New Releases - October 2009 - Learningemall.com

socially and economically diversecommunities across the country.Item no.Format: NB06581726: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 100 minutesDurationAudience : Grades 9-12Copyright : 2009Price : USD 56.00performance as Lear. Co-directed fortelevision by Sir Trevor Nunn and ChrisHunt.Item no.Format: YH06581730: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 150 minutesDurationAudience : Grades 9-12Copyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00of an individual technician. Filmed in astark and formally challenging visual style,SL-1 explores the consequences ofnuclear radiation while raising seriousquestions about human fallibility.Reviews• "A powerful and poignant blend ofjournalism and drama, SL-1 iscompelling viewing." - WEEKLYVARIETYGREEN BUILDERSA quiet green revolution in the buildingworld is evolving. Green Builders profilesgreen building pioneers who have takenthe leap into making their part of the "builtenvironment" a more energy-efficient andenvironmentally-friendly place. Theirhomes and offices are the proving groundsfor green building; revealing that buildinggreener is less complicated and expensivethan you probably thought, and morerewarding in the long run.Item no.Format: ZA06581732: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 60 minutesDurationAudience : Grades 6-8Copyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00TEENSDOUBLETALKBy Alan BeattieIn this clever dramatic short, a boy arrivingto pick up his date gets stuck makinginane small talk with the girl's parents.Humorous yet poignant, this classic filmuses overlapping soundtracks to revealthe true thoughts of three people and toexplore the nuances of spoken andunspoken communication.Note• Academy Award Nomination 1976,Best Short FilmItem no. : TR08880072Format : DVD (Color)Duration : 9 minutesAudience : Grade 10 or aboveCopyright : 2009StdBkNo : 9781559748087Price : USD 105.00THEATER & DANCEGREAT PERFORMANCES:KING LEARWilliam Shakespeare's unrelenting KingLear is considered to be one of theCaptioned)playwright's most enduring and haunting This chilling films uses recently Duration : 82 minutesworks for the stage. The challenge of declassified government film footage to Audience : Grades 9-12playing its title role has long fallen to some re-create the true story of America's first Copyright : 2009of the greatest actors of our time. This nuclear accident, which took place in Price : USD 77.00telecast marks Sir Ian McKellen's return to Idaho in 1961. The previously suppressedthe Royal Shakespeare Company, that material indicates that the disaster mayhas resulted in a tour-de-force have been caused by the suicidal impulse________________________________________________________________________________________________________Email: inquiry@learningemall.comU.S. HISTORYKLAN THE: A LEGACY OFHATE IN AMERICABy Charles GuggenheimFrom Charles Guggenheim, four-timewinner of the Academy Award,comes thisvivid, disturbing portrait of the oldest andmost violent terrorist army ever to operateon American soil - The Ku Klux Klan. Thisincisive half-hour documentary traces theKlan's 130-year reign of terror from its birthin the immediate aftermath of the Civil Warthrough its resurgence in the 1920's, to itsmodern incarnations during the CivilRights era and beyond. Dedicated to anAmerica free of "non-White, non-Christian"influence, the Klan's calculated appeal toordinary folk is echoed in the rise of theparamilitary, the assault on AffirmativeAction, the festering of anti-Semitism(Greensboro, North Carolina) and theattack on immigration policies (Galveston,Texas). Nominated for an Oscar, the filmtells the Klan's bloody saga of murder andmayhem through profiles of its leaders,foot soldiers, victims and even itsinfiltrators. The result is a compellingexamination of organized hate in Americaby a master filmmaker.Notes• Academy Award Nominee, BestDocumentary Short;• Columbus Film FestivalAwards• CINE Golden Eagle;• Blue Ribbon, American Film FestivalItem no. : NR08880097Format : DVD (Color)Duration : 30 minutesAudience : Grade 9 or aboveCopyright : 2009StdBkNo : 155974815XPrice : USD 133.00SL-1: AMERICA'S FIRSTFATAL NUCLEAR REACTORACCIDENTBy Diane OrrLearning Rendezvous Limited• "…cuts through any complacency thatmight still be hidden in the mind of theviewer. Recommended viewing foranyone still foolish enough to believethat we can survive a nuclear war." -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEItem no. : KC08880117Format : DVD (Color)Duration : 60 minutesAudience : Grade 9 or aboveCopyright : 2009StdBkNo : 9781559748148Price : USD 133.00UNITED STATESAMERICAN EXPERIENCE: ACLASS APARTBuilt around the landmark 1954 legal caseHernandez v. Texas, the film interweavesthe stories of its central characters with abroader story of the civil rights movement.It also brings to life the heroic post-WorldWar II struggle of Mexican Americansfighting to dismantle the discriminationtargeted against them.Item no.Format: HF06581546: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 60 minutesDurationAudience : Grades 9-12Copyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00AMERICAN EXPERIENCE:THE ASSASSINATION OFABRAHAM LINCOLNA highlight of the nationwide LincolnBicentennial celebration is thisunprecedented two-hour documentary onthe life and legacy of the man widelyconsidered one of our best - and mostenigmatic - presidents. It addresses manyof the controversies surrounding Lincolnabout race, equality, religion, politics, anddepression by carefully interpretingevidence from those who knew him andthose who study him today.Item no.Format: WW06581580: DVD (Color, ClosedWebsites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk32