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The End Of The Woolen Mills
directed by David Hoffman, fl. 2012 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2013), 8 mins
This documentary, directed by David Hoffman, discusses the end of the woolen mills, the mills that produced wool, in Camden, Maine.
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directed by David Hoffman, fl. 2012 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2013), 8 mins
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This documentary, directed by David Hoffman, discusses the end of the woolen mills, the mills that produced wool, in Camden, Maine.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
David Hoffman, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Topic / Theme
Industrial occupations, Industry
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Copyright © 2013. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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Forefathers of Liberty
in Prelinger Collection, of United States. Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Collection; produced by Stan Barnett Productions (Stan Barnett Productions, 1999), 9 mins
This documentary features commercial fishing and the daily life of Portuguese people.
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in Prelinger Collection, of United States. Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Collection; produced by Stan Barnett Productions (Stan Barnett Productions, 1999), 9 mins
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This documentary features commercial fishing and the daily life of Portuguese people.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stan Barnett Productions, Irving Deakin
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
Stan Barnett Productions
Speaker / Narrator
Irving Deakin
Topic / Theme
Fisheries, Daily life, Portuguese people, American History, Post-war Era (1945–1960), Portuguese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Frontline: An Eyewitness Account Of the Vietnam War
directed by David Bradbury, 1951- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1980), 58 mins
This Academy Award- nominee is a must for all courses dealing with the Vietnam War and its divisive effect on the American people. Its focus is Neil Davis, a news cameraman whose famous combat footage was shown all over the world. As an Australian, he perceived the war from a different perspective than any America...
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directed by David Bradbury, 1951- (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1980), 58 mins
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This Academy Award- nominee is a must for all courses dealing with the Vietnam War and its divisive effect on the American people. Its focus is Neil Davis, a news cameraman whose famous combat footage was shown all over the world. As an Australian, he perceived the war from a different perspective than any American journalist. Davis formed a deep attachment to the Vietnamese troops and was even allowed to cross enemy lines. He was the only Wester...
This Academy Award- nominee is a must for all courses dealing with the Vietnam War and its divisive effect on the American people. Its focus is Neil Davis, a news cameraman whose famous combat footage was shown all over the world. As an Australian, he perceived the war from a different perspective than any American journalist. Davis formed a deep attachment to the Vietnamese troops and was even allowed to cross enemy lines. He was the only Western journalist to film the fall of Saigon. His insights into the many ironies of this war will allow younger audiences to understand its complexities and its horrors. College Adult
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Richard Oxenburgh, fl. 1969-1982
Author / Creator
David Bradbury, 1951-
Date Published / Released
1980
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Richard Oxenburgh, fl. 1969-1982
Person Discussed
Neil Davis, 1934-1985
Topic / Theme
Film industry, Journalists, Vietnamese people, War, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, American History, The Sixties (1960–1974), Vietnamese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1980. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada, 2, Nova Scotia
produced by Almeta Speaks, 1935-, in Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada, 2 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1998), 57 mins
The population of Nova Scotia ebbed and flowed from the major wars that shaped Canada and the United States. The Jones family experienced slavery and segregation since southerners from the United States had settled in Nova Scotia. Member of a series: Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada.
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produced by Almeta Speaks, 1935-, in Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada, 2 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1998), 57 mins
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The population of Nova Scotia ebbed and flowed from the major wars that shaped Canada and the United States. The Jones family experienced slavery and segregation since southerners from the United States had settled in Nova Scotia. Member of a series: Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada. High School College Adult
Field of Study
The American Civil War
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Almeta Speaks, 1935-
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Series
Hymn to Freedom: The History of Blacks in Canada
Topic / Theme
Communities, Family, Racism, Slave trade, American History, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Early National Era (1790–1828), Colonial Era (1650–1765), Early Modern Period (1450–1750), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Ken Burns's Jazz, 2, The Gift
written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Ken Burns, 1953-; produced by Ken Burns, 1953-, in Ken Burns's Jazz, 2 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2000), 1 hour 50 mins
Speakeasies, flappers, and easy money - it's the Jazz Age, when the story of jazz becomes a tale of two great cities, Chicago and New York, and of two extraordinary artists whose lives and music will span almost three-quarters of a century - Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Armstrong, a fatherless waif who grew...
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written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Ken Burns, 1953-; produced by Ken Burns, 1953-, in Ken Burns's Jazz, 2 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2000), 1 hour 50 mins
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Speakeasies, flappers, and easy money - it's the Jazz Age, when the story of jazz becomes a tale of two great cities, Chicago and New York, and of two extraordinary artists whose lives and music will span almost three-quarters of a century - Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Armstrong, a fatherless waif who grew up on the mean streets of New Orleans, develops his great 'gift' - his unparalleled musical genius - with the help of King Oliver, the...
