FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Social Science

VH 2866 Across The Tracks-Vlach Gypsies In Hungary
Summary: Set in a village outside the Hungarian town of Gyongyos, this program follows two Gypsy families struggling to maintain their traditions in a modern communist state. Despite the romantic image, Gypsy life is harsh and often brutal. The Gypsies live in semi-slums, and they are forced by law to work, often for very low wages. 052 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: DISAPPEARING WORLD

VH 2402 Adult Conflict Resolution
Summary: Shows three typical conflict resolution situations: an interpersonal conflict involving two teachers; a conflict involving different power levels--principal and teacher; and an intergroup conflict between two groups of teachers. 040 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, COMMUNICATION

VH 5216 Advertising Missionaries
Summary: In Papua New Guinea where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising medium, the market is being developed by other means. 052 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ANTHROPOLOGY, MARKETING

VH 4867 Affirmative Action Debate
Summary: Mr. D'Souza and Mr. Wu debated the merits and drawbacks of affirmative action as a government initiative. Each participant gave an opening statement and then had a chance to rebut each other. 105 Min. VIDEO 1998

VH 2884 Africa: Continent of Contrasts
Summary: The world's second largest continent offers a wide variety of landscapes, and people have adapted to them in as many different ways. From ancient civilizations to the last big game herds, there is a lot to see in Africa. 035 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 8357 Against My Will
Summary: Investigates violence against women in Pakistan, where concepts of family honor and the status of women as property perpetuate the practice of "honor killing", the murder of women by male relatives for behavior deemed socially or m orally unacceptable. One of the women interviewed at the Dastak women's shelter in Lohore, Kubra, is murdered three weeks after she returns to her family. Directed by Ayfer Ergun. 050 Min. VIDEO 2002

VH 1270 Ageless America
Summary: Focuses on the process and prospects of aging for the generation of 76 million middle-aged baby bloomers in the United States. 052 Min. VIDEO 1987

VH 1294 All About Aging
Summary: Gives the consumer a basic overview of the services available to older adults outside the hospital. 025 Min. VIDEO 1989

VH 2089 American Prison, The: A Video History
Summary: Mixing rare, archival stills with contemporary documentary footage, this 30-minute videotape traces the history of prisons from medieval times to the present. 025 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY

VH 7130 Amish And Us, The
Summary: An offbeat and sometimes amusing look at the growing commerce between the traditional Amish of Lancaster County, PA and the millions of tourists who visit them every year. Examines the effect of suburban sprawl on Amish farming and the increasing reliance by the Amish on craft and construction businesses for their livelihood. 057 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: ECONOMICS

VH 1658 Amish, The: A Family Legacy
Summary: The Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania have provided geneticists with a rare opportunity. Join specialists in examining the consequences of such inbreeding including abnormal susceptibility to rare & recessive diseases & the extent to which environmental factors can contribute to the disease characteristics of a population. 025 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, BIOLOGY Series: GENETICS

VH 6408 Arab Americans
Summary: Discusses the heritage of Arab Americans by tracing the history of their emigration to North America, showing the unique traditions they brought with them, and who they are today. Includes an inside look at the life of a family who share their memories and struggles to maintain their cultural identity. 027 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: MULTICULTURAL PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA

VH 1901 Art of Living, The
Summary: In tribal culture, views of life and death are traditionally expressed in everyday dances, clothes, sculptures, paintings, etc. Travel to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon people of Mali to witness the ways they celebrate life and death with acts of beauty and grace. Meet a North American artist who shows us his way of connecting his art to meaning of life and death. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ART Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 6817 At the Autumn River Camp, Pt. 1
Summary: Reveals the live reality of traditional Eskimo life before the European acculturation. In this segment, it is late autumn. Snow covers the Arctic ground. The Eskimo families move back to the river valley to build karmaks--shelters with snow walls and roofs of skins. Film without words. 027 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: NETSILK ESKIMOS SERIES

VH 6818 At the Autumn River Camp, Pt. 2
Summary: In this segment, the family moves once again, this time into an igloo built by men. A sleigh is constructed from skins, frozen fish and caribou antlers. When ready, it is loaded and the family heads down the river to the coast. The construction by the Netsilks of an igloo and a skin sled are shown step by step. Film without words. 033 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: NETSILIK ESKIMO SERIES

VH 1906 At the Threshold
Summary: Return with host David Maybury-Lewis to the Xavante tribe in the jungles of Brazil, the Navajo of the American Southwest, and elsewhere to review the primary wisdoms that tribal people offer to our modernized world. Then travel to central France to explore the most perplexing dilemmas of the Western world--heart versus mind, body versus soul, the desires of the individual versus the needs of society. The program examines several tribal cultures and reflects on how they have kept a firm sense of belonging and being at home, wherever they find themselves. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 2484 Bathing Beauties in Three Cultures
Summary: A comparative series showing the interplay between mother and child in three different settings - bathing in the Sepik River in New Guinea, in a modern American bathroom, and in a mountain village of Bali. 022 Min. VIDEO 1952 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 6072 Beyond the Mirage: The Cult Phenomenon
Summary: This program introduces us to two former cult members who explain why they joined, the experience they had, and why they eventually broke away. Linda James, a psychologist, and Michael Kropveld, director of Info-cult, contribute their professional expertise in explaining cultic thinking, the techniques of coercion and understanding the cult experience. 022 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 5883 Biculturalism and Acculturation Among Latinos
Summary: Explores the cultural identity among Latino Americans who are pursuing a biculturalism that will offer the Latino community "the best of both worlds." The film addresses the question: What of the Latino cultural heritage should be retained and what abandoned as they assimilate into mainstream American culture. 028 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 0154 Biology & Crime
Summary: Discusses whether or not criminal behavior is inherited. 1. Criminal anthropology. 2. Sociobiology. 3.Heredity, Human. 4. Man--Influence of environment. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 2724 Biology Concepts: Evidence of Evolution
Summary: Before nineteenth century, scientists believed that organisms existed as they did when they first appeared on earth, the discovery of fossils, remains of organisms long extinct, made these scientists reconsider their beliefs. The evidence for evolution which supports the concept of change includes: fossils, homologous structures, vestigial structures, embryology, and most recently comparison of the biochemistry of genes and chromosomes. 033 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 8107 Black English As An American Dialect
Summary: Professor of Lingustics at Stanford University, John Rickford, presents a clarification of the issues surrounding "ebonics", and the controversy which currently surrounds language in general. 030 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 3288 Britain's Parliament at Work: Order, Order!
Summary: Here is a guided tour of the Parliament which has served as the model for legislatures all over the world, including, of course, the U.S. and Canada. The program demonstrates step by step how a Government proposal becomes the law of the land; it explains how Members of Parliament perform their function as " watch dogs of the people" and why they never address one another by name. Because of Parliament's traditions and pageantry, the program is colorful and fascinating as well as intellectually stimulating and important. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 3817 Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain: A Closer Look...
Summary: Hugh Downs hosts a discussion between the Shoshone Indians of western Nevada and the United States Government. This is a follow up to the documentary, "Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain." 030 Min. VIDEO 1975 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN, ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0436 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Summary: Documents the Great Depression, focusing on its human side as well as on national and international political repercussions. Shows how events prepared the way for Nazism, Japanese expansionism, and the altered role of government in the United States. Includes archival film footage. 020 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ECONOMICS, U.S. HISTORY

VH 3278 Buddha in the Land of the Kami (7th-12th Centuries)
Summary: This program begins with the creation myth of Japan and explains the origin and scope of the kami concept; explains the arrival of Buddhism and how Buddhism and the kami were assimilated; discusses the role of Chinese culture, style and writing in Japanese culture; and demonstrates how the Japanese garden epitomized the Japanese view of the relationship between man and nature, space, time, and reality. 053 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ASIAN STUDIES Series: JAPAN PAST AND PRESENT

VH 7767 Burning an Illusion
Summary: A young West Indian woman living in London struggles for freedom and dignity among the cycles of poverty and violence in her life. The false arrest and merciless beating of her boyfriend by police forces a turning point in both their lives. While in prison, he ask her to bring him books on Black history, which she reads first. As she becomes more politically aware, their relationship changes and she begins to question her middle class aspirations and attitudes. She begins shedding her old biases to reclaim her African heritage. 103 Min. VIDEO 1981

VH 3286 Can We Govern? Part 1
Summary: This program with Bill Moyers examines both the disenchantment of American voters and the frustrations of members of Congress as they try to work within the system. Voters say they have heard too many promises, and have seen too few results; politicians say that a sensational press and uninformed voters make it hard to govern. The program features five politicians (former Senator Warren Rudman and representative Barney Frank, Dave Obey, Susan Molinari, and Ileana Ross-Lehtinen) and their responses to the exasperation of the American people. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Series: MOYERS COLLECTION, THE: LISTENING TO AMERICA

VH 3287 Can We Govern? Part 2
Summary: This program with Bill Moyers explores the uses and abuses of political language and how the democratic conversation has been frustrated and trivialized by the new jargon of politics. Appearing in the program are Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication; noted media commentator Edwin Diamond; E. J. Dionne, author of WHY AMERICANS HATE POLITICS; and U.S. representatives Barney Frank, Dave Obey, Susan Molinari, and Ileana Ross-Lehtinen . 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Series: MOYERS COLLECTION, THE: LISTENING TO AMERICA

VH 2528 Capital of Earth: Maroons of Moore Town
Summary: This historical documentary, filmed in Jamaica, focuses on the Maroons, direct descendants of escaped African slaves who formed rebel communities in the Blue Mountains. Illustrates aspects of their unique West African heritage that are now at odds with modern social and economic change. Jefferson Miller and Kenneth Bilby. 040 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, CARIBBEAN STUDIES

VH 5114 Case Studies of Political Opinions Passed Off as Science and
Summary: Serge Lang discusses his battle against what he sees as quantitative verbiage used by some people in the social sciences in the process of passing off political opinion as science. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: MATHEMATICS Series: AMS-MAA JOINT LECTURE SERIES

VH 8129 Caught in the Crossfire: Arab Americans in Wartime
Summary: Before September 11, New York City's Arab population was one among many immigrant groups making their way in the city -- politically diverse, Muslim, Christian and fundamentalist, wealthy and working class, struggling and successful. Now Arab-Americans are caught in the crossfire of President Bush's War on Terrorism, and are finding out how cold the welcome can be when you belong to the wrong immigrant group at the wrong time. This video examines the lives of three Arab Americans, a police officer, a Christian pastor, and a journalist (Raghida Dergham), in New York City in the months since the terrorist attacks of September, 2001. 057 Min. VIDEO 2002

