Tuesday, January 1, 2013

245 New Videos in Films on Demand

Several weeks ago, the UI&U Library added a new video database called Films on Demand.  This database includes 11,200 videos that can be used in personal research and CampusWeb courses. To this extensive collection, 245 new videos have been added.  We have highlighted some of the best new videos.  To view the entire collection, please visit the Films on Demand database.

Subject Categories

Business & Economics
Career
Criminal Justice & Emergency Management
Education
Health, Medicine & Public Health
History, Anthropology, & Archival Films
Philosophy & Religion
Political Science
Psychology
Management & Leadership
Sciences
Technology

Business & Economics


In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Burst
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In this classic program, produced two years before the financial collapse of 2008, investigative journalist Danny Schechter predicts a 1929-like stock market crash due to the large amount of ...

Toxic Labels: The Dark Side of Outsourcing
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Western consumers are accustomed to buying low-cost garments, but in global terms there is a larger price to be paid-a price in human health, security, and dignity. It seems that many manufacturers st ...

Money Mistakes Many of Us Make
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Understanding how and why we all make financial mistakes is the best way to keep them from happening. This ABC News report reviews the top five financial mistakes people make. Farnoosh Torabi...

How to Use Social Networks for Businesses
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According to Percolate’s James Gross, social media is now an integral part of doing business today. This ABC News report discusses how businesses need to constantly create new content to feed...

Top 5 Marketing Tips to Increase Sales
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Tierra Destiny Reid reveals how marketing can boost business income. This ABC News report includes the top five marketing tips for any business. From targeted marketing and the use of social media...

Career

Social Media May Help Your Job Hunt: Job Club
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Skills demonstrated while social gaming can be carried over to certain jobs, according to Vistaprint CEO Austin Cook. This ABC News report looks at how the process works, including some games made by ...

Job Search Help for Young Workers
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In the current job market, opportunities for young workers are scarce. This ABC News report examines why workers between the ages of 16 and 24 have such a hard time finding jobs. Susan Solovic offers ...

Think b4 u Post: Your Reputation and Privacy on Social Networking Sites
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A person normally wouldn’t shout out the details of a secret hookup or give a credit card to a total stranger and say “Max it out for me.” Yet as this video playfully points out, in effect that’s what ...

Criminal Justice & Emergency Management

Busting Organized Retail Crime Rings
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Most people think of shoplifting as a petty crime, but organized rings sell the stolen items and make as much as $30 billion a year. This ABC News report examines how retailers...

Crime and Combat: How Does That Work?
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Modern technology has given law enforcement new, non-lethal options when subduing an individual or controlling a crowd. There have also been advances made in body identification autopsies. This film...

How Glock Became America's Gun
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The Glock is America’s favorite "super gun." This ABC News report examines the popularity of this European-made firearm. Made of composite material, the gun is lightweight. With an easy trigger pull a ...

The Christchurch Earthquake: A Case Study
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The 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand was devastating for the city's residents and the surrounding landscape. This program presents an in-depth case study of the event, focusing on both the ...

Gangster Refugees: A Case Study in Immigration and Assimilation
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When thousands of war refugees poured into the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta in 1979, the first Vietnamese community in Australia was born. But it didn’t take long for problems stemming from language ba ...

Education

The Effective Teacher Series
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In this classic presentation, award-winning educator, author, and lecturer Harry K. Wong defines what it means to be an efficient and effective teacher. Segments include: cooperative learning and culture, discipline and procedures, procedures and routines, the professional educator, first days of school, and lesson mastery.  As Dr. Wong discusses, there are four stages of ...

Never Cease to Learn
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Become the educator you were meant to be! In this inspirational video, acclaimed educator, author, and lecturer Harry K. Wong shares practical advice for teachers at any stage in their career: never c ...

Health, Medicine, & Public Health

Sugar Overload: Corporate Profits vs. Public Health
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With the average American consuming about 22 teaspoons of sugar every day, it’s no wonder obesity and other health problems are on the rise. But here’s what’s really frightening: eighty percent of the ...

Breaking the Wall of Child Mortality: How Immunization and Malaria Control Are Saving Senegal's New Generations (2012)
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According to The Economist, child mortality in Senegal dropped 40 percent in just five years, from 2005 to 2010—one of the fastest global reductions ever witnessed. The country had falls of more than ...

