| A Future Reborn: 1918-1945 |
During the 20th century,
post-World War I prosperity gave way to massive droughts, the Great
Depression, and the Second World War. This program describes how the U.S.
went from boom to bust and the ensuing political and economic adversities
that followed, by focusing on several families who lived through those
years: the Manoffs, Russian immigrants who settled in New York City; the
Blankenships and the Wolfords, who survived the Oklahoma Dust Bowl by
migrating to California; Malta-born Joe Mifsud and Georgia sharecropper
Dave Moore, who found their separate ways to Detroit to work at and later
reform the mighty Ford Motor Company; and the Peabodys, direct descendents
of the original New England colonists. From this kaleidoscope of personal
stories, the variety of experiences during this era reveals an America
that did not always live up to its promise of peace and prosperity. Not
available in French-speaking Canada. A Discovery Channel Production. (50
minutes, color) (C)1998 |
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| A Southern Town: 40 Years in Jackson,
Mississippi |
In this program, black and white
civil rights activists from Jackson, Mississippi, reunite at Tougaloo
Chapel to discuss the changes in race relations brought about over four
decades. Archival footage sets the scene as the Reverend Ed King, SNCC’s
Bob Moses, and others share, for the first time on film, exclusive
personal accounts of the bloody Woolworth sit-in, the murder of Medgar
Evers, the Freedom Summer Project, the revocation of TV station WLBT’s
broadcasting license, and other pivotal events. They lived the struggle in
the ’60s, and it lives in them today. A powerful addition to any library
of civil rights materials. A Discovery Channel Production. (46 minutes,
color) (C)2003 |
VHS33280
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| American Stories: The American Dream |
America has been a land of hope
for millions of immigrants, in good times and bad. This five-part series,
produced by Atlantic Productions and narrated by Peter Fonda, follows the
fortunes of ten families over three generations in their quest for the
"American Dream." By setting personal experiences in a
historical context, these programs create a dramatic and controversial
account of life in the U.S. between the end of World War I and the Clinton
administration. Not available in French-speaking Canada. A Discovery
Channel Production. 5-part series, 50 minutes each. The Series Includes:
A Future Reborn: 1918 - 1945 Great Expectations: 1946 - Late
1950s Tears of Rage: Late 1950s - Mid-1970s The
Bottom Line: Mid-1970s - 1980 Never Give Up: 1980s - Early
1990s (C)1998 |
VHS8647
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| Ancient Warriors: The Sioux |
Forced onto the sprawling
prairies by woodland tribes in the east, the Sioux Indians did more than
adapt: they ousted rival tribes, seized the best hunting grounds, and
became known as fearsome fighters. Using photographs, daguerreotypes,
reenactments, and scholarly commentary, this program homes in on the
training and tactics of the Sioux warriors, tracing the history of the
tribes up to the massacre at Wounded Knee, which ended the Sioux nation. A
Discovery Channel Production. (23 minutes, color) (C)1995 |
VHS33103
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| Attack on the Pentagon |
The 9/11 terrorist attack on the
Pentagon—a self-contained community of some 23,000 military and civilian
workers—was a direct strike at the heart of America’s armed forces.
Using extensive footage of the tragic event, this program takes a deeply
moving look at the effects of the attack and its aftermath through the
first-person accounts of Brigadier General Montague Winfield, of the
National Military Command Center; John Jester, of the Pentagon Force
Protection Agency; first responders; search-and-rescue personnel; and
others who were on the scene. In addition, interviews and lengthy
counseling sessions involving survivors provide a window into the minds of
those who, in an instant, lost colleagues and family members on the ground
and on Flight 77. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes, color)
(C)2002 |
VHS33273
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| Battle of the Alamo |
"The doomed garrison has
stood its ground… Now, alone, they face the inevitable hour and rush
headlong into the crucible of history." This program—narrated by
Hal Holbrook and filmed in part at the Alamo itself—travels back in time
to the pivotal winter of 1836, when William Travis, Davy Crockett, Jim
Bowie, and fewer than 200 Texians, as they called themselves, were engaged
by the forces of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. The 13-day siege
and the climactic battle, which lasted less than an hour, are thoroughly
examined. Reenactments based on original journal entries bring the epic
confrontation to life. A Discovery Channel Production. (55 minutes, color)
(C)1995 |
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| Commander in Chief Series |
What is it like to control the
mightiest military power in the world? This 3-part series presents the
dramatic stories of American presidents in times of crisis, taking viewers
inside the Oval Office and the war room. The videos use internal White
House documents, personal diaries, archival footage, and interviews with
advisers to show how each President made his crucial decisions. A
Discovery Channel Production. 3-part series, 52 minutes each.
