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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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America and the Holocaust
deceit and indifference
Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government
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The nuclear balance of terror
Pt.1: The first part of this program covers such topics as: which congressional leaders must a president consult before deciding on a course of action? Is our intelligence gathering mechanism adequate for verification? To what extent can a democratic government withhold information from the public when the world destruction is only fifteen minutes away?. Pt.2: The second part of this program discusses the steps a president must take to prepare for an arms control summit with the Soviets. Once he...
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The vision of Stephen Crane
This film highlights the last ten years of the nineteenth century and Stephen Crane's short life (1871-1900) and accomplishments . Crane's goal was to focus on all realistic aspects of life as opposed to the ever happy endings of the popular romance novels. Crane was perhaps best known for his creed man is responsible for personal honesty. Crane's novel Maggie, A Girl of the Streets: A Story of New York, has been marked as the beginning of modern American fiction. This film is narrated and illustrated...
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American political parties
power and principle, the Democrats
The Democrats 1960-1992. Showing much original campaign and news footage Ben J. Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute describes the history of American Democrats and the development of liberalism
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United Nations
future endangered
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt hosted a roundtable discussion about the future of the United Nations with political writers, diplomats, and educators
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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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Kennedy and confrontation
Documents Kennedy's handling of major foreign policy issues such as the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, the Berlin crisis, and the growing conflicts in Southeast Asia. Composed entirely of archival newsreel footage accompanied by up-to-date narration
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Peter L. Berger Peter Berger
Peter Berger, professor of sociology and religion, compares capitalism in America and East Asia commenting on the social, philosophical, religious, and political factors that have influenced the development of capitalist economies in each area and discusses the relationship of capitalism to democracy. Interviewed by Bill Moyers
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The tribal people of the Northwest
This view of the Native American tribes of the Northwest concentrates on their union of commerce and the spiritual world.
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The people of the Great Plains
Pt.I: A unique view of life for the Native Americans of the Plains before the introduction of Europeans and horses. Their spirituality and harmonious relationship with nature are explored. Pt. II: After the inception of the horse culture, the Native Americans of the Plains fell prey to increased warfare between tribes and with European settlers.The strong tradition of oral history is also discussed.
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America, lost and found
the Depression decade
Documentary shows that the image Americans held of themselves altered greatly during this depression. Public programs in the 1930s appealed to young men not to come to New York for work, contrasting it with the way Henry Ford believed in old solutions. Fragments from Ford news reels, reports on the Hoovervilles, efforts to restore public confidence by smiling (Eleanor Roosevelt) and making friends (Dale Carnegie), reveal the problems and hopes, and finally the revitalization of dreams about the future...
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Media in politics
Tony Schwartz illustrates the media concepts he has employed successfully on behalf of countless candidates before and after they took office. Offers practical examples of media use to advance political candidates and causes
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FDR and World War II
Using newsreel footage, documents the foreign policy strategies of Roosevelt and his administration during World War II
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PBS Video Mean things happening
This episode addresses the struggle of tenant farmers and steel workers to improve their circumstances through union organization.
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PBS Video The New Deal/New York
This episode demonstrates how an unlikely partnership between New York City' Republican Fiorello La Guardia and the Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt changed the face of America's largest city and expanded the role of the U.S. Government
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PBS Video To be somebody
Through its examination of the intense racial and religious conflicts of the 1930s, this episode focuses on those who stood up for the promise of justice and liberty for all Americans: NAACP leaders Walter White and Charles Houston, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and heavyweight champion Joe Louis
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