Summary: This film offers an unprecedented insider's look as events unfolded over the 11 days preceding the 2004 presidential election, By The People: Democracy In The Wild reveals who and what it takes to put on an American election. This behind-the-scenes documentary follows average Americans as they race to get the polls open on Election Day. After witnessing their struggle to uphold the most basic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Have security tactics damaged our individual liberties? How much independent power should we give the FBI? And do the FBI abuses of Americans’ rights during the Cold War prove that its power must be counterbalanced by the courts? Security versus Liberty, a part of the PBS America at a Crossroads series, is a post 9/11 look at “questionable security practices” - and those who challenge them. ...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This edition of Frontline takes viewers inside the iconic Abu Ghraib prison and investigates the path that led to torture techniques being used against Iraqi detainees there as well as prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Through interviews with policy makers, government interrogators, and interrogation subjects, this video examines a policy born out of fear and anger and tracks...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The conflict in Iraq led to an enormous growth in the security industry as private security contractors were hired to perform seemingly mundane but definitely dangerous tasks-jobs that were once the exclusive responsibility of the military. Filmed in 2007, this program enters the kill zone to see what it's like to act as guards-for-hire, constantly on the alert and acutely aware that every...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This chapter of the acclaimed series New York: A Documentary Film provides a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and following the 2001 terrorist attacks on September 11, reaching back to when the idea of a “world trade center” was first conceived and the towers were constructed. Filmmaker Ric Burns explores the physical, economic, and symbolic aftermath of the 9/11 attack - and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: An Emmy award-winning documentary, and part of the PBS film series, America at a Crossroads, Operation Homecoming explores accounts from service men and women participating in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan - in their very own words. Through poignant interviews and dramatic readings, the film transforms an extraordinary collection of poetry, fiction, memoirs, letters, journals and essays into...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: At Guantanamo Bay detention camp, history has proved that concepts of right and wrong can all too easily become distorted by expediency and ambiguity. This program examines the lives of high-profile individuals from both sides of the razor wire who have intimate knowledge of the horrors of Gitmo: Murat Kurnaz, a former inmate who was detained without trial for five years; former Navy officer...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Both liberals and conservatives question the presidency of George W. Bush, from its positions on spending and education, to its launching of two wars, to its response to Hurricane Katrina. Yet the administration also accomplished something that few thought possible: keeping America safe after 9/11. Is Bush the worst president of the past 50 years, or will history reveal a more positive legacy?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: With debate over the war in Iraq still dominating policy discussions, The Case for War, a part of the PBS film series, America at a Crossroads, follows former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle as he travels the globe, defending and debating the neoconservative case for an assertive American foreign policy. From a conversation with Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of Arabic newspaper Al Quds...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: On August 29th, 2005, a catastrophic hurricane named Katrina made landfall on the Gulf coast of the United States. When the skies finally cleared, the survival of New Orleans hung in the balance. In the wake of this devastating event, as Americans continue a dialogue about the future of one of the nation's most distinctive cities, PBS American Experience presents New Orleans, a provocative...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This edition of Frontline investigates the causes of the 2008 economic meltdown, the worst American financial crisis in 70 years, and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The U.S. Army Reserves have sent 155,700 deployments to Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. Yet rarely is there an opportunity to see the personal effects inside the homes and lives immediately following a “call to duty.” Kansas to Kandahar, a part of the PBS America at a Crossroads series, is an up-close look at the physical and emotional challenges of these citizen soldiers who are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007