Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Dialogues with Elie Wiesel, Richard D. Heffner [videorecording] : the moral responsibility of the individual in a changing world / a production of Richard Heffner Associates, Inc. and Alvin T. Perlmutter, Inc. ; [director, Mickey Walters ... et al. ; produced and moderated by Richard D. Heffner].

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Sisu Home Entertainment, c2006.

Description:

3 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel and historian and Open mind host Richard D. Heffner examine the moral responsibility of the private person in dealing with many critical issues facing us today. Their inquiry ranges into topics such as ethnic cleansing, Israeli and Arab nationalism, euthanasia, genetic engineering, the Holocaust, and capital punishment.

Subjects:

Social ethics.

Social problems -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Social values.

Social conflict.

Moral development.

Educational television programs.

Television interviews.

Other Author:

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

Heffner, Richard D.

Walters, Mickey.

Richard Heffner Associates.

Alvin T. Perlmutter, Inc.

Sisu Home Entertainment, Inc.

Other Title:

At head of title: Conversations on the critical issues of our time

Dialogues

Dialogues (Television program)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on public television in 1997.

Full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital; NTSC.

Special features include: Disc 1: Preview of other Elie Wiesel programs ; Biographies of Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner ; Disc 2: Promo; biography ; Disc 3: Biography.

Interviewee, Elie Wiesel ; moderator, Richard D. Heffner.

DVD; NTSC.

Contents:

Am I my brother's keeper? : personal choice and public goals -- The use and misuse of memory : confronting the past and securing the future -- Nationalism and world peace : maintaining identity and preserving peace.

Taking life : an act of mercy? : murder in cold blood vs. killing with compassion -- Genetic engineering : the ethics of scientific development -- Political correctness : personal freedom and public morals.

The intellectual in our lives : the effective use of knowledge -- Religion and politics : the roles and responsibilities of leaders -- Capital punishment : the morality of retribution -- The role of the state : direction or dictate, leadership vs. tyranny.

ISBN:

1560865180

9781560865186

Publisher Number:

150-2

Other Number:

76823663

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

551372

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 303.372 Dialogue

Medium:

[videorecording]