Access Video On Demand provides countless ideas for community programming, including titles to celebrate Black History Month in February and Women’s History Month in March, plus videos on American Revolutionary War history. Subscribers can also explore the complete calendar (accessible via the menu in the top left of header) for the year’s milestones, holidays, and events—a great source for programming ideas throughout the year. (Content may vary for international collections.)
February Is Black History Month
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- In Remembrance of Martin (Item #44139)
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War series (Item #188579)
- Filling the Gap: A Forgotten Chapter of American History (Item #52770)
- Race: The Power of an Illusion series (Item #49733)
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series (Item #58756)
- Ken Burns: Jazz series (Item #43591)
- Buffalo Soldiers: An American Legacy (Item #50118)
- The Two Nations of Black America (Item #40910)
- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (Item #49726)
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson—A Film Directed by Ken Burns series (Item #44425)
- Solomon Northup’s Odyssey: Twelve Years a Slave (Item #44844)
- Roots series (2016 remake of the 1977 blockbuster miniseries) (Item #160902)
March Is Women’s History Month
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- Women In Politics (Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton, Benazir Bhutto, Angela Merkel): Advocates of Change (Item #65404)
- Makers: Women Who Make America series (Item #60712)
- “On Account of Sex” (Item #142514)
- Extraordinary Women series (Item #95081)
- Women’s Rights: Finding a Voice (Item #10302)
- Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote (Item #154862)
- Women in American Politics (Item #5039)
- Power and the World’s Women (Item #95201)
- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Item #4913)
- Amelia Earhart: Queen of the Air (Item #42466)
The American Revolution Begins, April 19, 1775
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- The Unfinished Nation—Strained Relations (Item #71409)
- Liberty! Episode 2—Blows Must Decide (1774–1776) (Item #41025)
- 1775 Almanac, Exercise Records, Moon Museum: History Detectives (Season 9) (Item #56074)
- Independence: Freedom, a History of US (Item #44247)
- Benjamin Franklin: The Making of a Revolutionary (Item #131243)
- Rebels: America—The Story of Us (Item #43274)
- Patrick Henry: Voice of Liberty (Item #42506)
- Paul Revere: The Midnight Rider (Item #42508)
