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    Richard Lee Comer Collection Major General, Air Force, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base, Thailand; Europe; Middle East. Air Force, Panama--History--American Invasion, 1989. Air Force, Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Iraq. Air Force, Afghan War, 2001-.
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    Is Paris burning? Catalog Record Only A war epic about the uprising and liberation of Paris in 1944, dramatizing the way in which the city was saved by the second thoughts of the local German commander and the change of Allied plans brought about by the plea of the leaders of the uprising.
    • Contributor: Signoret, Simone - Lapierre, Dominique - Transcontinental Films - Vidal, Gore - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Coppola, Francis Ford - Belmondo, Jean-Paul - Ford, Glenn - Graetz, Paul - Collins, Larry ... Signoret, Simone - Lapierre, Dominique - Transcontinental Films - Vidal, Gore - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Coppola, Francis Ford - Belmondo, Jean-Paul - Ford, Glenn - Graetz, Paul - Collins, Larry - Welles, Orson - Marianne Films - Caron, Leslie - Clément, René - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Fröbe, Gert
    • Date: 1966
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    Unknown Chaplin. No. 1, My happiest years Catalog Record Only Part one of a three-part documentary television series which observes film director Charlie Chaplin's creative processes, using outtakes of filmed rehearsals, and close scrutiny by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill.
    • Contributor: Gill, David - Thames Television, Ltd - Brownlow, Kevin - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1983
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    The romance of transportation in Canada
    French language title: Sports et transports Catalog Record Only
    Light-hearted animated film about how Canada's vast distances and great transportation obstacles were overcome.
    • Contributor: Verrall, Robert Alan - Glover, Guy - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - National Film Board of Canada - Low, Colin - Daly, Tom - Koenig, Wolf
    • Date: 1953
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    Bombardment of Taku Forts, by the Allied fleets "The scene opens by showing the battleships maneuvering for a position. They finally draw up in line of battle and commence firing on the shore batteries. Immense volumes of smoke arise from the fleet and from the distant shore. Shots are seen to fall thickly among the vessels and immense bodies of water are thrown up by the explosion of mines. A very exciting...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1900
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    Mexico a tribute Catalog Record Only A combination of history, travel, interviews and scenery designed to convey an impression of the country and it's people.
    • Contributor: Trujillo, Ruben - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Hilgendorf, John - Hilgendorf, Jim
    • Date: 1998
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    Airborne : death from above
    Death from above | History of the airborne infantry Catalog Record Only
    Explores the history of the airborne soldier and the development of airborne operations central to modern warfare.
    • Contributor: Weaver, Fritz - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Jackson, Sammy - Stahl, Norman - Lou Reda Productions - History Channel (Television Network) - Zimmerman, Mort - Horan, Don - Paschall, Rod
    • Date: 1996
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    The Africans. In search of stability
    In search of stability Catalog Record Only
    "Which forms of government have succeeded in Africa? Which have failed? Why? Examples are drawn from Ghana, Nigeria and the Sudan. The program contrasts Islamic and Westernized military regimes and looks at examples of the one-party state"--DIAL (WETA magazine), Nov. 1986, p. 38.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1986
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    Idi i smotri = Come and see Catalog Record Only PA586-509 (English language subtitled version) U.S. Copyright Office Minor change version: [English language subtitled version] / Sovexportfilm presents. -- United States : IFEX, 1987 ; United States : International Film Exchange Ltd. Copyright for minor change version: Filmexport (employer for hire). Prev.: Motion picture preexisting. NM: "English subtitles." DCR 1985; PUB 27Apr86; REG 19Nov91; PA586-509. Variety, 7/17/85 lists English language title as Go and...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Adamovich, Ales - Klimov, Ė. G. (Ėlem Germanovich) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Kravchenko, A. - Mironova, O.
    • Date: 1986
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    Liang Guoxiong shi jian (29-9-95) ; Wei Jingsheng you xing xin wen pian (31-12-95)
    梁國雄事件(29-9-95) ; 魏京生遊行新聞片(31-12-95) / | Wei Jingsheng you xing xin wen pian (31-12-95) Catalog Record Only
    News broadcasts and interviews documenting the Tiananmen Square student-led democratic movement in 1989 and demonstrations in later years.
