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Adelante (Forward)
directed by Noam Osband, fl. 2012-2014; produced by Noam Osband, fl. 2012-2014 (Noam Osband, 2014), 50 mins
Adelante showcases an Irish Catholic church on the outskirts of Philadelphia that is attracting the patronage of Mexican immigrants in the area. With a personal glimpse at the lives of the vibrant community members - a remarkable Irish American priest, young Mexican immigrants, and older Irish parishioners - the...
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directed by Noam Osband, fl. 2012-2014; produced by Noam Osband, fl. 2012-2014 (Noam Osband, 2014), 50 mins
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Adelante showcases an Irish Catholic church on the outskirts of Philadelphia that is attracting the patronage of Mexican immigrants in the area. With a personal glimpse at the lives of the vibrant community members - a remarkable Irish American priest, young Mexican immigrants, and older Irish parishioners - the film shows how churchgoers from various backgrounds have forged meaningful and heartfelt bonds of friendship and understanding. Once m...
Adelante showcases an Irish Catholic church on the outskirts of Philadelphia that is attracting the patronage of Mexican immigrants in the area. With a personal glimpse at the lives of the vibrant community members - a remarkable Irish American priest, young Mexican immigrants, and older Irish parishioners - the film shows how churchgoers from various backgrounds have forged meaningful and heartfelt bonds of friendship and understanding. Once moribund, the church has become a place for American parishioners to learn about, accept, and embrace a group of immigrants that breathes new life into the community. The film shares the expectant joy of the newly arrived families as they establish lives in an unfamiliar, often bewildering country that offers opportunities entangled with sometimes painful compromises. At its core, Adelante is a celebration of two groups' growth and an embrace of their evolving community.
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World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Noam Osband, fl. 2012-2014
Author / Creator
Noam Osband, fl. 2012-2014
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Noam Osband
Topic / Theme
Mexican people, Demographics, Neighborhoods, Religious beliefs, Immigrant populations, Migration and Diaspora, African Americans, Turkish, Armenians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 by Noam Osband
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Bronwen & Yaffa (Moving Towards Tolerance)
directed by Peter d'Entremont, fl. 1980; produced by Michael Mahoney, National Film Board of Canada (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1996), 27 mins
Against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music, two extraordinary young women from Halifax create change at the grassroots level by organizing benefit rock concerts to raise money for Eastcoast Against Racism (E.A.R.). Bronwen and Yaffa have both experienced racism in their own lives and are determined to make...
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directed by Peter d'Entremont, fl. 1980; produced by Michael Mahoney, National Film Board of Canada (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1996), 27 mins
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Against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music, two extraordinary young women from Halifax create change at the grassroots level by organizing benefit rock concerts to raise money for Eastcoast Against Racism (E.A.R.). Bronwen and Yaffa have both experienced racism in their own lives and are determined to make a difference. Their message is simple to those who promote racism and those who struggle against it: 'The world is getting way out of...
Against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music, two extraordinary young women from Halifax create change at the grassroots level by organizing benefit rock concerts to raise money for Eastcoast Against Racism (E.A.R.). Bronwen and Yaffa have both experienced racism in their own lives and are determined to make a difference. Their message is simple to those who promote racism and those who struggle against it: 'The world is getting way out of control. We don't have to live this way. We can change it.' Together they reach out to local bands to help raise money for E.A.R., knowing that the universal language of music will speak out to, and help unite, the community. At the same time, they struggle to renew their friendship with Scott, a former, Ku Klux Klan member; he's trying to reform but he admits that there is still conflict within him. He talks about how the Klan provided him with a sense of belonging and how that can be tempting to many young people. His experience is further encouragement for the two young activists to continue to fight against racism and to practice the tolerance that they preach. As Yaffa tells Scott, 'If we don't accept you back, there's no motivation for you to leave the Klan.' Bronwen & Yaffa (Moving Towards Tolerance) chronicles the efforts of these two determined young women as they successfully rally against racism: booking a variety of bands, putting up posters, writing an information booklet, organizing a writing contest so that young people can speak their minds, talking to people in the streets, and even encouraging Scott to speak at the concert. After the show, they realize that, even though the battle is huge, 'It is possible to get your message across and people do listen...and that's worth everything!'
