Year in Review For Dealers Anthropology…………………........ 1 Family & Consumer Sciences. 26 Area Studies……………………….. 2 Geography……………….… 27 Art & Architecture…………………... 5 Guidance & Counseling…… 28 Biology……………………………... 8 Health……………………… 29 Business & Economics……………… 10 History…………………….. 33 Careers & Job Search……………… 17 Philosophy & Religion…….. 36 Communication…………………..... 17 Physical Science…………… 37 Criminal Justice…………………..... 18 Political Science……………. 39 Earth Science……………………...... 19 Psychology………………… 41 Education………………………….. 20 Sociology…………………... 43 Engineering………………………….. 22 Technical Education……….. 48 English & Language Arts………...... 22 Technology & Society………. 50 Environmental Science…………...... 23 World Languages…………... 52 Free Preview Clips Online! www.films.com/dealers T: (800) 257-5126, x4270 • F: (212) 313-9425 Anthropology I Am the River: Maori Heritage on the Auction Block Item # 53462 Archaeology: A Secret History Subject: Anthropology When a trove of high-quality negatives dating back to the 19th Item # 55737 century surfaced in a New Zealand attic, the discovery sparked Subject: Anthropology much controversy over cultural sensitivity and ownership rights. In From the days of the Romans to the detailed the manner of the famous Curtis photographs of Native scientific archaeology of today, humans have Americans, the images depicted individual Maori people and had longed to make sense of buildings and objects that time has left been used as tourist postcards during the Victorian Era’s craze for behind. But from the truth about the Bible, to the origins of all things “exotic.” This program documents the discovery of civilization, and the scientific assault on deeply held cultural William Partington’s Whanganui River photos, using commentary myths—striving to get to grips with the ancient world has always from the Auckland auctioneers who recognized their historical and caused trouble. In this three-part series, packed with some of the artistic value, and from the Maoris—direct descendants of the great figures of archaeology, and set against a background of people in the photos—who fought to halt their sale. (51 minutes) tipping points in history, archaeologist Richard Miles travels © 2010 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-831-7 through the ages of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and into the modern day, to discover how we have tried to understand our ancient past over the last 2,000 years of hotly fought history, and The Last Hunter: Tanzania's Hadzabe People tells the story of how our fascination with the mysteries of our Item # 53100 ancient past has created a legacy of wonder, discovery, and Subject: Anthropology debate. A BBC Production. 3-part series, 50 minutes each. The Hadzabe tribe are the first inhabitants of © 2013 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-278-9 Tanzania, with a bloodline that is the second In the Beginning: Archaeology—A Secret History oldest in the world. Today, they are known as Item # 55738 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-279-6 the last hunter-gatherers of East Africa. This three-part series The Search for Civilization: Archaeology--A Secret goes to Tanzania to document traditional Hadzabe life and to History show the difficulties these people now face in exercising control Item # 55739 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-280-2 over their own economic, social, and cultural futures. Portions The Power of the Past: Archaeology--A Secret History with English subtitles, 3-part series, 47–51 minutes each. Item # 55740 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-281-9 © 2012 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-627-6 Hadzabe: The Forgotten Tribe—The Last Hunter $169.95 each Item # 53101 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-628-3 Many Moons away from Home—The Last Hunter Ice Age Giants Item # 53102 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-629-0 Beyond Borders—The Last Hunter Item # 57526 Item # 53103 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-630-6 Subject: Anthropology Step back in time by just 20,000 years and the world is a very different place. Vast swathes of $169.95 each the northern hemisphere are covered by ice sheets, glaciers carve great valleys through the landscape, and continents merge Arctic, with Bruce Parry as sea levels fall. Immense hairy beasts and ferocious predators Item # 57416 rule, while spectacular animals migrate across vast, unfamiliar Subject: Anthropology landscapes. Alongside them, as both prey and predator, humans The Arctic is on the point of enormous, face their own challenges as they struggle to survive. With unique irreversible change. The effects of global access to some of the most spectacular excavations and state of warming are magnified in this area, as the sea ice is melting, new the art forensic analysis, this three-part series travels back to a land is appearing and with it, fresh boundaries are being drawn. land before time, unearthing ancient pieces of an elaborate Indigenous ways of life that have remained virtually unchanged jigsaw to reveal the Ice Age through the eyes of the animals that for millennia will cease within our lifetimes - but for others, the lived there. A BBC Production. 