Entertaionment, 1996, c 1995. Hosted by Ben Kingsley.
Looks at the work of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual
History Foundation which is busily recording oral and video
memoirs of Holocaust survivors, employing all the latest
technologies to provide complete access to all aspects of
the narratives.
AV 940.54 AFT
After the cloud lifted: Hiroshima's stories of recovery.
Virginia Beach, Virginia : RMS Communications, n.d. This
video tells the personal stories of bomb survivors.
AV 940.54 BAT
Battle of Midway and Tanks : Two World WarII Documentaries.
[unknown]; : [unknown], [1945]. Henry Fonda and Orsen Wells
narrates. Primary document films. Roosevelt insisted that
the Battle of Midway documentary (20 min.) about the
decisive World War II Pacific Battle be made for the mothers
of America. John Ford directed this film that was edited in
secret and released just days after its completion. Tanks
(10 min.) shows the manufacturing of tanks during the
massive push in the the war effort to get equipment to the
battle grounds.
AV 940.54 HIR
Hiroshima : the decision to drop the bomb. New York : A&E
Television Network, 1996.
AV 940.54 NIG
Nightfighters [videorecording]. Santa Monica, CA : Xenon
Entertainment Group, 1994. Tells
the story of the
Airmen, a goup of elite black pilots who distinguished
themselves during numerous World War II combat missions,
despite the segregation and racism that existed in the U.S
military at the time.
AV 940.54 PEA
Pearl Harbor [videorecording]. New York : A & E Television
Networks, 2000. Volume I; Tora, Tora, Tora :The true story
of Pearl Harbor, part I. Volume II; Tora, Tora, Tora: The
true story of Pearl Harbor, part II. Volume III ; Admiral
Chester Nimitz: Thunder of the Pacific.
Av 940.54 TUS
The Tuskegee airmen : HBO Pictures ; Price Entertainment ;
produced by William C. Carraro co-producer, Carol Bahoric ;
directed by Robert Markowitz ; teleplay by Paris Qualles,
Trey Ellis, and Ron Hutchinson. New York : HBO Home Video,
c 1995. Laurence Fishburne,Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal
Warner, Cortney Vance, Andre Braugher, Chris McDonald, John
Lithgow. Dramatization of the first squadron of black
American pilots in WWII, who proved that courage knows no
color.
AV 940.54 UNI
United States history: volume 19, World War II. New York :
Library Video Company, 1998. Highlights the major events of
World War II.
AV 940.54 WWI
WWII in color [videorecording]. Thousand Oaks, CA: Goldhil,
1989. Confront the pitiless horror of World War II and know
of its heroism. The video is amazing war action which shows
a true picture of war, full of terror, chaos, blood and
courage. This is the way the soldier saw it. All film has
been researched from declassified footage sources
through-out the world and digitally re-stored.
AV 940.55 LON
The long way home. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Simon Wiesenthal
Center, n.d. Narrated by Morgan Freeman and featuring the
voices of Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam
Margolyes, David Paymer, Nina Siemaszko, Helen Slater,
Michael York. For the majority of Holocaust survivors,
World War II did not end with their liberation from Nazi
concentration camps. As the personal accounts contained in
this film demonstrate, the battle to rebuild lives and human
dignity continued long after the Allies' victory.
AV 941.1 MED
Medieval siege. South Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video, 2000.
The Scots inside Stirling Castle must have felt untouchable.
Protected by a massive stone fortress, they prepared for a
long draw-out siege against the army of England's Edward the
First. Fifty carpenters worked day and night to create the
fourteenth century version of the atom bomb: the trebuchet-a
fearsome, gravity-powered catapult dubbed "Warworf" that was
capable of hurling boulders, bee hives and plague-infected
corpses long distances.
AV 942.01 CAM
Camelot: ancient mysteries. New York : Multimedia Entertainment,
1995. With high-tech evidence, scientific analysis and the
most recent sightings, Ancient Mysteries pushes the rontier
of investigation of the legendary Camelot and the existence
of King Arthur to the cutting edge.
AV 944.086 NUR
Nuremberg. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, c2001. Alec Baldwin,
Brian Cox, Jull Hennessy. Dramatization of the war crime
trials of Nuremberg.
AV 945 FAL
Fall of
the leaning tower. South Burlington, VT
: WGBH
Video, 2000. Take a unique look at the most intensely
scrutinized building on earth.
AV 945.51 POW
The power of the past: Florence. Washington, D.C. : PBS Home
Video, 1996. Narrated by Bill Moyers. The great art of the
Florentine Renaissance grew out of the economic ferment of
the rising merchant class who became the financial backbone
for a cultural and artistic revolution. What does a
beautiful city in Italy have to do with the birth of our
modern world? Journalist Bill Moyers travels to Florence to
explore how the city's rich Renaissance legacy affects the
way the people think and feel today.
AV 946 SEV
Seville: jewel of andalusia. New York : V.I.E.W., Inc., 1994.
The history, depth of many cultures, religions, and art are
highlighted in this video.
