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Summary: This A&E Special chronicles the dual climax of World War II: the sweeping Allied advance in Europe that crushed the Third Reich and the final thrust in the Pacific that destroyed Imperial Japan. The Nuremberg trials and the start of the Cold War are also discussed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996

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Summary: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the ignominious fall of Singapore to the Japanese in early 1942 the "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British history. In just seven days the "Impregnable Fortress" had fallen. This classic program incorporates authentic WWII archival film footage and accounts from soldiers on both sides of the battleline on Singapore.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996

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Summary: World War II - British and Belgian troops fight off Nazi attack in Northern France

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940

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Summary: World War II - Adoring crowds in Berlin, Germany, watch Adolf Hitler's motorcade on return from inspecting conquered territory in France.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940

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Summary: World War II - British troops land in France

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940

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Summary: 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: 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: 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: World War II - Mussolini and associates are killed at Lake Como

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945

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Summary: Produced by the U.S. Army, this episode of The Big Picture focuses on the First Infantry Division in South Vietnam. In addition to chronicling its battle actions since its arrival in Vietnam in July 1965 until its largest campaign, Operation Junction City in March 1967, this captivating film features footage from the National Archives and Records Administration. It also depicts the severe...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: This program examines the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the eyes of veterans from both sides.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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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: America's efforts invigorated the struggle against the Nazi stranglehold in Europe. In the Pacific, the ultimate piece of technology ended the war, and a new superpower took the global stage. In this program, many of America's most prominent leaders and personalities reflect on defining moments in the evolution of post-war America-including the Cold War, the space race, the Civil Rights...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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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: 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: This episode of Rockets! looks at post-WW II rocketry and the creation of the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The U.S. military developed the science and technology that would explore the outer reaches of the earth's atmosphere. This effort was redirected during the Cold War, fueled by a desperate race with the U.S.S.R. to deploy nuclear-tipped ICBMs, and later to orbit the first...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997

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Summary: To Blazes with the Walkie Talkie - Walkie-Talkies used in firefighting

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946

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Summary: Examines 1949 and prelude to the Korean War. Also, Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate Harry S. Truman.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Summary: John Glenn's 1957 Project Bullet completes the first supersoic transcontinental flight from California to New York, breaking a speed record, as covered in this episode of Year by Year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Summary: Explores the Kitchen Debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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