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McGraw-Hill Films The years of reconstruction, 1865-1877
Shows the economic, social, and political problems which faced the freed Negro, and discusses how resentment and bitterness from both Negroes and whites frustrated attempts to reach a reasonable peace. - Describes the aftermath of the Civil War, how the economy in the South changed and how the position of African-Americans improved but very slowly
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McGraw-Hill Films Immigration
After the Civil War , there was a great demand for new settlers to cultivate the vast plains of America. This film discusses the main immigration periods and the characteristics of each phase. It addresses the many and various aspects related to American immigrant history
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Project 7 Films The New Deal
Explains that the New Deal marked a fundamental change in government in the United States, and brought an end to the laissez-faire philosophy. Analyzes the New Deal as a response to the problem of the depression, and shows that while it was a basic change, it was not a revolution
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McGraw-Hill Films The US becomes a world power
This documentary explores the events which turned the United States into a world power, and discusses how the bombing of the American battleship "The Maine" led to a change in U.S. foreign policy
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McGraw-Hill Films The colonial economy
Portrays how colonists devised realistic solutions to their problems of labor, transportation, capital and currency. - In order to build a viable and prosperous colony, the Americans needed to find capital, labor, and modes of transportation. Each region developed differently, with plantations in the South, whaling, shipbuilding and industry in the North, and wheat and cattle growing in the middle colonies. The mother country needed the raw materials, but guarded its industrial secrets, causing tension...
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Romeo must die
Dit keer zijn Shakespeares Romeo en Julia kinderen van elkaar bestrijdende criminele families. Kung fu-meester Han (Romeo) en Trish (Julia) doen verwoede pogingen de oorlog tussen beide families te beëindigen
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Romeo
Bewerking van William Shakespeare's klassieke liefdesverhaal verplaatst naar een futuristische omgeving
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Travel the cross roads of the Zuider Zee with Hendrik de Leeuw
Silent promotional film about the Netherlands starting with Schiphol Airport and shots of De Snip, an airplane taking off for Oud-Vossemeer to see the Roosevelt home, coat of arms and signature. Then to Middelburg showing old costumes, the Abbey, the Railroad Station and Bridge, the Market and continuing to Veere (Cape Cod of the Netherlandsʺ) and home of Hendrik W. van Loon. The journey continues to Friesland and Staphorst and ends with scenes of broken dikes and refugees during World War II
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Oliver Stone JFK
Un caso ancora aperto; director's cut
Jim Garrison, officier van justitie in New Orleans, start een onderzoek naar een mogelijke samenzwering bij de moord op president Kennedy
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Lowell Thomas remembers
the New Deal; the Thirties
A recalling of the important events, people and fads of the 1930's, using 20th Century Fox Movietone newsreels of the period. Narrated and introduced by Lowell Thomas
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Beefcake
Het levensverhaal van fotograaf Bob Mizer die in de vijftiger jaren foto's maakte van gespierde bodybuilders en daardoor in de problemen kwam met de autoriteiten
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Deep blue sea
Tegen alle regels in worden in een drijvend labaratorium haaien genetisch gemanipuleerd
Fictie | Thriller
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Dann Moss Portret van Engeland
Treasure houses & gardens; Portrait of England; music by Wynton Marsalis
Muzikaal portret van Engeland met vooral beelden van herenhuizen, kastelen en buitenverblijven, begeleid door de muziek van jazztrompetist Wynton Marsalis
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Dann Moss Portret van Ierland
Portrait of Ireland
Muzikaal portret van ierland met beelden van het hele land begeleid door muziek van James Galway, Enya en de Chieftains
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Drevo zhelaniya
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Crazy in Alabama
In de zestiger jaren in Alabama wordt Lucille achternagezeten door de politie omdat ze rondrijdt met het door haar afgehakte hoofd van haar echtgenoot
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