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Astronomy for You

1959

A series of programs designed for the adult layman who has a curiosity about the skies and the makeup of the universe in which we live. The terms used during the series are fully explained and materials from a number of great observatories and institutions of learning are used for visual illustration. It begins with the solar system and works outward, stimulating interest in this area and awakening a desire for further study and investigation.

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Monológy Tomáša N.

1981

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Life of Tulip

1960

Short film by Frantisek Skapa.

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Jedeme na spartakiádu

1955

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Piping Hot

1959

An animated film about the history and use of hot water.

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The Queen of the Waves

1936

An animated short film that explains in a pedagogical way how the radio transmission works. Created by Czech filmmakers it was commissioned by Argentina Schools. The film tells the story of Curious, an extraterrestrial child that reaches the planet earth attracted by the sound waves. There he meets the Queen of Waves, an ethereal figure who teaches her step by step the process by which sound is captured, amplified, modulated and transformed into electromagnetic vibrations to be transmitted by a radial antenna.

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A Nice Kid Like You

1970

Documentary about East Coast college students' candid views on drug use, sex, politics, parents, faculty, curriculum, and peer group relationships.

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Rich Media, Poor Democracy

2003

Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.

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The Strength and Agility of Insects

1911

A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.

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Kwaheri

1964

Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a legit trepanation scene.

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School Vandalism

1972

Explores school vandalism by re-creating a true incident involving four youths. Discusses motives and consequence of vandalism.

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The Creation Of Life

1948

This silent film from 1948 "The Creation of Life" briefly demonstrates how a fetus forms and graphically shows different types of births. It was made by Sherwood Picture Corp., and may have been sold both to schools and professional organizations for medical education, and to the public for shock value. (Several similar birth films were sold in this era through home catalogs and photography shops.) Summary: By means of diagrams, conceptions and pregnancy are explained. Views of various methods of delivery are shown. Created by: T. Marc Sherwood

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The Nation at Your Fingertips

1951

Promotional film introducing self-service long-distance dialing using a prototype service in Englewood, New Jersey. Demonstrates how direct dial and the new area code system enable callers to make contact instantly without operator assistance.

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Communicating Non-Defensively

1982

A 1980s educational video that teaches the view how to communicate more effectively in the workplace.

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Dead Serious

1987

Based on the book by Jane Mersky Leder, Dead Serious is an educational documentary that tackles the serious issue of teen suicide.

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La ruta de don Quijote

1934

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and his judicious squire Sancho Panza, the immortal characters of Miguel de Cervantes, which offers a candid depiction of rural life in Spain in the early 1930s and illustrates the first sentence of the first article of the Spanish Constitution of 1931, which proclaims that Spain is a democratic republic of workers of all kind.

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Writing: Plain & Fancy

1981

A documentary about calligraphy.

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Another Side of the Forest

1974

Developments in the Canadian forestry industry during the 1970s are shown being carried out both as lab experiments and in the field to protect and conserve the country's vast forests. These include turning a Newfoundland bog into woodland, fostering British Columbia seedlings that withstand mechanical planting, inoculating Ontario elms against the bark beetle, devising ways of controlling fire, and more.

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50 Shades of Sharks

2020

Exploring the private lives of sharks as they hunt, rest, clean and reproduce.

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Strange Life: The Breech

1998

A collection of footage and interviews with strange people and their exploration into the unusual and extreme side of body modification.

Genre	Documentary
Production Companies	Dudley Pictures Corporation
Production Ccountries	United States of America

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