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Oliver Twist
De arme weesjongen Oliver vlucht uit het werkhuis naar Londen, waar hij terecht komt bij een dievenbende
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Miss Congeniality
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The Bay of Pigs
Combines film footage and interviews with Americans and Cubans in exploring this episode in history and the long-term effects it has had on the two countries
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First families
private lives and public duties
Report on a two-day conference at the Gerald R. Ford museum on the private lives and public duties of Americas modern first ladies and their children. Participants include Betty Ford, Rosalyn Carter, granddaughter of FDR, and daughter of LBJ. They share their thoughts on their historic role, on life in the White House and beyond.
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Inspector Morse
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The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church
The video, narrated by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., curator of the National Gallery of Art, deals with Frederick Church’s landscape painting. It shows the environments which inspired him, as well as his house, Olana, which he himself designed. Cikovsky talks about Churchs developments as a painter, he analyses several of Church's paintings, explaining the metaphor and meaning of the paintings. Cikovsky also discusses why landscape painting has been called Americas national art
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Changing shape of the United Nations
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt hosted a roundtable discussion about the changing shape of the United Nations with political writers, politicians, diplomats, and educators
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Future of France
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt hosted a rountable discussion on the future of France with prominent French politicians, political writers, and educators
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South Asia in crisis
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt hosted a roundtable discussion about South Asia in crisis with political writers, educators, and government administrators
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Sideways
Komedie waarin twee vrienden van begin veertig een weekje wijn gaan proeven in CalifornieĢ
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Frederick Douglass
when the lion wrote history
Frederick was born Frederick Bailey in 1818, a slave. He died in 1895, in his own Washington, D.C. home, free, highly honored, yet ever angry. Like most slaves, he did not know when he was born, he did not know who his father was, and he was taken from his mother when he was very young. He grew up tall and proud, disobedient and despairing, a field hand working under a violent overseer. He did the unthinkable, fought the overseer, organized a secret school for other slaves and planned their escape....
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The Budget crunch
Harvard Law School Professor Arthur R. Miller leads a discussion on the problem of congressional leaders' split interest (between State and National Affairs) and whether or not a Constitutional Convention should be held to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment. Guests include: former President Gerald Ford, Attorney General Edwin Meese, Senators Alan Cranston, Orrin Hatch, Nancy Kassebaum. and Warren Rudman, Rep. Charles Rangel, economist Alan Greenspan, and ABC news reporter Sam Donaldson)
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Richard Wright
black boy
When Wright's book Native Son became a best-seller, a gradual change in consciousness occurred in American thought. Suddenly, racism was no longer taken for granted. Wright wanted people to understand how the environment influences the individual. This film deals with the way Wrights novel influenced race relations in America.
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For everyone everywhere
the making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Explains how the concept of universal human rights came about and how the international community overcame the barriers of language, culture and Cold War politics to create a set of standards designed to protect the freedom, dignity and quality of life of people everywhere. - Out of the tragedy of World War II one of the most noble ideas of humankind was born: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Tragically, it is sometimes ignored. Yet this fundamental UN document has become the standard against...
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Setting the mold
Explores the adversarial relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union that developed during the years after World War II. Includes archival film, newsreels, and interviews with Soviet and American journalists, historians, and newsmakers of the period. Documents the role played by Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin
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Streets, prairies and valleys
the life of Carl Sandburg
This film highlights Sandburg's take on American life in his time. An America with an already rich melting pot tradition. In his work, Sandburg aimed to understand what America was made of. He was fascinated by every aspect of American life, including American rural landscapes and cities. He travelled across America and listened to the various voices of ordinary American men and women with different ethnic backgrounds. These were the voices of his poetry. Sandburg's work is an attempt to subverse...
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