AV 947 RUS
Russia. National Geographic Society, 1990. Discover Russia is a
film journey through old and new, from palaces of the tsars
and the countryside of yesterday to vibrant city life under
glasnot.
AV 947 RUS
Discovering Russia. Concord, CA. : IVN Entertainment, Inc.,
1994. With music and narration the country of Russia is
brought to life with all the history, tradition and rapid
change it has encountered.
AV 949.74 WHI
While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy. [New York] : ABC
News, 1991.
AV 950 COM
Communist China and modern Japan : teacher's curriculum
institute. Palo Alto, Ca. : Teacher's Curriculum Institute,
1995. Slides, transparencies, worksheets, audio tape for
teaching about Communist China and modern Japan.
AV 951 CHI
China bridge. South Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video, 2000.
The center of a famed twelfth-century Song Dynasty scroll
painting features woven wooden beams in the graceful arc of
a rainbow-the Rainbow Bridge-an archeological form as
well-known in China as the Effel Tower is in the West.
Ingeniously designed bridges typify China's inventive
past--a society that created paper money, gunpower and the
compass. While not a single Song Dynasty Rainbow bridge
remains, the mystery of their construction continues to
puzzle historians, scholars and engineers.
AV 951.04 CHI
China, a century of revolution : Ambrica Productions in
association with WGBH Boston and Channel 4 Television Uk ;
written, produced and directed by Sue Williams. [New York]
: WindStar Home Entertainment ; Dist. by Fox Lorber Home
Video, c1997, c1989. The Mao Years 1949-1976. Takes a
remarkable first-hand look at China's tumultuous history,
examining its social, political and cultural upheaval
through eyewitness accounts, rare archival film footage and
insightful commentary.
AV 954 IND
India. Concord, California : International Video Network.
Covers famous cities and the historical background of
landmarks such as the Taj Mahal. Discusses the culture and
people of India.
AV 956 MID
Middle East : cradle of conflict. [New York] : Bridgestone
Productions Group and AVI communications, 1991. Hosted by
James R. Wallis Jr., noted independent documentary producer.
A penetrating look at Middle East turmoil, past to present.
AV 956.94 INS
In Search of Peace Part One:1948-1967. (Los Angeles) : Moriah
Films. Narrated by Michael Douglas, starring the voices of
Eduard ASner, Anne BAncroft, Richard Dreyfuss, Miriam
Margolyes and Michael York. Chronicles the first two
decades of Israel's existence, offering new insights on the
origins of the Middle East conflict.
AV 959.7 DEA
Dear America: letters home from Vietnam. New York : HBO Video,
1987. An authentic account of the Vietnam War from the
actual letter of the mena nd women who served there.
AV 959.704 DEA
Dear America : Letters Home From Vietnam. New York: HBO video,
1987. Based on the book"Dear America: Letters Home From
Vietnam". 'Dear America' is an authentic account of the
Vietnam War from the acutal letters of the men and women who
served there. The harsh realities of life and death,
friendships made and lost; these letters home tell it all,
with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen
themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who
survived, many who never made ithome. 'Dear America' is a
living, breathing tribute to them all.
AV 960 MOD
Modern Africa : teacher's curriculum institute. Palo Alto, Ca. :
Teacher's Curriculum Institute, 1996. Slides,
transparencies, worksheets, audio cassette for teaching
about modern Africa.
AV 968 CRY
Cry freedom. Universal City, Ca.: MCA Home Video;, 1988. After
editor Donald Woods learns of apartheid's true horrors from
Steven Biko, he discovers that Biko has been silenced by the
police. Determined not to let Biko's message go unheard,
Woods undertakes a perilous quest to escape South Africa and
bring Biko's story of courage to the world.
AV 970 HOW
How to dance Native American style: beginning steps. Tulsa,
Oklahoma : Full Circle Videos, 1996. Learn the parts of a
war dance song, master the basic step for men and women and
how to dance "on the song".
AV 970 SPI
Spirit of the land, Alaska: the Yup'ik Eskimos. San Francisco,
Calif. : Chevron U.S.A., Inc., n.d. Examines how Native
Americans from vastly different environments meet the
challenges of balancing the past with the present. In this
video, the Yupik Eskimos are seen trying to balance their
traditional culture with the technological benefits of a new
culture.
AV 970.1 SPI
Spirit of the land, Hawaii: continuing traditions. San
Francisco, Calif. : Chevron U.S.A., Inc, n.d. Examines how
Native Americans from vastly different environments meet the
challenge of balancing the past with the present. This video
shows the continuing traditions of the native Hawaiian
culture.
AV 972.004 AZT
Aztec Empire. New York: A & E Television Networks, 1997.
AV 973 CIV
Civil Rights Movement : teacher's curriculum institute. Palo
Alto, Ca. : Teacher's Curriculum Institute, 1999. Slides,
transparencies, worksheets, audio cassette on The Civil
Rights Movement.
AV 973 COL
Cold War : teacher's curriculum institute. Palo Alto, Ca. :
Teacher's Curriculum Institute, 1999. Slides,
transparencies, worksheets, audio cassette on The Cold War.
