• Dark Passages - Describes African culture including kinship, trade, and slavery; organized in short segments useful in class (I use the very first section)
El Centro, HT 871.D28 1995
• Discovering the Music of Africa - not particularly good film, more appropriate for World Civilization
  Africa: Western Region
  El Centro, DT 471.A37 1993
  The Africans, a triple heritage
  Mountain View, DT 14.A37 1986
  See World Civilization also

Eastfield, ML 3760.D57

• Music of the Renaissance - Interesting
Mountain View, E111.F68 1992
• Christopher Columbus: Explorer of the New World - bad sound on this copy; interesting film, though, from A&E's "Biography" series
Mountain View, E11.C58 1995
• Dancing. Dance at Court
Eastfield, GV 1601 D36 1993 prog. 3
• Understanding the Art of the Renaissance
Mountain View, N6370.U53 1986
• History through Art
Mountain View, N5300.H585 pt. 4 (Renaissance)
• 1492
Mountain View, E111.F68 1992

• The Witches of Salem: the Horror and the Hope - from the 1957 "You Were There" series
Cedar Valley, BF 1575.W57
• Witchcraft in America: Behind the Crucible -
Mountain View, BF 1566.W75 1989

• The Revolutionary War - dated but usuable, long and rather drawn out
El Centro, E208 R48 1993, v.1 & v.2
• The Revolutionary War
Richland, E 208.R483 1995 vol. 1&2
• To Keep Our Liberty
Eastfield, E210.T64 1990

• A Little Rebellion Now & Then - good film about Shays Rebellion; actors perform selected events & scenes
El Centro,
• American Adventure Telecourse: The Rural Republic (episode 12) - reat clip describing Tennessee frontier
El Centro (and other campuses), E 178.A45 1987, prog. 12
• The Eighteenth Century Woman - mostly European fashion
El Centro, NX 652.W6 E43 1982

• George Washington: founding father
Mountain View, E312.G46 1994
• Meet George Washington
Richland, E312.M43 1981
• United States Presidents
Eastfield, E175.1.U64 1995 v.1
• The Whiskey Rebellion
Mountain View, E315.S59 1986
• The Whiskey Rebellion: past and present perspectives
Mountain View, E 315.W65 1985

Jeffersonian Democracy:

• Journals of Lewis & Clark - okay, narrated by Lorne Greene, somewhat dated but workable
Richland, F 592.7 L682 1995
• Thomas Jefferson - Ken Burns & PBS production, excellent film, good opening, Declaration of Indipendence, attitude toward slaves, and historians denying possible Sally Hemings relationship (glad that wasn't me!); this is the definitive Jefferson video...
Brookhaven, E 332 T47 1996, pt. 1 & 2
• Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the New Frontier - A&E "Biography" series, good film

Mountain View, F592.7.L48 1995
• Thomas Jefferson: The Pursuit of Liberty - Good films with comments of President Carter and George Will
Mountain View, E332.2 T48 1991
• Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom - A&E "Biography" Series; good film but quAlity of the copy was poor.
Mountain View, E 332 T485 1995
• Gone West - Louisiana Purchase
Brookhaven, Cedar Valley, F591.G65
• Equal Justice Under the Law: Marbury vs. Madison
Cedar Valley, Northlake, KF4575.M37
• The Eye of Thomas Jefferson

Cedar Valley, E 332.3.E93 1977

• Sea of Honor, the U.S. Navy Story, 1775-1945 - War of 1812

Brookhaven, E 182.S42 1996 v. 3

John Q. Adams:

• John Quincy Adams - about Embargo of 1807
Richland E377.J63 1983

• The Trail of Tears - not about the 1830s story
Mountain View, Richland, E 77.T72 1991

• U.S. - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1998 PBS Series produced by KERA; long but excellent quality
Eastfield, E404.U85 1998 pt. 1-4

Miscellaneous Antebellum 19th Century Topics:

• The Shakers: hands to work, hearts to God - excellent, includes dance, Ken Burns film
El Centro, BX 9766.S52 1996
• The Amish: A People of Preservation - okay but mostly modern life of Amish, little history

El Centro, BX 8129.A6 A4 1991
• When Ireland Starved: Exodus - not very good
Brookhaven, HC 260.5 Z9 F36 1992 pt.4
• John James Audubon: the birds of America
Mountain View, QL 31.A9 J63
• Susan B. Anthony: rebel for a cause

Mountain View, HQ 1413.A55 S97 1995

• Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote Poetry

El Centro, E449.D75 F76 1994
• A History of Slavery in America
El Centro, E441.H57 1994
• The Civil War - PBS series by Ken Burns

El Centro, E468.C583 1989
• Royal federal blues: the story of the African-American Civil War soldier

El Centro, E540.N3R69

• A History of the Negro in America - dated, not very usable (in three parts)

El Centro, E 185.H57 1980
• Feel It In My Bones - good film about recently discovered slave cemetery in N.Y. and the Freedmen's Cemetery in Dallas

