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| Seeds of Change:
Introduction
VHS, 13 min., 1991 Introduction to the exhibit and the five "seeds" discussed. Herman J. Viola, Director, Quincentenary Programs, notes that "Only recently have we come to realize that what Columbus did in 1492 was to link two old worlds, thereby forming one new world."
VHS, 8 min., 1991 Our understanding of the past enables us to reshape our attitudes about the planet we share. We are challenged to plant "seeds of change" that can help us sustain the planet as it sustains us. Frank H. Talbot, Director, National Museum of Natural History observes that "...today with the dawning of the sixth century after Columbus's initial voyage, appreciation of culture and biological diversity has reawakened. We have accumulated knowledge of how cultures have shriveled and died, how species have been extinguished, and how our environment has been perilously damaged. It is now time to use this accumulated wisdom, born of loss, to help us heal, restore, and diversify further."
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VHS, 60 min., 2005 In WWII more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and relocated in military camps. This film tells the story of the 16,000 men, women, and children who were sent to two relocation facilities, near Jerome and Rohwer, in southeast Arkansas -- one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America. Rare home movies and exclusive interviews combine to give a powerful picture of the reaction to the camps while they existed as well as long-term lessons about suspicion, fear, racism, and resilience.
To Cross a River: A Ferry Tale VHS, 30 min., 1982 In 1982 only a few Arkansas ferries were still operating across the state and most were scheduled to be replaced by bridges in the 1990's. Here, former CBS correspondent William Cole takes a look at the earliest frontier ferry, a recently defunct ferry, (such as Toad Suck in Faulkner County) and the bare handful of surviving ferries. Features informative narrative, photographs, and interviews with pilots and local people who fondly remember the old days and still spin "ferry tales."
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt VHS, 2 tapes, 4 parts, 60 min. each, 1996 CC
The first part of the series deals with TR’s birth into a wealthy New York family with a strong sense of social justice. During these years, tragedy strikes with the untimely death of his mother and first wife. He flees his grief to the Dakota Badlands. When he returns, his political career flourishes and he eventually becomes William McKinley’s Vice President. 2. The Bully Pulpit, 1901 - 1904 After McKinley’s assassination, Roosevelt becomes an "accidental" president. He uses the presidency to advance his agenda of social reform. 3. The Good Fight, 1905 - 1909 During his second term, TR builds the Panama Canal, wins the Nobel Prize for Peace, and introduces wide-sweeping social reforms. He names his best friend, William Howard Taft, as his successor. Taft wins the 1908 election. TR opposed Taft for the 1912 Republican nomination. When Taft wins, TR runs for president with his own Progressive Party. He loses to Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt, 55, retreats to the jungles of Brazil for two years. Six months after the death of his youngest son in World War I, Teddy Roosevelt dies in his sleep at Sagamore Hill.
VHS, 60 min. each, 1985 This video series chronicles three decades of struggle in Vietnam the years 1945-1975 during which time Vietnamese revolutionaries battled first the French, and later, the Americans and their Indochinese allies. A visual and oral account of the war that changed a generation and continues to color American thinking in present- day military and foreign policy issues. Despite cordial relations between America and Communist leader Ho Chi Minh at the end of World War II, French and British hostility to Vietnamese independence laid the groundwork for a new war. 1B. The First Vietnam War, 1946-1954 The French expected to defeat Ho's ragtag Vietminh guerrillas easily, but after eight years of fighting and $2.5 billion in U.S. aid, they lost a crucial battle at Dien Bien Phu and with it their empire in Indochina. 2A. America's Mandarin, 1954-1963 To stop the spread of communism, America replaced France in South Vietnam, supporting President Ngo Dinh Diem until a coup brought an end to his regime. 2B. LBJ Goes to War, 1964-1965 With Ho Chi Minh determined to reunite Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson determined to prevent it, and South Vietnam on the verge of collapse, the stage was set for massive escalation of the war. 3A. America Takes Charge, 1965-1967 In two years, the Johnson Administration dispatched 1.5 million Americans to Vietnam to fight in the war. 3B. America's Enemy, 1954-1967 The Vietnam War as seen from different perspectives, by Vietcong guerrillas and sympathizers, by North Vietnamese leaders and rank and file, and by Americans held prisoner in Hanoi. The massive enemy offensive at the Lunar New year decimated the Vietcong but failed to topple the Saigon government and led to the beginning of America's military withdrawal from Vietnam. 