Films On Demand: June Timely Topics—LGBT Pride Month and More

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Films On Demand: June Timely Topics—LGBT Pride Month and More

May 17, 2019

This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers celebrate LGBT Pride Month as well as study one of World War II’s most significant battles, examine America’s gun debate, and learn more about one of rock music’s most influential and successful performers. 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.

June Is LGBT Pride Month

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • After Stonewall: America’s LGBT Movement (Item #65987)
  • The Play Within: An LGBTQ Documentary (Item #145493)
  • Growing Up Trans (Item #111640)
  • Out in the Lineup: Uncovering the Taboo of Homosexuality in Surfing (Item #137742)
  • Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric (Item #138020)
  • When I Knew (Item #39806)
  • TEDTalks: LZ Granderson—The Myth of the Gay Agenda (Item #52999)
  • Lesbian Nation (Item #141966)

75th Anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • D-Day 360 (Item #131323)
  • D-Day in HD series (Item #130757)
  • Utah Beach (D-Day) (Item #155261)
  • Pride of Our Nation (June 1944–August 1944) (Item #44295)
  • Breakout from Normandy: The Lost Evidence (Item #42406)
  • Bill Moyers Journal: D-Day Revisited (Item #37442)

Gun Violence Awareness Day, June 7, 2019

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Song of Parkland (Item #183509)
  • One October: A Nightmare in Las Vegas (Item #168564)
  • In Missouri, Relaxed Gun Laws, More Gun Deaths (Item #114844)
  • Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014 (Item #115027)
  • Silence Broken—A Mother’s Reckoning (Item #114847)
  • Guns Reduce Crime: A Debate (Item #58296)
  • Gunned Down (Item #114687)

Birthday: Paul McCartney, June 18, 1942

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • The Beatles: Made on Merseyside (Item #183574)
  • The Beatles: Composing the Beatles Songbook—Lennon & McCartney 1966–1970 (Item #51146)
  • The Beatles: Composing Outside the Beatles—Lennon & McCartney 1967–1972 (Item #51145)
  • The Beatles: Composing Outside the Beatles—Lennon and McCartney, 1973–1980 (Item #51023)
  • The Beatles: Strange Fruit—The Beatles’ Apple Records (Item #51144)
  • Mighty Good: The Beatles—All You Need Is Love: A History of Popular Music (Item #110376)
  • The Beatles Arrive in New York ca. 1964 (Item #38591)

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