Department of History

This powerful and thought-provoking documentary examines the dramatic story of one-time white supermacist leader Gregory Withrow, and in so doing explores the underlying strains of violence and domination in American life and culture. At the height of his involvement in the movement in 1988. Withrow fell in love with a woman whose parents had fled Nazi Germany. His own subsequent flight from the militant White Aryan Resistance captured the attention of the national media when Withrow was found beaten and "crucified," his hands nailed to a board. Now, more than a decade later, Withrow is married to a Mexican-American woman and lives a low-key, semi-isolated rural existence. Unlike simplistic stories about "evil-racists-turned-model-citizens," Blink explores the complex middle ground where Withrow still battles his demons and questions the possibility of fundamental personal change. The painful irony of his predicament is that when he renounced the world of racial hatred he was left with the same enraged, alienated self that once propropelled him into the movement. A sterotyped enemy no longer provides an easy target for his gnawing anger. And the mythic warrior power he once enjoyed has been replaced by a silent, uneasy emptiness. The film adds a bold, complex edge to the growing body of material on hate crimes and racism. Blink is an extremely personal story about a man who crossed over the edge and is trying to come back. It breaks down caricatures and gives a human face to the most extreme racist fringe. The harshness of Withrow's experience and the brutality of his rage invite viewers into uncomfortable places.

The story is as cold as time and as new as tomorrow. The professor and the show girl--from Heinrich Mann, directed by Josef Von Sternberg, this is in many critics' mind the classic of classics.

Film clips of Boone in 1938.

Bridging World History is a multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that looks at global patterns through time-seeing history as an integrated whole.

In his lifetime, Carlos Fuentes has witnessed the rediscovery of the ancient Aztec temples beneath the central square of modern Mexico City. He traces the Indian world through their magnificent pyramids and sculptures.

Every year a million Mexicans gather in the great central square or their capital to celebrate El Grito, the cry for independence.

Spain, Latin America, the Hispanic communities in the United States, all have undergone enormous change change in this century.

A Caribbean island in the mid-1800s. Nature has made it a paradise; man has made it a hell. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready to provide the spark. They send agent William Walker (Marlon Brando) on a devious three-part mission: trick the slaves into revolt, grab the sugar trade for England...then return the slaves to servitude. Colonialism and insurrection are explored in the searing epic BURN! Both visually and narratively stunning, BURN! glows with the fires of filmmaking genius. Genius is also evident in Brando's complex, intelligent portrayal of a man who is both gentleman and scoundrel, revolutionary and colonist. And Ennio Morricone's (The Untouchables, The Mission) haunting music memorably underscores the almost overwhelmingly powerful story.