VH 2383 Changing Family Roles
Summary: This episode examines how changes in life expectancy and family structure are affecting the older generation. Also examined is the issue of grandparent's rights--one of the most hotly debated issues in the legal system today. 030 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: COMING OF AGE, THE

VH 0817 Check It Out-PBS
Summary: Provides viewers with a sample of the programs available on videocassette from PBS by presenting brief segments from approximately 45 PBS programs in the areas of the humanities, health care, history and social issues, "how to, " human relations and psychology, and science. 038 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

VH 0983 Chicago Politics (A Theater of Power)
Summary: Retrospective television news coverage of Chicago "reveling in its favorite vice: Politics." 087 Min. VIDEO 1987

VH 3081 Chief in Two Worlds, A
Summary: Documentary that focuses on a Samoan resident of Los Angeles and follows him and his family on a trip to Western Samoa, where he goes through a formal bestowal ceremony and becomes of a member of the traditional Samoan chieftainship of the matai system. Offers the viewer a vivid profile of a man coming to terms with two different cultural traditions and the role of traditional cultural and political structures in new transnational contexts. 052 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 7763 Childhood Betrayal: A Film
Summary: Story of an 11 year old girl forced to work as a domestic. The film denounces the living conditions of young girls in Chad in a delicate yet powerful way. 029 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 2486 Childhood Rivalry in Bali and New Guinea
Summary: Contrasts the way a Balinese mother handles sibling rivalry by theatrically teasing her child through conspicuous attention to other babies, and how an Iatmul mother in New Guinea, even when nursing a newborn infant, makes every effort to keep her child from feeling jealous. Includes the ear piercing of a younger sibling, and the experimental presentation of a doll. 017 Min. VIDEO 1952 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0752 Chile: Hasta Cuando?
Summary: Expose of Pinochet's regime of terror in Chile, including interviews with people who have been terrorized by the government. Describes how student protestors have been tortured and killed by government police. 057 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN

VH 7065 Chimps Are Us
Summary: A five part program focusing on chimpanzees. It opens with an interview with zoologist Jane Goodall about her remarkable life among the chimps and then visits a chimpanzee sanctuary where psychologist David Bjorklund is investigating how young chimps learn. 057 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 2271 China Reports--A Window to China
Summary: The video magazine program produced by China Central Television, the only national TV station in China. This is the first issue. 021 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES

VH 4352 Chinampas
Summary: Documentary on how the chinampa zone, an ecologically sustainable system of agriculture located on the southern edge of Mexico City has survived for some 2, 000 years. Uses graphics, live action, and commentary by chinampa farmers to explain how the system works. 032 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 6372 Chronicle of a Savanna Marriage
Summary: A unique view of the life and culture of the Masai people in Africa. Follows the life of a young woman in the Masai culture of southern Kenya. Considers puberty rites as well as female circumcision and polygamy. 056 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: AWARD WINNING FILMS AND VIDEOS

VH 0978 Cities: Living in a Machine
Summary: Explores the problems facing society in building the cities of tomorrow. Not only must the environment be saved, but the city has to be designed to serve man. A model of a future city is shown as is the city of Brasilia and the problems it has in surviving today. Discusses the philosophy of designer-philosopher, Dr. Appleton Spilhaus. 018 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: ENVIRONMENT

VH 4354 City of the Gods
Summary: 50 miles north of modern Mexico City stands the ancient site of Teotihuacan. Built more than 2, 000 years ago, the city's colossal pyramids of the sun and moon are the largest pre-Columbian monuments in the New World. But who built and lived in this metropolis held sacred by the later Aztecs, and what are we to make of the recently discovered remains of 200 bound and sacrificed prisoners of war? Today, archaeologists believe that this ancient site may have been a seat of a violent militaristic cult whose rampages were determined by the position of the planet Venus. 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 3076 Classics of Political Television Advertising
Summary: Hosted by Eugene Joseph McCarthy, this video program contains 78 political advertisements. The spots run the gamut from the first ones in 1950 to the "generic" spots in the 1984 elections. 060 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY

VH 2580 Clearing in The Jungle, A
Summary: The Panare live in a jungle clearing in Venezuela and deliberately reject outsiders in order to maintain their unique way of life. They have no hierarchy and no system of laws and punishments-the Panare are held together by ties of kinship and only accept changes that benefit the whole society. Anthropologist: Jean-Paul Dumont. 039 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: DISAPPEARING WORLD

VH 1527 Comfortable Lies, Bitter Truth
Summary: Four videocassettes, 1527-1530, 58 min. each. Each episode tells the Soviet story through the eyes of its people, exposing the tensions that erupt when pressures for modernization clash with centuries of Russian tradition and a political apparatus trying to cling to power. 058 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY Series: INSIDE GORBACHEV'S USSR

VH 1528 Coming Apart
Summary: Depicts the evolution of nationalism in the Soviet republics and the conflicts between ethnic groups which threaten Gorbachev's authority and the survival of a united Soviet system. 058 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY Series: INSIDE GORBACHEV'S USSR

VH 3277 Coming of the Barbarians (1560 - 1650), The
Summary: In 1540, Portuguese navigators and Jesuit priests landed in a Japan of shoguns and samurai, where the arts of warfare had been refined to hitherto unknown heights of cruelty. Although Westernisms quickly became the rage in Japan, the Japanese soon recognized the long arm of colonialism. Christian priests and converts were persecuted and martyred and, in 1650, Japan shut tight its doors to the outside. 053 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: JAPAN PAST AND PRESENT

VH 8414 Connecting Boundaries: Addictions
Summary: Addictions examines addictions from a holistic context. The goal of the module is to expand the parameters of addiction studies to include physiological, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual explanations for addictive behavior. 029 Min. VIDEO 2003

VH 8415 Connecting Boundaries: Criminal Justice
Summary: Criminal justice is included because a significant number of persons seen by human service workers also have had encounters with the criminal justice system. 029 Min. VIDEO 2003

VH 8413 Connecting Boundaries: Human Growth and Development
Summary: Human growth and development identifies ways to help others in spite of the origins of the problem to determine the costs of change and remaining the same. 029 Min. VIDEO 2003

VH 8412 Connecting Boundaries: Social Work
Summary: Focuses on the theory that recovery from poverty and/or physical, psychological or spiritual illness requires a holistic approach, and how, if a social services professional is to successfully identify and engage the client in a process that can lead to healing and wholeness, they must focus on, and treat the intellectual, emotional, and physical, environmental and spiritual realms. 114 Min. VIDEO 2003

VH 3290 Conservatives, The
Summary: This program follows the rise of the Conservative movement in America from the 1940's to the height of the Reagan era, including: the Hiss-Chambers case; the organization of three Conservative think tanks; the birth of the Goldwater candidacy; the development of Conservative power within the Republican Party; and conflict between Conservatives in the GOP and the "Eastern Establishment"; the ideological evolution of Ronald Reagan; the birth of Neo-Conservatism; Watergate; the emergence of the New Right; and the influence of supply side economics. 088 Min. VIDEO 1993

VH 0810 Consuming Images
Summary: Examines the impact on democracy of our mass culture whose basic information comes from image-making, the media, public opinion polls, public relations and propaganda. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: PUBLIC MIND, THE - BILL MOYERS

VH 3282 Conversations with Gorbachev
Summary: This program offers the only in depth interview with Mikhail Gorbachev since he was removed as leader of the former Soviet Union. Leading Russian scholar and Princeton University professor Stephen Gohen's conversations with Gorbachev range widely from Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet system and developments under his leadership to the breakup of the Soviet Union and events in Russia since 1991. Many subjects are explored, including Gorbachev's own biography, the nature of his reforms, his role in ending the Cold War, and his assessments of Boris Yeltsin's leadership, and the U.S. / Russian relations since 1991. 090 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 0992 Copan
Summary: Documents theories and procedures of an excavation in the Copan valley of Honduras, the site of a major urban center of Mayan civilization. Presents analysis of the decline of the Mayan society and implications for the future. 015 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: EARLY CIVILIZATION, ANTHROPOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 2650 Corporation with a Movie Camera
Summary: A compilation of old U.S. corporate promotional and advertising films dating from the 1920's designed to illustrate how perceptions of Third World Countries are shaped by the modern media. It interweaves excerpts from corporate sponsored films with literary texts, poetry and dramatic segments to show how public relations media functions in the creation of cultural mythology. 034 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0745 Costa Rica: Child in the Wind
Summary: Explores the issue of Costa Rica's neutrality in the face of its dependence on U.S. aid. Examines the history of Costa Rica and the reasons it has been able to exist as a neutral country committed to social welfare and free elections. 058 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN

VH 0750 Courage Along the Divide
Summary: On location examination of the political and social situation of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine. 080 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: MIDDLE EAST

VH 6380 Covering Cuba
Summary: Examines the realities of living in Cuba before and after the revolution, as contrasted with the vastly different portrayal of Cuba and Fidel Castro in the United States media. Includes pre-revolutionary photographs, film footage, and interviews with Cuban Americans who lived in Cuba before, during, and after the 1959 communist revolution. 114 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN

VH 2382 Creativity and Aging
Summary: This episode focuses on seniors who are filling their years with new and creative learning endeavors, and explores the avenues that senior use to stay mentally active, from Elder hostel programs to recreational activities. 030 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: COMING OF AGE, THE

VH 3568 Crime and Terrorism
Summary: This program explores the role of crime in this century, and examines the history of terrorism in the Middle East and Northern Ireland. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, MIDDLE EAST Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VH 0751 Cuba: In The Shadow of Doubt
Summary: Describes U.S. and Cuban relations from the Spanish-American War to 1986. Fidel Castro, American officials, and Cubans discuss everyday government. 058 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN STUDIES

VH 2732 Czechoslovakia
Summary: In this fairyland of medieval castle and architectural treasures, East meets West to weave a fascinating cultural tapestry. Uncover the valiant history that lies behind Czechoslovakia's struggle for democracy, tour the capital city of Prague and with its historic Old Town Square, the Prague Castle, and the St. Vitus Cathedral. 055 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: GEOGRAPHY, EUROPEAN STUDIES, ARCHITECTURE

VH 6387 Dance and Trance of Balinese Children
Summary: Documentary on the role of dance and trance in Balinese culture, with special attention to children's learning and participation. A personal perspective is provided by I. Gusti Agung Ngurah Supartha, a master dancer and teacher. 045 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DANCE, ANTHROPOLOGY Series: AWARD WINNING FILMS AND VIDEOS

