Building Mathematical Competencies in Early Childhood
The mathematical skills children bring with them to elementary school predict both their mathematical and literacy achievement for years to come. In this video, experts from Erikson Institute’s Early Mathematics Educat..
Business Ethics: Truth in Advertising
In today’s high-tech, multimedia business environment, ads must be slick, sensational, and sophisticated if they're are to stand out from the competition. This program examines how truth in advertising has gotten lost ..
Ca twiste a Poponguine = Rocking Poponguine
A coming-of-age comedy set in a remote Senegalese beachside village during the last week before Christmas, 1964 where the local teenage boys are divided into rival cultural camps. The "Ins" ("Inseparables") style themse..
Calling the Ghosts : A Story about Rape, War and Women
An extraordinarily powerful documentary, Calling the Ghosts is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs. Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, child..
Careers in the Physical Sciences
There’s nothing boring about stopping a speeding bullet, especially when it’s accomplished with liquid. How about designing robots based on insect anatomy…or using computers to figure out what George Washington rea..
Case Studies in Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Bridget, 15, cannot go near her own parents because she fears they are somehow “contaminated.” Rocco, 9, dissolves into tears whenever he tries to leave for school—consumed by anxiety over what could happen once he..
Cataclysm: the black death visits Tuscany
Until 1348, people in Sienna and Florence enjoyed the richest, safest, and most comfortable lives in their history. But almost overnight, their certainty of life - and even any hope of a good death - was gone. This progr..
Change, Change
As this Bill Moyers program makes clear, television became another member of the family in the 1960s, both reflecting and influencing the era. The times were chaotic and TV whirled us into that chaos while also holding u..
Charisma in Politics: Analyzing Body Language
Furrowed brows, widened eyes, clenched teeth—such signals reveal a great deal about our leaders, and they also influence our reactions to media images. This program investigates ways in which facial expressions and non..
Chekhov
A superb Russian film documentary of the life and loves, the thoughts and works, the great themes and the little individual lights and shadows that made Chekhov the man and the artist. Set in Moscow in 1914 - ten years a..