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KABUKI (VHS) 1988. 35 min. sd. color. #23180 Provides an introduction to the 400-year-old tradition of Kabuki, explaining its origins and purposes, its literary sources, and the meaning of its symbolism. Shows the rehearsal, preparation of costume and wigs, and the performance of the Kabuki play, relates the make-up and music to the over-all scheme, and explains the esthetic of Kabuki art.

KANT (DVD) 1987. 45 min. sd. color. #70040 World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discuss the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view that activities and powers within the mind are the key to knowledge, and that all knowledge is appearance. Knowledge, for Kant, is a complex affair, in which knowing is acquired not just through the senses, but through pure concepts of understanding indigenous to the mind. Countering Hume, Kant insists it is the mind, not the senses, which unifies and organizes sensory flow into meaningful definitions of things. A BBC Production.

KARL MARX: THE SPECTRE OF MARXISM (VHS) 1982. 47 min. sd. color. #17590 Examines Marx's theories and predictions, and assesses their impact on the world in the one hundred years since his death.

KATE CHOPIN: FIVE STORIES OF AN HOUR (VHS) 1991. 26 min. sd. color. #61250 This program consists of five versions of the same short story, "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, who scandalized American readers in the late 19th century by questioning the social and marital mores of her time. The story examines the behavior and feelings of a woman on the day she is informed of her husband's death. The program includes a reading of the story by Zoe Wanamaker, plus dramatizations by playwrights Kathleen Potter, David Stafford and Michelene Wandor.

KATE CHOPIN: THE JOY THAT KILLS (VHS) 1976. 56 min. sd. color. #14590 Adaptation of the short story by Kate Chopin, the late 19th century American writer. The setting is the author's own world, the upper-class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870's. This world had a strict code of behavior, one of whose strongest tenets required a wife to subordinate her will and her very being to her husband.

KATHE KOLLWITZ (VHS) 197v. 19 min. sd. b&w. #17060 Mother and child, from birth to death, in tragic sorrow and leaping joy is the central image for this deeply feeling artist, who could never turn a blind eye to the human suffering of her unhappy age.

THE KAWELKA (VHS) 1989. 52 min. sd. color. #23320 In Papua New Guinea, status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. This program explores the Moka, a ceremony in which people, sometimes whole tribes, give gifts to members of other tribes. The larger the gift, the greater the victory over the recipient.

KEEP YOUR HEART STRONG (VHS) 1986. 58 min. sd. color. #60890 Documentary that explains the importance of pow-wows and explores individual's perceptions of how a pow-wow adds to the culture of Native Americans. Includes scenes from pow-wows of four communities.

KEEPING OUR WATERS CLEAN: TMDL (DVD) 2003. 44 min. sd. color. #71680 Discusses total maximum daily loads (TMDL) of pollution and sedimentation in various bodies of water as this count relates to monitoring water quality, focusing on citizen participation in California, Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri, and Florida.

KEEPING THE BALANCE (VHS) 1992. 23 min. sd. color. #61410 Brothers and sisters of children with serious lung diseases share their experiences of being "the normal child." Insightful and articulate, they explore the frequent conflict between their feelings of love and concern, and their resentment over the attention denied to them because of the sibling's illness. With their parents, they offer advice on how families can help kids to cope with chronic illness, as well as on how parents can keep the balance between caring for the needs of the chronically ill child and those of their other children.

KEITA (VHS) 1995. 94 min. sd. color. #60170 Introduces the viewer to one of the most important works of African oral literature, The Sundjata Epic. The film frames its dramatization of this legend within the story of a contemporary young African's initiation into the history of his family. In Jula and French with English subtitles.

KENYATTA (VHS) 1973. 52 min. sd. color. #66220 Full-length videotape version of Jomo Kenyatta's life which embodies the history of his country's struggle for independence. This film deals with the people, the ideas, emotions and the violence that have shaped contemporary Africa.

KEYMAKERS (VHS) 1987. 31 min. sd. color. #15360 Explores the strategies found most invaluable to classroom teachers in helping students with learning disabilities. Leaders in the field, teachers, parents and students lend insight to the problems inherent in one of the most difficult tasks that exists in education.

KIDS AND CHEMICALS (DVD) 2002. 58 min. sd. color. #67280 All across the United States growing numbers of children are being diagnosed with asthma, childhood cancers, and learning and behavioral disabilities. Bill Moyers investigates the relationship between environmental contamination and the health of America's children. In addition, families whose children are coping with potential chemical poisoning talk about their anger and their fears.

THE KILLING SCREENS: MEDIA AND THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE (VHS) 1994. 40 min. sd. color. #33380 Sheds light on one of America's most pressing cultural concerns: violence and the media. Addresses the psychological, political, social and developmental impacts of growing up and living within a cultural environment of pervasive, ritualized violent representation.

