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Matewan (1987): Prelude to America’s Forgotten Battle
A bit more than a century ago, the coal fields of southern West Virginia were the epicenter of a conflict between miners and coal companies which…
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. Manhunt (2024) tells the story of what happened next.
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is often discussed as a single, solitary act of violence by a lone actor sympathetic to the Southern…
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Selma (2014): The Power of Peaceful Protest
Sixty years ago this month, Americans from multiple walks of life came to Selma, Alabama to peacefully protest the racial injustice of our society.
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An Illustrated Lincoln Portrait
Being a dual Symphonic & Pictorial presentation.
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Two Films Featuring George Washington: Valley Forge (1975) and Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003)
Valley Forge (1975)
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Schindler’s List (1993): An Unheeded Warning
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Thomas Keneally’s novel Schindler’s Ark is one of the most critically acclaimed, and undoubtedly most watched, films…
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Ruminations on a National Bird
The Fall and Rise of the Bald Eagle, and (Perhaps) American Democracy
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The Crossing (2000): A George Washington Christmas
In December of 1776, the Continental Army was weary and discouraged.
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Kennedy (1983) Part 2: “I have a rendezvous with death…”
Continued from Part 1.
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Kennedy (1983) Part 1: “On some scarred slope of battered hill”
The quotation above is from the poem “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger, who died on the 4th of July, 1916, while fighting for the French…
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The Missiles of October (1974): Apocalypse Then
In his latest book, War, renowned Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward reveals that the world recently came closer to nuclear war than it has in…
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PT-109 (1963): A Future President at War in the Pacific
Almost since cinema was invented, American directors have been making films about its presidents. However, most of these were about presidents who were…
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