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D.H. Lawrence
Levensschets van de Britse schrijver (1885-1930) tegen de achtergrond van zijn tijd.
Non-fictie
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The king
Als Elvis Valderez, een 21-jarige dromer en zoon van een Mexicaanse moeder, die net eervol ontslagen is uit het Amerikaanse leger, op zoek gaat naar zijn vader, blijkt deze een pastoor te zijn bij een doopsgezinde kerk, met een dochter waar Elvis verliefd op wordt.
Fictie | Familieroman
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Twenty thousand streets under the sky
Romancyclus over de Londense wijk Soho in de jaren rond 1930
Fictie
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Dave Chapelle's Block party
Amerikaanse komiek David Chappelle organiseert een buurtfeest (Block party) in Brooklyn (New York) waar onder andere optreden Mos Def, Erykah Badu en Big Daddy Kane
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Walt Whitman
an American original
Whitman's controversial collection Leaves of Grass upset nineteenth century accepted verse. The poetry collection was at first condemned by critics Whitman was considered obscene and a threat to American morality. Whitman felt he would be heard someday. Whitman's main theme was man's return to the natural world and the acceptance of death as part of life
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Harry Hopkins
Lord Root of the manor
Walter Cronkite tells the story of the life of a remarkable position of a private citizen as the "second most powerful man in the country." After his education in Iowa, he came to New York and started a civil service career, leading to his supervision over the WPA in the Depression Years. In early 1940 FDR asked him to assist him to run his foreign policy from the White House. Hopkins was FDR's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin and guided the lend-lease program. He is remembered as a loyal and...
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Visions of the spirit
portrait of Alice Walker
The first part of this film presents chiefly people's reactions to Alice Walker's works either through the written medium or the film The Color purple. The second deals more directly with her background and life, her family and how they are deeply reflected in her writings
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The making of justice
The program focuses on the selection of justices and judges for the Federal Courts. Moderator Charles Nesson, professor at Harvard Law School, discusses what criteria the President of the United States should take into account in making his selection. Participants include: former President Jimmy Carter, Senators Orrin Hatch and Paul Simon, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Markman, former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and journalists Bill Moyers and Nino Totenberg.
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The Roosevelts in newsreels (1933-1962)
Collection of newsreel reports on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt from the National Archives, Washington D.C.
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Foreign alliances and misalliances
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., president of Yale University, leads a discussion concerning what is the proper division of power between the President and Congress in formulating foreign policy. The participants include: former President Gerald Ford, former C.I.A Director Stansfield Turner, Senators Alan Cranston and Orrin Hatch, Attorney General Edwin Meese, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, and CBS news anchor Dan Rather
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Eleanor Roosevelt
For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America's most powerful woman. Drawing on interviews with her closest relatives, friends, and biographers, as well as rare home movie footage, the film reveals the hidden dimensions of one of the century's most influential women
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Lift every voice
1900-1924
The series opening hour looks at the trials and triumphs of the first generation of African-American artists born to freedom. Bert Williams and George Walker forge careers as vaudeville stars. Performing within a racist minstrel tradition, they nonetheless make a living as black artists, infusing minstrelsy with genuine elements of black culture. In New Orleans, talented musicians create the innovative and exuberant sounds of ragtime and jazz, music that comes to be identified as quintessentially...
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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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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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Patrick Swayze North and South
dl. 2
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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American political parties
power and principle, the Republicans
The Republicans 1960-1992. Showing much original campaign and news footage
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The upside of anger
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