VH 3208 Dance to Souls Departed, The: Return to Wounded Knee
Summary: On December 15, 1890 the legendary Indian Chief Sitting Bull was killed amidst fears of an Indian uprising. Panic swept through the reservation upon news of Sitting Bull's death, prompting hundreds of Sioux to flee to Wounded Knee creek. There, over 300 Sioux died at the hands of the United States 7th Cavalry during a frenzied eruption of violence surrounded by heightened tensions on both sides. 060 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 2664 Dead Men Talk
Summary: The objective of this video is to familiarize students with two models explaining the origins of modern human people. The two theories are presented by the researchers themselves and the video presents current evidence from the disciplines of paleontology and genetics that supports or conflicts with each of the theories. 050 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0163 Deadly Force
Summary: Discusses the situations in which a police officer may have to use a weapon. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 8241 Dealing with Diversity
Summary: The topic of this segment is the concept of race. It is examined from a scientific and cultural perspective. Discusses the various meanings and definition of race and the fears some people experience when dealing with different ethnic groups. Also looks at the classifications of race and the Racism Quotient Questionnaire with comments from scholars. 059 Min. VIDEO 1993

VH 0151 Death Penalty
Summary: Discussion of the death penalty. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0990 Decoding Danebury
Summary: Looks at a new breed of archaeologist who used the latest sophisticated research tools to provide a picture of Celtic society at the Danebury site in Hampshire, England. 050 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: EARLY CIVILIZATION, ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0989 Demircihuyuk
Summary: Details the German Archaeological Institute's excavation of an Early Bronze Age settlement, located on Turkey's Anatolien Plateau. Shows the methodology of the grid system (shown on-site and as a model), removal and cleaning of artifacts, and examination and analysis of plant and animal remains. Current life in a neighboring village is examined and compared to prehistoric life. 035 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: DISAPPEARING WORLD

VH 3059 Didn't We Ramble On - The Black Marching Band
Summary: Traces the evolution of the black marching band from fourteenth century West Africa to present-day bands. Narrated by Dizzy Gillespie, this film features performances of a West African processional, New Orleans jazz funeral, and the Florida A&M Marching Band along with archival music and stills. 014 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 0166 Domestic Violence
Summary: Examines the dangers to police officers that stem from investigating common domestic arguments. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 8013 Domestic Violence, Tape 1
Summary: As extensive documentary on domestic violence filmed in Tampa, Florida. Shows the police responding to domestic violence calls and the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. Sequences with the police include police response, intervention and attempted resolution. 196 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 8014 Domestic Violence, Tape 2
Summary: An extensive documentary on domestic violence filmed in Tampa, Florida. Shows the police responding to domestic violence calls and the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. 196 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 0174 Drinking & Crime
Summary: Discusses the correlation between alcohol consumption and crime. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0156 Drug Testing
Summary: Discusses drug testing as a means of determining which prisoners should be released while awaiting trial. 028 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE II

VH 0178 Drug Trafficking
Summary: Discusses strategies used by the government and local law enforcement agencies to control drug trafficking. Focuses on Operation Pressure Point on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 028 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE II

VH 2266 Drugs and AIDS
Summary: AIDS Awareness video. 010 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 0093 Eckankar
Summary: The 1986 ECKANKAR Youth Conference-Phoenix, Arizona. 053 Min. VIDEO 1986

VH 1900 Ecology of Mind, An
Summary: Tribal cultures seek harmony with nature and Western societies try to control it. Visit the Gabra of northern Kenya, whose unique relationship to their harsh environment is the key to their survival; the Makuna of Colombia, whose complex myths and rituals reveal to us a sophisticated ecological awareness; and a modern gardener who resists the Western world's control of nature with a new attitude about sowing Earth's garden. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 5686 End of the Nightstick, The
Summary: Details allegations of police brutality in Chicago, and follows community protests against police commander Jon Burge. 044 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 2579 Eskimos of Pond Inlet, The
Summary: The Inuits (Eskimos) of Pond Inlet, a new village built by the Canadian government on Baffin Island, talk about their lives, their land, and the changes forced upon them by the encroaching culture of the "powerful and frightening" whites, who hire them as laborers and place their children in government schools. Anthropologist: Hugh Brody. 051 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: DISAPPEARING WORLD

VH 3276 Essence of Being Japanese
Summary: Japan in the modern age, a people existing between the protection of the kami and the geological dangers of earthquake. The program covers the cataclysmic events of the 20th century - the devastating earthquake of 1923, the rise of militarism, the accession of Emperor Hirohito, the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, the Pacific War, Hiroshima, and the American occupation of Japan, but its primary focus is on what makes Japan Japanese: the Shinto rituals which are part of modern mercantile life; such societal traits as conformism, determination, attitudes toward violence and brutality, business ethics and the life of the salary man, the attitude toward ethics, the role of the kami in modern Japan. 053 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: JAPAN PAST AND PRESENT

VH 3155 Ethics and Public Policy
Summary: 1. The Nature of Rights: Competing Conceptions, 2. When Values Conflict, 3. On Liberty: Political Censorship, 4. On Liberty: Censoring the Offensive. 167 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 3156 Ethics and Public Policy
Summary: 5. On Liberty: Are Medical Issues Special?, 6. Racial Equality: The American Dilemma, 7. Are All Persons Created Equal?, 8. The Matter of Gender. 165 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 0396 Evolution and Human Equality
Summary: Using paleontology, evolutionary biology, genetics, history of science and social history as his tools, Gould tells the story of how racial differences have been misunderstood by scientists, past and present, to justify oppression, exploitation and persecution. He describes how new genetic research methods confirm the African origins of Homo sapiens and the biological equality of the races. 042 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, BIOLOGY

VH 2482 Evolution: Human Origins-A Walk Through Time
Summary: The evolutionary development of such human anatomical traits as bipedalism and the opposable thumb are traced through a new approach involving electromyography. The program shows skull comparisons between chimps, humans, and a variety of hominoids, including Lucy, an example of Australopithecus afarensis. 030 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0162 Exclusionary Rule
Summary: Discussion and interpretation of the exclusionary rule: improperly obtained evidence, unreasonable search, and the 4th Amendment. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 3756 Execution at Midnight
Summary: Since the U.S. Resumed the death penalty in 1977, over 3, 000 people in 36 states have been sentenced to death. "EXECUTION AT MIDNIGHT" (Part 1: Death Row, Part 2: The Last Hours), examines what many Americans call justice and others term barbarity. This program is based on interviews with seven inmates living on death row, all of whom were convicted of murder and have been on death row from six to twelve years. The camera's eye places the viewer in the agonizing last hour, waiting in the holding cell and being led to the execution room. 100 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CRIMINOLOGY

VH 8381 Exploring Race and Affirmative Action
Summary: Explores the history of affirmative action in the United States and examines its successes, failures, and future. Panel of four young Americans discusses the advantages and disadvantages of affirmative action policies and share differing perspectives on racial issues. Archival film footage traces the evolution of laws regarding race and equality in the U.S. 028 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 2510 Fall of Communism, The
Summary: This will go down as one of the most dramatic and important series of events in modern world history. One by one, Communist nations traded in their politics for a more democratic future. This program helps you understand the depth of what happened, from the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, to independence movements in Poland, Lithuania and Mother Russia herself. 080 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES

VH 1916 Family Gathering
Summary: Tells the story of the consequences of the U.S. internment policy on the Yasui family & their battle to reclaim their place as Americans. 030 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES, AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5322 Farm, The: Life Inside Angola Prison
Summary: The story of six inmates at America's most infamous prison - Angola, a former slave plantation spreading across 12, 000 acres of Louisiana farmland. A graphic commentary on racial and social injustices. 100 Min. VIDEO 1998

VH 3194 Fateful Decade: From Little Rock to the Civil Rights Bill, The
Summary: First there was the law, and then there was enforcement of the law. This program begins at Little Rock's Central High School and follows the civil rights movement acceleration: marches, clashed with the police, the jailing of demonstrators, the murders of Medger Evers, and the bombing of the Baptist church in Birmingham, sit-ins and protest, the Montgomery march, the Mississippi Freedom March, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speeches and his funeral. 027 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 2489 First Days in the Life of a New Guinea Baby
Summary: A series of scenes beginning immediately after birth, before the cord is cut, showing the way the newborn is fed by a wet nurse, bathed, anointed with earth, and carried, with special emphasis on the infant's readiness to respond. Other scenes are taken from the first day after birth, and the fifth day. 020 Min. VIDEO 1952 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 4353 Five Suns, The: A Sacred History of Mexico
Summary: The Five Suns employs authentic pre-Columbian Aztec iconography to depict the most important creation myths and sacred stories of the Aztecs and other Nahuatl-speaking peoples of ancient central Mexico. 055 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 2935 Florida: The 27th Star
Summary: The story begins with a modern-day boy in the school library. He inserts a disc into a computer and discovers an interactive encounter with the events of Florida's Territorial Period. The primary purpose of this video is to provide an additional education resource for this period of Florida's history. The presentation is divided into segments and includes a student activities packet covering the following themes: The transfer of Florida from Spain to the 030 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: GEOGRAPHY, AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0153 Foot Patrol
Summary: Produced under an NIJ grant by the Police Foundation. Discussion of the relevance and effectiveness of police officers walking a beat in city neighborhoods. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 7936 For Man Must Work or The End of Work
Summary: Shows how as human resources are replaced more and more by technology, living and working conditions are deteriorating for many people, ending the mass labor force era and moving toward creating an elite corps of workers in the knowledge sector. This film concentrates on situations in Canada, France and Mexico. 052 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ECONOMICS

VH 3157 Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation
Summary: 1. Freedom in the Ancient World, 2. The Advent of Freedom in the Modern World, 3. Hegel's Philosophy, 4. John Stuart Mill's Philosophy of Freedom. 190 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 3158 Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation
Summary: 5. Emma Goldman and the Anarchist Idea of Freedom, 6. Mahatma Gandhi: Personal and Political Freedom, 7. Malcolm X's Quest for Liberation, 8. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Stride Toward Freedom. 190 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 8186 From Socrates to Sartre, The Young Hegelian
Summary: This is the first part of a discussion centered on the contributions of Karl Marx. In this segment Lavine presents a biographical sketch of Karl Marx, and discusses the young Hegelians and Marx's role in that organization. 029 Min. VIDEO 1979

