Your requests for movies have been heard — here’s what’s been added in the past year. (Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom — this list is 33 titles long!)
- AV 331.12 LAS Last train home
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration.
- AV 363.34 TRO Trouble the water
A firsthand account of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina that documents aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers’ experiences and discusses the issues that remain years after the storm. Originally produced in 2008.
- AV 363.73874 GOR An inconvenient truth: the crisis of global warming
A look at the future of our planet with the threat of global warming and what to do with this climate crisis.
- AV 500 MOD Modern marvels : science
The History Channel explores the wonders of modern science in 14 discs; each disc focuses on a particular topic in physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and environmental science.
- AV 502.3 REA Real: Math. Science. Careers
A supplement to the Futures Channel Real: Math.Science series. Includes a teacher’s reference guide with curriculum connections and suggested activities.
- AV 512 ALE Algebra in the real world
Algebra in the Real World will enable you to show your students the excitement, the power, the range and the results of the applications of algebra in fascinating career fields. From astronomy to forestry, sports equipment design to saving endangered species, alternative energy to farming, algebra is shown in its vital role as the tool that allows us to create, to understand, and to improve our world.
- AV 616.1 HEA Heartsaver first aid CPR AED
Instructional video on emergency first aid, CPR, and the use of the AED.
- AV 616.85 AUT Autism, the musical
Profiles five children with autism, their parents, and acting coach Elaine Hill as they take on the enterprise of a full-length stage production.
- AV 631.5233 DIS The eyes of Nye: genetically modified foods
Is genetic engineering safe? It may be too soon to tell, but that doesn’t stop Bill Nye from exploring the benefits and risks. Students will hear from traditional wheat breeders, from researchers who analyze organic and pesticide-free crops, and from corporations engaged in genetic engineering.
- AV 730.92 AND Andy Goldsworthy : Rivers and tides : working with time
Follows Andy Goldsworthy’s bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and talks about his creative process. From his long winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy’s painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in nature – which threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometime before it is even finished.
- AV 738.092 CLA Classic Maria Martinez : Native American pottery maker of San Ildelfonso
Martinez demonstrates the traditional Native American ways of making pottery, beginning with the spreading of sacred corn before clay is gathered.
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Photographers who have worked for National Geographic reflect on their art.
- AV 822.33 HAM Hamlet (2009)
The Royal Shakespeare Company production, with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart.
- AV 822.33 MAC Macbeth (2010)
A modern adaptation that relocates the bloody action to a nameless underground netherworld, based on the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Macbeth. With Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood.
- AV 822.33 MUC Much ado about nothing (1993)
A comedy about two couples who, after a few complications and misunderstandings, are happily united with the help of bumbling Constable Dogberry. Based on the play by William Shakespeare.
- AV 843 CAC Caché : Hidden (2005)
A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until secretly-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband’s childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy
- AV 843 CLA The class
François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher’s enthusiasm for the low-paying job. François insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods. In French with English subtitles.
- AV 843 IND Indochine
Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, Éliane’s past lover. In French with English subtitles.
- AV 843 RIV Va savoir : (Who knows?)
While in Paris in a tour of the Italian play “Como Tu Mi Vuoi”, the lead actress Camille, who is living with the director Ugo Bassani, recalls and misses her former love Pierre. She visits his apartment and meets his partner Sonia. Meanwhile Ugo is searching for a lost play by Goldoni, and meets the charming French Dominique that helps him to find in her mother’s private library. Meanwhile, Do’s smalltime crook stepbrother Arthur seduces Sonia to steal her expensive ring. In French with English subtitles.
- AV 843 VAL The valet
Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of François Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates tensions between Pignon and his former flatmate Richard and his love interest Émilie. Ultimately, Levasseur’s wife discovers the truth and decides to play games with her husband.
- AV 863 NOR El norte
Beginning in the mountains of Guatemama, El Norte is the story of two brothers who leave their homeland in search of the “promised land” after their father is assassinated by the government. It is a journey filled with never-to-be forgotten dangers and hardships. A dangerous journey that makes for a better life. In Spanish with English subtitles
- AV 938 LAS Last stand of the 300 : the legendary battle of Thermopylae
Provides a detailed account of the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., a clash in which a small Greek army, led by three hundred Spartan soldiers, held off the vast Persian military for seven full days–fighting down to the last man.
- AV 940.53 WWI A new world order : Total war
Presents recently re-discovered color archival materials that provide a unique new perspective on World War II and those who fought it. Includes footage of the war’s most critical battles and key personalities.
- AV 940.53 WWI Triumph and despair
Presents recently re-discovered color archival materials that provide a unique new perspective on World War II and those who fought it. Includes footage of the war’s most critical battles and key personalities.
- AV 940.531835 DAN The Danish solution : the rescue of the Jews in Denmark
When the Final Solution was attempted in Denmark the plan was averted and over 95 percent of the country’s Jewish population survived the war. Examines how and why the Jews, helped by a massive citizen-driven action, escaped the Nazi’s blueprint for their extermination.
- AV 958.1 SEA Search for the Afghan girl
Photographer, Steve McCurry captured a picture of an Afghan refugee girl with haunting green eyes that would become a global symbol of wartime dignity, resilience, and survival. Since 1985 McCurry and National Geographic has been inudated with queries concerning the identity of anonymous girl. Follow the amazing story of how the National Geographic Explorer team searched for the mysterious girl with cutting-edge eye-scanning and face recognition technology to crack the ultimate “missing person” case.
- AV 972.94 EGA Égalité for all : Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian revolution
Explores the history of the Haitian Revolution through music, voodoo ritual, recreations, and the works of writers and historians.
- AV 973.91 HAT The cats of Mirikitani : make art not war
Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy’s painful past.
- AV B EIN Einstein revealed
Examines the life of Albert Einstein, following the path he took to become the world’s most renowned physicist, discusses the effects of his work on his personal life, and provides explanations and animations of his ideas and theories. Originally produced as an episode of the television program Nova in 1996.
- AV B PER Evita : the woman behind the myth
A History Channel production.
- AV F IRO Iron jawed angels
Dramatizes the story of activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns who played pivotal roles in the fight to win voting rights for women.
- AV F O “O”
O is Odin James, a star high school basketball player and NBA hopeful. Although the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, he is adored by all, including the team’s coach and the Dean’s beautiful daughter, Desi. Odin’s troubled friend Hugo, the coach’s son, is deeply resentful of his father’s preference for Odin on and off the court. When Hugo plots a diobolical scheme to sow the seed of mistrust between O and Desi, it sets in motion a disturbing chain of events which erupts into a firestorm of breathtaking intensity.
- AV F OCC An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
As a man accused of Civil War sabotage stands on the gallows in the moments before his death, his final thoughts and memories are revealed. From a story by Ambrose Bierce.