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| American Images
VHS, 58 min., 1979 Farm Security Administration photographs of the Depression (1935-1942) by Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange, who captured the American spirit on film.
VHS or DVD, 56 min., 2004 Winthrop Rockefeller came to Arkansas in 1953 to pursue his dreams. He could have lived anywhere and this film shows how Arkansas benefited from that choice. He built a state of the art farm at his home on Petit Jean Mountain. He helped the state get new industry. He became the first Republican governor since Reconstruction. His commitment to philanthropy has helped the citizens of Arkansas become more educated, more culturally diverse, and more aware of the world around them and Win Rockefeller is still helping the people of Arkansas today through his foundations.
VHS, 11 Videos, 30 min. each, 2000 Eleven 30 minute documentaries on people, places and traditions in Arkansas. War Comes to Arkansas --- The story of the 1862 battle at Pea Ridge, the most significant engagement in the Civil War west of the Mississippi. War on the Frontier --- A video on the 1862 battle at Prairie Grove and the events that led to the battle. Also featured is the present day re-enactment. War in the Delta --- The story surrounding the 1863 Civil War battle at Helena and the campaign that led to it. War in the South --- An account of the 1864 Red River campaign in which a Union army left Little Rock for an invasion of Southern Arkansas but returned without getting the job done. "Work Will Win" --- One of the great Arkansas stories of black achievement against all odds. We're Number One! --- Arkansas is a leader in more ways than most of us ever realized. Examples in industry, business, and agriculture. The Way It Was --- Among the things that make Arkansas unique are the cultures which developed here. This is a video on the Ozark folk culture. Arkansas' Black Gold --- An overview of one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Arkansas: the oil boom of the 1920's in south Arkansas. Ruben Dees Remembers --- A participant in the oil boom at Smackover relives the experience on camera. Even in his 90's, Mr. Dees makes events from long ago seem not so far away. Festivals & World Championships --- Arkansans have a love affair with local festivals. This video showcases four connected with world championships. Each says something about who we are in this state. Blues in the Delta --- Most people don't realize that the Delta of eastern Arkansas has played an important role in the musical art form known as the blues, a great contribution from black American culture to the rest of us.
Big Jim Folsum: The Two Faces of Populism VHS, 85 min., 1996 A profile of the two-term Alabama governor from the 1940’s and 1950’s. A homespun champion of the common man, Folsum was among the most progressive of Southern governors in the 1940’s and refused to pander to racism as the storm of desegregation hit the South in the 1950’s.
Blood Memory: The Legend of Beanie Short VHS, 56 min., 1992 A search for the disappearing history of Civil War raider Beanie Short, who deserted the Confederate Army and raided, robbed, and killed around Turkey Neck Bend, Kentucky.
Brooks Hays: Return to Little Rock VHS, 30 min., 1980 As a Congressman, teacher, and President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Brooks Hays devoted himself to manifesting the ideals incorporated in his religion: Love for his fellow man, equality for all under the law and in the eyes of God. This film captures a part of that spirit; consequently, it is involved with those ideals and serves as a fine example for all who view it.
City of Visitors: Hot Springs, Arkansas VHS, DVD, 90 min., 2004 CC The natural beauty and the healing thermal waters began enticing people to visit the area soon after the Louisiana Territory became a big new part of the United States. Gambling, prostitution, and other illegal activities were an off-and-on part of the scene for many years with corrupt local political machines in control and state government, for the most part, turning a blind eye to the various problems. Produced by AETN, this program details the struggles Hot Springs endured for decades while trying to find its moral and civic identity. In the mid-1960s, gambling and the casinos were shut down for good and quaintness and culture beckon the tourists of today.
This first episode
evokes the causes of war, beginning with a dramatic indictment of slavery. Union and
State's Rights, the story of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln
in 1860, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the jubilant rush to arms on both sides are
covered. The episode climaxes with the disastrous Union defeat at Manassas. (99 min.)
Episode Two: A Very Bloody
Affair: 1862
The year 1862 saw
the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate slaves.
Here begins the political infighting that threatened to swamp Lincoln's administration and
then follows Union General George McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia
Peninsula. Viewers meet Ulysses S. Grant, whose exploits come to a bloody climax at the
Battle of Shiloh. (69 min.)
Episode Three: Forever Free: 1862
This episode charts
the dramatic events that led to Lincoln's decision to set the slaves free. Convinced that
emancipation was now morally and militarily crucial to the future of the Union, Lincoln
must wait for a victory to issue his proclamation. The episode climaxes in September 1862
with Lee's invasion of Maryland. (76 min.)
Episode Four: Simply Murder: 1863
The episode begins
with the nightmarish Union disaster at Fredericksburg and comes to two climaxes that
spring: at Chancellorsville in May, where Lee wins his most brilliant victory but loses
Stonewall Jackson; and at Vicksburg, where Grant's attempts to take the city by siege are
stopped. (62 min.)
Episode Five: The
Universe of Battle: 1863
This episode opens
with a dramatic account of the turning point of the war: the Battle of Gettysburg. This
extended episode chronicles the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use
of black troops, and the western battle of Chickamauga and Chattanooga; and closes with
the dedication of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg. (95 min.)
Episode Six:
Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864
Episode six begins
with a biographical comparison of Grant and Lee and then chronicles the extraordinary
series of battles that pitted the two generals against one another. In 30 days, the two
armies lose more men than both sides have lost in three years. (70 min.)
Episode Seven: Most
Hallowed Ground: 1864
This episode begins
with the presidential campaign of 1864 that set Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding
general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union
itself. Eleventh hour Union victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley
tilt the election to Lincoln, and the Confederacy's last hope for independence dies.
Episode Eight: War Is All
Hell: 1865
With Sherman's
brilliant March to the Sea, this episode brings war to the heart of Georgia and the
Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. In March, following Lincoln's second
inauguration, first Petersburg and then Richmond finally fall to Grant's army. At
Appomattox Lee surrenders to Grant. (69 min.)
Episode Nine:
The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865
The final episode
begins in the bittersweet aftermath of Lee's surrender and then goes on to narrate the
horrendous events of five days later when, on April 14th, Lincoln is assassinated. After
chronicling Lincoln's funeral, the series recounts the final days of the war, the capture
of John Wilkes Booth, and the fates of the series' major characters. The episode considers
the consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the country from a collection of
states to the nation we are today.
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