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Subjects: Government

  • American Experience

  • Frontline

  • Teaching Systems – American Government

    Cerebellum Teaching Systems are simply the most effective method for students to learn and for teachers to teach. This innovative system covers topics in a fun, fast-paced and engaging manner. Each module includes a video program along with a digital workbook filled with teacher’s guides, classroom notes, quizzes, games and discussion questions. The subject matter correlates directly to state standards and is produced and designed by the Cerebellum Academic Team of professional scriptwriters, students, professors, actors, comedians and teachers.

    Who says Civics has to be as dry as the Congressional Record? Now you can explain the three branches of government, the Constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties in a way your students will enjoy and understand.

  • Betty Ford: The Real Deal – Public Performance

    Betty Ford: The Real Deal profiles Betty Ford, her time in the White House, advocacy for equal rights and her substance addiction that led to the founding of the Betty Ford Center in California.

  • Looking for Lincoln – Public Performance

    The series will dissect the myths that have grown up around Abraham Lincoln, and in doing so, will address outstanding questions surrounding him – questions about race, equality, religion, depression, and sexuality – by carefully interpreting the evidence provided by people who actually knew him.

  • FRONTLINE: The Economic Meltdown

    Includes Five Programs: Cliffhanger: As the nation faces yet another round of fiscal crises, FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. The Warning: In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone regulator warned about the dangers of derivatives-and overnight, became the enemy of some of the most powerful people in Washington. Breaking the Bank: Frontline goes inside the saga of Ken Lewis and Bank of America. From the start, the Merrill deal was troubled. Then the government took over. Ten Trillion and Counting: FRONTLINE tracks the politics behind America’s mountain of debt. Is this crisis far bigger than our current financial mess? Inside the Meltdown: FRONTLINE investigates how the economy went so bad, so fast, and what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson didn’t see, couldn’t stop, and weren’t able to fix.

  • FRONTLINE: Inside Obama’s Presidency

    As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his Republican opponents over health care and the economy to his dramatic expansion of targeted killings of enemies, FRONTLINE examines the president’s key decisions and the experiences that will inform his second term.

  • FRONTLINE: The Untouchables

    Are the CEOs of mega-banks too big to jail? Though fraudulent practices at banks contributed to America’s financial meltdown, to date no Wall Street titan has been convicted of a crime connected to the crisis. FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution.

  • FRONTLINE: Cliffhanger

    This February, as the nation faces yet another round of fiscal crises, FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, FRONTLINE goes behind the scenes to show how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the “fiscal cliff,” and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration. The film explores the deep ideological divide inside the Republican Party and the struggle between House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner as they take on President Obama and the Democrats.

  • FRONTLINE: Raising Adam Lanza

    In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of death and destruction, but little else. He left no known friends, no diary. He destroyed his computer and any evidence it might have provided. His motives, and his life, remain largely a mystery. In collaboration with The Hartford Courant, FRONTLINE looks for answers to the central-and so far elusive-question: who was Adam Lanza? Also this hour: In the aftermath of the tragedy, President Obama called for a national conversation about guns in America. Nowhere is that conversation more intense than in Newtown, where FRONTLINE finds a town divided and explores how those closest to the tragedy are now wrestling with our nation’s gun culture and laws.