Cedar Valley, E 441.F43 1993
• The Klan
Cedar Valley, Richland, HS 2330.K63 K63

• The Way West Series - good series; includes The Course of Empire, 1845-1864 (prog. 1), the Approach of Civilization, 1865-1869 (prog. 2), War for the Black Hills, 1870-1876 (prog. 3), Ghost Dance, 1877-1893 (prog. 4)

El Centro, F591.W39 1995
• I Will Fight No More Forever - Hollywood version of Nez Perce (109 min.)
  America's Westward Expansion
  Brookhaven, E 179.5 A49 1996

El Centro, E83.877.I9
• Last Stand at Little Bighorn - PBS "American Experience" Series; excellent film; I show the aftermath of the battle

El Centro, E83.876.L37 1992
• Buffalo Soldiers - very good film; shows rare photos, battles in Texas
El Centro, UA 31 10th B83 1992
• The West - Extensive series in 8 parts, good films

El Centro, F 591.W44 1996
• The Black West - dated but usable

El Centro, F 596.B52 1993
• The Frontier Challenge; responses to the trans-Mississippi West

Brookhaven, F 389.B964
See also:

• The Splendid Little War - okay

Brookhaven, E715.S64 1992

• The United States Becomes a World Power - pretty dry but will work especially short clips; good clips from Cleveland to Spanish American War and from Spanish American War and Open Doior through T.R., good on jingoism,

El Centro, E 744.742

• Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice - very good biography

Brookhaven, E 185.97.B26 I32 1989
• Headline Stories of the Century: A Newsreel Library of America in the News - actually 20th century including lots of 1920s but has the first movie ever made

Richland, E 741.H42 1992

• The Hunt for Pancho Villa - excellent film, one of my favorites

El Centro, F1234 H86 1993
• Birth of a Nation - D. W. Griffith's racist classic; this 1930s print has the "Star Spangled Banner" at the end

Mountain View, PN 1997.85 B47
• Wild Women Don't Have the Blues - Bessie Smith and other blues stars, good film

El Centro, ML 3521 W54 1989
• Focus on the Last Hundred Years, Mod. 2, 1910-1919 - Part of extensive series on every era, good short clips

Brookhaven, Eastfield, D 421 F58 mod. 2
• This Great Century, Tape 1 (1900-1918) - good series

Brookhaven, CB 425.T54 1996 tape 1
• TR - excellent biography of Theodore Roosevelt in two parts

Eastfield, E 757.T75 1997 tapes 1 & 2
• The History of Flight

Mountain View, TL 515.H57
• Women Get the Vote - okay

El Centro, JK 1896.W65 1980
• Henry Ford: Mirror of America

Brookhaven, E169.H45
• Marcus Garvey: toward Black nationhood - mediocre

Northlake, E 185.97.G3 M33

• 1914-1918, World War I - National Geographic

Brookhaven, D521 N56 1992
• Aftermath of World War I

Richland, D727.A35 1980
• The Great War

El Centro, D2223.G73 pt. 1&2
• Ten days that shook the world

El Centro, DK 265.T46 1987

• Harlem in the Twenties - emphasis on art but nice 10 minute film, mostly illustrations

El Centro, F128.68.H3 H37
• Ku Klux Klan: The Invisible Empire - 1965 expose' with a very young Walter Cronkite shows history of KKK, but 1920s clips particularly good; there are racial slurs that may make some students uncomfortable in parts of the film
El Centro, HS 2330 K63 K84 1965
• The Jazz Age - good clips, somewhat dated but interesting stuff here; I like the "high life" through the crash; black & white newsreels

El Centro, E784 J32, pt. 1 & 2
• Dancing, New Worlds, new forms - excellent, includes Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Jamaican, Brazilian

Eastfield, GV 1601.D36 1993 prog. 5
• Between the Wars. Radio, racism and foreign policy

Brookhaven, D720.B47 prg. 4
• Golden Twenties

Eastfield, E784.G641 pt. 1 & 2
• Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio - Ken Burns

El Centro, TK 6548.U6 E66 1996
• Wild Women Don't Have the Blues - Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, and more; good film

El Centro, ML 3521.W54 1989
• The Twenties

Richland, E741.T93 1969b
• The Ladies Sing the Blues - Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Count Basie, etc.

Cedar Valley, M1630.18.L335
• From these roots: a review of the Harlem Renaissance

Northlake, NX511.N4 F76

• Eleanor Roosevelt - excellent

Mountain View, E 807.1.E54 1994
• Franklin D. Roosevelt - excellent

Richland, E 807.F726 1980 pt. 1 & 2
• Brother Can You Spare a Dime - one of my favorites, clips of different topics

El Centro, E 806 B785 1992
• Life in the Thirties - excellent

El Centro, E 806.L32 pt. 1 & 2
• 1929-41 - National Geographic

Brookhaven, HB3717 1929.A192 1990
• The Great Depression

Brookhaven, HB 3717 1929.G63 1993 prog. 1-7

• Hitler's Germany - detailed film in three parts (The Only Hope, The people's community, total war)

El Centro, DD 253.H57 tapes 1-3
• The Home Front - excellent even though its Readers' Digest; three volumes by dates

El Centro, E 741.H65 v. 1-3
• Between the Wars, War comes at Pearl Harbor - good film with Eric Severeid describing P.H.

