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| Subject: American History: 20th Century |
| America 1900, Parts 1 & 2 |
| Spirit of the Age & Change is in the Air |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century The year 1900 was the dawn of the "American century," a time of optimism, progress, confidence, and turmoil. America 1900 re-creates the old century's final year dramatic days when U.S. troops went to... |
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| America 1900, Parts 3 & 4 |
| A Great Civilized Power & Fall, Anything Seemed Possible |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century The year 1900 was the dawn of the "American century," a time of optimism, progress, confidence, and turmoil. AMERICA 1900 re-creates the old century's final year dramatic days when U.S. troops went to... |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 1 |
| While the Storm Clouds Gather |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century Relives the turning-point years of 1939-1941, when the American people were gratefully putting the long, heart-breaking years of the Great Depression behind them. |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 2 |
| Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century Newsreel footage reflects the early chaos, and how the American people rose above it to amaze the world with the unprecedented swiftness of its mobilization of military and industrial might. |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 3 |
| Sacrifies and Shortages |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century Distinguished CBS journalist Eric Sevareid examines how the massive mobilization of American industry to support the war effort bred an odd sort of prosperity ... there's full employment, but not much... |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 4 |
| A String of Pearls |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, Women's Studies Focuses on the contribution of women to the war effort. |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 5 |
| On the Shady Side of the Street |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century Americans lived 'within moral and legal limits' before the war but found that the war licensed them to question or ignore traditional morality. |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 6 |
| Right in Der Furher's Face |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century Hollywood joins forces with Madison Avenue and Tin Pan Alley to grind out propaganda in an effort to stir morale on the home front. America is bombarded with posters, songs and films that portray blac... |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 7 |
| Thanks for the Memories |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century Distinguished CBS journalist Eric Sevareid looks back at how American show business went to war on the American home front in WWII. |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 8 |
| Accentuating the Positive |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century The troupers of the U.S.O. are recalled in footage of overseas tours that brought big-name entertainment to the troops on the front-lines. Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich and Joe E. Brown are just a few of... |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 9 |
| Mood Indigo: Blacks & Whites |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century Although African-American servicemen distinguish themselves overseas, and black civilians continue to back the war effort, racial prejudice and discrimination continues to plague American culture. |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 10 |
| It's Been a Long, Long Time |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century The long, bitter road to victory finally leads to the capitulation of Germany and Japan, and Americans find themselves as unprepared for peace as they were for war four-and-a-half years earlier. |
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| American Photography: A Century of Images, Episode 1 |
| The Developing Image, 1900-1934 |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, The Arts Although photography was invented in the first half of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century marked extraordinary changes. For the first time in history, inexpensive hand-held cameras ga... |
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| American Photography: A Century of Images, Episode 2 |
| The Photographic Age, 1935-1959 |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, The Arts In the 1930s, an explosion of mass media devoted to distributing photographs brought images to all Americans. Documentary photographers brought the Depression into the living rooms of America. America... |
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| American Photography: A Century of Images, Episode 3 |
| Photography Transformed, 1960-1999 |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, The Arts The power of the photographic image is undiminished in the latter part of the 20th century, even though it faces new challenges from television and elsewhere. The series looks at surveillance photogra... |
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| Baseball, Inning 2 |
| Something Like a War |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History: 20th Century Takes viewers through 1910 and introduces some of the game's most celebrated and colorful characters, including Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. |
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| Baseball, Inning 3 |
| The Faith of Fifty Million People |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History: 20th Century Examines the century's second decade, which was dominated by the Black Sox scandal. Babe Ruth makes his first major league appearance (as a member of the Boston Red Sox) and a wave of immigration help... |
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| Baseball, Inning 4 |
| A National Heirloom |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History: 20th Century Concentrates on Babe Ruth, whose phenomenal performance thrilled the nation throughout the 1920s and rescued the game from the scandal of the previous decade. |
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| Baseball, Inning 5 |
| Shadow Ball |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century Tells the story of the Negro Leagues in the 1930s. The title refers to a common pre-game feature in which the players staged a mock game with an imaginary ball. Though unintended, the pantomime was an... |
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| Baseball, Inning 6 |
| The National Pasttime |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century Covers the 1940s and includes Joe DiMaggio's celebrated hitting streak, the awe-inspiring performance of Ted Williams and what Burns calls 'baseball's finest moment' — the debut of Jackie Robinson, ... |
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| Baseball, Inning 7 |
| The Capital of Baseball |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History: 20th Century Takes viewers through the 1950s when New York City had three successful baseball teams and dominated the World Series. By the end of the decade, the Giants and Dodgers had left New York, a signal that... |
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| Baseball, Inning 8 |
| A Whole New Ballgame |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History: 20th Century Moves the field to the 1960s. This episode traces the emergence of television, the expansion to new cities and the building of anonymous multipurpose stadiums that robbed the game of its intimacy and ... |
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| Baseball, Inning 9 |
| Home |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History: 20th Century Looks at baseball from the 1970s to the present, including the establishment of the free agent system, the rise in player salaries, the continued expansion, the dilution of talent, the ongoing battles... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 4 |
