Instructional DVDs

A six-part series featuring people and places around the globe where efforts are being made to improve our environment for the future.

Looks at how cancer develops in the different stages and underscores the importance of regular screening for early detection. Explains the four stages of breast tumor properties, provides key insight into studies linking the disease to estrogen-genetic factors, and explores the new drugs, treatment benefits, and diagnostic techniques used by leading cancer centers.

Documentary about immigration, childhood and the cruelty of circumstance. An undocumented third grader dreams of becoming an engineer. As deportation and gang violence threaten his future, this bighearted, ambitious boy begins to understand what it really means to be "born in Mexico."

Documentary about a community working together to build a sustainable future for its children after the arson at Grant Elementary School. Built with renewable materials and volunteer labor, the schoolhouse has inspired a progressive new curriculum.

With captivating cultural insights, this series examines societies in some of Earth's most inhospitable places. Journalist Donal MacIntyre treks across the Arabian Desert, mines salt high in the Bolivian Altiplano, hunts crocodiles in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea, and spears stingrays with landless sea gypsies off the coast of Borneo.

Examines the rise and fall of Egypt's New Kingdom, 1560 B.C. to 1080 B.C.

This documentary explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last days of the reign of Ramses the Great in 1212 BC, from dazzling obelisks to the 700-foot Great Pyramid of Giza.

This National Geographic Special shows treasures from the Cliffside of Tombs to the Valley of the Golden Mummies.

Mexican citizens working in the United States and Canada can face difficult conditions, even when they are employed legally. Filmed over an entire growing season, El Contrato documents the experiences of Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four living in Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen who have contracted to work in a sprawling tomato greenhouse in Ontario, Canada. Tensions between workers, growers, and government officials reveal disturbing aspects of the hugely profitable greenhouse industry, including the abuse of employees whom even the local Mexican consul seems to view as expendable. Presenting rarely heard voices, El Contrato is an uncompromising look at the migrant worker's plight.

Helps caregivers identify possible abuse, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment indicators of the elderly through the use of the Elder Assessment Instrument (EAI).

This series explores the science and nutritional elements of food, their role in the human body, and their impact on our health.
6 videodiscs (126 min.): Carbs -- Fats -- Minerals -- Protein -- Vitamins -- Water.

Elie Wiesel returns to the village of his birth and to Auschwitz and Birkenau, the camps where he was interned during WWII.

Families, experts and 'wise ones' share insights on aging, facing illness, and cooperating as siblings in the care of aging parents. Residents of a co-housing community for those over 55 offer attractive alternatives for the aging years.

Julie Harris takes viewers into Emily Dickinson's everyday world in a small New England town, from her father's mansion in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Amherst College and Mount Holyoke College, to couple and contrast facts and insights about the poet.

Physiological studies in the mid-twentieth century, based largely on animals, and more recent neuroimaging studies of humans have uncovered hard evidence that neural circuits support emotional experience. Affective neuroscience thus blends the insights of psychology with methods from neuroscience

This program uses vintage footage the hosting scientist's willingness to be a test subject to review classic and sometimes disturbing experiments on the nature of fear, love, and empathy.

Examines how the sexist and misogynistic messages that circulate in American culture short-circuit men's ability to empathize with women, respect them as equals, and take feminism seriously. Along the way, The Empathy Gap draws fascinating parallels between sexism and racism, and shows how men who break with regressive gender norms live happier and healthier lives.

A film about how we see what we see or what it is we think we see. Examines principles of linear and other perspectives established more than 500 years ago by masters of the Renaissance.

Created by a Palestinian, Israeli, North and South American team, this film tells the story of an Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their safety and public standing to press for an end to the conflict.

Shows how to spot clusters of endocrine signs and symptoms, assess them rapidly and thoroughly, uncover their probable cause, and provide appropriate nursing care.

Examines the cultural, economic and environmental impact of a transnational gold mining operation on a remote farming community in northeastern Guinea. Our two guides, the village chief and the head engineer of the mine, illustrate in telling detail the contrasting lifestyles and worldviews of global corporations and local, pre-industrial societies.

Profiles newly emergent 'superpowers' such as Iran and Venezuela. Thomas Friedman analyzes the political concept of 'petro authoritarianism' and Kenneth Deffeyes explains the 'Peak Oil' phenomenon, the point at which the earth's supply of oil begins its terminal decline. Concludes by investigating the search for alternatives to our dependency on oil, featuring interviews with economists, stock market traders, and new energy entrepreneurs, who discuss the pros and cons of such possible substitutes as biofuels, hydropower, nuclear and solar energy.

