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- Ponce De Leon CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- As one of the world’s most daring early explorers, Ponce de Leon traveled thousands of miles across unknown seas in search of the mystical fountain of youth. Under the auspices of the Spanish crown, de Leon led trailblazing expeditions to Puerto Rico andFlorida. This video-based interactive… [ read more ]
$39.95- $15.99
- 8 1/2: Essential Art House DVD
- Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning 8½ is the Italian maestro’s iconic story of a director’s creative block, and the ultimate movie about movies. Marcello Mastroianni charmingly embodies adulterous scamp and world-famous director Guido Anselmi, whose romances, dreams, and memories become the… [ read more ]
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- America In Transition: Interactive Lesson Plan with DVD
- AMERICA IN TRANSITION includes: ELLIS ISLAND - First-person accounts from immigrants - what America meant to them, what or who they left behind, what they brought in their lone wicker suitcase as they crossed into an unknown future - are the foundation of this compelling documentary on… [ read more ]
$145.00- $55.99
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- HISTORY takes a fresh look at some of the world's most fascinating, iconic and truly ruthless leaders, the new series Absolute Tyrants cuts through the folklore to present an accurate portrait of characters from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, Caligula to Cleopatra. [ read more ]
$24.95- $19.99
- Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films DVD
- In 1999, Polish director Andrzej Wajda received an Honorary Academy Award(r) for his body of work-more than thirty-five feature films, beginning with A Generation in 1955. Wajda's second film, Kanal, the first ever made about the Warsaw uprising, secured him the Special Jury Prize at Cannes… [ read more ]
- $79.95
- Au Hasard Balthasar DVD
- A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, director Robert Bresson's AU HASARD BALTHAZAR follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar,… [ read more ]
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- Au Revoir Les Enfants DVD
- The long shadow of Malle's autobiographical memoir of occupied France continues to fall heavily across subsequent representations of World War II, boarding school, and male adolescence--in fact, it would be difficult to identify a recent film that addresses these concerns and does not, in… [ read more ]
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- Ballad of a Soldier DVD
- Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he singlehandedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual… [ read more ]
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- Ben Franklin: Interactive Lesson Plan with DVD
- A writer, scientist, politician, ruthless competitor, diplomat and a founding father of this great nation. To use a purchase order, please call 1-800-344-6336. To contact your regional History Education Sales Representative for volume sales, c [ read more ]
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- Bicycle Thieves DVD
- Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of… [ read more ]
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- Breathless DVD
- There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of… [ read more ]
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- Che (Spanish) DVD
- Far from a conventional biopic, Steven Soderberghs film about Che Guevara is a fascinating exploration of the revolutionary as icon. Daring in its refusal to make the socialist leader into an easy martyr or hero,CHE paints a vivid, naturalistic portrait of the man himself (with a stunning,… [ read more ]
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- Cranes are Flying DVD
- Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. Boris is sent to the front lines...and then communication stops. Meanwhile, Veronica tries to ward off spiritual numbness while Boris' draft-dodging cousin makes increasingly forceful overtures.… [ read more ]
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- Danton DVD
- Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda s powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extemist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. By drawing parallels to Polish… [ read more ]
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- Democracy in Action Classroom Edition DVD
- "Democracy in Action Classroom Edition One of the most important factors in American government is the right of all citizens to participate and influence government decision making. This new Classroom Edition set gives students an in-depth view of our democracy by delving into the formation… [ read more ]
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- Early Expansion: Interactive Lesson Plan with DVD
- A look at the growth of our fledgling nation; the people and events important to this influential time. To use a purchase order, please call 1-800-344-6336. To contact your regional History Education Sales Representative for volume sales, click [ read more ]
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- Essential Art House Beauty and the Beast DVD
- Once upon a time, in a world of magic and wonder, the true love of a beautiful girl may finally dispel the torment of feral but gentle-hearted beast. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (La Belle et la Bete) is a landmark feat of cinematic fantasy, in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures… [ read more ]
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- Essential Art House: Brief Encounter (English) DVD
- One of cinema’s most timeless love stories, David Lean’s BRIEF ENCOUNTER stars Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson as a married doctor and a housewife who meet one gray evening on a London train platform and embark on a tentative, forbidden romance. Lean directs this exquisite adaptation of a… [ read more ]
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- FDR CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- FDR: A PRESIDENCY REVEALED - Using previously unreleased pictures, oral histories, home videos, secret White House recordings and a cousin's diary, this program explores the character of the man who stood at the epicenter of American politics for 12 of the most turbulent years in the… [ read more ]
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- For All Mankind (English) DVD
- In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of: landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert’s documentary, For All Mankind, is the story of the… [ read more ]
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- General Idi Amin Dada (English) DVD
