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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic, inspiring and empowering interactive educational video series influenced by the broadcast documentaries, featuring 10 entrepreneurial journeys. There are 33 different video modules running five to eight minutes in length and designed for classroom or virtual learning. Provided is an instructor’s manual with guidance on integrating the videos into your course. All video chapters include recommended discussion questions. Each short story...
2) Babies
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows four babies from different parts of the globe as they navigate their first year of life. Features Ponijao from Namibia, Bayarjargal from Mongolia, Hattie who lives in San Francisco, and Mari from Tokyo.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive production provides observation sequences that illustrate all areas of child development. Filmed throughout the whole year of a two year old girl's life, it consists of 24 sequences, during which time she starts nursery. These sequences give a rounded, holistic view of development over time. Being able to observe through out a whole year gives a real feel of what this child is like, how she likes to play and how she learns. The...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This video, winner of the Sage Award by the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, presents a comprehensive range of prehension behaviors, grouped into self-contained Developmental Sequence Clusters, which demonstrate how skills at each level lead to those at the next. Major topics include involuntary-reflexive patterns (the arms in supine and prone, the ATNR, grasping, placing, and avoiding responses); and voluntary movements...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A workout on the sun deck, a conga line in the dining hall, a photo shoot with the captain, or a beauty contest for all ages: fun around-the-clock is guaranteed on a cruise, while you float along with your hotel room. The sea-faring holiday fortresses have come into vogue and business is booming. In the towering ship's wake, we are left behind with a hoard of digital memories and a cloud of exhaust fumes on the horizon.
6) Soros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
SOROS follows one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time as he fights against the rising tide of authoritarianism around the world.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Comprehensive examples of all key stages of physical development from birth to 12 months are illustrated in this film. Information precedes each of the 46 examples filmed during this rapid period of development. The following stages are discussed: Newborn, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months. For each of these ages, aspects of physical development are illustrated: primitive reflexes, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, vision.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The outdoors is as valuable for babies as it is for older children and this film shows how the close adult can bring the outside world alive for them. Babies are sensory motor learners and outside all their senses are stimulated by the rich source of sensory experiences. Their physical development is advanced because the rich and varied environment motivates them to move their bodies in many ways. The film details development of vision, hearing and...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A riveting and poignant journey, YOUNG & RESTLESS IN CHINA tracks the lives of nine ambitious young Chinese professionals who are struggling to make it in this very tumultuous and rapidly changing society. Whether defying Eastern cultural traditions in pursuit of more Western values, struggling through government protocols to start a new business, or fighting to preserve the environment, this new generation is caught between the bonds of their nation’s...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THE COST OF LIVING is a documentary that explores the current socio-economic state of Britain and considers how the idea of a basic income could minimize poverty and the sociological toll of a growing precarious class. The film focuses on the feasibility of a basic income, John Rawls’ theory of justice, automation and ultimately asks should there still be a cost attributed to survival?
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty (which sold over three million copies worldwide and landed Piketty on Time's list of most influential people), this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling...
16) The Flaw
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning director David Sington presents the story of the 2008 financial credit crisis that brought suffering to millions. Forsaking easy explanations of greedy bankers and incompetent regulators, this investigation goes to the root causes of the USA's and UK's deluded belief that everyone could be rich and property prices would rise forever. It asks the question: why are the perpetrators of the mess now entrusted with the lucrative task of clearing...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Laying firm foundations for early literacy skills is about the learning that goes on before actual reading and writing. Children need to build these foundations from the right kind of experiences and support from their very first year. This film starts at three months and follows various children at home and at nursery up till 5 years. It shows what young children need to be able to do, before they are ready to be taught how to read and write. We...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before—intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps. FREE LUNCH SOCIETY provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities and experiences regarding its implementation. Featuring internationally renowned social scientist, scholar, and activist Frances...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film shows examples of event and time sampling techniques. Two children are filmed separately during their afternoon session at nursery school. There is a very quiet girl (3 years 9 months) and a boy (3 years 3 months) who seems often to be at the center of disruptions. This material is used to demonstrate the two observational techniques and is to be used with the accompanying notes. A time and an event sample observation is shown for each child....
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An emotional and enlightening expose of 2 heroic individuals that experienced the horrors of war, carried the mental and physical scars, faced bitter challenges following battle yet rose to well being through the power of entrepreneurship. A Holocaust Survivor who lost his entire family when he was a child and came up with innvovative and physically challenging methods to survive builds a large business in America. Not even the mob could stop him....
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