AV 973 CON
Contemporary American Society : teacher's curriculum institute.
Palo Alto, Ca. : Teacher's Curriculum Institute, 1999.
Slides, transparencies, worksheets, audio cassette on
Contemporary American Society.
AV 973 GEO
Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic
demensions of our nation's development. [S.l.] : Agency for
Instructional Technology, [1990?]. North vs. South in the
founding of the United States, Jefferson decides to purchase
Louisiana, Civil War and social change in Georgia, Clash of
cultures on the Great Plains, An Industrial Revolution in
Pittsburgh, and Americans build the Panama Canal.
AV 973 LAN
Landmark documents in American history. Facts on File, Inc.;,
n.d. A database of 400 pieces of legislation; 150 Supreme
Court decisions; 150 treaties; 100 essays, letters and book
excerpts; 75 reports, debates and party platforms.
AV 973 ROA
Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression : teacher's cirriculum
institute. Palo Alto, Ca. : Teacher's Curriculum
Institute;. Slides, transparencies, worksheets, audio
cassette on The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.
AV 973 SMI
Smithsonian's America: an interactive exhibition of American
history and culture. Windows version. Portland, Oregon:
Creative Multimedia, c1994. Some of America's most
memorable and time honored artifacts can be examined through
the use of this CD-ROM. Over 700 historical artifacts,
photos, documents and video segments are presented.
AV 973 UNI
United States Coming of Age: 1890-1920 : teacher's cirriculum
institute. Palo Alto, Ca. : Teacher's Curriculum
Institute:, 1999. Slides, transparencies, worksheets, audio
cassette on The United States Coming of Age: 1890-1920.
AV 973 UNI
United States in World War II : teacher's curriculum institute.
Palo Alto, Ca. : Teacher's Curriculum Institute, 1999.
Slides, transparencies, worksheets, audio cassette on The
United States in World War II.
AV 973 VIS
Visual archives of American history. Glenview, Ill. : Scott,
Foresman;, 1992. Still photos and video clips of famous
events in American history.
AV 973.04 EYE
Eyes on the prize: America's civil rights years. Atlanta,
Georgia : Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., 1995. Includes
Awakenings (1954-1956) and Fighting Back (1957-1962), Ain't
Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) and No Easy Walk
(1961-1963), Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964) and
Bridge to Freedom (1965), The Time Has Come (1964-1966) and
Two Societies (1965-1968), Power! (1966-1968) and The
Promised Land (1967-1968), Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More
(1964-1972) and A Nation Of Law? (1968-1971), The Keys To
The Kingdom (1974-1980) and Back To The Movement (1979-Mid
1980's). Details of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th
century.
AV 973.3 REV
The Revolutionary War. Bethesda, MD: Discovery Communications,
Inc., 1996. Includes sections on; Causes of the War, The
Battles of Lexington and Concord, The siege of Boston and
the Battle of Breed's Hill, Thomas Jefferson and the
Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the
Continental Amy, and Thomas Paine and Common Sense.
AV 973.6 ORE
The Oregon Trail II. Version 1.2. Minneapolis, Minn.: MECC,
c1994. Travel the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails as
an emigrant, facing daily dangers and bringing your wagon
party across the continent.
AV 973.6 USM
U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848 : PBS Home Video. 1998. : 2
videocassettes (240 minutes), sd., color. The U.S.-Mexican
War (1846-1848) tells the dramatic story of a war in which
Mexico lost almost half of its national territory to the
United States. This documentary explores the events
surrounding the conflict between two neighboring nations
struggling for land, power and idenity.
AV 973.6 WES
West to Oregon. Portland, Oregon: EMA Video, 1993. Videotape to
accompany the CD-ROM program/game of Oregon Trail.
AV 973.9 AME
Bernstein, Beth. American society in the 50's and 60's. Mt.
View, Calif.: Teachers' Curriculum Institute;, 1991.
Teaching materials for American history during the 1950's
and 1960's.
AV 973.9 CEN
The century. Princeton, New Jersey : ABC News and The History
Channel, 1999. This comprehensive 15 part retrospective,
anchored by Peter Jennings, takes an era-byera look at
America's evolution during the turbulent 20th century.
AV 973.9 CIV
Shafsky, Kelly. Civil rights movement. Mt. View, Calif.:
Teachers' Curriculum Institute;, 1991. Teaching materials
for American history during the Civil Rights movement.
AV 973.9 COL
Cleary, Vern. Cold war. Mt. View, Calif.: Teachers' Curriculum
Institute;, 1991. Teaching materials for American history
during the Cold War era.
AV 973.9 GRE
Lobdell, Jim. Great Depression and the New Deal. Mt. View,
Calif.: Teachers' Curriculum Institute;, 1991. Teaching
materials for American history during the Depression era.