VH 6367 Full Circle
Summary: Through archival footage and interviews with several generations of kibbutz members, this film follows the evolution of family life and work roles on the Israeli kibbutz from pioneering days to the present. 055 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: MIDDLE EAST, ANTHROPOLOGY Series: AWARD WINNING FILMS AND VIDEOS

VH 3207 General Colin Powell: What I've Learned
Summary: This portrait shows how far a disadvantaged minority can go - and how Colin Powell was able to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The son of Jamaican immigrants, he was born to Harlem and grew up in the South Bronx. He says he didn't know he was a minority because everyone was a minority; that yes, there were drugs in the neighborhood but that they were not tolerated among those with strong family ties. 028 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2384 Generations Together
Summary: This episode explores the efforts seniors are making to stay involved as contributing members of a changing society and profiles the vital role they play in how communities function. 030 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: COMING OF AGE, THE

VH 2878 Geometry of Life, The
Summary: The workings of DNA, "The building blocks of life", is explored in this exciting and entertaining Infinite Voyage to decipher its code. By understanding more about DNA, we may be able to unlock the mysteries of disease. Come on a miraculous trip and find out all about the wonders of this microscopic world. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, BIOLOGY Series: INFINITE VOYAGE, THE

VH 3285 Getting Out The Vote
Summary: This program with Bill Moyers talks to Americans in San Antonio, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC about why they don't vote, and to citizens who are trying to increase voter registration and turnout. Featured in the program are Father Andrew Greeley, author, priest, and sociologist, and Michael Franti, a rap artist. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Series: MOYERS COLLECTION, THE: LISTENING TO AMERICA

VH 0457 Gifted Adolescents & Suicide
Summary: Episode of the television program, Donahue, in which a panel and the audience discuss teen suicide. 027 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 8018 God and the Inner City
Summary: In 2001 President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Beyond issues of separation of church and state, do these initiatives really work better then secular, government-run programs? This program follows the efforts of the leaders of two initiatives with differing approaches: the non-proselytizing style of the Reverend Gene Rivers of Baker House in Dorchester near Boston and Pastor Mike Zello, director of Teen Challenge, a drug rehabilitation program premised on Christianity. Also profiled is the Amachi Program fo r children of incarcerated parents in Philadelphia. 056 Min. VIDEO 2003

VH 5829 Golden Cage, The: A Story of California's Farmworkers
Summary: The experiences of Mexican farmworkers in California are chronicled. Using historical footage, interviews, newspaper clippings and black and white stills, the documentary traces the history of the United Farmworkers Union from the sixties to its current decline. It also examines the impact of the new immigration law. 029 Min. VIDEO 1990

VH 0648 Grandeur and Obedience
Summary: Hosted by Kenneth Clark. Visit the Rome of the Counter-Reformation, the Rome of Michelangelo & Bernini, where the Catholic Church developed a new splendor symbolized by the glory of St. Peter's. 052 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY Series: CIVILIZATION

VH 2672 Great Minds, The: Part 1-A (Lectures 1-5)
Summary: Part 1-A of a five part series which traces the progress of the Western mind in grappling with the fundamental questions that determine our stance toward being. Lec. 1, Introduction to the Problems and Scope of Philosophy Michael Sugrue. Lec. 2, Pre-Socratics: Ionian Speculation and Eliatic Metaphysics, Darren Staloff. Lec. 3, Plato's "Republic": Philosophy and blessed life. Lec. 4, Plato's "Republic": Justice and the good polis. Lec. 5, Plato's "Symposium": the dialectic of reason, love and wisdom. 360 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: GREAT MINDS OF THE WESTERN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION, THE

VH 2673 Great Minds, The: Part 2-B (Lectures 6-11)
Summary: Part 1-B of a five part series which traces the progress of the Western mind in grappling with the fundamental questions that determine our stance toward being. Lectures 6-11. Lec. 6, Aristotle's Metaphysical Views-Darren Staloff. Lec. 7, Aristotle' "Politics": The Golden Mean and Just Rule, Guest lecture by Dennis Dalton. Lec. 8, The Old Testament, Guest Lecture by Robert Oden. Lec. 9, Divine Justice, Guest lecture Robert Oden. Lec. 10, 385 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: GREAT MINDS OF THE WESTERN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION, THE

VH 3724 Guardians of the Flutes
Summary: High in the mountains of New Guinea live the Sambia people, a war like tribe whose secret rituals of initiation are aimed at making their warriors courageous and bold. Only because their culture is threatened have they allowed these initiation rites to be documented. This is a society where the roles of men and women are sharply delineated. They live in separate spaces in their round huts. The most secret part of the initiation are the sexual rites, which are described by several initiates. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 4804 Guimba the Tyrant
Summary: Through the story of the downfall of Guimba, the tyrant, similar fates for the many dictators who still pillage the continent of Africa are foreshadowed. Guimba tyrannizes a once prosperous trading city through arbitrary terror and the misuse of occult powers, a recurrent theme in West African literature. Directed by Ibrahima Toure. 094 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 0152 Gun Control
Summary: Discussion of the pro and con issues involved in the gun control controversy, and how they affect criminal justice. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 2507 Hanunoo
Summary: Documents the daily life of the Hanunoo, a group of mountain jungle farmers on the island of Mindoro, Philippines, including food production methods and household, leisure, and socioreligious activities. The field-recorded sound contains Hanunoo music, conversation, and calls, but no English narration. Filmed in 1952-1954 by Harold C. Conklin in Yagaw, South-Eastern Mindoro, Philippines. 018 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 6768 He Said, She Said
Summary: Deborah Tannen discusses her contributions to the understanding of gender, language and communication. Gender is not the only factor influencing conversational styles: others include regional background, class, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, profession, and individual personality. 054 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2381 Health and Health Care
Summary: This program examines the impact of longevity as it looks at the issue of national health care. Profiled is Eugene Lehrman who, at age 75, is president-elect of the American Association of Retired Persons. 030 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: COMING OF AGE, THE

VH 2386 Health Care Gamble, The
Summary: Presents a behind-the-scenes examination of the savvy campaigning and hard bargaining that has brought America to the brink of health care reform. 057 Min. VIDEO 1992 Series: FRONTLINE

VH 3153 Heroes, Heroines and the Wisdom of Myth
Summary: 1. Definition and Interpretation: What is a Myth?, 2. Definition and Interpretation: How does it Mean?, 3. The Creation of Woman, 4. The Invention of Sexuality. 173 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 3154 Heroes, Heroines and the Wisdom of Myth
Summary: 5. The Heroic Ideal, 6. The Heroic Ideal, 7. The Woman in the House, 8. Who Knows if Death Be Life? 168 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 0173 Heroin
Summary: Discusses the damage to the user and to society as a result of heroin addiction. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0313 Hidden Addict Series, The
Summary: From the profiles of four "hidden" addicts, the viewer learns the stages of addiction and how it may be hidden. Also, provides suggestions and information for breaking the cycle of addiction and staying in recovery. 041 Min. VIDEO

VH 2962 History of Slavery in America, A
Summary: This program explores the institution of slavery in North America from the 1600's to the early days of Reconstruction. From the auction block to the Underground Railroad, the program seeks to dispel the myth that slavery was a passive state. Slave rebellions and abolitionists like Frederick Douglass demonstrate that there was an ongoing and persistent attempt to end slavery in America. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2880 Hopi, The
Summary: The Hopi people live in ancient villages built on top of mesas rising from the floor of northern Arizona's desert land. Intimate scenes of family life, work, and colorful seasonal rituals show how the Hopis pass on the communal values and survival skills that have kept their culture alive for centuries. 020 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6566 Hosay Trinidad
Summary: An ethnographic film about the observance of Shi'ite Muhaarram rites on the island of Trinidad. 046 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0157 House Arrest
Summary: A discussion of the use of house arrest as an alternative to probation and imprisonment. Major discussion centers on the Community Control system set up in Florida. 028 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE II

VH 3422 How Scientists Know About Human Evolution
Summary: Explains how scientists use information to understand evolution. Discusses the roles of anatomy, geology, chemistry, physics, archeology and more in the study of evolution. 022 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 2950 How the Body Ages
Summary: This program describes the changes in appearance and organ function that accompanies aging and how other changes can be prevented. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 6814 I'm Normal, You're Weird: Understanding Other Cultures
Summary: The values of different cultures and the perceptions of other cultures are explored. Different interpretations of same or similar actions or reactions can affect abilities of people to interact successfully. Demonstrates that much human behavior is cultural, such as how people line up to wait, use ice in drinks, eat certain foods at certain times of day, and even define honesty. 024 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

VH 3058 In Danku the Soup Is Sweeter
Summary: As in many African villages, life in Danku in the north of Ghana has been a struggle for subsistence. The women bear the burden of caring for the children, raising food, and trying to make life better for their families. Through a special project of the Canadian International Development Agency, the women were given access to credit for the first time. This film shows how this little bit of financial aid, allowed the women to become "entrepreneurs." We 030 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

VH 4707 Incidents of Travel in Chichen Itza
Summary: This depicts how New Agers, the Mexican State, tourists, and archaeologists all contend to clear the site of the Maya city to produce their own views of the Mayas. 090 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 3205 India: From Moghuls to Independence
Summary: This program covers the history of India from the time of Genghis Khan's first extension of his domain beyond China. It explains the roles of Tamerlane and his descendant Babur and shows the crucial Battle of Panipat between Babur and the forces of Ibrahim Lodi. There would be more battles before the Afghans were beaten, but Babur had established Mongol hegemony over a vast territory. This program traces the subsequent history of India. 042 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 3806 Indigenous People
Summary: The indigenous people of Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, are the present day descendants of a culture that lived in harmony with the harsh and inhospitable terrain of the land down under for over 40, 000 years. It took just 200 years of white settlement to change that heritage forever. Nevertheless, the resilience of the indigenous culture is evident in its contemporary expression through the unique arts, music, and dance of Australia's original inhabitants. 048 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: AUSTRALIA DOWNUNDER

VH 0032 Inflation File, The
Summary: A whimsical private investigator is hired to determine the cause of inflation. 027 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: FINANCE, ECONOMICS

