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Film, VideoSan Francisco's future By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised with great reluctance on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism and anti-preparedness feeling remained strong...
- Contributor: Rodiester, Claire - Hearst, Phoebe Apperson - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Rolph, James
- Date: 1916
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Film, VideoWatchers of the sky With his provocative question, 'why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?' Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one...
- Contributor: Music Box Films - Dakota Group - Iskander, Mai - Ferencz, Benjamin B. - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Green-Dove, Amelia - Belzberg, Edet - Bowne, Dougie - Chicken & Egg Pictures (Firm) - Sim, Karen K. H. - Power, Samantha - Propper, Kerry - Lemkin, Raphael - Moreno Ocampo, Luis Gabriel - Propeller Films
- Date: 2015
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Film, Video25th Infantry
Twenty-fifth Infantry | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 3: Twenty-fifth Inf. returning from Mt. Ariat | 25th Infantry returning from Mt. Arayat | Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: Back from battle | Title in Biograph bulletin form 247: Back from the battle | Theodore Roosevelt Association title: 25th Infantry returning from Mt. Ariat, 1898 "Gen. Frederick D. Grant and Gen. A.S. Burt [commander of the 25th Infantry Regiment] returning from Mt. Ariat [sic], at the head of the famous 25th Infantry, colored"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture...- Contributor: Ackerman, Raymond - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Film, Video10 buildings that changed America
Ten buildings that changed America 10 Buildings That Changed America tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society....- Contributor: Protess, Dan - Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Window to the World Communications, Inc - Baer, Geoffrey - PBS Distribution (Firm) - Wttw (Television Station : Chicago, Ill.)
- Date: 2013
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ArticleThe birth of a nation "The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of...
- Contributor: Gish, Lillian - Marsh, Mae - Bitzer, G. W. - Woods, Frank E. - David W. Griffith Corp - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Dixon, Thomas - Walsh, Raoul - Crisp, Donald - Epoch Producing Corp - Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale) - Reid, Wallace
- Date: 1915
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Film, VideoMichael D. McCarty oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 ... Michael "Mac" McCarty talks about joining the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago, IL. He discusses racism in Chicago and the leadership of Fred Hampton of the Party and the beginnings of...
- Contributor: McCarty, Michael D. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, Video1964
1964 | Nineteen sixty-four | Nineteen hundred sixty-four 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...- Contributor: Margolis, Jon - PBS Distribution (Firm) - Wgbh (Television Station : Boston, Mass.) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Ives, Stephen - Pollak, Amanda - Platt, Oliver - American Experience Films - Insignia Films
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoFrederick Law Olmsted : designing America A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art...
- Contributor: Channing, Stockard - Scott, Campbell - Rybczynski, Witold - Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) - Hott Productions - Beveridge, Charles E. - Chowder, Ken - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Florentine Films - Wned-Tv (Television Station : Buffalo, N.Y.) - Garey, Diane - PBS Distribution (Firm) - Hott, Lawrence R.
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoJohn and Jean Rosenberg oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Prestonburg, Kentucky, 2013 ... Jean and John Rosenberg begin this interview with recollections of their families' backgrounds. Jean learned about social issues as she was raised by a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, and John's family fled...
- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Rosenberg, John M. - Cline, David P. - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker
- Date: 2013-01-01
Resource: View All Images | PDF
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personal narrativeRobert Williams Collection Sergeant First Class, Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Vietnam. Army, Panama--History--American Invasion, 1989 - Panama; Honduras. Army, Haiti--History--American intervention, 1994-1995. Army, Cold War - Korea; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
- Contributor: Reed, Kaytlin - Va Medical Center, Cleveland - Williams, Robert - Emerson, Bridgett
- Date: 1973
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 01:00:22.0
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Film, VideoFreddie Greene Biddle oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, DC, District of Columbia, ... Freddie Greene was born in Greenwood, Mississippi on February 15, 1945. She discusses how living in a segregated community exposed her to the early efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. She reflects...
- Contributor: Greene, Freddie - Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoThe definitive guide to the mob.
