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ID # | Title | Film Type | Playing Time | Release Date | Color or BW | Description | Keywords | Volume | Notes | Links |
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557 |
American Vision Volume 8: The Age of Anxiety |
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 |
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550 |
American Visions Volume 1: The Republic of Virtue |
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 |
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551 |
American Visions Volume 2: The Promise Land |
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 |
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552 |
American Visions Volume 3: The Wilderness and the West |
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 |
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553 |
American Visions Volume 4: The Gilded Age: |
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 |
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202 |
Amish: Not to be Modern |
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 |
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250 |
Ancestors: Episode 2: Looking at Home |
N/A |
geneology, public history |
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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. |
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252 |
Ancestors: Episode 4: The Paper Trail |
N/A |
geneology, oral history, public history |
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253 |
Ancestors: Episode 5: Libraries and Archives |
N/A |
archives, geneology, oral history, public history |
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255 |
Ancestors: Episode 7: African-American Families |
N/A |
African American history, geneology, oral history, public history, social history |
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256 |
Ancestors: Episode 8: Medical Heritage |
N/A |
geneology, medical history, oral history, public history |
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257 |
Ancestors: Episode 9: High-Tech Help |
N/A |
computers, geneology, oral history, public history, technology |
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258 |
Ancestors: Episode I0: Leaving a Legacy |
N/A |
geneology, history, oral history, public history, wills |
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249 |
Ancestors: Episode I: Getting Started |
N/A |
geneology, public history |
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254 |
Ancestors: Episode Military and Census Records |
N/A |
census records, geneology, military, oral history, public history |
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405 |
Ancient Mexico |
N/A |
ancient history, Mexico |
This video is missing, October 17, 2006. November 13, 2006, 2/7/07. |
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668 |
Animal Farm |
VHS |
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 |
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208D |
Apocalypto |
DVD |
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 |
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338D |
Appalachia |
DVD |
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 |