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WGBH Educational Foundation Roots of resistance
the story of the Underground Railroad
Recounts the story of the underground railroad through narratives of escaped slaves. Includes interviews with descendants of slaves and slave holders, who describe the personal danger and terrible risk involved in each slave's departure
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WGBH Educational Foundation Geronimo and the Apache resistance
Separate myth from reality in the tragic collision of two cultures with dramatically different views of the world and of each other
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WGBH Educational Foundation Indians, outlaws and Angie Debo
A profile of historian Angie Debo. Focuses on her research in the 1930s uncovering a statewide conspiracy that deprived the Oklahoma Indians of their oil-rich lands and the efforts of officials and business interests to suppress her findings
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WGBH Educational Foundation In search of Columbus
Was Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain? Although he helped to define it, Columbus would never know the modern world. This program follows the path of his fourth and final voyage, and explores the perceptions of Columbus by different nations and cultures 500 years after his deeds
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WGBH Educational Foundation Demon rum
Using archival film and photographs and interviews with residents and scholars; this film examines the effect of prohibition on Detroit and the Detroit River area. Rumrunning, speakeasies, the Charleston, and bootlegging are covered. Starting with the temperence movement to the 18th amendment (1920) and its repeal in 1933, this film relates the views of Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company in relation to prohibition and also chronicles the control of the bootleg market from the small-time operator...
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WGBH Educational Foundation Do you mean there are still real cowboys?
Life on the range is observed in Big Piney, Wyoming, where the romantic image is contrasted to the hard life and harder hours of reality
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WGBH Educational Foundation The Iron road
Chronicles America's race to unite East and West by rail. The completion of the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, marked a turning point in the settlement of the American West
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WGBH Educational Foundation The World that Moses built
Robert Moses designed and constructed the physical landscape of the New York metropolitan region, building bridges, highways, beaches, and playgrounds, low-income housing, tunnels and two Worlds Fairs
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WGBH Educational Foundation Last stand at Little Big Horn
Examines the Battle of Little Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, from the perspective of the Lakota, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Crow who lived on the Great Plains and from that of the white settlers who pushed west across the continent
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WGBH Educational Foundation One woman, one vote
Documents the 72-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. It illuminates the alliances, infighting, betrayals and defeats that paved the way for victory in the battle for women's right to vote. Historical footage is enhanced with vocal performances, and interviews with historians provide the viewer with both current and historical perspectives
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