AV 973.9 GRE
Great Events of the 20th Century. Eugene, OR : Dastar Corp.,
Marathon Music and Video, 1997. Nazi Germany had conquered
nearly all of Europe. Only Great Britain stood between
Adolph Hitler and total victory. In the Pacific, a Japanese
sneak attack at Pearl Harbor plunged the U.S. into war. In
time, a great alliance would turn the tide of war against
the axis power at places called Midway, Stalingrad, and
Normandy. In Europe, the war ended as the allies marched
into Berlin, and in the Pacific, the terrible power of the
atomic bomb forced Japan to surrender.
AV 973.9 MAP
Bower, Bert. Mapping the United States. Palo Alto, Calif.:
Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 1991. Basic geographic
concepts and mapping techniques are covered in this unit.
AV 973.9 PRO
Shafsky, Kelly. Progressive era. Mt. View, Calif.: Teachers'
Curriculum Institute;, 1993. Teaching materials for the
Progressive Era in American history.
AV 973.9 ROA
Bower, Bert. Roaring twenties. Mt. View, Calif.: Teachers'
Curriculum Institute;, 1991. Teaching materials for
American history during the 1920's.
AV 973.9 UNI
Whitson, Deborah. United States emerges as a world power. Mt.
View, Calif.: Teachers' Curriculum Institute;, 1991.
Teaching materials for American history during the twentieth
century.
AV 973.9 WOR
Whitson, Deborah. World War II. Mt. View, Calif.: Teachers'
Curriculum Institute;, 1991. Teaching materials for
American history during World War II.
AV 973.91 GOV
Government in society. Tarrytown, New York:, Prentice-Hall
Media, Inc.,. Looks at the early years of the Depression,
before the New Deal. Typical scenes shown of Salvation Army
soup kitchens, breadlines, "Hoovervilles," panhandlers, and
railroad tramps.
AV 973.91 POS
United States history: volume 20, post-war U.S.A. New York :
Library Video Company, 1998. Highlights post World War II
in the United States.
AV 973.91 WAL
A walk through the 20th century with Bill Moyers: the twenties.
PBS Video, 1991. The Twenties reviews the decade that
roared with cars, speakeasies, the Charleston, booming
business and industry, and finally, the collapse of the
stock market in 1929. But the 20's also represented the
transition of American into a modern urban society.
AV 973.92 BER
Berkeley in the sixties. New York : First Run Features, 1990.
Berkeley in the Sixties captures the decade's events - the
Free Speech Movement, civil rights marches, anti-Vietnam War
portests, the counter-culture, the women's movement, and the
rise of the Black Panthers.
AV 973.92 REM
Remember September 11, 2001. nine elleven production IIc, 2001.
"Remember" is a special program that captures Tuesday
September 11, 2001 in a video time capsule. The program
progresses through a timeline of the events to present facts
and video images of one dark day that has already become a
turning point for our civilization.
AV 973.922 THI
Thirteen Days. 2000 New Line Productions, Inc., 2000. Kevin
Costner, Bruce Greenwood, and Steven Culp. For thirteen
extraordinary days in October 1962, the world stood on the
brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. After the discovery of
Soviet weapons in Cuba, events and tension escalated between
two military superpowers and within the White House.
AV 973.922 Woo
Woodstock : 3 days of peace and music, the director's cut.
Burbank, CA : Warner Brothers, 1994. Crosby, Stills, and
Nash, Jini Hendrix, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, SHA-NA-NA,
The Who, and more. By wide consensus the best concert film
ever made, the 25 anniversary edition with its sights
restored and its sounds revitalized. Experience the event
that named a generation.
AV 979.4 HIS
History of early California. Berkeley, CA : Regents of the
University of California, 2000. Teachers guide. Presents
three tapes. Tape 1: The
hispanicization of
1769-1846 and James J. Rawls. Tape 2: The California Gold
Rush: Its Impact and Influences and J.S. Holliday. Tape 3:
Mark Twain in the West and Robert H. Hirst.
AV 979.4 STO
The story of the California missions. San Francisco, Calif. :
Chevron U.S.A., Inc., n.d. Tells the story of the mission
period in California and how it relates to present day city
locations, place names, agriculture, architecture and the
route of highway 101.
AV 980 MOD
Modern Latin America : teacher's curriculum institute. Palo
Alto, Ca. : Teacher's Curriculum Institute, 1995. Slides,
transparencies, worksheets, audio cassette on modern Latin
America.
AV 981 WOR
A world called Sao Paulo. About Sao Paulo, Brazil.
AV FIC ACH
Achebe, Chinua. Things fall Apart. New York; : Reocrded Books,
LLC, 1997. Performed by Peter Francis James.
AV FIC ADV
The adventures of Huck Finn. Burbank, Calif.: Walt Disney Home
Video, n.d. Based on the novel by Mark Twain, it is the
saga of Huck Finn and a runaway slave, Jim, as they journey
down the Mississippi River on an expedition to freedom.
AV FIC ADV
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Great Amwell Co., Inc.,
c1992. Jim Dale, Frederic Forrest, Lillian Gish, Barnard
Hughes, Richard Kiley, Butterfly McQueen, Geraldine Page,
Sada Thompson, Samm-Art Williams, Patrick Day. The immortal
story of Huckleberry Finn.
