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Digging for the Truth, Season 2, Troy: Of Gods And Warriors
directed by Brian Leckey, fl. 1997; produced by Eric Hoffman, JWM Productions, in Digging for the Truth, Season 2 (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2006), 44 mins
Digging for the Truth explores some of the world's greatest archaeological mysteries, from the Pyramids of Egypt to the Lost Ark of the Covenant, from the Holy Grail to King Solomon's Gold. Episode: Troy: Of Gods And Warriors*: The Iliad is one of the most famous literary works of the Western world. It's an epic t...
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directed by Brian Leckey, fl. 1997; produced by Eric Hoffman, JWM Productions, in Digging for the Truth, Season 2 (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2006), 44 mins
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Digging for the Truth explores some of the world's greatest archaeological mysteries, from the Pyramids of Egypt to the Lost Ark of the Covenant, from the Holy Grail to King Solomon's Gold. Episode: Troy: Of Gods And Warriors*: The Iliad is one of the most famous literary works of the Western world. It's an epic tale of Greek gods, earthly soldiers, and a decade-long fight over the most beautiful woman in the world. Could The Iliad actually be ba...
Digging for the Truth explores some of the world's greatest archaeological mysteries, from the Pyramids of Egypt to the Lost Ark of the Covenant, from the Holy Grail to King Solomon's Gold. Episode: Troy: Of Gods And Warriors*: The Iliad is one of the most famous literary works of the Western world. It's an epic tale of Greek gods, earthly soldiers, and a decade-long fight over the most beautiful woman in the world. Could The Iliad actually be based on fact?
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Josh Bernstein, 1971-, Eric Hoffman, JWM Productions
Author / Creator
Brian Leckey, fl. 1997
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
Digging for the Truth
Speaker / Narrator
Yasar Yildiz, Tufan Turanli, fl. 1975, Stephen V. Tracy, 1941-
Person Discussed
Yasar Yildiz, Tufan Turanli, fl. 1975, Stephen V. Tracy, 1941-, Homer
Topic / Theme
Exploration, Epic literature, Myths and legends, Recorded history, Ancient civilizations, Trojan War (12th or 11th century BCE)
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Evolution of Violence
directed by Fritz Ofner, 1977-; produced by Oliver Neumann, 1976-, FreibeuterFilm (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2011), 1 hour 20 mins
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Evolution of Violence asks how violence becomes interwoven into the fabric of a society. Profiles and interviews reveal how individual lives are shaped by ongoing atrocities. Journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed, former rebels mour...
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directed by Fritz Ofner, 1977-; produced by Oliver Neumann, 1976-, FreibeuterFilm (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2011), 1 hour 20 mins
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Evolution of Violence asks how violence becomes interwoven into the fabric of a society. Profiles and interviews reveal how individual lives are shaped by ongoing atrocities. Journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed, former rebels mourn their comrades, and a war criminal has nightmares about all the things he's done. While offering a profile of the ongoing violence in...
Evolution of Violence asks how violence becomes interwoven into the fabric of a society. Profiles and interviews reveal how individual lives are shaped by ongoing atrocities. Journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed, former rebels mourn their comrades, and a war criminal has nightmares about all the things he's done. While offering a profile of the ongoing violence in today's society, the film looks to historical events — told through the use of archival footage — from Guatemala's colonial history and place in the global banana trade, to the roots of its 36-year civil war, to try to understand how a culture of violence is created.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Fritz Ofner, 1977-, Oliver Neumann, 1976-, FreibeuterFilm
Author / Creator
Fritz Ofner, 1977-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996, War and Violence
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Great Big Story, The Original Code Talkers
produced by Great Big Story, in Great Big Story (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2017), 2 mins
It was fall of 1918. The Allied military’s tactical movements were jeopardized by the German military’s superior espionage capabilities. Not only were the Germans tapping Allied phone lines, they were able to crack the code. That’s when two Native American soldiers speaking Choctaw came in, and would ultimat...
