Films On Demand: Featured Videos for May

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Films On Demand Videos Featured in May.

Here is a selection of videos suggested by Films On Demand, the online video database. These videos can be inserted into eLearning@UNG (D2L) content.

May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month  

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • More Than a Face in the Crowd: The Fifty-Year Career of Asian-American Actress Jane Chung (Item #60530)
  • The Slanted Screen: Asian Men in Film and Television (Item #41296)
  • You Don’t Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story (Item #116138)
  • World of Ideas: Maya Lin (Item #32218)
  • David Henry Hwang (Item #31139)
  • Island of Warriors (Item #151356)
  • Becoming American: The Chinese Experience series (Item #31779)
  • Angel Island: A Story of Chinese Immigration (Item #29444)
  • Korean Americans (Item #4535)
  • Chinatown: Strangers in a Strange Land (Item #43040)
  • Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story (Item #52038)
  • Prelinger Archives: A Challenge to Democracy (1944) (Item #41743)
  • George Takei (Item #138041)

May is Celiac Awareness Month

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Celiac Disease: Second Opinion—Taking Charge of Your Health Care (Item #55307)
  • Diet-Related Disorders: Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Celiac Disease (Item #42223)
  • Celiac Disease Myths (Item #168234)
  • Finding a Cause and Cure for Celiac Disease (Item #167890)
  • Food Allergies (Item #48017)

Birthday: Orson Welles, May 6, 1915

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Orson Welles: The Paris Interview (Item #52252)
  • Orson Welles Biography and Performances (Item #128262)
  • King Lear (Orson Welles version) (Item #116625)
  • War of the Worlds (Item #131252)
  • Art and Life: Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth (Item #33662)
  • Citizen Kane: A Critical Analysis by Robert McKee (Item #11689)

U.S. Transcontinental Railroad Completed, May 10, 1869

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Modern Marvels: The Railroads That Tamed the West (Item #42895)
  • The Grandest Enterprise under God: The West, a Film by Stephen Ives (Item #44414)
  • Heartland: America—The Story of Us (Item #43279)
  • The Line (Item #141237)

Read this previous DETI Digest story for instructions on finding and inserting Films On Demand videos into your eLearning@UNG content.

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