Instructional DVDs

Through the experience of several families consisting of both children and adults with food allergies, this program clarifies the misinformation people commonly have about food allergies.

One week after the Greensboro sit-in, protestors guided by Carl W. Matthews began taking seats at the lunch counter of S.H. Kress department store in Winston-Salem, starting a three-month-long action that ended in the successful desegregation of lunch counters in the city. Interviews with many of the students involved, with their professors and mentors, archival photographs, and music of the era provide a sense of what the movement meant to them students and how it shaped their lives.

Brings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Through an emotional montage of sound and image, the film salutes this group of brave, young writers who refused to quietly disappear. The stories of the young Holocaust victims come to life by weaving together personal photos, handwritten pages and drawings from the diaries, and archival films.

Paints a poignantly captivating, unflinching, and relevant portrait of the children of Stanton Elementary School in North Philadelphia, an inner-city neighborhood where 90% of the students live below the poverty line. As seen through the devoted and determined viewpoint of principal Deanna Burney, this shows Stanton as grossly underfunded, understaffed, and filled with children struggling to overcome their difficulties.

Demonstrates how working with natural clay benefits the emotional, creative, intellectual and physical development of young children.

David Byrne's breathtaking, impressionistic documentary on Candomble, the African spirit cult of the Bahia region of Brazil, that explores the influences on daily life and culture of the people of Brazil through music, art, religion, food and more.

Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo. Their target? Women, and increasingly men and children. The Illusionists turns the mirror on media, exposing the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us.

Nothing is more challenging in dementia care than effective communication. Have you had trouble getting a loved one to a screening, or aren't sure how to communicate when there is a need to stop driving? This video offers the skills necessary to tackle these crucial conversations and safeguard your loved one.

This documentary, examining the increasing debt burden carried by millions of Americans, argues that corrupt practices by financial and government institutions are fostering citizens' dependence on credit while creating a ballooning national debt that is leading the country towards fiscal disaster.

Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, author Michael Pollan proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach.

In Organic We Trust is an eye-opening food documentary that follows Director/Producer Kip Pastor on a personal journey to answer commonly asked questions about organic food: What exactly is organic? Is it really better, or just a marketing scam?

Looks at one family over a course of a year. Their four children left neonatal intensive care with a range of outcomes, from unimpaired survival to serious physical and learning deficits.

A compelling blend of autobiography and history that recounts the life of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century and illuminates scientific developments in our understanding of the brain's role in recording and preserving memory.

Filmmaker Joanna Rudnick is faced with a difficult decision when she tests positive for the breast cancer gene. Now she has the difficult decision of whether she should have her breasts and ovaries removed or hold on to her ability to have children.

Combining popular history with adventure and travel, historian Michael Wood embarks on an odyssey of discovery, following the ancient triumphal march of Alexander of Macedonia from Greece to India, to bring us the truth behind one of history's most famous and enigmatic heroes.

A documentary that takes the viewer into the land of the deaf, a world of silence inhabited by an estimated 130 million people worldwide. The filmmaker portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering portraits of a charismatic sign language teacher, a woman forced into a mental ward as a teen, a young man who remembers the first horrifying experience of using a hearing aid, and a deaf couple's marriage.

Focuses on the Hutu and Tutsi as they struggle through Rwanda's unique reconciliation process: Gacaca, a network of grassroots community courts.

From the moment of conception, every human embryo embarks on an incredible nine-month journey of development. Now, cutting-edge technology makes it possible for National Geographic Channel's "In the Womb" to open a window into the hidden world of the fetus and explore each trimester in amazing new detail.

Set during the 1930s, this autobiographical dramatization is about an impoverished working-class mother who must hold down a job and care for her children at the same time. Central to the plot is the metaphor of a mother ironing her daughter's dress as she mentally attempts to "iron" out her uneasy relationship with her oldest daughter through a stream-of-consciousness monologue.

Incarcerating US is a feature-length documentary that exposes America's prison problem and explores ways to unshackle the Land of the Free through vital criminal justice reforms. With 2.3 million people behind bars, the U.S. has the largest prison population in the history of the world. Through dramatic first-hand accounts, expert testimony, and shocking statistics, Incarcerating US asks fundamental questions about the prison system in America: What is the purpose of prison? Why did our prison population explode in the 1970s? What can make our justice system more just?

Six hundred years ago, in less than a century, the Inca people, located in present day Peru, forged an empire equal to that of the Greeks and Romans. They built their empire, not by military conquest but by treaties, based on providing food for all the empire's citizens. In the process, the Incas built architectural wonders for all eternity.

As the gap between the rich and the poor in India turns to a chasm, a renowned news journalist questions the social stability of a country that will soon enter the top five of the world's economic giants.

Examines economics professor and Clinton Administration cabinet member Robert Reich's crusade to expose the problem of income inequality in the United States.

