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South Asia in crisis
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt hosted a roundtable discussion about South Asia in crisis with political writers, educators, and government administrators
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The Bay of Pigs
Combines film footage and interviews with Americans and Cubans in exploring this episode in history and the long-term effects it has had on the two countries
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First families
private lives and public duties
Report on a two-day conference at the Gerald R. Ford museum on the private lives and public duties of Americas modern first ladies and their children. Participants include Betty Ford, Rosalyn Carter, granddaughter of FDR, and daughter of LBJ. They share their thoughts on their historic role, on life in the White House and beyond.
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Edgar Allen Poe
The nineteenth century literary world in the United States produced poets, novelists, essayists and short story writers in abundance. Many still enjoy worldwide fame, and their works have inspired twentieth century writers. Biographical profiles as well as extensive reading by the narrator of the author's poetry/prose is featured in the programs. This first part of the American authors series contains many excerpts from Poe's work. The focus is on Poe's tragic life as reflected in his work. Poe's...
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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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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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Trumpet kings
Wynton Marsalis presents an overview of twentieth century jazz trumpeters as filmed and videotaped between 1933 and 1984
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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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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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Political advertising of the 60's
A retrospective of fifty-six U.S. television commercials covering the presidential campaigns of Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller and John F. Kennedy. The video also covers the senatorial campaigns of Robert Kennedy, Bob Packwood, Birch Bayh, Alan Cranston and Jacob Javits. Early political spots by Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Mark Hatfield are also included.
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The quiet family
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Dylan Walsh Nip/Tuck
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The X files
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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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Kennedy
years of charisma
Tells that in life John Kennedy was popular, drew much praise, inspired affection, and had as many critics as most politicians do, but that in death he became a hero and a legend wrapped in mythology and sentimentality
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