Films On Demand for June 2020

Screenshot of Films on Demand June calendar of featured videos
Films On Demand Calendar

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.

The On Demand database is accessible through the UNG libraries website. (Duo Mobile app authentication is required.)

Use the “Search Databases” tab to locate Films On Demand, click Find Databases, click “F” to find the Films On Demand link.

Search for and watch On Demand videos on their website.

Add On Demand Videos to D2L

Screenshot of D2L content file page shows Insert Stuff icon and pop-up link to Films On Demand
In a content file, click the (1) Insert Stuff Icon and scroll down to (2) Films On Demand.

Videos can be easily embedded into an eLearning@UNG (D2L) class module. Use the Insert Stuff icon, scroll down to Films On Demand, and search for videos using the film’s title, topic, or item number.

Featured Videos for June

Consider these titles for your classes:

June Is LGBT Pride Month

  • Suited (Item #116624)
  • The Play Within: An LGBTQ Documentary (Item #145493)
  • TEDTalks: Jackson Bird—How to Talk (and Listen) to Transgender People (Item #160739)
  • Fest Selects: Best Gay Shorts (Item #141790)
  • Gender Beyond the Binary (Item #149961)
  • TEDTalks: iO Tillett Wright—Fifty Shades of Gay (Item #56549)
  • Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric (Item #138020)
  • TEDTalks: LZ Granderson—The Myth of the Gay Agenda (Item #52999)
  • Lesbian Nation (Item #141966)
  • Growing Up Trans (Item #111640)
  • Gay, Straight, and Accepted (Item #155257)
  • My Transgender Life—What It’s Like to Be Transgender (Item #129630)

Constitutional Convention Convenes in Philadelphia, May 25, 1787

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Moyers: Report from Philadelphia Video Clip Collection—Day by Day (Item #39941)
  • Framework for Democracy—The American Experiment (Item #70391)
  • The Birth of the Constitution (Item #162988)
  • Framework for Democracy—The Living Constitution (Item #70392)
  • Style and the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution: Forrest McDonald (Item #4963)
  • The U.S. Constitution (Revised) (Item #146036)

Golden Gate Bridge Opens, May 27, 1937

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Modern Marvels: Golden Gate Bridge (Item #42834)
  • Prelinger Archives: Building the Golden Gate Bridge (Item #53946)
  • Suspension Bridges (Item #20390)

President Andrew Jackson Signs the Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Trail of Tears (Item #155268)
  • Live Free or Die (Item #160930)
  • The Unfinished Nation—Legacy of an Autocratic Ruler (Item #71417)
  • The Trail of Tears (Item #42982)
  • Trail of Tears: We Shall Remain—America through Native Eyes (Item #44691)

Tiananmen Square Massacre, June 4, 1989

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Declassified: Tiananmen Square (Item #42648)
  • A Dramatic History: China on China (Item #53091)
  • China Asserts Itself: Part 2—China New Empire (Item #118382)
  • The Tiananmen Hostage: Fang Lizhi (Item #10543)
  • Tiananmen: The People versus the Party (Item #188622)
  • Tiananmen: Australia’s Witnesses (Item #58370)

Birthday: Anne Frank, June 12, 1929

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)
  • Otto Frank, Father of Anne (Item #168536)
  • Children of the Holocaust (Item #86489)
  • Memories of Anne Frank (Item #8833)

Statue of Liberty Arrives in New York, June 17, 1885

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • The Statue of Liberty—A Film by Ken Burns (Item #44164)
  • Liberty: Mother of Exiles (Item #195735)
  • Modern Marvels: Statue of Liberty (Item #42907)
  • The Statue of Liberty, United States: Symbol of Freedom (Item #144047)
  • Yearning to Breathe Free: Freedom, a History of US (Item #44256)
  • FedFlix: Body of Iron, Soul of Fire—The Statue of Liberty (Item #54234)

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