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Compassionate Eye
Korea: The Unfinished War 100
Years of Silence Ataturk, Founder of Modern Turkey Banking on Hitler Brazil: An Inconvenient History Burden of a War: Women and Agent Orange The Call to Glory: Chennault and The Flying Tigers Charles DeGaulle: A Profile The Chinatown Files. The Danish Solution Disobeying Orders: G.I. Resistance to the Vietnam War Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944 End of Empire From Congo to Zaire. Frontline: An Eyewitness Account of The Vietnam War Harry Hopkins: At FDR's Side Helen Foster Snow: Witness
to Revolution Hitler and Stalin: Twin Tyrants Ho Chi Minh: The Man Behind the Myth Honor Bound: A Personal Journey How Hitler Lost the War India: Turmoils of the Century In the Name of the Emperor: The Rape of Nanjing Josip Broz Tito: A Profile Looking for Victoria The Lottery: Who Fights Our Wars? A Matter of Time Nanjing Nightmares. Nuremberg Oh, You Black Bird: The Forgotten Holocaust of the Romanies Pandit Nehru: A Profile Promises and Betrayals Save and Burn Searching for Wallenberg
Shackles of Memory: The Atlantic Slave Trade The Spice Route: the Discovery of the Sea Lane to Africa and Asia Stealing the Fire The Sweet Century: Women who Defied a Communist
Dictatorship The Twin Towers: A History The Un-Americans Voices from the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story
A World Beneath the War: The Secret Tunnels of Vietnam |
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Ataturk, Founder of Modern Turkey
This is the colorful story of Mustafa Kemal, later known as Ataturk, the charismatic
leader of Turkey after the first World War, who secularized the country to
bring it into the modern world. (more)
Banking on Hitler
This investigative film shows in detail the roles played by the international
banking clique, including American banks, in collaborating with the Nazis
during World War II. (more)
Brazil: An Inconvenient History
Few people realize that Brazil was the largest participant in the African
slave trade. Using primary sources, this film explores the lasting effect
of slavery on Brazil's history and society. (more)
Burden of a War: Women and Agent Orange
This film addresses for the first time the scientific, psychological, and
political issues of Agent Orange as it has affected women who were exposed
and their children. (more)
The Call to Glory: Chennault and The Flying Tigers
This is the first documentary to tell the complete story of the Flying Tigers,
a volunteer group of American pilots who fought with the Chinese against Japan
even before Pearl Harbor. (more)
Charles DeGaulle: A Profile
In 1940, General DeGaulle escaped to London determined to save France after
its surrender to Germany. Archival films together with commentary by journalists
and colleagues bring the career of this remarkable leader alive. (more)
The Chinatown Files.
The first film to reveal the horrific impact of the McCarthy era on the Chinese-American
community. (more)
The Danish Solution
Sixty years ago the Final Solution was attempted in Denmark. The plan was
averted over 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the
war. How and why Jews escaped the Nazis' blueprint for their extermination
is the subject of this compelling new documentary film. (more)
Disobeying Orders: G.I. Resistance to the Vietnam War
This documentary focuses on the anti-war movement within the armed forces.
It highlights the intersection of the civil rights and anti-war movements,
and the ethics of whether to follow orders which one feels are immoral. (more)
Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944
A startling film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested
and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz. Only
2,500 survived. (more)
End of Empire
This film tells the harrowing story
of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941-45. England's decision to
give up Malaya for the defense of Europe in World War II was ultimately the
end of the British Empire. (more)
From Congo to Zaire.
A riveting history of colonialism and its legacy after Patrice Lumumba and
then General Mobutu took control (more)
Frontline: An Eyewitness Account of The Vietnam War
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.
(more)
Harry Hopkins: At FDR's Side
Hopkins was invited by Roosevelt to head the Works Progress Administration
(WPA) during the Great Depression and within four weeks, he had put four million
people to work. This film shows how his unshakable belief in public service
was vital to his country. (more)
Helen Foster Snow: Witness
to Revolution
An intrepid woman who reported on events in China during the turbulent 30's
and gained the friendship of Mao's inner circle. (more)
Hitler and Stalin: Twin Tyrants
This psychological dual biography exposes the chilling parallels -- and the
glaring differences -- of these two dictators. Includes exceptional footage
from film archives in Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe, Great Britain and the
U.S. (more)
Ho Chi Minh: The Man Behind the Myth
This film, based on newsreel footage and interviews with contemporaries, traces
the story of Ho Chi Minh's life, the Vietnamese leader who against seemingly
insurmountable odds humiliated two of the world's strongest armies, the American
and the French. (more)
Honor Bound: A Personal Journey
This film tells the moving story of an American regiment, made up of second
generation Japanese-Americans who fought bravely on the European front, proving
their courage and loyalty on the fiercest battlefields. (more)
How Hitler Lost the War
Using rarely-seen film footage, this documentary shows that Hitler's defeat
in World War II was due less to Allied supremacy than to his own shortcomings
as a military strategist. (more)
India: Turmoils of the Century
Using archival footage never before seen in the West, this epic film traces
the history of the past hundred years on the Indian subcontinent with all
of its religious, ethnic and political turbulence. (more)
In the Name of the Emperor: The Rape of Nanjing
This film is a monument to the suffering of the Chinese at the hands of the
Japanese during World War II. Includes the newly discovered film footage of
the massacre shot by John McGee, an American missionary who was living in
Nanjing. (more)
Josip Broz Tito: A Profile
Cold War politics and the history of Yugoslavia would have been vastly different
without the leadership of Marshall Tito, the charismatic leader who inspired
both admiration and fear. The film uses the vast film archive of Reuters and
incisive interviews. (more)
Looking for Victoria
Victoria, a young Argentine woman, set out to find the truth about her parents
who disappeared in 1978 during the military dictatorship. Painful questions
emerge: were her parents terrorists? Did they suffer more because they were
Jewish? (more)
The Lottery: Who Fights Our Wars?
