FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Sociology

VH 2263 Academic & Career Options in the Coll. of Soc. Science, FAU
Summary: Florida Atlantic University's (FAU) College of Social Science recruitment video. 091 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMICS, GEOGRAPHY, CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 3928 Affirmative Action: The History of an Idea
Summary: Critics of affirmative action say that current policies pit Americans against each other and elevate the importance of race, gender, and ethnicity at the expense of hard work and merit. Supporters claim that discrimination remains pervasive in the U.S. and that the government must continue to play a role in aiding minorities and women. This program explores the historical roots of affirmative action and the current debate over its usefulness. The program looks at several different affirmative action programs today. It includes archival footage and features interviews with a wide array of academic scholars. 056 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 4386 Affluenza
Summary: A fascinating look at one of the greatest social maladies of our time: over-consumption and materialism. Explores both the comical and sobering aspects of our consumerism and its enormous impact on our families, communities and the environment. 057 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4000 African American Gender Roles
Summary: In a classroom lecture, Dr. Polly Radosh describes how gender role patterns established in slavery persisted after slavery was abolished. 063 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 1255 Aging
Summary: What happens to the brain and mind during the aging process? Why do some people age and still retain full mental capacity, while others lose agility of the mind? This enlightening episode of THE MIND questions many of the long-held stereotypes about aging. The diseases of aging, stroke, Alzheimer and Parkinson disease are analyzed with an emphasis on the fact that they are totally distinct from the normal aging process. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: MIND, THE

VH 4670 Aging With Community
Summary: Now that the loving multi-generational family home lives on mainly in commercials, where can older folks find community and retain their independence? 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 6086 Aids in Africa
Summary: Describes the war on AIDS in Africa, primarily in central Africa, where the disease cuts across the entire population, affecting men and women of reproductive age and their children, striking a continent already wracked by underdevelopment, civil strife and corruption. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1184 Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972)
Summary: An awareness and sense of pride emerged through the struggle of World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, now by his new Islamic name, Muhammad Ali. No longer content with use of mainstream culture as their standard and rejecting im ages which traditionally stereotyped them as servile and inferior, anew generation of African Americans began to redefine itself. Propelled by the Black Consciousness Movement, they celebrated black values, culture and their African roots. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 0799 Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
Summary: Ain't Scared Of Your Jails chronicles the courage displayed by thousands of young people and college students who joined the ranks of the movement and gave it new direction. In 1960, lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South, many organized by the new, energetic Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1961, on the Freedom Rides, many young people faced violence and defied death threats as they labored to obliterate segregation in interstate bussing. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 1044 Albert Ellis: Demonstration of Therapy
Summary: In three separate counseling sessions, Dr. Albert Ellis, founder of rational-emotive psychotherapy, illustrates his method by demonstrating that irrational beliefs are the source of emotional disturbances. Following each demonstration, he discusses the session with a professional observer. 1. A woman fearful of expressing emotions (30 min.)--2. A young divorced woman (30 min.)--An elementary school age child (30 min.) 090 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2228 American Story with Richard Rodriguez, An-Parts I & II
Summary: In Part I of this program, Rodriguez talks about his experiences growing up in America as the son of immigrants. In the second half, Rodriguez continues his discussion of the differences between the Mexican and American cultures, including his observation of America's growing sense of loss and the essence of American society today. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 6090 Amish Riddle
Summary: Meet an Amish family and learn from them how they conduct their daily life. Sociologist Dr. Donald Kraybill explains the origins of their customs, giving the rationale behind their rejection of the modern world. 051 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 2224 Arab & Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Summary: Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by David K. Shipler. The two hour special examines the tension between Arabs and Jews living within the lands under jurisdiction of the Israeli state, including the West Bank and the Gaza strip. 120 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, MIDDLE EAST

VH 5541 Arab & Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Summary: Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by David K. Shipler. The two hour special examines the tension between Arabs and Jews living within the lands under jurisdiction of the Israeli state, including the West Bank and the Gaza strip. 120 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, MIDDLE EAST Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 1217 Arturo Madrid
Summary: Educator Arturo Madrid discusses the role of Hispanic Americans in American public life focusing on cultural and educational barriers created by the dominate, white American society. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 0762 Australia: Down Under and Outback
Summary: Examines the life of people in the Australian outback, where existence is a struggle against heat, poisonous weeds, drought, and economic difficulties. 025 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 0797 Awakenings (1954-1956)
Summary: History of the civil rights movement in the United States. Uses archival footage and interviews with participants in the movement. AWAKENINGS focuses on the catalysis events of 1954-56. The Mississippi lynching of 14 year-old Emmett Till led to a widely publicized trial where a courageous black man took the stand and accused two white men of murder. In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to yield her bus seat to a white man. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 5213 B.F. Skinner and Behavior Change
Summary: Traces the development of modern behaviorism, its philosophy and its application. The film brings together many like minded scholars as well as others who question the behavioral position. The viewer will see and hear the participants as they discuss theory, practical uses and ethical/social implications of behaviorism. The film also presents educational, mental health, counseling, and medical applications of behavioral science and takes the viewer on site to see this technology being applied. 045 Min. VIDEO 1975 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 5208 Baboon Tales
Summary: The story is from birth through the first year of life in the almost decade long journey to baboon adulthood. Baboons are intensely social animals, weaving a shifting web of relationships with family, friends and enemies. Based on the real life experiences of five infants, the film follows these characters through their triumphs and tragedies. 052 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1025 Back to Reality
Summary: Shows how the counselor, family members and friends of a chemically depended young man attempt to intervene. Intervention takes the from of a carefully planned meeting where the man is confronted with his behavior and its consequences. Also shows the problems, stresses, and rewards of the intervention method. 031 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, ED COUNSELOR

VH 1187 Back to the Movement
Summary: The series concludes with an examination of two cities. In Miami, Florida, viewers witness the destruction of Overtown, a once-thriving community. In 1980, when white police officers were cleared of charges following the beating death of a black businessman, Miami's black community exploded in the largest riot since Detroit, 1967. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 1231 Battle for the Bible, The
Summary: News correspondent Bill Moyers reports on the fight over the Bible between fundamentalist and moderate Southern Baptists for control of the denomination. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY Series: GOD & POLITICS WITH BILL MOYERS

VH 1606 Beyond Hate
Summary: Documents the impact of hate on its victims & probes its many functions. Bill Moyers listens to those gripped by hatred & those victimized by it. Featuring Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, John Kenneth Galbraith, Nadine Gordimer, Valclav Havel, Li Lu, Elie Wiesel, the "Crips" gang of Los Angeles, white supremacists, American high school students, & Arab & Israeli youths. 090 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 1604 Big Chill, The
Summary: National academic and political experts join hosts Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer for conversations and controversy examining political correctness at the nation's universities. The primary focus covers multicultural influences in America and the resulting controversy over First Amendment issues. 108 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1875 Birdman, The
Summary: On a farm in Israel there is a private aviary built by Eiton Porat, a concentration camp survivor who had dedicated the aviary to Israel's children. They come there from the cities to be closer to nature, to enjoy the startling beauty of his rare birds & to hear him speak of his experiences during the Holocaust. 012 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 2849 Black Conservatives
Summary: Black conservatives believe that liberals, both black and white, are doing the cause of African Americans more harm than good. In this specially adapted Phil Donahue program, Armstrong Williams, Kevin Pritchett, Phyllis Berry Meyers, and Dr. Khalid Al-Mansor say that the existing welfare system has become just another form of slavery; that blacks should strive for self-empowerment and not depend on the Democratic Party, which takes their votes for granted. 028 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 4671 Boundaries of Change, The
Summary: The last half of the twentieth century has seen tremendous changes in the demographics of many North American cities. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 1803 Breaking Silence
Summary: This film presents adults who are breaking the silence of childhood incest. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY

VH 0802 Bridge to Freedom
Summary: In the final episode, BRIDGE TO FREEDOM, the lessons of a decade are brought to bear in the climactic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, when thousands joined together to march fifty miles for freedom. During the drive to make voting rights a national issue, strategic and ideological differences began to surface between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s SCLC and the younger activists of SNCC. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 1022 Bridges
Summary: Examines family relationships and the need for affirmation, especially from those who are closest to us. When Ellen's son Josh confronts her about his need for more emotional support, Ellen hears echoes of her own feelings toward her own uncommunicative father. 024 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 1465 Building Bombs
Summary: A film on the Savannah River Plant, where nuclear weapons are made, and about its effect on the nearby communities and environment. 055 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2164 California Reich, The
Summary: Explores the rebirth of the Nazi movement in America, showing people & situations familiar from everyday life. 055 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1295 Campus Administrators Confront Ethnoviolence
Summary: Suggests reasons why ethnoviolence on campus is on the increase and offers suggestions and recommendations on how to combat it. 039 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: STILL BURNING

