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(0)Geoffrey C Ward
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Language
English
Description
As companion to the PBS series airing in September 2007, "The War" focuses on the citizens of four towns--Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama, following more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Maps and hundreds of photographs enrich this compelling, unflinching narrative.
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Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"--
More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. This volume draws on hundreds of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level...
Author
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and career of Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion in history, and examines how he was able to rise above the suspicion and racism in America at that time to win the greatest prize in sports in 1908.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the American West through letters, diaries, memoirs, journals, essays, and photographs, that chronicle the experiences of the explorers, soldiers, Indian warriors, settlers, railroad builders, and showmen who set out into the wilderness in search of a dream.
13) Jazz
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Ken Burns traces the life and turbulent career of one of America's best known and least understood painters. A bittersweet portrait combining rare archival material, commentary by those close to him, and a collection of his stunning paintings.
15) Huey Long
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"No modern politician has captured the American imagination as has the Kingfish--Huey Long. Two years in the making, Ken Burns' documentary traces Long's spectacular career from the 1920s when he burst out of Louisiana's red clay hills to smash the state's power structure under the banner "Every Man a king.""--Publisher's website.
16) Thomas Jefferson
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
17) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
18) FDR
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the life and times of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Part one covers Roosevelt's early years and early political successes, his bout with polio at age 39, and ends with his election as president. Part two explores FDR's response to the Great Depression, and his leadership of the American people during World War II until his death in 1945.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scientific genetics, little more than a century old, holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. It traces the dizzying evolution of this new science as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest of all American architects. Over the course of his long career, Wright designed over eight hundred buildings. This program uses live cinematography, interviews, and rare archival footage to bring Wright's story to life.
