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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
4) This land
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The lives of everyday Americans are examined in this fly-on-the-wall film shot on Election Day 2020 in nearly every state.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"The fabulous 60s takes a kaleidoscopic look back at this most turbulent of decades, ten tumultuous years that began in hope with man's exploration of space and the youngest elec[t]ed President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy-- and ended in a welter of Cold War intrigue, political assassination, civil unrest, student demonstration and US involvement in another war in a country known as Vietnam."--Container.
Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin (HBO's Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) shines a well-deserved light on Puentes de Salud, a health-care clinic serving a population that all-too-easily slips through the cracks: undocumented immigrants. Clínica de Migrantes counters the often dehumanizing and highly politicized rhetoric surrounding America's immigrant population, providing a compassionate profile of patients at Puentes, many of whom have left their families...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The four-part series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the "White gaze." The series recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure, and the social media phenomenon of Black Twitter. Professor Gates...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Season two picks up directly from the dramatic events and the end of the season one finale, continuing to explore the growing chaos within Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing predicament of the burgeoning black population.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Captain Frank Furillo and his men and women in blue are back to face even more challenges as they helm the Hill Street station. The street cops and detectives have to deal with drug busts, gang warfare, robberies and more drama in this action-packed third season. Friendships are tested, partnerships are strained, and lives are saved {u2014} or shattered {u2014} in this critically acclaimed show.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
After Stonewall traces the gay rights movement in America from the 1969 raid on the Stonwall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, through the 1990s.
Before Stonewall presents the story of the gay and lesbian experience in the United States since the 1920s. Covers many of the milestones in the fight for gay acceptance and equal rights, culminating in the 1969 riots that followed the police raid of a gay bar in New York's Greenwich...
13) Mercy Street
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Alexandria, Virginia, 1862. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a native Confederate belle, collide at Mansion House, the Green family's luxury hotel that has been transformed into a Union Army hospital. Ruled under martial law, the border town in Alexandria is now the melting pot of the region, filled with soldiers, civilians, female volunteers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, runaway slaves, prostitutes, speculators,...
Publisher
Full Spectrum
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Summary of the history of a rural Midwest community, particularly its industry, immigration and ethnicity. Includes the rise and fall of the railroad and emergence of meatpacking as its major employer in the 1960s; investigates and portrays changes in the economy, society, and physical environment that arose due to Latino immigration in the 1980s and 1990s.
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