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ID # Title Film Type Playing Time Release Date Color or BW Description Keywords Volume Notes Links
34
 Cold Mountain
DVD
154 min.
2003
Color and B&W
At the dawn of the Civil War, the men of Cold Mountain, North Carolina, rush to join the Confederate army.
Civil War, Confederate army, North Carolina
206
 Cold War
N/A
Overview of what times were like during the Cold War in America.
20th century, Cold War, communism, Soviet Union, U.S. history, United States
119
 Colonial House
DVD
8 hours
2004
Color and B&W
Think colonial life was all about pious pilgrims, powdered wigs, and freedom for all? Think again! Over two dozen modern-day adventures from the U.S. and U.K. find out the hard way what early American colonial life was really like when they struggle to create a functioning and profitable colony in Colonial House. The eight-part COLONIAL HOUSE shatters histroical myths and common misconceptions by tracking the first-hand experiences of the colonists as they live for five months on an isolated stretch of the Maine coast. What happens when people are removed from familiar modern conveniences and placed into a 1682-era society with puritanical civil laws, rigid class and gender roles, indentured servitude, and mandatory religious worship? Witness the colonists' personal and communal challenges, seeing both the expected-backbreaking labor, bad weather and primitive living conditions-as well as the unexpected-religious cnflicts, surprising confessions, devastating news from the outside world, and even an AWOL colonist. COLONIAL HOUSE brings history to life and provides a glimpse into the daily life and experiences that helped shape our national character.
a group of modern day adventures live for five months on an isolated stretch of the Maine coast., Early American colonial life, shatters historical myths and common misconceptions
45
 Color Adjustment
DVD
87 min
1991
Color and B&W
Study of prejudice and perception begun in Ethnic Notions into the Television Age and looks at over forty years of race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment.
African American, prejudice
91
 Columbus and Age of Discovery: An Idea Takes Shape
N/A
Focuses on the advances in shipbuilding and navigation that made Columbus' voyages possible, examines his motivations, and chronicles his long and arduous search for patronage to fund his westward voyage.
15th century, age of discovery, Atlantic exploration, Christopher Columbus, navigation, patronage, Portugal, shipbuilding
vol 2 of 7
95
 Columbus and Age of Discovery: Columbian Exchange
58 min
N/A
This program examines the interchange of horses, cattle, corn, potatoes, and sugar cane between the Old World and the New, and the lasting impact of this interchange on the people of both worlds.
age of discovery, Atlantic exploration, Christopher Columbus, Columbian Exchange, potatoes, sugar cane
vol 6 of 7
90
 Columbus and Age of Discovery: Columbus' World
58 min
N/A
This program travels to China, the Spice Islands, Cairo, Venice, Genoa, and Istanbul to explore the world of the 15th century and set the stage for Columbus' adventure.
15th century, age of discover, Atlantic exploration, China, Christopher Columbus, exploration, ocean, Spice Islands
vol 1 of 7
96
 Columbus and Age of Discovery: In Search of Columbus
N/A
age of discovery, Atlantic exploration, Christopher Columbus
vol 7 of 7
94
 Columbus and Age of Discovery: Sword and the Cross
58 min
N/A
The Americas evolved largely from the blend of peoples, diseases, motives and attitudes. Brought to the New World by Columbus and those who followed him.
age of discovery, Atlantic exploration, Christopher Columbus, Columbian Exchange, Indians, indigenous people, Native Americans, New World
vol 5 of 7
92
 Columbus and Age of Discovery: The Crossing
58 min
N/A
Full-scale, working replicas of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria follow the route of Columbus' first trans-Atlantic crossing, while excerpts from his logs and journals evoke 15th century ship board life.
15th century, age of discovery, Atlantic exploration, Christopher Columbus, navigation, patronage, shipbuilding
vol 3 of 7
93
 Columbus and Age of Discovery: Worlds Found and Lost
58 min
N/A
Starting with Columbus' landfall at San Salvador, a modern sailing boat and crew retrace the route of Columbus' first voyage
age of discovery, Atlantic exploration, Christopher Columbus, New World, San Salvador
vol 4 of 7
159
 Columbus and the Land of Ayllon
documentary
30 min
N/A
Thirty-four years after Columbus landed in the "New World," Spanish lawyer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon sailed from the Antilles to found the first American colony, San Miguel de Gualdape, on the Atlantic seaboard.
American colonies, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Christopher Columbus, colonization, exploration, New World, North America, San Miguel de Guadalupe
581
 Come See The Paradise
N/A
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history.
United States, US history
94
 Confederacy Theory
DVD
56 Min.
2002
Color and B&W
This powerful, thought-provoking documentary explores the complexities of a controversy steeped in American history and racial divisiveness: the debate over the Confederate flag in South Carolina, the last state to fly the flag on its capitol. Using never-before-seen archival footage and exclusive interviews with politicians, pundits, activists, and scholars. Confederacy Theory traces the impact of the Confederate emblem on Southern culture, history, and identity-from the Civil War to the front lines of a modern-day secessionist movement.
Civil War, Confederate emblem, debate over the Confederate flag in South Carolina, Racial divisiveness, slavery., war between the states
confucious
N/A
106
 Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
DVD
1 hr 30 min
2004
Color and B&W
The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II - still a heroic figure in Belgium - as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. This film describes how Leopold turned the Congo into his private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, the Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. In fact, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo.
1885-1908, Belgium, brutality., death of 10 million people, King Leopold II, labor camp
144
 Connections: Program #3 Distant Voices
N/A
Distant Voices
**This video is missing, October 18, 2006, 2/7/07.
422
 Coppermine
N/A
459
 Couragous Women of Colombia
documentary
N/A
activism, Colombia, womens history
401
 Cromwell
N/A
18th century, Great Britain, leadership, political history