Irene Bedard
Description
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures, and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured include: The Star Spangled Banner, America the beautiful, My country 'tis of thee, Yankee Doodle, John Henry, The pledge of allegiance, and Hiawatha.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures, and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the planning and building of the Capitol, the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial and the Supreme Court Building.
Description
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the story of the Constitution, the lives of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and the Great Seal of the United States.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include Stewards of the Earth, The Story of Pocahontas, Many Faces One Heart: Diversity of Cultures, Tecumseh and the Trail of Tears, Who are the Native Americans?
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures, and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the story of the flag, the Star Spangled Banner, the evolution of the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, and care of the flag.
Description
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, the life of Thomas Jefferson, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.
Description
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Pilgrims and the Mayflower, the Mayflower Compact, Squanto and the first Thanksgiving, life in colonial Williamsburg, and the Colonists.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include The Journey from Africa to Slavery, Resisting Slavery, Segregation, The Civil Rights Movement, The Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., African Americans Today.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include Who Came to the United States?, The Story of a Child: My New Home in America, The Story of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, The Story of a Child: I Came All the Way From China, and Faces of Immigration Today.
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Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Bill of Rights, Quakers and abolition, the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Susan B. Anthony, and the Emancipation Proclamation.
14) Edge of America
Description
New man in town Kenny Williams has just accepted a position as an English professor on a reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the girls' basketball team.
17) The tree of life
Series
Criterion collection volume 942
Description
The impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Description
"Songs My Brothers Taught Me is a compelling and complex portrait of modern day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that explores the bond between a brother (John Reddy) and his younger sister (Jashaun St .John), who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home. The film sensitively infiltrates isolated Indian Country to offer a rare, modern gaze keenly felt through the eyes of its magnetic, non-professional lead actors,...
20) Pocahontas
Description
In 1607, a group of British adventurers, including John Smith, led by the greedy Virginia Company governor Ratcliffe, set sail for the New World, seeking gold and other treasures. In Virginia, Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan's daughter, ponders her life as she is faced with marriage to the stern warrior, Kocoum. The British establish the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia and dig up the countryside for gold. Smith meets Pocahontas and they overcome their...