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Describes how a high school girl's desire to swim on the boys' team is thwarted…

Follows two young men accused of a misdemeanor offense from their arrest through their trial, stressing…

Follows two brothers, ages fifteen and eighteen, after their arrest, pointing up differences between adult criminal…

Foundations and needs for the Bill of Rights. Re-creation of scenes of important people and…

Shows various buses used for different kinds of trips.

Dramatizes a courtroom encounter in the not-too-distant future, where attorneys argue whether or not…

This film without narration presents the folklore behind the playground chants and games of young Americans…

Shows a typical day in a city with people going to and from work and shopping…

Reviews the two main influences - African and English - on the development of American folk music. Traces…

Traces the development of country and western music from its origins in the folk music of…

Uses music in a parade to illustrate soft and loud music and presents a marching song…

Portrays the physical basis of music and shows how music can be created and altered by…

Traces the history of jazz from its roots in 19th-century Black America to the 1960…

Explains that notes added above or below the melody produce harmony, and that both melody and…

Shows the importance of music to the people of the Middle Ages. Indicates the dominance of…

Presents elements that make the Russian folk music tradition beautiful and distinctive. Discusses the uses of…

Presents elements that make the Russian folk music tradition distinctive. Discusses the use of music in…

Demonstrates the various string instruments, their sounds, and how they are played.

Describes the music and rhythms of Africa and how they are used both as music and…

Presents Robert Ayitee, a master drummer of Ghana, and his associates as they demonstrate bells, rattles…

Uses three major Japanese instruments and explains how they fit into current Japanese life. Includes performances…

Based on the book of the same title by James B. Garfield The story of a…

Describes how the physical world is represented on a map. Illustrates comparative size and distance, and…

Forced into a debate, Machiavelli presents his political ideas, particularly as reflected in his book, The…

Based on the short story by William Faulkner, this dramatization follows one version faithfully. In the…

Points out that the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination protects the accused against coerced confessions…

Does capital punishment comprise a cruel punishment under the 8th Amendment? Is it an effective deterrent…

A husband refuses to allow his wife to have a blood transfusion, basing his refusal on…

Follows the case of an unpopular speaker who is convicted of disturbing the peace. Portrays the…

Discusses what constitutes an unreasonable invasion of privacy. Presents a case in which an electronic surveillance…

Uses the examples of two people arrested for misdemeanors to show how procedures used in arrest…

Considers the conflicts over freedom of the press between the public's right to know, guaranteed…

An adaptation of Ray Bradbury's story of a futuristic society where a family's every…