VH 3784 Campus Rape
Summary: Actors Corbin Bernsen and Susan Dey present interviews with rape victims from several college campuses and provide prevention information. 021 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, CRIMINOLOGY

VH 1208 Carlos Fuentes
Summary: Mexican author Carlos Fuentes and host Bill Moyers discuss the relationship of the United States with Mexico and with Latin America generally. Fuentes addresses the selective intervention of the U.S. in the affairs of Latin American countries which he believes stifles development and damages the international relationship. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 4160 Central America: Costa Rica
Summary: We see how the country uses coffee and banana exports to propel itself forward as a developing nation; how and why it chose education its people over building an army; and how it remains a peaceful democratic anomaly in Latin America. A second segment shows how the country uses its bamboo supplies to construct homes for the poor. 020 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMICS, SOCIOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN Series: OUR DEVELOPING WORLD

VH 2854 Challenging Hispanic Stereotypes: Arturo Madrid
Summary: Arturo Madrid's ancestors made a home on American soil before the MAYFLOWER arrived, but strangers still ask him, "And where are you from?" Weary of always being perceived as "the other, " he has devoted himself to challenging the stereotypes that keep Hispanics outside the American mainstream. Madrid is a teacher and president of the Tomas Rivera Center, where he focuses on issues and policies affecting the Latino community. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 3857 Child Abuse: The Child, The Physician, and the Courts
Summary: A panel discussion that defines and seeks ways to prevent child abuse. Emphasizes the physician's role in recognizing abuse and the responsibility to report suspected incidents. Moderated by Arnold Melnick, D.O. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Nova Southeastern University. 101 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 7006 Common Ground
Summary: Three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. 104 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 4665 Community Animals
Summary: Even though humans are social animals who need interaction and a sense of belonging to survive, we have created a society where people are often too busy to build the kind of communities they say they long for. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 4667 Community By Design
Summary: The role that design plays in community is explored. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 1722 Computer Based Surveillance of Individuals
Summary: See 1713. 090 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 0975 Confidentiality: The Professional's Dilemma (Parts 1&2)
Summary: Discusses a plan for moral reasoning and action, with the goals of learning to identify moral dilemmas, learning a model of moral reasoning, and learning to identify the traces that may be left as a result of having made a difficult moral decision. 077 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, ED COUNSELOR

VH 1713 Constitution in the Information Age, The
Summary: 1713-1727. A 15 part videocassette series that explores the impact that computers have on different areas of modern day life. Speaker, Laurence H. Tribe; moderator, Jim Warren. Recorded proceedings of the First Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy held March 26-28, 1991 in Burlingame, Calif. sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. 075 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 1700 Contact: Yanomami Indians of Brazil
Summary: This documentary, shot in one of the most remote corners of the Brazilian Amazon, graphically depict the devastating impact of contact with the outside world on an isolated indigenous tribe, the Yanomami (Yanomamo) Indians. They are considered to be the last major Stone Age people in the Amazon. 028 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2637 Dancing in Moccasins: Keeping Native Am. Traditions Alive
Summary: For the nearly two million Native Americans, representing 500 Indian nations, life in the U.S. today is a frustrating struggle to retain their ancient ways while functioning in the modern world, to carve out an identity in an overwhelmingly non-Indian culture. This program examines the needs and problems of today's Native Americans, both those who live on the reservation and those who have chosen the mainstream. 049 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 1220 David Puttnam
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews David Puttnam, who believes that the film industry shares some responsibility for society's violence and greed by choosing to pander to society's weaknesses. Discusses Puttnam's tenure as head of Columbia Pictures. Suggests that the film industry suffers from a poverty of ambition and accountability. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1923 Daycare Grows Up
Summary: This program focuses on the new societal attitudes about child care and solutions evolving from those attitudes, provides an overview of government involvement, shows how some corporations are bringing daycare into the workplace, and reviews the needs of "latch-key" kids. 052 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 7919 De L'Autre Cote (From the Other Side)
Summary: Through images and interviews with Mexicans and American law enforcement officers, this film examines the plight of poor Mexicans who try to emigrate to the United States illegally in hope of a better life. The use of cutting edge technology has stemmed the influx of illegal immigration in San Diego so now immigrants trek the mountains and deserts of Arizona to avoid detection, a much more dangerous route on which many have died. 099 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 3870 Decision, The: Whose Kidney is it Anyway?
Summary: A father has two sons with inherited kidney disease. He is the only relative who is a match for both sons. The family elected that the younger, and more seriously ill, son should receive one of the father's kidneys, and he did in a successful transplant. But the elder son nearly died after a failed transplant from another source. The father now wished to donate his other kidney to his elder son and go on a dialysis machine himself. Should the doctors let him go ahead? 052 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 6081 Despair
Summary: Examines the illness of depression from traditional and nontraditional perspectives, as well as from multicultural points of view, doing this through personal portraits of patients and interviews of psychiatrists, social workers, and spiritual leaders. 057 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 3457 Disappearances In Punjab
Summary: A documentary film on the legacy of human rights violations in Punjab committed by India's security forces, and its role in sustaining the Sikh separatists unrest in the state. 024 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIOLOGY, ASIAN STUDIES

VH 3476 Do Unto Others
Summary: Must we house the homeless or report a child abuser? A distinguished panel including Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Faye Wattleton of Planned Parenthood, and Willard Gaylin of the Hastings Center discuss the question of community responsibility. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: ETHICS IN AMERICA

VH 3479 Does Doctor Know Best?
Summary: Should you save the mother at the risk of losing the baby? Doctors from the National Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center discuss controversies created by modern medicine with C. Everett Koop, journalist Ellen Goodman, and others. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: ETHICS IN AMERICA

VH 0953 Down the Project Reels (1&2)
Summary: Tells the social history of two housing developments in Boston, Massachusetts, through the memories of the tenants and attempts to chip away at the misconceptions about public housing. 060 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 2822 Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs Judas Priest
Summary: On December 23, 1985, two young men in Reno, Nevada put shotguns to their own heads after drinking and smoking marijuana as they listened to a recording by the English rock group Judas Priest. Raymond Belknap shot himself fatally, while the other, James Vance, was grossly disfigured. Their parents, claiming that subliminal messages in the heavy metal band's songs mesmerized the boys into their bizarre suicide pact, filed suit against CBS Records. 060 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 4675 Dreamtales
Summary: Dreamtales presents two animated films, Watunna and Starlore. Watunna depicts five creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Venezuelan rainforest. In Starlore, award winning animator Faith Hubley, using only animation and music tells six creation stories. 035 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, ANTHROPOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY Series: SACRED WAYS

VH 1672 Drunk Driving: Real People - Real Tragedies
Summary: Presents a hard hitting look at driving under the influence of alcohol. 018 Min. VIDEO Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1813 Elaine Pagels
Summary: In part I, Pagels explores the implications of the story of Adam & Eve on modern views of sexuality, politics, & the roles of men & women in western society. In Part II, Pagels examines our culture's relationship to suffering & guilt. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 0737 Electric Boogie
Summary: Focuses on four teenagers, two Black and two Puerto Rican, who perform their pulsating, gyrating dance routines on the streets of New York City's South Bronx. Shows the group, which calls itself the Electric Boogie Boys, practicing, playing basketball, relaxing at home, and competing in a local dance contest. Contrasts the youngster's vitality, ambition, and talent with the grimness of their city surroundings. 030 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: DRAMA, DANCE, SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 1724 Electronic Speech, Press & Assembly
Summary: Speakers, Lance Rose, Jack Rickard, George Perry, John McMullen, Eric Lieberman, David Hughes; moderator, Eric Lieberman. Speakers discuss freedoms of electronic speech, public & private electronic assembly and electronic publishing; issues of prior restraint and chilling effects of monitoring on freedoms and possible justifications and alternatives for monitoring. 091 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, COMMUNICATION, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 0979 Employee Harassment
Summary: Discusses and shows the negative effects of employee harassment. 020 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: BUS ADMIN, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1024 Enabling: Masking Reality
Summary: This program discusses: how our normal social practices and habits, twisted by the denial and delusion that surround drug addiction, enables the addict to continue on a self destructive course. 022 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 1726 Ethics & Education
Summary: Speakers, Richard Hollinger, Donn B. Parker, Dorothy Denning, John Gilmore, Jonathan Budd, Sally Bowman; moderator, Terry Winograd. Speaker discuss the teaching of ethics in computer education. 083 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 1296 Ethnoviolence in the Campus Community
Summary: What is Ethnoviolence? Student interviews and vignettes try to answer that question as well as propose ways of decreasing it. 021 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: STILL BURNING

VH 0974 Experimental Skills
Summary: Part 5 of a five part series. This series isolates, discusses and demonstrates basic family therapist skills through role playing, allowing viewer practice. 022 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: FAMILY THERAPY SKILL TRAINING

