This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers take a look at the complex history of Israel as it turns 70, as well as spark discussions about online privacy, honor America’s accomplishments in space exploration, learn more about the father of modern psychology, and find out what it was like to live during the Dust Bowl. 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.

70th Anniversary of the Founding of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Israel: Birth of a Nation (Item #43071)
• Israel: Country Watch (Item #60373)
• Tkuma: Israel’s First 50 Years series (Item #8546)
• Israel (Item #33614)
• The White City District of Tel Aviv, Israel (Item #144228)
• Return: Part 5—The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama (Item #114719)
• Disengagement: Israel’s Unilateral Withdrawal—Educator’s Edition (Item #38732)

Choose Privacy Week, May 1–7, 2018

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Cracking the Code (Item #145252)
• The Outrage Machine (Item #142578)
• Cyberhate with Tara Moss (Item #145236)
• The Facebook Obsession (Item #47286)
• Debating the Constitution: Technology and Privacy: A Debate (Item #144317)
• Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook (Item #52538)
• Mozilla’s Denelle Dixon-Thayer on Trading Away Your Privacy (Item #65926)

Space Day, May 4, 2018

Consider these titles for your classes:

• NASA Video Collection series (Item #144884)
• Kingdom of Saturn (Item #145204)
• Mars series (Item #138029)
• TEDTalks: Lisa Nip: How Humans Could Evolve to Survive in Space (Item #133350)
• Mission Pluto (Item #138036)
• Buzz Aldrin, from the series StarTalk with host Neil deGrasse Tyson (Item #138038)
• Mars One, from the series StarTalk with host Neil deGrasse Tyson (Item #138043)

Birthday: Sigmund Freud, May 6, 1856

Consider these titles for your classes:

• The Unconscious: Freud and Lacan (Item #145548)
• Freud: Genius of the Modern World (Item #115801)
• The Talking Cure: Sigmund Freud—Madness (Item #48758)
• The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, with Dr. Armand Nicholi series (Item #44392)
• Freud, Jung, and Psychoanalysis: Part 2—History of Psychology (Item #115836)
• Young Doctor Freud series (Item #44435)

The Dust Bowl Sweeps across the Great Plains, May 11, 1934

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl series (Item #131308)
• This Day in History: May 11, 1934—Dust Bowl Hits the Great Plains (Item #68582)
• The First Measured Century: 1930–1960 (Item #44378)
• Bust: America—The Story of Us (Item #43282)
• Extreme Weather: The World’s Worst Disasters (Item #95247)