Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The real history of secret societies / Professor Richard B. Spence, University of Idaho ; producer, Tom Krzywicki ; producer/editor, Amy B. Nestor ; director, Jonathan D. Leven.

Publisher, Date:

Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2019]

Description:

4 videodiscs (12 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course workbook (180 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

digital

video

NTSC

video file

DVD

Summary:

"Delve into the history and meaning of secret societies as you explore the most famous and infamous underground groups, their origins, and their members."--Container.

Series:

The great courses. History. Civilization & culture

Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.

Subjects:

Secret societies -- History.

Genre:

Lectures.

Instructional films.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Spence, Richard B., 1951- instructor.

Krzywicki, Tom, film producer.

Nestor, Amy B., editor of moving image work, film producer.

Leven, Jon, film director.

Teaching Company, publisher.

Notes:

"25 lectures/30 minutes per lecture."

"Course No. 8680"--Container.

Title from container.

Accompanying course guidebook contains lecture notes and bibliographical references.

Lecturer, Richard B. Spence.

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Small-town secrets -- Secret societies: the underworld of history -- The Knights Templar -- Masonic revolutions in America and France -- Bolsheviks, Masons, and Russian Revolution -- Adolf Hitler and the Thule Society. Synarchy, schemers, and Vichy France -- Ancient mystery cults -- The Islamic assassins -- The Medieval Cathars -- The Rosicrucians -- The Illuminati. The Freemasons -- Ireland's secret war for independence -- Debunking the Elders of Zion -- Mafia! Criminal secret societies -- Aleister Crowley, occultism, and espionage -- Red Octopus: The communist international. Japan's Black and Green Dragons -- Italy's secret government: The P2 Lodge -- From the KKK to the Black Shriners -- Bohemian Grove, Bilderbergers, and Elites -- Secret societies for aging swingers -- Terrorism's long trail of secret cells -- Secret societies: The never-ending story.

ISBN:

9781629977560

162997756X

Publisher Number:

8680

ID8680A-01

PB8680A

PD8680A

Other Number:

1119666693

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

811446

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

GREAT DVD 366 Real his