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African Americans History Immigrants United States Institutionalism (Religion) International business International business enterprises Management Management Case studies Religion and politics Religion and sociology Religious institutions United States History Civil War, 1861-1865Summary: When Massasoit hailed the Plymouth settlers in their own language, they might have taken it for a sign that English would dominate the New World. Packed with surprising etymologies and intriguing stories, this program traces the dynamic relationship between English and America, exploring the linguistic influence of westward expansion, cowboy culture, slave culture, and encounters with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The writings of Carlos Fuentes-a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes-have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. In this program, Fuentes, the son of a diplomat, discusses subjects such as the influence of politics on his life, his deep feelings for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The writings of Carlos Fuentes-a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes-have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. In this program, Fuentes, the son of a diplomat, discusses subjects such as the influence of politics on his life, his deep feelings for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In 1908, the first Model T rolled off the assembly line, quickly asserting itself as a dream machine that would take America down the highway and into the future. Bill Moyers shows how that future represented not only a new landscape bustling with high-speed transport and travel, but a new vision of ourselves. He uses film clips, photographs, music, and poetry to trace America's transformation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Retailing is no longer a supply-based industry, it is now consumer-led the world over, and this trend will intensify. What store format is likely to succeed in the future? How will supply and distribution systems provide a competitive edge? In developed countries, saturated markets and low population growth mean that the successful retailer will have to expand into growth markets, but how, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The final hour of God in America brings the series into the present day, exploring the religious and political aspirations of conservative evangelicals’ moral crusade over divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage. Their embrace of presidential politics would end in disappointment in the 2008 election, and questions about the mixing of religion and politics. New waves of immigrants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In the fast-paced world of fashion merchandising, every season brings with it a demand for something new and different. In this program, a designer who owns her own boutique, students developing apparel as a class project, and professors from Iowa State University's highly respected fashion department talk about where they get their fashion ideas and describe how clothing makes its way from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: It was the ultimate face-off between North and South - a deadly clash over race, rights, and the future of freedom in America. This program offers an up-close look at the years that preceded the American Civil War. Through individual accounts, re-creations, interviews, and poignant photography, this program details how the rising tide of abolitionism met the deeply entrenched slave economy - a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Summary: Bringing together 24 government leaders, top policymakers, and noted experts, this landmark documentary hosted by journalist Charles Krause outlines the key political and economic challenges facing the Americas and the issues that will test the leadership of the U.S. and Canada. Topics debated by James Baker III; President Andres Pastrana, of Colombia; Canada's former Prime Minister Brian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The food industry has rapidly developed cross-border trade to meet the accelerating internationalism of consumer tastes. Some brands are promoted globally. But differences in religion, culture, and taste make food one of the toughest products to sell internationally. The consumer, as always, is the key. Consumers will expect more varied, pre-prepared, and time-saving food, and producers will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Hour five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with “godless communism.” As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers. Bohemian immigrant Isaac Mayer Wise embraced change and established Reform Judaism in America while his opponents adhered to Old World traditions. In New York, Presbyterian biblical scholar Charles Briggs sought to wed his evangelical faith with modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The brutal roots of the American slave trade are exposed in this program, focusing on the years 1450-1750 when Native Americans first encountered Europeans and when their world was transformed - and largely destroyed - by white settlers. Not only did the settlers exploit the natural wealth of the Americas, they also traveled to Africa, where they began a transatlantic slave trade that would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Summary: Hour two considers the origins of America’s experiment in religious liberty, examining how the unlikely alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figures such as Thomas Jefferson forged a new concept of religious freedom. In the competitive religious marketplace unleashed by this freedom, upstart denominations raced ahead of traditional faiths and a new wave of religious revivals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The first hour of God in America explores the origins of America’s unique religious landscape - how the New World challenged and changed the faiths the first European settlers brought with them. In New Mexico, the spiritual rituals of the Pueblo Indians collided with the Catholic faith of Franciscan missionaries, ending in a bloody revolt. In New England, Puritan leader John Winthrop faced off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Hour three explores how religion suffused the Civil War. As slavery split the nation in two, Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders turned to the Bible to support their cause. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass condemned Christianity for sanctioning slavery. In the White House, Abraham Lincoln struggled to make sense of the war’s carnage and the death of his young son....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This was the age of the Tokugawa family, the era of Edo, a period of over two-and-a-half centuries during which Japan was hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world and only a few Dutch and Chinese-constantly watched and treated like pariahs-were allowed to live on Japanese soil and to trade with the Japanese. This program treats the history of Japan during this period: the established...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The fall of super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff has exposed what may be one of the biggest political scandals in America's history. What does the dizzying scope of corruption say about how laws are made and who really owns the U.S. government? In this program, Bill Moyers and his team of investigative journalists untangle the web of relationships, secret deals, and political manipulation-including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: First American Nuclear Power Plant
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1958
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Summary: This program discusses reproduction and motherhood in the hyper-patriarchal societies of Latin America. Women on different economic and social levels discuss such topics as working mothers, and how the extended family contributes to child-rearing; the sterilization movement; abortion; gay parenting; manipulation of women's reproductive rights by governments; and how access to medical services...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: United Nations troops patrol the troubled Congo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1960
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Summary: This video examines the stories of immigrants who fled to America to escape religious persecution. Included are profiles of Tibetan Tsering, who escaped punishment from Chinese communists; D'vorah and Hirsch Spira, Hasidic Jews who hoped their religious traditions would be preserved in America; and the story of John Ruth, a Mennonite minister and historian, whose ancestor, Hans Landis, was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: On October 29th, 1929, the boom era of the Jazz Age came to a crashing halt on Wall Street. The dramatic effects of the Great Depression and New Deal are the main topics of this program. Despite the country’s economic collapse, major public works projects such as the Hoover Dam offered proof of the industrial and technological might of the United States - and of the undeniable abilities of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The Union's victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg marked a crucial turning point in the Civil War. This program thoroughly examines those pivotal campaigns, along with the Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation on both the North and South, problems within the Jefferson Davis administration, the beginnings of dissent in the South, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009