This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers learn more about the modern history of India and Pakistan as well as the lives and impact of a maverick senator, the United States’ first African-American Supreme Court justice, the business magnate known as “the Oracle of Omaha,” and an influential African-American author. 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.
Independence of India and Pakistan, August 14–15, 1947
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Dangerous Borders—A Journey Across India and Pakistan series (Item #145853)
- Eqbal Ahmad and the Partitioning of India (Item #10087)
- India: The Struggle for Independence (Item #9178)
- The Birth of Pakistan (Item #2601)
- Kashmir: The Legacy of Partition of India (Item #42681)
Birthday: Senator John McCain, August 29, 1936
Consider these titles for your classes:
- John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (Item #154654)
- Legends of Air Power: John McCain (Item #129012)
- Chisholm / McCain – The Straight Talkers (Item #151127)
- Barack Obama and John McCain Debate (9/26/2008): U.S. Presidential Election Debates (Item #94932)
Thurgood Marshall Confirmed to Supreme Court, August 30, 1967
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All (Item #42516)
- Thurgood Marshall: America’s First African American Supreme Court Justice (Item #129519)
- Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP (Item #60754)
Birthday: Warren Buffett, August 30, 1930
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Becoming Warren Buffett (Item #130809)
- Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett (Item #145049)
- The World’s Greatest Moneymaker: Warren Buffett (Item #41382)
- Buffett and Gates Go Back to School (Item #40885)
Birthday: Richard Wright, September 4, 1908
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Richard Wright: Black Boy (Item #49760)
- Prophets and Poets: Southern Literature, 1941–1962 (Item #43328)
- Africa to America to Paris: The Migration of Black Writers (Item #8321)