Mob Definitive Guide to The Mob, a two hour special, takes viewers through the varied and captivating history of organized crime in the United States. From the Cosa Nostra to the Irish Mob,...- Contributor: Franzese, Michael - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2013
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personal narrativeHector E. Morales Collection Army, Panama--History--American Invasion, 1989 - Korea; Fort Lewis, Washington; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Ord, California; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Panama; Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Honduras; El Salvador. Army, Persian Gulf War, 1991 -...
- Contributor: Morales, Hector E. - Roberts, Madonna - Levinthol, Aidan - Ansbach Middle High School, 9th Jrotc Battalion
- Date: 1978
- Resource: Interview / Recording - Video - 00:34:38.0
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Film, VideoMaria Varela oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Pasadena, California, 2016 June 29 Activist and MacArthur fellow, Maria Varela, recalls her role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), discussing her work in organizing adult literacy programs in Mississippi and her role as one of...
- Contributor: Varela, Maria - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
- Date: 2016-01-01
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Film, VideoWith these hands President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and President David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union introduce the film. The main feature is a dramatization of a union...
- Contributor: Wiseman, Joseph - Green, William - International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union - Dubinsky, David - Levene, Sam - Francis, Arlene - Arnold, Jack - Goodman, Lee - Wishengrad, Morton
- Date: 1950
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Film, VideoJoseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 June 06 Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the...
- Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Lowery, Joseph E.
- Date: 2011-01-01
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Film, VideoMore business of being born The series offers a practical look at the birthing options as well as poignant celebrity birth stories from Alanis Morissette, Gisele Bundchen, Christy Turlington-Burns, Cindy Crawford, Molly Ringwald, Laila Ali, Kimberly Williams-Paisley...
- Contributor: Lake, Ricki - Business of Birth Llc - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Netto, Paulo - Epstein, Abby - Gavin, Madeleine
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoAgriculture U.S.A.
Title on film: Agriculture USA "Correlated the growth of farming in America with the country's progress in becoming a great nation. Illustrates wildlife, land, and cattle in pioneer days. Describes homesteading and the establishment of land-grant colleges....- Contributor: United States. Department of Agriculture - United States. Department of Agriculture. Motion Picture Service
- Date: 1962
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Film, VideoRaylawni G. Branch and Jeanette Smith oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, ... Raylawni G. Branch and Jeanette Smith discuss their involvement in the Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based Civil Rights Movement. They remember their upbringings as mixed race children, Smith in Mississippi and Branch in Mississippi and...
- Contributor: Branch, Raylawni G. - Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Smith, Jeanette - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoFuneral of Hiram Cronk The film shows a city thoroughfare lined with crowds of people watching a military parade. The first group to come into view is a marching band, then a large formation of soldiers...
- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Film, VideoHitchcock Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home...
- Contributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Collette, Toni - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe ... Fox Searchlight Pictures - Cold Spring Pictures - Hopkins, Anthony - Reitman, Ivan - McLaughlin, John J. - Pollock, Tom - Collette, Toni - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Rebello, Stephen - Medjuck, Joe - Montecito Picture Company - Barnette, Alan - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Huston, Danny - Mirren, Helen - Johansson, Scarlett - Stuhlbarg, Michael - Gervasi, Sacha - Thayer, Tom - Biel, Jessica
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoThe ultimate guide to the Presidents America's unique form of democracy separates power among three branches of government: the legislative, judicial and executive. The President of the United States, who heads the executive branch, holds the position that...
- Contributor: Karga Seven Pictures (Firm) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - McGill, Bruce
- Date: 2013
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personal narrativeRichard Cameron Anshus Collection Army, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - West Point, New York; Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel, Army, Grenada--History--American Invasion, 1983 - Grenada; Fort Benning, Georgia; Vicenza, Italy; Portland, Oregon; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Bragg, North Carolina;...
- Contributor: Hayden Hewitt - Strubhart, Kristin - Metcalf, Raven - Anshus, Richard Cameron - O'Fallon Township High School
- Date: 1969