This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers celebrate Earth Day and the birthdays of both Shakespeare and Machiavelli, as well as teach them about the deadly disease that claimed the life of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. 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.
Celebrate Earth Day, April 22
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Earth Days (Item #60719)
- Heavy Metal: An American Pollution Story (Item #56412)
- Your Right to a Healthy Environment: David Boyd (Item #56733)
- Moyers & Company: Time to Get Real on Climate Change (Item #58147)
- Earth’s Survival: Decoding the Science (Item #93781)
- Pollution & the Environment—Economics U$A: 21st Century Edition (Item #113428)
Birthday: William Shakespeare, April 23 (estimated), 1564
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Eight performances Live from Shakespeare’s Globe, including Twelfth Night (Item #53275), As You Like It (Item #41374), Romeo and Juliet (Item #41373), and others
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in Original Pronunciation) (Item #55020)
- This Is Shakespeare! series (Item #129195)
- Shakespeare Uncovered series (Item #58740)
- Shakespeare Uncovered (Series 2) (Item #95250)
- Shakespeare’s First Folio Item (Item #75352)
- Shakespeare in Italy series (Item #57656)
- Shakespeare and Us series (Item #52575)
May Is ALS Awareness Month
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Hawking (Item #58662)
- Lessons on Living: Morrie Schwartz (Item #54906)
- TEDTalks: Nancy Frates—Meet the Mom Who Started the Ice Bucket Challenge (Item #66139)
- Lou Gehrig’s Disease: Insights into ALS (Item #39422)
- ALS: Lou Gehrig’s Disease (Item #33017)
Birthday: Niccolò Machiavelli, May 3, 1469
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Machiavelli: The Prince (Item #33443)
- Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince
- The Mind of a Leader 1: Lessons in Management from Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince series (Item #48913)