VH 0955 Fabulous 60's, The (1960)
Summary: The Olympics in Rome. The Presidential campaign between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Castro aligns Cuba with the Soviet Union. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0956 Fabulous 60's, The (1961)
Summary: Ban the Bomb rallies. Bay of Pigs invasion. Kennedy launches the Peace Corps. Elvis Presley returns from the Army. First manned U.S. Space flight. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0957 Fabulous 60's, The (1962)
Summary: The rise of Hugh Hefner and his Playboy empire...Surgeon General announces that cigarette smoking is hazardous to health...John Glenn orbits the earth. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0958 Fabulous 60's, The (1963)
Summary: Tragedy of the Thalidomide babies...Martin Luther King leads civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery...President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0959 Fabulous 60's, The (1964)
Summary: Andy Warhol creates Campbell Soup cans and Pop Art...the Beatles invade America...Olympics in Tokyo. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0960 Fabulous 60's, The (1965)
Summary: Prizefighter Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in Vietnam...Riots in Watts...First walk in space. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0961 Fabulous 60's, The (1966)
Summary: Vietnam war escalates...Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed forces changes in auto safety. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0962 Fabulous 60's, The (1967)
Summary: Marijuana use proliferates...Hippies spring up at Haight Ashbury during Summer of Love. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0963 Fabulous 60's, The (1968)
Summary: The S.S. Pueblo is captured...Riots at the Chicago Democratic convention...Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy are assassinated...Student demonstrations. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0964 Fabulous 60's, The (1969)
Summary: Man walks upon the moon...Paris peace talks...Women's liberation...Woodstock...Altamont...Miracle Mets win Pennant...Air pollution. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: FABULOUS 60'S, THE

VH 0746 Faces in a Famine
Summary: Documents the Ethiopian drought through a survey of the main character s in the tragedy: starving citizens, relief workers, journalists, and preening disaster groupies. 051 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 1506 Facing Evil with Bill Moyers
Summary: Bill Moyers joins participants of a three-day Symposium on "Understanding Evil" held at the Institute for the Humanities, in Salado, Texas. The video shows how people cope with evil by sharing their experiences. 088 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 2656 Families Matter
Summary: This program with Bill Moyers examines why America has become an unfriendly culture for families and children, and explores ways to rebuild a web of support for families. Discusses some of the practical steps needed to create a more hospitable social climate for families. The program also visits parents in San Diego who are struggling with some of the problems affecting the quality of parent's and children's lives. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK Series: LISTENING TO AMERICA WITH BILL MOYERS

VH 2956 Family and Intergenerational Relationships
Summary: This program profiles old peoples as spouses, parents and grandparents, and discusses how they sustain family traditions. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 2640 Family and Survival
Summary: This program investigates the American "dream family", an endangered species. Less than 5% of American households fit the profile of the traditional nuclear family - working father, wife/mother who stays at home to take care of the house and children. Broken home, battered wives, estranged children, corporate nomads - these are today's commonplaces. Whether their parents are making their way up the corporate ladder, their fathers' jobs are threatened. 052 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK Series: HUMAN ANIMAL, THE

VH 3868 Family Guide to the IFSP, The
Summary: This video demystifies the complexities of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) process and shows parents how an IFSP can be used to advantage for their child. As they watch other families involved in IFSP planning, family members become comfortable with: the different components of the IFSP, the roles of various professionals on their child's team, how their child's goals and outcomes will be documented, what federal law says about executing IFSP's. 017 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 7762 Faraw! Mother of the Dunes
Summary: With three difficult children, and a crippled, mentally unbalanced husband with no steady income, Zamiatou is the poorest woman in an impoverished desert village in Mali. She could have plenty of money to survive if she would sell her daughter as a prostitute to nearby French settlers, but she refuses to do so. Unfortunately, her family situation continues to spiral downward and she is finally forced to seek outside help. A film by Abdoulaye Ascofare. In Songhai with English subtitles. 087 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: DRAMA, SOCIOLOGY

VH 3996 Fight in the Fields
Summary: The story of Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farmworkers Union, and the movement that he inspired. A movement that touched the hearts of millions of Americans with the grape and lettuce boycotts, a non-violent movement that confronted conservative politicians like Ronald Reagan and the powerful Teamsters Union. 115 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY

VH 0798 Fighting Back (1957-1962)
Summary: Follows the struggle for equality from the schoolroom to the courtroom and back as blacks reject the existing system of "separate but equal" education. In 1954, the Supreme Court also rejects the system in its historic Brown vs. Board of education decision. The legal battle won, in 1957 nine black teenagers dare to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. In 1962, a resolute James Meredith enrolls at The University of Mississippi. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 4672 Finding us and Them
Summary: For the last twenty years communities have been trying to figure out how to reintegrate those, who for many years were outcasts in society: the mentally ill and the physically challenged. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 6815 Food: A Multi-Cultural Feast
Summary: The food we eat in the United States is multi-cultural in its origin. where some of this food comes from is illustrated. 020 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1204 Forrester Church
Summary: Unitarian minister and author Forrester Church discusses what he calls 'deadly virtues', acts or expression that appear virtuous but mask intentions that are selfish or partisan in nature, and the divisions and common ground that exist among America's religions today. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 3613 Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Summary: The film follows Fanon from his birth in 1925 on the French island of Martinique, through his medical training in France and subsequent disillusionment which resulted in "Black Skin, White Mask." Leaving France, Fanon worked at a psychiatric hospital in Algeria where he joined the turbulent liberation struggle then underway and wrote "The Wretched Earth, " recognized as "the bible of the decolonization movement." Fanon died of leukemia in 1961 as nations across Africa were winning the independence for which he fought. 050 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, BIOGRAPHY

VH 2961 Future of Aging, The
Summary: Explores how demographic, health, and technological changes will impact families and society in the future. Experts describe how aging will be different in the 21st century. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 1842 Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Summary: Highlights the clash of cultures & the legacy of the battles of a century ago. Charting the origins of the American Southwest, it portrays the wrenching transformation of an Indian society faced with the loss of its land & traditions. 058 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY Series: AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION

VH 5952 Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Summary: Highlights the clash of cultures & the legacy of the battles of a century ago. Charting the origins of the American Southwest, it portrays the wrenching transformation of an Indian society faced with the loss of its land & traditions. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6080 Geronimo: His Story
Summary: Examines the life that Geronimo Mendoza Sanchez leads as an "illegal alien" in the U.S. Portrays Geronimo as a hard working young man who is attempting to educate himself in order to return to the Mexican village of his childhood and improve the living conditions of the residents. 029 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 5871 Gods of Our Fathers, Pt. 3, The
Summary: Film explores if human nature is unchanging and if there is anything natural or innate about male domination. The evolution of patriarchy as one of the effective ways of organizing mass societies is examined from evidence found in Egyptian villages along the Nile. 052 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: HUMAN RACE, THE

VH 2722 Goin' to Chicago
Summary: Chronicles one of the most momentous, yet least heralded sagas of American history-the great migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and West. Four million black people created a new dynamic urban culture outside the South, changing American forever. 071 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1949 Good Society, The Part 1
Summary: Inspired by the ground breaking book, "The Good Society". Looks at Atlanta, Georgia--a city struggling to make a better society. We hear from former President Jimmy Carter and Mayor Maynard Jackson, as well as civic leaders and community activists. 058 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: LISTENING TO AMERICA WITH BILL MOYERS

VH 1950 Good Society, The Part 2
Summary: This program focuses on Los Angeles, California--a city struggling to make a better society--and tells the stories of people who have long recognized the need for cooperative action to benefit the community as a whole. 058 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 2678 Great Minds, The: Part 4-A (Lectures 1-6)
Summary: Part 4-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, Hegel's Philosophy of History, Michael Sugrue. Lec. 2, Marx and the Problem of Alienation and Ideology, Michael Sugrue. Lec. 3, Marx's Historical Materialism, Darren Staloff. Lec. 3, Marx's Historical Materialism, Darren Staloff. Lec. 4, Mill on Liberty, Guest lecture by Rick 254 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: GREAT MINDS OF THE WESTERN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION, THE

VH 2679 Great Minds, The: Part 4-B (Lectures 7-12)
Summary: Part 4-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. Lec. 7, Kierkegaard's Christian Existentialism, Michael Sugrue. Lec. 8, The Darwinian Moment: The Survival of the Fittest, Guest lecture by John Recchiuti. Lec. 9, Weber's Historical Sociology, Darren Staloff. Lec. 10, Freud's Theories of Motivation and Development, Guest lecture 254 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: GREAT MINDS OF THE WESTERN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION, THE