4B. Vietnamizing the War, 1968-1973 The United States program of troop pullouts, stepped-up bombings, and huge arms shipments to Saigon changed the war. Despite technical neutrality, both of Vietnam's smaller neighbors were drawn into the war, suffered massive bombing, and, in the case of Cambodia, endured a postwar holocaust. 5B. Peace Is at Hand, 1968-1973 While combat continued, American and North Vietnamese diplomats in Paris were negotiating over the conditions for a peace treaty. After more than four years, they reached an accord. Through troubled years of controversy and violence, as U.S. casualties mounted and victory remained elusive, American opinion moved from general approval to general dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. 6B. The End of the Tunnel, 1973-1975 South Vietnamese leaders believed that America would never let them be defeated, a belief that died as the North Vietnamese occupied Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the long war ended with South Vietnam's surrender. The final program explores the ramifications of the war in Asia and in the United States, and its impact on America's foreign policy. Vietnam is now poorer than ever and at war on two fronts; America's legacy includes more than 500,000 Asian refugees, 2.5 million Vietnam veterans, and some questions that will not go away.
Water Steals the Land: Arkansas' Great Flood VHS, 29 min., 2002 After much higher than usual rainfall in Arkansas and other areas in the Mississippi River basin in the autumn of 1926, the Mississippi reached flood stage at Cairo, IL on New Year's Day, 1927. The major rivers in Arkansas were backing up and much of eastern Arkansas was under water by February 4. This documentary was produced by Delta Cultural Center for the 75th anniversary of the Great Flood that devastated the Delta, leaving thousands displaced, homeless and jobless.
West of the Imagination Series VHS, 52 min. each, 1986 It is the beginning of the end of the "wild West" the time of the Civil War, the last of the Indian Wars, the final spike in the transcontinental railroad. Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt paint a mythical Eden, while pioneer photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Timothy O'Sullivan whet America's appetite for Western adventure. This episode shows us the West of Fredric Remington and Charley Russell, whose works transformed the working cowboy into the most enduring hero-figure in American folklore. Russell became a living representative of the West he portrayed. In their very different ways, he and Remington created a gallery of heroes that live on in the American imagination.
VHS, 30 min. each, 1989, Study guide available This 52-part series brings together the ideas, events, and institutions that have shaped modern societies of Western civilization. Splendid images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art serve as historical source documents in this comprehensive Western history survey. Each tape contains two titles. The origins of the human race are traced from its anthropoid ancestors to the agricultural revolution. Egyptian irrigation created one of the first great civilizations. Settlements in the Fertile Crescent gave rise to the great river civilizations of the Middle East. Metals revolutionized tools, as well as societies, in the empires of Assyria, Persia, and Neo-Babylonia. 5. The Rise of Greek Civilization Democracy and philosophy arose from Greek cities at the edge of the civilized world. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundation of Western intellectual thought. Alexander's conquests quadrupled the size of the world known to the Greeks. Hellenistic kingdoms extended Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean. Through its army, Rome built an empire that shaped the West. Rome's civil engineering contributed as much to the empire as did its weapons. Christianity spread despite contempt and persecution from Rome. The old heresy became the Roman empire's official religion under the Emperor Constantine. While enemies slashed at Rome's borders, civil war and economic collapse destroyed the empire from within. Despite the success of emperors such as Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius, Rome fell victim to barbarian invasions. From Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire carried on the traditions of Greece and Rome. Nearly a thousand years after Rome's fall, Constantinople was conquered by the forces of Islam. Barbarian kingdoms took possession of the fragments of the Roman Empire. Charlemagne revived hopes for a new empire in Western Europe. Amid invasion and civil disorder, a military aristocracy dominated the kingdoms of Europe. Bishop, knight, and peasant exemplified some of the social divisions of the year 1000 A.D. 21. Common Life in the Middle Ages Famine, disease, and short life expectancies were the conditions that shaped medieval beliefs. 