A two-hour portrait of the evolution of the Holocaust--from the early days of persecution in Nazi Germany to the final days of wanton annihilation. This special travels through the archives of Eastern Europe, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D. C., and the restoration labs of Yad Vashem in Israel tell the story of persecution, theft and murder through artifacts, rarely seen photographs and motion picture footage.

This video examines the life of social activist Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement.

... provides fascinating case studies in starting and growing a company, from the first spark of inspiration to the scramble for media exposure to the point at which professional operations management and high-volume manufacturing are implemented. Viewers meet uncompromising boot-strappers at the heart of four great success stories: Jason Osborn and Jason Wright of FEED Granola; Sara Blakely of Spanx body shapers; Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes; and Rick Bayless and Manuel Valdes of Frontera Foods.

Using archival materials and newly shot footage, this film introduces students to the rich wisdom of Erik H. Erikson. Best known for his identification of eight stages of the life cycle, Erikson spent a lifetime observing and studying the way in which the interplay of genetics, cultural influences and unique experiences produces individual human lives.

This video tells the complete story of the Gallo brothers and the large winery they created.

Based on the short story by Ernest J. Gaines. In rural Louisiana in the 1940's, a young black boy accompanies his mother into town and absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity.

Bryce captured his true-life battle with depression and suicide in this 6x award-winning film. An excellent resource & tool enabling anyone to discuss depression and suicide, openly erasing the stigma still existing today.

Through the story of one young visiting nurse and her elderly patient, this challenging video documentary will help to stimulate discussion about a wide range of ethical and professional dilemmas faced by nurses working in home care and community settings.

A wayward daughter returns to her rural Georgia roots but is unable to sustain a connection with her sharecropper family because she has the notion that her roots are strictly African.

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak unravels the secrets behind eight masterpieces of European painting, searching out art experts, literary and artistic allusions, and historical records to expose long-held secrets within the gilded frames.

The program explores consequences of drinking. Young people who drink are more likely to experience health problems, risks to their still-developing brains, school problems and social problems. Alcohol is the chief culprit in many car crashes. For women, it greatly increases the risk of getting pregnant. For those who drink during pregnancy, the effects on the developing fetuses can cause problems that last a lifetime.

Provides a summary of everything students need to know about the dangers of using tobacco. Vividly illustrates the health effects of smoking using interviews of smokers ravaged by cancer, heart disease and lung disease. Identifies the toxic chemicals inhaled in every puff of cigarette smoke, including benzene, arsenic, cyanide, pesticides, carbon monoxide, and ammonia.

This animated program examines the concepts of natural selection and the selfish gene. It introduces evolution by discussing Darwin's study of finches from the Galapagos Islands, examines the roles that the selfish gene and altruism play in survival, discusses sexual selection and speciation, explains how genetic mutations lead to diversity in species, and emphasizes that natural selection is a cumulative process of change that occurs slowly over time.

Brings us the story of organic agriculture, told by those who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers, spiritual seekers and farmers' sons and daughters rejected modern chemical farming and set out to invent organic alternatives.

This DVD series shows how each drug or drug class works inside the body to produce its therapeutic effects. You'll see how specific drugs halt or reverse a disease process and what adverse reactions they may cause.

Narrated by Philip Zimbardo. Teach your employees how social rules, unconscious biases, and group think heavily influence how we analyze and make decisions.

Follows food as it travels through the digestive system. Includes extras: glossary, slides, and an instructor's manual in PDF format.

Exploring Water with Young Children guides children's explorations to deepen their understanding of the physical science present in water. This full-color video contains real-life vignettes of the complete curriculum in action in the classroom.

Vols. 1-3 tell the story of America's civil rights years from 1954 to 1965; vols. 4-7 examine the new America from 1966 to 1985, from community power to the human alienation of urban poverty.

Using hidden cameras, simulated crimes, and ten unsuspecting volunteers, this three-part series reveals the science behind the role of memory in criminal investigation.

On January 22, 1992, a real estate agent named Stephanie Slater was subdued, gagged at knifepoint, and held captive for eight days. This program explores her ordeal as a case study in memory-aided investigation; it also juxtaposes Slater's case with an extended psychology experiment in which ten volunteers have taken part to assess the value of eyewitness testimony.

Relieved that a recent stabbing was, in fact, an event staged to test their memories, ten volunteers agree to undergo a second nightmare--an armed robbery during which one of them is abducted. This program records the assault and its scientific ramifications.