Features 6 vignettes from actual child care settings for practice scoring. Instructor's Guide explains how to lead training activities and answers questions trainees may have.

In these videos the viewer will see the kind of care needed for infants and toddlers to thrive in their child care settings. Contents: [Module 1.] Child centered curriculum (23 min.) -- [module 2.] Exploring and learning (25 min.) -- [module 3.] Sensory and art (29 min.) -- [module 4.] Keys to quality care (24 min.) -- [module 5.] Investing in caring relationships (24 min.) -- [module 6.] Promoting language and literacy (29 min).

Explore infant intelligence, information processing and memory. See the progression of infant communication from crying--to giggling--to euphoric babbling and their first words! Understand how language is learned and how caregivers can use infant-directed speech to foster cognitive development.

Examine the different stages of emotional development, and learn how children form attachments with people. Observe how personality and temperament affect an infant's social and emotional growth and how caregivers handle various situations.

Ingredients is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities.

This Mexican documentary takes viewers into the agricultural fields, where children barely bigger than the buckets they carry work long hours, in often hazardous conditions, picking tomatoes, peppers, or beans, for which they are paid by weight. When not in the fields, the daily lives of children can also include making earthen bricks, cutting cane, gathering firewood, plowing fields with oxen and planting by hand, or carving wooden figures and weaving baskets to sell. These children and their families survive only by unrelenting labor. Despite that, the cycle of poverty is passed on from one generation to another.

Documents the inspirational life of Inocente Izucar, a homeless, undocumented fifteen-year old girl in San Diego, a bourgeoning artist, and the extraordinary challenges she must contend with on a daily basis.

Presents an overview of Islam, tracing its history back to its roots in the Hebrew Bible. Attempts to explicate the religion vis-a-vis escalating acts of fundamentalist violence with which it has grown synonymous in the eyes of many Western observers.

One of a six part MSNBC series "Lockup : inside America's prisons," which looks at the world of the incarcerated.

... Bulimia is on the rise, both nationally and internationally. Yet it is often portrayed in the media as almost a joke, as a kind of 'extreme' dieting practiced by models and others obsessed with their appearance. In reality, this eating disorder can be as hard to overcome as any addiction-- and it can be a killer. This documentary takes us into the lives of women and men who are struggling to cope with bulimia and its consequences on their health, their work and play, and their relationships.

Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout.

In the post-9/11 world, where the stakes have dramatically escalated, the Secret Service agent is the first and last defense for the President of the United States. Agents operate in an arena where there is no margin for error. Go inside and meet the dedicated men and women who are sworn to protect the President at any cost. Get an agent's-eye view of the daily challenges faced through the decades by Secret Service veterans, from keeping tabs on the president's children to dealing with the privacy of the First Family.

Discusses Internal Affairs investigations of corruption in police departments in New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, and San Diego.

This program pioneers a new way for teachers and general readers to be on familiar terms with Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays, as well as the journals and writings of Henry David Thoreau. Professors Richard Baker, Joel Myerson, Bob Richardson, Wes Mott, and Larry Buell add significant biographical commentary and teaching suggestions to introduce this body of American philosophy and literature.

Segment one of this program presents Rodin's The Kiss, Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, and Picasso's The Three Dancers to chart the progression of distortion as a means of expressing more than what a figurative subject can represent. Segment two uses Kandinsky's Cossacks and Pollock's Summertime Number 9A to illustrate how color, line, and shape communicate ideas and emotions without a recognizable subject. Segment three spotlights Sir William Nicholson's The Lowestoft Bowl, Cezanne's Still Life with Water Jug, and Picasso's Still Life to demonstrate how the still life, in moving from realistic to abstract, made possible the concept of mixed media.

A dramatized program of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists, illustrating how each great master developed techniques by building upon the works of his predecessors.

The major characteristics and features of the circulatory systems are explored, with special emphasis placed on circulatory problems and caring for the circulatory system. Includes extras: glossary, slides, and an instructor's manual in PDF format.

Isabel Allende discusses how various familial relationships influenced her life and literary career. Includes commentary by her mother, stepfather and second husband. Particular attention is given to the death of Allende's daughter, Paula.

Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture.

Discusses the architecture and sculpture of mosques and Koranic schools, the illumination and calligraphy of sacred texts, music, the art of the garden, and the influence of the abstract arabesque on Western art.

Documentary concerning the filmmaker's attempt to understand her childhood which was profoundly affected by her mother's severe mental illness.

An inside look at the tumultuous relationships of a clique of popular 10-year-old girls. Playground bullying captured on camera shows a picture of how these girls use their closest friendships to hurt each other - with shunning, whispering and mean looks - to win social power in the group. Also looks at the tragic story of a 14-year-old girl who killed herself after enduring months of rumors and verbal threats.