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Animation of a grimacing bearded man in a yellow and green doublet holding up a purple flower. Figure in a pink beret and ruff purses their lips and stands to the side. Caption. With the juice of this, I'll streak her eyes.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 5
26 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young woman with curly red hair looks out with a serious expression. To the right, a black and white photo collage shows a senior man and woman, and a younger man.
3 hours 15 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man dressed as a French Revolutionist looks out, face illuminated with red light. Caption lyrics. All. Just know the divinist intervention.
1 hours 32 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man in a black Nazi uniform stands in front and addresses another man seated at a desk. Caption. But not all are as quick as you, even in the Party.
1 hours 44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Color illustration of a pig lying down in a barn, looking distressed. Caption. Whatever we produce is taken from us!
1 hours 12 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Unavailable
2 hours 32 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white frame shows a man wearing a light jacket and white collared shirt. Caption. Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.
1 hours 36 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Painted animation of a figure kneeling with arms up toward another figure standing at the edge of the woods. A black and white inset floats above with a man squatting next to a building as a bird takes flight. Caption. So "a day" without the "ever."
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 7
25 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame shows a woman with dark hair wearing an evening gown standing between a man in a white suit and a man in a plaid shirt. Caption. Remember your farewell party?
1 hours 29 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Young man in a dark suit looks down towards a dark blonde woman in a crowded indoor space. Caption. I think he truly loved you.
1 hours 56 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Charles Dickens
Famous Authors
Episode 5
37 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Famous Authors
Episode 9
32 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of George Orwell
Famous Authors
Episode 17
34 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Henry James
Famous Authors
Episode 12
36 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Jane Austen
Famous Authors
Episode 1
35 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of John Keats
Famous Authors
Episode 15
33 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Jonathan Swift
Famous Authors
Episode 22
35 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Famous Authors
Episode 20
36 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Famous Authors
Episode 10
35 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Virginia Woolf
Famous Authors
Episode 25
35 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Blake
Famous Authors
Episode 2
38 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Famous Authors: The Life and Work of William Shakespeare
Famous Authors
Episode 19
43 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Senior man in coat and hat stands next to a man in a vest and long sleeves. Caption. I worked there quite a few years with my son Jacob there.
3 hours 37 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Frame shows a man dressed in Knight's attire kneeling before a green Wizard with long hair and a beard. Caption. Call on your courtly code to keep your head on now.
1 hours 16 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man in a black velvet hat and red jacket looks up and away, mouth open as if to call out. Caption. Which finally accords with the true spirit of pilgrimage.
33 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Senior man sits beside a young boy in a hospital bed. Caption. Can't I come home with you, Mr. Tom?
1 hours 27 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Black and white photo of a double decker river steam boat parked at shore. Caption. Up the Congo River in Africa.
Great Authors Of The British Isles
Season 0 / Ep 8
29 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Leatherbound library books on shelves. A text overlay reads, "Twentieth Century Poets and Playwrights."
Great Authors Of The British Isles
Season 0 / Ep 9
28 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Royal portrait painting of Charles the second. He's wearing his coronation robes, with a red velvet waistcoat, white and black ermine cape, and crown jewels. Caption. Of the monarchy and the return of Charles the second.
Great Authors Of The British Isles
Season 0 / Ep 3
29 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Low high shot of the ruins of a stone cathedral with towers and arched windows. Caption. The Anglo-Saxons brought their rich Germanic language.
Great Authors Of The British Isles
Season 0 / Ep 1
27 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white portrait painting of Daniel Defoe. He wears a shoulder-length full-bottomed wig with a jacket and white scarf. Caption. He was an English trader, writer, journalist.
Great Authors Of The British Isles
Season 0 / Ep 5
27 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man wearing a collared shirt and jacket looks slightly down and away from camera. Behind him, a photo showing a relief with 3 angels standing across from a man. Caption. The man answered, "Because I fear that this burden."
Great Authors Of The British Isles
Season 0 / Ep 4
28 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Portrait painting of Percy Bysshe Shelley wearing a white collared shirt and black coat. Caption. She met the dashing Romantic poet and political radical.
Great Authors Of The British Isles
Season 0 / Ep 6
28 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Renaissance painting of a man looking through an ornate telescope on a gold table stand as 1 man holds it steady at its base. Caption. The Renaissance produced men who excelled in these areas.