    • Contributor: LC Collection (Library of Congress) - Xianggang Shi Min Zhi Yuan Ai Guo Min Zhu Yun Dong Lian He Hui
    • Date: 1989
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    American cinema. The edge of Hollywood
    Edge of Hollywood Catalog Record Only
    Part 10 of 10. "Independent new talents like Spike Lee, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jim Jarmusch and others are changing movies' shapes and meanings by insisting on making films on their own terms"--WETA magazine, Feb. 1995, p. 16.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - British Broadcasting Corporation - Kcet (Television Station : Los Angeles, Calif.) - New York Center for Visual History
    • Date: 1995
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    Roanoak. Part 1 Catalog Record Only Roanoak is a drama concerning the events surrounding the founding of the first English settlement in North America on Roanoak Island.
    • Contributor: LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Benton-Banai, Edward - Egleson, Jan - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Harris, Dina - Sampson, Will - Racino, Victoria - Runningfox, Joseph - Garber, Victor - Juarez, Tino - McCarthy, James K.
    • Date: 1986
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    Paul J. Morvant Collection Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Thailand; Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi; Reese AFB, Texas; Nellis AFB, Nevada; Barksdale AFB, Louisiana; Merced Air Field, California; McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tennessee; Homestead AFB, Florida; Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. Air Force, Panama--History--American Invasion, 1989 - Panama.
    • Contributor: Fontenot, Karen - Morvant, Paul J.
    • Date: 1970
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    Omnibus. III, vol. 16 Catalog Record Only An episode of the television cultural anthology series consisting of 3 segments of varying lengths.
    • Contributor: CBS Television Network - Kerr, Walter - Silverstein, Elliot - Robbie, Seymour - Danielewski, Tad - Cooke, Alistair - Saudek, Robert - Ford Foundation. Tv-Radio Workshop - Saudek (Robert) Collection (Library of Congress) - Wesleyan University Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1955
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    This was America. Gospel of wealth Catalog Record Only Copyright: no reg. Copyright notice on video: Boston Broadcasters, Inc. ; 1979. Main title and opening credits lacking; main title from end credits. Photographs compiled by Martin W. Sandler ; [music by Robert Cavicchio, Edward Korvin, Ron Frangipane] ; editing, David Teixeira ; director of cinematography, Chip Proser. Host: William Shatner. Sources cited below list years of original syndiction as 1978 and 1979; unable...
    • Contributor: Schlow, Steve - Pelanne, Claude - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Reisner, Sherry - Shatner, William - Sandler, Martin W.
    • Date: 1978
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    A Show of force Catalog Record Only PA470-437 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: [Claimant, DCR and REG unknown] PUB 9Mar90; PA470-437. Copyright notice on film: Eurasia Investments Limited ; 1990. Co-producer, Fred Weintraub ; music, Georges Delerue ; director of photography, James Glennon. Amy Irving, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Duvall, Kevin Spacey. Based on the book Murder under two flags by Anne Nelson. Reference source used: Variety, 5/16/1990. Received: 7/26/90;...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Nelson, Anne
    • Date: 1990
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    The Africans. New conflicts
    New conflicts Catalog Record Only
    "Where three streams converge, turmoil is inevitable. This program looks at the tensions inherent in the mingling of three heritages, exploring ways in which these conflicts have contributed to the setting of boundaries, urbanization, the warrior tradition of indigenous Africa, the Jihad tradition of Islam, modern guerilla warfare and nationalist movements"--DIAL (WETA magazine), Nov. 1986, p. 12, 37.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1986
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    Zhang Decheng : Jiao yu bu zhong yao min zu yi shu pi ying xi yi shi jing hua ying ji = Pi ying xi Zhang Decheng yi shi.