AV FIC ADV
Twain, Mark. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York :
Recorded Books, Inc., 1991. An unabridged reading of the
classic Mark Twain novel.
AV FIC ADV
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol.1. Burbank, CA : Video
classics, 1985. Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford.
AV FIC ALL
All the president's men. Burbank, Ca. : Warner Home Video, Inc.,
c 1976. Fictionalized account of the two reporters for the
Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who first
reported on the Watergate breakin and investigation.
AV FIC ALL
All quiet on the western front. Van Nuys, CA. : AVID Home
Entertainment, c1992. Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine,
Donald Pleasance, Ian Holm, Particia Neal. A story of war
and a generation destroyed. In 1914 a group of idealistic
young men set off to fight in the "glorious" war. Through
basic training, the days of battle, watching death and
destruction all around them, the futility of war becomes
apparent.
AV FIC ALL
All Quiet on the Western front [videorecording]. Universal City,
CA : Universal Studios, 1958. Lew Ayres. The plot follows
a group of young German recruits in World War I through
their passage from idealism to disillusionment.
AV FIC ANI
Animal farm. Hallmark Home Entertainment, 1999. Chaos ensures
when animals take over the farm in this adaptation of George
Orwell's classic novel.
AV FIC ART
King Arthur : [videorecording]. New York, New York : A & E
Television Networks, 1995. A wondrous look at the
adventure, the romance and the bravery that have fueled
imaginations for over a thousand years.
AV FIC BES
The best years of our lives. Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment,
c. 1946. Myrna Loy, Fredrick March, Dana Andrews, Teresa
Wright, Hoagy Carmichael, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell.
This Academy Award winning masterpeice recounts the problems
faced by three returning veterans after WWII as they attempt
to pick up the threads of their lives.
AV FIC CHA
Charly. Beverly Hills, Ca.: The CBS/FOX Company, 1992. Charly,
a mentally retarded adult, undergoes brain surgery to
increase his intelligence which provides unexpected results.
AV FIC CHI
Chinatown. Jack nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, John
Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, Diane Ladd, Roman
Polanski. Los Angeles private eye Jake Gittes is approached
by a mysterious woman who wishes to have her husband
investigated, As the case unfolds, though, he discovers it
to be much more complex and dangerous than he had expected,
involving politics, powerful men, and terrible family
secrets.
AV FIC CHR
Agatha Christie. London, UK : Harper Collins Publisher, 2001.
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and The Mystery of
the Spanish Chest. Read by Hugh Fraser.
AV FIC COM
Come see the paradise. New York : CBS Fox Video, 1991. Dennis
Quaid, Tamlyn, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizudo Hoshi.
Jack McGurn, and Irish-American and Lily Kawamura, a
Japanese-American, marry at the beginning of World War II.
The clash of cultures becomes insurmountable after the
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are
relocated to an internment camp and Jack is drafted into the
Army. Jack feels powerless in trying to help Lily and win
the approval of her family.
AV FIC DAN
Dances with wolves. New York : Orion Pictures Corporation, 1990.
Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A.
Grant. Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John
Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone.
He is assigned to an abondoned fort, where a Sioux tribe is
his only neighbor. He learns the culture of the Sioux, but
his knowledge of the fate which will untimately befall the
tribe torments him.
AV FIC DEA
Dead poets society. Burbank Calif. : Buena Vista Home Video,
n.d. Robin Williams. English professor John Keating, who,
in an age of crew cuts, sports coats and cheerless
conformity, inspires his students to live life to the
fullest, exclaiming, "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make
your lives extraordinary!".
AV FIC DIC
Great
expectations. Burbank, Ca.: Buena Vista Home Video, n.d.
This sweeping epic chronicles the life of Pip, a penniless
orphan who inherits a fortune from a mysterious source,
enabling him to come of age as a young Victorian gentleman.
AV FIC DIC
Great expectations. Hollywood, Ca.: Paramount Pictures
Corporation, 1991. In the gloom of a country graveyard, a
young boy encounters a escaped convict. This chance meeting,
years later, leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
AV FIC DIC
Great Expectations [viderecording]. Livonia, Michigan : CbS/FOX
Video, 1998. Based on a book by
Charles Dickens.
Johns, Joan Hickson, Phillip Joseph, Gerry sundquist.
Charles Dicken' celebrated story is given new life in this
handsome rendition by the BBC. Orphaned at a young age,
Philip Pirrip, or "Pip", is raised by his harsh sister and
her likable husband. Later he meets the eccentric Miss
Havisham and is smitten by the beautiful but utterly spoiled
Extella. Pip takes on her materialistic values, and when he
comes into wealth from a mysterious source he embarks upon a
frivolous life. However, suffering and maturity eventually
teach him the difference between being true to one's self
and living according to self-deluding great expectations.
AV FIC FIT
Fitzgerald, F. Scott ,. The great Gatsby. New York : Recorded
Books, Inc., 1984. Narrated unabridged recording of the
classic book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
AV FIC FIT
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Germany : NAXOS
Audiobooks, 1995. Abridged. Read by William Hope.
