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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
To survey the Nazi death camps is to enter a world of slave labor and genocide. Here, you will focus on two high-level German commandants in the system who abetted the atrocities. First, you will see how a businessman profited from the concentration camp system, and then meet a policeman who became the commandant at Treblinka.
2) Josep
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
February 1939. Spanish republicans are fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to France. The French government built concentration camps, confining the refugees, where they barely have access to hygiene, water and food. In one of these camps, separated by barbed wire, two men will become friends. One is a guard, the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 – NYC 1995), an illustrator who fights against Franco’s regime.
Publisher
Premium Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (13 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Naively envisioning herself a Jeanne D'Arc of the desert, Mariam runs away from the Western Saharan refugee camps in Algeria hoping to liberate her homeland from occupation.
4) Betrayed
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (127 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
During World War II, millions of Jews are deported and killed in German concentration camps. "BETRAYED" is based on the true story about the Braude family. An ordinary Norwegian family whose fate is sealed by the fact that they are Jews.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The opportunities and innovations of capitalism in the US did not come without a cost. Religious and political thinkers alike turned to new solutions to alleviate the often horrible conditions many workers experienced, resulting in socialist projects that fell into two camps: utopian and scientific. Close with a look at the difficulties in running socialist systems in a largely market economy.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In 1942, two months after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an executive order requiring that all Japanese Americans move to "relocation camps" as a matter of national security. Fred Korematsu refused, was arrested for violating an "exclusion order," and convicted. Learn how Korematsu carried his fight against what he thought was an "un-American" law all the way to the Supreme Court.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (142 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, many thought the killing would end. Instead it started a long nightmare in which three million Cambodians would die in the “killing fields.” THE KILLING FIELDS is an epic story of friendship and survival produced by David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) and directed by Roland Joffé (The Mission). Sam Waterston plays Sydney Schanberg, whose war coverage entraps him and other journalists. Dr. Haing S....
Publisher
Teachers Documentary Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is a compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. 1943: Holland is under total Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party - a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack's pursuit of love...
9) Refugee
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In 2015, at the height of the Syrian war, Raf’aa a Syrian mother was forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. With her husband Nazem in hospital, and the bombs getting closer to Qamilshi, she fled Syria to find asylum for her family. Leaving Nazem, and their two children Ahmed and Hamoudi behind. They had hoped to reunite in Europe within a few weeks, at least that was the plan. But by the time Nazem and the children left…it was too late. The political...
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