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Panama-Pacific International Exposition: Opening day celebrations / crowds at the entrances / pan of Exposition proper / parades on Market Street and Van Ness Avenue / Tower of Jewels / Fountain of Energy / other buildings / day for night shots / submarines / Fun Zone at night / nighttime illumination of buildings showing use of fog machines and special lights / Uncle Sam's submarines. No audio. (13 minutes)
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Eleven-year-old Ibrahim just wants to go to school, play soccer with his friends, and help his dad with his work as a laundryman. Instead, he's ferrying his best friend to a hospital after a missile attack, staying alert for bombs that could fall on his classroom, and spending his spare time scrounging for firewood. Can he hold out hope for the future? This program journeys to Aleppo, Syria, to follow the daily ordeals endured by young Ibrahim and...
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When Spain's army mutinied against the Second Republic in 1936, it marked the beginning of a bitter civil war that lasted three years and cost one million Spanish lives. In this program, respected authorities elaborate on the writings and personalities of those who captured this devastating period in poetry and prose. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Rafael Alberti's "Romancero General de la Guerra," Antonio Machado's "Muerte de un Niño Herido,"...
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Hamid and Tarek are Canadian boys going to fight in the Libyan revolution. On the outbreak of fighting, they decide to return to their homeland and join the brutal guerilla war to liberate the country. They will be wounded and changed forever by the experience. Their youthful naivety is set against the unforgiving landscape of war, as they learn about life and death on the frontlines. A hugely impressive narrative account of the Libyan revolution....
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The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, pitted the leftist government, the Republic, against a nationalist force led by General Francisco Franco. The conflict became increasingly brutal, as Franco's forces began attacking open towns that held no military forces during their march toward Barcelona. The United States, France, and the United Kingdom remained officially neutral during the war, while the Soviet Union supported the Republic,...
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The place: just outside the Virginia Capes. And the year: 1807. An American frigate, the Chesapeake, has been fired on and boarded. Four sailors are taken off the Chesapeake to the British ship Leopard and impressed into English naval service. Britain, at war with France, faced the conqueror of Europe Napoleon Bonaparte. English ships hovered off American ports ready to seize vessels and cargo destined for France. So began the sequence of events that...
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Beginning with the pitched battle for Barcelona and the fall of Madrid and ending with anti-Franco refugees fleeing Spain for France and Latin America, this program captures the final months of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist reprisals that followed-a mirror of both the despair and the triumphalism of the times. Commentary by Francisco de Vitoria University's Javier Cervera Gil; Angel Bahamonde, of the University Carlos III of Madrid; Mirta...
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Nineteen-year-old Basset is the goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team. When revolution breaks out the charismatic young man becomes an iconic protest leader and singer. Osama is a 24-year-old media activist and pacifist wielding his camera to document the revolution. But when their beloved Homs becomes a bombed-out ghost town, these two peaceful protesters take up arms and transform into renegade insurgents, with devastating results.
10) River of Death
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Narrated by Emmy-nominated actress Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey), "Civil War: the Untold Story" provides new insights into the causes of the Civil War, life on the home front, the politics of war, the issue of slavery, and the relatively unheralded role African Americans played in the conflict. Filmed at the actual battle sites, the five-part series uses re-enactors to recreate the epic battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge...
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This program begins with a biographical comparison of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and then goes on to chart the extraordinary series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other. So intense was the fighting that in one 30-day period, their armies lost more men than both sides had lost in three years of war. With Grant and Lee finally deadlocked at Petersburg, this episode shifts focus to follow General Sherman's Atlanta campaign....
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The five-part series Civil War: the Untold Story provides new insights into the causes of the Civil War, life on the home front, the politics of war, the issue of slavery, and the relatively unheralded role African Americans played in the conflict. Death Knell of the Confederacy covers the conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga, the Chattanooga Offensive, the Anti-war Movement, Sherman's March, and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
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This program charts the events that led to Lincoln's decision to set the slaves free. Convinced by July 1862 that emancipation had become morally and militarily crucial to the future of the Union, Lincoln had to bide his time and wait for a victory to issue his proclamation. But as the year wore on, there were no Union victories to be had, thanks to the brilliance of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. The episode comes to a climax in September 1862...
14) A Beacon of Hope
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Civil War: the Untold Story provides new insights into the causes of the Civil War, life on the home front, the politics of war, the issue of slavery, and the role African Americans played in the conflict. Filmed at the actual battle sites, the five-part series uses re-enactors to recreate epic battles of war. Interviews with scholars and 3D graphics convey battle tactics while underscoring the relationship between the Western Campaign and the more...
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The program begins with the presidential election of 1864 that set Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes were nothing less than the survival of the Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North had turned strongly against the war. But 11th-hour victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilted the election to Lincoln, and the Confederacy's last...
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Narrated by Emmy-nominated actress Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey), "Civil War: the Untold Story" provides new insights into the causes of the Civil War, life on the home front, the politics of war, the issue of slavery, and the relatively unheralded role African Americans played in the conflict. Filmed at the actual battle sites, the five-part series uses re-enactors to recreate the epic battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge...
17) The Civil War
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This program offers a portrait of the United States in 1860 and describes the events of the Civil War: secession and the election of Jefferson Davis; the attack on Ft. Sumter; the initial enthusiasm for a heroic, romantic war; the first two years of war, with most of the fighting taking place between Washington and Richmond; the modern aspects of the war-the use of trains, the telegraph, the camera, automatic arms, iron-clad ships and mines; the Emancipation...
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This program opens with an account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg. For three days, 150,000 men fight to the death in the Pennsylvania countryside-an action that culminates in Pickett's ill-fated charge. This extended episode then goes on to chronicle the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of African-American troops, and the battles at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. The program closes with the dedication...
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This program begins with the nightmarish Union disaster at Fredericksburg, which leads to two climaxes the following spring: at Chancellorsville in May, where Lee wins his most brilliant victory but loses Stonewall Jackson, and at Vicksburg, where Grant's attempts to take the city by siege are stopped. Fierce Northern opposition to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is addressed, along with the increasing desperation on the Confederate home front....
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During America's Civil War, there came the evolution of pistols and rifles and artillery that would forever change the way in which humankind would fight its wars. Within the names that would forever establish themselves in the annals of weaponry - Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson - lies a different story of the Civil War. Volume 1 A Greater Moral Force The stories of the weapons used in the Civil War are as colorful as the men who used them. From...