The Series Includes:
Commander in Chief: Nixon Commander in Chief: Bush
Commander in Chief: Clinton |
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| Commander in Chief: Bush |
When President H. George Bush set
in motion Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, he was confronting
not only a dictator’s aggression but the ghosts of Vietnam. This program
examines the decision-making process former President Bush used in
conducting the Gulf War. Readings from his journal entries reveal the
commander in chief’s hopes and fears over sending Americans to fight the
fourth-largest army in the world. Former Secretary of State, James Baker,
III; former Secretary of Defense, Richard B. Cheney; former White House
chief of staff, John Sununu; and others provide insightful commentary. A
Discovery Channel Production. (52 minutes, color) (C)2000 |
VHS29080
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| Commander in Chief: Clinton |
Elected to fix the economy,
President Clinton sent troops to more global hot spots than any commander
in chief in the past fifty years—from Somalia to Iraq to Haiti to the
Balkans. This program goes behind the events and press conferences to
examine how a leader made fateful decisions. Clinton’s commitment to
send peacekeeping troops to Bosnia, for example, when over 70 percent of
the American public opposed it shows the difficulty of those choices.
Archival footage and readings from the President’s diary complement
interviews with former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Richard C. Holbrooke;
former Secretary of State, Lawrence S. Eagleburger; and Leon E. Panetta,
Former White House chief of staff. A Discovery Channel Production. (52
minutes, color) (C)2000 |
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| Commander in Chief: Nixon |
President Richard Nixon was the
first commander in chief elected to stop a war; to secure an honorable
peace, he used brute force: a massive secret bombing campaign that brought
Hanoi to the negotiating table. This program goes inside the moments of
decision, the meetings and the memoranda that shaped Nixon’s approach to
ending the war. Along with newsreel footage, letters, and Nixon’s own
journal entries, the video contains interviews with former Secretary of
Defense, Melvin Laird; journalist Bob Woodward; and former U.S. Secretary
of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger. A Discovery Channel Production. (52
minutes, color) (C)2000 |
VHS29079
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| DEFCON 2: The Cuban Missile Crisis |
As Kennedy and Khrushchev squared
off over the issue of offensive missiles in the Western hemisphere, the
full strength of the U.S. Strategic Air Command was placed on DEFCON
2—the highest level of military readiness short of all-out war. This
riveting program, hosted by Tom Clancy and shot on location in the U.S.,
the former Soviet Union, and Castro’s Cuba, scrutinizes the events of
the Cuban Missile Crisis. Eyewitness testimony and expert analysis by key
participants, reinforced by recently declassified audio tapes of secret
meetings with JFK, previously secret film and photos, and powerful
dramatizations, shed new light on a time when the fate of the world truly
hung in the balance. A Discovery Channel Production. (52 minutes, color)
(C)2002 |
VHS31400
DVD31400 |
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| Famine to Freedom: The Irish Journey |
In this program, an
archaeological dig in Ireland and a genealogical investigation in America
are linked by family ties to the Neary family, 19th-century tenant farmers
in Ballykilcline. Senator Ted Kennedy, archaeologist Charles Orser, and
others sift through Ireland’s history to shed light on the catastrophic
potato famine; provide an unvarnished account of the mass exodus through
which America ultimately gained so much; and break, at last, the
"great silence" surrounding the Neary rent strike that put a
match to the powder keg of Irish unrest under English rule. A Discovery
Channel Production. (52 minutes, color) (C)2003 |
VHS33142
DVD33142 |
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| Gettysburg: Pickett’s Charge with
VIDEO CLIP |
At the height of the Civil
War’s most decisive battle, did a picket fence foil Pickett’s Charge?
