New Videos
Recently added to the library catalog
The videos are grouped by the department(s) I think would find them most useful, but any faculty member is welcome to check out any of these videos.
Faculty are invited to make suggestions for videos they would like to have added to the library catalog for the next school year.
English Language Arts
Listening is an Act of Love
The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening. Presents stories from ten years of the innovative oral history project, where everyday people sit down together to ask life's important questions and share stories from their lives.
Louder than a Bomb
Follows the fortunes of four Chicago-area high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world's largest youth poetry slam.
Zora's Roots: the life of Zora Neale Hurston
This program examines the life of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. This documentary tells her story through the people who knew her and the places and events that she brought to the world through her writing.
Perks of Being a Wallflower
A high school freshman, always watching from the sidelines, is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world. Includes extras and is based on the book by the same name. The author also wrote the screenplay.
Speak
Speak unfolds a story about Melinda, a smart and spirited high school freshman who retreats into self-imposed silence after she is raped one night at a party. Based on the Laurie Halse Anderson's classic young adult novel by the same name.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A new copy of the academy award winner based on the book by the same name.
History
JFK: Like no other
From PBS and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an administration long on promise and vigor, and somewhat lacking in tangible accomplishment.
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs.
Freakonomics the movie
The film version of the bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies.
Inside Job
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.
Lincoln @ Gettysburg: how the telegraph helped Lincoln to reshape America
Braids together the stories behind Lincoln's appearance at Gettysburg, his speech that day, and its dissemination to explore Lincoln's roles as military commander, chief executive, and minister to a wounded and grieving people.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Third Reich uncovers unfamiliar anecdotes and fascinating details about the Nazi Party, and raids the treasure trove of archives the Nazis left behind, including rarely seen German newsreel recordings along with other unique footage carried home by Russian troops.
Math and Science
Between the folds : a film about finding inspiration in unexpected places.
This award-winning documentary follows a group of celebrated artists and theoretical scientists whose decision to leave their fields for a career in the art of Origami have earned them no small amount of derision from their peers. AMAZING origami--great for geometry and art classes.
Modern marvels: renewable energy
Discover how air, water, earth, and fire are transformed into clean, reliable sources of heat, electricity, and even automobile fuel, and take an in-depth look at solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel, and tidal power.
Visual and Performing Arts
Helvetica
Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces and the type that inhabits them, Helvetica invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
Latin Music USA
Latin music USA highlights the great American music created by Latinos, and celebrates the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. It's a fresh take on American musical history, reaching across five decades to portray the rich mix of sounds created by Latinos and embraced by all.
The Life and TImes of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo transformed her life by painting herself and by making her own life a work of art. Combining photos, archival films and interviews, the films grasps the complete story o fKahlo's life in all its dimensions, a mix of artistic discovery, physical challenge, and political activism, with Kahlo's artwork making a strong case for her lasting artistic importance.