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produced by Great Big Story, in Great Big Story (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2017), 2 mins
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It was fall of 1918. The Allied military’s tactical movements were jeopardized by the German military’s superior espionage capabilities. Not only were the Germans tapping Allied phone lines, they were able to crack the code. That’s when two Native American soldiers speaking Choctaw came in, and would ultimately help turn the tide of the war. After a chance encounter with an officer, they were charged with setting up a new kind of communicat...
It was fall of 1918. The Allied military’s tactical movements were jeopardized by the German military’s superior espionage capabilities. Not only were the Germans tapping Allied phone lines, they were able to crack the code. That’s when two Native American soldiers speaking Choctaw came in, and would ultimately help turn the tide of the war. After a chance encounter with an officer, they were charged with setting up a new kind of communications system, one that required ingenuity and made heroes out of an oppressed group of Native Americans.
This video is from the Frontiers collection of Great Big Stories.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
News story
Contributor
Great Big Story
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Cable News Network (CNN)
Series
Great Big Story
Topic / Theme
World War I, 1914-1918, War and Violence, Science and Technology, Choctaw, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2017 CNN Newsource Sales
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Great River
directed by Matt LeMay, fl. 2010; produced by Jennifer Wells LeMay, fl. 2010 and Matt LeMay, fl. 2010, LeMay Media (Pembroke, ON: LeMay Media, 2011), 45 mins
A team of world renowned rock art experts gathered together to investigate the defacing of a sacred First Nations rock art site that had been worshipped for 10,000 years. The film explores the history of the 150 years of cultural and social genocide perpetrated by the Canadian government towards First Nations peop...
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directed by Matt LeMay, fl. 2010; produced by Jennifer Wells LeMay, fl. 2010 and Matt LeMay, fl. 2010, LeMay Media (Pembroke, ON: LeMay Media, 2011), 45 mins
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A team of world renowned rock art experts gathered together to investigate the defacing of a sacred First Nations rock art site that had been worshipped for 10,000 years. The film explores the history of the 150 years of cultural and social genocide perpetrated by the Canadian government towards First Nations people living in Canada. "Great River" also examines the current Third World quality living conditions of many Canadian First Nations commu...
A team of world renowned rock art experts gathered together to investigate the defacing of a sacred First Nations rock art site that had been worshipped for 10,000 years. The film explores the history of the 150 years of cultural and social genocide perpetrated by the Canadian government towards First Nations people living in Canada. "Great River" also examines the current Third World quality living conditions of many Canadian First Nations communities. Specifically, it highlights the recent struggle between the Kitigan Zibi First Nation Reserve and the Canadian Museum of Civilization over the ancient ancestral remains of hundreds indigenous people found in Algonquin territory. Gripping, informative and politically charged, "Great River" is a story told by the voices of the Algonquin's of the Ottawa River Watershed.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jennifer Wells LeMay, fl. 2010, Matt LeMay, fl. 2010, LeMay Media
Author / Creator
Matt LeMay, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
LeMay Media
Speaker / Narrator
Matt LeMay, fl. 2010
Topic / Theme
Canadians, Algonquin, American Indians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Copyright © 2011 LeMay Media
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Hatred
directed by Mitzi Goldman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 1 hour 18 mins
This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker'...
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directed by Mitzi Goldman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 1 hour 18 mins
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This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first tim...
This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father's reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to New York the filmmaker found increasing tension between blacks and Jews. Calvin Butts, Pastor of the Abysinnian Baptist Church, talks about the history of discrimination faced by American blacks. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton feels that groups chose a designated victim to scapegoat in order to assert their own identity. Others interviewed are Michele Wallace, author; jazz musician Milt Hinton; Akbar Ahmed, academic and author; and Prof. Yehuda Bauer of Hebrew University. Traveling to Egypt and Israel, the filmmaker constantly asks people who and what they hate. In this explosive part of the world, no one ever admits to hating anyone. Yet their deeply felt passions of nationalism, religion and race belie this denial. The filmmaker concludes 'it is easier to hate another than to see hatred in yourself.' College Adult
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Mitzi Goldman
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Ethnic groups, Race and culture, Religion, Ethnic Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1997. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Hiroshima: Hidden Traces
directed by Marie Linton, fl. 2008 and Guilain Depardieu; produced by Docland Yard (Paris, Ile-de-France: Terranoa, 2015), 52 mins
70 years later, the Second World War still haunts the Japanese people. The younger generations seek to understand why both camps adopted such a hard line. They are shedding light on the past by conducting their own excavations, questioning witnesses and consulting photographs. They are finding new tunnels, new wre...