Speakeasies, flappers, and easy money - it's the Jazz Age, when the story of jazz becomes a tale of two great cities, Chicago and New York, and of two extraordinary artists whose lives and music will span almost three-quarters of a century - Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Armstrong, a fatherless waif who grew up on the mean streets of New Orleans, develops his great 'gift' - his unparalleled musical genius - with the help of King Oliver, the city's top cornetist, and in 1922, follows him to Chicago, where Armstrong's transcendent sound and exhilarating rhythms inspire a new generation of musicians, white and black, to join the world of jazz. Meanwhile, Ellington, raised in middle-class comfort by parents who told him he was 'blessed,' outgrows the society music he learned to play in Washington, D.C., and heads for Harlem. There he absorbs the stride piano rhythms of Willie 'The Lion' Smith and forms a band to create a music all his own - hot, blues-drenched, and infused with the gutbucket growls of his new trumpet player, Bubber Miley. As the Roaring Twenties accelerate, Paul Whiteman, a white bandleader, sells millions of records playing a sweet, symphonic jazz, while Fletcher Henderson, a black bandleader, packs the dance floor at the whites-only Roseland Ballroom with his innovative big band arrangements. Then, in 1924, the year Whiteman introduces George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Henderson brings Louis Armstrong to New York, adding his improvisational brilliance to the band's new sound - and soon Armstrong is showing the whole world how to swing.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ken Burns, 1953-, Keith David, 1956-
Author / Creator
Ken Burns, 1953-
Date Published / Released
2000
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Ken Burns's Jazz
Speaker / Narrator
Keith David, 1956-
Person Discussed
Louis Armstrong, 1901-1971, Duke Ellington, 1899-1974, Joe Oliver, 1885-1938
Topic / Theme
African-Americans, Bars and saloons, Jazz music, Musicians, Urban life, Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933, World War I, 1914-1918, American History, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright 2000, The Jazz Film Project, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Ken Burns's The West, 3, The Speck of the Future
written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, in Ken Burns's The West, 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1996), 1 hour 26 mins
By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into...
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written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, in Ken Burns's The West, 3 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1996), 1 hour 26 mins
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By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into its forbidding interior. It still seemed too distant, too mysterious, too dangerous. Then gold was discovered in California, and every...
By 1848, the United States claimed virtually all of the West. The Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people east of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into its forbidding interior. It still seemed too distant, too mysterious, too dangerous. Then gold was discovered in California, and everything changed -- for the West, and for the country. Suddenly, gold-seekers rushed in from every corner of the globe: Chinese peasants, pursuing tales of a 'gold mountain' across the ocean, Mexican farmers and clerks from London, tailors from Eastern Europe and South American aristocrats fallen on hard times. The thin stream of American emigrants crossing the continent became a torrent -- thousands upon thousands of optimistic but inexperienced prospectors, willing to leave their homes and families, and set out on the long trail for California, hoping to strike it rich and return in glory. It had taken half a century for the United States to encompass the vast spaces of the West. Now, the lust for gold would animate the nation to begin to fill them up.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, Peter Coyote, 1941-
Author / Creator
Ken Burns, 1953-, Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017
Date Published / Released
1996
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Ken Burns's The West
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Coyote, 1941-
Person Discussed
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, 1808-1890, William Swain, 1822-
Topic / Theme
American Indians, Chinese people, Gold, Gold mines and mining, Migration, Miners, Mining communities, Mining industry, Mining towns, Pioneers, Sioux people, California Gold Rush, 1849, American History, Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Chinese, Dakota, Russians, Ukrainians, Rusyn, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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© 1996 The West Film Project, Inc./Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
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Ken Burns's The West, 8, Ghost Dance
written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, in Ken Burns's The West, 8 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1996), 1 hour
This documentary by Stephen Ives examines the Ghost Dance movement in the American West.
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written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, in Ken Burns's The West, 8 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1996), 1 hour
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This documentary by Stephen Ives examines the Ghost Dance movement in the American West.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017, Peter Coyote, 1941-
Author / Creator
Ken Burns, 1953-, Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017
Date Published / Released
1996
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
Ken Burns's The West
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Coyote, 1941-
Person Discussed
Alice Cunningham Fletcher, 1838-1923, Sitting Bull, 1831-1890, Wovoka, 1858-1932
Topic / Theme
American Indians, Frontier and pioneer life, Migration, Mining industry, Pioneers, Romantic relationships, Sioux people, Dawes Act Divides Indian Tribal Land into Individual Allotments, February 8, 1887, Ghost Dance Movement, 1889-1890, Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889, Sitting Bull, Killed, Standing Rock Reservation, SD, 1890, Wounded Knee Massacre, SD, December 29, 1890, American History, The...
American Indians, Frontier and pioneer life, Migration, Mining industry, Pioneers, Romantic relationships, Sioux people, Dawes Act Divides Indian Tribal Land into Individual Allotments, February 8, 1887, Ghost Dance Movement, 1889-1890, Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889, Sitting Bull, Killed, Standing Rock Reservation, SD, 1890, Wounded Knee Massacre, SD, December 29, 1890, American History, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Dakota, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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© 1996 The West Film Project, Inc./Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
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Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story
directed by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013; produced by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2009), 57 mins
This well-researched film celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Cooper, the remarkable 19th century inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Cooper had a rare combination of mechanical skills and entrepreneurship. Beginning work in a glue factory, Cooper developed the household uses of gelatin (Jello) and fas...
