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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Depressions 1929 United States Jazz History and criticism Manufacturing industries United States Social sciences United States History United States History 1919-1933 United States Politics and government 1919-1933 United States Politics and government 1933-1945 United States Social conditions 1918-1932 World politics 1919-1932Summary: Shots of President Coolidge on his farm in "Yankeeland";
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1920
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Summary: President Coolidge signs the Kellogg-Briand Pact in Washington D.C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1928
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Summary: Khrushchev visits Nasser in Egypt
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Summary: Balkan Wars, 1912 (narrated compilation) Bulgarian and Turkish armies; King Ferdinand of Bulgaria; King Nikolas of Montenegro; discussion of the formation of the alliances of Europe; King Alfonso of Spain; German troops; the VO tends to insinuate that th
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1912
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Summary: Cuban Missile Crisis. Diplomacy set off by the reinstatement of the Cuban Blockade
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: From the day that 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra.” Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent. Ansel Adams, from the PBS American Experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: The 1960s bring new progress in the quest for freedom, but this is also an explosive decade that threatens to tear apart the fabric of society. President Kennedy is assassinated, and Lyndon B. Johnson pursues the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated, leaving behind an impressive and growing legacy of non-violent civil rights resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Does the world's general idea of the Islamic faith focus too much on local cultural traditions and not enough on core beliefs? In this TEDTalk , journalist Mustafa Akyol discusses ways in which some practices, such as wearing a headscarf, have become linked in the popular mind to Islam's actual creed. Pointing out divergences between actual Koranic injunctions and how the religion is expressed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, North Beach Airport, N.Y.: Taking off from the waters of Bowery Bay, the Flying Colonel and his wife are seen in unusual pictures on the start of their flight to Greenland to survey a route across the North Atlantic for Pan American Airways. Reel 2, Freeport, Ill.: A remarkable screen interview with Mrs. Caroline Mattern as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the 1935 Toledo Strike. Toledo, Ohio: Huge crowds of picketers patrol the approaches to an automobile factory when negotiations between workers and owners fail. Francis J. Dillon explains the American Federation of Labor's position in the industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, New York, N.Y.: Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller, The War of the Worlds, as staged by Orson Welles. Reel 2, London, England: Patients at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street get a great thrill when King George and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Delegates at the Versailles Treaty. Group includes Australian PM Hughes; Serbian, Greek, Japanese leaders; Berthelot of France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1919
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Summary: 1920s Fads and Follies-Various stunts and antics-dancing on top of building, on airplane wing, wacky, crazy stuff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1920
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Summary: Fur coats from 20s. Outrageous and fun
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Summary: shots of Ford-related lumber operations; shot power saw; shot of coal pile at mine;
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1920
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Summary: The girls of the old brigade. Women in late 1880s attire transforms into modern 20s dress
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1920
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Summary: Scene after mine pit catastrophe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1923
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Summary: Death of former President Woodrow Wilson. Footage of last public appearance
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1924
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Summary: Civil War in China. Armed soldiers patrol the streets and search cars after anti-foreign riots in Shanghai.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1925
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Summary: Germany joins League of Nations at 7th Assembly of League of Nations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1926
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Summary: Mussolini observes giant 100K rally in Rome on anniversary of Fascist power;
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1929
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Summary: Shots of artificial silk factory in Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930
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Summary: FDR sailing with a friend
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930
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Summary: Good ole fun at the Dude Ranch - riding the Bucking Bronco. Western, American mythology
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930