3-part series, 50 minutes each. untold riches of the oil, gas and minerals slowly being revealed © 2013 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-424-0 under the polar ice cap promise countless opportunities. Over the *Land of the Saber-tooth: Ice Age Giants-Coming Soon course of one summer, Bruce Parry immersed himself in the lives Item # 57527 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-425-7 of the Arctic's people. From the fishermen in the Bering Sea, to oil The Great Deep Freeze: Ice Age Giants workers tapping the vast wealth of the Arctic reserve, native Item # 57528 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-426-4 hunters desperately clinging on to the last breath of their culture, *Last of the Giants: Ice Age Giants-Coming Soon bush pilots, miners, fire-fighters and scientists mapping the ever- Item # 57529 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-427-1 shrinking ice cap. A BBC Production. © 2011 • $849.75 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-315-1 $169.95 each Siberia: Arctic, with Bruce Parry Item # 57417 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-316-8 Northern Europe: Arctic, with Bruce Parry The Iranian Americans Item # 57418 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-317-5 Item # 54413 Greenland: Arctic, with Bruce Parry Subject: Anthropology Item # 57419 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-318-2 This film chronicles the under-reported history of Canada: Arctic with Bruce Parry a group of immigrants finding refuge, overcoming adversity and Item # 57420 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-319-9 ultimately creating new lives in the United States. With Iran often Alaska: Arctic, with Bruce Parry in the news, many Americans have little knowledge of the story of Item # 57421 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-320-5 hundreds of thousands of Iranians who live in U.S. (71 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-601-5 $169.95 each 1 Broken Moon Cairo: Ordeal In Egypt Item # 55973 Item # 58381 Subject: Anthropology Subject: Area Studies As the sun beats down and the wind whips In this comprehensive analysis of the plight of dust into his eyes, Sonam, a Himalayan journalist Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera nomad, struggles across an arid landscape. Yet life here was not colleagues, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed, Foreign always like this. The climate changed, turning his once beautiful Correspondent speaks to Greste's family members who are world into a desert. Now Sonam and his people face a desperate fighting to highlight his cause and the injustice of the trio's struggle to survive or must leave their homeland behind. imprisonment. (30 minutes) Cinematic and full of majesty, this documentary offers a startling © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-983-2 glimpse of one of the most remote corners of the planet. (50 minutes) © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-634-3 From the Series China from Within Item # 52866 Subject: Area Studies Papuans: Between Two Worlds © 2004 • $779.70 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-796-9 Item # 58551 Dancing Girls: Life in China's Fast Lane—China from Subject: Anthropology Within Following the path of two Papuans, Benneth Nightman is one of 187 nightclubs in Dalian, a city of 2.6 million and Jethro, this film bears witness to a people in northern China. Formerly the number one nightclub in traditional society at a turning point in its history. They are both in the city, its success determines the fortunes of the dancers who search of a new meaning to their life as individuals and as a work there. Wen Wen and Jiu Jiu are poorly-educated city girls community. How do they perceive the changes taking place? Can who have been working the nightclub circuit in China since they they avoid being caught up in the steamroller of globalization? (56 were 16, usually in cramped, dark, smoky environments. Their minutes) battle with management over the introduction of harsher © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-281-4 conditions and rival dancers is the theme of this program, and highlights the plight of many fighting for survival in the fast lane in Prehistoric Autopsy modern China. (Portions with English subtitles, 26 minutes) Item # 52869 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-799-0 Item # 57637 Tian Tian: Success against All Odds-China from Within Subject: Anthropology This program documents a young paraplegic’s personal triumph From fragments of bones to a recognizable over adversity against the background of the changing face of face, prepare to meet some remarkable China. Tian Tian was paralyzed from the neck down after she and relatives in extraordinary detail. Using cutting- her mother were attacked by thugs in the marketplace. Tian edge technology and the specialized knowledge Tian’s father worries about the girl’s future, but the acquisition of a of world-class experts, this original and computer provides an unexpected boon. Tian Tian learns to type extraordinary three-part series attempts a science first. Gathering holding a chopstick in her mouth and ultimately becomes an all the disparate, fragmentary evidence of three of our most expert in Flash animation, relocates to Beijing, and starts a significant prehistoric ancestors together, the team completely thriving company.