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Michael Mahoney, National Film Board of Canada, Joanne Napier, fl. 1996
Author / Creator
Peter d'Entremont, fl. 1980
Date Published / Released
1996
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Speaker / Narrator
Joanne Napier, fl. 1996
Topic / Theme
Religious differences, Physical differences, Racism, Race and Gender, Humanities
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1996 by the National Film Board of Canada
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The Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians and the Holocaust
directed by John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995; produced by John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995 (New York, NY: First Run Features, 1992), 53 mins
The Cross and the Star finds disheartening echoes of anti-Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors -- all of which may have helped sow the ideological seeds that develop...
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directed by John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995; produced by John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995 (New York, NY: First Run Features, 1992), 53 mins
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The Cross and the Star finds disheartening echoes of anti-Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors -- all of which may have helped sow the ideological seeds that developed into Nazism.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995, Chris Clausen
Author / Creator
John J. Michalczyk, fl. 1995
Date Published / Released
1992
Publisher
First Run Features
Speaker / Narrator
Chris Clausen
Topic / Theme
Internment camps, Antisemitism, War crimes, Jewish people, Judaism, Churches, Christianity, Holocaust, 1939-1945, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, Indians (Asian), Maasai, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of First Run Features.
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Fading Traces
directed by Walo Deuber; produced by Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 1998), 1 hour 7 mins
The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces a...
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directed by Walo Deuber; produced by Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 1998), 1 hour 7 mins
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The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces artfully weaves the words of writers such as Rose Auslander, Isaak Babel, Martin Buber, David Kahane, as well as others, with the accoun...
The western Ukraine was once home to the largest Jewish community that ever existed. Five million Jews living there had a rich culture, with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish theater. All this disappeared with the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the tragic events of the Holocaust. Fading Traces artfully weaves the words of writers such as Rose Auslander, Isaak Babel, Martin Buber, David Kahane, as well as others, with the accounts and experiences of those still living. The film seeks out the traces of this lost world and brings it to life. Since the opening of the Soviet Union, this historic land is once more accessible. Fertile countryside, ancient tombstones, austere synagogues, train stations, markets, cobble stone streets - the fabric of daily life, as well as the dark forbidding sites of mass graveyards. Here is a past that is all but wiped out, except when excavated deftly and respectfully in Fading Traces. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Rose Marie Schneider, Doc Productions
Author / Creator
Walo Deuber
Date Published / Released
1998, 2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Antisemitism, Internment camps, Jewish people, Massacres, Military occupation, Property destruction, War crimes, Religion, World War II, 1939-1945, Soviet Union, 1922-1991, Family and Culture, Race and Gender, Religion and Belief Systems, War and Violence, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2001. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Finding Kalman
directed by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman; produced by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2010), 27 mins
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried...
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directed by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman; produced by Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000 and Laurie Weisman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2010), 27 mins
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How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her.
Her daughter Roz, an artist, devours the stories and paints his portrait over and over again. A...
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her.
Her daughter Roz, an artist, devours the stories and paints his portrait over and over again. As Kalman's face emerges on canvas, the film travels back and forth in time from archival Warsaw ghetto footage to summers in a Catskills bungalow colony, from vibrant family life before World War II to today.
Four generations grapple differently with their shared history. In spite of parental attempts to shield their children from the horrors, Roz grew up entangled in her mother’s pain. Maya, an Israeli-born granddaughter, expresses her life’s passion by playing the viola. Performing with Arab and Israeli youth, she questions why there has to be war when she finds natural ease in making music with someone she’s told should be her enemy. Maya performs the original music composed for the film. Eleven-year-old great-grandson Roy wonders with concern how the members of his generation will understand the Holocaust when it seems like just another story. Anna, a survivor, lives with her pain, while never losing her commitment to living life to the fullest.
