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Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Terrorists and other killers who use explosive devices typically presume that their tracks will be covered--but they are wrong. After a car blast, this program reveals how investigators deploy extraordinary science to recover scattered evidence, interpret the events at the center of the inferno, and capture the bomber. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' Robert Poole leads the investigation. In addition, surgical pathologist and forensic...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Nabil drives a cab in New York City while Tarek is a stockbroker in Los Angeles. Usla is a junior partner in a Chicago law firm and Adel runs a gas station in Venus, Texas. For these and approximately seven million other Muslims in this country, the terrorist attacks of September 11th brought painful challenges to their notions of identity. From a sample group that spans recent immigrants to third-generation citizens, this program presents a series...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003, 2004]
Language
English
Description
Using the firsthand experiences of teens, most of whom started drinking in junior high, this film illustrates the dangers of alcohol. Their collective story begins with the social, environmental, and genetic factors that led them to it; it continues through a destructive cycle of alcohol-motivated choices, such as fighting, stealing, and DUI; and ends in rehab, though their scars--for one, the knowledge that he almost killed his best friend in a drunken...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Ronald Reagan's stern view of the U.S.S.R. formed around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This program examines how, once president, Reagan acted on his unswerving conviction that only confrontation, not appeasement, could win the Cold War. In articulating Reagan's dual belief in defense against a first strike and, ultimately, nuclear arms reduction, the program traces his agenda of military buildup and aggressive rhetoric."-- Container.