AV FIC FIT
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Prince Frederick, MD :
Recorded Books, LLC, 1984. Narrated by Frank Muller. The
Jazz Age of bathtub gin, flappers and house parties that
last all week enliven this classic tale. Stylish and
engaging the story is a startling literate portrait of
Gatsby's search for meaning in his opulent world.
AV FIC FIT
Great Books; The Great Gatsby. Bethesda, MD : Discovery Channel
Education, 1997. Even today, The Great Gatsby, with its
focus on the worship of money and power, of youth and
success, is revelant. Reenactmenht footage intercut with
scenes from the 1974 film Gatsby, starring Robert Redford,
interviews with experts, and dramatic narrative work to
unlock the complexity of this novel's characters.
AV FIC FIT
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Recorded
Books, LLC, 1984. Performed by Frank Muller.
AV FIC GOL
Golding, William. Lord of the flies. Old Grenwich, CT.:
Listening Library Inc.;, c. 1954.
AV FIC GOL
Great Books; Lord of the flies. Bethesda, MD : Discovery Channel
Education, 1997. A novel from 1960 that offers a
perspective on our lives and our society.
AV FIC GON
Gone
with the wind. Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM/UA Home video,
1998. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard,
Olivia de
Havilland. Margaret Mitchell's sweeping Civil War-era
romanc.
AV FIC GRA
Grapes of wrath. Hollywood, CA. : Twentieth Century Fox Film
Corporation, c1940. Henry Ford, Jane Darwell, John
Carradine, Charley Grapewin. The screen version of John
Steinbeck's novel about the Joad family and its struggle to
reestablish roots in California during the Depression.
AV FIC GRE
The great Gatsby. Hollywood, CA. : Paramount Pictures, c1974.
Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam
Waterston, Lois Chiles, Bruce Dern. A retelling of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's classic.
AV FIC GRE
The great Gatsby. New York, NY: New Video, 2000. Mira Sorvino,
Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd. Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino
is the beautiful, unobtainable Daisy Buchanan in this
opulent A&E original production of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
masterpiece of Jazz Age decadence, ambition and tragic
passion.
AV FIC GUI
Guilty by suspicion. Burbank, CA. : Time Warner Company, 1991.
Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia
Wettig, Sam Wanamaker. The creative community's infamous
"Blacklist Era" comes to life with the character of David
Merrill, a Hollywood director who is asked to testify
against friends who are suspected of being Communists.
AV FIC HAN
A raisin in the sun. Hollywood, Ca.: Fries Home Video, 1990.
This story explores the human frailites of bigotry and
hatred, as well as the courage and perserverance it takes to
overcome the human condition.
AV FIC HAW
The Scarlet Letter. [New York]: WGBH/Boston Production, 1979.
Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Starring Meg
Foster as Hester Prynne, John Heard as Arthur Dimmesdale,
Kevin Conway as Roger Chillingworth. Hester Prynne,
condemned for a sin of passion, must wear forever the
scarlet letter "A" on her chest. Proud, courageous and
defiant, Hester chooses to assert her independence,
motherhood and love despite the social values of her time.
Enduring her public punishment with dignity, Hester grows
stronger as the years of her isolation and ostracism pass.
Her lover, however, lives undetected in the community,
tormented and weakened by the burden of an unexposed sin.
And Hester's husband, thought to be lost at sea, resurfaces
and coldly plots his revenge.
AV FIC HAW
The Scarlet Letter. WGBH Educational Foundation;, 1979. Meg
Foster , John Heard, Kevin Conway. Hester Prynne--condemned
for a sin of passion must forever wear the scarlet letter
"A" on her chest. Proud, courageous and defiant, Hester
chooses to assert her independence, motherhood and love
despite the social values of her time.
AV FIC IRV
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. USA: Rabbit Ears, 1999. Based on
Washington Irvings story. Glenn Close. Washington Irving's
eerie tale of romantic rivalry along the Hudson pits the new
schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, against the local hero and
bully, Brom Bones, for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. This
haunting drama climaxes with the appearance of one of the
great, legendary ghosts of all time: The Headless Horseman.
AV FIC JIL
The Tilting of Granny Weatherall. Monterey Home Video;.
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lois Smith, William Swetland. Granny
Weatherall is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses her
doctor and her children. She seems so strong, yet she has
never had the upper hand in her destiny.
AV FIC JON
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount
Pictures Corp., c1973. "You have the freedom to be
yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can
stand in your way." Jonathan Livingston Seagull's words,
from the best-selling novel by Richard Bach, bring into
sharp focus the intense and extraordinary determination of
Jonathan, who envisions another world--one of love,
understanding, achievement, hope and individuality. A
musical score by Neil Diamond is paramount to the film's
mood.
AV FIC KAR
Karate Kid [videorecording]. Culver City, CA : Columbia
Pictures, 1997. The price of honor. The power of
friendship. Ralph Macchio and Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita recreate
the roles that bought them international acclaim in THE
KARATE KID, when karate student Daniel La Russo (Macchio )
accompanies his wise and whimsical teacher Mr. Miyagi
(Morita) to his ancestral home in Okinawa.