| Radio, Racism, and Foreign Policy |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History The effects of foreign policy issues on the American public are the focus of this video, which examines the authoritarian radio campaign aimed at enforcing a conformity of beliefs, customs and traditi... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 5 |
| The Great Depression and Foreign Affairs |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History During the Great Depression, most Americans and the majority of U.S. politicians were too preoccupied with domestic problems to notice the rise of dictators in Europe and Japan. This video focuses on ... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 6 |
| FDR and Hilter: Their Rise to Power |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History This video chronicles the different styles of these world leaders and their rise to power. |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 7 |
| FDR and Hilter: The Dynamics of Power |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History Two powerful modern leaders dominated much of the era before and during World War II: Adolf Hitler, the newly appointed chancellor of Germany, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the ... |
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| Between the Wars, Episode 14 |
| FDR and Churchill: The Human Partnership |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, World History In this video, the close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill is examined and viewers learn how this relationship had a profound effect on the history of the Western world. |
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| Building the Alaska Highway |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century Building the Alaska Highway is the story of nearly eleven thousand Army engineers who battled freezing temperatures, ice and snow, mountains, mud, muskeg, and mosquitoes to blaze a 1500-mile road thro... |
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| D-Day: Down to Earth - Return of the 507th |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, Military History This film recounts the history of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment through battles in World War II and the culmination of its story 60 years later. Men from the 507th dropped into Normandy on D-D... |
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| Daughter From Danang |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial 'all-American girl', hailing from small tow... |
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| Fatal Flood |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people a... |
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| The Fight |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century The rematch between the African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling was riveting -- 'one hundred and twenty-four seconds of murder,' as one newspaper put it. But for m... |
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| The First Measured Century, Part 1 |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY (1883-1940) tells the story of America by the numbers through the eyes of those who did the measuring and the interpreting, often in highly controversial and unusual circum... |
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| The First Measured Century, Part 2 |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY (1883-1940) tells the story of America by the numbers through the eyes of those who did the measuring and the interpreting, often in highly controversial and unusual circum... |
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| Influenza 1918 |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century, Health & Medicine In September of 1918, soldiers at an army base near Boston suddenly began to die. The cause of death was identified as influenza, but it was unlike any strain ever seen. It was the worst epidemic in A... |
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| Monkey Trials |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century, Contemporary Issues In 1925, a biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law. His trial became an epic event of the twentieth century, a debate over free speech ... |
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| Mount Rushmore |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century In South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Together they constitute the world'... |
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| One Woman, One Vote |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century, Women's Studies This program documents the struggle which culminated in the passing of the 19th Amendment in the U.S. Senate by one vote. Witness the 70-year struggle for women's suffrage. Discover why the crusaders ... |
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| Perilous Fight: America's WW II in Color, Parts 1 & 2 |
| Infamy (1919-1942) & Battlefronts (1942-1944) |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, Military History Relying exclusively on color film footage, with no still photographs, black and white film or interviews, this is a unique and telling look at the way Americans faced history’s greatest armed confli... |
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| Perilous Fight: America's WW II in Color, Parts 3 & 4 |
| Wrath (D-Day - VE Day) & Triumph (The Pacific, 1943-1945) |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, Military History Part 3: Covers the months from June 1944 to May 1945. Scenes include seizure of a German U-boat; the Allied assault on Normandy; liberation of Paris; the first Jewish Sabbath service at liberated Dach... |
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| The Sixties: The Years That Shaped the Generation |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century Traces the events of one of the most turbulent and influential periods of political and cultural change in the 20th century and the powerful impact forced on an entire generation. |
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| Terry Sanford & The New South |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century By February of 1960, Terry Sanford had been working for the better part of a decade to win the governorship of North Carolina. But when four young black men sat down at a Woolworth counter in the city... |
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| Time of Fear |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, Social & Legal Issues In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas,... |
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| Truth, War, and Consequences |
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Series: Frontline Subject: American History: 20th Century, Military History Did America rush into a war in Iraq for which it was unprepared? Could the current volatility in Iraq have been prevented? And was the White House's rationale for war based on faulty and exaggerated i... |
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| Two Days in October |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century In October 1967, history turned a corner. In a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable. On... |
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| War Letters |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History: 20th Century, Military History Based on newly discovered personal correspondence from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War, War Letters brings to life vivid eyewitness accounts of famous battles, intimate declarations of love and ... |
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| Watergate Plus 30 |
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Subject: American History: 20th Century, Government, Politics, & Politicians What lessons has America learned from Watergate? Three decades after an infamous break-in helped topple President Richard Nixon, all the facts are still not in. But as this documentary shows, Watergat... |
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