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The best thing that I can say about Amelia, now playing from Fox Searchlight Pictures, is the filmmakers found the perfect actress to play Amelia Earhart. Because Swank physically resembles Earhart, she can sell the aviatrix’s off-beat looks with no effort. She has to work much harder, however, to reveal all the shades of character this film requires on a whirlwind tour of Earhart’s relatively short life. More. |
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Did a Japanese mini-sub launch a torpedo which struck a battleship during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941? That is the premise of a new episode of NOVA, the prestigious science program on PBS. More. |
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Before describing Disney's A Christmas Carol, it is important to point out that A Christmas Carol is one of literature’s most interpreted stories in television and cinema, from straightforward re-tellings to satires and character studies. More. |
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Partially influenced by the TV show The Lieutenant, the Hasbro toy company in 1964 launched a line of pliable figurines called G. I. Joe and the “guy doll” concept was born.
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The British actor Richard Todd portrayed Major John Howard in the film The Longest Day, and Howard must have approved of the choice. Why? More. |
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Bond vs. Bourne. Modesty Blaise vs. Mata Hari. Smiley's People vs. The Manchurian Candidate. Casablanca vs. North by Northwest. Vote for the greatest spy movie of all time! More. |
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There are hundreds of little-known stories from WWII that would make for great drama. One of them took place in the wilds of Borneo in 1944–45 and is told in the documentary 'The Airmen and the Headhunters' on PBS. More. |
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The mass media has put forth some effort to use this Veterans Day period to honor service people. It’s also a good time to review the programs and projects with timely themes, of which there have been several in the past year.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, faced with national economic and natural resource crises, convinced the U. S. Congress in his first 100 days in office to pass legislation to get the country moving again. One of the opening salvos in the New Deal was the Civilian Conservation Corps. More. |
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Store-bought Halloween costumes gained popularity in the 1930s; some have remained perennial while others have fallen from favor. More. |
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To some, parallels between America's situation in the beginning of the 1930s and at the end of the new millennium's first decade are frighteningly similar. Upon closer look, they may be even more so. A new series on PBS' American Experience. More. |
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Facts and oddities give drive-ins their endearing place in American history. Drive-ins have influenced new food creations, movie story lines, songs, roadside architecture, and even religious worship. More. |
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More than forty years have passed since the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. With many who were there now in their sixties and beyond, one might think the legacy of the event would pass into that of fondly remembered nostalgia. But the Woodstock legacy continues to grow.
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The lineup of talent at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was significant at a time when “rock” music was establishing its own identity. Yet when it came time for the music to start on Friday, August 15, 1969, nobody wanted to go on.
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“You haven’t seen war until you’ve seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino” proclaims the trailer for Inglourious Basterds. Longtime fans of Quentin Tarantino films will say it’s exactly what it should be. The author takes a closer look at Tarantino's latest. More. |
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To detractors, the “counter culture” was merely a rebellious throng of young people whose lives were dominated by “sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll.” To themselves, they were a generation of harmony and change. Their ultimate celebration was at Woodstock.
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Drive-ins were born in the 1930s and reached their heyday in the 1950s. It might just be time to revisit the summer tradition. More. |
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It's high time to begin to chronicle the history of America's passion for things that go vrooom – especially Harley Davidson motorcycles. More. |
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Time Team America gets down to the serious business of history and archeology pretty quickly, so a little hipness can be forgiven as a way to rope the "Twitter" crowd into what is a very interesting and at times, entertaining show. The PBS series is a summer event on Wednesday evenings.
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It was a pivotal event of the 20th century. On July 20, 1969, the first human set foot on the moon's surface and television was there to cover it. More. |
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Though he frequently appeared on radio and TV, Stan Freberg's sharp wit and lively satire peaked on vinyl. His crowning achievement was Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America, Vol. 1 The Early Years. More. |
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Public Enemies is touted to be the most historically accurate portrayal of the tumultuous Depression-era crime period. Given the book the film is based on and director Michael Mann's well-known attention to period authenticity, this is likely true. More. |
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The sexual and the technological revolutions paved the way for the sextual revolution. But revolution does not mean evolution. More. |
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You dig up something old and potentially interesting in the attic. Is it historic? Is it worth something? The History Detectives can help! More. |
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Cinerama had vast entertainment, social and even political ramifications in the 1950s and early ‘60s and set the standard for how we view movies and even television today More. |
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