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Life of a teenage outsider: what makes him that way and how his anger flares into violence.

Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don and Mildred's hygienic endeavors.

A boy in Minnesota builds a toy boat and, after writing his name and address on the craft, sends the small vessel on its journey to the Gulf of...

Follows contemporary American poet James Dickey on a three week lecture tour. Reveals the actual thoughts and feelings of the poet through his...

short from of Series “The Art of silence: pantomimes with Marcel Marceau and his partner Pierre Verry”. Mime makes the invisible visible...

This short film offers a children's guide to anger management.

Another entry in the britannica's tales around the world series. This covers the classic story of Hansel and Gretel.

a close look at shoes

Using a scientific discovery approach, the film explains what wind is, how it forms, and its effects on the environment and human life. It...

A documentary on the railroad's role in public transportaitons. Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films.

The Ways of Water was made with the Earth Science Curriculum Project and the Environmental Studies Project of the American Geological Institute. A...

Follows Chaucer's pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, telling stories as they ride. Chaucer's England (1958) Shows some background scenery taken in...

This movie starts with a Mother and her two children nonchalantly going to the window when someone knocks on the window. Shouldn't they be on their...

"Based on the exhibition "Photography and the city", designed by the Eames Office for the Smithsonian Institute". A primer on the modern problems of...

A family goes to the local fair to compete with their livestock & produce.

Paintings and etchings of Rembrandt are used in revealing his life and career. Describes Rembrandt's early success as a fashionable portrait painter...

A detailed account of the life and artistic journey of Michelangelo.

An educational film about frogs produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film production company in the 20th century owned by...

One in a series of twelve films in which the great French mime Marcel Marceau performs some works from his repertoire. In his introduction Marceau...

Hosted by Ubud's political leader Agung Jakarta Sulawesi Mas, William Deneen here visits important sites and describes the political, religious, and...