VH 1789 Greetings from Down South
Summary: Three film shorts, "Grits", "Kudzu" & "Beauty Knows No Pain". "Grits" travels the South asking the question "Do you eat grits?"-28 minutes. "Kudzu" tracks down that fast growing vine of the same name which Southerners claim can cover up country roads and over take slow-moving people.-16 minutes. "Beauty Knows No Pain" follows a group of Texas coeds through two-weeks of competition as they vie for a chance to join that famous Texas institution. 069 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 7761 Haramuya
Summary: Fousseini, a Muslim, firmly attached to his faith and traditions tries to take care of his family according to the old precepts and the code of honor inherited from his ancestors. A film by Drissa Toure. In Bambara with English subtitles. 085 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DRAMA, SOCIOLOGY

VH 5200 Healers of Ghana
Summary: This program explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central Ghana and how their healers are accommodating the conflict between the arrival of Western medicine and their religious beliefs. 058 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 3507 Healthcare for the Homeless
Summary: This video looks at the health care needs of homeless people and families, and at some programs that health care workers have created to meet those needs. It also illuminates some of the issues homelessness raises for doctors, nurses and providers in other settings such as the hospital emergency room or community clinic. 033 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 3008 Heart Broken in Half: Chicago's Street Gangs
Summary: Gangs are society's ultimate devil figure. They symbolize transgression and embody the deepest fears of middle class citizens. Few film makers have dared or been able to get behind the headlines to confront the human reality and complexity of street gangs in urban America. This documentary gives voice to the street youth and reveals their underground culture. Here is an intricate web of symbols, passions, territory, brotherhood, honor and death. 057 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 0973 Historical Skills
Summary: Part 4 of a five part series. This series isolates, discusses and demonstrates basic family therapist skills through role playing, allowing viewer practice. 032 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: FAMILY THERAPY SKILL TRAINING

VH 0859 Home
Summary: Discusses the legal and economic problems of squatters in East New York who are reclaiming some of the 6, 000 abandoned buildings in New York City. 030 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 0861 Homeless in America
Summary: Documentary of the homeless living in New York City, portraying day-to-day life. Interviews reveal how homeless lost their homes and how they try to survive. Also looks at some social services and programs available in the city, illustrating the severe lack of sufficient assistance to the homeless. 020 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 0862 Housing in America
Summary: Documentary portrayal of evictions in low income housing districts in the cities of Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City in order to make way for middle income housing. 036 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1234 How Far Home: Veterans After Vietnam
Summary: Through interviews, casual conversations, and activities at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., portrays the poignant feelings of veterans of the Vietnamese Conflict toward the problems they faced upon return home from the war. 030 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4004 Hunters, The
Summary: The Kalahari Bushmen of Southwest Africa wage a constant war for survival against the hot, arid climate and the unyielding soil. The focus of "The Hunters" is on four men who undertake a hunt to obtain meat for the hungry villagers. In intimate picture of a people who possess a highly developed sense of social responsibility and strong emotional bonds. 072 Min. VIDEO 1958 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 7939 If You Could Understand Me
Summary: "A well-known Cuban film director embarks upon the search for a black woman dancer and singer to play the central dramatic role in his next film project, a musical comedy. Rather than opting for an experienced actress, he feels he needs the freshness and spontaneity of inexperience--someone young with an urge for success. He sets about searching the Cuban Film Institute's (ICAIC's) extras files and, with the enthusiastic support of friends and the aid of a small video camera, he scours the streets of Havana in search of his actress". Alternate title: If You Only Understood. 085 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, CARIBBEAN STUDIES

VH 1843 In the White Man's Image
Summary: Explores the cultural genocide that occurred in the Carlisle School for Indian Students which impacted on generations of Native Americans. At the school, students were taught to read and write English, and were placed in uniforms and drilled like soldiers in order to "civilize" them. Includes interviews with former students. 058 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY

VH 0747 Increase and Multiply?
Summary: Documentary concerning the human and environmental consequences of overpopulation in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Argues that cutbacks in U.S. sponsored family planning programs have harmed the health and well-being of Third World countries. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, ASIAN STUDIES, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 2314 Inner City VS. Suburban Schools
Summary: This specially adapted Phil Donahue program examines the inequities between city and suburban schools. 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1289 Inside Life Outside
Summary: Follows a group of homeless people living in a shanty town on New York's Lower East Side. Captures in cinema verite style the drama of human beings struggling for survival and dignity against the harsh odds of the street. 057 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK, DRAMA

VH 1715 International Perspectives & Impacts
Summary: Speakers, Robert Veeder, Tom Riley, David H. Flaherty, Ronald L. Plesser; moderator, Ron Plesser. Speakers discuss other nations' models for protecting personal information and communications, and for granting access to government information, including the European Community's 1992 trans-border data flow and accountability issues; implications for privacy and personal expression. 085 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 1026 Intervention: Facing Reality
Summary: How the process of intervention works to help addicts and those who care about them to face and overcome the harmful affects of addiction on all their lives. 030 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 5215 Invisible Walls
Summary: Focuses on common American beliefs about personal space, showing that people encase themselves in invisible walls about 18 inches from their bodies, and that violation of these imaginary walls cause a feeling of discomfort. 012 Min. VIDEO Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, COMMUNICATION

VH 2216 Issue is Race, The
Summary: Studs Terkel has called it "our national obsession." Phil Donahue reflects that many of those who three decades ago optimistically said "We Shall Overcome" are now asking themselves, "Overcome what?" 120 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1203 James MacGregor Burns
Summary: In an interview with Bill Moyers historian James MacGregor Burns discusses the decline of political parties in presidential politics and problems this has created. He also addresses voter apathy and the kind of leadership needed to deal with problems whose solutions require efforts that go beyond ideology and terms of office. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 7923 Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Summary: Spike Lee's first film recreates the world of the corner barbershop, the local meeting place where people talk, put their money on the lucky numbers and sometimes get a haircut. Set against the graffiti-covered concrete of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, this film skillfully combines wit and drama to provide a unique and highly entertaining perspective on attempts to break away from the urban treadmill. Directed by Spike Lee. 060 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1216 John Lukacs
Summary: Historian John Lukacs discusses trends in American institutions and culture that are moving the United States away from the values and qualities responsible for its preeminence in the world and towards a condition of bureaucracy, apathy and decline. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1221 John Searle
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews philosophy professor John Searle, who discusses the student movement of the 1960's and their effects on higher education; and issues surrounding the teaching of a canon of Western literature in the university. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2226 Journey to the Occupied Lands
Summary: Examines the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza through a journey that explores the bitter and complex issues of land ownership, the scope and future of the Israeli settlements, the realities of Israeli military justice, and daily life under Israeli occupation. 086 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, MIDDLE EAST Series: FRONTLINE

VH 1711 Keep the Circle Strong
Summary: Mike, a native North American, goes to Bolivia to help build school desks for the native children and also to strengthen his culture. 029 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 1186 Keys to the Kingdom, The (1974-1980)
Summary: This show examines the relationship between law and popular struggle as it chronicles efforts to inject substance into promises of equality. The movement's focus is on the keys to the kingdom: jobs and education. Includes footage of Boston and Atlanta's Mayor Maynard Jackson, the city's first black mayo r. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 2642 Kids Under the Influence
Summary: This documentary looks at our number one drug problem among kids - not crack cocaine, but alcohol. It examines school problems and run ins with the law as well as the long term physical and psychological disorders caused by alcohol consumption and demonstrates the enormous influence of peer pressure and the seductive advertisements in the mass media. Visiting alcoholism treatment centers, it shows the devastating damage done by alcohol. 058 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 2529 Killing Screens, The: Media and the Culture of Violence
Summary: Featuring Dr. George Gerbner, the foremost and most respected communication scholar. "The Killing Screens" addresses the psychological, political, social, and developmental impacts of growing and living within a cultural environment of pervasive, ritualized violent representation. Noted lecturer and educational film maker Dr. Jean Kilbourne guides us through the questions and perspectives offered by Dr. Gerbner. 040 Min. VIDEO Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY Series: GEORGE GERBNER ON MEDIA AND CULTURE

VH 1230 Kingdom Divided, The
Summary: In this program, Bill Moyers explores how spiritual ideas, feelings, and values affect the world we live in and examines situations where the faith of individuals affects the politics of their society. 088 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: GOD & POLITICS WITH BILL MOYERS