Henrietta Lacks Was Never Compensated for Cell
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This ABC News report looks at the amazing scientific contribution of Henrietta Lacks. While being treated for cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital, doctors removed some of her tumor cells ...

Stressed Monkeys Eat More
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Researchers in Atlanta studied a group of dominant monkeys and a group of subordinate monkeys to track their eating habits. The subordinate monkeys ate more of the food that was full of fats and sugar ...

First Aid Emergencies: In the Community
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Whether it's on the street, inside a shopping mall, or even at a quiet park, accidents and injuries can occur without warning. This program looks at the types of injuries that often happen in a commun ...

Health and Human Rights: Rights & Wrongs—Human Rights Television
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This episode discusses the connection between health and human rights. A profile of Jonathan Mann details his founding of the World Health Organization’s Global Program on AIDS and advocating for non- ...

History, Anthropology, and Archival Films

Women's Rights as Human Rights: Rights & Wrongs—Human Rights Television
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More than half a million women die each year from pregnancy and childbirth. Gender-based violence kills and disables as many women between the ages of 15 and 45 as cancer does. Women are twice a likel ...

Ancient Ships: Ancient Discoveries
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Some ancient shipbuilding techniques are still used today. This film uncovers the revolutionary work of ancient shipbuilders whose vessels rival modern cruise liners in their scale...

A Fair Deal for a Dark Race: Southeastern Australia, 1937 to 1967—First Australians
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Across the continent, the First Australians were ruled by “protective legislation” that restricted their wages, their ability to travel freely, and their right to marry the partner of their choice. Yo ...

Maori Land Protests: Hikoi and Bastion Point
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The 1970s was a period of great social and political upheaval around the world, including the push for indigenous equality and land rights. The protest movement launched by the Maori peoples of New Ze ...

Legend and Reality: The Celts
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Beginning in the 8th century, the Celts faced repeated invasions: first by the Vikings and then by the Normans. Weakened by these conflicts, and the ever-changing geopolitical landscape of the contine ...

Management & Leadership

CNBC Titans: Steve Jobs
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Irrepressible, irascible, and iconic, Steve Jobs reigned as the undisputed king of Silicon Valley for the better part of three decades. From his parents’ California garage he launched the personal com ...

Facts About Franchises
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Starting a franchise business or buying an existing franchise is a huge undertaking. This ABC News report looks at the questions you need to answer before buying into one. Susan Solovic helps viewers ...

Sheryl Sandberg: Women Must Learn to "Lean In"
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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, has some advice for women in the workplace: get over the need to be liked. This ABC News report talks to Sandberg about why women still have problems becoming as succe ...

Whole Foods: How Radical CEO Created Grocery Empire
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Whole Foods has a reputation as a liberal elite utopia of organic and fair trade food, but the CEO of the company doesn’t fit that profile. This ABC News report meets John Mackey, a portrait of contra ...

Take the Lead: Leadership Advice for Everyone
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Author Betsy Myers believes that providing motivation to others is one of the most important traits of leadership. This ABC News report provides tips on how to motivate others, and gain their respect ...

Philosophy & Religion


Faith in America
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Americans are becoming more religiously tolerant than they have been in the past. Seventy percent accept that religions other than their own can lead to eternal life and less than 25 percent believe t ...

The Role Of Altruism in a Meaningful Life: Intercultural Connections
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Although Ethiopia and the U.S. are worlds apart economically, citizens of both countries cite the same factors when asked what makes their lives meaningful. Is it possible that humanitarian ideals...

Jesus and Paul and the Word and the Witness
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In this ABC News special program, Peter Jennings tells the story of Jesus of Nazareth, Paul the Apostle, and Christianity in its first decades. When Rome ruled the world from Europe to the heart of th ...

Pope John Paul II: His Life and Legacy
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How does a poor little boy from a small town in Poland become pope? This ABC News report examines the forces, experiences, and people that shaped the man known to the world as Pope John Paul II. Born ...

Sexuality and Religion
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The three major religious traditions all have definitive positions on sexuality. In this ABC News report for Focus on Faith, Father Edward Beck explains the stance of religious communities on issues...

Political Science

John Lewis Marches On
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In this edition of Moyers & Company, two icons of the '60s civil rights era-John Lewis and Bill Moyers-meet to share experiences and revelations related to the momentous March on Washington, which the ...

