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Business enterprises Finance Economics Study and teaching Finance Investments Macroeconomics Political activists United States History 20th century Political activists United States History 20th century United States History 1961-1969 United States History 1969 United States History Study and teachingSummary: 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: In the mid-1980s, the markets were soaring with no end in sight. Then came October 19th, 1987. This CNBC Original documentary examines the biggest stock market crash in U.S. history, as told through firsthand accounts from traders, reporters who covered the story, and such power brokers as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, former NYSE chairman John Phelan, and Leo Melamed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ, becomes the 36th President of the United States. Year by Year: 1964 also documents widespread Beatlemania as the Beatles tour the U.S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Year by Year looks back at 1963, John F. Kennedy's assassination, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famed 'I Have a Dream' speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: James Meredith becomes the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi. This episode of Year by Year: 1962 also looks at John Glenn's orbiting of the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Follows as three astronauts die during the Apollo space mission disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Details the three historic Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama in support of civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Eugene Cernan, Gemini 9A pilot, takes a two-hour walk in space, the longest to date. This episode of Year by Year also looks at the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011