VH 0623 Klan, The: A Legacy of Hate in America
Summary: Graphically reveals the 120-year infamy of the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror. It also exposes the spread of the Klan's influence, membership, and savagery today. 030 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1720 Law Enforcement & Civil Liberties
Summary: Speakers, Sheldon T. Zenner, Kenneth Rosenblatt, Mitchell Kapor, Mike Gibbons, Cliff Figallo, Sharon Beckman, Mark Rash; moderator, Dorothy Denning. Speakers discuss the use of computers as an aid for investigations, also stating the need for the determination of a dividing line between civil liberties and law enforcement. 083 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 1719 Law Enforcement Practices & Problems
Summary: Speaker, Robert M. Snyder, Donald Delaney, Dale Boll, Don Ingraham; moderator, Glenn Tenney. Speakers discuss investigation, prosecution, due process and deterring computer crimes now and in the future and the use of computers to aid law enforcement. 090 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 1721 Legislation & Regulation
Summary: Speakers Jerry Berman, Craig Schriffies, Bill Jullian, Steve McLellan, Elliot T. Maxwell, Paul Bernstein; moderator, Robert Jacobson. Speakers discuss the alternatives and problems of balancing the right of privacy with freedom of information. 082 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 1214 Leon Kass
Summary: Leon Kass of the University of Chicago talks about the role of the physician who works with people at the most critical of times of their lives. The place of medical ethics is discussed also. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 7036 Life's Little Questions II
Summary: Explores the social purposes of laughter, why we laugh when tickled, cures for the common cold, the therapeutic uses of hot peppers and the physics of sand grains. 060 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, PHYSICS

VH 7035 Life's Really Big Questions
Summary: See how our hands set us free to play baseball, how an ancient telescope found an alien world, see a baby robot that may grow up without needing us, and learn why Noah's flood may have been a snowball. Hear the big questions that scientists are posing. 060 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: BIOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, PHYSICS

VH 3007 Lines of Blood: The Drug War in Columbia
Summary: For almost a decade, the United States, backed by Britain and other Western countries has tried to smash the powerful and wealthy drug cartels with little success. The film criticizes the rigidity of U.S. policy which doggedly pursues the foreign producers and traffickers, while ignoring the domestic social problems that create the demand. 052 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 1874 Living Together
Summary: This program examines the relationships within four European families and explores their future aspirations. 023 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 3578 Love and Romance
Summary: This program looks back at a hundred years of love and the changing fortunes of the institution of marriage. The program chronicles the many ways people have flirted, wooed and courted in this century. It looks at some unusual practices, including Moonie-style mass weddings, and speaks with numerous people, including a couple married for fifty years, a couple who agreed to years of celibacy before their mass marriage, and a G.I. bride who married an American serviceman because he spoke like the film stars she'd grown up watching in movies. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VH 2641 Love and Sex
Summary: Falling in love, having sex, making babies - these are easy. Understanding human sexuality is much harder. Phil Donahue takes viewers on an odyssey showing women at a male strip club and a gay rights march, into a hospital room where an unwed teenage mother is giving birth and into the classroom where teachers and parents are trying to help teenagers come to grips with their sexual selves. 052 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK Series: HUMAN ANIMAL, THE

VH 2952 Love, Intimacy and Sexuality
Summary: In this program, older couples speak frankly about their enjoyment of sex. Experts examine physical and emotional issues of sexuality. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 6969 Maasai And Agents Of Change, The
Summary: The Maasai population in Kenya, as filmed and narrated by a Maasai. Film depicts the lifestyles and colorful ceremonies of the Maasai culture, and how outside forces want to impose a money economy and land privatization upon the traditional pastoral and nomadic life of the Maasai. 032 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: ECONOMICS, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1286 Mad River
Summary: Portrays a community in the redwood region of Northern California dealing with unemployment, plant closures and environmental questions. 054 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4668 Making Shelter My Home With Others
Summary: A roof overhead isn't always enough to keep you warm. Both middle class and the poor have found the shelter of community by changing the way they think about housing. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 4674 Maps With Teeth
Summary: Bioregions are the ways the worlds divides up naturally--defined by climate, mountains, etc.. This is not the way we are used to looking at the world. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 0245 Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
Summary: A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. 045 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY

VH 1702 Marketing Booze to Blacks
Summary: Examines the impact of alcoholism and other alcohol-related problems in the Black community. The video exposes the messages in alcohol ads and raises questions about the industry's support of civic groups. 017 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 0968 Mary Can You Tell Me More? -Part 1
Summary: Two videocassettes, 968 & 969. Depicts an actual, unedited counseling relationship. Counselor deals with client's stuttering problem and secondary personal problems. 045 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, ED COUNSELOR

VH 0969 Mary Can You Tell Me More? -Part 2
Summary: Two videocassettes, 968 & 969. Depicts an actual, unedited counseling relationship. Counselor deals with client's stuttering problem and secondary personal problems. 021 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, ED COUNSELOR

VH 3965 Men, Women & the Sex Difference: Boys and Girls Are Different
Summary: Are males and females really alike, aside from physical characteristics, or do we have innately different predispositions, aspirations, and abilities? John Stossel raises questions about the nature/nurture debate, and seeks to discover if many parents' gut instincts-and the findings of many researchers and psychologists-about differences between little girls and boys have been right all along. The program speaks with parents who have tried to foster gender-neutral behavior in their children, and specialists who illustrate differences in male-female brain function and hormones. 043 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY

VH 0753 Michael, A Gay Son
Summary: Examines the experiences and emotions of homosexuals revealing to their families their chosen lifestyles. Follows Michael Collins as he faces this with a peer support group and as he deals with the surfacing issues in a tense family discussion. 027 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 1213 Michael Josephson
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Michael Josephson, who discusses the loss of ethical standards and the philosophy of winning, greed, and self-interest in U.S. society today. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1917 Miles From the Border
Summary: Twenty years after immigrating from a rural village in Zacatecas, Mexico to an ethnically divided community in Southern California, the Aparicio family shares its experiences of dislocation and the difficulties of crossing cultures. 015 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 0801 Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964)
Summary: Focuses on the extraordinary personal risks faced by ordinary citizens as they assumed responsibility for social change, particularly during the 1962-64 voting rights campaign in Mississippi. The state became a testing ground of constitutional principles as civil rights activists concentrated their energies on the right to vote. White resistance to the sharing of political power clashed with the strong determination of movement leaders to bring Mississippi blacks to the ballot box. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 1819 Mortal Choices /Public Policy, Private Choices
Summary: Dr. Ruth Macklin is a philosopher and professor of bioethics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. In this episode, Macklin discusses the difficult decisions involved in medical care today, such as deciding on the criteria for allocating scarce donor resources to ill patients. 030 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1185 Nation of Law?, A
Summary: By the late 1960's, the anger in poorer urban areas over charges of police brutality was smoldering. In Chicago, Fred Hampton formed a Black Panther Party chapter. As the chapter grew, so did police surveillance. In a pre-dawn assault by the police, Panthers Hampton and Mark Clark were killed. The deaths came at a time when movement activists were increasingly becoming targets of police harassment at both the local and federal levels through COINTELPRO. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 1718 Network Environments of the Future
Summary: Speaker, Eli M. Noam; moderator, Marc Rotenberg. Speaker discusses the reconciliation of freedom of speech and association. 041 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 0800 No Easy Walk (1962-1966)
Summary: Explores a crucial phase in the civil rights movement-the emergence of mass demonstrations and marches as a powerful protest vehicle. In Albany, Georgia, police chief Laurie Pritchett challenged Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s tactics of nonviolent mass demonstration. In Birmingham, Alabama, school children steadfastly marched against the violent spray of fire hoses and were jailed as a result. Includes footage of the 1963 march on Washington, D.C. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 0355 Nomads of the Rain Forest
Summary: An anthropological study of a Stone Age tribe, the Waorani Indians of the Amazon in Ecuador. 059 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4904 Nuer, The, part 1
Summary: This program illustrates the Nuer tribe's cultural, social, and spiritual meaning attached to cattle. It covers ceremonies related to their medicine, male initiation and peer grouping, courtship and family and clan relationships and structures. 037 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4905 Nuer, The, part 2
Summary: This program illustrates the Nuer tribe's cultural, social, and spiritual meaning attached to cattle. It covers ceremonies related to their medicine, male initiation and peer grouping, courtship and family and clan relationships and structures. 034 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 1232 On Earth As It Is In Heaven
Summary: One of the more powerful grassroots Christian movements urges believers to become politically active in order to create a more Christian world. The movement called Christian Reconstruction is explained in the writings of Rousas John Rushdoony. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY Series: GOD & POLITICS WITH BILL MOYERS

VH 4673 On The Road
Summary: The best estimate is that 2 million people live in recreational vehicles each year. Most of them left their communities for a life of freedom on the road. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 3423 Once Upon a Loss: A New Look at Cinderella
Summary: This documentary is about loss, despair, and remembering. It interweaves three thematic strands. First are the stories of four women who when young, lost their mothers to death or abandonment. Second is an off screen retelling of the original Grimm Brother's tale of "CINDERELLA". Lastly, and tying everything together, is a new and fascinating interpretation of "CINDERELLA" by the noted Swiss Jungian analyst Kathrin Asper as a parable of emotional abandonment, grief, and an individual's search for self identity and self esteem. 051 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1610 Open City
Summary: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. Episodic, highly influential classic that shows the effects of the German occupation during World War II on the citizens of Rome. Notable for being filmed by director Rossellini under the Nazi's noses, using unknown actors & a shoestring budget. In Italian, subtitled in English. 103 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNICATION

VH 5950 Open City
Summary: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. Episodic, highly influential classic that shows the effects of the German occupation during World War II on the citizens of Rome. Notable for being filmed by director Rossellini under the Nazi's noses, using unknown actors & a shoestring budget. In Italian, subtitled in English. 103 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION, EUROPEAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 5951 Open City
Summary: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. Episodic, highly influential classic that shows the effects of the German occupation during World War II on the citizens of Rome. Notable for being filmed by director Rossellini under the Nazi's noses, using unknown actors & a shoestring budget. In Italian, subtitled in English. 101 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION, EUROPEAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1716 Personal Information & Privacy 1
Summary: Speaker, Janlori Goldman, John Baker, Alan F. Westin, Marc Rotenbery; moderator, Lance Hoffman. Speakers discuss government and private collection, sharing, marketing, verification, use, protection of, and access to and responsibility for personal data, including lifestyle, work, health, school, census, voter, tax and financial and consumer information. 090 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 1717 Personal Information & Privacy 2
Summary: Speakers, Simon Davies, Evan Hendricks, Tom Mandel, Willis Ware; moderator, Lance Hoffman. Speakers discuss the ethics of "Strip Mining Data" for resale in the Information Economy. 080 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 1201 Peter Berger
Summary: Peter Berger, professor of sociology and religion, compares capitalism in America and East Asia commenting on the social, philosophical, religious, and political factors that have influenced the development of capitalist economies in each area and discusses the relationship of capitalism to democracy. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1206 Peter Drucker
Summary: Peter Drucker talks to Bill Moyers about how current trends in presidential leadership, international relations, and economic and military policy are shaping America's future. He also discusses Japan's economic success and the changing nature of work in the technological age. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1568 Police Chiefs, The
Summary: Profiles of three big-city police chiefs and their law enforcement programs. Featuring Chief Darryl Gates of Los Angeles, Chief Lee Brown of Houston and Chief Anthony Bouza of Minneapolis. 055 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4815 Politics of Love, The: In Black and White
Summary: Few sights spark smoldering racial tensions like a black and white couple strolling arm-in-arm. This is the first documentary to confront the issue of interracial romance on America's campuses. 033 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1182 Power (1967-1968)
Summary: Out of the ashes of the urban rebellions, blacks looked for new ways to take control of their communities; the ballot box, the street and the school became the dominant platforms. In Cleveland, the black community, together with a segment of white voters, achieved an historic victory: the election of Carl Stokes as the first African American mayor of a major city. In Oakland, young black men and women attempted to confront continuing police harassment. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 2644 Power of Addiction, The
Summary: What is addiction? Who is prone to addiction? How can addiction be overcome? The physiological and psychological mechanisms of behavioral addictions, such as compulsive gambling and shopping, and chemical addictions, specifically cocaine, are explored in this program. Biochemical, genetic, and environmental factors are suggested as possible causes for addictive behavior: drug therapies and support groups are also discussed as valuable aids. 019 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 2669 Power of Suggestion, The - Part 1
Summary: 2669-71. Provides a set of tools for studying the history, economics, formulas and myths of soaps. Part 1 contains: The History of Soap Operas, The Economics of Television and How Soap Operas Work. 041 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2670 Power of Suggestion, The - Part 2
Summary: 2669-71. Provides a set of tools for studying the history, economics, formulas and myths of soaps. Part 2 contains Stereotypes, How Soaps Remodel Women and Sex on Soap Operas. 037 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2671 Power of Suggestion, The - Part 3
Summary: 2669-71. Provides a set of tools for studying the history, economics, formulas and myths of soaps. Part 1 contains Erica Kane's Love Life, The Phenomenon of Luke and Laura, Summary and Update Roll and Credits. 035 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 8302 Program 1. The Basics.
Summary: Part of an eight-part comprehensive tutorial covering an array of topics in the field of sociology presented through the Standard Deviants teaching style. Introduces the terms and some key contributors to sociology, including Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. 026 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: THE STEREOTYPICAL WORLD OF SOCIOLOGY

VH 8303 Program 2. Famous Figures In Sociology
Summary: Video is part of an eight-part comprehensive tutorial covering an array of topics in the field of sociology presented through the Standard Deviants teaching style. This program covers several of the major contributors to sociology including Max Weber, George Herbert Meade, Talcott Parsons and Robert K. Merton . Explores the concepts of functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Begins discussion on sociological research. Examines "ways of knowing ": the scientific method and the speculative way of knowing. 026 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: THE STEREOTYPICAL WORLD OF SOCIOLOGY

VH 8304 Program 3. Research & Societies.
Summary: Video is part of an eight-part comprehensive tutorial covering an array of topics in the field of sociology presented through the Standard Deviants teaching style. This program discusses the research process, how sociologists create hypotheses, the types of research designs, how to conduct literature searches and observe subjects. Examines cultural development and the different types of societies and major mode of subsistence that have existed throughout history. 026 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: THE STEREOTYPICAL WORLD OF SOCIOLOGY

VH 8305 Program 4. Culture.
Summary: Video is part of an eight-part comprehensive tutorial covering an array of topics in the field of sociology presented through the Standard Deviants teaching style. This program examines the seven ways of viewing and analyzing cultures, including materialism, ethnocentrism, norms, subcultures, countercultures, and popular culture. Discusses social structure, social groups, group interaction, organizations and the social self. 026 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: THE STEREOTYPICAL WORLD OF SOCIOLOGY

VH 8306 Program 5. Society & The Individual.
Summary: Video is part of an eight-part comprehensive tutorial covering an array of topics in the field of sociology presented through the Standard Deviants teaching style. This program continues discussion on socialization and the theories of the formation of the social self. Examines the theories of conformity, social self. Examines the theories of conformity, social control, and deviance. 026 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: THE STEREOTYPICAL WORLD OF SOCIOLOGY

VH 8308 Program 7. Social Structures.
Summary: Video is part of an eight-part comprehensive tutorial covering an array of topics in the field of sociology presented through the Standard Deviants teaching style. This program continues discussion on social stratification and mobility. Analyzes equality, inequality, issues of sexism and gender, as well as race and racism, minority groups, ethnicity, and religion. 026 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 8307 Program 8. Conformity.
Summary: Video is part of an eight-part comprehensive tutorial covering an array of topics in the field of sociology presented through the Standard Deviants teaching style. This program continues discussion on the theories of social control and deviance. Begins discussion on social stratification and the systems of inequality. 026 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: THE STEREOTYPICAL WORLD OF SOCIOLOGY

VH 8309 Program 8. Integration.
Summary: Video is part of an eight-part comprehensive tutorial covering an array of topics in the field of sociology presented through the Standard Deviants teaching style. This program discusses how minority groups are integrated into society, including the five main stages of integration, from segregation to amalgamation, as well as barriers to integration (prejudice, discrimination and racism). Examines the parts of society called institutions such as family and workplace, as well as the political, educational and religious institutions. 026 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: THE STEREOTYPICAL WORLD OF SOCIOLOGY

VH 1262 Program in Action
Summary: Three one-hour interactive videos, 1263-1265, explore the topics Toxic Waste, Water and Biotechnology. Each video starts with a short open minded drama introducing the issues examined in the program. Also included in the series is an introductory video, The Program in Action, 1262, and a comprehensive Teacher's Guide. 021 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: PERSPECTIVES IN SCIENCE

VH 1183 Promised Land, The (1967-1968)
Summary: In the final year of Martin Luther King's life, the movement turned its attention to the economic issues confronting the nation and the rumblings of a far off war in Vietnam. Moved by the increasing level of poverty, Dr. King and his staff searched for a strategy to effect an economic redistribution of wealth. They began to organize a Poor People's Campaign, a march of the poor to Washington, D.C., where they would erect Resurrection City. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 3478 Public Trust, Private Interests
Summary: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Joseph A. Califano Jr., Senator Alan Simpson, Peter Jennings, and others address the problems of trust - within government, between one public official and another, and between the government and the public. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: ETHICS IN AMERICA

VH 0884 Race Against Prime Time
Summary: Documentary explores how television news coverage of violent racial conflicts acts in complicated ways to exacerbate community and individual conflicts. 060 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 4868 Race Relations
Summary: Professor Dyson talked about the dynamics of race relations within the United States today. He is the author of "Race Rules". Professor Dyson talked about the conversations that are going on within the nation and the effectiveness and necessity of these events as they pertain to race. 066 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2657 Racial and Sexual Stereotyping
Summary: This specially adapted Phil Donahue program focuses on how the same old prejudices are handed on from generation to generation and how teens deal with them on a daily basis. Not all judgements are pejorative: an Asian is sick of being presumed to be the smartest in the class, but most prejudices are cruel and unjust. This program airs assumptions of African Americans about Hispanics, straight kids who believe homosexuality to be morally wrong. 028 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 3582 Racism
Summary: This program covers the most appalling crimes against humanity committed under racist justifications: Hitler's ambitions to create a Master Race and the annihilation of six million Jews, and the more recent crimes of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and the Hutu massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, HOLOCAUST, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VH 0815 Racism 101
Summary: A discussion of race relations on United States college and university campuses during the 1980's. 058 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1166 Rape: Not Always a Stranger
Summary: Through enactments, a rape counselor and law enforcement officer present and discuss several situations that lead to a rape. 025 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, ED COUNSELOR

