Summary: Mix together a small town community theater’s shy leading man and the lovely telephone worker who moves into town and you have a perfect recipe for a delightful romantic comedy. Academy Award-winners Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken star as the couple who discover that affairs of the heart on the stage may be a bit less complicated than continuing the romance off the stage. Director...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: In this interview, Kurt Vonnegut-iconoclastic writer of science fiction and satire-discusses his family history, how he got his start as an author, his experiences in World War II, his obsession with the betrayal of humankind by science, and his vision of technology gone mad. Delving into the psyches of his characters, he even enters into a dialogue with his fictional alter ego, Kilgore Trout....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: Both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery. Bacon's Quaker ancestors repudiated slavery long before the rest of the country, in 1780. And Sedgwick's ancestor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: In June 1943, Los Angeles erupted into the worse race riots in the city to date. For ten straight nights, American sailors armed with make-shift weapons cruised Mexican-American neighborhoods in search of “zoot-suiters”—hip, young teens dressed in baggy pants and long-tailed coats—symbols that blurred cultural lines and pushed the boundaries of race and class. Their posturing and self-assurance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: This episode of Frontline offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio; the other, a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series showcases Fort Benning, Georgia, the “Queen of Battle,” where our infantrymen are kept highly trained with the most weapons available. It is here that experienced Korean and World War II veterans are training new arrivals to the Army. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration also shows the rigorous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series shows what it feels like to move from Fort Riley, Kansas, in the American Midwest to Wurzburg, Germany. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration describes the differences in culture and society for someone who has not ventured to post-World War II West Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008