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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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Bright like a sun
1935-1954
Hour three carries us through the Great Depression and World War II that challenge African-American artists to revise, adapt, and expand visions and dreams. Legendary singer and stage and screen performer Paul Robeson commits to using his art and status to fight for social justice. Augusta Savage, and internationally acclaimed sculptor, turns to building community institutions where the talent of young black artists, such as Jacob Lawrence, is nurtured. Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and other...
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American Gothic
Hawthorne and Melville
A patriotic tone illustrates the setting of nineteenth century America as the land of progress. Hawthorne and Melville both described the dark places of America in the midst of this age of optimism. Both authors explored elements of Gothic tragedies such as ghosts, evil spirits and madness. Biographical details are narrated in combination with excerpts from works such as The Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick.
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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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A call for repairs
The program is a fast-paced discussion about the shape of the government, how the constitution forms the basis for our laws, and whether changes are needed in the governmental structure provided for by the document. The discussion is led by Professor Charles Nassin of Harvard Law School. The main questions addressed are: Does the constitution work? Could and should changes be made? Guests include: Lloyd N. Cutler (Co-chair of the Committee on the Constitutional System), and several other committee...
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The burden and glory of J.F.K.
A tribute made a year after JFK was assassinated. JFK is portrayed as one of America's great advocates of freedom and peace. This film concentrates on the burden of the presidency: it shows how the presidency entails having the power to destroy the world. Included is much original footage, for example JFKs first State of the Union address. This focus of this film is on JFKs struggle to ban nuclear testing.
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Bruce Springsteen
becoming The Boss 1949-1985; an unauthorised documentary film packed with exclusive interviews
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Countdown to World War II
A compilation of News Reel Theatre Specials from the 1930s, including Mussolinis Decade of Progress (1932, 13 min.), Hitlers Ascent to Power (1933, 13 min.), Appeasement at Munich (1948, 11 min.), and Countdown to World War II. (1949, 22 min.) These news reels shows how the American audience was informed about the events leading to war in Europe.
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A Republic if you can keep it
the making of the American Constitution
This documentary tells the history of the constitution, as told by Senator Dennis Deconcini of Arizona and Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah. The building of the new government and the Philadelphia convention are depicted. The voting and the debates on the abolition of slavery and the separation of power are re-enacted, which offers an authentic peek into the proceedings of the time. The documentary was produced by The American Studies Center Bicentennial Program.
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Under two flags
colonial history of New York 1609-1783
While most Americans believe that the colonial history of our nation is strictly British in tradition, Under two flags reveals the overlooked and important contributions of the Dutch, from Henry Hudson's arrival in 1609 to the time of the Revolution through to the present day
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Eleanor Roosevelt's World
Selections from ER's television program Prospects of Mankind, a program of interviews at Brandeis University, 1959-1962 with as guests: Senator, President J.F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Bertrand Russell, Hubert Humphrey, J.K. Galbraith, Nelson Rockefeller, Adlai Stevenson Julius Nyerere, Chester Bowles, Sargent Shriver, Brezinski. Topics discussed are NATO, Peace Corps, Vietnam, disarmament, Third World, Cold War, Women's Rights.
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David Putnam
Bill Moyers and British film producer David Putnam examine why the transition between things imagined and reality is an easy one. The main question is how movies shape imagination and culture. Putnam talks about how images of America through film made him want to become part of American society
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Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger
Kissinger talks on the Reagan Start treaty in the 1980s on the reduction of nuclear arms. Interviewed by Michael Kingsley and conservative columnist William Buckley. The focus is on the consequence of the treaty for the GOP
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Modern vampires
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WGBH Educational Foundation Demon rum
Using archival film and photographs and interviews with residents and scholars; this film examines the effect of prohibition on Detroit and the Detroit River area. Rumrunning, speakeasies, the Charleston, and bootlegging are covered. Starting with the temperence movement to the 18th amendment (1920) and its repeal in 1933, this film relates the views of Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company in relation to prohibition and also chronicles the control of the bootleg market from the small-time operator...
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WGBH Educational Foundation Do you mean there are still real cowboys?
Life on the range is observed in Big Piney, Wyoming, where the romantic image is contrasted to the hard life and harder hours of reality
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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The democrat and the dictator
This documentary sheds light on the career of both the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt and the dictator Adolf Hitler. Thus the famous speeches of both men are compared, as well as their ideology and propaganda campaigns.
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