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A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers America in the 20th century America in the twentieth century (Hamilton, N.J.) Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns Great American speeches Meet the press, meets the presidents PBS American Experience Victory in the Pacific Year by Year: 1929-1967Filter By Subjects
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A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers America in the 20th century America in the twentieth century (Hamilton, N.J.) Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns Great American speeches Meet the press, meets the presidents PBS American Experience Victory in the Pacific Year by Year: 1929-1967Summary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The 20th century began with enormous hopes for a future made safe and humane by technology. Although it realized some of these hopes, the century neared its end under the shadow of superweapons that still threaten the earth with annihilation. In this program, Bill Moyers traces the evolution of three instruments that enabled combatants to mass-produce death-the machine gun, the submarine, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The outbreak of World War II saw two motion picture experts from Germany and the United States battle each other with as much ferocity as any army or navy. Their respective missions: to ignite a public desire to wage and win a global conflict. This Bill Moyers program contains an interview with Fritz Hippler, chief filmmaker for the Nazi Party. Hippler unrepentantly claims to have spoken to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In 1911, the first newsreels flickered in America's nickelodeons. In the mid-1960s, they vanished from movie theaters as nightly television newscasts came to dominate visual journalism. In between, newsreels grew into a unique 20th-century institution that informed and entertained whole generations. In this program, Bill Moyers conducts a tour of the cultural and political landscape so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The growth of mass communication provided a new understanding of ways to manipulate images and influence popular opinion, giving birth to the concept of public relations. In this program, Bill Moyers examines the public-relations campaign designed by Ivy Lee in 1914 to improve the image of John D. Rockefeller. He also talks with Edward Bernays-the man who helped immortalize Thomas Edison and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1984
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Summary: World War II - Captured Nazi propaganda film showing German army and air force in action
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1943
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Summary: Nazi propaganda film portrays Jews in negative light; Anti-Semitic/racist stereotypes of greed/shrewdness in Warsaw Ghetto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1939
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Summary: From Pearl Harbor to the Persian Gulf-the American effort during World War II in the Pacific and European theaters, followed by Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, and Operation Desert Storm-this program covers 50 years of almost continuous action by America's military.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The New York Yankees. The New York Giants. The Brooklyn Dodgers. It's safe to say that Manhattan and its surrounding communities had no shortage of baseball at the dawn of the 1950s-and yet, by decade's end, team relocations would radically alter the landscape of the game. This program tours that ten-year stretch in all its glory and swan-song turmoil. Viewers follow the exploits of Mickey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: What came to be known as the “I Have a Dream” speech was a high point in the public career of Martin Luther King, Jr. But it was also a turning point in his personal life as he embarked on a controversial, often lonely struggle to redefine and redirect the movement he had helped lead. Through it all, he remained steadfast in his profound spiritual commitment to the human rights of all people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: Starting with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, this program follows the United States through its mobilization for war and into battle in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. It also explains the dramatic domestic changes that total war made necessary-from rationing and recycling, to war bonds and government economic controls, to new roles for women in society-and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: 1941 bought the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America's entrance into World War II. This episode of Year by Year also examines baseball during the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The marriage of John F. and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is examined in this episode of Year by Year. Also featured is Queen Elizabeth's 1953 coronation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Follows as Vice President Richard Nixon makes a 1958 goodwill trip through Latin America, but is met with anger over U.S. Cold War policy. Nixon is attacked in his car in Venezuela, but escapes unharmed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: A U.S. U-2 spy plane is shot down over Soviet Union airspace, increasing Cold War tensions. Year by Year: 1960 also marks John F. Kennedy's presidential election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series takes viewers on a journey around the world in a mere half an hour, showing military police activities in Europe, helicopter activities in the Far East, and the latest in training methods within the Zone of Interior, aka the United States. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration presents these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: It was May 1945, and the US forces in Europe had just celebrated victory over the Nazis. While some would then occupy Germany, others would return home. And yet still, many would redeploy to the Pacific for the invasion of Japan-a battle resulting in the highest number of casualties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Over 100,000 servicemen and tens of thousands of civilians were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: When Richard Nixon made his first appearance on Meet the Press, he was a 39-year-old first-term senator and Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate. Two months later the pair would win the election, but not before Nixon was almost dropped from the ticket in the wake of controversy over what was characterized as a campaign slush fund-a story that broke immediately after this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Travels to 1943 to explore Hollywood's influence on World War II and the movie stars who went to war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey in the presidential race covered byYear by Year: 1947.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Covers events around the world including the formation of the Warsaw Pact by the Eastern Bloc nations and the death of American actor, James Dean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Myths, misconceptions, and the march of time have obscured the true origins and legal details of Brown v. The Board of Education. This fascinating program connects viewers with the people, places, events, and ideas that shaped the landmark civil rights case. Interviewees include Cheryl Brown Henderson, daughter of lead plaintiff Oliver Brown; Zelma Henderson, who, until her death in 2008, was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In this program, Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon argue the merits of democracy and communism in the impromptu Kitchen Debate, complete with on-screen translations. Also included are Nixon's famous "Checkers" speech; a 1960 campaign address to Wisconsin farmers by Senator Hubert Humphrey; and the verbal showdown between Senator Joseph McCarthy and attorney Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Overshadowed by the wars that came before and after it, the Korean War has received little of the attention it rightly deserves, yet its legacy endures: armies still face each other across the demilitarized zone - and nuclear saber-rattling, this time coming from North Korea, is still a factor. In this ABC News program, correspondent Phil Ittner embeds himself with a group of veterans making a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006