Great Authors Of The British Isles
Season 0 / Ep 2
26 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Great Poets of the World: English-Language Poets (1831-1894)
Great Poets of the World
Episode 5
28 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great Poets of the World: English-Language Poets (1895-1922)
Great Poets of the World
Episode 6
26 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great Poets of the World: English-Language Poets (1923-Present)
Great Poets of the World
Episode 7
27 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great Poets of the World: English-Language Poets (8th Century A.D.-1830)
Great Poets of the World
Episode 4
28 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great Poets of the World: Shakespeare's Poetry
Great Poets of the World
Episode 1
56 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Character resembling Gulliver on sand being tied up by small people. Caption. Finds himself in the land of the Lilliputians.
24 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Animation of a ghostly bearded figure in a robe hovering beneath a dark stone archway. Caption. This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 9
26 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame of a man with two Bobbies on either side. Caption. Officer, if you only knew what was going on in there.
1 hours 6 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Still image from: How to Draw William Shakespeare
4 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Digital illustration of a magnifying glass on left and a pencil on right. Title card at center reads, "Informational Writing. Episode 6, Writing a Closing."
Informational Writing for Kids
Episode 6
1 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Black and white photo of woman in a white gown looking at a bed. Caption. Mr. Rochester wishes you to come downstairs, dear.
1 hours 3 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Animation of Julius Caesar in a tunic and red sagum. He looks toward a cloaked figure that holds a staff and faces away from camera. Caption. The ides of March are come.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 10
25 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
3 women stand side by side in business attire. Caption. Lear with British accent as narrator. Tell me, my daughters, since now we will divest us both.
20 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Color illustration of a hulking King Richard in a red cap, a breastplate, and a fur collared robe. He reaches to turn a doorknob. Caption. With their uncle George, duke of Clarence, in the tower.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 3
26 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame of man and woman in expedition clothes. Both stare ahead.
1 hour 20 minutes
Grade Level: 12 -
Cartoon of late-eighteen-hundreds man in a fists up boxing position. 2 arrows point at him read, "Conflict." A human hand writes a "C" in a third arrow. Title card reads, "Conflict in literature is any struggle between opposing forces, usually the main character against something else."
Literary Elements and Techniques
Episode 1
2 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 illustrations. Stick figure on an island with a palm tree. Next to this, hand draws a stick figure and buildings. Title card reads, "Location. The location of a story can determine parameters for a character's life and helps create mood and atmosphere."
Literary Elements and Techniques
Episode 2
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Hand holds a pen in the middle of writing out a title card, which reads, "Theme is the main or underlying meaning of a literary work. It's the message the reader takes away from the. Hand begins to write the word start.
Literary Elements and Techniques
Episode 3
2 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white image of a woman holding her head close to and looking down at a small boy. Both look serious. Caption. And I'll have things to tell you!
1 hours 41 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Animation of a medieval knight holding up a flag while another knight stands behind him. Caption. Narrator. News of Macbeth and Banquo's victory.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 1
25 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a portrait of Mary Shelley beside the superimposed silhouette of a shrouded figure with 1 forearm extended.
Monstrum
Season 1 / Ep 2
6 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Drawing of a mythical face with sinister eyes and open mouth with sharp teeth. Animal pelt hangs in background. Caption. Is of the early explorations and voyages.
20 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame of man with head turned to the left, mouth open. Caption. That. That sort of thing doesn't mean anything to you.
1 hours 22 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a swaddled baby, smiling. Caption. What's she smiling like that for?
1 hours 57 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Frame from the 2000 movie, Oliver Twist. Fagin looks at boy holding a card upright. Caption. I saw, it came from your sleeve.
1 hours 57 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Frame from the 2000 movie, Oliver Twist. Crowd appears through tunnel with dog in foreground. Caption. Look, there's his dog.
1 hours 56 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Animation of a man clad in armor with his back facing camera and his head turned in profile. Caption. It is the green eyed monster.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 4
27 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Painting of a dining party in 1800s England. Caption. Narrator. Jane Austen was modest about her achievements.
48 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white frame of Leslie Howard in movie, Pygmalion. Caption. I've become accustomed to your voice and appearance.
1 hours 35 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Frame of 2 women seated at a dining table. A waiter in black tux stands between them. Caption. What's happening to this place?
3 hours 4 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a woman with long blonde hair opening her mouth mid-speech. Caption. The legends, myths, and literature of mankind.
