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New! Dreams of Obama
Item# 40891
© 2009
60 Min.
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Produced on the eve of Barack Obama's historic presidential inauguration, this Frontline episode tells the story of how a little-known state senator rose from obscurity to the White House in just over...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Scholar John McWhorter / Robert Johnson on the Bank Bailout
Item# 40334
© 2009
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-518-4
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-519-1
In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers and John McWhorter, a political analyst and scholar of linguistics, weigh the meaning and implications of Attorney General Eric Holder's controversial speec...
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New! African-American Lives 2: A Way Out of No Way
Item# 40957
© 2008
54 Min.
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Continuing to trace guests' lineages back through the late 1800s to the Civil War and earlier, this program features stories like that of Chris Rock's maternal great-great-grandfather, Julius Caesar T...
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New! Reborn: New Orleans Schools
Item# 40696
© 2008
85 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-278-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-277-1
Despite its horrific destruction, Hurricane Katrina gave New Orleans educators the opportunity to reinvent a school system that wasn't working. This program chronicles the first official year of publi...
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Minds that Matter: John Lewis
Item# 40683
© 2008
59 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-209-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-208-5
No one grasps the connections between social activism, electoral politics, and racial issues better than Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), perhaps the most prominent living veteran of the American civil...
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Let Freedom Ring: Moments from the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
Item# 40565
© 2008
100 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-993-9
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-994-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-247-4
Despite the colossal and continuing legacy of America's civil rights era, the movement is often best understood through the historical moments in which it took place. This NBC News program presents or...
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Koppel on Discovery: The Last Lynching
Item# 40388
© 2008
44 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-826-0
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-827-7
In 1981, a young African-American named Michael Donald was kidnapped, beaten, and lynched by members of the United Klans of America. This program lays out the chilling facts of the case and its legal...
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The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
Item# 40368
© 2008
33 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-786-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-787-4
"I wondered for many years," reveals the Rev. Billy Kyles, "why I was there at that crucial moment." Rev. Kyles stood only a few feet away from Dr. Martin Luther King when the eminent civil rights lea...
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Made in Chicago: The Making of Barack Obama
Item# 40157
© 2008
51 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-132-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-133-9
It was in Chicago, Barack Obama's adopted hometown, that the 24-year-old future President of the United States began a personal and political odyssey that would take him all the way to the White House...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Change and a New Administration
Item# 39982
© 2008
60 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-012-7
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-013-4
In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers discusses the historical implications of electing Barack Obama to the highest office in the land with Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Col...
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