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1-800-INDIA: Importing a White-Collar Economy
SKU: BVL36341
Over the past decade, India has emerged as the leader in the global market for outsourced white-collar jobs—one reason for the nation’s rapid economic growth. This Wide Angle case study explores the experiences of emerging Indian professionals who have been recruited into positions requiring long hours, late-night shifts, and Westernized work habits. The program reveals the human and cultural impact of a controversial yet essentially unstoppable global economic trend—examining its effec...
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A Fatal Impact: Eugenics, Social Darwinism, and Genocide
SKU: BVL39664
During the 19th century, racial categorization took on a pseudoscientific stance. This program shows how the academic racism of the period helped to spread imperialist policies across the globe. Sifting through the “science” of eugenics and its link to social Darwinism, the film juxtaposes the racial hygiene theories of Robert Knox, Francis Galton, and Eugen Fischer with racial warfare in Tasmania, Victorian apathy in famine-wracked India, and—prefacing the Holocaust—horrific German c...
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A Global Roll Call: The Need for Education Worldwide 2 DVD Series
SKU: BVL36470
Without schooling, a child has no future. Without an educated population, a nation has no future. These two parts of an ongoing Wide Angle series—the third episode to be produced in 2009—examine gaps and voids in educational opportunities that, tragically, keep many developing countries from advancing. Following a group of children from around the world as they progress through life—and, on an uneven basis, through school—the series gets to the heart of this colossal yet not intractab...
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A Little Matter of Gender: Developmental Differences among Savants
SKU: BVL36425
One of the great success stories from the world of autism, Temple Grandin revolutionized the field of livestock management, empowered by her sensitivity with animals. Tommy McHugh displayed no such sensitivity—until a brain hemorrhage transformed him from a brawler into a gentle soul. As scientists continue to investigate differences between the male and female brain, the special characteristics of autistics and savants take on increased importance. This program describes the latest researc...
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A Motivated Mind
SKU: BVL36185
If high test scores bring praise or treats, students will develop good study habits—according to commonsense thinking, at least. But conventional wisdom is changing. This two-part series sheds new light on the ways that children push their own limits, overcome challenges, and take pleasure in learning. Interviews with psychologists and education experts reveal counterintuitive but highly effective methods for building student confidence and achievement. Portions are in Korean with English s...
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A Savage Legacy: Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today
SKU: BVL39665
Did racist atrocities in the 19th and 20th centuries bring Western society to an ethical and ideological turning point? Or has racial oppression simply assumed other, more insidious forms? Pursuing answers, this program focuses on a pattern of segregation and genocide evident in King Leopold’s Belgian Congo rampages, South Africa’s apartheid rule, the terrorism of Jim Crow, and less obvious examples that persist in today’s global community. Several renowned authors, including Dr. Michae...
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A Struggle for Educational Equality: 1950–1980
SKU: FIL11764
In the 1950s, America’s public schools teemed with the promise of a new, postwar generation of students, over half of whom would graduate and go on to college. This program shows how impressive gains masked profound inequalities: seventeen states had segregated schools; 1% of all Ph.D.s went to women; and "separate but equal" was still the law of the land. Interviews with Linda Brown Thompson and other equal rights pioneers bring to life the issues that prompted such milestones as Brown v. ...
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A War on Science: Intelligent Design in the Classroom
SKU: FIL36232
Are advocates of the intelligent design theory really creationists in disguise? To what extent has the I.D. argument widened America’s cultural divide? And if a clear winner emerges, who loses? This program thoroughly examines those questions, describing the theory’s quasi-scientific origins and documenting the Pennsylvania court battle over teaching I.D. in biology classes. A historical overview of the creation vs. evolution debate in the United States is also included, highlighting 20th...
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Acutely Anxious
SKU: BVL36474
Acute anxiety, one of the most common psychiatric illnesses, makes everyday experiences like walking down the street or talking on the phone a source of potential terror. This program explains how and why this happens as it examines the physiology and psychology of anxiety, its symptoms, its highly maladaptive consequences, and treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy. Case studies involving panic disorders and social phobia are spotlighted. (48 minutes)
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Addicted to Cheap Shopping? Why the Real Cost of Goods Keeps Going Down
SKU: BVL39028
In this program, host Libby Potter travels around the world as she takes a meaningful look at the economics behind the inexpensive goods for sale in big-box stores and malls. Cost-cutting through supply chain management and waste reduction, economies of scale achieved by shipping offshore-manufactured goods to market via super-container ships, the Wal-Mart effect, and the no-frills philosophy of IKEA are addressed. The triumphs and woes of China, in its role as manufacturer for the world, is ...
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Addiction: A Comprehensive View
SKU: BVL39792
Made up of several concise segments, this program deals with a wide range of drugs, addiction issues, and case studies. Viewers will enter a chaotic Dallas ER, where the majority of injuries are drug- and alcohol-related, and meet a desperate middle-aged woman who finally turns in her heroin-addicted daughter to police. Other segments focus on opiate addiction, drug abuse in adolescence, the reasons for relapse, the science of brain imaging, a potential treatment for alcoholism called topiram...
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Anatomy for Beginners
SKU: FIL36296
Anatomist Gunther von Hagens is world-renowned for his invention of plastination, a method of preserving dead tissue. He is also famous for his Body Worlds exhibits which incorporate sophisticated—and highly controversial—dissections of human bodies. In this astonishing four-part series, von Hagens lays bare the intricacy and beauty of the human design, making it viewable and easily understood across a wide range of settings—from Biology 101 to the most advanced medical courses. Viewer ...
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Animated Neuroscience and the Action of Nicotine, Cocaine, and Marijuana in the Brain
SKU: BVL8352
Using sophisticated 3-D animation, this program, divided into two parts, takes viewers on a journey deep into the brain to study the effects of the three substances. The first part illustrates the major functions of the brain and shows how its principal cells, the neurons, communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. In the second part, animated molecules of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana travel a route from the external environment through the body to the brain, whe...
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Antigone
SKU: BVL1320
Antigone is perhaps the most easily accessible of all the great classical tragedies, its theme clear and up-to-date: the conflict between moral and political law. Now the tale of Oedipus and his family comes to its end—he, his wife Jocasta, his sons, and now, at the last, his daughter, all dead. Antigone is not the only victim in the play; Creon too comes to a tragic downfall—although he repents in time, bureaucratic ritual results in the deaths of Creon’s son and wife, burdening him wi...
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As American as Public School: 1900–1950
SKU: BVL11763
In 1900, 6% of America’s children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey’s progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests, the "life adjustment" curriculum, and Cold War politics. Interviews with immigrant students, scho...
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