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A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill MoyersSummary: 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 life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KINSummary: This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series transports viewers to the summer of 1961 as President John F. Kennedy addresses the United States in a televised address to explain the significance of the situation in the now-divided city of Berlin, Germany. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration is a graphic portrayal of the steps this nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland)
Summary: The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, re-centering the narrative around the mobilization of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 HOLBranch, Taylor.
Summary: Branch condenses his three-volume chronicle on race and democracy to its pivotal scenes, taking listeners on a journey in to a political revolution that would change the face of America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323.0973 BRASummary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Faced with the most serious labor stoppage in its history, the U.S. is hard hit by a strike of railroad men. Reel 2, In Nanking, U.S. Chief of Staff Eisenhower receives a gala welcome as he visits China's leader during his tour of U.S. Far Eastern bases. Later, in Tokyo, he meets General MacArthur and reviews an 8th Army parade.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Nuremberg trials. Nuremberg, Germany: It is doomsday and the day of reckoning as 21 Nazis learn their fate at the end of their 10-month trial. Half will hang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on three topics, as follows. Reel 1, Ike greets Richard Nixon at Wheeling airport; Adlai Stevenson, in Baltimore, speaks on taxes. Reel 2, Two white mice and a rhesus monkey named Albert soar 38 miles in a rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, making Albert "the world's first space cadet." Reel 3, The palace of exiled Farouk I of Egypt is opened,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on six topics, as follows. Reel 1, Herbert Hoover is 81 at his Newburg, Oregon, boyhood home. Reel 2, On vacation at his Gettysburg farm, President Eisenhower signs legislation and inspects a gift of a Holstein heifer. Reel 3, A Chinese junk, sailing from Japan, arrives in San Francisco "with five free Chinese refugees from the Reds." Reel 4, An X-1 rocket plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, The Salk polio vaccine is administered to a variety of children. Reel 2, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., is sworn in as Secretary of the Navy, among other new government appointments of the Eisenhower administration. Other events in the nation's capital include the arrival of Brazilian General Octavio Maza and the awarding of a medal to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Russian space program. Moscow, in festive array for the country's industrial exhibition, shows off a full-scale replica of Sputnik 3.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban revolution. Fidel Castro addresses an immense crowd outside the Presidential Palace in Havana as it roars its approval of the execution of former Batista officials.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on American clandestine operations during the Cold War. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev tells the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet that Gary Powers, pilot of a downed American reconnaissance plane, is alive and that spy photographs have been seized. In the U.S., State Department spokesman Lincoln White makes a statement.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the election of John F. Kennedy. A record number of Americans head out to vote for the 35th president of the United States. Richard Nixon concedes defeat as JFK wins at the polls in one of the closest elections in U.S. history. "To all Americans I say the next four years are going to be difficult and challenging years for us all.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, In his first public appearance, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin arrives at Moscow Airport, is greeted by Nikita Khrushchev, and receives the accolades of the public. Reel 2, Thousands turn out in Harrisburg, Pa., to welcome former President Eisenhower, en route to his farm at Gettysburg.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Telstar satellite: how it works, its launch into orbit, its first transmissions, and plans for more such satellites to be used to form a chain of instantaneous communication around the planet.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on scenes of military action. Footage includes troops patrolling and B-52 strikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on four topics, as follows. Reel 1, The U.S.S. Enterprise launches its Phantom jets to attack Viet Cong hideouts. On the ground, a small search-and-kill mission flushes out and scatters a group of Viet Cong. Reel 2, With only a donkey for a companion, a French woman honors her vow to make a 4,000-mile pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Reel 3, At a Manchester fashion...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: German newsreel on the making of newsreels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Summary: Arab National Committee in Jaffa, Palestine hit by bomb
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Summary: Royal Command Film Performance with Irene Dunn, Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Ray Milland, Jimmy Stewart and the British royal family
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: General Matthew Ridgeway (Ridgway) salutes UN troops, meets other generals
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951
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Summary: Color nuclear test, soldiers investigate effects of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951
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Summary: Vietminh terrorists blow up a bridge; French repair it. Vietnam, Indochina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1951