This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers learn more about women’s history, the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918, and the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War as well as celebrate the birthdays of famed artist Michelangelo and influential author Jack Kerouac. Subscribers can also explore the complete calendar (accessible via the menu in the header, top left of the platform) for the year’s milestones, holidays, and events—a handy source for ideas throughout the year.
Noteworthy Titles for Women’s History Month in March
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Silver Wings, Flying Dreams: The Complete Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (Item #132576)
- Keeper of the Beat: A Woman’s Journey into the Heart of Drumming (Item #146032)
- Extraordinary Women series (Item #95081)
Birthday: Michelangelo, March 6, 1475
Consider these titles for your classes:
- The Divine Michelangelo series (Item #110686)
- Michelangelo: Great Artists (Series 1) (Item #59658)
- The Drawings of Michelangelo (Item #36066)
- An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance (Item #9055)
- The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance series (Item #41033)
100th Anniversary of the Spanish Influenza Outbreak, March 11, 1918
Consider these titles for your classes:
- FedFlix: We Heard the Bells—The Influenza of 1918 (Item #54152)
- TEDTalks: Laurie Garrett—What Can We Learn from the 1918 Flu Pandemic? (Item #48425)
- The Doomsday Flu (Item #45413)
- Spanish Flu: H5N1’s Deadly Ancestor (Item #36437)
- Preventing Flu and Pneumonia (Item #38793)
- The Truth about Flu Vaccines (Item #40140)
Birthday: Jack Kerouac, March 12, 1922
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Jack Kerouac (Item #7959)
- New York 1951 (Item #86513)
- Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets (Item #50896)
- American Road (Item #48260)
- Prelinger Archives: Greenwich Village Sunday (c. 1960) (Item #41816)
- Greenwich Village Writers: The Bohemian Legacy (Item #3021)
50th Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, March 16, 1968
Consider these titles for your classes:
- The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick series (Item #145806)
- The Vietnam War series (Item #93998)
- The Ghosts of My Lai (Item #40352)
- My Lai Massacre (Item #42772)
