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Mythos III: The Shaping of the Western Tradition (2011)

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"[Western myths] represented something that is typical to Europe and nowhere else, and that is respect for the individual and the individual path, the individual way." - Joseph Campbell

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

04:45

Mythos III: The Shaping of the Western Tradition

The Persuaders (2004)

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FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. To cut through mass-media clutter and to overcome consumers' growing resistance to their pitches, marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:30

Essential Art House Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw was once quoted as humorously saying, "Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed." Yet his Pygmalion has lived on. His play, indeed, is better known to contemporary readers than the Greek myth (about a sculptor who falls in love with one of his statues) from which it derives its title. Shaw's rag-to-riches comedy made the leap from stage to screen in 1938, but it wasn't a smooth transition.

Director:

Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard

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Middle

High

Length:

01:30

Freedom Riders (2011)

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In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, remained indifferent, preoccupied with matters abroad.

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Middle

High

Length:

02:00

Nine From Little Rock (2005)

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The heroism of nine students in Little Rock, Arkansas
Pioneers of desegregation

Nine From Little Rock chronicles the Arkansas school integration crisis and the changes wrought in subsequent years.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:19

Shakespeare The Animated Tales: Volume I

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The Tempest

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:15

Shakespeare The Animated Tales: Volume II

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Hamlet

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:15

Shakespeare The Animated Tales: Volume III

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Romeo & Juliet

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:15

Shakespeare The Animated Tales: Volume IV

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Macbeth

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:15

Mark Twain (2001)

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Samuel Clemens rose from a hardscrabble boyhood in the backwoods of Missouri to become Mark Twain, America's best-known and best-loved author. Considered in his time as the funniest man on earth, Twain was also an unflinching critic of human nature who used his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed and racism.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

04:00

My Side of the Mountain

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My Side of the Mountain, based on the book by Jean George, is the unique adventure of thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley. Sam's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau, so Sam writes a note for his folks, packs up and leaves home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature - miles from civilization.

Director:

James B. Clark

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

01:40

Eleven: A Mystery

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Sam is almost 11 when he discovers a locked box in the attic above his grandfather Mack's room, and a piece of paper that says he was kidnapped. There are lots of other words, but Sam has always had trouble reading. He's desperate to find out who he is, and if his beloved Mack is really his grandfather. At night he's haunted by dreams of a big castle and a terrifying escape on a boat.

Author:

Patricia Reilly Giff

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

600L

Length:

03:21

Dragonwings

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Moon Shadow is eight when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco’s Chinatown and works in a laundry. Moon Shadow has never seen him.

Moon Shadow soon loves and respects this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. With Moon Shadows help, Windrider is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and longing for his own country to make his dream come true.