January’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand include titles to raise awareness of human trafficking as well as videos to help students learn more about the unlikely peasant girl who became a national hero of France; an influential African-American author, folklorist, and anthropologist; and the construction of one of the largest dams in the world. 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. (Content may vary for international collections.)
January Is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Freedom Project series (Item #187224)
- The Trap: The Deadly Sex-Trafficking Cycle in American Prisons (Item #168514)
- Maids: Docile and Invisible—A Story on Domestic Workers (Item #125151)
- Trafficked in America (Item #188600)
- An American Nightmare: Human Trafficking—Dan Rather Reports (Item #114509)
- Sex Trafficking in the USA (Item #93437)
- TEDTalks: Noy Thrupkaew—Human Trafficking Is All Around You. This Is How It Works. (Item #114621)
- Supermarket Slave Trade (Item #149994)
- Trafficker (Item #118399)
If you are in need of assistance and/or information and resources related to the issue of human trafficking, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline to access their services: (888) 373-7888.
Birthday: Joan of Arc, January 6, 1412
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Joan of Arc: The Maid of Orleans (Item #30260)
- Joan of Arc (Prime Entertainment Group; Item #190234)
- Agents of God: Chivalry and Betrayal—The Hundred Years War (Item #55711)
- Visions of Prophecy, Voices of Power (Item #11057)
- Joan of Arc (Films Sans Frontieres; Item #57125)
Birthday: Zora Neale Hurston, January 7, 1891
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (Item #49796)
- Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy (Item #34681)
- Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance (Item #44053)
- Tell about the South: Southern Literature, 1915–1940 (Item #43327)
- Southern Renaissance—American Passages: A Literary Survey (Item #113254)
- Prophets and Poets: Southern Literature, 1941–1962 (Item #43328)
Construction Begun on the Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in Egypt, January 9, 1960
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Modern Marvels: Aswan Dam (Item #42783)
- The Nile (Item #188592)
- The Building of the Aswan Dam, 1964 (Item #46535)
- Testing the Limits of Possibility: Massive Dams and Waterworks (Item #33075)
- The Nile (Item #86558)
- The Nile River: Shared or Monopolized? (Item #40148)
- Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs: Nasser (Item #120519)
- Egypt to Oman: Episode 3—Tropic of Cancer (Item #125005)
