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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In October 1917, at Caporetto, the Italians engage in a bloody fight against the Germans and Austro-Hungarians that results in a humiliating defeat for the Italians. At the same time, in Russia, Lenin, leading the Bolsheviks, sets the October Revolution in motion. The new masters of Russia, the Communists, sign a separate peace treaty with the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk in March 1918. This frees the Germans to concentrate their troops on the...
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English
Description
Panama-Pacific International Exposition: Opening day celebrations / crowds at the entrances / pan of Exposition proper / parades on Market Street and Van Ness Avenue / Tower of Jewels / Fountain of Energy / other buildings / day for night shots / submarines / Fun Zone at night / nighttime illumination of buildings showing use of fog machines and special lights / Uncle Sam's submarines. No audio. (13 minutes)
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English
Description
When you think of America's immigration story, you think of Ellis Island New York... right? Think again, because over 2,500 miles away is Angel Island, where immigrants coming into the West Coast were processed for entry to the US, but it was an experience that was anything but welcoming.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1960s, the world faced a rebellion from its youth. The US baby boomers' protests against the Vietnam War spread to other countries including Japan. The reform movement Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia spurred demand for civil rights in communist countries. Television helped to unite these youth-lead social movements by broadcasting protesters fighting for freedom. Two charismatic revolutionary leaders also stimulated the youth rebellion:...
6) DK Timelines
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This is a timeline of the life of the Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus. An admiral, and navigator, he set sail westwards from Spain in 1492 with the aim of arriving in the Far East, but instead, landed in the Americas, then unknown to Europeans. Seen as a hero and pioneer by some, by others he is seen as someone whose arrival brought suffering to people living in the Americas.
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English
Description
The seeds of World War II were sown in the dark days of depression following the first world conflict. While the United States chose a course of isolationism, escalating aggression in Europe and Asia threatened world stability. Without warning, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor pushed the reluctant nation into war. The bloody conflict would span the globe and trigger political, social and military repercussions that would resonate through the twentieth...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Every decade has its share of important events. But in this completely engrossing series we bring you only the best, the most far-reaching, the most worldly, and the most consequential. You will see a unique clarity of history through the "most privy" in insider accounts and expert witnesses. Events include: Adolf Eichmann, The Berlin Wall, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Assassination Of U.S. President Kennedy, The "Loudmouth": Cassius Clay, A Royal...
Pub. Date
[1918]
Language
English
Description
War is often a catalyst for great technical innovation, and World War I was no exception. Phosphorescent grenades, poison gas, machine guns, and the use of tanks, planes, and zeppelins were a few among many new weapons and tactics developed during World War I. The discoveries and innovations of that war influenced the course of later military conflicts the world over.
Pub. Date
[1917]
Language
English
Description
Billy Sunday was one of the most well-known revivalist preachers of the early 20th century. Sunday, who gave up a career as a professional baseball player in order to preach around the country, attracted thousands of people to his sermons with his no-holds-barred language and theatrical style. (No audio)
Pub. Date
[1914]
Language
English
Description
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist. This was the event that ignited World War I. A month later, Austria-Hungary and its ally, Germany, had declared war on Serbia, in an effort to subdue insurgency in the Balkans. Russia then came to the aid of Serbia, provoking a long stalemate. The western front opened up in August, when Germany invaded Belgium, prompting Britain and to...
Pub. Date
[1914]
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, a failed offensive by the French enabled German forces to invade dangerously close to Paris. French general Joseph-Simon Gallieni employed all the city's resources to defend against the Germans. Taxicabs were used to shuttle supplies and troops from Paris to the front lines, where French troops successfully repelled the Germans along the Marne river.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the second film of his series on the Great War's impact, historian David Reynolds looks at how the conflict gave birth to an age of turbulent mass democracy. In the immediate aftermath of war, monarchies toppled, the people rose up, and three iconic leaders-Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson and Benito Mussolini-emerged with competing visions of power that polarized much of continental Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. In Britain, the socialist Labor...
Pub. Date
[2012], c1991
Language
English
Description
In 1914, the participants thought it would be a short war, to be fought on the order of Austerlitz with charging cavalry, the battle lasting an afternoon. But that's not the way it turned out, and when the war was over, so was the world from which it had sprung. Both sides were certain they knew what they were fighting for and that their side was right, but it is hard to see now what World War I achieved other than to destroy a whole generation of...
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This program explores our history and culture during the early 20th century, when a wave of reforms changed our political system and attempted to remedy the social and economic inequities arising from industrialization and urbanization. Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt helped set the tone of the era by supporting regulation of industry, initiating government reforms, and promoting conservation of public lands. The Progressive Era altered the...
Pub. Date
[1914]
Language
English
Description
The Munitions of War Act of 1915 allowed British women to temporarily fill the many industrial jobs left empty by soldiers fighting abroad in World War I. However, the Restoration of Prewar Practices Act of 1919 forced women workers to relinquish their jobs when the men returned from war.
18) Our World War
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
August 1914, two weeks after the First World War was declared. 80,000 British troops have arrived in southern Belgium, but they have yet to engage the enemy. Amongst these professional soldiers are the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, some of the best-trained gunners in the British Army. Lieutenant Maurice Dease and his friend, Australian Lieutenant Fred Steele, command two companies of riflemen and machine gunners who find themselves camping overnight...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In part one of this BBC production, "Martial Races," Military Historian David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of Indian, African, and Asian troops and ancillaries who fought and died along side white European troops on the Western front and elsewhere.
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