As the loving family that grew from two survivors celebrates together, the film shows how four generations find light even in the darkest of places—with a resiliency that moves viewers to do the same.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000, Laurie Weisman
Author / Creator
Roz Jacobs, fl. 2000, Laurie Weisman
Date Published / Released
2010, 2011
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Fine arts, Blessings, Brothers, War casualties, Family separation, Inner city ghettos, Grandparents, Memories, Paintings, Photography, Portraits, Refugees, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 by The Memory Project Productions, Inc.
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From Auschwitz to Jerusalem
directed by Michel Mees; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011, Serge Decleer and Daniel Parmentier (Brussels, Bruxelles Region: Les Films de la Mémoire, 1998, originally published 1998), 51 mins
This documentary, directed by Michel Mees, is about Jewish children during World War II who were hidden away, converted to Catholicism, and later went on to search for their lost Jewish identity.
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directed by Michel Mees; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011, Serge Decleer and Daniel Parmentier (Brussels, Bruxelles Region: Les Films de la Mémoire, 1998, originally published 1998), 51 mins
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This documentary, directed by Michel Mees, is about Jewish children during World War II who were hidden away, converted to Catholicism, and later went on to search for their lost Jewish identity.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011, Serge Decleer, Daniel Parmentier
Author / Creator
Michel Mees
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
Les Films de la Mémoire
Topic / Theme
Religious conversions, Children, Cultural identity, Education, Family separation, Jewish people, Orphans, Refugees, Religious faiths, Religious practices, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, Religion and Belief Systems, World History, Cubans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1998 by Les Films de la Mémoire
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Hatred
directed by Mitzi Goldman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 1 hour 18 mins
This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker'...
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directed by Mitzi Goldman (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 1 hour 18 mins
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This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first tim...
This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father's reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to New York the filmmaker found increasing tension between blacks and Jews. Calvin Butts, Pastor of the Abysinnian Baptist Church, talks about the history of discrimination faced by American blacks. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton feels that groups chose a designated victim to scapegoat in order to assert their own identity. Others interviewed are Michele Wallace, author; jazz musician Milt Hinton; Akbar Ahmed, academic and author; and Prof. Yehuda Bauer of Hebrew University. Traveling to Egypt and Israel, the filmmaker constantly asks people who and what they hate. In this explosive part of the world, no one ever admits to hating anyone. Yet their deeply felt passions of nationalism, religion and race belie this denial. The filmmaker concludes 'it is easier to hate another than to see hatred in yourself.' College Adult
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Mitzi Goldman
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Ethnic groups, Race and culture, Religion, Ethnic Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1997. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Islam & America: Through the Eyes of Imran Khan
produced by Journeyman Pictures (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 27 mins
Why do so many Muslims hate the United States? What has America done to alienate so many people in the Muslim world? Imran Khan, a Pakistani celebrity cricket player turned politician, tries to answer these questions in this provocative documentary filmed in locations throughout Pakistan. He examines the political...
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produced by Journeyman Pictures (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 27 mins
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Why do so many Muslims hate the United States? What has America done to alienate so many people in the Muslim world? Imran Khan, a Pakistani celebrity cricket player turned politician, tries to answer these questions in this provocative documentary filmed in locations throughout Pakistan. He examines the political, social and economic causes of the schism between the Islamic world and the West. The film takes us to Islamabad's Women's College, wh...