VH 2817 Innocence Lost: The Verdict, Part 1
Summary: After nine months of testimony, Robert Fulton Kelly was sentenced to twelve consecutive life terms, one for each of the children he was convicted of molesting. Using footage from the 1991 FRONTLINE broadcast "Innocence Lost" and adding material never used, the program outlines the earliest history of the case in light of the trial testimony. 116 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 2818 Innocence Lost: The Verdict, Part 2
Summary: See 2818, "Innocence Lost: The Verdict, part 1." 116 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 0172 Insanity Defense
Summary: Discussion of the insanity defense in criminal trials. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0155 Inside Prisons
Summary: Discusses the increase in riots and murders within prisons. 1. Prison violence. 2. Crime and criminals. 3. Criminal justice, Administration of. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 2953 Intellect, Personality and Mental Health
Summary: In this program gerontologists discuss research studies of changes in intellect and personality over one's life span as well as mental health problems of the aged. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 2883 Introducing East Asia
Summary: Far Eastern civilization is 5, 000 years old and as modern as such world economic heavyweights as Japan and Hong Kong. Better that people from most regions, East Asians have managed to blend their pasts with the westernized culture of the 20th century. 026 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ASIAN STUDIES

VH 1904 Inventing Reality
Summary: Has our desire for certainty and objectivity closed off the "magical" influence of the natural world? In Mexico and Canada observe how the certainties of science can combine with natural conceptions of physical disease both in the tribal world of the shaman and in the thinking of modern medical science. Also travel to the Aboriginal culture of Australia to inquire whether there is an objective reality "out there" or whether we participate in its creation. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 3698 Islam and Pluralism
Summary: In this program, Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, explains his government's approach to multiculturalism within Islam. Although Malaysia is a multicultural and multireligious society, the official religion is Islam. Drawing examples from Islamic history, Anwar Ibrahim argues for a tolerant and pluralistic approach to Islam. He also explores issues of non-Muslim minorities, Islamic fundamentalism and economic development, and its impact on Islamic values. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: ISLAMIC CONVERSATIONS

VH 3097 Iyomande: The Ainu Bear Festival
Summary: Documentary about the most important ceremony of the Ainu people of northern Japan, the Iyomande. Includes footage of different aspects of Ainu life in the 1930's including houses, boats, ornate swords, religious artifacts, and the tattooed mouths of the older women. Shamanism. VIDEO 1970 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0136 Japan They Don't Talk About, The
Summary: Originally shown on the television program, NBC White paper. The popular perception of Japan's economic miracle is contrasted with some more sobering facts about how workers cope in this seeming utopia. 052 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 0456 Jenny's Song
Summary: Dramatization about an adolescent's grief after her father suddenly dies of a heart attack. 082 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

VH 3150 Jewish Enigma, The
Summary: 1. The Chosen People, 2. Pride and Prejudice, 3. E Pluribus Unum, 4. The Promised Land, 5. The Jews and Islam. 122 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 0171 Jobs & Crime
Summary: Discusses the correlation between unemployment and crime. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0168 Juvenile Offenders
Summary: Discusses the problem of determining at what point young criminals should be prosecuted as adults. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0759 Kalahari Desert People, The
Summary: For thousands of years Bushmen have survived in central Africa's Kalahari Desert by hunting and gathering. Anthropologist John Marshall examines how the land and the people are changing as the Kalahari becomes cattle country. 024 Min. VIDEO 1975 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 2485 Karba's First Years: A Study of Balinese Childhood
Summary: A series of scenes in the life of Karba, beginning with a seventh-month birthday ceremonial, showing Karba's relationships to parents, aunts and uncles, a child nurse, and other children, as he is suckled, taught to walk, to dance, and to be teased and titillated. The film illustrates how a Balinese child's responsiveness is muted if the parents stimulate him, but fail to respond. 020 Min. VIDEO 1952 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 2531 Kheturni Bayo
Summary: Examines the roles and duties of the women in a typical extended family of land-owning peasants in Gujarat, India. Sharon Wood. 019 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0453 Kids and Guns
Summary: Examines the consequences of guns in the hands of children. Looks at hand guns in the home and in the streets. Includes interviews with a gun control advocate and a representative of the National Rifle Association. 025 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CURRENTS

VH 4853 KKK: Hate Crimes in America
Summary: Originally formed as a social club, the Ku Klux Klan grew into a hate group striving to restore white supremacy in the South. Swathed in white sheets and robes, Klansmen beat and murdered black citizens and their white supporters in nighttime raids. In the 1920's, a burning cross became the group's symbol. 050 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, U.S. HISTORY

VH 7007 Krik? Krak?
Summary: A political documentary about life under two generations of Duvalier rule in Haiti. Mixes documents from daily life, including an interview with Papa Doc Duvalier, and fictional films to create a sense of horror, resistance, rebellion, and misery. Conveys what a straightforward documentary cannot: the continual shifts between levels of reality in Haitian life, some of which are inaccessible to the camera, in particular, the omnipresence of the Voodoo religion. 078 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: CARIBBEAN STUDIES

VH 7265 Kung San, The
Summary: Using film footage from 1978 through 1986, this video shows some of the dramatic changes in lifestyle and subsistence which the Juhoansi have undergone since their days of traditional gathering and hunting. 023 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 3080 Kypseli: Women and Men Apart
Summary: This program depicts how the peasants of Kypseli, a small Greek village in the Cyclades, divide space, time, and activities according to an underlying pattern based on the separation of the sexes, and how this division determines the village social structure. 040 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 5274 Land Divers of Melanesia
Summary: For the Pentecost Islanders of the New Hebrides the annual dive from a tower of over 100 feet high takes an appropriate place among many other ceremonies and rituals such as blessing the taro crop, circumcising boys and feasting help insure a good yam crop. (Circumcision shown in detail.) 030 Min. VIDEO 1972 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0811 Leading Questions
Summary: Hosted by Bill Moyers, this program examines the power of professional pollsters to influence public opinion. 058 Min. VIDEO 1989 Series: PUBLIC MIND, THE - BILL MOYERS

VH 2954 Learning, Memory and Speed of Behavior
Summary: This program explores what happens to mental capabilities as we age and examines the techniques used to maintain and enhance them. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 1077 Life From the Sea
Summary: a 6-part series about the Earth, the miracle planet, presents various topics including the planet's prospects for continuing to support life, its oceans, climate, and atmosphere. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY Series: MIRACLE PLANET

VH 1529 Looking for Perestroika
Summary: Visits to various enterprises in the Soviet Union and the economic ministry in the Kremlin and interviews with workers, state managers, entrepreneurs and economists reveal the progress and problems of economic reform and the Russian people's conflicting opinions about 'perestroika'. 058 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY Series: INSIDE GORBACHEV'S USSR

VH 3206 Lost City of Zimbabwe, The
Summary: Long mistakenly identified as the remnants of some ancient white civilization, the spectacular ruins of the Great Zimbabwe are only now being recognized for what they are: Southern Africa's first city. Neglect, theft of artifacts, and racist prejudice, which denied that black Africans could have built its towering walls, contributed to keeping the lost city of Zimbabwe from being accorded its true importance. 022 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 4760 Lower than the Angels
Summary: Anatomical as well as intellectual changes gave rise to man's superiority among the animals, shown by new computer techniques, x-rays and slow motion photography. An Olympic athlete in action illustrates the complex interweaving of mind and body. 052 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: ASCENT OF MAN, THE

VH 2882 Machu Picchu Revealed
Summary: We may never know why it was built or what concerned the people of Machu Picchu, but the magnificent Incan ruin high in the Peruvian Andes continues to inspire the people of the world. 020 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 7061 Mad About Bombs: The Criminal Use of Explosives
Summary: Explores the fascination people have with bombs, the criminals who have used them, and the people who risk their lives dealing with them on bomb squads. 045 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3057 Mama Benz - An African Market Woman
Summary: The colorful markets of Africa are often dominated by strong older women. They control price and determine who can buy their goods. These imperious women rule the market and are treated with deference. Thanks to their business acumen, they have amassed a great deal of wealth, which they often spend on material possessions. These women are affectionately referred to as Mama Benz. Why? Because each one has as her trademark a prized possession, a 048 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 3082 Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria
Summary: Illustrates numerous rituals and ceremonies associated with Mammy Waters, a local water goddess worshiped by the lbibio, ljaw, and lgbo speaking peoples of southeastern Nigeria, focusing on the strength of traditional religion in contemporary Nigeria. 059 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0647 Man: The Measure of All Things
Summary: Hosted by Kenneth Clark. Clark visits Florence, where European thought enjoyed new impetus by rediscovery of the classical past. He also journeys to Renaissance centers Urbino & Mantua. 054 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY Series: CIVILIZATION

VH 2665 Margaret Mead: Coming of Age
Summary: The most widely read, the best known, and arguably the most controversial anthropologist is probably Margaret Mead, an American who, at the age of 23, went to study adolescence in the South Sea Islands. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, BIOGRAPHY Series: STRANGERS ABROAD

VH 0219 Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Personal Portrait
Summary: A personal portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. in conversation with Arnold Michaelis including Dr. King's comments on Vietnam, the struggle for equality, religious beliefs as a Baptist minister, his role as husband and father, receipt of the Novel Peace Prize, etc. 053 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 0204 Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Message Today
Summary: Phil Donahue and his guests talk about the civil rights movement. They discuss Martin Luther King's message and his theory of nonviolence. 027 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 6390 Masai in the Modern World
Summary: Looks at the impact of the modern world on the ancient culture of the Masai people. Traditionally the Masai herded their cattle between the plains and the well-watered mountain land. As tourism and agriculture makes inroads on their already scarce land, they are trying to adapt without losing their heritage. 027 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: AWARD WINNING FILMS AND VIDEOS

VH 2582 Masai Manhood
Summary: Masai warriors of East Africa live on the fringes of society. They are not permitted to marry and are excluded from tribal decision making. This program focuses on the lives of these young men until the time of the eunoto, a dramatic four-day ceremony that marks their transition from warrior to elder. Anthropologist: Melissa Llewelyn-Davies. 053 Min. VIDEO 1975 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: DISAPPEARING WORLD

VH 2583 Masai Women
Summary: The Masai are animal herders in the East African Rift Valley. This program looks at the women of the tribe from childhood through marriage to old age and their role in a completely male-dominated society. Anthropologist: Melissa Llewelyn-Davies. 052 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: DISAPPEARING WORLD

