Primary Education / Performing Arts & Drama

Angel and Big Joe
Angel and Big Joe
This powerful program is “a masterful depiction of the deep friendship between Big Joe (Paul Sorvino), a telephone lineman, and Angel, a young...
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Antonio, and His Flamenco Guitar
Antonio, and His Flamenco Guitar
Antonio is twelve.  He lives in Jerez de la Frontera in southern Andalusia.  Born into a Gypsy family of flamenco artists, he dreams of...
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Bobby May: Great American Juggler
Bobby May: Great American Juggler
Bobby May was obsessed with his art.  The pleasure he received from his profession is obvious even in his descriptions of his most famous...
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Carlito, The Child King of Vallenato
Carlito, The Child King of Vallenato
Carlito is eleven years old.  He lives in Valledupar in the Colombian tropics.  It’s the land of “Vallenato” which is a musical style born...
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The Educated Eye
The Educated Eye
Film is an ideal medium with which to explore the many techniques of observation. Some modes of observation are important to life and survival, while...
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The History of the Cinema
The History of the Cinema
"The History of the Cinema" is an amusingly animated version of the film industry’s history, beginning with man’s emergence as an artist and...
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Kids, Music & Dance
Kids, Music & Dance
There are eight of them, eight children from every corner of the planet.  Some live in China; others in India; others still in Mali.  As...
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Kostadin and His Kaval
Kostadin and His Kaval
Kostadin is eleven, and he plays a sort of flute known as a kaval.  He loves his country’s folk music and has formed a group with other children...
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Lucumi, The Rumbero of Cuba
Lucumi, The Rumbero of Cuba
Lucumi is ten and lives in Havana’s black district.  Brought up to the beat of drums, he dreams of becoming a great rumbero.  With other...
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Niam, The Jali of Kora
Niam, The Jali of Kora
Niam is twelve.  He had been abandoned by his parents in the streets of Bamako but was taken in by Cekili Diabate, a good and generous...
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Opera With Henry Butler
Opera With Henry Butler
Scenes from Pagliacci demonstrate how music and plot are interwoven to portray the full range of human emotion. The glittering ballroom sequence of...
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Panman
Panman
This is the story of Donell, an eleven-year-old boy who lives in Trinidad in the West Indies.  Donell’s fondest desire when he grows up is to...
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