Stephen Ives
Publisher
Shanachie Home Video
Pub. Date
p1999, c1990
Language
English
Description
In 1927, a 25 year-old Charles A. Lindbergh astounded the world by flying non-stop from New York to Paris without even packing a parachute. This award-winning documentary faithfully traces the chronology of Lindbergh's life, using seldom-seen archival footage and photos, new scholarship, and interviews with Lindbergh's family members, to explore his exhilarating, contradictory and turbulent life.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For generations, Monopoly has been America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and, for better or worse, the impulses that make our free-market society tick. An exhilarating game of no-holds-barred competition and brutal domination of opponents, it's a celebration of greed and accumulation of wealth with only one player standing at the end.
4) Seabiscuit
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
While not looking the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history. In the 1930s, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression-era life, four men turned Seabiscuit into a national hero.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Trace the city's development from its humble beginnings as a remote frontier way station to its mid-century florescence as the gangster metropolis known as 'Sin City' to its recent renaissance as the fastest growing city in the United States.
6) The West
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the American West, starting with the first European explorations and ending with the beginning of the 20th century. Examines the impact of the white settlers on the lives of the Native Americans and the land. Also discusses the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the battle of Little Bighorn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst's media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as 'synergy,' Hearst used his media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political...
8) The Congress
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"In this elegant, penetrating and moving portrait of the United States Congress, filmmaker Ken Burns profiles an American institution whose ideals and actions affect us all. Narrated by David McCullough, the program employs historic film footage and interviews with insiders" including David Broker, Alistair Cooke and Cokie Roberts to detail the personalities, events and issues that have animated Congress' first 200 years."--Publisher's website.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as 'doughboys.'...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the...
11) The big burn
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.
12) Constitution USA
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Breathing new life into the traditional civics lesson, Peter Sagal travels across the country on a Harley Davidson to find out where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn't-how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart.
13) The West
Publisher
PBS DVD Gold
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the American West beginning before the European settlers and continuing into the 20th century. Includes the peoples, the wagon trains, the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad and the destruction of the buffalo, wars against the Indians, settlers in the West, the Wounded Knee massacre, and beginnings of the new West.
14) Panama Canal
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This film, using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers, and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the world's most significant technological achievements.
15) American veteran
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Today, America has nearly eighteen million living military veterans, from the Greatest Generation to men and women coming home from recent tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. They join the now-silent ranks of American veterans reaching back to our earliest conflict, the Revolutionary War.
17) Future of work
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This three-part series explores monumental changes in the workplace and the long-term impact on workers, employers, educators and communities. Employment is part of the American Dream. Will the future provide opportunities for jobs that sustain families and the nation?
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April of 1968. Explores the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex, engaging, and thought-provoking portrait of America in that crisis-laden year.
19) New Orleans
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Presents a portrait of the iconic city that lies at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi. Looks at its history as a small French settlement, a cosmopolitan mecca, a sensual, mysterious refuge, and a product of its geography as both a vital port and a city walled in on almost all sides by water and vulnerable to floods and hurricanes. Focuses primarily on the century from Reconstruction to school desegregation in the 1960s, while exploring New Orleans'...
20) Sealab
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor. The video tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.