This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand help raise awareness about suicide prevention as well as allow students and researchers to learn more about the September 11 terrorist attacks, honor the contributions of Hispanic Americans, study the history of the CIA, and celebrate Banned Books Week. 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.
National Suicide Prevention Week, September 8, 2019
Consider these titles for your classes:
- There’s Always Help: Suicide Prevention (Item #155258)
- Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers (Item #129318)
- Prescription: Suicide? (Item #43377)
- With and Without You: A Father’s Suicide, a Family’s Journey (Item #40079)
- TEDTalks: Nancy Lublin—Texting That Saves Lives (Item #52978)
- These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide (Item #56489)
- After “Suicide Cluster” in Palo Alto (Item #116613)
Patriot Day, Commemoration of the 9/11 Attacks, 2001
Consider these titles for your classes:
- 9/11 Inside the Pentagon (Item #129832)
- Bill Moyers Journal: 9/11: For the Record (Item #38820)
- September 11th (Item #43111)
- For the Love of Their Brother (Item #129349)
- Loose Change 9/11 (Item #118313)
- 9/11 through Saudi Eyes (Item #30919)
- My Life after 9/11 (Item #58521)
Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15–October 15, 2019
Consider these titles for your classes:
- 15: A Quinceañera Story series (Item #146223)
- The Latino Americans (Item #58763)
- The Hispanic American Voter (Item #148800)
- Habla Y Vota (Item #129497)
- Moyers & Company: Hispanic America’s Turn (Item #52314)
- The Hispanic Americans series (Item #7987)
- Americano as Apple Pie: The Latino Experience in America series (Item #11894)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is Established, September 18, 1947
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Bay of Pigs Declassified (Item #43035)
- Anatomy of an Interrogation (Item #142522)
- Secrets, Politics, and Torture (Item #114694)
- The Man Nobody Knew (Item #66020)
- Manhunt (Item #115018)
- War Powers and Covert Action (Item #160411)
- Acid, Spies & Secret Experiments (Item #160858)
Banned Books Week, September 22–28, 2019
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Forbidden Reading (Item #42294)
- Creativity with Bill Moyers: Maya Angelou (Item #42076)
- J. D. Salinger: An Appreciation (1/28/10) (Item #142664)
- Battle over the Books: Censorship in American Schools (Item #5197)
- Hey Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird (Item #65966)
- Aldous Huxley: Darkness and Light (Item #6274)
- James Joyce: Ulysses (Item #10034)
