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Civil rights United States Constitutional history United States Constitutional law United States History Liberty Political activists United States History 20th century Political participation United States United States History 1961-1969 United States History 1969 United States History Study and teaching United States Politics and governmentSummary: The U.S. Constitution is the world's oldest written charter of government in continuous effect. Much of the success of this document can be attributed to the way the Constitution has changed to meet the needs of the American people. The framers of the Constitution wisely anticipated the need to make changes to the Constitution as the world itself changed. Between 1787, when the Constitution was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The U.S. Constitution is the world's oldest written charter of government in continuous effect. Much of the success of this document can be attributed to the way the Constitution has changed to meet the needs of the American people. The framers of the Constitution wisely anticipated the need to make changes to the Constitution as the world itself changed. Between 1787, when the Constitution was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The U.S. Constitution is the world's oldest written charter of government in continuous effect. Much of the success of this document can be attributed to the way the Constitution has changed to meet the needs of the American people. The framers of the Constitution wisely anticipated the need to make changes to the Constitution as the world itself changed. Between 1787, when the Constitution was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: From Pearl Harbor to the Persian Gulf-the American effort during World War II in the Pacific and European theaters, followed by Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, and Operation Desert Storm-this program covers 50 years of almost continuous action by America's military.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program contains speeches by two of the 20th century's greatest orators: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Included are Kennedy's inaugural address, the American University speech calling for an end to nuclear proliferation, and the politically-charged "Ich Bin ein Berliner" address delivered at the Berlin Wall. King's moving "I Have a Dream" speech to civil rights marchers in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program features speeches by several major orators of the modern political era, including Representative Barbara Jordan's stunningly eloquent appeal for nonpartisan judgment at the Nixon impeachment hearings. Ronald Reagan shows why he was known as the Great Communicator in his 1981 inaugural address. Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's resounding keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program examines the U.S. role as the world peacekeeper in the post-Cold War era. We learn how the U.S., the world's only remaining superpower, is retraining its forces to maintain peace in volatile areas around the globe. Military experts discuss the difficulties that occur when UN forces intervene in the internal disputes of nations. U.S. peacekeeping missions in Bosnia, Somalia, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: First there was the law, and then there was enforcement of the law. This program begins at Little Rock's Central High School, when soldiers had to provide safety for black children exercising their legal right to go to school. Martin Luther King, Jr., already appears in 1958 at a meeting of black leaders with President Eisenhower. The civil rights movement accelerated: marches, clashes with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In the summer of 1965, tensions in South Central Los Angeles exploded: high unemployment, poverty, and racism ignited a tinderbox of frustration after a routine traffic arrest. In 1991, the same conditions once again resulted in riots, violence, and looting after the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King. This program examines the socioeconomic conditions in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program begins with a fiery speech by Malcolm X that reminds us of the polarization of American political life in the 1960s. Nelson Rockefeller's condemnation of 1968 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater as a political extremist; Goldwater's rebuttal of the charges; and Ronald Reagan's stump speech in support of Goldwater follow. Robert Kennedy's moving eulogy for Martin...
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Summary: In the words of the U.S. Embassy Communications Officer, being held hostage "was like being raped. Drawing on archival footage-including previously unreleased film from Iran-and candid interviews with the American hostages and their Iranian captors, this riveting program presents a balanced look at the harrowing details of the 14-month standoff that brought radical Islam to world prominence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: It was the decade that saw the rise of the American counterculture, and baseball was not immune to radical change itself. This program looks at events that transformed the sport during the 1960s, including the emergence of televised baseball, an increase in expansion teams, and the building of multipurpose stadiums that many saw as robbing the game of its intimacy. Among other developments,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Baseball survived the 'sixties, but the game's awkward evolution was far from over, and in a sense America's national pastime was now entering its most difficult period. This program looks at baseball during the 1970s and beyond, exploring the creation of the free agent system, a ballooning rise in player salaries, additional expansion of the Major Leagues, and ongoing conflicts between labor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: America's efforts invigorated the struggle against the Nazi stranglehold in Europe. In the Pacific, the ultimate piece of technology ended the war, and a new superpower took the global stage. In this program, many of America's most prominent leaders and personalities reflect on defining moments in the evolution of post-war America-including the Cold War, the space race, the Civil Rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ, becomes the 36th President of the United States. Year by Year: 1964 also documents widespread Beatlemania as the Beatles tour the U.S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: James Meredith becomes the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi. This episode of Year by Year: 1962 also looks at John Glenn's orbiting of the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Follows as three astronauts die during the Apollo space mission disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Year by Year looks back at 1963, John F. Kennedy's assassination, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famed 'I Have a Dream' speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Eugene Cernan, Gemini 9A pilot, takes a two-hour walk in space, the longest to date. This episode of Year by Year also looks at the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Details the three historic Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama in support of civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This episode of History's Mysteries exposes the gripping, inside account of one of the most shocking crimes in modern American history: the Greensboro Massacre. On November 3, 1979, members of the Communist Worker's Party held a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. A caravan of Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis drove into the center of the protesters. Screamed insults from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The Cold War turns hot in Viet Nam... a burglary at the Watergate Hotel becomes a national crisis... a space shuttle ascent erupts in tragedy... these are a few of the momentous events examined in this program. The 9/11 attacks and the election of President Barack Obama are discussed, along with the technological forces that drove America toward the 21st century: television, the credit card,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: America continues to make tremendous strides through the prosperity of the 1980s, 1990s, and into the new millennium. The nation's mettle is severely tested by the tragedy of September 11, 2001, but the people of the United States rally together. New York City comes to stand as a symbol of American diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: The 1960s bring new progress in the quest for freedom, but this is also an explosive decade that threatens to tear apart the fabric of society. President Kennedy is assassinated, and Lyndon B. Johnson pursues the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated, leaving behind an impressive and growing legacy of non-violent civil rights resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002