AV FIC LEE
To kill a mockingbird. Universal City, Ca.: MCA Universal Home
Video, Inc., 1962. Atticus Finch, a Southern lawyer who
defends a black man accused of rape, finds he must also
defend himself and his family from hostility. Based on the
novel by Harper Lee.
AV FIC LEE
To kill a mockingbird. Auburn, Calif. : Audio Partners,
Publishing Corp., 1987. Unabridged reading of novel. Read
by Roses Prichard. A compelling rendition of Scout Finch's
story.
AV FIC LEE
To Kill a mockingbird. Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books,
LLC, 1988. Unabridged novel by Harper Lee. Narrated by
Sally Darling. An American classic, a timeless story of a
young girl growing up in a sleepy Southern town and learning
the true meaning of human dignity and justice.
AV FIC LEE
Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird. McIntosh & Otis, Inc.,
1960. Complete and unabridged. Narrated by Roses Prichard.
AV FIC LIT
A little princess. Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1995.
Sara Crewe shares a life of wonder in India with her father
until he is called to military service and Sara is sent to a
strict New York boarding school. Sara draws strength from
knowing she'll always be a princess to her father. She
overcomes the hardships and changes both her life and the
lives of those around her.
AV FIC LON
The long walk home. Van Nuys, Calif. : Live Entertainment Inc.,
1991. Whoppi Goldberg, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Schultz.
Odessa Cotter is a quietly dignified woman who works as a
housekeeper for Miriam Thompson. When Odessa honors the 1955
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking nine miles to
and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both
Miriam's racist husband and the powerful White Citizen's
Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for
civil rights.
AV FIC LON
To Build a Fire. USA : Video Communications, Inc., 1991. A
David Cobham Production. Narrated by Orson Welles. Orson
Wells reads the tale, in his inmitable fireside style, the
camera follows a lone man traveling through the great
Alaskan wilderness in seventy-five degrees below zero
weather. The stark realism of the chilling images scombined
with the power of Orson Welles' reading fills the viewer
with an awesome admiration for the story's courageous hero.
AV FIC LOO
Looking for Richard. Beverly Hills, California : Twentieth
Century Fox Film Corporation, 1996. The camera follows the
cast and crew throughout rehearsals, eavesdropping on the
behind-th-scenes process that goes into creating characters
and mounting a production.
AV FIC LOR
The lord of the flies. Public Media Home Vision, 1963. Stranded
on a remote island, a group of British schoolboys try t
organize themselves into a law-abiding society only to give
in to their primal instincts.
AV FIC LOR
Lord of the flies. Beverly Hills, CA : Nelson Entertainment,
c1990. Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly. 25
schoolboys lost on a tropical island after a plane crash
revert to savagery in their efforts to survive.
AV FIC MEL
Great Books; Moby Dick. Bethesda, MD : Discovery Channel
Education, 1997. A novel about pride, tolerance, evil and
the nature of mans free will.
AV FIC MEL
Moby Dick [videorecording]. Austria: Hallmark Home Entertainment
INC., 1997. Gregory Peck as Father Mapple, Patrick Stewart
as captain Ahab. Seeking adventure on the high seas, a
young sailor called Ishmael ships out aboard the whaling
schooner Pequod. But as Ishmael soon learns, this will be
not ordinary voyage.
AV FIC MIL
The Crucible [videorecording]. Twentieth Century Fox, 1996.
Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. The setting is 17th
century Salem, Massachusetts. A group of teenage girls meets
in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring
cermony. But instead of love. Abigail Williams wishes for
the death of her former lover's wife. When the ceremony is
witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of
witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria,
and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a
devastating climax!.
AV FIC MOB
Moby Dick. Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, c1956.
Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn. Consumed by an
insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in
life--revenge on Moby Dick, the greatest white whale who
maimed and disfigured him. The obessed skipper of a whaling
boat, Ahab uses his command as an excuse to sail the seven
seas in an unrelenting search for his prey.
AV FIC MOB
Moby Dick. Hallmark Home Entertainment, Inc., 1997. A film of
the classic Herman Melville story.
AV FIC OCC
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Malibu, Calif. : Monterey
Movie Company, 1996. On a lonely bridge a group of soldiers
prepare the somber task of hanging one of their countrymen,
now an enemy, for sabotage. The story unfolds on this
isolated bridge and envelopes a journey through the mind and
dreams of a man facing death.
AV FIC OF
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. New York; : Recorded Books,
LLC, 1999. Performed by Mark Hammer.
AV FIC OHE
Ransom of Red Chief. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.,
1977. Two kidnappers planning on making some quick money,
kidnap a small-town banker's son, only to discover crime
doesn't pay. Based on the play by O. Henry.
AV FIC ORW
Orwell, George. Amimal Farm. New York: Recorded Books, LLC,
1987. Preformed by Patrick Tull.
AV FIC ORW
Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Recorded Books,LLC, 1986.
Performed by Frank Muller.
