Films On Demand: Fall Timely Topics—Breast Cancer Awareness and More

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Films On Demand: Fall Timely Topics—Breast Cancer Awareness and More

This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand help raise awareness about breast cancer as well as celebrate the International Day of the Girl and the birthday of a former president and humanitarian, learn more about the first African-American Supreme Court justice, and study the Cuban Missile Crisis. Subscribers can also explore the complete calendar (accessible via the menu in the top left of the header) for the year’s milestones, holidays, and events—a handy source for ideas throughout the year.

October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Young Women and Breast Cancer (Item #167746)
  • 5 Easy Ways to Cut Breast Cancer Risk (Item #168210)
  • Breast Cancer Vaccine Personalized (Item #167772)
  • Breast Cancer: New Reasons for Hope series (Item #147447)
  • The Girlfriend’s Guide to Breast Cancer series (Item #40061)
  • 3D Mammograms with C-View (Item #167547)
  • Pieces of Me: The Preemptive Mastectomy Dilemma (Item #43581)
  • Axel Ullrich (DE): Stopping Cancer at the Root (Item #145509)
  • Beauty & the Breast (Item #182458)
  • Mondays at Racine (Item #115021)

Happy 95th Birthday, President Jimmy Carter, October 1, 1924

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Jimmy Carter’s Journey beyond the White House (Item #43077)
  • Jimmy Carter (Item #138046)
  • Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace—Egypt and Israel in 1979 (Item #51764)
  • Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter Debate (10/28/1980) (Item #94916)
  • Carter Inaugural Address (Item #51854)
  • Jimmy Carter, from the WPA Film Library Speeches Collection (Item #47808)
  • Jimmy Carter Speaks Out against Iranians Holding Americans Hostage ca. 1979 (Item #38131)

Thurgood Marshall Sworn in to Supreme Court, October 2, 1967

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All (Item #42516)
  • Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP (Item #60754)
  • Thurgood Marshall Puts on His Supreme Court Robe ca. 1967 (Item #37816)
  • This Day In History: October 2, 1967 – Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Item #68726)
  • Thurgood Marshall: America’s First African American Supreme Court Justice (Item #129519)
  • Black/White & Brown: Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (Item #40082)
  • Justice Marshall’s Retirement (6/27/91) (Item #142605)

International Day of the Girl, October 11, 2019

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Chalk Girl (Item #150003)
  • Unbreakable: One Girl Changing the World—The Story of Malala (Item #56121)
  • Afghanistan: Girl Power! (Item #49269)
  • What Does It Mean to Be a Girl? How Parents Can Help Daughters Decide for Themselves (5/6/14) (Item #142649)
  • TEDTalks: Caroline Paul—To Raise Brave Girls, Encourage Adventure (Item #160640)
  • Moyers & Company: The Children’s Climate Crusade (Item #66052)
  • Run Like a Girl (Item #9069)

Russian Missiles Confirmed in Cuba, October 22, 1962

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis (Item #145621)
  • Universal Newsreels: The Red Threat—President Orders Cuban Blockade (10/22/1962) (Item #41903)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis: An Exploration through Archival Film (Item #44494)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (Item #151202)
  • What Kennedy Didn’t Know: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited (Item #31064)
  • Cubans Prepare for War During the Cuban Missile Crisis ca. 1962 (Item #38301)
  • NBC White Paper: Cuba—The Missile Crisis (Item #56325)