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directed by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013; produced by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2009), 57 mins
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This well-researched film celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Cooper, the remarkable 19th century inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Cooper had a rare combination of mechanical skills and entrepreneurship. Beginning work in a glue factory, Cooper developed the household uses of gelatin (Jello) and fashioned the iron I-beam from railroad rails, which enabled multistoried building construction. In 1828 he founded the Canton Iron Works...
This well-researched film celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Cooper, the remarkable 19th century inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Cooper had a rare combination of mechanical skills and entrepreneurship. Beginning work in a glue factory, Cooper developed the household uses of gelatin (Jello) and fashioned the iron I-beam from railroad rails, which enabled multistoried building construction. In 1828 he founded the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore which made his fortune. A champion of 20th century communication, he helped fund the first transatlantic telegraph cable and built the first American steam locomotive named "Tom Thumb." When business success brought wealth, Cooper used it to foster social justice. He founded The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1859, realizing his dream of free education for working people, regardless of ethnicity or gender. The college empowered thousands of women, a radical notion for the mid-19th century. The Great Hall in Cooper Union provided a platform for most major social movements of the 19th Century, most importantly, Abraham Lincoln's speech that won him his party's nomination for president in 1865. The early feminist leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony also spoke there. High School College Adult
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013, Robert O'Gorman
Author / Creator
Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Robert O'Gorman
Person Discussed
Peter Cooper, 1791-1883
Topic / Theme
Colleges and universities, Industry, Inventions, Philanthropy, Transatlantic Cable Completed, August 16, 1858, American History, Reconstruction (1866–1876), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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The Rouge: The Factory and the Workers
produced by Kingberry Productions and WDIV-TV (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1998), 47 mins
When it was built in 1918, the Ford motor plant in Detroit was the largest industrial complex in the world. The plant was the embodiment of Henry Ford's vision to build cars that every American working man could afford to buy. Using old footage, The Rouge captures the flavor of the early part of the century when t...
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produced by Kingberry Productions and WDIV-TV (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1998), 47 mins
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When it was built in 1918, the Ford motor plant in Detroit was the largest industrial complex in the world. The plant was the embodiment of Henry Ford's vision to build cars that every American working man could afford to buy. Using old footage, The Rouge captures the flavor of the early part of the century when thousands of workers flocked to Detroit in search of a better life. They came from Europe, from Mexico, and the southern United States t...
When it was built in 1918, the Ford motor plant in Detroit was the largest industrial complex in the world. The plant was the embodiment of Henry Ford's vision to build cars that every American working man could afford to buy. Using old footage, The Rouge captures the flavor of the early part of the century when thousands of workers flocked to Detroit in search of a better life. They came from Europe, from Mexico, and the southern United States to work on the assembly line.The Rouge became an important part of labor history from the time it was built until the time it was organized by the United Auto Workers in 1941. When the Depression hit the country, the Rouge workers were laid off and suffered in great numbers. At the height of the depression, five workers were killed outside of the plant's gates while participating in a hunger march. In another labor incident, Walter Reuther and other United Auto Workers organizers were beaten up by Ford's security guard in an incident known as the Battle of the Overpass. Through archival footage and first-hand accounts by the Italian, Ukranian, Mexican, African American and Irish who spent their lives in the factory, the struggle of the workers is made vivid for a new generation. High School College Adult
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Kingberry Productions, WDIV-TV
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Person Discussed
Henry Ford, 1863-1947
Topic / Theme
Automobile manufacturing, Labor and unions, American History, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1998. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Shackles of Memory: The Atlantic Slave Trade
directed by Michel Moreau and Jean-Marc Masseaut (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996, originally published 1994), 55 mins
From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New Wor...
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directed by Michel Moreau and Jean-Marc Masseaut (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1996, originally published 1994), 55 mins
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From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New World. Africans were deported by the millions, not only by the French, but by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English, starting as earl...
From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New World. Africans were deported by the millions, not only by the French, but by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English, starting as early as the 15th century. In this important historical film, the grim details of the slave trade are made real for a modern audience. Paintings, documents and artifacts recount the immensely profitable trade that enriched the great port cities of Europe as it decimated the African people. None of the tropical colonies would have prospered had it not been for merciless use of slave labor. Without resorting to polemics, The Shackles of Memory evokes a chilling reality that reverberates today. College Adult
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Field of Study
The American Civil War
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Michel Moreau, Jean-Marc Masseaut
Date Published / Released
1994, 1996
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Plantation life, Slave trade, Slavery, Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804, American History, Revolutionary Era (1765–1789), Early National Era (1790–1828), Colonial Era (1650–1765), Early Modern Period (1450–1750), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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