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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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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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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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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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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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PBS Video Mean things happening
This episode addresses the struggle of tenant farmers and steel workers to improve their circumstances through union organization.
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PBS Video The New Deal/New York
This episode demonstrates how an unlikely partnership between New York City' Republican Fiorello La Guardia and the Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt changed the face of America's largest city and expanded the role of the U.S. Government
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PBS Video To be somebody
Through its examination of the intense racial and religious conflicts of the 1930s, this episode focuses on those who stood up for the promise of justice and liberty for all Americans: NAACP leaders Walter White and Charles Houston, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and heavyweight champion Joe Louis
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PBS Video Arsenal of democracy
The five years preceding World War II are captured in this episode with a host of images that reflect the turbulent timesas the promise of progress is comprised by continued poverty, despair and the horrors of Hitler's Blitzkrieg across Europeuntil finally, America is shown going back to work
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PBS Video A job at Ford's
Vintage film clips and first-hand recollections present a portrait of how Henry Fordthe man and his company contributed to the economic boom of the early 1920s and came to symbolize its near collapse fewer than ten years later.
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WGBH Educational Foundation Indians, outlaws and Angie Debo
A profile of historian Angie Debo. Focuses on her research in the 1930s uncovering a statewide conspiracy that deprived the Oklahoma Indians of their oil-rich lands and the efforts of officials and business interests to suppress her findings
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National Film Network Russia and China
what does the future hold?
The Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her guests explore the causes of the Russia-China rift and the likelihood of its developing into a complete break. They discuss specific U.S. [United States] foreign policy moves that might be made to take advantage of the dispute, as well as the directions that Soviet foreign policy might take as a result of the rift.--from container jacket
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Think tanks
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Poison Ivy
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