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Illusions of news
In this four-part series Bill Moyers examines the impact on democracy of a mass culture, much of whose basic information comes from the media, public opinion polls, public relations and image-making. The focus of this film is on the power of deception and its influence on some main events in American history. The question is if the American people are so used to political lies that they can no longer do without. Bill Moyers concludes that harsh realities are too often covered up by comfortable lies...
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Leading questions
In this four-part series Bill Moyers examines the impact on democracy of a mass culture, much of whose basic information comes from the media, public opinion polls, public relations and image-making. Bill Moyers discusses how advertisement influences the public mind and behavior in America. Surveys are often used to find out how the American public feels and thinks. This film deals with the power of both surveys, advertisement and political campaigns. Bill Moyers concludes that the public mind is...
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Postwar hopes, cold war fears
The 1950s were a decade of prosperity and optimism, but also of fear and anxiety. The Iron Curtain, the fall of China and the Korean War, generated a deep suspicion of leftist opinions, leading to the Red Scare. Bill Moyers explains that the pressure to conform was strong in this period and ironically divided America.
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The truth about lies
In this four-part series Bill Moyers examines the impact on democracy of a mass culture, much of whose basic information comes from the media, public opinion polls, public relations and image-making. The focus of this part is on American media as an entertainment business rather than a news business. It is seen as a profit making organization in the service of American politicians. The focus is on how realistic descriptions are neglected and how the media is dominated by images people want to see....
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The terminal
Als Viktor Novorski vanuit Oost-Europa een bezoekt brengt aan New York, wordt in zijn land een gewelddadige coup gepleegd waardoor hij niet terug kan, maar ook niet toegelaten wordt in de Verenigde Staten
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Mijn neef in Canada
This film was made for the Dutch Government Information Service, with the support of the Canadian government. The first five minutes of the film give an overview of all the positive aspects of Canada: space, availability of land, affluence. The remainder of the film shows twenty-nine Dutch immigrants who tell the viewer how easy it was to adapt to Canadian life. The commentator stresses the continuity with life in the Netherlands and the film leaves an overall rosy impression, which is exactly what...
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Bob Fosse Cabaret
In het Berlijn van 1930 treedt de Amerikaanse zangeres Sally Bowles regelmatig op in een nachtclub en ontmoet allerlei totaal verschillende mensen. Met twee van hen begint zij een relatie, wat leidt tot een zwangerschap
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Mr. Sears' catalogue
Explores how the Sears catalogue, giving readers a sense of urban life and a vision of middle class splendors, reflected the changes of the time and became a symbol for the national ambitions and dreams of a sprawling country. Contains biographical information on Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck
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Harry S. Truman
This documentary combines interviews, archival footage and photographs to chronicle President Trumans legacy. From dropping the atomic bomb on Japan to the creation of NATO, and from his stunning upset of Dewey in 1948 to the Cold War era of Korea and McCarthys witch hunts, here are the defining moments of his life and presidency
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WGBH Education Foundation Journey to America
A tribute to the over 12 million immigrants entering the United States between 1890-1920
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James Agee Film Project To render a life
Discusses J. Agee's and W. Evans book "Let us now praise famous men". The documentary goes to similar places and presents the life of the poorest of the poor white families in the South of the United States
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The pianist
Als in 1939 de Duitsers Polen binnenvallen verandert het leven van de joodse pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman dramatisch
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America at its Centennial. Industrial supremacy. The new city. The West
America at Its Centennial: As America celebrates its centennial, five million people descend on Philadelphia to celebrate America's technological achievements, but some of the early principles of the Republic remain unrealized. Professor Miller and his team of historians examines where America is in 1876 and discuss the question of race in America. Industrial Supremacy: Steel and Stockyards are featured in this program as the mighty engine of industrialism thunders forward at the end of the nineteenth...
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Capital and labor. Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson. A vital progressivism. The Twenties
Capital and Labor: The making of money pits laborers against the forces of capital as the twentieth century opens. Professor Miller introduces the miner as the quintessential laborer of the period-working under grinding conditions, organizing into unions, and making a stand against the reigning money man of the day, J. Pierpont Morgan. Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson: Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson-the Warrior and the Minister-in the first decades...
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New world encounters. English settlement. Growth and empire. The coming of independence
Professor Miller introduces A Biography of America and its team of historians. The program looks at the beginning of American history from west to east, following the first Ice Age migrations through the corn civilizations of Middle America, and the explorations of Columbus, DeSoto, and the Spanish. English Settlement: As the American character begins to take shape in the early seventeenth century, English settlements develop in New England and Virginia. Their personalities are dramatically different....
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King
from Montgomery to Memphis
Through newsreel and television coverage, the history of the civil rights movement, 1955-1968, is shown. It presents the public life and character of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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The quiet family
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Trumpet kings
Wynton Marsalis presents an overview of twentieth century jazz trumpeters as filmed and videotaped between 1933 and 1984
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