This fascinating program analyzes many of the key tactical considerations
at the battle of Gettysburg using ballistics demonstrations, select
reenactments, terrain evaluation, original photographs, and casualty
assessments based on a recently discovered map of the initial burials. A
timeline of the campaign and commentary are provided by military
historians, battlefield guides, and experts, including John Michael
Priest, author of Into the Fight, and Dr. Gary Gallagher, Professor
of History at the University of Virginia. A Discovery Channel Production.
(50 minutes, color) (C)2002
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Pickett’s Charge
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VHS32664
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| Great Expectations: 1946- Late 1950s |
As the material and social
expectations of America grew during the halcyon days of the Eisenhower
administration, blacks, displaced farmers, and impoverished Hispanics were
fighting for equality and their slice of the American Dream. Against a
backdrop of middle-class prosperity and the birth of the Civil Rights
Movement, this program traces the continuing stories of advertising mogul
Dick Manoff, sharecropper Jim Wolford, union activist Joe Mifsud, aspiring
politician "Chub" Peabody, and their families. In addition, the
Bakers, Detroit auto workers; the Veas, migrant laborers; and the Gages, a
typical suburban family, are introduced, to underscore the variety of and
disparity between America’s diverse populations. Not available in
French-speaking Canada. A Discovery Channel Production. (50 minutes,
color) |
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| Making the Message: The Fight for the Presidency |
What does it take to win the
White House? Produced by award-winning filmmaker Theodore Bogosian, this
unprecedented behind-the-scenes account of the 2004 Republican and
Democratic national conventions examines how candidates build their
platforms and generate momentum. Interviewees include the convention
chairmen, campaign strategists, members of special interest groups, and
New York Times staffers such as columnists Maureen Dowd and David Brooks,
chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney, political reporter Jim
Rutenberg, and chief correspondent R. W. Apple, Jr. A Discovery Channel
Production. (93 minutes, color) (C)2004 |
VHS33855
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| Never Give Up: 1980s-Early 1990s |
During the 1980s, the myth of
struggle crowned by success was revived. This program explores the
societal impact of Reaganomics, which was beneficial to some and
detrimental to others. While John Gage helped pioneer the Internet as
director of Sun Microsystems and Gregg Manoff found peace in a medical
practice serving the poor, times got harder for the Wolfords, who made a
fortune and then went bankrupt when the oil industry bottomed out; the
Bakers, who had five children to support in Detroit, the automotive Rust
Bowl; and the Kims, whose search for prosperity led them to L.A., where
their store was looted and destroyed in the Rodney King riots. But in good
times and bad, their uniquely American faith in the future has endured.
Not available in French-speaking Canada. A Discovery Channel Production.
(50 minutes, color) (C)1998 |
VHS8652
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| Raising the Flag |
In little more than a century,
the U.S. has fought eight major wars overseas: raising the flag in victory
has always meant something different. This timely program surveys in
detail the American occupations of the Philippines, Japan, Germany,
Afghanistan, and Iraq, assessing their achievements and failures.
Documentary footage, photos, and reenactments are combined with analysis
from a variety of diplomats and scholars, including Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador to the
UN; and Dr. Michael Ignatieff of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government. A Discovery Channel Production. (46 minutes, color) (C)2003 |
VHS33094
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| Slave Ship |
Over 150 documented mutinies
occurred aboard slave ships between 1699 and 1845; only once, in the case
of the Amistad, did slaves successfully return to Africa. Using
that remarkable and anomalous incident as a focus, this program takes an
in-depth look at the slave trade. Scholars point out how Europe’s
unprecedented demands for human chattel subsumed a well-established slave
trade between African kingdoms, a ruthless industry summed up by one
African ruler as "powder, ball, and brandy for men, women, and
children." The program weaves the developments of the Amistad
case—argued and won in the U.S. Supreme Court by former President John
Quincy Adams—into the overall fabric of slavery in America. A Discovery
Channel Production. (52 minutes, color) (C)1997 |
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| Tears of Rage: Late 1950s - Mid 1970s |
The 1960s were marred by violent
protests, massive race riots, and devastating political assassinations as
the issues of racial equality, freedom of speech, and the Vietnam War
caused Americans to vent their anger. In this program, assumptions about
"the good life" in America are challenged as the Baby
Boomers—the beneficiaries of the American Dream—become its most
ruthless critics. Gregg Manoff, Harvard student, evaded the draft; John
Gage, champion swimmer, became a protester at Berkeley; General Baker,
Jr., labor activist, landed in prison; Marion Kramer joined the Civil
Rights Movement; and Alfredo Vea served as a combat infantryman in
Vietnam. Each narrative relates a different experience and perspective of
one of America’s most turbulent eras. Not available in French-speaking
Canada. A Discovery Channel Production. (50 minutes, color) (C)1998 |
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| The Bottom Line: Mid 1970s - 1980 |
Although America’s exit from
southeast Asia helped mend the rifts dividing the nation after the Vietnam
War, the Watergate scandal, economic recession, and growing unemployment
forced the U.S. to examine the gap between the American Dream and reality.