KILLING US FOR OUR OWN GOOD: DIETING AND MEDICAL MISINFORMATION (VHS) 1991. 105 min. sd. color. #53140 Topics covered include the success/failure rates of dieting, the possible side effects of weight loss, the current theories of weight and metabolism, examples of the way the media, insurance and diet industry manipulate medical research, the effects of discrimination on health and happiness, and ways that people can effect change.

KILLING US SOFTLY 3 (VHS) 2000. 34 min.sd. color. #59390 (Second VHS copy available #60660) Produced by Jean Kilbourne, filmmaker of Killing Us Softly (1979) and Still Killing Us Softly (1987), this program reviews how, and if, images of women in advertising have changed in the last 20 years. Designed to promote dialogue and critical thinking, it questions whether advertising continues to objectify women's bodies, sexualize young girls, infantilize grown women, and use images of male violence against women to sell products.

KILLING US SOFTLY 3 (DVD) 2000. 34 min. sd. color. #68220 (Second DVD copy available #68280) Produced by Jean Kilbourne, filmmaker of Killing Us Softly (1979) and Still Killing Us Softly (1987), this program reviews how, and if, images of women in advertising have changed in the last 20 years. Designed to promote dialogue and critical thinking, it questions whether advertising continues to objectify women's bodies, sexualize young girls, infantilize grown women, and use images of male violence against women to sell products. DVD version includes a 25-minute interview with Jean Kilbourne.

THE KING AND I (VHS) 1956. 133 min. sd. color. #60090 (Closed captioned.) A stern Siamese monarch (Yul Brynner) is softened by the influence of an English governess (played by Deborah Kerr) as their clashing cultures and personalities give way to unspoken love. Music by Rogers and Hammerstein.

KING LEAR (VHS) 1982. 185 min. sd. color. #9482 BBC's dramatization of William Shakespeare's play.

KING LEAR (OLIVIER) (VHS) 1985. 158 min. sd. color. #12010 A dramatization of Shakespeare's play starring Laurence Olivier.

KING LEAR (PETER BROOK) (VHS) 1970. 138 min. sd. b&w. #17280 Peter Brook's stunning production of Shakespeare's great tragedy of an old king, his three daughters, and the kingdom he divides among them.

KING LEAR (Thames) (DVD) 1974. 156 min. sd. color. #70910 The Thames Shakespeare Collection presents this production of King Lear performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada. Starring Patrick Magee, Ronald Radd, Patrick Mower, Beth Harris, Ann Lynn, Wendy Allnut.

KISMET (VHS) 1955. 113 min. sd. color. #60360 (Closed captioned.) The perennial fable of poets, lovers and the Arabian nights, based on the Broadway success. Features Howard Keel, Sebastian Cabot, Vic Damone and Ann Blyth. Music adapted from themes by Alexander Borodin.

THE KLAN: A LEGACY OF HATE IN AMERICA (VHS) 1982. 29 min. sd. color. #32340 Traces the history of the Ku Klux Klan and describes its current activities against blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in the U.S.

KLEE (VHS) 1992. 25 min. sd. color. #32110 Presents the most relevant aspects of Paul Klee's work by analyzing some of his masterpieces, and it shows his variety of styles and media and his influence on Western art. (AEV)

KOREAN AMERICANS (VHS) 1994. 50 min. sd. color. #56320 Examines a major piece of the new American mosaic - a group that is seeking to retain its traditional cultural values while adjusting to life in the United States. Korean Americans have come into frequent and violent conflict with inner-city African Americans, and have sought, through their own ethnic organizations, to overcome the rejection of the community around them.

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE (VHS) 1988. 54 min. sd. color. #32950 Directed by Alan Schneider and performed in a theatrical space by Jack MacGowran, one of the best known interpreters of Samuel Beckett's plays, this production is a touching, poetic, and comic playback of an old man's past, and one of Beckett's most accessible works.

KWANZAA: A CULTURAL CELEBRATION (VHS) 1993. 30 min. sd. color. #40440 Several presenters explain the symbols, gifts, values, celebration and history of the harvest festival Kwanzaa holiday observed December 26 through January 1.

KYPSELI: WOMEN AND MEN APART--A DIVIDED REALITY (VHS) 1976. 40 min. sd. color. #61440 This ethnographic study of male and female roles in a small Greek village shows how the separation of the sexes and the principle of male dominance have become part of the village's most basic social structures, affecting the daily activities and thoughts of everyone there. The film focuses on the prevalent view that women are dangerous and threatening, showing that the women appear to accept their inferior status but also utilize the men's fears and fictions for their own benefit.

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