Through dramatic newsreel footage, this documentary shows how the World War
I and II draft lotteries determined who was inducted. (more)
Nanjing Nightmares.
The legacy of the genocide in Nanjing echoes in the emotional life of a family
today. (more)
Nuremberg
Entirely composed of historical footage, including some newly discovered archival
films, Nuremberg brings to life the challenge of administering justice
when crimes are on such a scale as those of the Nazis. (more)
Oh, You Black Bird: The Forgotten Holocaust of the Romanies
This film tells the little known story of the Gypsies who were also the victims
of the Nazi scourge. When Romany Helena Malikova revisits Auschwitz, she shares
with us her bitter memories. more
Pandit Nehru: A Profile
This film recounts the historic role played by Nehru, the first prime minister
of an independent India, tracing his development from a Cambridge educated
anglophile to the development of his socialist philosophy. more
Promises and Betrayals
This lucid film recounts the complicated history that led to the ongoing conflict
between Israel and the Palestinians. it is a story of intrigue among rival
empires and of misguided strategies. It is often claimed that the crisis originated
with Jewish emigration to Palestine and the foundation of the State of Israel.
Yet the roots of the conflict are to be found earlier. (more)
Save and Burn
Save and Burn builds from The Library in
Crisis by deepening an understanding of the history of civilization through
the phenomenon of the library. From ancient China, India, Islam, and the Graeco
Roman world, we see how the library radiated knowledge and spiritual values,
and facilitated the cross fertilization of ideas from one culture to another.
(more)
Searching for Wallenberg
Searching for Wallenberg tells the legendary story of Raoul Wallenberg, who
as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944, saved tens of thousands of Jews
from Nazi deportations and certain death. He accomplished this through intimidation,
manipulation and sheer courage. (more)
Shackles of Memory: The Atlantic Slave Trade
In this important historical film, the grim details of the slave trade are
made real for a modern audience. (more)
The Spice Route: the Discovery of the Sea Lane to Africa and Asia
This richly documented film illustrates how the Portuguese explorers of the
15th Century pushed the known boundaries of the "civilized world" and forever
changed the continent of Africa. more
Stealing the Fire
Stealing the Fire follows an unbroken chain of events and personalities connecting
Hitler's atomic bomb program and today's nuclear weapons black market. It
follows the trail of Karl-Heinz Schaab, a German technician, who sold Saddam
Hussein top secret documents stolen from Germany and traveled to Baghdad numerous
times to help Iraq in its nuclear bomb quest. (more)
The Sweet Century: Women who Defied a Communist
Dictatorship
Recounts the stories of Czech women who endured years of imprisonment during
the Communist era because of their beliefs. (more)
The Twin Towers: A History
The Twin Towers have attained mythic status in the 21st century. The effect
of their destruction and the tragic loss of life is engraved on the American
consciousness. Here is a fascinating history of the buildings that set the
character of lower Manhattan and symbolized not only the power of New York
City but American culture and financial dominance. (more)
The Un-Americans
In this film both the anti-Communists and the victims of the notorious McCarthy
witchhunts, between 1945 and the early 50's, talk candidly about the era of
anti-Communist hysteria and backlists. (more)
Voices from the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Recently declassified tapes from the Kennedy White House reveal how close
we were to nuclear war with the Soviet Union in 1962. Kennedy's advisers warned
him against "appeasement", but the President's restraint saved the country
from disaster. (more)
Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story
The turbulent life of Anna Larina, wife of Nikolai Bukharin, is entwined with
20th century Russian history. (more)
A World Beneath the War: The Secret Tunnels of Vietnam
This film tells the remarkable story of the villagers of one district of North
Vietnam who found themselves on the frontlines of an increasingly brutal war.
They survived by digging a series of tunnels and moving their entire community
underground. (more)
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