Why do so many Muslims hate the United States? What has America done to alienate so many people in the Muslim world? Imran Khan, a Pakistani celebrity cricket player turned politician, tries to answer these questions in this provocative documentary filmed in locations throughout Pakistan. He examines the political, social and economic causes of the schism between the Islamic world and the West. The film takes us to Islamabad's Women's College, where the students are mainly from privileged, middle class backgrounds. But even here, the underlying feeling is that the United States only cares or acts when its own people are at risk and that many American policies are determined on racial grounds against "black or brown people". In Peshawar, anti-war demonstrators believe that the war on Afghanistan following September 11th, was not justified because the West did not provide proof of the Taliban's culpability. In this part of the world, the spectre of the IMF looms large. Khan notes that as the services provided by the Pakistani government diminish under the pressure of its debts, the vacuum created has been filled by others. The poor turn to religious schools, often breeding grounds for a more intolerant version of Islam. Unsurprisingly, their influence is strongest where poverty is most pronounced. This fascinating and highly resonant report goes a long way towards explaining the problematic nature of the relationship between Islam and the West. It is a schism that developed long before the bombing of Afghanistan, and is likely to take even longer to heal. College Adult
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Journeyman Pictures
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
International relations, Politics, Religion, Humanities
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2002. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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A Jewish Journey
directed by David Charap (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2001), 59 mins
This film focuses on a group from a Jewish congregation in New Jersey who journey to eastern Europe in search of their Jewish past. No one expected a light-hearted vacation, but each felt it was important to make this connection to their Jewish heritage. Trips such as theirs have become big business in Czechoslova...
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directed by David Charap (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2001), 59 mins
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This film focuses on a group from a Jewish congregation in New Jersey who journey to eastern Europe in search of their Jewish past. No one expected a light-hearted vacation, but each felt it was important to make this connection to their Jewish heritage. Trips such as theirs have become big business in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Tour guides, travel agents, hotels, souvenir vendors and the like are profiting from the interest in the Holoc...
This film focuses on a group from a Jewish congregation in New Jersey who journey to eastern Europe in search of their Jewish past. No one expected a light-hearted vacation, but each felt it was important to make this connection to their Jewish heritage. Trips such as theirs have become big business in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Tour guides, travel agents, hotels, souvenir vendors and the like are profiting from the interest in the Holocaust. Even "Schindler's List tours" are proliferating. Yet despite such commercialism, this pilgrimage was deeply meaningful for the group we follow. As they visit the Old Jewish Cemetery, the ghetto of Terezin, the Tahani Synagogue in Budapest, and the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau - the impact is more searing than they anticipated. Many come away with a deeper commitment to the state of Israel and to their own identity as Jews. College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
David Charap
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Cultural identity, International travel, Internment camps, Jewish people, Museums, Synagogues, Tourist attractions, Travelers, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, Religion and Belief Systems, World History, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2001. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Ken Burns America Collection, The Shakers
directed by Ken Burns, 1953-; produced by Ken Burns, 1953- and Amy Stechler, fl. 1981, Florentine Films, in Ken Burns America Collection (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1985), 1 hour
They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. Though they were celibate, they are the most enduring religious experiment in American history. They believed in pacifism, natural health and hygiene, and for m...
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directed by Ken Burns, 1953-; produced by Ken Burns, 1953- and Amy Stechler, fl. 1981, Florentine Films, in Ken Burns America Collection (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1985), 1 hour
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They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. Though they were celibate, they are the most enduring religious experiment in American history. They believed in pacifism, natural health and hygiene, and for more than 200 years insisted that their followers should strive for simplicity and perfection in everything they did. The Shakers put th...
They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. Though they were celibate, they are the most enduring religious experiment in American history. They believed in pacifism, natural health and hygiene, and for more than 200 years insisted that their followers should strive for simplicity and perfection in everything they did. The Shakers put their 'hands to work and their hearts to God,' creating an exquisite legacy of fine furniture, glorious architecture and beautiful music that will remain and inspire long after the last Shaker is gone.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ken Burns, 1953-, Amy Stechler, fl. 1981, Florentine Films, David McCullough, 1933-
Author / Creator
Ken Burns, 1953-
Date Published / Released
1985
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Ken Burns America Collection
Speaker / Narrator
David McCullough, 1933-
Topic / Theme
Religion, Religious beliefs, Religious communities, Religion and Belief Systems
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1985 by Public Broadcasting Service
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