VH 0735 Rapists: Can They Be Stopped?
Summary: Presents Oregon program aimed at rehabilitating sex offenders. 055 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4669 Reclaiming Community
Summary: For centuries people have migrated to cities to find community; but for the last several decades in North America we have abandoned many of our common spaces. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 1163 Regulators, The
Summary: Host E.G. Marshall shows the work of the Environmental Protection Agency in translating federal law into specific regulations. Focuses on the 1977 amendments to the Clean Air Act, especially section 169A, which is aimed at wilderness areas. 051 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, SOCIOLOGY

VH 0971 Relationship Skills
Summary: Part 2 of a five part series. This series isolates, discusses and demonstrates basic family therapist skills through role playing, allowing viewer practice. 025 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: FAMILY THERAPY SKILL TRAINING

VH 2852 Religion, Rap, and the Crisis of Black Leadership: Cornel West
Summary: To practice his unique brand of scholarship, Cornel West moves in many worlds. As an academic, he teaches religion and Afro-American studies at Harvard. As an author, he has delved into subjects from liberation theology to post modern architecture, from rap music to black politicians. As a lay preacher, he can be found speaking to community groups and high school students and in the pulpits of various faiths. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2183 Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The
Summary: Based on a book by William L. Shirer. Pictorial record of the blackest chapter in history. Scenes of Hitler's road to power, his lightning war & the sadistic cruelties of his SS corps. 120 Min. VIDEO 1968 Subject: HOLOCAUST, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1200 Robert Bellah
Summary: In an interview with Bill Moyers, sociologist Robert Bellah discusses the individualistic character of the American people and the resistance that it creates to national consensus and the notion of national and global interdependence. He also comments on role of civic virtue and religious values in the life of the country. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, RELIGION Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1676 Rodrigo D: No Future
Summary: Gritty, realistic portrayal of the youth-killing culture of Medellin, Columbia. Minimal plot involves a young drummer and his drug running friends. The actors used are actual untrained street kids, several of whom died after the film's completion. Director: Victor Gaviria. Spanish with English subtitles. 092 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1787 Roger & Me
Summary: Directed by Michael Moore. Quixote-like quest to meet with GM Chairman Roger Smith & convince him to visit Flint for a firsthand examination of what was occurring there. 091 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1253 Search for the Mind, The
Summary: Nine videocassettes, 1253-1261, 570 minutes. Television series that explores the way science has looked into the mind throughout history, from psychoanalysis to neuroscience. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: MIND, THE

VH 1723 Security Capabilities, Privacy & Integrity
Summary: Speaker, William A. Bayse; moderator, Dorothy Denning. Speech title is "NCIC - 2000: Balancing computer security capabilities with privacy and integrity". 069 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, CRIMINOLOGY, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 2643 Serious Depression
Summary: Serious depression affects 10 million Americans every year. An estimated 15% of the population suffer from it at least once in their lives. Host Jamie Guth explains that women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with it, and interviews experts on its causes and treatment. Viewers meet a woman who dealt with the death of her young son, a young woman still in conflict with her childhood experiences, a suicidal teenager, and an elderly woman who 028 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: DOCTOR IS IN, THE

VH 2323 Sexual Stereotypes In Media: Superman and the Bride
Summary: This program shows how pervasive stereotypes are of man as Superman and woman as his slavish bride--on film and TV, in the fiction on which they are based, even in so-called documentaries. Bombarded from all sides by this point of view, women as well men commonly accept the stereotypes. 040 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2932 Shadow of Hate, The - A History of Intolerance in America
Summary: Spans three centuries to examine this country's ongoing struggle to live up to its ideals of liberty, equality, and justice for all. Through documentary footage and eyewitness reports, viewers are given a powerful perspective on historical events from the ordinary people who lived through them. 040 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1814 Sissela Bok
Summary: Sissela Bok is a philosopher whose writings explore the psychology of lying, the consequences of deception & the perils of keeping secrets. In this program, Bok discusses why politicians & all leaders must keep the public trust & she offers her experienced observations on peaceful change. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1027 Slowing Down the Clock
Summary: A "20/20" program examining the physical, mental and psychological effects of aging. Provides steps for slowing down the aging process and living a longer, healthier and more fulfilling life. 030 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 3083 Social Class
Summary: The forces of empire, nationalism, industrialism, socialism and reform were converging tumultuously in Europe. This program from "Europe" series recalls a time of violent uprisings and disorder. 052 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 2955 Social Roles and Relationships in Old Age
Summary: This program looks at how family, friendship, and work roles evolve and continue as we age. The pioneering of new roles is also explored. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 2960 Societal and Political Aspects of Aging
Summary: This program considers individual and governmental responsibilities for the financial support of older citizens. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIAL WORK, SOCIOLOGY Series: GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE

VH 2851 Solving Black Inner-City Poverty: William Julius Wilson
Summary: The poorest neighborhood in the U.S. is not an isolated southern mountain hollow or a Midwestern farm county blasted by drought, but a four block stretch of public housing on the South Side of Chicago. Most of the residents are black, on welfare, and living in dysfunctional families. But as woebegone as that neighborhood is, the pattern is repeated on block after block in city after city. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1632 Southern Poverty Law Center
Summary: Presents the history and purpose of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Shows past triumphs of the Center as well as modern day battles. 018 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 4676 Spirit of the Mask
Summary: The Spirit of the Mask unlocks the secret world of the Northwest Coast Indians, revealing the myths, rituals and ceremonies that gave rise to both powerful art and a special understanding of man's relationship to the supernatural worlds. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, ART Series: SACRED WAYS

VH 0860 Squatters: The Other Philadelphia Story
Summary: Discusses the squatters movement, made up of people who live in abandoned houses through necessity and in order to force change in housing policy. Focuses on Philadelphia, where Gloria Giles becomes a leader and gains a national reputation. 027 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

VH 1224 Steven Weinberg
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg who discusses the aims of and current state of research in physics, the significance of humanity in the universe, the prospects for nuclear war, and government support for scientific research and how priorities in this support should be determined. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: PHYSICS, SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 0972 Structural/Process Skills
Summary: Part 3 of a five part series. This series isolates, discusses and demonstrates basic family therapist skills through role playing, allowing viewer practice. 034 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: FAMILY THERAPY SKILL TRAINING

VH 0970 Structural Skills
Summary: Part 1 of a five part series. This series isolates, discusses and demonstrates basic family therapist skills through role playing, allowing viewer practice. 024 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: FAMILY THERAPY SKILL TRAINING

VH 1293 Style Wars
Summary: A documentary exploration of the subculture of New York's young graffiti writers and break-dancers, showing their activities and aspirations and the social and aesthetic controversies surrounding New York graffiti. Dramatizes conflicts between graffitists and the city, as well as among the graffitists themselves. 060 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1229 Summing Up
Summary: Excerpts from Bill Moyers' interviews with 42 prominent representatives of a wide variety of disciplines who comment on cultural, political, and moral issues in American life today. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 4677 Sun Dagger, The
Summary: This classic film documents the extraordinary celestial calendar created by ancient North American Indians, and rediscovered by artist Anna Sofaer. 060 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, ASTRONOMY Series: SACRED WAYS

VH 1202 T. Berry Brazelton
Summary: In a two-part interview with Bill Moyers, Dr. Brazelton points out the fact that many working mothers have no choice but to return to work during their babies' first year. He suggests this results in poor bonding and the lack of long-term attachment in the early years of a child's life. He also discusses family ecology and society's role in providing for a child's needs. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1180 Time Has Come, The (1969-1965)
Summary: During the decade of civil rights protest in the south, a sense of urgency and anger emerged from the black communities in the north. Viewers follow the trajectory of Malcolm X's influence. The program shows the influence of his philosophy on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC) as they organized the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama as they issued the call for "Black Power" during the 1966 Meredith March Against Fear. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 3477 To Defend A Killer
Summary: What rights do the guilty have? Ethical dilemmas of our criminal justice system are discussed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, defense attorney Jack Litman, and philosopher John Smith of Yale. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: ETHICS IN AMERICA

VH 1227 Tom Wolfe
Summary: In a conversation with Bill Moyers, Tom Wolfe discusses moral, intellectual, and political dimensions of life in America today. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 7058 Tough Guise
Summary: Presents the first program to look systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the United States in the late 20th century. 085 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNICATION

VH 4869 Town Meeting on Race
Summary: This was the first of three national town hall meetings, all part of the president's initiative on race. During his opening remarks, he outlined a plan to create educational opportunity zones, which would reward school districts for closing down failing schools and getting parents more involved in education. He also took comments from 67 local residents, including students, business persons and scholars. 113 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 1714 Trends in Computers & Network
Summary: Speaker discusses the policy proposals regarding constitutional protections, networked computers and electronic communications. 083 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 2414 Truth Shall Make Us Free, The--Inside the Neo-Nazi Network
Summary: For three years Michael Schmidt played a dangerous double game, insinuating himself into the inner circle of German neo-Nazis. They thought his film would glorify their movement and its leader Michael Kuhnen. Schmidt, however, was determined to expose the resurgence of Nazism in Germany and the growing threat of its international movement. 051 Min. VIDEO Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1181 Two Societies (1965-1968)
Summary: Against the backdrop of the long hot summers of the mid-1960's, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference went to Chicago in an attempt to apply southern movement tactics to the urban north. Their strategies were tested as they came up against the powerful political machinery of Mayor Richard Daley. A year later, in Detroit, frustration and anger built to urban violence as blacks and law officers clashed on city streets. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 4871 U.S. Race Relations
Summary: At the annual Congressional Black Caucus Washington Convention Center Washington D.C. meeting, the leading U.S. black leaders spoke about the state of race relations in the U.S. and the chances for improvements in the future in a lively and often provocative panel. Each speaker reflected their own philosophical and political perspective and challenged the audience and black community. Rev. Chavis criticized the leaders of the Anniversary March on Washington for not inviting Mr. Farrakhan to speak. 124 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 3896 Unknown Generation X, The
Summary: The generation of young adults born between 1965 and 1980 faces challenges that no other generation has had to deal with. Unemployment, underemployment, a huge national debt, a depleting social security system, negative stereotyping, and endless bombardment from advertisers are just a few of the issues confronting this generation. This program examines some of the stereotypes and issues that society has created for "Generation X". 028 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 4865 Urban Drug Problem Solutions
Summary: Economists and scholars talked about the drug problems that have plague d urban areas in the United States. They talked about proposed solutions and wh at role government should play in attempting to remedy the problems. 110 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1211 Vartan Gregorian
Summary: Vartan Gregorian, head of the New York Public Library, talks about the increase in the amount of information and knowledge in our work and the affect of this increase on education and learning. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2635 Victim of Two Cultures: Richard Rodrigues
Summary: Richard Rodriguez, the son of Mexican immigrants, calls himself "a comic victim of two cultures." He started speaking nothing but Spanish, and now argues for education in nothing but English. A Fulbright scholar with degrees from Stanford and Columbia, he suddenly walked away from a promising career in academia; despite his ambition to teach, he rebelled against job offers which, he says, came to him just because of his Hispanic surname. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK Series: LISTENING TO AMERICA WITH BILL MOYERS

VH 1261 Violent Mind, The
Summary: Changes in anatomy and chemistry of the brain can cause violent behavior. In this episode, scientists suggest that even the acts of a serial killer may have a biological or genetic basis. While science delves into the natural aggressive instincts within the mind and measures the probability for violent acts, new scientific data raises difficult questions about the punishment of criminals. 090 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY Series: MIND, THE

VH 4666 Virtually Intentional
Summary: We most often think of communities as sharing a physical space, but communities can also share an attitudinal space. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 2322 Visions of America
Summary: Hank Aaron, Dave Barry, Jimmy Carter, Barbara Mandrell, John McLaughlin, Gloria Steinem, and Amy Tan are seven Americans who have a lot to say about their country. What they say reveals as America full of challenge and opportunity, struggle and prejudice, patriotism and irreverence. 058 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1288 Voices from a Steeltown
Summary: Focuses on Braddock, Pa., a once prosperous steel-producing town. Through personal and family recollections, interviews with residents, old photographs, etc., recalls Braddock's heyday and suggests reasons for its demise. 028 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1710 Voyage of Dreams
Summary: An examination of the Haitian boat people and the political and social reasons for their self exile. 030 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, CARIBBEAN STUDIES

VH 2639 War and Violence
Summary: Poverty and violence seem to go hand in hand. Inner-city Boston is the site of a lesson on walking away from a fight in the face of provocation; in Oakland, CA a young Hispanic speaks of the machismo that underlies gang violence. In Ireland, India, the Middle East and South Africa, violence is fueled by religion, nationalism or race, the flames fanned by politicians' rhetoric. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK Series: HUMAN ANIMAL, THE

VH 1671 Wedding in Galilee
Summary: Directed by Michael Kheifi. Depicts Palestinian traditions that are becoming threatened by 20th century inroads. 113 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MIDDLE EAST, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2658 What Price the Drug War?
Summary: This program with Bill Moyers examines the cost to all Americans of our national drug epidemic and discusses alternatives to the present national drug policy. The program also looks at drug policy from a local and international perspective, and addresses the problems addicts face in obtaining treatment. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK Series: LISTENING TO AMERICA WITH BILL MOYERS

VH 1287 What's Good for GM
Summary: Deals with the destruction of Detroit's Poletown neighborhood in order to make way for the construction of GM's Cadillac assembly plant. Examines the issue of the individual rights the property owners versus the need for jobs and revitalization for Detroit. 043 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 0507 What Should a Guy Do?
Summary: Discusses the responsibilities involved in teenage sexual activity. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 0858 Where Can I Live
Summary: A story about Park Slope, a neighborhood in Brooklyn N.Y. that is becoming a fashionable place to live. Rising property values and real estate development are driving the current residents out. 030 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1727 Where Do We Go From Here
Summary: Speakers, Paul Bernstein, Mary J. Culnan, David Hughes, Don Ingraham, Michell Kapor, Eric Lieberman, Donn B. Parker, Craig Schiffries, Robert Veeder; moderator, Jim Warren. Speakers discuss the perspectives, recommendations and commitments of participants from differing interest groups, proposing next steps they will pursue to protect personal privacy, protect fundamental freedoms and encourage responsible private sector and public-sector policies and legislation. 083 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMPUTERS, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 4727 Where There is Hatred
Summary: Recent events in the world have shown that nonviolence means much more than turning the other cheek. From Chile to the Philippines, from Palestine to Eastern Europe, people have forced major changes using the tactics of nonviolence. 056 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 0731 Who Lives, Who Dies
Summary: Shows the irony of some patients receiving useless medical care they don't want while others cannot get the care they desperately need. Raises the issue of medical care spending priorities determining who lives and who dies. 059 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1384 Why Am I Hiding?
Summary: Rape victims tell their stories and explain why they keep the experience hidden. 050 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 6167 Wife Among Wives, A: Notes on Turkana Marriage
Summary: Part of a trilogy of films on the Turkana, relatively isolated semi nomadic herders who inhabit northwestern Kenya. This documentary investigates how the Turkana, especially the women, view marriage. As plans for a ceremony unfold, polygyny is shown as a source of solidarity among women while causing disregard for individual feelings. 068 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 2225 Wife From My Enemies, A
Summary: This program follows the lives of three intermixed couples, Arab men and Jewish women all from different social strata, whose marriages prevail in spite of the tremendous pressures against their union. 059 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY

VH 1209 Willard Gaylin
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Willard Gaylin, author, psychiatrist and president of the Hastings Center, who outlines the growing conflict between the survival of communities and of the individual, and discusses the relationship of biology, medicine, and ethics. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1226 William Julius Wilson
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Dr. William Julius Wilson who discusses the problems of the inner city, the underclass, and public policy in the United States. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 0472 Workfare, Welfare: What's Fair?
Summary: Conservatives claim that welfare exacerbates poverty, while liberals say welfare grants are so small that families can't find a way out of their poverty. Some states are experimenting with workfare programs, designed to get people off welfare rolls and into jobs. This program focuses on one such program, its costs and its prospects and problems. 026 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIAL WORK, SOCIOLOGY Series: CURRENTS

VH 0508 Working Late
Summary: Examines the issue of age discrimination in the workplace toward the over forty-five age group and those approaching senior citizen status. Viewers are also reminded that the mature worker's knowledge and experience are valuable assets. 029 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: MANAGEMENT, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2660 Yeah You Rite! The Language of New Orleans
Summary: The culture of New Orleans represents the coming together of many rich traditions: French, Spanish, African, Irish, Italian. Along with its legendary music and spicy food, this culture shares a fascinating, unique way of speaking English-- the subject of the entertaining and award winning film YEAH YOU RITE! Mixed into this spicy gumbo are colorful scenes of Mardi Gras celebrations and street fairs, all set to the music of New Orleans native son Dr. John. 029 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS, SOCIOLOGY