51 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Animation of Romeo and Juliet facing one another with their lips puckered. Caption. 1 kiss and I'll descend.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 8
25 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white title card reads, Scrooge, based on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
59 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of a man tilting his head up and glancing to the side with a slight snarl. He holds 1 hand up with his thumb and pointer finger touching. Caption. The possibilities of the play's production and interpretation.
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 5
15 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman with dark hair smiles at camera in front of a screen with pink and white text. A transparent image of 2 men floats in front of her. Caption. And another mystery. What about that freaky ghost?
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 6
19 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man in vest clasps hands and parts lips slightly as he looks forward at camera. Title bar reads, "King Lear. King Lear, "poetic drama." Caption. Through the highly imaginative and figurative.
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 11
14 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Young man opens mouth to speaks and holds pointer finger up at his chin. Title bar reads, "Macbeth. James's relative Banquo." Caption. James was also interested in the occult.
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 9
22 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man in shiny, gold-trimmed robe gestures to the side and smiles at camera. Caption. I am not what I am.
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 8
21 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman with brown hair tilts her head up slightly and parts her lips while speaking and clasping her hands in front of her waist. Caption. It'll give you a good handle on the play.
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 7
19 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man in white tunic opens mouth as he speaks in front of a pitch black background. Caption. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 4
28 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Young man raises his eyebrows and looks directly at camera. Cloaked skeletons bow before a costumed figure in the background. Caption. Spooky, eh?
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 10
16 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman with dark hair smiles at camera. Pink and white text appears on screen in background. Caption. Can teach us 2 important things.
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 3
19 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Blonde short haired woman smiles at camera. Caption. Our experience.
Standard Deviants School: Shakespeare
Episode 2
21 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Unavailable.
1 hours 20 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Cartoon of a bearded, curly-haired man holding a bow and aiming an arrow as he glances upwards and sideways. Title card reads, "Robin Hood."
15 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white frame of a man wearing a white jacket over black t-shirt. Caption. I suppose a woman scorned is a vessel of wrath.
1 hours 27 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white frame of a man looking down at a young woman. She looks away from him with mouth open in mid-speech. Caption. There's such a change in him.
1 hours 42 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman in Victorian attire looks up with a surprised expression at a man in an army uniform. Caption. Quite. To the very cannon's mouth, if need be.
1 hours 33 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: All -
Victorian manor house with statue of a warthog in front. Opening credit reads, screenplay by Kevin Elyot.
1 hours 57 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white frame of Merle Oberon dressed in a dark ruffled gown with a cameo necklace. Caption. Monsieur Chauvelin, the French ambassador.
1 hours 37 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a smiling woman in a darkened space. A light glows behind her. Caption. It grabs me as a human, it grabs me as an anatomist.
The Secret Life of Books
Season 2 / Ep 1
29 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man in a suit with an unbuttoned collar furrows his brow and leans against a limewashed brick wall. Caption. Some say that Dickens let himself and the book down.
The Secret Life of Books
Season 0 / Ep 3
29 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Sepia toned profile photo of Virginia Woolf with a low bun in her hair. Caption. Between this quiet stretch of Sussex and a home in London.
The Secret Life of Books
Season 2 / Ep 2
29 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man with white beard peers at camera. Large statue and trees stand in the background. Caption. It's thanks to a particular text.
The Secret Life of Books
Season 2 / Ep 4
29 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man in a cowboy hat standing next to a black horse with luggage tied onto its saddle Caption. We'll keep it on till dark, I guess.
1 hours 21 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
Animated puppet woman sits at a table looking forlorn. Another puppet figure wears puff sleeves and stands beside her holding a tray. Caption. I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 6
28 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Animation of a man with long white hair and beard wearing medieval clothing and standing in front of towering sea stacks. Caption. Hast thou, spirit, performed to the point.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Season 0 / Ep 2
26 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame shows a man with a fur capelet next to a woman in an evening gown. Both are looking at a man in uniform standing on a platform slightly above them. Caption. What do you mean "we must clean that up".
1 hours 35 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 13+ -
Frame from the movie, Treasure Island. A pirate stands next to a teenage boy pointing. Caption. You see that dot there on the horizon?
1 hours 35 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame of men running down a road and away from a dinosaur. Caption. Narrator. Horror fiction has many subgenres.
17 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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