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1.The Century-America's Time (Boxed Set) starring: Linda Hunt, Peter Jennings, John Aaron, Harold Agnew, Steve Allen March 23, 1999
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As for the person who complained that Martin Scorcese called the '80's the "me" decade, that was a popular theme of the time. Maybe you should go back and look at 80's and the literature about it from all kind of sources. Just like the 20's was often refered to as the "Roaring" 20's. 80's was often called the "me" decade. I also think it is not a liberal or conservative designation. Following the internalization of values and desires in the 70's, the 80's was when technology, growth, income and development all led to the application of the 70's trend of an individual ethic. People DID become more selfish and self centered, more complacent, in need of more instant gratification.

2.Streetwise starring: Roberta Joseph Hayes, Baby Gramps, Dewayne, Kim, Lillie directed by: Martin Bell November 11, 1997
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Although this video was shot some time ago, by the famed photographer Mary Ellen Mark, the conditions are as applicable now as they were back when it was made some years ago. This video "Streetwise" portays the life of several street kids in Seattle: "Tiny", the prostitute, who can't be any more than about 13 or 14; "Rat" who goes dumpster-diving for food; and Roberta Josephine (Bobbie Jo) who was eventually strangled to death by Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer", active in Seattle at that time and responsible for the deaths of many runaways in the Seattle area. The conditions under which these kids live and survive is appalling. "Rat" lives in an abandoned hotel, the windows boarded up, sleeping on an old mattress on the floor. It's chilling to think of a kid being there, ... Read More

3.Mark Twain Tonight starring: Hal Holbrook directed by: Paul Bogart April 27, 1999
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Mark Twain Tonight is now a valued item in my personal library of classics. One of my professors at college was inspired to impersonate Mark Twain based on this performance. I would highly recommend this educational & entertaining dvd for anyone who wants more than Hollywood mindless entertainment.

4.Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery starring: Hal Holbrook, Adam Arkin, Murphy Guyer, Sam Waterston, Matthew Broderick directed by: Ken Burns November 10, 1998
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An incredible visual experience to document an amazing historical event. You will feel like you were there with the Corps of Discovery at every turn of their adventure.

5.Ken Burns Presents The West (Boxed Set) directed by: Stephen Ives, Ken Burns September 24, 1996
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When some people use the word "documentary" they seem to imbue it with an expectation of total objectivity--as if one could eliminate all traces of cultural experience from one's makeup and discover a shining path of ultimate "truth" simply by the act of becoming a filmmaker. Nonsense. We are all a product of our times and of the culture in which we were raised and educated. Documentaries are always, always, always selective. There is no such thing as total objectivity, either in writing or in filmmaking. That said, this is an enormously valuable effort to sift through an extraordinary cross-section of materials and condense them into 12 and 1/2 hours of very viewable, enlightening and often extremely moving stories. Yes, that's right, I said "condense". The documents available on the history ... Read More

6.Small Wonders starring: Roberta Guaspari directed by: Allan Miller (II) August 25, 1998
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Any educator with the hope and zest for teaching the impossible to any group of less-than-perfect students, PLEASE SEE THIS MOVIE! I first saw this movie as part of a graduate course in the process of getting my MS.Ed. in Education with a group of 40 other teachers. We all wept, applauded, and then brought this same determination to our classrooms in the form of a never-give-up attitude. This video makes it quite clear that with determination, students and adults alike, can accomplish anything they put their minds to: regardless of race, creed, or socio-economic origin. The ability to discipline oneself comes from within and from good role models, such as this music teacher. Please see this movie! It nourishes the inner soul with a sense of achievement for the impossible. Putting one's mind, one's heart, and one's soul ... Read More

7.Best of Charles Kuralt: American Heritage starring: Charles Kuralt October 21, 1997
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As a young person i always looked forward to the nights when an On The Road segment would come on the CBS Evening News. Charles Kuralt had a unique way of telling his stories that got the point across clearly yet with an eloquence rarely matched. This video is no exception. From the lost colony at Roanoke to a town meeting in Vermont, each segment portrays an element of heritage many think they know, but they rarely do. Through it all is Kuralt with that flowing style of storytelling that mesmerizes. This is a great showcase of not only Charles Kuralt at his best but of America as well.

8.The American Experience - America 1900 from: Pbs (Direct) July 03, 2001
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As the twentieth century arrived, the United States was already the most powerful nation on Earth and was beginning to project its' power across the globe. The last of the domestic Indian "wars" were over and America had recently defeated Spain and was now administering the former Spanish colonies of Cuba and the Philippines. It was a time of very rapid change, in fact the pace of change was arguably greater then than it was when the twenty first century arrived. As one commentator so correctly states, nearly all of the major inventions that changed the twentieth century had just been invented, and what occurred during the twentieth century were engineering improvements and expanded use. Indoor plumbing, automobiles, moving pictures, mass transportation, phonograph records, telephones, electricity in the home, all forms ... Read More

9.Underground Railroad (History Channel) starring: Alfre Woodard April 27, 1999
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One of the most general perceptions that I received from my high school history days in the 1960's concerning the fate of black slaves in America was that they essentially passively waited for the Union armies to free them during the process of the Civil War in the 1860's. In short, blacks had no pre-history as a people who struggled for freedom in their own right but were merely the victims of history. Of course, since those days I have made it my business to find out the real story of slave resistance and although there are many parts that are lost to history we now know that as least some slaves in some situations found ways to break their bondage. Aided during the past few decades by serious scholarly research into the subject we have a more rounded view of the dynamics of slavery in ante bellum American society. This well done ... Read More

10.The American Experience: The Orphan Trains from: Pbs Home Video January 01, 2000
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From 1853 to 1927, the Children's Aid Society, a private charity, relocated over 100,000 children in the rural areas of the still developing United States. "The Orphan Trains" is the story of these children and of the people who took them in. The film starts with the young minister Charles Loring Brace who wanted to help the hoardes of homeless or mistreated children in New York City by sending them out to healthy rural areas that so needed the additional labor. Today it would be unthinkable to allow any organization, private or otherwise, to ship 100,000 children to other parts of the country. However, this film attempts to put the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in the context of its times: children were living in the streets or in homes where they were neglected and abused, and everyday countless more ... Read More

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