Brookhaven, D720.B47 prg. 16
• Focus on the last hundred years. the forties - great film

Brookhaven, Eastfield, D421.F58 mod. 5
• World War II. Pacific - okay but not much Pearl Harbor except introduction

Northlake, D743.W665 v.2
• Cartoons Go to War - interesting with lots of familiar cartoon characters

Richland, D743.23.C37 1995
• Women of Courage: The Story of the Women Pilots of World War II - good film

Mountain View, D810.W7 W65
• Adolf Hitler: 1889-1945

Brookhaven, DD247.H5 A759 pt. 1 & 2
• The Twisted Cross - Hitler

Richland, DD 247. H5 T85 1958B pt. 1&2
• Guilty by Reason of Race - excellent film about Japanese-American internment during the war including Pearl Harbor clip

Richland, D769.8.A6 G8 1972b pt.1&2
• Hitler: The Whole Story

Cedar Valley, DD247.H5 H57 1989
• How the Nazis Came to Power

Mountain View, DD 256.5 H68 1991
• World War II, a personal journey Brookhaven, D811.A2 W67 pt. 1

• The Eyes on the Prize - history of Civil Rights movement, excellent

El Centro, KF 4757.E94 mod. 1 & 2
• Joseph McCarthy: An American Inquisitor - good film

Mountain View, E748. M143 J67 1995
• Crisis in Korea

Brookhaven, DS918.C74 1997
• Focus on the last hundred years. the fifties - includes Nixon's Checkers Speech of 1952

Brookhaven, Eastfield, D421.F48 mod. 6
• Korea

Richland, DS 919.K65 1988
• Harry S. Truman

Mountain View, Richland, E814.H333 1994
• Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist

Richland, PN 1993.5.U65L43 1987
• Since '45 - not much interesting here

Brookhaven, D842.5.S56
• A Time for Justice: America's Civil Rights Movement

Eastfield, E 185.61.T55.1992
• 1945-1989, The Cold War - National Geographic

Brookhaven, D842.A1945 1991
• Those rythmn--those blues - 1940s & 50s

El Centro, ML 3521.T53 1989
• Supreme Court decision that changed the nation. Brown v. Board of Education

Richland, KF 8742.S96 1986 mod. 5
• Post-War Hopes, Cold War Fears

Richland, E 741.W35 no. 12
• Black Like Me

El Centro, E 185.61.G82 1991

• Chicano! the history of the Mexican American civil rights movement

Eastfield, Mountain View, E 184.M5 C46 1996 tapes 1-4
• Change, change (Walk Trhough the 20th Century with Bill Moyers) 1950s

Richland, E741.W35 no.19
• Making Sense of the Sixties

Brookhaven, HN 59.M28 1991
• Crisis: Missiles in Cuba

Richland, E841.C74 1987
• Malcolm X

Cedar Valley, Mountain View, E185.97.L5 M35 1995
• The Vietnam War

Brookhaven, DS 557.7.V567 1990
• The Assassination of President Kennedy

Brookhaven, E 842.9.A83 1978
• Framing the Panthers in Black and White

Cedar Valley, HV 8141.F72 1990
• The True Malcolm X speaks

El Centro, E185.97.L5 A2 1993 pt. 1&2
• Vietnam: chronicle of a war

Richland, DS558.V53
• Vietnam, 1945-1975, the ten thousand day war

Mountain View, Richland, DS556.5.V53 1985 v.1-3
• Vietnam, a television history - PBS series

Brookhaven, Eastfield, Northlake, DS 557.7.V53 pt. 1
• The Flight of Apollo 11

Mountain View, TL 799.M6 F54
• The History Machine - Assassination, Vietnam & Man on the Moon, v. 7, and Eisenhower & Kennedy, v. 6

Brookhaven, E 741.H57 1993
• Spaceflight: Thunder in the Skies

Richland, TL 793.S62 1988 mod. 1
• Remember My Lai

Richland, DS557.8.M9 R45
• The Sixties

Eastfield, Richland, D842.5.S59 1970b
• Memories of 1966-1967 - includes Charles Whitman shooting in Austin

Brookhaven D 422.M454 1997

• Dark Days at the White House: the Watergate Scandal & the Resignation of President Richard M. Nixon

Richland, E 850.D37 1989
• Richard Nixon: Old Glory, Checkers, Resignation

Richland, E856.R52 1980
• Women and the Constitution: The Challenge - speech by Barbara Jordan

El Centro, KF4788.A75 W65 1988
• Images of the 1980s

Mountain View, E875.I42 1989
• The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

El Centro, DK 266.R555 1992 v.1, v.2

• American Ballroom

El Centro, GV 1751.A43 tapes 1-4 includes foxtrot, waltz, swing, latin dances

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World Civilization
under construction
Above New Zealand
Brookhaven, DU 412.A36 1983

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