VH 2951 Maximizing Physical Potential of Older Adults
Summary: This program considers ways to develop the greatest physical potential in an aging individual while compensating for the effects of aging. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ED EXERCISE Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 3151 Mean Streets, Part 1
Summary: 1. The City as Container, The Artist as Mapmaker, 2. Lost in Space, 3. The Marketplace, 4. The Family Plot, or Municipal Bonds, 5. Urban Apocalypse, 6. Transmission and Storage, 7. The Industrialized City and the Machine Vision, 8. A Moveable Feast. 183 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 3152 Mean Streets, Part 2
Summary: 5. Urban Apocalypse, 6. Transmission and Storage, 7. The Industrialize d City and the Machine Vision, 8. A Moveable Feast. 183 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 6682 Mending Ways: the Canela Indians of Brazil
Summary: Details the bonding rituals and the conflict-resolution skills the Canela Indians call "mending ways." Reports that peace is more important than justice, and sharing--especially of sexual partners--means survival and prosperity, pointing out that putting the good of the tribe first has allowed the Canela to retain tribal identity and communal harmony. 050 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 4351 Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Aztecs
Summary: Without contact with Europe or Asia, the Mexican Indian Nations used their own great skills to build magnificent cities. But in 1519, as Hernando Cortez came ashore under the Spanish flag, it was the beginning of the end. Leading armored men with sophisticated weapons and thousands of Mexican allies, Cortez challenged the empire of the Aztecs. 049 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN Series: 500 NATIONS

VH 3218 Million Man March, The (Part 1)
Summary: Coverage of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., on Oct 16, 1995, organized by Louis Farrakhan. 313 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, COMMUNICATION, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 3219 Million Man March, The (Part 2)
Summary: Minister Louis Farrakhan speech delivered at the historic Million Man March in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 1995. 280 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, COMMUNICATION, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 1899 Mistaken Identity
Summary: Who are you? Where does your individual identity begin and end? While Western societies strive to answer these questions through a biological view-- conception, birth, adolescence, maturity, and death-- tribal cultures define identity by the myths and rituals of their society, by who rears them, and by an organic continuum to which they belong. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 7031 Modern Movement in Architecture, The
Summary: Examines the Modern Movement in architecture, from its emergence after World War I until World War II. Combines interviews with leading architects, historians, and conservationists with location footage from all over Europe. 053 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ARCHITECTURE

VH 6389 Moko Jumbie
Summary: Documentary on African-American stilt dancing, described by dancers in the U.S., who are seen performing in the streets of New York. A discussion of the African origins of stilt dancing, with its connections to ritual, masks dances, and secret societies, is illustrated with footage of dancers in Nigeria. 016 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DANCE, ANTHROPOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: AWARD WINNING FILMS AND VIDEOS

VH 3283 Money Talks: The Influence of Money in American Politics
Summary: This program with Bill Moyers examines the roles that financial contributions, corporate influence, and special interests have played at the start of the Clinton administration, as well as in national, state, and even local political contests across the country. Issues raised in the program include: has the "business" of politics in Washington changed since the election? What is the relationship between the Clinton White House and Big Business? What's the Clinton record on the effects of money, power, and privilege on policy? Is campaign financing reform for real? How can citizens affect change in the system at the grassroots level? 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Series: MOYERS COLLECTION, THE

VH 2362 Mr. Sears' Catalogue
Summary: This program explores how the Sears catalogue reflected changes in American society and became a symbol for the natural ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, MARKETING Series: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, THE

VH 3159 Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts of this Century?
Summary: 1. Continuity and Change in World Politics, 2. What is an International System, 3. The Balance of Power and Its Problems, 4. The Origins of the First World War. 173 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 3160 Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts of this Century?
Summary: 5. The Problems and Promise of Collective Security, 6. The Origins of the Second World War, 7. The Origins of the Cold War, 8. Alternative to the Present International System. 179 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 7927 My House is on Fire
Summary: Ariel Dorfman's play, written in exile in Amsterdam, originally depict ed the fear and confusion of two children growing up under the Chilean dictatorship. In this cinematic adaptation, the author and his son have relocated the setting to the American South. Pablo, age 9, and his six year old sister, Maria-Victoria, are children of illegal immigrants playing "waiting for the enemy." Th s short film, seen through the eyes of the young children, creates the atmosphere of fear, anxiety, and unknowing that permeate the experience of being "illegal ." 019 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 0094 My Philosophy, L. Ron Hubbard
Summary: Scenes and photos of L. Ron Hubbard's life shown as background to a reading of his philosophical beliefs. 046 Min. VIDEO 1987

VH 6619 Mysterious Origins of Man, The
Summary: First part of a series exploring the mystery of man's origins. Examines some unexplained mysteries about man's origins and presents controversial evidence to challenge accepted theories. 050 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, GEOLOGY

VH 3017 Nanook of the North
Summary: Created and directed by the legendary Robert J. Flaherty, NANOOK OF THE NORTH embodies the beauty and danger of life in the far north. The camera follows the Eskimo Nanook and his family as they battle the elements and enjoy moments of respite in affection and play. This film masterpiece epitomizes Flaherty's genius at capturing the rhythms of the natural 069 Min. VIDEO 1922 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 6391 Native American History
Summary: Presents an overview of the history of the Native American people in both North and South America from 30, 000 B.C. to the present, from migration to the Americas, to the development of civilizations throughout the American continent. 026 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN Series: NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY

VH 0169 Neighborhood Safety
Summary: Discussion of precautions and practices undertaken by neighbors to ensure the safety of their neighborhoods. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0455 No One Saved Dennis
Summary: Concerns the case of Dennis Jurgens, a young child who was brutally beaten and killed by his adoptive mother, who due to the indifference of authorities went unpunished for 20 years. 015 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 0732 No Place Like Home (Long Term Care for the Elderly)
Summary: Traveling to New York, California, and England, Helen Hayes interviews residents and administrators of nursing homes. Tracing the development of these institutions, she examines alternative programs that preserve independence and cost less money. 055 Min. VIDEO 1986

VH 2487 Nomads on the Savannah
Summary: The Hawazma Baggara, cattle pastoralists in the Sudan, are the focus of this ethnographic videotape. Within the framework of anthropological fieldwork, the program looks into the lives of the Hawazma Baggara during the rainy season, from both social and ecological perspectives. The program provides an intimate picture of a variety of activities: building houses and sunshelters, milking, marketing, animal husbandry, political meetings, feasts and socializing. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0734 Old Enough To Do Time
Summary: Reviews the history of the treatment of juvenile delinquents in the U.S. Gives examples from all over the country of recent policies of treating young offenders as adults. Shows four alternative correctional programs which are being tried instead of traditional prisons. 055 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY

VH 2187 On Hate Street-CBS News 48 Hours
Summary: An episode of the CBS News show that takes a look at the existence and continuance of hate in the United States of America. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 2212 Out of Work
Summary: This program looks at what can happen emotionally and financially to those laid off, offers advice on how job seekers can remain motivated, offers tips on assessing the job market and finding hidden job opportunities, and points out how American business is changing and that the idea of devoting a lifetime to one employer may be a thing of the past. 058 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 0164 Out on Bail
Summary: Discusses the setting of bail. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 2509 Over The Hedge
Summary: A brief look at people who express their individuality by pruning their shrubs into off-beat shapes. 010 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 2581 Pathans, The
Summary: Bound by a common language, a common heritage, and the powerfully unifying force of Islam, Pathans do not acknowledge the geographical boundary between Afghanistan and Pakistan which divides their people. Their code of living is based on personal honor and revenge, and they accept no imposed leadership--as the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan discovered. Anthropologist: Akbar Ahmed. 045 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: DISAPPEARING WORLD

VH 0203 Peace Corps College Placement "Choose to Serve"
Summary: Recruitment video. 009 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 1634 Peres-The Road to Peace
Summary: Shimon Peres, "a hawk turned diplomatic dove, " has spent his life trying to make Israel strong enough to accept peace. His efforts to navigate the labyrinth of Middle East politics, his part in the events that led to the Palestinian uprising, his political wins and losses, and his thoughtful reflections form the substance of this biographical documentary. 057 Min. VIDEO Subject: MIDDLE EAST, BIOGRAPHY

VH 3018 Persuasion Gone Awry
Summary: Presents several types of persuasion fallacies & gives examples of each. 028 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY

VH 2508 Photo Wallahs: An Encounter With Photography
Summary: The film focuses on the photographers of Mussoorie, a hill station in the Himalayan foothills of northern India whose fame has attracted tourists since the 19th century. through a rich mixture of scenes that includes the photographers at work, their clients, and both old and new photographs, this film examines photography as art and as social artifact. 011 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 3183 Politics of Love
Summary: This exciting video is an inspirational guide for all who want to: Accept the challenge of life; Build lasting, mutually rewarding relationships; Free themselves of labels, hangups and trivia; Teach the wonder of love to their children; Forever rid themselves of loneliness and despair; Profit even more from their unlimited, unique potentials. The ideas expressed by Leo Buscaglia are universal in concept and application. 050 Min. VIDEO 1983

VH 3485 Politics, Privacy, and the Press
Summary: What conduct on the part of a public official is relevant to the "public's right to know"? Panelists from both sides - including "Washington Post" publisher Katharine Graham, Peter Jennings, Mike Wallace, and Geraldine Ferraro debate this issue. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Series: ETHICS IN AMERICA

VH 1903 Poor Man Shames Us All, A
Summary: Learn why our Western views of wealth and economies needs have created a society of strangers in the midst of material riches, while tribal cultures such as the Weyewa of Indonesia and the Gabra of Kenya create economies of dependency on others, measuring wealth through people not possessions. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMICS Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 3056 Potters of Buur Heybe, Somalia, The
Summary: In Buur Haybe, a small village in southern Somalia, only the men make pottery, although their legends give credit to a woman for first finding the clay. Skillfully coordinating their hands and feet, the men transform mounds of clay into beautifully proportioned drinking and cooking vessels. But, like their ancestors, it continues to be the women who mine the clay. 025 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 1499 Power in the Pacific, Power Without Purpose
Summary: Analyzes the economic interdependence of the United States and Japan during the last half of the 20th century. Examines the rise of Japan's economic power and the erosion of American influence in the Pacific. 058 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ECONOMICS, ASIAN STUDIES

VH 3581 Power to the People
Summary: This program looks at how the Russian revolution changed the peaceful image of socialism to violent revolt, and gave the Soviet people the false impression that they controlled their own destinies. Ghandi's pacifist resistance to British rule in India offered an alternative and influential image of popular struggle, which found echoes in the civil right movements in the U.S. and South Africa. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VH 2731 Prague
Summary: Prague of a hundred spires and its historical gems, Old Town Square, Charles Bridge, ancient little streets, but also Prague's boulevards, the artistic and historical wealth of its churches, the garden of the Little Quarter and the River Vltava, lending the town a unique atmosphere. They show us new Prague and its young people as well as ancient, intimate corners of the town and the autumns of the life of people who are now enjoying peace and rest. 030 Min. VIDEO Subject: GEOGRAPHY

