Films On Demand: Featured Videos for August

Screenshot of Films On Demand featured videos for August.

Films On Demand, an online video database, contains thousands of online educational videos that are professionally closed-captioned. They range from short clips to full-length documentaries.

On Demand videos can be easily embedded into an eLearning@UNG (D2L) online class module.

You can search for On Demand videos using the film’s title or ID number.

While on a UNG campus, visit Films On Demand at

http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zfod

Videos Suggested by Films On Demand for the Month of August

August is National Inventors Month

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • R. E. Olds and the First Auto City (Item #183580)
  • Tesla (Item #151145)
  • Hello World (Item #183907)
  • Edison (Item #93454)
  • European Inventor Award, 2017 series (Item #145494)
  • The Genius of Invention: Ideas That Changed the World series (Item #57493)
  • The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World (Item #57498)

Birthday: James Baldwin, August 2, 1924

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (Item #49726)
  • Africa to America to Paris: The Migration of Black Writers (Item #8321)
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain (Item #44817)
  • Hollywood Roundtable: Civil Rights, 1963 (Item #48826)

Anne Frank Captured, August 4, 1944

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • The Diary of Anne Frank: A Tale of Two Sisters (Item #93997)
  • Final Days of Anne Frank (Item #137993)
  • Memories of Anne Frank (Item #8833)
  • Otto Frank, Father of Anne (Item #168536)

Birthday: Andy Warhol, August 6, 1928

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Andy Warhol: Images of an Image (Item #31233)
  • Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World (Item #124996)
  • How Pop Art Changed the World (Item #58582)
  • Andy Warhol: The Texan, Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg—Masterworks (Item #59134)

50th Anniversary of Woodstock, August 15, 1969

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • All Along the Watchtower: Sour Rock—All You Need Is Love: A History of Popular Music (Item #110377)
  • Janis Joplin: Final 24—Her Final Hours (Item #51211)
  • Ravi Shankar: The Man and His Music (Item #4345)
  • The Who: The Who, The Mods, and the Quadrophenia Connection (Item #51148)
  • Janis: Little Girl Blue (Item #183575)

Previous story

For details about Films On Demand and how to insert them into an eLearning@UNG module, read the following story from the December 2018 edition of the DETI Digest.