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Common usage errors

2008
Identifies some common grammar errors and takes the mystery right out of them. From eliminating run-on sentences to cutting out dangling modifiers, each clip utilizes a variety of examples and careful explanations to cast a helpful light on these topics for students.

Looking for Lincoln

2009
In light of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, this documentary focuses on many of the controversial aspects of Lincoln's life--race, equality, religion, politics and depression. Interviews re-enactors, relic hunters, authors, scholars and Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to gain perspectives on Lincoln's life and thoughts.

Slavery by another name

2012
A documentary film, based on the book by Douglas A. Blackmon, challenging the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and discussing how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place, was tolerated by both the North and South, and continued into the twentieth century.

Baraka

2008
A transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you've ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words, viewed through man and nature's own prisms of symmetry and more.

Hot coffee

is justice being served?
2011
Analyzes and discuses so called "frivolous law suits" and the impact of tort reform on the United States judicial system. Discusses several cases and relates each to tort reform in the U.S.: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants (public relations campaign to instigate tort reform); Colin Gourley's malpractice lawsuit and caps on damages; the prosecution of Mississippi Justice Oliver Diaz and judicial elections; Jamie Leigh Jones v. Halliburton Co. and mandatory arbitration. Exposes how corporations spent millions on a propaganda campaign to distort Americans' view of lawsuits, forever changing the civil justice system. From the infamous case of the woman who sued McDonalds over spilled coffee to the saga of the Mississippi Supreme Court Justice deemed 'not corporate enough' by business interests, this program tears apart the conventional wisdom about 'frivolous lawsuits.'.

Barack Obama

people's president : the campaign that changed history
2009
Chronicles Barack Obama's political campaign from the 2008 Democratic Primary through the presidential election; and discusses the grassroots efforts, the use of Web technologies by Obama and his supporters, and other topics.

Don't call me names

2011
Examines name-calling, the effect it has on others, and strategies children can use to stop others from calling them names.

Migration

2009
Follows several species to learn why and how animals, birds, and insects travel up to thousands of miles before returning.

Best games for fun & fitness

2005
A fitness play program that offers teachers programming ideas, organizational skills and drills, and a selection of creative group games.

Symbols of America

2010
Program introduces the symbol of the United States flag.

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