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

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

This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand include titles that celebrate LGBT Pride Month, recount the birth of the U.S. Constitution, discuss the construction of an architectural marvel, and more. 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.)

June Is LGBT Pride Month

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Suited (Item #116624)
  • The Play Within: An LGBTQ Documentary (Item #145493)
  • TEDTalks: Jackson Bird—How to Talk (and Listen) to Transgender People (Item #160739)
  • Fest Selects: Best Gay Shorts (Item #141790)
  • Gender Beyond the Binary (Item #149961)
  • TEDTalks: iO Tillett Wright—Fifty Shades of Gay (Item #56549)
  • Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric (Item #138020)
  • TEDTalks: LZ Granderson—The Myth of the Gay Agenda (Item #52999)
  • Lesbian Nation (Item #141966)
  • Growing Up Trans (Item #111640)
  • Gay, Straight, and Accepted (Item #155257)
  • My Transgender Life—What It’s Like to Be Transgender (Item #129630)

Constitutional Convention Convenes in Philadelphia, May 25, 1787

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Moyers: Report from Philadelphia Video Clip Collection—Day by Day (Item #39941)
  • Framework for Democracy—The American Experiment (Item #70391)
  • The Birth of the Constitution (Item #162988)
  • Framework for Democracy—The Living Constitution (Item #70392)
  • Style and the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution: Forrest McDonald (Item #4963)
  • The U.S. Constitution (Revised) (Item #146036)

Golden Gate Bridge Opens, May 27, 1937

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Modern Marvels: Golden Gate Bridge (Item #42834)
  • Prelinger Archives: Building the Golden Gate Bridge (Item #53946)
  • Suspension Bridges (Item #20390)

President Andrew Jackson Signs the Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Trail of Tears (Item #155268)
  • Live Free or Die (Item #160930)
  • The Unfinished Nation—Legacy of an Autocratic Ruler (Item #71417)
  • The Trail of Tears (Item #42982)
  • Trail of Tears: We Shall Remain—America through Native Eyes (Item #44691)

Tiananmen Square Massacre, June 4, 1989

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • Declassified: Tiananmen Square (Item #42648)
  • A Dramatic History: China on China (Item #53091)
  • China Asserts Itself: Part 2—China New Empire (Item #118382)
  • The Tiananmen Hostage: Fang Lizhi (Item #10543)
  • Tiananmen: The People versus the Party (Item #188622)
  • Tiananmen: Australia’s Witnesses (Item #58370)

Birthday: Anne Frank, June 12, 1929

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • The Diary of Anne Frank: A Tale of Two Sisters (Item #93997)
  • Final Days of Anne Frank (Item #137993)
  • Otto Frank, Father of Anne (Item #168536)
  • Children of the Holocaust (Item #86489)
  • Memories of Anne Frank (Item #8833)

Statue of Liberty Arrives in New York, June 17, 1885

Consider these titles for your classes:

  • The Statue of Liberty—A Film by Ken Burns (Item #44164)
  • Liberty: Mother of Exiles (Item #195735)
  • Modern Marvels: Statue of Liberty (Item #42907)
  • The Statue of Liberty, United States: Symbol of Freedom (Item #144047)
  • Yearning to Breathe Free: Freedom, a History of US (Item #44256)
  • FedFlix: Body of Iron, Soul of Fire—The Statue of Liberty (Item #54234)