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A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill MoyersSummary: A year before his 1998 death, Eldridge Cleaver granted what would be his last in-depth interview to critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cleaver discussed his life as a civil rights activist, former Black Panther, and author. This program includes film from that interview, along with audio from a 1975 Gates/Cleaver interview conducted in Paris. Archival footage and commentary from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: 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: 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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Summary: The year 1954 can now be seen as a clarifying point of convergence in American history. Among other things, it was the year that brought the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw racial segregation in the schools of the United States. In this program, Bill Moyers, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee tell the story of how the New Deal, World War II, and postwar social changes set the stage for a long-awaited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In this program, Bill Moyers returns to his hometown of Marshall, Texas-discovering, in his words, "a new town perched on the memory of one that's gone." Today it is hoped and expected that all of Marshall's citizens, regardless of racial background, share the responsibilities of living and working in a small town. But there was a time in recent history when the opposite was assumed and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy speaking to UN after Dag Hammerskold's death (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: President Kennedy's UN speech intercut with shots of activity around the Berlin Wall (German VO)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: President Kennedy watches military display at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Row of cameramen at Kennedy Press conference at the capitol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: President John F. Kennedy speaking to UN after Dag Hammerskold's death (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Excerpt of JFK Inaugural Address
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Japan: Dramatic pictures of atom bomb damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki foreshadow the coming Bikini Atoll experiment. Intense heat and light of the Hiroshima blast left blackened outlines of people on destroyed bridges! Reel 2, Italy: Following mass demonstrations and a democratic referendum, Italian voters cast their lot with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the United Nations. The UN General Assembly approves the permanent site for its international headquarters: a six-block parcel in mid-town Manhattan, a gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on five topics, as follows. Reel 1, At the Geneva summit conference, Ike proposes Open Skies, "a precedent-shattering proposal" to verify disarmament with aerial photographs. Reel 2, Morocco riots overrun Casablanca due to discontent with French rule. Reel 3, Russians visit an Iowa farm. Reel 4, An air show in Moscow featuring the new Bison bomber and...
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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, Concept cars on display at a NYC car show. Reel 2, An Austrian "hotel on wheels" recreational vehicle. Reel 3, A first look at the new look: the latest Paris fashions.
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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, At the Yucca Flats Proving Grounds, in Nevada, the largest A-bomb ever to be tested in the U.S. is detonated. Reel 2, A Redstone missile is put on display at New York City's Grand Central Station.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the American space program. An Atlas rocket, launched at night from Cape Canaveral on a secret mission, establishes orbit through its own guidance system. Using a new communications system, it broadcasts a message from Ike via satellite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Hawaii statehood. Hawaii becomes America's 50th state and "gives the lie to Communist charges of American colonialism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the American space program. To test the re-entry capability of a Jupiter rocket nosecone, two monkeys--Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey--are launched into space. Post-splashdown, the monkeys are removed, unharmed, and later appear at a press conference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Soviet clandestine operations during the Cold War. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge supports his accusation that the Russians bugged the U.S. embassy in Moscow by displaying a Soviet gift: a wooden carving of America's Great Seal that, when pried open, reveals a listening device.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Alan Shepard, space pioneer. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard--the first American in space--receives a medal from President Kennedy at the White House and takes part in a parade up Pennsylvania Avenue.
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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, First Lady Jackie Kennedy swims and water-skis with astronaut John Glenn during a Hyannis Port boat outing. Reel 2, Arnold Palmer is defeated by Gary Player in the P.G.A. golf tour. Reel 3, America and Russia square off at a track meet; the U.S. athletes soundly defeat their Soviet competitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy speaks to the nation on America's proposed response to the construction of offensive nuclear missile sites in Cuba. "To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson. Key moments of the day are highlighted: LBJ being driven to the Capitol, taking the oath of office, delivering his inaugural address, and reviewing the parade in his honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010