Breaking the Wall of the Polling Booth: How Electoral Psychology Enlightens Democratic Citizenship
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What do citizens think about in the polling booth? Despite the latest technological innovations in electoral methods, the voter's mind has been neglected by academia. Michael Bruter of the London Scho...

Future Peace, Next War
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At the time of Israel's golden anniversary, it was a nation torn between its political left and right. In this program, the vision of Israel's purpose and scope-and the leaders who have interpreted an ...

The Long Assault on Voting Rights
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In this edition of Moyers & Company, acclaimed historian Gary May—a specialist in American political, diplomatic, and social history—joins Bill to put the recent Supreme Court decision gutting the ...

Are Drones Destroying Our Democracy?
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In the fight against terrorism, the U.S. military’s escalating drone program has become the face of our
foreign policy in Pakistan, Yemen, and parts of Africa. And while the use of unmanned drones ind ...

Psychology

Breaking the Wall of Sensory Overload: How Primate Neuroscience Reveals the Mechanisms of Our Perception
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We know that attention disorders such AD/HD, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, affect more than four percent of the population and are connected to other neuropsychiatric disorders. However...

Happy
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Filmed on five continents, this documentary combines powerful stories and remarkable case studies with serious brain science to lead viewers toward a deeper understanding of how they can actively purs ...

Psychometric Testing and Employment
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Psychometric testing, used to assess a candidate's psychological and cognitive suitability for a particular job, is a key stage in the recruitment process for many employers. This interview-led progra ...

Treating Addiction with Virtual Reality
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Millions of Americans struggle with addiction every day. Learning how to control cravings and resist temptation is the hardest thing for a recovering addict to deal with. This ABC News report looks at ...

Inside Out: Portraits of Children—A Film by Joanna Lipper
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In Joanna Lipper’s riveting, award-winning documentary about imagination and creativity in childhood, children between the ages of 5 and 12 tell their life stories with humor, sadness, and honesty. ...

The Healing Years: Surviving Incest and Child Sexual Abuse
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This powerful documentary—an acclaimed film in the field of child sexual abuse prevention—tells the stories of three courageous incest survivors: former Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur, an inspiration...

Sciences

Acid Threatens Ocean Life
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The effects of greenhouse gases on the atmosphere and temperatures are well documented. Their effects on the oceans and marine life continue to be discovered. This ABC News report looks at the acidifi ...

Breaking the Wall of the Dark Side of the Oceans:How Marine Sciences Discover Hidden Resources
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Although seawater covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, and a large proportion of the planet's population lives along the coastlines, we know more about the dark side of the moon...

Scientists Announce a Rough Mapping of the Human Genome
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In one of the most ambitious and expensive biology projects ever, scientists from around the world have been working for years on mapping the human genome. This ABC News report examines...

Sam's Dare: Why Are Bees Vanishing?
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The honey bee has existed for 30 million years, but in 2007, colony collapse disorder caused the disappearance of up to 30 percent of the U.S. bee population. This ABC News report examines this disord ...

Regreening the Desert: One Man's Global Mission
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For more than 15 years, cameraman and ecologist John D. Liu has conducted a worldwide, one-man mission: inspire the global community to reclaim deserts and restore biodiversity. It all started in 1995 ...

Technology

Data: Ethical Use and Storage
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With the advent of the Internet, data—including sensitive personal data—has become available worldwide at the click of a button. What is the potential for misuse of this information, and can users...

Future Gadgets: How Does That Work?
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These days we all have gadgets that we take everywhere we go. Some of us see our cell phone, tablet, or iPod as a necessity, not a convenience. This program looks at the future of gadgets and how they ...

The Cleantech Future: Industries for A Healthy Planet
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Is it realistic or fanciful to look forward to a clean world? A world in which energy is 100 percent renewable, water is no longer polluted, transportation is truly green, and production methods are h ...

ICT Project Management
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How is a good idea for a computer application turned into a tangible, functioning product? This program studies the iPod and iPad app development team at Bjango to show how an information and communic ...

Revenge of the Nerds: Innovative Foreigners, American Start-Ups
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The barbecue’s sizzling, the beers are flowing, and a bunch of young techies are talking start-ups, IPOs, apps, and platforms. The remarkable thing is, they all have Australian accents! Welcome...

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