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New! TEDTalks: Bobby Ghosh—Why Global Jihad Is Losing
Item# 53064
© 2012
17 Min.
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Throughout the history of Islam, says journalist Bobby Ghosh, there have been two sides to jihad: one internal—a personal struggle to be better—and the other external. A small minority (most recently,...
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New! TEDTalks: Georgette Mulheir—The Tragedy of Orphanages
Item# 53055
© 2012
11 Min.
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Orphanages are costly and can cause irreparable damage both mentally and physically for its charges—so why are they still so prevalent? In this TEDTalk, Georgette Mulheir gravely describes the tragedy...
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Baka: Cry from the Rainforest
Item# 52441
© 2012
90 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-273-3
Award-winning filmmaker Phil Agland returns to the African rainforest to find the pygmy family who captivated viewers around the world as the stars of his acclaimed documentary Baka: People of the Rai...
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The Man Who Discovered Egypt
Item# 52537
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-368-6
Flinders Petrie’s pioneering excavation technique—to examine soil inch by inch instead of heaving shovelfuls of dirt around a site—elevated archaeology from an activity for tomb raiders and treasure h...
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New to Our Collection! My Land: Seeing Both Sides of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Item# 52827
© 2011
82 Min.
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Born to a Moroccan Muslim father and a Tunisian Jewish mother, filmmaker Nabil Ayouch spent his childhood hearing divergent views about Israel and Palestine. Still wrestling with "a conflict that neve...
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The Boxing Girls of Kabul
Item# 51991
© 2011
52 Min.
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This documentary film depicts a group of young Afghan women striving to become world-class boxers and training without the most basic facilities in the national stadium where the Taliban has recently...
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Bones: Origins of Us
Item# 52548
© 2011
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-379-2
In this program, Dr. Alice Roberts charts the advance from Australopithecus to Homo erectus and beyond to demonstrate what the modern skeleton reveals about human evolution. Examining the traits of ch...
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Brains: Origins of Us
Item# 52550
© 2011
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-381-5
Drawing on research into social politics among chimpanzees, the cognitive development of children, and the ancient tools that have been found littered across the Rift Valley, in this program Dr. Alice...
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Guts: Origins of Us
Item# 52549
© 2011
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-380-8
Anthropologists once emphasized “man the hunter” as the driving force in human evolution, but now they believe it's the gathering of vegetables by women that enabled our greatest leaps. In this progra...
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How to Build a Dinosaur
Item# 52493
© 2011
20 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-324-2
Reconstructing a dinosaur skeleton for a museum is a balance of art and science—enough science to keep the experts happy, enough artistic license to excite the visitors. But as it turns out, diplomacy...
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