This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers prepare for the midterm elections as well as learn more about the Iranian crisis of 1979, the pivotal election of one of America’s greatest leaders, the armistice that ended the Great War, and the importance of kindness and empathy. 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.

Issues Surrounding the Midterm Elections, November 6, 2018

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Divided States of America series (Item #151232)
• TEDTalks: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks—How We Can Face the Future Without Fear, Together (Item #160644)
• TEDTalks: Laura Galante—How (And Why) Russia Hacked the U.S. Election (Item #160766)
• To Russian-American Community, Russia Has Become Political Scapegoat (Item #154786)
• Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? (Item #118737)
• Moyers & Company: Suppressing the Vote (Item #50629)
• The Hellfire Nation (Item #154336)
• Western Democracy Is Threatening Suicide: A Debate (Item #145751)
• America by the Numbers—The New Deciders (Item #151341)

Iranian Militants Storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, November 4, 1979

Consider these titles for your classes:

• 444 Days: The Iran Hostage Crisis (Item #9200)
• Declassified: Ayatollah Khomeini (Item #42641)
• Iran: The Hundred-Year War (Item #53610)

Abraham Lincoln Is Elected 16th U.S. President, November 6, 1860

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Lincoln (Item #43087)
• How Abraham Lincoln Shaped American Politics and Popular Culture (Item #142817)
• Bill Moyers Journal: Abraham Lincoln Revealed (Item #40407)
• Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided series (Item #151400)

100th Anniversary of the End of World War I, November 11, 1918

Consider these titles for your classes:

• The Last Day of World War I (Item #43083)
• The Unfinished Nation—To End All Wars? (Item #71438)
• Apocalypse WWI series (Item #120611)

World Kindness Day, November 13, 2018

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Love, Hate, and Everything in Between: A Film on Empathy (Item #50435)
• Leading with Kindness: Case Studies in Compassionate Management (Item #44864)
• TEDTalks: Jonathan Zittrain—The Web as Random Acts of Kindness (Item #48456)
• TEDTalks: Sam Richards—A Radical Experiment in Empathy (Item #48629)
• TEDTalks: Joan Halifax—Compassion and the True Meaning of Empathy (Item #48215)