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directed by Marie Linton, fl. 2008 and Guilain Depardieu; produced by Docland Yard (Paris, Ile-de-France: Terranoa, 2015), 52 mins
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70 years later, the Second World War still haunts the Japanese people. The younger generations seek to understand why both camps adopted such a hard line. They are shedding light on the past by conducting their own excavations, questioning witnesses and consulting photographs. They are finding new tunnels, new wrecks and objects that belonged to soldiers and civilians. The film takes the form of a scientific investigation. In it, we invite you to...
70 years later, the Second World War still haunts the Japanese people. The younger generations seek to understand why both camps adopted such a hard line. They are shedding light on the past by conducting their own excavations, questioning witnesses and consulting photographs. They are finding new tunnels, new wrecks and objects that belonged to soldiers and civilians. The film takes the form of a scientific investigation. In it, we invite you to discover the hidden traces of this past conflict with the help of archaeologists who, seventy years later, are unearthing hidden remains.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Docland Yard
Author / Creator
Marie Linton, fl. 2008, Guilain Depardieu
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Terranoa
Topic / Theme
Weapons and ordnance, Atomic Bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, Japanese, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Icons, Episode 1 of 8, Leaders
directed by Peter Sweasey, fl. 1993; presented by Sir Trevor McDonald, 1939-; produced by Peter Sweasey, fl. 1993, Tamsin Curry, fl. 2009 and Bernadette Ross, fl. 2001, British Broadcasting Corporation, 72 Films and Open University, in Icons, Episode 1 of 8 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2019), 56 mins
Eight-part series exploring the achievements and legacies of some of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Seven well-known advocates each front an hour-long documentary arguing the case for four people from a different field of human endeavour - leaders, explorers, scientists, entertainers, sports stars, arti...
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directed by Peter Sweasey, fl. 1993; presented by Sir Trevor McDonald, 1939-; produced by Peter Sweasey, fl. 1993, Tamsin Curry, fl. 2009 and Bernadette Ross, fl. 2001, British Broadcasting Corporation, 72 Films and Open University, in Icons, Episode 1 of 8 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2019), 56 mins
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Eight-part series exploring the achievements and legacies of some of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Seven well-known advocates each front an hour-long documentary arguing the case for four people from a different field of human endeavour - leaders, explorers, scientists, entertainers, sports stars, artists and writers, and activists. At the end of each documentary the public vote for their favourite. The icon who wins the public vote i...
Eight-part series exploring the achievements and legacies of some of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Seven well-known advocates each front an hour-long documentary arguing the case for four people from a different field of human endeavour - leaders, explorers, scientists, entertainers, sports stars, artists and writers, and activists. At the end of each documentary the public vote for their favourite. The icon who wins the public vote in each category is put through to a live final, which sees all of the celebrity advocates return to fight their icon's case - the public then vote again for the person they believe was the greatest figure of the 20th century. The 20th century was a time of extraordinary change. One hundred years of progress which shaped not only the society of the day, but generations to come. A century of seismic shifts, that saw countless breakthroughs and innovations, which would impact our world in ways never seen before. Behind this progress were incredible individuals who chose to defy convention, and in doing so changed the world forever. The life's work of these icons represent benchmarks now set for humanity - from scientists whose discoveries changed the life of billions and redefined what we know about our world to the sports stars and explorers who pushed the boundaries of what humankind thought possible - their stories represent the pinnacle of society's achievements. The series begins with leaders, and sees a well-known figure, passionate about the subject, examining the achievements and legacies of the people whose decisions affect all our lives. 20th century leaders oversaw great victories, unimaginable hardships, sweeping social change, and the worst conflicts in human history.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Celia Sandys, fl. 2019, Nicki von der Heyde, fl. 2019, Caroline Slocock, fl. 2019, George Bizos, 1927-, Margaret MacMillan, 1943-, Tom Shakespeare, 1966-, Peter Sweasey, fl. 1993, Tamsin Curry, fl. 2009, Bernadette Ross, fl. 2001, British Broadcasting Corporation, 72 Films, Open University
Author / Creator
Peter Sweasey, fl. 1993, Sir Trevor McDonald, 1939-
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Icons
Person Discussed
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945, Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013, Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013
Topic / Theme
War, Economic depressions, Segregation, Boer War, 1899-1902, Stock Market Crash, October 29, 1929, Great Depression, 1929-1941, New Deal, 1933-1938, World War II, 1939-1945, World War I, 1914-1918, War and Violence, Political and Social Movements, French, British, Americans
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Idi Amin
produced by Jean Macfarlane, fl. 1985, Africa24 Media (Nairobi, Nairobi Area District: Africa24 Media, 2013), 29 mins
Idi Amin had an interesting social life that few Ugandans and the rest of the world knew about and those that interacted with this side of him, speak fondly about it.
