Delgado Library Online Services: eMedia

In an increasingly global society, disease outbreaks are on the rise—and so is the need for epidemiology expertise. This program introduces students to vital information regarding the transmission, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, vectors, prevention, and control of several communicable diseases.

An outbreak of Ebola in western Uganda caused dozens of illnesses or deaths. A team of investigators from America's Centers for Disease Control Special Pathogens Branch travels to Uganda to bring the outbreak under control and learn more about the reservoir hosts for the Ebola and Marburg viruses.

This in-depth investigation examines the invisible threat of new viruses emerging in the animal kingdom at an unprecedented rate. In the space of 60 years, over 350 new infectious diseases have appeared, including SARS, H1N1, H5N1 and Ebola. This film traces three threatening viruses that have been transmitted from animals to humans: the H7N9 flu virus in Asia; the Mers-CoV virus, related to SARS, active in the Middle East; and the Ebola virus.

During the 20th century, more people died from viral infections than from all the wars around the globe. During the 21st, in a world where air travel can quickly transport a human virus host to any population concentration on Earth, runaway pandemics or bioterror attacks could easily exceed that number. This alarming two-part call to action uses true-to-life dramatizations, detailed 3-D animations, and commentary by virus specialists, WHO and CDC administrators, and other experts to analyze the continual mutation and proliferation of the most diverse group of life forms on the planet—and to propose steps that must be taken to thwart them. 2-part series, 52-53 minutes each.

David Attenborough has spent a lifetime documenting the natural world. He’s met a great number of nature’s most extraordinary creatures yet there are certain stories of bewildering animals that continue to intrigue him—from the peculiar patterns of a zebra’s stripes to the evolutionary quirk of the egg laying platypus. Each episode explores the stories behind two natural curiosities, linked together by a common theme. Filmed on location in the UK, David’s gift for storytelling combined with wonderful images of the animal subjects creates a television series unlike any other he has made before. A BBC Production.

This six-part series, filmed on location in Stratford-upon-Avon, comes from the Emmy Award–winning Cromwell Production team. Programs feature commentary by several noted Shakespearean scholars and include performances of key scenes of the most popular tragedies by some of the best Stratford actors. Expert analysis accompanies each key scene, to provide an outstanding educational resource for the study of plot, character, and the universal truths embodied in these enduring dramas. 6-part series, 29–33 minutes each.

David Attenborough's Life of Mammals is a 10 part series. For more information refer to the individual episodic descriptions.

Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series "African American Lives" (2006), noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Now, in the second season of "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.", Professor Gates continues that journey, utilizing a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world's leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears. Each of the 9 episodes highlights three celebrity guests, as Gates guides them through layers of ancestral history, uncovering secrets and surprises of their family trees and sharing life-altering discoveries.

The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Continuing on the quest begun in his previous projects, African American Lives, African American Lives 2, and Faces of America, Gates finds new ways to, as he says, “get into the DNA of American culture.”

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actors Isabella Rossellini, Anjelica Huston and Mia Farrow unearth surprising new revelations about their family histories, taking them generations beyond...