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A thousand days
a tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A film tribute and a well-rounded picture of John F. Kennedy's positive characteristics. Family photos as well as footage on various aspects of his presidency are included
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Robert Vaughn FDR
man in the White House
After a documentary introduction showing footage of the nomination, election campaign, and inauguration of FDR, actor Robert Vaughn, in wheel chair with cigarette, tells jokes and the story of his life, from the days he was struck with polio. He reveals his friendships, his political strategy, his way of dealing with the press and his counselors, but also how he moves around as a handicapped person, and how that formed his attitude towards life and politics.
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PBS Video The road to rock bottom
As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unsold, farm mortgages were called in by banks, hungry farmers protested, and robberies increased dramatically. The U.S. Army was called in to defend the nation's capital from veterans who were demanding that President Hoover and Congress pay a bonus for their services in World War I. The film ends with Franklin Roosevelt's landslide election to the presidency
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PBS Video We have a plan
We have a planʺ chronicles the 1934 campaign of Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair, whose plans to save California from poverty were fought by powerful Republicans. This volume also examines FDR's own plans to turn the unprecedented idea of social security into legislation
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PBS Video America becoming
Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Since 1965 immigration patterns have changed, bringing in more people from Asia and Latin America, with new cultures, languages and religions
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I accuse
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Norman Mailer
talking with David Frost
Interview with Norman Mailer covering current topics such as the end of the Cold War, capitalism, economics, sex, feminism, violence and much more
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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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Black Americans
mainstream politics and coalitionbuiling
The discussion featuring Dr. Ronald Walters, professor of political science at Howard University, and Richard Scammon, electoral behavior expert and director of Elections Research Center, reviews recent political achievements by black Americans. Examines how electoral gains were made through coalitions, discusses the impact on public policy of elected black Americans, and concludes with a look at possible electoral winners in the twenty-first century.
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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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Mobile, by Alexander Calder
1898-1976
This video describes Alexander Calders life, his innovative art, and the construction of a piece of art, a huge mobile, he designed especially for the new east building of the National Gallery of Art.
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An American story with Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez, a writer who in 1990 had just published his autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. He talks about his growing up in the American melting pot society. He denounces affirmative action and bilingual education, and advocates the melting pot ideal. He believes that children who use their family languageʺ in school will not be able to enter the public realm in an adequate way. According to Rodriguez, family and school should remain separate. He discusses...
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Martin Luther King, Jr
Coretta King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and three of Dr. King's closest friends discuss his impact on the American civil rights movement
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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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WGBH Educational Foundation The Iron road
Chronicles America's race to unite East and West by rail. The completion of the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, marked a turning point in the settlement of the American West
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WGBH Educational Foundation The World that Moses built
Robert Moses designed and constructed the physical landscape of the New York metropolitan region, building bridges, highways, beaches, and playgrounds, low-income housing, tunnels and two Worlds Fairs
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