VH 0167 Predicting Criminality
Summary: Discusses government and private studies regarding the predictability of criminal behavior, especially the repeat offender. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 2610 Price of Freedom, The
Summary: Every-year, a million Mexicans gather in the great central square of their capital to celebrate El Grito, the cry for independence. Following its progress, Carlos Fuentes crosses the Andes in the steps of Bolivar and San Martin. "Those who serve the revolution plow the seas, " said the dying Bolivar. The liberators succeeded in throwing off the Spanish yoke, but they found it harder to establish a just society. 059 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN Series: BURIED MIRROR, THE

VH 0165 Prison Crowding
Summary: Discusses some of the factors contributing to the recent growth in prison population and some of the approaches being considered for alleviating the crowded problems. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0158 Private Prisons
Summary: A discussion of the pros and cons of allowing private business to own and operate prison systems for the government. 028 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE II

VH 0159 Probation
Summary: A discussion of the concern about the number of convicted felons on probation and the heavy workloads of probation officers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE II

VH 0650 Protest and Communication
Summary: Hosted by Kenneth Clark. The Reformation is explored - the Germany of Durer & Luther, the world of Erasmus, the France of Montaigne, & Shakespeare's Elizabethan England. 053 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY Series: CIVILIZATION

VH 6964 Public Housing
Summary: Shows the daily life of Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, the most densely populated public housing area in the United States. Shows the work of the tenants council, street life, the role of police, job training programs, drug education, teenage mothers, dysfunctional families, elderly residents, nursery school and after school teenage programs and the activities of the city, state and federal governments in maintaining and changing public housing. 080 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 6965 Public Housing, Part II
Summary: Shows the daily life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, the most densely populated public housing area in the United States. Shows the work of the tenants council, street life, the role of police, job training programs, drug education, teenage mothers, dysfunctional families, elderly residents, nursery school and after school teenage programs and the activities of the city, state, and federal governments in maintaining and changing public housing. 115 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 6646 Public Vodun Ceremonies in Haiti
Summary: Presents excerpts of three public ceremonies videotaped in Hati in 1991. Narration identifies the principal elements and structure of these rituals of Vodun, a dynamic danced religious system. 056 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, CARIBBEAN STUDIES, DANCE

VH 3583 Religion
Summary: The program explores the rise of evangelism of the 1950's and 60's, women's ordination in the 1990's, and the effect of militant atheism on churches and religious worship in the Soviet Union. The program examines fundamentalist movements in India, Iran, Israel, and the U.S., and looks at the clash between Islam and the West. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VH 0149 Repeat Offenders
Summary: Discusses the probabilities involved in repeat offenses. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0503 Retracing Man's Steps
Summary: Examines the scientific search for physical evidence of human origins including archaeologists' study of the of the incomplete fossil record of early hominids and the research of biochemists into divergences in genetic material. 028 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, BIOLOGY Series: ORIGINS

VH 1079 Riddles of Sand and Ice
Summary: A 6-part series about the Earth, the miracle planet, presents various topics including the planet's prospects for continuing to support life, its oceans, climate, and atmosphere. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY Series: MIRACLE PLANET

VH 0646 Romance and Reality
Summary: Hosted by Kenneth Clark. Clark journeys from the Loire, through the hill towns of Tuscany & Umbria, to Pisa as he explores the achievements of the later Middle Ages in France & Italy. 053 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY Series: CIVILIZATION

VH 0081 Romans, The
Summary: Presents the origins, growth, and collapse of the Roman Empire, using animated maps, artwork and live footage. 023 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES

VH 2981 Roots, Episode 1
Summary: First episode of an adaptation of Alex Haley's ROOTS, in which he trace s his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors, Kunta Kinte, was captured and sold into slavery. The series follows the struggle fo r freedom which began with the young man's abduction and was continued by his descendants. 099 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2982 Roots, Episode 2
Summary: In this second episode, Kunta Kinte survives the voyage of a slave ship and is sold at an Annapolis slave auction. Fiddler, the slave in charge of his training, becomes his only friend. The friendship is tested when Kunta plans an escape to be with a woman he loves. 094 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2983 Roots, Episode 3
Summary: In this third episode, during the time of the American Revolutionary War, Kunta Kinte escapes slavery again, and is crippled by slave catchers. He marries, and sacrifices his freedom to care for his wife and their newborn daughter, Kizzy. 095 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2984 Roots, Episode 4
Summary: In this fourth episode, Kunta Kinte's daughter Kizzy is sold at age 16 to a new "Master" and bears his son, who grows up to become the fun-loving Chick en George. Kizzy, who has a strong resolve to keep her heritage alive, returns to her birthplace and learns of her parents' fates. 094 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2985 Roots, Episode 5
Summary: In the fifth episode, Chicken George is sent to England as payment for his owner's gambling debt. Fourteen years later, he returns home a free man, a status that has profound effect on the family begun by Kunta Kinte. The Civil War erupts, as the era of slavery draws to an end. 095 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2986 Roots, Episode 6
Summary: In the sixth episode, the Civil War is over, but night riders terrorize ex-slaves. By marking his clients' horseshoes, Tom, Chicken George's second child, identifies the riders but endangers his own life. Chicken George, who fought for the Union, rejoins his family, bringing news of freedom. He leads them to a new home in Tennessee and recites the story of his ancestor, Kunta Kinte. A lex Haley appears on screen to narrate the epilogue of this remarkable saga. 092 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 8256 Roots of Prejudice and Intolerance, The
Summary: Elucidating the psychology behind prejudicial thinking, this video examines the roots of prejudice, discusses its different forms, and distinguishes between prejudice and intolerance. It considers such corollary issues as bigotry, stereotyping, bias, discrimination and hate crime. 032 Min. VIDEO 2002

VH 2942 Roots: The Next Generation, Episode 1
Summary: Episode one picks up where ROOTS ends. It's 1882, 12 years after Kunta Kinte's progeny came to Henning, TN. Although free, the family isn't treated equally: Jim Crow laws are on the rise. Tom Harvey, now the familial head, has opened a school and is pressed by ex-Confederate Col. Warner to close it when Warner's son falls in love with the schoolmarm. But Tom knows education can help break the chains of second class citizenship. 098 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2943 Roots: The Next Generation, Episode 2
Summary: "I is a free man!" thunders Tom in Episode Two. Yet threats to freedom abound. An unfair literacy test impedes Tom's right to vote...and hard-luck Lee is murdered as an "example" to others. The courtship of Tom's daughter Cynthia and Will Palmer is a tender counterpoint to the violence. Their first child Bertha George will become the mother of Alex Haley. 095 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2944 Roots: The Next Generation, Episode 3
Summary: Episode Three begins in 1914. As Henning grows, so does the lumber company run by Will. He sends daughter Bertha to Lane College, where she meets her future husband, a poor sharecropper's son named Simon Haley. Simon works on a Pullman to earn college money, learning the ropes from long time porter Dad Jones. When America enters the war to end all wars, Simon enlists. 099 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2945 Roots: The Next Generation, Episode 4
Summary: Episode Four unfolds against a backdrop of institutionalized military bias that shackles America's World War I black troops. Simon fights in France with the 92nd Infantry, Colored. He returns to marry Bertha: their first child is Alexander Murray Palmer Haley. 099 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2946 Roots: The Next Generation, Episode 5
Summary: The influences that shaped young Alex Haley come into focus in Episode 5. Grandfather Will shows him the section of California Redwood charting the family history. Now a professor, Simon emphasized education. And when cousin Georgia and others recount stories of Africa, Alex listens intently. But it is also a time of loss: Bertha dies at a young age. 096 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2947 Roots: The Next Generation, Episode 6
Summary: In episode 6, restless Alex leaves college and enrolls in the Coast Guard. During World War II service in the Pacific, he discovers his gift for writing and decides to make journalism his livelihood. His single-minded career pursuit costs him his marriage to Nan. 099 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2948 Roots: The Next Generation, Episode 7
Summary: Alex wins the trust of the controversial leader Malcolm X and later collaborates with him on THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X. Malcolm predicts he will not live to see the book published. Alex is a premier journalist who draws top assignment including a tension packed interview with American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell. 100 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 6586 Rostov-Luanda
Summary: As a student, Abderrahmane Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don during the 1980s and there became friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the Mauritanian director's search for a friend of the past. In this personal journey, Sissako encounters present day Angolan society, with its dashed dreams and unexpected resiliencies. Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. 060 Min. VIDEO 1997 Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 1371 Sahara: Before the Desert
Summary: When and how did the Sahara become a desert? The program shows steps being taken by the Saharan countries to keep the desert from growing and, if possible, to turn it back. 030 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: GEOGRAPHY

VH 2719 Scientific Method, The
Summary: Blending a touch of humor with interesting demonstrations, this entertaining film illustrates for students the scientific method's three main components-observing, hypothesizing, and testing or experimenting- all necessary for correct scientific conclusions. The film begins with a demonstration of how the limitation of our senses often inhibit our abilities to draw accurate conclusions from our observations. 023 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0176 Search & Seizure
Summary: Uses dramatized arrest episodes and a panel of experts to discuss what are and are not legal search and seizure techniques. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 6375 Seed and Earth
Summary: Film follows the daily schedule of the families of two brothers who live in the Janta village of West Bengal, India during the summer of 1988. 038 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY Series: AWARD WINNING FILMS AND VIDEOS

VH 3970 Sense of the Past, A Sense of the Present, A
Summary: Gerald Nosich, Professor of Philosophy, University of New Orleans, Outlines basic strategies for getting students to think critically about historical questions. Topics include the real reason for teaching history, discovering our misconceptions of the past and strategies for teaching students to think critically about the past. 059 Min. VIDEO 1993

VH 0150 Sentencing
Summary: Provides discussion on the disparity of sentencing in the U.S., with an overview of recent changes in sentencing laws and practices. 028 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 1443 Shackles of Tradition, The-Franz Boas
Summary: Profile of the German-born physicist who was responsible for shaping the course of American anthropology, beginning with his investigations of the relations between Eskimo migrations and the physical geography of their region. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICS

VH 2578 Sherpas
Summary: Since 1953, when a Nepalese accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first Expedition to the summit of Mount Everest, Sherpas have become famous as mountain guides. This program looks at the contrasting lives of three Himalayan brothers: A Buddhist monk, a farmer, and an expedition guide. Anthropologist: Sherry Ortner. 053 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: DISAPPEARING WORLD

