 | 12 Angry Men [Read More ...]
Review: Will it be '57 or '97? Both perhaps?:'57 is a classic par excellence, but '97 does offer some interesting new features. I use both of the films as a means of processing a vast array of psychological concepts while working with first and second year college students. When I fir... |
 | Stephen King's The Stand (Boxed Set) [Read More ...]
Description: After a government-spawned "superflu" wipes out more than 90 percent of the earth's population, the devastated survivors must decide whether to support or resist the advances of a mysterious stranger from way down South (heh-heh) who wishes to claim this new world order for himse... |
 | Stephen King's The Stand [Read More ...]
Description: After a government-spawned "superflu" wipes out more than 90 percent of the earth's population, the devastated survivors must decide whether to support or resist the advances of a mysterious stranger from way down South (heh-heh) who wishes to claim this new world order for himse... |
 | Ken Burns: Thomas Jefferson (2pc) [Read More ...]
Description: Revered as the author of the Declaration of Independence yet condemned as a slave owner, Thomas Jefferson has entered a new era of controversy. This penetrating biography first portrays the young Jefferson from the Virginia wilderness, transformed by the philosophic fire of the A... |
 | The West, Vol. 09: One Sky Above Us [Read More ...]
Description: Volume 9 of The West begins with the World Columbian Expedition of 1893, a colossal Chicago fair marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the New World, and effectively announcing the closure of the Western frontier. Historian Richard White observes that the closin... |
 | The West, Vol. 08: Ghost Dance [Read More ...]
Description: When originally broadcast on PBS, The West was presented over eight nights, with the eighth and ninth installments combined into a two-hour finale. That final broadcast has been split in half for this video release, and the hourlong Volume 8, "Ghost Dance," covers the years 188... |
 | Miss Evers Boys [Read More ...]
Description: Laurence Fishburne helped shepherd this Emmy Award-winning exposé from American medical history books to the small screen. Anchored in the 1973 Senate inquiry into the infamous Tuskegee Study, the film uses a flashback structure to take us back 40 years as Nurse Eunice Evers (pl... |
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 | Freedom Road [Read More ...]
Review: I loved the book and enjoyed the film, but the acting isn't very good.: In High School I had to read Howard Fast's novel "Freedom Road" and thought it was very good and had me reading it in one setting. I watched the "mini-series" when it came on, and while I enjoyed it I felt th... |
 | Mississippi, America: A Testimony of Persistence and Courage...to Win the Right to Vote (Civil Rights Movement) (PBS Video) [Read More ...]
Description: A central episode in America's civil rights movement, the 1964 "Freedom Summer" voter-registration drives in Mississippi are recounted in this PBS-produced video narrated by noted actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. To battle entrenched power in Mississippi, a state that stubbornly ... |
 | Don't Look Back: Story of Leroy Satchel Paige [Read More ...]
When Jesse stumbles on a drug deal gone bad, he finds himself on the run with a suitcase full of money and its previous owners in hot pursuit. They'll kill anything and anybody that gets in their way-including Jesse's friends and lovers. |
 | The West, Vol. 03: The Spec of the Future [Read More ...]
Description: After the bloody battles chronicled in volume 4 of The West, this volume (spanning the years 1868-74) recalls the continuing violence that shaped the new frontier, but focus on the transcontinental railroad gives this 84-minute episode an uplifting, more optimistic tone. Uniting ... |
 | The West, Vol. 5 - The Grandest Enterprise Under God [Read More ...]
Description: The title of this episode of The West is coined in a prologue by historian J.S. Holliday, who along with several other experts guides us through this splendid survey of the gold rush and its explosive effect on the burgeoning West. From the moment James Marshall finds gold in Cal... |
 | The West, Vol. 06: Fight No More Forever [Read More ...]
Description: Volume 6 of The West offers a moving perspective on pivotal events and people during the years 1874-77. The federal government had consolidated its control of the West and General George Armstrong Custer would emerge as the greatest enemy of the Lakota in South Dakota. With exper... |
 | The West, Vol. 07: The Geography of Hope [Read More ...]
Description: Spanning the years 1877-1887, the seventh installment of the magnificent PBS series The West takes its title, "The Geography of Hope," from a quote by historian Stewart Udall, referring to the exuberant anticipation that drew some 4.5 million settlers westward during this 10-yea... |
 | West: The People [Read More ...]
Description: Following the formula established by executive producer Ken Burns with The Civil War, director Stephen Ives begins his epic PBS series The West by emphasizing that America's westward expansion is inextricable from the history of its native peoples. The first episode, "The People,... |
 | Miss Evers Boys (Spanish) [Read More ...]
Description: Laurence Fishburne helped shepherd this Emmy Award-winning exposé from American medical history books to the small screen. Anchored in the 1973 Senate inquiry into the infamous Tuskegee Study, the film uses a flashback structure to take us back 40 years as Nurse Eunice Evers (pl... |
 | The West, Vol. 02: Empire Upon the Trails [Read More ...]
Description: The second fascinating installment of The West chronicles the many migrations that forged America's manifest destiny in the expanding frontier. Beginning with the early 1800s, the 84-minute episode focuses on selected individuals to represent the larger context of this history. I... |
 | Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World [Read More ...]
Description: A celebration of the life of this great tennis player - the first black player to capture a Grand Slam title when he won the U.S. Open - advocate of human rights, civil rights and more. ' 'Family viewing in the best sense.' ' (Detroit Free Press) ' 'A fine tribute to an exemplary... |
