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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
[1 Maccabees] Dive into Jewish life under Greek rule in the 2nd century BC in 1 Maccabees. View the struggle for Jewish independence as a dramatic story marked by the tension between resistance and adaptation. Also, consider the debate over whether or not this book truly belongs in the Bible.
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Discover the importance of climate adaptation and the cost of global inaction to make communities, cities, and societies more resilient to climate shocks.
How well will the world adapt to increasingly frequent extreme climate events? The answer depends on your leadership approach. To date, most government and business leaders have been focusing exclusively on climate mitigation, often at the expense of climate adaptation. In this course, join Charmian...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film describes the work of an extraordinary Salesian priest, Padre Cocco, who has headed a mission on the Ocamo River since 1957. The mission's goal, he explains, is to soften the inevitable impact of "civilization" on the Yanomamo of this area.
6) Othello
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Jealousy in love is one of the most common of human emotions. In OTHELLO, Shakespeare combines this universal theme with perfectly structured scenes, a storyline that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Ibrahim lived with his uncle in the woods in Mali, for a few days he attended Koran school. He arrived in France using his cousin's passport. Alpha comes from Liberia, he lived in the city and during the war his family was dispersed; he arrived in France with a false passport. Nawel lived in Algeria where his large family was forced to have him adopted and taken to France. All these children attended the same preparation class for learning French...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Advertising & the End of the World, Sut Jhally, Executive Director of MEF, exposes the inherent conflict between commercial culture - as aggressively sold by private, global media systems - and environmental stewardship. This powerful video goes beyond simply critiquing commercial images to challenge us to evaluate the costs of consumer society and how we participate in it.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
Description
DER HUND VON BASKERVILLE is a 1914 German silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, the first film adaptation of the work. Starring Carlyle Blackwell Sr. (Sherlock Holmes), George Seroff (Dr. Watson) and Fitz Rasp (Stapleton).
13) Count Dracula
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
In 1970, cult director Jess Franco and screen legend Christopher Lee collaborated on what they promised would be the most faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel ever filmed. From its remarkable performances to its lush locations and atmosphere of sinister sensuality, it remains a spellbinding adaptation of the classic tale.
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Discover new and enhanced features in Photoshop including a taskspace dedicated to Content-Aware Fill, enhanced Paint Symmetry, a new on-the-fly preview of blend modes, and more.
Photoshop CC 2019 brings new and revamped features—allowing you to replace old habits with fluid, new digital editing skills. Discover how to undo and redo multiple operations without harming History, use the improved scaling feature which is now proportional by default,...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
From Academy Award® winning director Caroline Link (Nowhere in Africa) comes an adaptation of acclaimed British author Judith Kerr’s classic novel based on her childhood memories. The story of a Jewish family's escape from 1933 Berlin to Europe tackles prejudice, exile, displacement and adaptation, as told from the perspective of the author’s alter ego, nine year-old Anna Kemper (Riva Krymalowski in her feature film debut). Anna is too busy with...
18) Diplomacy
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
As the Allies march toward Paris in the summer of 1944, Hitler gives orders that the French capital should not fall into enemy hands, or if it does, then ‘only as a field of rubble’. The person assigned to carry out this barbaric act is Wehrmacht commander of Greater Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, who already has mines planted on the Eiffel Tower, in the Louvre and Notre Dame and on the bridges over the Seine. Nothing should be left as...
19) Lenz
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Alexandre Rockwell's directoral debut is an adaptation of George Buchner's novella, "LENZ", chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz's slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early 1980s.
20) Ward no. 6
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
A bold contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov's legendary short story, Ward no. 6 chronicles one man's descent into madness. Updating the 1892 tale to the present day, the film is shot in a real mental institution on the outskirts of Moscow, and features interviews with actual patients.
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