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Prophets and advisors
Seizing the "pro-family" agenda, Republican strategists midwife a brood of Moral Majority-like groups that register eight million new voters and help sweep Ronald Reagan into office. Yet once in the White House, his mainline advisors actively suppress traditional-values issues. Evangelical leaders must choose between crying out like Biblical prophets, or going along to get alongʺ in the political realm.
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We are family
When presidential candidate Jimmy Carter declares himself "born again", the media is befuddledbut voters believe religious faith can help heal the nation. 1976 heralds a new era for evangelicals in every arena, from broadcasting to basketball. Yet modern life also means divorce, feminism, and gay rights. At the White House Conference on Families, conservative Christians choose polarization of those issues over reuniting of the American family.
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The zeal of thy house
While campus evangelists go head-to-head with campus radicals, Billy Graham and Richard Nixon join forces to champion "The Silent Majority.ʺWatergate soon teaches Graham the perils of political entanglement. But the die has been cast, and in Kanawha County, West Virginiawhere a local textbook controversy escalates into jailings, bombings, and a miners strike: the Religious Right is born.
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And who shall lead them?
Anti-abortion activists cheer when Reagan names C. Everett Koop as Surgeon Generaland then are shocked and angered when their antiabortion rally champions condom awareness in response to the AIDS crisis. Meanwhile, Pat Robertsons presidential bid takes his followers to a new stage of participation. Even in failure, the Robertson campaign charts the course for the Republican Party.
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The early crusades
This provocative series presents a non-ideological look at the controversial Religious Right movement, from the anxious "Christian anti-Communismʺ of the 1950s to the sophisticated, highly-organized Christian Coalition of today. Through rare archival footage and surprisingly candid interviews, the program shows how evangelical Christians have slowly but steadily reshaped mainstream politics and culture. Postwar fundamentalism is marked by optimism, mass revivals, and disdain for worldly politics....
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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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The Constitution in crisis
During presidential and constitutional crisis, do Democratic leaders always adhere to the words of the Constitution? Answers are presented in this video from Dallas Community College.
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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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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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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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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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Patrick Swayze North and South
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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
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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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Malone Gill Productions, Ltd The places within
a personal view by Robert A.M. Stern
The vastness of the American continent has been matched by its architects who have designed public palaces with interior space of heroic proportions. State houses, railroad stations, hotels and arts galleries are some of the building types discussed in this episode
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Malone Gill Productions, Ltd The search for a usable past
Architecture grows out of a people's shared past. But in America, where ties to ancient cultures have been broken, we have individually and collectively invented a usable past
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Ernest Hemingway
the man
This film deals with the ways in which Ernest Hemingways life and literary themes are intertwined. Biographical sketches of Hemingways American and European adventures illustrate the various connections between Hemingway and his protagonists. Hemingways disillusionment with post-war America and his consequent European experience offer a better understanding of his quest to describe people in the midst of physical or emotional crisis.
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Watergate
Portrays an in-depth analysis of the notorious political scandal of the century, threatening the very roots of our constitutional democracy
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