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Dylan Walsh Nip/Tuck
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Beat the drum
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Platoon S.E
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Center for Humanities Congress
what it is, how it works and how it affects you
Discusses the powers and duties of Congress, outlines the organization of Congress and defines the leadership roles of the House and Senate. Details how a bill becomes law, the relationship between the President and Congress and what Congress is like today
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Center for Humanities Interpreting the law
the role of the Supreme Court
This program recounts the contributions of the Chief Justices to American life and describes what goes on in the Supreme Court, how it operates, what kinds of cases it hears, what kinds of cases it will not hear, and how a case gets on the Court's docket. The program traces how the Court developed, how its powers and processes evolved, and demonstrates how a landmark case moves through the Court. The program is divided in three parts: Establishing the Court; Interpreting the Law; and How the Court...
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Kennedy
years of charisma
Tells that in life John Kennedy was popular, drew much praise, inspired affection, and had as many critics as most politicians do, but that in death he became a hero and a legend wrapped in mythology and sentimentality
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Het Zandkasteel 4
De drie hoofdfiguren in Het Zandkasteel zijn prinsesje Sassa, prinsje Toto en Koning Koos. samen met hond Finnie wonen zij in Het Zandkasteel. Voor de bewoners van het Zandkasteel is het leven elke dag een feest! Toto, Sassa en Koning Koos hebben alle drie rood haar en dezelfde grote neuzen. Toto, Sassa en koning Koos zijn gek op elkaar. samen spelen, ontdekken, eten, lezen, dansen en veel op het strand zijn, daar houden ze alledrie van!
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Mr. Sears' catalogue
Explores how the Sears catalogue, giving readers a sense of urban life and a vision of middle class splendors, reflected the changes of the time and became a symbol for the national ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country. Contains biographical information on Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck
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The vision of Stephen Crane
This film highlights the last ten years of the nineteenth century and Stephen Crane's short life (1871-1900) and accomplishments . Crane's goal was to focus on all realistic aspects of life as opposed to the ever happy endings of the popular romance novels. Crane was perhaps best known for his creed man is responsible for personal honesty. Crane's novel Maggie, A Girl of the Streets: A Story of New York, has been marked as the beginning of modern American fiction. This film is narrated and illustrated...
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Media in politics
Tony Schwartz illustrates the media concepts he has employed successfully on behalf of countless candidates before and after they took office. Offers practical examples of media use to advance political candidates and causes
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America, lost and found
the Depression decade
Documentary shows that the image Americans held of themselves altered greatly during this depression. Public programs in the 1930s appealed to young men not to come to New York for work, contrasting it with the way Henry Ford believed in old solutions. Fragments from Ford news reels, reports on the Hoovervilles, efforts to restore public confidence by smiling (Eleanor Roosevelt) and making friends (Dale Carnegie), reveal the problems and hopes, and finally the revitalization of dreams about the future...
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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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Poison Ivy
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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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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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