VH 1897 Shock of the Other, The
Summary: By exploring the values and the different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together, the series aims to stimulate reflection and to look at what the modern industrial world can learn from tribal societies as we all approach the next millennium. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 0764 Siberia: The Endless Horizon
Summary: A journey across vast Siberia, where modern cities and factories contrast with Yakut horsemen and nomadic reindeer herdsmen, and where Trans-Siberian Railroad stretches to the Pacific. 052 Min. VIDEO 1969 Subject: GEOGRAPHY

VH 6401 Sioux, The
Summary: Forced onto the grasslands by woodland tribes in the east, the Sioux had to fight to survive. Elders instilled a sense of competition and combat to boys from an early age, knowing how a warrior's deeds were vital to his status in the tribe. The Sioux war ethic was a noble assertion of individuality. 026 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN Series: ANCIENT TRIBES

VH 0649 Smile of Reason, The
Summary: Hosted by Kenneth Clark. The polite chat in the elegant salons of 18th-century Paris became the precursor of revolutionary politics. Clark's theme takes him to great European palaces & to Jefferson's Monticello. 050 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES Series: CIVILIZATION

VH 7986 Sociology is a Martial Art
Summary: Documentary on influential sociologist Pierre Bourdieu; uses interviews, lectures, and discussions to illustrate his theories of culture. 140 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 2380 Stereotypes vs. New Reality
Summary: This program profiles many new pioneers of age and shows how the stereotypes of aging have become obsolete. It features participants in the Senior Olympics and members of the Goldwing Road Riders Association, among others. 030 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: COMING OF AGE, THE

VH 2879 Story of Islam
Summary: A comprehensive look at the beginnings of the religion which has swept over the world the last few centuries. This video examines the philosophies, laws staples and other aspects which have lead to conflicts with Western cultures. 120 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 1898 Strange Relations
Summary: How so we balance our personal desires for romance with our societal need for stable marriage? Explores marriage customs in Nepal, Niger, and Canada. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 3453 Sugar Scandal: Sugar Farming in Florida's Everglades
Summary: Hosted by Ed Asner and presented by the National Audubon Society. This video gives a detailed history of the fight between environmentalists and sugar farmers in South Florida. Environmentalists say that farmers have polluted the Everglades and they should be the ones to clean it. Farmers contend that they aren't the only ones to cause harm and that they are already paying their share. See also 3412, "Sugar Scandal A Special Report", a shorter version of this program. 046 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS

VH 2483 Survey of the Primates
Summary: Compares traits among primates in evolutionary perspective, from tree shrews to prosimians, cercopithecidae, ceboidea, and lesser and great apes. Discusses anatomical, social, and maturational differences, as well as geographical distribution, habitats, intelligence, diet, dentition, learned behavior, manual dexterity, and territoriality. Duane Rumbaugh, Austin H. Riesen, and Robert E. Lee. 038 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, BIOLOGY

VH 2885 Taj Mahal: The Story of Muslim India
Summary: The Taj Mahal is one of the most famous buildings in the world, but it is only the most apparent of the many influences of Muslim culture upon the Indian subcontinent. The interaction of cultures extends over centuries and Muslim legacy remains strong. 024 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE

VH 1530 Taste of Democracy, The
Summary: Sessions of the new Soviet super parliament, the Congress of Deputies and defiant meetings of neighborhood councils, demonstrate how ordinary citizens are confronting powerful institutions of the old power structure. 058 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY Series: INSIDE GORBACHEV'S USSR

VH 6435 Technoscience: Blurring the Line Between Man and Machine
Summary: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker visit research facilities where the division between flesh and machine are breaking down in what appears to be hallucinatory rapidity. Issues of ethics, privacy, freedom and economic disparity relating to technoculture are discussed. 052 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: COMPUTERS Series: LIVING IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD

VH 0475 Teenage Suicide
Summary: This documentary explores some of the reasons teems commit suicide and the recent increase in suicides, and describes some of the behavior patterns to which family and friends should be alert. 019 Min. VIDEO

VH 1075 Third Planet, The
Summary: A 6-part series about the Earth, the miracle planet, presents various topics including the planet's prospects for continuing to support life, its oceans, climate, and atmosphere. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY Series: MIRACLE PLANET

VH 1905 Tightrope of Power, The
Summary: Invites viewers to contrast the Western forms of state to the tribal practice of democracy through consensus. Witness the struggles of the Objibwa-Cree and Mohawk tribes against the Canadian federal government and understand how their visions of the world can help us refine our definitions of democracy, pluralism, and the state. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 1902 Touching the Timeless
Summary: Accompany the Huichol tribe of Mexico on their annual pilgrimage to collect peyote, the sacred food of the gods, and visit the house of a Navajo medicine man who invites the spirits into his world through sand painting, chanting, and "walking in beauty." Then follow David Maybury-Lewis into a consideration of why modernization can be viewed as secularization and what the consequences of this means to Western peoples. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD

VH 3755 Trial By Television
Summary: From sensational television news coverage and "movies-of-the-week" to cameras in every courtroom in America, the effect of mass audience participation during the law enforcement process poses serious questions about the outcome of criminal proceedings. In "TRIAL BY TELEVISION" host Bill Kurtis explores both sides of this heated issue, interviewing victims and experts, including defense attorney Alan Dershowitz and New York State Supreme Court Justice John A.K. Bradley. This Investigative Report provides fascinating stories of actual cases that have been complicated by too much media attention, including the story of Ellen Levin, mother of manslaughter victim Jennifer Levin. 050 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CRIMINOLOGY

VH 2606 Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea, The
Summary: The Trobriand Islands, regarded as anthropology's most sacred place, lie off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The island society has a complex balance of male authority and female wealth. Magic spells and sorcery pervade everyday life. This program focuses on two important events: the distribution of women's wealth after a death and the "month of play, " a time of celebration following the yam harvest. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0813 Truth About Lies, The
Summary: This program examines how deception has influenced some of the major events of our recent past & how self-deception shapes our personal lives & the public mind. 058 Min. VIDEO 1989 Series: PUBLIC MIND, THE - BILL MOYERS

VH 2881 Understanding Hindu Traditions
Summary: For hundreds of millions of Indians, the idea of more than one God is commonplace. But, other Hindus view everything as filled with the cosmic spirit. Explore the rich culture of India. 025 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ASIAN STUDIES, EARLY CIVILIZATION

VH 6816 Understanding Our Differences: Mexicans and Americans
Summary: Examines perceived cultural differences of Mexicans and Mexican American culture and non-Mexican culture. 024 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN

VH 5325 Understanding Race
Summary: Race: No gene has substantiated it and no scientist has quantified it, yet it continues to polarize the world's populations like no other concept. This program examines the history and power of the artificial distinction called "race, " viewing it within historical, scientific, and cultural contexts. 052 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY

VH 8199 Understanding Sociology, Postmodernity
Summary: This segment explores the idea that "modernity" has given way to a new "postmodern condition". It uses mainly lay interviews and documentary material to compare living in the 1960's with the present day and identifies a contemporary world of greater personal freedom and choice, more fragmentized identities and uncertainly 047 Min. VIDEO 1998

VH 2611 Unfinished Business
Summary: Spain, Latin America, the Hispanic communities in the United States: all have undergone enormous changes in this century. Within the lifetime of those born now, half the population of the U.S. will be Spanish speaking. Every year, half a million brave the border patrols to enter the United States illegally. "They are looking for the Gringo gold, but also bringing the Latino gold, " best selling writer Carlos Fuentes observes. 059 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, LATIN AMERICAN, EUROPEAN STUDIESS Series: BURIED MIRROR, THE

VH 0446 Uses of Media, The
Summary: Explores how television is used to influence people's views on politic al and social issues. 026 Min. VIDEO 1985 Series: CURRENTS

VH 0170 Victims
Summary: Examines the victim's role in crime. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 0175 Violence & TV
Summary: Discusses correlation of violence on TV to criminal behavior. 028 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE I

VH 3445 Voodoo and the Church in Haiti
Summary: Despite centuries of vigilant opposition from the Catholic Church, Voodoo has flourished in Haiti. This important documentary dispels the sensationalist stereotypes that surround Voodoo. It shows that Voodoo is a complex system of beliefs that has developed over time from West African origins. The film also serves as an excellent introduction to the culture, history, sociology, and politics of the first black republic in the New World. 045 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, CARIBBEAN STUDIES

VH 3035 Wave, The
Summary: Powerfully recreates the classroom experiment in which a high school teacher formed his own "Reich" to show why the German people could so willingly embrace Nazism. It raises critical questions about individualism and conformity: How can peer pressure usurp individual rights? When does dedication to the group cross the line from loyalty to fanaticism? 046 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, HOLOCAUST

VH 8151 The Way We Eat: What Food Means.
Summary: Explores what role food plays in our lives. Discusses food as fuel, convenience, medicine, and social bond. Also looks at food and moods, food alienation, and future food. 020 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 0180 What Works-Research & the Police
Summary: Discusses three projects designed to test the effectiveness of police methods in combating crime and reducing disorder while treating citizens fairly and living within the police budget. 028 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Series: CRIME FILE II

VH 2406 When Disaster Strikes: America Meeting the Challenge
Summary: Incorporating real-life examples from U.S. disasters, this video portrays how government, private sector groups and citizens work together to prepare for and respond to disasters of all kinds. 020 Min. VIDEO

VH 3284 Who Owns Our Government?
Summary: This program with Bill Moyers examines the effect of political contributions on public policy. The program shows how campaign contributions to key committee members of Congress helped cause the Saving and Loan debacle; how a loophole in the campaign finance law is permitting large cash contributions - so called "soft money" - to undermine the public financing of presidential campaigns, and how special interest money from the $700 billion health care industry is being used to undermine health care reform. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Series: MOYERS COLLECTION, THE: LISTENING TO AMERICA

VH 5279 Winter Sea Ice Camp, At the
Summary: In late winter when the cold is severe, the people and dogs are glad to stop their trek and make camp. In the blue dusk the men probe the snow and then cut building blocks while the women shovel a site. Soon all are under the cover, and in the wavering light of the stone lamp they sleep, their breath rising coldly. In the light of day the men test and refurbish their spears, harness dogs to the sled and strike out on the sea ice. 036 Min. VIDEO 1967 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 7010 Witchcraft Among the Azande
Summary: Presents the role of witchcraft among the Azande in spite of their acceptance of Christianity. 052 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 3138 Wobblies, The
Summary: From 1906 to World War I, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, nicknamed The Wobblies, traveled from coast to coast with "Solidarity" as their slogan and the goal of organizing unskilled workers into "One Big Union." THE WOBBLIES integrates the songs of the period with photographs, newsreel footage, and contemporary interviews with remai