Video Guides
In-depth Teachers' Video Guides, excellent tools for lesson planning, explore each film from beginning to end. Video guides pay particular attention to each scene in a given film, providing insightful questions throughout and post-viewing activities, both written and oral.
To see selected film descriptions and trailers, go to our Film Corner.
Video guides are available for the following films:
Popular Films
The Color of Friendship (G) 2000
Crash (R) 2005
A Family Thing (PG-13) 1996
Far from Heaven (PG-13) 2002
Finding Forrester (PG-13) 2000
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (PG) 1967
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (PG) 1999
Ice Age (PG) 2002
Longtime Companion (R) 1990
Maid in Manhattan (PG-13) 2002
Mississippi Burning (R) 1988
Mona Lisa Smile (PG-13) 2003
Monsters, Inc. (G) 2001
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG) 2002
Pocahontas (G) 1995
Remember the Titans (PG) 2000
Save the Last Dance (PG-13) 2001
Shrek (PG) 2001
Snow Falling on Cedars (PG-13) 1999
Star Trek: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (TV - NR) 1969
The Virgin Suicides (R) 2000
Whitewash (NR) 1995
Documentaries
The American Experience: "America and the Holocaust" (TV - NR) 1994
Hollywood on Trial (NR) 1976
The Public Mind: "The Truth About Lies: Images and Reality in America" (TV - NR) 1989
These guides are available for $5 each. Order form (requires Adobe Reader)