HBO Documentary Films on Learn360 Expand Documentary Options

Infobase is pleased to announce the debut of HBO Documentary Films® on Learn360, Films On Demand, Classroom Video On Demand, and Access Video On Demand. HBO® has long led in documentary programming. It produces and develops provocative, groundbreaking, award-winning films.

HBO Documentary Films® and Infobase Streaming Video

HBO Documentary Films, which focuses on contemporary issues with strong social relevance, allows viewers to explore worlds rarely seen. These films have won almost every major programming award. They include the Academy Award®. Additionally, they also include the Emmy® Award and George Foster Peabody Award. They also include the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award.

Infobase is proud to offer this respected content. On Demand and Learn360 subscribers get easy streaming access to these timely titles. (Note: This material is available only in certain On Demand collections.)

HBO Documentary Films® Highlights, Accessible Through Infobase

New and timely titles include:

I Can’t Do This But I Can Do That: A Film For Families About Learning Differences

This 30-minute documentary offers an enlightening look at young people with many learning differences. It shows how these children use their strengths to overcome challenges.

Miss You Can Do It

This uplifting HBO documentary film follows Abbey Curran, a former Miss Iowa USA. She was the first woman with a disability to compete in the Miss USA Pageant®. It also follows eight girls with different disabilities. They take part in the Miss You Can Do It pageant.

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

Situated in a quiet pocket of Arlington National Cemetery, Section 60 is a final resting place for young men and women who died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. For families and friends, it is a place to grieve, honor, and remember. It is also a place to find comfort and community with others who share the same loss.

The Fence

In 2006, the United States government decided to build a fence along its Mexican border. In The Fence, award-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy explores the impact of the $3 billion project. She shows how the fence’s stated goals have shifted. These goals include limiting illegal immigration, stopping drug trafficking, and protecting America from terrorists. They have led to unforeseen, even absurd, consequences.

A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O’Donnell Celebration

This 40-minute documentary from show-biz superstar Rosie O’Donnell celebrates what makes a family. It features original songs and kids sharing thoughtful ideas about love and family.

Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma

A timely look at one of today’s most divisive and urgent issues. It examines the threat of homegrown Islamic extremism. It also explores the challenges of finding it and stopping it.

Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014

This moving film shows that gun violence in America has become tragically commonplace, sparing no one in its pervasiveness.

An Apology to Elephants

An HBO family documentary shows how elephants live in the wild. It covers their matriarchal groups and impressive memories, while also exploring problems that arise when elephants live in captivity. It looks at life in zoos and circuses.

State of Play: Broken

This film follows two men who were paralyzed playing the sports that they love.

Six by Sondheim

Six by Sondheim is an intimate and honest look at the life and work of Stephen Sondheim. He is a legendary composer and lyricist.

Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? with Maria Shriver

This program tells the stories of five children, ages 6 to 15. They face the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on their grandparents.

Triangle: Remembering the Fire

This documentary recounts the horror of March 25, 1911. Young garment workers died in New York City’s worst industrial accident until 9/11. The tragedy sparked widespread reforms. It also helped launch the modern labor movement.

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

Nominated for a 2016 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short, this film explores tensions in Pakistan. It looks at the clash between modern life and tradition.

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

Using excerpts from tapes of private talks Richard Nixon secretly recorded in the White House, this book tells the story. It uses original press reports and Nixon’s reflections from ten years after the tapes were revealed. Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words follows Nixon’s talks about major events. These include the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers leak, and his Supreme Court appointments.

Citizen U.S.A.: A 50-State Road Trip

This documentary mixes stories of newly naturalized citizens with interviews from notable first-generation Americans. It includes Madeleine Albright, Arianna Huffington, Henry Kissinger, and Gene Simmons.

Habla Women

In this film, members of the Latina community share personal life experiences and discuss larger human issues.

San Francisco 2.0

Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi returns home to show what the tech boom may bring to this progressive city.

Saving My Tomorrow

In this family special produced and directed by Amy Schatz, kids from around the country share their thoughts on a range of issues that threaten our environment, from endangered animals to climate change, while exploring stories with curators from the American Museum of Natural History about the plants, animals and ecosystems being affected by the changing earth.

The Weight of the Nation for Kids

HBO addresses the issue of childhood obesity in this three-part series. Incorporating interviews with young students as they make simple changes to their diets, school menus, or activities, the films reveal just how effective these kids are at bringing about bigger changes in their world.

About the On Demand Platform

Infobase’s award-winning On Demand streaming video platform—which includes Films On Demand for colleges and universities, Classroom Video On Demand for high schools, and Access Video On Demand for public libraries—gives students and patrons instant access to outstanding documentaries, award-winning educational films, independent films, and helpful instructional videos from any location with Internet access, anytime they choose.

About Learn360

Learn360 is the premier streaming digital delivery service for the K–12 educational market, offering 24/7 access to more than 130,000 multimedia resources, including high-quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, articles, activities, worksheets, and more. Recently relaunched with a brand-new platform and exciting new content and tools, Learn360 is now an even more powerful tool for flipped classrooms, blended instruction, project-based learning, and 1:1 environments.

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