In this program, the challenges of the Nixon and Carter years are
recounted by a cross-section of people who experienced them
firsthand—like John Gage, a radical on Nixon’s "enemies"
list who burned out and became a bookstore clerk before becoming a
technology mogul; Gregg Manoff, son of a successful advertising man, who
headed west to find himself; Gerald Wolford, who made a living driving
trucks and repairing oil wells; ex-infantryman Alfredo Vea, who used the
GI Bill to go to law school; and Jae-Yul Kim, a Korean who immigrated to
America in search of opportunity but discovered instead the hardships of
making ends meet in New York City. Not available in French-speaking
Canada. A Discovery Channel Production. (50 minutes, color) (C)1998 |
VHS8651
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| The Real Story of Jamestown |
In the spring of 1607, the Susan
Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery landed a group of settlers in
Virginia to build what became America’s first permanent English
colony—a place dogged by misfortune and tragedy. In this program, noted
archaeologist William Kelso and a team of experts turn the long-accepted
story of Jamestown upside down as they uncover clues to what really
happened on James Island nearly 400 years ago. Dramatizations of key
events are interwoven with details of the excavation that is bringing to
light a tale of political infighting and assassination that had lain
buried for centuries. A Discovery Channel Production. (26 minutes, color)
(C)2000 |
VHS29037
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| The Rosenberg File: Case Closed |
Decades after Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to pass the secret of the atom bomb
to the Soviet Union, their case still remains open in the court of public
opinion. Were they innocent or guilty? And if they were guilty, what
exactly were they guilty of? In this program, a retired KGB colonel
claiming to know the truth breaks his 50-year silence as he and other
experts analyze the Rosenberg case. Newsreel footage, archival photos, and
other documentation re-create the mood of Cold War intrigue surrounding
one of the greatest peacetime spy dramas in America’s history. A
Discovery Channel Production. (53 minutes, color) (C) 1997 |
VHS29029
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| The White House at War |
Ranging from Woodrow Wilson to
George W. Bush, this program paints a composite picture of how U.S.
presidents have discharged their duties as commander-in-chief of the
nation’s armed forces. Topics covered include building and maintaining
popular support; winning Congressional and UN declarations—or deciding
to wage war without them; gaining or forgoing international support;
setting strategic, operational, and even tactical military goals; and
mobilizing or muzzling the press corps. Interviews with presidential
historian Michael Beschloss; military historian Eliot Cohen; members of The
New York Times White House staff; Louis Fisher, author of Presidential
War Power; and others are featured. A Discovery Channel Production.
(51 minutes, color) (C) 2003 |
VHS33279
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| Valley Forge: The Crucible |
Events at Valley Forge
transformed the Continental Army—and the Battle of Monmouth transformed
public opinion of what that army could do. This program uses
archaeological findings at Valley Forge and Monmouth Battlefield as well
as primary source and scholarly documents to reveal how General Washington
and his troops achieved the seemingly impossible. Dramatizations and
reenactments bring this pivotal period of the Revolutionary War to life as
historian Thomas Fleming and other experts explain the significance of
American counterespionage, training provided by Baron von Steuben, and
alliance with France. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes, color)
(C)2003 |
VHS32073
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