Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Born: October 14, 1890
Died: March 28, 1969
in Denison, Texas, USA
Dwight David Eisenhower (pronounced [ˈaɪzənhaʊər]) (October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969), nicknamed "Ike", was the 34th President of the United States, during two terms from January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961. During World War II, he is General of the Army and Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Europe. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the United States from 1945 to 1948 and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe from April 2, 1951 to May 30, 1952. As President of the United States, he oversaw the ceasefire - fire in Korea, launched the space race, developed the network of interstate highways and made the development of nuclear weapons one of its priorities in the context of the cold war with the USSR.

Movies for Dwight D. Eisenhower...

The Bloody Hundredth
Title: The Bloody Hundredth
Character: Self - Supreme Allied Commander (voice) (archive footage)
Released: March 14, 2024
Type: Movie
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
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The First Look
Title: The First Look
Released: October 23, 2023
Type: Movie
The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences (IIEC) in 1947, has been the most important event in the history of Spanish cinema. From there would come directors such as Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura, Miguel Picazo, José Luis Borau, Mario Camus, Antonio Mercero and Víctor Erice. Through their first film practices, we will learn about the history of the school and an entire country.
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Title: Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Character: Self - US Army GA (archive footage)
Released: January 27, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Title: Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Character: Self (archive Footage)
Released: October 27, 2022
Type: Movie
An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong's legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States.
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A Compassionate Spy
Title: A Compassionate Spy
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
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Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis
Title: Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis
Character: Himself (archive Footage)
Released: September 24, 2021
Type: Movie
Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis, is a documentary short featuring animation that focuses on the story of a top secret POW camp that was classified for over 5 decades. In the midst of WWII, a group of young Jewish refugees are assigned to guard a top secret POW camp near Washington D.C. The Jewish soldiers soon discover that their prisoners are no other than Hitler's top scientists - What starts out as an intelligence mission to gather information from the Nazis, soon gets a shocking twist when the Jewish soldiers are tasked with a very different mission altogether. A mission that would question their moral values - exposing a dark secret from America's past.
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Title: Fiasco
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 19, 2021
Type: TV
Amidst the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian revolution, Jimmy Carter's failure to free American hostages sets the stage for Reagan's own hostage crisis.
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Title: Money, Explained
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 11, 2021
Type: TV
We spend it, we borrow it, and save it. Now let's talk about money and its many minefields, from credit cards to casino, scammers to student loans.
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The Soul of America
Title: The Soul of America
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the country’s current political and historical moment by examining its past. Based on his 2018 bestseller of the same name.
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Title: First Ladies
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 2020
Type: TV
Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries on the lives of America's most iconic First Ladies is a bold revision of each woman's traditional portrayal, revealing how they were impacted during their time in the White House, and how their achievements fundamentally shaped American and global history.
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The Queen and the Coup
Title: The Queen and the Coup
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 14, 2020
Type: Movie
Planned by Britain’s MI6 and then executed by America’s C.I.A., the coup d’état which follows will destroy Iran’s last democracy, and relations between Iran and the West until the present day. Most shocking of all, the truth about Her Majesty’s role will be hidden from the Queen herself, and even the all-powerful Shah who will be used by Britain and American to replace Iran’s last democratic Prime Minister. The coup will lead to political upheaval all over the Middle East for decades to come, eventually resulting in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which will end the reign of the Shah, and British and American influence in Iran, inspiring countless other Islamist revolutions around the world.
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Title: History 101
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 22, 2020
Type: TV
Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.
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Fat Fiction
Title: Fat Fiction
Character: Self (Archival footage) / President
Released: March 13, 2020
Type: Movie
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
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The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War
Title: The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: January 29, 2020
Type: Movie
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World War II. In 1947 he was judged and imprisoned, but he escaped less than a year later and found a safe haven in Spain, ruled with an iron hand by General Francisco Franco. What did he do during the many years he spent there?
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Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
Title: Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: January 8, 2020
Type: Movie
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.
