Movies: Mcgraw Hill Films

“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victim...

Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about their cattle, and depicts the psychological bonds between them. Includes extensive use of Nuer music and poetry....

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A high school student faces a moral dilemma, should he turn in a friend who is dealing pills....

Liz tries to keep her friend from making the worse mistake of her life....

A film version of Edward Lear's narrative poem about the owl and the pussycat who went to sea in a pea-green boat...

This campy black & white educational film from 1953 is about Adolescent Development, aka teen sex education. It was likely made for education students or teachers, and produced to serve as a supplement by McGraw-Hill for the book "Adolescent Developm...

How to handle promotions in the workplace. One of a series on "Office Supervisor's Problems"....

(1958) An in-service business management film demonstrating the problems which develop when a supervisor asks special cooperation and overtime work of his staff, backfiring in a lack of cooperation several days later....

Describes how the eye works and explains the brain puts together the flat images from two eyes to form a three dimensional image. Explains the meaning of persistence of vision, and discusses the blind spot. Demonstrates how and why eyes can be deceiv...

Surveys the rise to wealth and power by industrial giants with references to Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. Shows the growth of monopoly and the emergence of trusts. Suggests the role fraud and corruption played in the estab...

Glimpses into the lives of five fifth grade children show that each is a complex and unique pattern. Emphasizes that the teacher must discover how she can best meet the needs of each child....