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School's First Day of School

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It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will teh children do once they come?

Author: 
Adam Rex
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:10
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They All Saw a Cat

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The cat walked through the world, with its wiskers, ears, and paws...In this glorious celebration of observation, curiosity, and imagination, we see the many lives of one cat, and how perspective s

Author: 
Brendan Wenzel
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:06
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George Washington's Mother

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This is the true story of Mary Washington. When she wasn't worring about being poor, she was poking her nose in George's business, baking gingerbread, and smoking a pipe.

Author: 
Jean Fritz
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:20
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The Eugenics Crusade: What's Wrong With Perfect? (2018)

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A hybrid derived from the Greek words meaning "well" and "born," the term eugenics was coined in 1883 by Sir Francis Galton, a British cousin to Charles Darwin, to name a new "science" through which human beings might take charge of their own evolution.

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Middle
High
Length: 
2:00
The Eugenics Crusade: What's Wrong With Perfect?

Native America (2018)

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Native America challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000 years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
03:40
Native America

My Fair Lady

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In this beloved adaptation of the Broadway stage hit, Hepburn plays a sassy, working-class London street vendor, whom an arrogant professor (Rex Harrison) attempts to turn into a sophisticated lady through proper schooling. But, when the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London's elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself. Hepburn's performance, style, and sweet spirit have made My Fair Lady a timeless classic.

Director: 
George Cukor
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
02:54
My Fair Lady

Welcome to Unity

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Imagine how crazy things may get when you put seven exchange students, including two kids from Muslim backgrounds, into a Christian home in rural America…. WELCOME TO UNITY is a story literally filmed by a group of exchange students and local American teens. These exchange students sink their teeth into rural Oregon, while becoming the stars of their high school football team, and simultaneously learn to live the “American Way.” A lighthearted, teen angst film that voyeuristically illustrates that adolescence is a universal experience.

Director: 
Kathrine Mahalic
Grade Level: 
High
Professional
Length: 
01:34
Welcome to Unity

The 46ers: Can You Hear Them Calling? (2017)

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The 46ers is a one-hour documentary feature about the men and women who hike all 46 High Peaks (the peaks over 4,000 feet in elevation) in the Adirondack Mounts of upstate New York.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
0:55
The 46ers: Can You Hear Them Calling?

Erie: The Canal That Made America (2017)

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The Erie Canal, one of the earliest transcendent tales of the American experience, became the nation's first great technical innovation and a gateway to prominence.
This documentary by the Syracuse PBS station, WCNY Connected, marks the bicentennial of the start of construction of the Erie Canal.

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0:55
Erie: The Canal That Made America

The War I Finally Won

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When Ada’s clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she’s not what her mother said she was—damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. She’s not a daughter anymore, either. Who is she now?

World War II rages on, and Ada and her brother, Jamie, move with their guardian, Susan, into a cottage with the iron-faced Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth moves in. Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Germany. A German? Could Ruth be a spy?

Author: 
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Lexile: 
HL520L
The War I Finally Won

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