Video Contents
Open Your World
With French/Le Français m'ouvre le monde
10 min.
Fast-paced video with MTV-style graphics designed to encourage students of all ages to learn French. The video is completely bilingual with subtitles in French and English, depending on the language being spoken. Highlights the areas of the world where French is spoken and the connections to English.
Forward with
French
10 min.
This video contains interviews with business
people in New York state who use French in their professions, including
a journalist, doctor, immigration lawyer, soldier, and others. It
shows how studying French can be useful in the job market.
Reflets Français
40 min.
Teaching video filmed by former AATF Vice-President
Bernard Petit. It features French singer Eric Vincent on his houseboat
on the Seine. He performs many of his songs with the text appearing
as he sings. A video tour of Paris concludes the tape. Includes
a study guide.
Forward with FLES*
11 min.
Promotional video featuring interviews with administrators, teachers, parents,
and elected officials highlighting the importance of an early start in foreign
language learning.
Tant qu'elle
chante elle vit: apprendre le français grâce à la musique de Carole
Fredericks
35 min.
Teaching video with six music videos featuring the American singer Carole
Fredericks, performing alone and with Jean-Jacques Goldman. Accompanying
Teacher's Manual.
La France divisée
This 36-min. documentary film explores the two sides of France during World War
II: the collaboration with the Vichy government as well as the courage of many
Righteous Gentiles and members of the Resistance. It also includes interviews
with seven French people: a Holocaust survivor, three child survivors, two
historians, and a leader of the French Resistance. Each interviewee presents a
very different account of his/her experiences. The film concludes with actual
footage of two historic apologies from the French government and Catholic
Church. President Jacques Chirac publicly apologized for France’s role in the
deportation of Jews (1995), and Bishop Olivier de Berranger apologized for the
silence of the French Catholic Church and asked for forgiveness (1997). Written,
produced, and directed by Barbara P. Barnett and Eileen M. Angelini. Recommended
for high school or college.