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Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 2598
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
(THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)
Series
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A feature documentary that examines three integral writers who over the past century wrote within the Christian Science Fiction genre. Through interviews with scholars and current writers, reenactments, archival materials and excerpts from their works, we explore a genre that has been counterculture since its beginning. They were outsiders within the larger Sci-Fi genre and they would face harsh criticism, dismissal, and even hostility from all sides...
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's life provides an overview of her life from birth to death. It discusses how she lived and worked, and her relationships with those who knew her. It also includes a visit to the places where Austen lived.
Jane Austen's society discusses the times during which Austen lived and wrote. It provides an overview of what life was like in England during the 18th century.
Jane Austen's works discusses the development of her six novels, using...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the discovery of the most expensive painting by Leonardo da Vinci ever sold, The Salvator Mundi, discussing the questions around its authenticity and how the hidden agendas and vested interests of art collectors and art institutions make finding the truth about it of secondary importance.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
What began as a broadcast performance of H.G. Wells' fantasy, The War of the Worlds, turned into one of the biggest mass hysteria events in U.S. history. American Experience examines the elements that together created this frenzy, including our longtime fascination with life on Mars; the emergence of radio as a powerful new medium; and the creative wunderkind Orson Welles, the twenty-three-year-old director of the drama and mischief-maker supreme....
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky (who created...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did seventeenth century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning ten years, his adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer...
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