Documentaries films and television series
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Lektionen in Finsternis (Lessons of Darkness) by A documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 7292Publication Date: 1992 -
Flashover! Safety and Survival on the Fireground by Presents information about flashover: what it is, warning signs, how to assess the risks, survival techniques, and how to avoid being trapped.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 5446Publication Date: 2006 -
Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit by Captures a year in the life of Detroit firefighters. With vast stretches of abandoned buildings, the highest arson rate in the country, and budget woes, these men and women risk injury, disablement, and death to try and make a difference for the city they call home.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 12178Publication Date: 2012 -
Triangle Fire: The American Experience by The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in the largest women's strike in American history, took to the streets of New York to protest working conditions. They gained the support of both progressives and leading women in New York's society.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 10037Publication Date: 2018 -
Fire and Forest Health: The Teakettle Experiment by Investigates the effect of prescribed fire and forest thinning on restoring forest health at the Teakettle Creek Experimental Watershed Study Area (California Forest and Range Experiment Station). Examines how different restoration methods impact the interconnected ecological processes that comprise forest health.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 7261Publication Date: 2007
Dramatic films and television series
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Rescue Me: The Complete First Season (three discs) by A New York City firefighter has more problems than one can imagine, but has a way of always being one step ahead of the game.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 3983Publication Date: 2004 -
Hori, Ma Panenko (The Firemen's Ball) by In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 421Publication Date: 1967 -
The Towering Inferno by On the night of the dedication ceremony of the world's tallest skyscraper, a raging blaze breaks out, threatening the party-goers.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 7817Publication Date: 1974 -
Chernobyl (complete miniseries) by In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath, including the fates of firefighters called to extinguish the resulting blaze at the power plant.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD Video 13201Publication Date: 2019 -
Fahrenheit 451 by Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 5335Publication Date: 1966