- In 1971, the small African nation of Uganda was taken over by self-styled dictator General Idi Amin Dada, beginning an eight-year reign of terror that would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. In this chilling yet darkly comic documentary, director Barbet Schroeder turns his… [ read more ]
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- Great Adaptations (English) DVD
- Criterion presents four classic literary adaptations together in a single set at a special price. Featuring the previously-released editions of David Lean's Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, plus Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies and Ernest B. Schedsack and Merian C. Cooper's The Most… [ read more ]
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- Great Expectations (English) DVD
- David Lean's handsome adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel captures the warm humor and richness of character that so many filmmakers miss in their reverent recreations of Victorian England. From the nightmarish opening sequence on the windswept graveyard where young orphan Pip… [ read more ]
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- Hamlet (English) DVD
- In the opening scene of Hamlet (1948), Laurence Olivier's voice-over describes the play as "the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind." But Olivier's screen adaptation is considerably more thoughtful and complex than this thesis would suggest. Drawing on his experience playing the… [ read more ]
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- Harlan County USA (English) DVD
- This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a… [ read more ]
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- Hearts and Minds (English) DVD
- A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis' landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronts the United States' involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources-from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad-Davis constructs a… [ read more ]
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- Henry V (English) DVD
- Laurence Olivier mustered out of the Navy to film this adaptation of Shakespeare's history. Embroiled in WWII, Britains took courage from this tale of a king who surmounts overwhelming odds and emerges victorious. This sumptuous Technicolor rendering features a thrilling recreation of the… [ read more ]
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- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. He negotiated an alliance with France, helped write the Declaration of Independence and was the first to tame lightning. Yet… [ read more ]
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- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. The epic saga of the pilgrims and their journey to and colonization of the New World is one of the fundamental narratives of our… [ read more ]
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off- Instant Expert: Ancient History: Egypt DVD
- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. Long before the Romans built their first mud huts, ancient Egypt's mighty pharaohs began commissioning and building monumental… [ read more ]
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- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. Myths are often the first stories we learn as children-iconic tales where good and evil clash, and humanity and fantasy collide.… [ read more ]
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- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. An energy source unrivaled in efficiency and power, oil is the driving force behind today's industries and economies. It touches… [ read more ]
$14.95- $11.99
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off- Instant Expert: World History: The French Revolution DVD
- History introduces Instant Expert, an exciting new line of titles offering on-the-spot knowledge to students and lifelong learners on a wide variety of topics. A dethroned king, a flamboyant queen, the storming of a fortress prison and an infamous bloodbath known as the Reign of Terror ?… [ read more ]
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- Ivans Childhood DVD
- The great Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature, IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (Ivanovo detstvo), is an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. Moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of World War II and serene moments of family life before the… [ read more ]
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- JFK CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- JFK: A PRESIDENCY REVEALED - Using primary sources, audiotapes and first-hand accounts from staff and family, this program follows the life of the nation's magnetic 35th president from the Cuban Missile Crisis through his tragic assassination in 1963. (1 CD-Rom; 2 DVD approx. 300 minutes.) [ read more ]
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- Jules and Jim DVD
- François Truffaut's third feature, though it's named for the two best friends who become virtually inseparable in pre-World War I Paris, is centered on Jeanne Moreau's Catherine, the most mysterious, enigmatic woman in his career-long gallery of rich female portraits. Adapted from the novel… [ read more ]
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- An examination of the Korean War, which set all the rules for East/West conflict during the nuclear age, and in so doing, brought an unknowing world closer to all-out atomic war than has ever been told. In this episode, a North Korean surprise attack finds desperate and unready U.N. forces… [ read more ]
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- La Strada DVD
- Federico Fellini had been making films for a few years, but with the 1954 release of La strada, the Italian director set himself on his way to becoming one of international cinema's household names. A delicate, immensely moving tale of love and loss between strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn)… [ read more ]
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- Latin America CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set 2 with DVD
- The Latin America 3 pack set includes Ponce de Leon, Mexico: Courage and Conquest, and The Maya. These CD-ROM lesson plans include short video clips organized by theme, primary source documents, maps, and other historical images, discussion and review questions, internet-based student… [ read more ]
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- Lewis & Clark CD-ROM Lesson Plan Set with DVD
- LEWIS AND CLARK - This documentary uses journals and firsthand sources in a colorful exploration of the classic westward journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. (1 CD-Rom; 1 DVD approx. 50 minutes.) [ read more ]
- $39.95
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