AV FIC POE
Fall of the house of Usher. New York: Goodtimes Home Video,
1993. A tale of bloodlines and madness as a brother
consumed with the idea that his family is evil seeks to bury
his sister alive before she can marry.
AV FIC POE
The
Raven. Universal City, CA; : MCA Universal, 1992.
Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Boris Karloff
and Dela Lugosi.
AV FIC POR
Katherine Anne Porter's. Thousand Oaks, CA : Monterey Movie
Company, 1980. Adapted from the short story by Pulitzer
Prize winning writer Katherine Anne Porter. Starring
Geraldine Gitzgerald.
AV FIC POW
The power of one. Burbank, California : Time Warner, Inc., 1992.
Stephen Dorff, Gohn Gielgud and Morgan Freeman. A young
English boy, orphaned and terrorized for his political
beliefs by his schoolmates, turns to the only friend who can
help him; an inmate.
AV FIC SCA
The Scarlet letter. Princeton, NJ. : Films For The Humanities,
c1995. Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel brings to life the
attitudes and passions of his Puritan ancestors in 17th
century New England. His central character, Hester Prynne,
overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first
great heroine in American literature. Hawthorn's themes -
the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and individual
resistance to community repression - still reverbrate
through American society.
AV FIC SEC
The Secret life of Walter Mitty. New York : Samuel Goldwyn
Productions, Inc., c1947. Danny Kaye stars as a
mild-mannered mouse who imagines himself as a number of
daredevil heroes, including a gunslinger in the Old West and
a Mississippi riverboat gambler. One of Walter's dreams
becomes a reality when he gets involved with a beautiful
blonde and becomes the target of a gang of jewel thieves who
believe he as their loot.
AV FIC SHA
Shane. Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount Pictures Corp., c1952.
Shane, a gunman trying to escape his past, comes into town
and ends up being confronted by his past as well as saving
the town.
AV FIC SHE
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. New York: Recorded
Books, LLC, 1993. Performed by George Guidall.
AV FIC STE
Of mice and men. Culver City, CA.: MGM/UA Home Video, 1992.
Best friends Lennie and George find themselves unemployed in
Depression-era California. When they do find work, their
world is ripped apart by tragedy. Based on the novel by John
Steinbeck.
AV FIC STE
Steinbeck, John. Of mice and men. St. Paul, Minn.:
Penguin-HighBridge Audio, 1992. The classic portrait of two
outsiders struggling to understand their own unique places
in the world.
AV FIC STE
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl. St. Paul, Minnesota :
Penguin-HighBridge Audio, 1994. Read by Hector Elizondo.
Kino is a Mexican pearl-fisher in the Gulf of California.
When he and his wife, Juana, have a baaby, their joy is
complete...until the infant is bitten by a scorpion. Kino
finds a great pearl worth a fortune, far more than enough to
pay for the doctor needed to save the baby's life, but it
brings only tragedy and evil to his family.
AV FIC STE
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. Prince Frederick, MD :
Recorded Books, LLC, 1999. Narrated by Mark Hammer.
Unabridged, classic story of a pair of unlikely friends is
probably the most moving of Steinbeck's novels. A discerning
comment on the loneliness and alienation of California's
farm laborers in the 1930s. It is also a gripping tale of
one man's selfless love for another.
AV FIC STE
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl. Recorded Books, IIC., 1999.
performed by Frank Muller.
AV FIC STO
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Penguin-HighBridge Audio : St. Paul,
Minnesota, 1992. Read by Richard E. Grant.
AV FIC TEN
10 things I hate about you : How do I Loathe Thee? Let me count
the ways. Burbank, CA : Buena Vista Entertainment. Remake
of Taming of the Schrew. Starring Joseph Fordon-Levitt,
Larisa Oleynik, Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. "A cool cast
of young stars is just one of the things you'll love about
this hailarious comedy hit! On the first day at his new
school , Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous
girl of his dreams! The only problem is that Bianca is
forbidden to date...until her ill-tempered, completely
un-dateable order sister Kat goes out, too! In an attempt to
solve his problem Camerion singles out the only guy who
could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad-boy with
a nasty reputation of his own! Also featuring a hip
soundtrack this witty comedy is a widly entertaing look at
exactly how far some guys will go to get a date!.
AV FIC THE
They're coming to get us! Science Fiction Previews of the 50's
and 60's. unknown. Previews of science fiction movies
during the 1950's and the 1960's.
AV FIC TWA
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York:
Recorded Books, LLC, 1991. Performed by Norman Dietz.
AV FIC WAR
War and
peace.
1956. Film version of Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece about
century.
AV FIC WAT
Watership down.
Character voices by John Hurt, Richard Briers, Denholm
Elliott, Ralph Richardson, Zero Mostel. An intrepid burrow
of rabbits seek a safe new home.
AV FIC WES
Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tambllyn, Rlita Moreno and George
Chakiris. Winner of 10 academy awards, the retelling of the
Romeo and Juliet tragedy.
AV FIC WIL
The Glass Menagerie. Time Warner Entertainment Company,1945.
Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Michael Moriarty, and
Joanna Miles.
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