The video contains definitive biographies accompanied by a visual analysis of the artist's major work. Full of imagery, the video is the perfect introduction to Jackson Pollock's modern art.

Discusses the influence of nature and color on the American artist and how she demonstrated these feelings through her paintings.

Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, thats who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positionsonly if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication...

""The first thing I can remember," Ben said, "I drew." As an observant young child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees-and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers' rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings with him both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what's right. As he grows, he speaks...