22. Cities and Cathedrals of the Middle Ages The great churches embodied the material and spiritual ambitions of the age. Two hundred years of war and plague debilitated Europe. A new urban middle class emerged, while dynastic marriages established centralized monarchies. 25. The Renaissance and the Age of Discovery Renaissance humanists made man "the measure of all things." Europe was possessed by a new passion for knowledge. 26. The Renaissance and the New World The discovery of America challenged Europe. Voiced by Martin Luther, Protestantism shattered the unity of the Catholic Church. 28. The Rise of the Middle Class As the cities grew, new middle-class mores had an impact on religious life. For more than a century, the quarrels of Protestants and Catholics tore Europe apart. 30. The Rise of the Trading Cities Amid religious wars, a few cities learned that tolerance increased their prosperity. Exhausted by war and civil strife, many Europeans exchanged earlier liberties and anarchies for greater peace. 32. Absolutism and the Social Contract Arguments about the legitimate source of political power centered on divine right versus natural law. Monarchs considered reforms in order to create more efficient societies, but not at the expense of their own power. Intellectual theories about the nature of man and his potential came to the fore. 35. The Enlightenment and Society Scientists and social reformers battled for universal human rights during a peaceful and prosperous period. Freedom of thought and expression opened new vistas explored by French, English, and American thinkers. The British colonists created a society that tested Enlightenment ideas and resisted restrictions imposed by England. A new republic, the compromise of radicals and conservatives, was founded on universal freedoms. 39. The Death of the Old Regime In France, the old order collapsed under revolutionaries' attacks and the monarchy's own weakness. Liberty, equality, and fraternity skidded into a reign of Terror. Technology and mass production reduced famine and ushered in higher standards of living. A consumer revolution was fueled by coal, public transportation, and new city services. Leaders in the arts, literature, and political theory argued for social justice and national liberation. 44. The Age of the Nation-States The great powers cooperated to quell internal revolts, yet competed to acquire colonies. Public education and mass communications created a new political life and leisure time. Everyday life of the working class was transformed by leisure, prompting the birth of an elite avant-garde movement. 47. The First World War and the Rise of Fascism Old empires crumbled during World War I to be replaced by right-wing dictatorships in Italy, Spain, and Germany. World War II was a war of new tactics and strategies. Civilian populations became targets, as the Nazi holocaust exterminated 11 million people. The U.S. and Soviet Union dominated Europe, and confronted each other in Korea. 50. Europe and the Third World Burdened with the legacy of colonial imperialism, the Third World rushed development to catch up with its Western counterparts. 51. The Technological Revolution Keeping up with the ever-increasing pace of change became the standard of the day. Modern medicine, atomic energy, computers, and new concepts of time, energy, and matter all have an important effect on life in the 20th century.
When Lightning Struck / Saga of an American Warplane This video tells the story of the brave flying aces who flew and fought the P-38 Lightning, the fastest and fiercest warbird in World War II. Relive exiting moments from history through interviews with some of the leading flying aces of World War II, ground crew members and current P-38 owners.
When You Make a Good Crop: Italians in the Delta VHS, 28 min., 1986 From farming cotton to making pasta for church suppers, Italian Americans have been part of Mississippi River Delta life for generations. This film explores their heritage and beginnings as tenants and sharecroppers on 1890s cotton plantations to their lives now as businessmen and family farmers. Introduced by Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, the film is a warm and compelling essay on the expanded family and the universality of the immigrant experience. 1987 winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award.
VHS, 29 min., 2005 When the United States entered WWII after Pearl Harbor, production of planes for the Army Air Corp was increased and more trained pilots were needed to fly these additional planes. The Walnut Ridge Army Flying School in Northeast Arkansas was one of the many Army Air Corps Pilot Schools that sprang up all across the south in 1942 to accomplish this. Completed that summer, this base was a temporary home to many future airmen from all parts of the country. Jack Hill of TeleVision of Arkansas combines interviews with film clips and photos to tell the story of how the Walnut Ridge area was impacted by the flying school and by the events of the war around the world.
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