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English Literature & Authors
Profiles the life and work of science fiction author Isaac Asimov, who dreamed of a future in which robots and humans collaborate to improve life on Earth and in the universe. Asimov's life was devoted to the revelation of an optimistic future for robots and humans. The program looks into how robot technology inspired by Asimov's literary creations have come to exist and help humans in a variety of ways. NOTE: This program contains content that may be disturbing to some viewers. Please preview before showing in class.
DVD / 2012 / Grades 9-12 / 42 minutes
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Explores how science fiction writer Jules Verne drew his inspiration from the future. Verne's writings predict futuristic innovations that have now become part of reality in the twenty-first century. The program compares Verne's writings with modern technologies and discusses how scientists have yet to bring some of Verne's creations to life. NOTE: This program contains content that may be disturbing to some viewers. Please preview before showing in class.
DVD / 2012 / Grades 9-12 / 42 minutes
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Arthur C. Clarke was more than a science fiction writer with a good imagination. Many of his groundbreaking concepts have become a reality over the years, including satellite technology, commercial spaceflight, and artificial intelligence. Today, scientists are still working to create ideas that Clarke introduced in his books Childhood's End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Fountains of Paradise. Using his three laws of prediction, Clarke realized that anything you can imagine is possible, and that major technological advancements are indistinguishable from magic.
DVD / 2011 / Grades 9-12 / 43 minutes
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In 1816, teenager Mary begins stitching together a patchwork of ancient legend, modern technology, and personal tragedy--giving life to her novel, Frankenstein, and the genre of science fiction. NOTE: This program contains content that may be disturbing to some viewers.
DVD / 2011 / Grades 9-12 / 42 minutes
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This program compares Shakespearean themes with similar themes from modern works, enabling students to penetrate complex Elizabethan vocabulary and experience insight into character's feelings, motives and actions. Film clips from screen adaptations of 'Wuthering Heights', 'Lord of the Flies', 'Mutiny on the Bounty', 'Animal Farm', 'The Lives of Dorian Gray' and others help illustrate themes like alienations, evil and ambition.
DVD / 1990 / 47 minutes
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Give students background information about Mark Twain and his work in this interview with noted scholar Lee chlesinger, Associate Professor of Literature at the State University of New York at Purchase. The program focuses on the deeper implications of Huckleberry Finn and makes an ideal introduction to the book.
DVD / 1987 / 25 minutes
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Introduce your students to one of the most important novels of the century. The program features an expert who provides backgrounds for both the novel and movie; covers social concerns suggested by the novel; the relationship of the novel to the movie and to documentaries and photography of the period.
DVD / 1987 / 26 minutes
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A complete discussion of the Homeric legend as the first significant record of Greek mythology. The program emphasizes Homer's relevance to modern literature, psychology, scholarship and popular culture. It analyzes the characters in the Iliad and The Odyssey and summarizes their myths and legends.
DVD / 1977 / 46 minutes
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Through dramatizations and discussions of his work, this program examines Poe's personality and his view of the intellectual as a superior but isolated being. It also investigates the invention of the detective story, his understanding of horror, violence and paranoia, and his use of poetry to reveal melancholy and romantic love.
DVD / 1970 / 30 minutes
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Give students the opportunity to appreciate the relationship between Olympian gods and legends and contemporary music, poetry, science and cultural images-from science fiction and space probes to Peter Pan and rock festivals. The program explores the archetypal images of human-kind and society through classic tales of Zeus, Demeter, Pluto, Artemis, Apollo and others.
DVD / 1970 / 25 minutes
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Extensive readings from Jack London's works- combined with his own photographs, illustrations from his books, historical documents and on-location photographs-help students comprehend the life experiences that shaped his writing. His themes of discipline, social justice, adaptability and individual survival are explored.
DVD / 1969 / 24 minutes
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With William Hickey
An adaptation of the off-Broadway production of Gogol's work, "Diary of a Madman", performed by William Hickey, about a clerk's disintegration into madness.
DVD / 1964
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Richard Burton recites Dylan Thomas' poem "A Child's Christmas in Wales" while walking in lower New York City, sitting in the kind of bar Thomas favored, looking at the Hudson river. Black and white film, moody, effectively handled by the young Burton, who introduces the reading by pointing out that like Thomas, he, too, is a Welchman.
DVD / 1961
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A dramatization of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" performed by Michael Kane.
DVD / 1958
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The works of Goldini and Gozzi are among the great international classical plays. For an understanding of The Servant of Two Masters or The Love of Three Oranges, knowledge of commedia dell' arte style is a prerequisite. This film presents stock commedia characters, focusing on the "Maschere," the mask characters. A world master of commedia style, Giovanni Poli, demonstrates the authentic voice quality and characteristic gestures of the characters Truffaldino and Pantalone. The climax of this rare footage is a scene from Poli's production of Gozzi's The Green Bird.
DVD / 14 minutes
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The Jacobean Age was fraught with anxiety: man's doubts about the world, the after-world, and his place in them. The drama of the period is revealed in this film through scenes from Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.
DVD / 33 minutes
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The film holds, "as t'were, the mirror" up to the Middle Ages, for the medieval image of the world survived into the Elizabethan Age. The king-father symbolizing the authority of the past, primogeniture, astrology, and the dowry are all representative of the medieval culture as reflected in Shakespeare's King Lear.
DVD / 31 minutes
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