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Get real
Steven Carter is zestien en hij vindt het steeds moeilijker om te voldoen aan de hooggespannen verwachtingen die zijn ouders van hem hebben ook heeft hij alleen nog maar aan zijn buurmeisje verteld dat hij op jongens valt vooral op John Dixon, de populairste jongen van de school.
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Malcolm X
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Atlantic City
In Atlantic City ontstaat een relatie tussen een zestigjarige man die lange tijd in de onderwereld heeft gezeten en een jonge vrouw die door haar vriend in de steek gelaten is
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Project 7 Productions World War I
Discusses the domestic situation in the United States in 1914, the efforts of President Wilson to both enact progressive reforms and stay out of the war
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McGraw-Hill Text-Films Westward expansion
Traces westward expansion in America from the Atlantic to the Pacific and discusses the effect of the frontier on the American personality. In 1763, the King of England proclaimed that American colonists must not expand beyond the Appalachians. This film deals with the question why westward expansion seemed so important at the time. What was the great lure of the final frontier?
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McGraw-Hill Films Negro slavery
Discusses the beginning and development of slavery in the United States and shows the life of the slave. Describes the gradual division of American society over the slavery issue, and explains how the division culminated in the Civil War. - It describes initial initiatives to outlaw the institution as the demand for cotton, which strengthened it. The documentary describes the rise of the abolitionist movement, the founding of the Republican Party, and the rising tension between the North and the...
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Project 7 Productions The Twenties
Analyzes the forces which arose after World War I and were at work in the twenties. Describes the conflict between those who accepted the complexity of the twentieth century and tried to copy with it, and those who rejected the new and tried to live according to past values. - This decade was the era of wonderful nonsense, also known as the Roaring Twenties. It was an age of conflict between those who were open to change and progress and those who were not. Issues discussed in this film include:...
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A new system of government. Westward expansion. The rise of capitalism. The reform impulse
A New System of Government: After the War of Independence, the struggle for a new system of government begins. Professor Maier looks at the creation of the Constitution of the United States. The Republic survives a series of threats to its union, and the program ends with the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the Fourth of July, 1826. Westward Expansion: At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the size of the United States doubles with the Louisiana Purchase. The Appalachians are no longer...
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Clint Eastwood Unforgiven
William Munny heeft de dood als beroep, zijn nieuwste opdracht wordt de hardste van zijn loopbaan
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Travel the cross roads of the Zuider Zee with Hendrik de Leeuw
Silent promotional film about the Netherlands starting with Schiphol Airport and shots of De Snip, an airplane taking off for Oud-Vossemeer to see the Roosevelt home, coat of arms and signature. Then to Middelburg showing old costumes, the Abbey, the Railroad Station and Bridge, the Market and continuing to Veere (Cape Cod of the Netherlandsʺ) and home of Hendrik W. van Loon. The journey continues to Friesland and Staphorst and ends with scenes of broken dikes and refugees during World War II
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Oliver Stone JFK
Un caso ancora aperto; director's cut
Jim Garrison, officier van justitie in New Orleans, start een onderzoek naar een mogelijke samenzwering bij de moord op president Kennedy
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Ike
Presents a fresh reassessment of Dwight D. Eisenhower's legacy and tells the personal story of the man who played a key role in world events through two of the most critical decades in this century
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McGraw-Hill Films The colonial economy
Portrays how colonists devised realistic solutions to their problems of labor, transportation, capital and currency. - In order to build a viable and prosperous colony, the Americans needed to find capital, labor, and modes of transportation. Each region developed differently, with plantations in the South, whaling, shipbuilding and industry in the North, and wheat and cattle growing in the middle colonies. The mother country needed the raw materials, but guarded its industrial secrets, causing tension...
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McGraw-Hill Films The colonial way of life
Various races and national groups settled the colonies in America. Ways of life in the several regions served to emphasize differences in cultural and religious beliefs. However, as trade, communication, education and idea exchange increased, differences that existed among the colonists gradually became less important than the things they had in common
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McGraw-Hill Films The years of reconstruction, 1865-1877
Shows the economic, social, and political problems which faced the freed Negro, and discusses how resentment and bitterness from both Negroes and whites frustrated attempts to reach a reasonable peace. - Describes the aftermath of the Civil War, how the economy in the South changed and how the position of African-Americans improved but very slowly
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