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ID # Title Film Type Playing Time Release Date Color or BW Description Keywords Volume Notes Links
557
American Vision Volume 8: The Age of Anxiety
60 min
Color and B&W
This program explores how art has reflected the upheavals of the last 25 years. Tracing the evolution of abstract art and minimalism and considers the spiritual richness of earth works, in which nature is the artist's medium.The video also profiles a wide range of contemporary artists
20th century, abstract art, minimalism, United States
vol 8
550
American Visions Volume 1: The Republic of Virtue
60 min
Color and B&W
From heroic statues of George Washington to the architecture of Washington, D.C., the new republic adopts and transforms the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal.
American Republic, architecture, DC, monuments, United States, Washington
vol 1
551
American Visions Volume 2: The Promise Land
60 min
Color and B&W
Before there is an America disparate bands of settlers strive to carve out an identity in a virgin land
Native Americans, North America, Prehistory, United States
vol 2
552
American Visions Volume 3: The Wilderness and the West
60 min
Color and B&W
Traveling from Yellowstone to the Hudson Valley, host Robert Hughes explores artists Albert Bierstadt, John James Audubon, Fredric Church, Fredric Remington and Thomas Cole. In their work he finds the conflicting impulses to worship the land and to conquer it, to create a myth of the West just as the frontier of itself is closing
19th century art, Albert Bierstadt, art, Fredric Church, Fredric Remington, John James Audubon, naturalist, painting, realism, Thomas Cole, United States
vol 3
553
American Visions Volume 4: The Gilded Age:
60 min
Color and B&W
This program looks at the many sides of America in the 19th century.
19th century, Gilded Age, social history, United States
vol 4
202
Amish: Not to be Modern
57 min.
N/A
This film is the first ever made inside an Amish community with the cooperation of the Amish. It spans the four seasons to cover such activities as corn husking, quilting, etc.
20th century, agriculture, Amish, cultural history, farming, religion, social history, U.S. history, United States
250
Ancestors: Episode 2: Looking at Home
N/A
geneology, public history
289
Ancestors: Episode 3: Gathering Family Stories
N/A
geneology, oral history, public history
**This video is missing, October 18, 2006. Missing November 13, 2006. Missing November 13, 2006.
252
Ancestors: Episode 4: The Paper Trail
N/A
geneology, oral history, public history
253
Ancestors: Episode 5: Libraries and Archives
N/A
archives, geneology, oral history, public history
255
Ancestors: Episode 7: African-American Families
N/A
African American history, geneology, oral history, public history, social history
256
Ancestors: Episode 8: Medical Heritage
N/A
geneology, medical history, oral history, public history
257
Ancestors: Episode 9: High-Tech Help
N/A
computers, geneology, oral history, public history, technology
258
Ancestors: Episode I0: Leaving a Legacy
N/A
geneology, history, oral history, public history, wills
249
Ancestors: Episode I: Getting Started
N/A
geneology, public history
254
Ancestors: Episode Military and Census Records
N/A
census records, geneology, military, oral history, public history
405
Ancient Mexico
N/A
ancient history, Mexico
This video is missing, October 17, 2006. November 13, 2006, 2/7/07.
668
Animal Farm
VHS
91 min.
1999
Color
Chaos ensues when animals take over the farm in this magnificent adaption of George Orwell's classic novel, which features the magic of Hallmark Entertainment and Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Set in the beautiful Irish countryside and populated with a wide variety of barnyard animals, ANIMAL FARM is sure to leave the whole family squealing with delight.
., barnyard animals, Irish countryside
208D
Apocalypto
DVD
138 mins.
2007
Color and B&W
From Mel Gibson, director of The Passon of The Christ and the Academy Award winning Braveheart (Best Director, Best Picture, 1995) comes the thrilling historical epic Apocalypto. This intense, nonstop action-adventure transports you to an ancient Central American civilization, for an experience unlike anything you've ever known. In the twilight of the mysterious Mayan culture, young Jaguar Paw in captured and taken to the great Mayan city, where he faces a harrowing end. Driven by the power of his love for his wife and son, he makes an adrenaline-soaked, heart-racing escape to rescue them and ultimately saves his way of life. Filled with unrelenting action and stunning cinematopgraphy, Apocalypto is an enthralling and unforgettable film experience.
Central American civilization, Jaguar Paw, Mayan culture
338D
Appalachia
DVD
unknown
unknown
Color
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People Narrated by Sissy Spacek. Appalachian is the first environmental history series ever made. An All-star cast, including Pulitzer Prize winning biologist, EO Wilson, and bestselling novelist, Barbara Kingsolver, explore the intersection of natural history and human history in one of America's grandest treasures. Narrated by Academy Award winner, Sissy Spacek. Home to the oldest mountains on the planet and the richest forests in North America - within a mosaic of diverse habitats and cultures, Appalachia tells the story of a people struggling to find a true and proper relationship to the natural world. Appalachian is the story of America, writ intensely.
appalachia, appalachian, mountains, north america, america