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produced by Jean Macfarlane, fl. 1985, Africa24 Media (Nairobi, Nairobi Area District: Africa24 Media, 2013), 29 mins
Description
Idi Amin had an interesting social life that few Ugandans and the rest of the world knew about and those that interacted with this side of him, speak fondly about it.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jean Macfarlane, fl. 1985, Africa24 Media, Sam Madoka, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Africa24 Media
Speaker / Narrator
Sam Madoka, fl. 2013
Person Discussed
Idi Amin, 1925-2003
Topic / Theme
Heads of state, War and Violence, Ugandans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2013 Africa24 Media
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In Search of History, Samurai Warrior
produced by Thomas Fuchs, Filmroos Inc., in In Search of History (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 1997), 43 mins
In Search of History journeys 2,000 years from ancient times to the present, taking a closer look at the events, places, and hidden mysteries that have puzzled and inspired historians and experts across the ages. Episode: Samurai Warrior: The Samurai, a self-sacrificing warrior class of ancient Japan, developed a...
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produced by Thomas Fuchs, Filmroos Inc., in In Search of History (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 1997), 43 mins
Description
In Search of History journeys 2,000 years from ancient times to the present, taking a closer look at the events, places, and hidden mysteries that have puzzled and inspired historians and experts across the ages. Episode: Samurai Warrior: The Samurai, a self-sacrificing warrior class of ancient Japan, developed a code of behavior where honor took precedence over life itself.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Thomas Fuchs, Filmroos Inc., David Ackroyd, 1940-
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
In Search of History
Speaker / Narrator
Karl Friday, 1957-, David Ackroyd, 1940-
Person Discussed
Karl Friday, 1957-
Topic / Theme
Patriotism, Combat duty, Traditional history, Popular culture, Japanese people, Samurai, Japanese
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In Search of History, The Roman Legions
produced by Martin Gillam, fl. 1990, Filmroos Inc., in In Search of History (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 1997), 44 mins
In Search of History journeys 2,000 years from ancient times to the present, taking a closer look at the events, places, and hidden mysteries that have puzzled and inspired historians and experts across the ages. Episode: The Roman Legions: Their legions were legend as the Roman army marched across the known world...
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produced by Martin Gillam, fl. 1990, Filmroos Inc., in In Search of History (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 1997), 44 mins
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In Search of History journeys 2,000 years from ancient times to the present, taking a closer look at the events, places, and hidden mysteries that have puzzled and inspired historians and experts across the ages. Episode: The Roman Legions: Their legions were legend as the Roman army marched across the known world, trampling its enemies and securing one of history's largest empires.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Martin Gillam, fl. 1990, Filmroos Inc., David Ackroyd, 1940-
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
In Search of History
Speaker / Narrator
Colin Wells, 1933-2010, Ronald J. Mellor, 1940-, David Ackroyd, 1940-
Person Discussed
Colin Wells, 1933-2010, Ronald J. Mellor, 1940-, Arminius, 0018-0021, Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 27 BC-0014, Archimedes, of Syracuse, 287 BC-212 BC, Romulus
Topic / Theme
History, Soldiers, Empire, Romanian people, Ancient civilizations, Barbareno, Jews, Romans (ancient)
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