Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The democrat and the dictator

This documentary sheds light on the career of both the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt and the dictator Adolf Hitler. Thus the famous speeches of both men are compared, as well as their ideology and propaganda campaigns.

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning I.I. Rabi

man of the century

I.I. Rabi, nobel laureate physicist, discusses his views on atomic energy, the Nazi movement and the McCarthy era

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning America on the road

A history of the automobile and its profound effect on American society

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning Come to the fairs

Survey of America's World's Fairs beginning with the first one held in Chicago in 1893. It was at these fairs that new inventions such as the Ferris wheel and the telephone were first introduced. Also discusses how fairs have changed in recent years

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The image makers

Explores the development and character of the public relations industry through interviews with Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning Presidents and politics

Newsman Richard Strout has covered the White House and national politics from President Harding to President Reagan for the Christian Science Monitor and the New Republic. His reflections show the changes in politics and the growth of Washington from a small town to the center of the free world

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The reel world of news

The newsreels informed and entertained American audiences from 1911 till 1967. They were originally made by movie studios as a ten-minute warm-up for the main feature. They showed a variety of items. Bill Moyers interviews journalists and camera men and shows a sample of the highlights, until television made this medium redundant. In the newsreels the camera men were all powerful, sound was added later by specially composed pieces, the reporter was not shown on the screen. Apart from the official...

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The arming of the earth

Journalist Bill Moyers considers how the machine gun, the submarine, and the airplane have revolutionized the conduct of war. Focuses on the way in which advances in the technology of war have vastly increased the civilian toll in wartime

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning Change, change

The 1960's were years of rapid change in America: the increasing impact of television, computerization, social unrest, assassinations, the war in Vietnam and the landing of a man on the moon. Bill Moyers investigates the cause and the effects of these diverse changes on our culture

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning Out of the depths

the miner's story

Takes a look at coal-miners in Colorado at the turn of the century; the poor working conditions, their almost feudal existance, and their attempt at a strike. Includes interviews with former Colorado coal-miners

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The thirty-second president

Rosser Reeves and Tony Schwartz explain the start of the role television played in U.S. presidential elections from Eisenhower in 1952 till the Carter-Ford campaign in 1976. It shows a number of campaign commercials.

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The helping hand

Looks at how the New Deal helped to create jobs during the Depression. Interviews former Civilian Conservation Corps workers who benefited from these programs

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning Marshall, Texas

Journalist Bill Moyers returns to his hometown of 25,000 people - Marshall, Texas -- to reexamine his past through the voices of current residents and former classmates. He relives the pleasures of small town life, examines the price of its close-knit structure on individual aspirations, and traces the history of Marshall's race relations from the 1930s through the Civil Rights Movement

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Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The Twenties

Popular legend enshrines the Twenties as the decade that roared prior to Wall Street's crash in 1929. Nineteen Americans, who lived through the Twenties, recall these events and more

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