The Media Library of Genesee Valley BOCES

Discusses the formation, ideology, methods, and objectives of the Islamic militant group, the Taliban. Traces their rise to power in Afghanistan in 1996, and their tactics, which many belive to violate human rights

Uses archival footage and still images to present a narrative portrait of the political, social, scientific, and medical milestones of the decade. Includes Korean War, Hydrogen Bomb, Stalin's death, polio vaccine, Queen Elizabeth's coronation, McCarthyism, Dien Bien Phu's fall to the Communists, Suez War, Hungarian Revolution, Space Age, Castro's liberation of Cuba, Khrushchev's U.S. visit

Uses archival footage and still images to present a narrative portrait of the political, social, scientific, and medical milestones of the decade. Includes Nixon's China visit, the Munich Olympics massacre, Yom Kippur War, Watergate and the resignation of Nixon, Khmer Rouge rise to power, fall of Saigon, death of Elvis, test-tube baby, Jonestown mass suicide, Camp David Peace Accords, Three Mile Island meltdown, and American hostage crisis in Iran

As Britain's greatest naval hero, Horatio Nelson's military skill brought him uncommon successes throughout the Atlantic and Mediterranean, fighting against rival European fleets. His victory at Trafalgar secured the expansion of the British Empire

Uses archival footage and still images to present a narrative portrait of the political, social, scientific, and medical milestones of the decade. Covers Nelson Mendela's release, Gulf War, collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, European Union, Los Angeles Riots, US-Russia Arms reduction, Israel and PLO accord, California earthquake, OJ Simpson murder trial, Oklahoma City bombing, assassination of Yizhak Rabin, death of Princess Diana, cloning, and Clinton's impeachment

Uses archival footage and still images to present a narrative portrait of the political, social, scientific, and medical milestones of the decade. Covers Prohibition, women's sufferage, birth of radio, Irish Free State, Mussolini and Italy, Japan earthquake, death of Lenin, television's introduction, liquid fuel rocket launch, Lindbergh, talking movies, penicillin, and the Stock Market Crash

Uses archival footage and still images to present a narrative protrait of the political, social, scientific, and medical milestones of the decade. Covers King Edward's death, Wuchang Revolt, South Pole discovery, the Titanic disaster, completion of the Panama Canal, Armenian genocide, World War I, and Armistice Day

Uses archival footage and still images to present a narrative portrait of the decade. Includes: Dunkirk, Blitzkreig, Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, war in the Pacific, V-2 rocket, D-Day, Holocaust, FDR's death, Germany's surrender, United Nations, Hiroshima, assassination of Gandhi, founding of Israel, Mao and the formation of the People's Republic of China

Uses archival footage and still images to present a narrative portrait of the political, social, scientifc, and medical milestones of the decade. Covers Yuri Gagarin's space flight, Berlin Wall, death of Marilyn Monroe, Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Beatlemania, Six-Day War, North Vietnam TET Offensive, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the Moon Landing

After the Russian Revolution, Georgi Zhukov rose to become Stalin's deputy in the war against Hitler. As master of mass warfare in the 20th century, Zhukov understood the nature of "total war", and how employ it to his gain. His objective was Berlin, his victory a devastating loss to Nazi Germany