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James Agee Film Project The Electric valley
Presents the fifty-year controversial history of the Tennessee Valley Authority, focusing on the officials who led it and the people whose lives were touched by it
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Kermis der ijdelheid
Vanity Fair
Een jonge arme avonturierster weet aan het begin van de 19e eeuw door te dringen in Engelands vooraanstaande kringen
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Jack London
a life of adventure
Jack London, born and raised in poverty, spent his life struggling to survive. Reading and writing became his ways to escape the mental aguish of poverty. He was most fascinated by adventure stories. He went on to lead an adventurous life himself and described his experiences in his work. London would later be regarded as America's main author of adventure stories
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Land and freedom
Een jonge werkloze Engelse communist sluit zich aan bij een militie van de revolutionaire marxistische partij tijdens het begin van de Spaanse burgeroorlog in 1937
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The Nations of the Northeast
A documentary view of the first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, told from a Native American perspective. Includes a good overview of the remarkable Native American union, the Iroquois Confederacy
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Lenin... the train
Maart 1917. Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog rijdt een verzegelde trein met Russische emigranten, onder leiding van Vladimir J. Lenin, vanuit Zürich naar Sint-Petersburg. De triomfantelijke intocht gaat alle verwachtingen te boven.
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Eisenhower and the cold war
Examines the development of cold war diplomacy during the Eisenhower years, describes the American response to international crises, and defines the expanded realm of American international interest. Composed entirely of archival newsreel footage accompanied by up-to-date narration
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WGBH Educational Foundation Indians, outlaws and Angie Debo
A profile of historian Angie Debo. Focuses on her research in the 1930s uncovering a statewide conspiracy that deprived the Oklahoma Indians of their oil-rich lands and the efforts of officials and business interests to suppress her findings
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Bright like a sun
1935-1954
Hour three carries us through the Great Depression and World War II that challenge African-American artists to revise, adapt, and expand visions and dreams. Legendary singer and stage and screen performer Paul Robeson commits to using his art and status to fight for social justice. Augusta Savage, and internationally acclaimed sculptor, turns to building community institutions where the talent of young black artists, such as Jacob Lawrence, is nurtured. Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and other...
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Malone Gill Productions, Ltd The places within
a personal view by Robert A.M. Stern
The vastness of the American continent has been matched by its architects who have designed public palaces with interior space of heroic proportions. State houses, railroad stations, hotels and arts galleries are some of the building types discussed in this episode
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Malone Gill Productions, Ltd The search for a usable past
Architecture grows out of a people's shared past. But in America, where ties to ancient cultures have been broken, we have individually and collectively invented a usable past
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Eleanor Roosevelt's World
Selections from ER's television program Prospects of Mankind, a program of interviews at Brandeis University, 1959-1962 with as guests: Senator, President J.F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Bertrand Russell, Hubert Humphrey, J.K. Galbraith, Nelson Rockefeller, Adlai Stevenson Julius Nyerere, Chester Bowles, Sargent Shriver, Brezinski. Topics discussed are NATO, Peace Corps, Vietnam, disarmament, Third World, Cold War, Women's Rights.
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American political parties
power and principle, the Republicans
The Republicans 1960-1992. Showing much original campaign and news footage
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Patrick Swayze North and South
dl. 1
Het leven van twee grote Amerikaanse families, waarvan de verbondenheid in gevaar komt door de strijd tegen de slavernij en de burgeroorlog
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Under two flags
colonial history of New York 1609-1783
While most Americans believe that the colonial history of our nation is strictly British in tradition, Under two flags reveals the overlooked and important contributions of the Dutch, from Henry Hudson's arrival in 1609 to the time of the Revolution through to the present day
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