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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
Français
Description
Pierre is involved in a terrible car accident. Fatally injured, he sees his life pass before his eyes. Only now does he realize the importance of all the details of existence, the pleasures and sorrows that makeup life's happiness. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
It is January 1954. The Korean War is over. Captured UN soldiers held in POW camps are free to return home. Those who refuse repatriation to their homeland are transferred to a neutral zone and given 90 days to reconsider their decision. Among them are 21 American soldiers who decide defiantly to stay in China.. Back in the United States, McCarthyism is at its height. Many Americans believe these young men have been brainwashed by Chinese communists...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Real Life Teens is an unbiased and realistic look from the perspective of teens, at the wide variety of issues teens face today featuring young teenagers telling their real stories, in their own words. The series discusses significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice and information. This program discusses the effects and consequences of alcohol use. It outlines the effects that alcohol...
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A unique and moving account of the day that changed the modern world. Featuring rare footage and audio, it unveils an intimate portrayal of the events of September 11 captured by ordinary people who chose to pick up their video cameras that day.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At one end of Wall Street sits Trinity Church. Behind the church is a cemetery. A young man named Alexander Hamilton, whose ideas were fundamental in making Wall Street into what it is today, chose this cemetery as his final resting place. Hamilton and Jefferson would debate how a young bankrupt country might best recover from the expense of the Revolutionary War. It would be a complex task to navigate a financial recovery between Wall Street...
9) World War II
Publisher
Media Rich
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The seeds of World War II were sown in the dark days of depression following the first world conflict. While the United States chose a course of isolationism, escalating aggression in Europe and Asia threatened world stability. Without warning, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor pushed the reluctant U.S. into war. The bloody conflict would span the globe and trigger political, social and military repercussions that would resonate through the twentieth...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the ongoing clash between faith and reason, some Protestants embraced carefully reasoned arguments, but in the 17th century, another group of thinkers chose to emphasize heart over head. Survey the rise of Pietist communities and see how they responded to the historical context of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The French and Indian War helped unite Britain's North American colonies. When the colonies began their struggle for independence, they chose their greatest war hero, George Washington, to lead the army. Analyze Washington's brilliant defense of Boston and his disastrous defeat trying to hold New York City. Contrast British and American objectives in the Revolutionary War.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Why did people accept the rule of monarchs? This lecture reveals the fascinating world of the first kings, including their numerous important duties - from conducting diplomacy to levying taxes - and explores how they believed that the gods supported and chose them.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on The Secret History of the Mongols, written soon after Chinggis Khan's death in 1227, chart the rise of the obscure son of a minor Mongol chief to earn the title "Strong" or "Universal Ruler": Chinggis Khan. His martial daring and hairbreadth escapes have all the drama of a Hollywood epic. There is even a beautiful and formidable love interest, Borte, who Chinggis chose as his wife.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
They are from all nationalities. They dwell in the mythology of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. They chose to give up their comfortable lives and go fight ISIS in Syria. Every night, between July and October 2017, young men with no previous military experience pushed through the most dangerous streets of the world. Eventually, along with the Kurdish and Arab forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces, they liberated Raqqa and ended...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Historians still debate why the United States chose to fight Britain in the War of 1812, which lasted until 1815. Survey America's grievances and ambitions, which included conquest of Canada. Study the poor strategy, command, and training that led to a strategic stalemate. The exception is the one military genius who emerged from the war: Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
By the 1820s, immigrants flowed through America's seaports from Europe; and with the clearance of Indian resistance, the Northwest Territory was opened by massive government land sales. Many emigrants, however, chose to stay in the cities they first entered, and their numbers soon swelled the size of the American urban population.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For five years, ordinary men in Syria have been gathering evidence of all war crimes committed, whoever the perpetrators. Amid the thunder of bombs, these anonymous and unsung heroes face the risks in hopes to hold those accountable at court.. Ibrahim, Othman, Sami, César, Adel, and Bassam are the backbone of the most important collection of evidence seen during an ongoing conflict. They've recovered military orders, collected bomb fragments, taken...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although ruled by Mexico, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. Caught in the middle were the area's 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos. With war on the horizon, the Tejanos had to pick a side. Many...
Publisher
Kinetic Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A bittersweet story of how a people survived. Seventy-five years ago the nobility of the Kwakwaka’wakw of the Pacific Northwest Coast, chose a young man, secluded him from the authorities when his peers were sent to Residential School. The elders trained him in every aspect of the culture and traditions of his people.. Today, caught between two worlds, he is needed more than ever by his people to reclaim their teachings. Few people survived who...
20) Thy Kingdom Come
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THY KINGDOM COME was conceived of following the filming of Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder. As part of that production’s “third unit,” Richards introduced Bardem, who was portraying a parish priest in Malick’s film, to the real-life residents of a small Oklahoma town. What had been intended as brief episodes for inclusion in the feature film grew in scope as the townspeople, wholly aware that he was a fictional priest, chose to share personal...
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