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60 Minutes, To Be Continued

produced by Joel Bernstein, fl. 2003-2015, Columbia Broadcasting System; interview by Bob Simon, 1941-2015, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2000), 12 mins

Children on the frontlines in The Middle East. When 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durah was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers as he lay cradled in his father's arms, the entire world was appalled. As 60 Minutes Correspondent Bob Simon found out, there are no signs that it's about to stop.

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1945: The Year That Changed the World, 1, The Beginning of the End

directed by Paul Oremland, in 1945: The Year That Changed the World, 1 (Falls Church, VA: Landmark Media, 2004, originally published 2004), 47 mins

As the Allied armies swarm into the collapsing Third Reich, the disagreements of Roosevelt and Churchill allow Stalin to gain effective control of Eastern Europe. The British military favors a sweep through the north of Germany to take Berlin. But Eisenhower opts instead to leave that region to the Red Army. The A...

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1945: The Year That Changed the World, 2, The End of the Dictators

directed by Paul Oremland, in 1945: The Year That Changed the World, 2 (Falls Church, VA: Landmark Media, 2004, originally published 2004), 46 mins

The horrors of the death camps are exposed to the world with prisoners' liberation by the Allies; the loss of human lives in the forced marches, and in the flight in the east from the Russian steamroller is enormous. Political maneuvering among the Big Three began in earnest as they sought to segregate Europe's na...