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Bad Blood: The Border War That Triggered the Civil War
In the years leading up to the Civil War, a bloody conflict between slaveholders and abolitionists focused the nation's eyes on the state of Missouri and the territory of Kansas. Told through the actual words of slave owners, free-staters, and border ruffians, "Bad Blood" presents the complex morality, and life-and-death decisions faced by those wh..
Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of the American Civil War
In 1861, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, a teenager from New Orleans headed to the front lines. Under the alias Harry T. Buford, he fought at First Bull Run, was wounded at Shiloh, and served as a Confederate spy. But Buford harbored a secret-he was really Loreta Velazquez, a Cuban immigrant from New Orleans. By 1863, Velazquez was spyin..
From Somalia civil war to the slums of Kampala
Amidst the lingering shadows of the Somali civil war, Qaali, an asthmatic single mother of seven, braves the slums of Kampala, striving daily in a restaurant to shield her family from the specters of their past.
Civil War Dance Instruction with the Victorian Dance Ensemble
By viewing this video, you will see several different dances and dance formations demonstrated at a recreation of a period ball. Following the ball, the movements of the dances will be broken down individually and demonstrated in easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction. The steps and movements demonstrated are the group’s interpretation of danc..
In Search of Walt Whitman, Part Two: The Civil War and Beyond (1861-1892)
The poet moves to Washington to care for injured Civil War soldiers but is disillusioned by the Gilded Age after the war. He recovers from a debilitating stroke to live out his days in Camden NJ, where he continues to write poetry.
Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
Saura creates and recovers more than thirty images, drawings and photographs that he prints, manipulates, plays with and subsequently films, to produce a story which, while recreating the Spanish Civil War, could also reflect the horrors of universal conflict, seen through the eyes of a child and his surroundings.
To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War
This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, the last living Canadian volunteer of the infamous Mackenzie-Papineau Battallion of the “International Brigades”. When Jules left from his home near Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ontario, his father, a famous Finnish poet, wrote a lasting lament: “To My Son In Spain”. In 1936-37, 1700 Canad..
Disney's The American Presidents - Civil War and Reconstruction & The Development of the U.S.
American history is so much more than dates and documents — it’s the dynamic story of the real men and women, immigrants and Native Americans, who together built our country. Disney’s The American Presidents is a fresh and relevant narrative (developed with a former producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report) about the men who led this..
Novska in the Croatian Civil War
Using real recorded footage from the 1990s the documentary depicts the town of Novska during the Croatian Civil War from 1990 to 1995.
Blood Brothers
Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman who arrives on their island. The entire family reaches a breaking point brought about by startling revelations about their mother’s fidelity, love, friendship and betrayal.
A War in Hollywood
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of th..
Crossroads
A gritty political thriller set at the backdrop of the violent Naxalite movement in 70’s Calcutta.
The Naked Seven
Des guerrières légèrement vêtues combattent des voleurs pour sauver un petit village. Le réalisateur Yasuharu Hasebe a croisé les légendes des 7 samouraïs de Shichinin No Samurai avec sa propre série populaire Naraneko Rokku et l'a habillé avec certaines des reines pin-up softcore les plus populaires de l'époque.
El perro negro
A partir d'archives privées, Peter Forgacs part sur les traces de deux contemporains de la guerre d'Espagne : un étudiant madrilène ayant survécu au conflit et un industriel catalan abattu après quelques jours de combat. S'ils ont connu des trajectoires opposées, leurs images personnelles s'associent pour ressusciter l'atmosphère de l'Espagn..
Ghosts of Gettysburg
A history of the supernatural at Gettysburg.
Left for Dead
"Civil War Life" is a six-part series that examines the American Civil War from an insider's point of view, with first-person accounts and never-before-seen period photos. "Left for Dead" tells the story of Ohio schoolteacher Oscar L. Jackson, who formed his own regiment and was engaged in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War -- only to b..
Maria's Story
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the front lines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war.