    张德成 : 教育部重要民族藝術皮影戲藝師精華影輯 = 皮影戲张德成藝師 | Jiao yu bu zhong yao min zu yi shu pi ying xi yi shi jing hua ying ji | Pi ying xi Zhang Decheng yi shi Catalog Record Only
    • Contributor: Zhang, Decheng
    • Date: 1996
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    American eats : history on a bun
    History on a bun Catalog Record Only
    An overview of American fast foods, such as hot dogs, hot fudge sundaes, pizza, hamburgers, and fried chicken, presenting the humble origins of such monolithic commercial establishments as McDonald's, Wendy's, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
    • Contributor: Schillinger, Peter - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, Mason - Atlas Media Corp - History Channel (Television Network) - Goldberg, Alan
    • Date: 1999
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    Memoirs of Parviz Ekteshafi
    Memoirs of Ekteshafi, Parviz | Iranian oral history collection | Iranian DVD oral history collection | Oral history collection of the Iranian left Catalog Record Only
    One of a collection of interviews with Iranian political dissidents and emigrés. Interviewees are from the fields of politics and the arts and have backgrounds in a number of different movements and organizations: the Islamic and national movements, labor and peasant movements, as well as leftist, student and women's movements. The experience about which the interviewees speak covers roughly the period from 1930s to...
    • Contributor: Aḥmadī, Ḥamīd - Iktishāfī, Parvīz - Research Association for Iranian Oral History - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1995
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    Aviation memories. Catalog Record Only Presents a chronological survey of the development of aircraft from 1901 to 1912. Shows such memorable flights as Alberto Santos Dumont in his dirigible in Paris, Orville Wright in the first successful flight of an airplane, Louis Bleriot in his monoplane which was the first to fly the English Channel, and Frank Coffyn taking off from the Hudson River to make the first motion...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Eytinge, Bruce Swomley
    • Date: 1931
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    Bold Emmett, Ireland's martyr
    Ireland's martyr Catalog Record Only
    A drama set in Ireland at the beginning of of the 19th century about two young Irish patriots who are arrested for aiding Robert Emmet, but are saved from death by an army major whom they had cared for when he was wounded.
    • Contributor: Santley, Laurene - Lubin Manufacturing Company - Olcott, Sidney - Rivers, Robert - Grant, Valentine - General Film Company - O'Malley, Pat - Melville, Jack
    • Date: 1915
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    The Black Adder. Part 5, Witchsmeller pursuivant Catalog Record Only With the plague sweeping through the land, the nobles blame it on the king being possessed and call for the witchsmeller. It is the king's son Edmund, however, who is put on trial for witchcraft and is sentenced to burn at the stake along with his two servants. He drops the doll his very young wife has given him into the fire which makes...
    • Contributor: LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Tony - Shardlow, Martin - Atkinson, Rowan - Blessed, Brian - McInnerny, Tim
    • Date: 1983
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    Exodus Catalog Record Only A dramatization of historical and fictional events surrounding the founding of the Jewish State of Israel in 1947-48.
    • Contributor: Richardson, Ralph - Lawford, Peter - Haworth, Jill - United Artists Corporation - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Cobb, Lee J. - Opatoshu, David - Trumbo, Dalton - Uris, Leon - Saint, Eva Marie ... Richardson, Ralph - Lawford, Peter - Haworth, Jill - United Artists Corporation - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Cobb, Lee J. - Opatoshu, David - Trumbo, Dalton - Uris, Leon - Saint, Eva Marie - Ratoff, Gregory - Preminger, Otto - Griffith, Hugh - Newman, Paul - Gold, Ernest - Mineo, Sal - Derek, John
    • Date: 1960
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    Omnibus. IV, vol. 4 Catalog Record Only An episode of the television cultural anthology series consisting of two segments of varying lengths.
    • Contributor: CBS Television Network - Wesleyan University Collection (Library of Congress) - Cronyn, Hume - Lewis, Andy (Andrew K.) - Silverstein, Elliot - Osborn, Paul - Dubin, Charles - Saudek (Robert) Collection (Library of Congress) - Cooke, Alistair - Williams, Tennessee ... CBS Television Network - Wesleyan University Collection (Library of Congress) - Cronyn, Hume - Lewis, Andy (Andrew K.) - Silverstein, Elliot - Osborn, Paul - Dubin, Charles - Saudek (Robert) Collection (Library of Congress) - Cooke, Alistair - Williams, Tennessee - Saudek, Robert - Ford Foundation. Tv-Radio Workshop - Jerome, Helen - Tandy, Jessica - Austen, Jane - Williams, Esther
    • Date: 1955