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Religion in 2000 elections
Dutch broadcast about the influence of religion in the presidential elections of 2000 with interviews with political scientist J. White and historian Martin Marty about the candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush, civil religion, and the issues. Because the presentation fails to distinguish civil religion from actual religious beliefs it reaches the wrong conclusion that never did religion have such a role to play in presidential elections as now
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Ronald Reagan
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Bob the butler
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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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God's armies
While George Bush courts them in vain, Religious Right leaders launch a new crusade: building a true grassroots power structure. The Christian Coalition is one of todays most adept political lobbies. Yet many inside the movement from Operation Rescue to Promise Keepersquestion if in gaining secular power Christians have lost their evangelical soul. The final episode lays bare the struggle for the future of the Religious Right.
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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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FDR and the depression. World War II. The Fifties. The Sixties
FDR and the Depression: Professor Brinkley continues his story of twentieth-century presidents with a profile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Brinkley paints a picture of America during the Depression and chronicles some of Roosevelt's programmatic and personal efforts to help the country through its worst economic crisis. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is at FDR's side and, in many respects, ahead of him as the decade unfolds. World War II: America is enveloped in total war, from mobilization on the...
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Robinson must not die
Londen, 1730. Daniel Defoe, auteur van Robinson Crusoe, leeft in armoede, omdat hij door zijn revolutionaire en maatschappij-kritische ideeën niet geliefd is aan het hof. Door de extravagantie van zijn zoon Tom doet Defoe nog meer inspiratie op. Als Tom zelfs het enig overgebleven bezit van zijn vader steelt, de oorspronkelijke tekst van het verboden boek Robinson, komt de jeugd van Londen in opstand omdat ze zich zorgen maken over hun geliefde avonturenboek. O.l.v. het meisje Maud forceren ze zelfs...
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The Mississippi River on course
Documentary of how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is keeping the Mississippi River from changing its course
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Dance of tears
the story of the "Khmer Classical Dance Troupe"
A depiction of Cambodians in America. In 1970, President Nixon ordered the bombing of Cambodia. In 1979, President Carter was determined to preserve Cambodian culture in America. A Cambodian dance group, sponsored by the National Council for the Arts, is followed by the cameras
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Cracking the mold
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The Mold broken
Surveys the period from the end of World War II to the end of 1989 from the point of view of the residents of Eastern Europe. Documents the collapse of Communism in the Eastern European countries through largely nonviolent revolutions. Chronicles the events through archival film, newsreels, and interviews with American, Eastern European, and Soviet journalists, historians, and newsmakers of the period. Covers the spirit of nationalism, the construction of the Berlin Wall and its subsequent demise,...
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