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Laboratory Greece
Title: Laboratory Greece
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
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The Endless Trench
Title: The Endless Trench
Character: Himself (voice)
Released: October 31, 2019
Type: Movie
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
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Coup 53
Title: Coup 53
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
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Title: The Family
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 9, 2019
Type: TV
An enigmatic conservative Christian group known as the Family wields enormous influence in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of its global ambitions.
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Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Title: Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 14, 2019
Type: Movie
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
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Title: Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: TV
Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.
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Storm Front in Mayo
Title: Storm Front in Mayo
Character: Self - US Military (archive footage)
Released: May 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.
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The King Who Fooled Hitler
Title: The King Who Fooled Hitler
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 2019
Type: Movie
In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944.
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Memphis Belle in Color
Title: Memphis Belle in Color
Character: self
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
In January 1942, the U.S. military created a new bomber command, the Eighth Air Force, and sent a small contingent of men overseas to loosen the Nazis' grip on Europe. The command's star player was the B-17, a fast, heavily armed aircraft that changed the course of World War II. Witness them take on the mighty German Luftwaffe over enemy skies. Discover the story of how one B-17--the Memphis Belle--and its crew lifted the spirits of a nation and became a symbol of American prowess in defense of freedom.
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Above Majestic
Title: Above Majestic
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 30, 2018
Type: Movie
A look at the origins, history and conspiracies behind the "Majestic 12", a clandestine group of military and corporate figureheads charged with reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
Title: Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 4, 2018
Type: Movie
National Geographic documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. helps drive change in the United States in the face of bitter opposition, not least from opponents within the U.S. government; King is subjected to a fierce campaign of intimidation by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.
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Title: The Vietnam War
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: September 17, 2017
Type: TV
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
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Get Me Roger Stone
Title: Get Me Roger Stone
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 23, 2017
Type: Movie
From his days of testifying at the Watergate hearings to advising recent presidential candidate Donald Trump, Roger Stone has long offended people on both sides of the political fence as a force in conservative America. Outspoken author, pundit, ahead of his time election strategist, this is his story.
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Title: Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 17, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Race for the White House
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 6, 2016
Type: TV
From executive producers Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti, CNN Original Series "Race for the White House" captures the drama of how a high-stakes presidential election can turn on a single issue and so much more.
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Imminent Threat
Title: Imminent Threat
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
A look at the War on Terror and the threat it's causing to our civil liberties and political discourse. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents Janek Ambros' directorial debut. The feature doc tackles the War on Terror's impact on civil liberties and the strange coalition it's creating between the progressive left and libertarian right. The doc examines the NSA, drones, the war on journalism and other encroachments on civil liberties started by the Bush era and expanded by the Democratic establishment.
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Title: Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: September 20, 2014
Type: Movie
In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.
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Unwarranted Influence
Title: Unwarranted Influence
Released: July 4, 2014
Type: Movie
An intense examination of the military industrial complex, from President Eisenhower to the modern day.
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Title: D-Day Sacrifice
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 4, 2014
Type: TV
Comprised entirely of re-mastered and colorised archive footage from World War II, much of it never before seen, Sacrifice recounts the story of D-Day through the testimonies of those who lived it. These important historical days are seen through the eyes of French civilians and members of the military fighting on both sides. The testimonies of famous individuals like Dwight D. Eisenhower and Erwin Rommel are intertwined with those of anonymous soldiers and citizens, such as film director Samuel Fuller and Eisenhower's chauffeur, Kay Summersby. From the preparations for D-Day all the way through to the liberation of Paris, the accounts of these men and women provide a moving and invaluable retelling of this pivotal time in history.
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Title: Japanology Plus
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 3, 2014
Type: TV
Host Peter Barakan delves into various aspects of Japanese culture; exploring practices, history, and modern innovations in such areas as ramen, rice, sushi, geisha, bonsai, and so much more. Local experts discuss their passions at fascinating length, and American Japanophile Matt Alt experiences the food, practices, and cultures in each episode in depth. Viewers will finish each half hour episode with a new understanding of an area of Japanese life through demonstrative videos and explanations, all delivered respectfully and true to the Japanese way of life.
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Sirius
Title: Sirius
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Dr. Steven Greer—an Emergency room doctor turned UFO researcher—discloses top secret information about classified energy and propulsion techniques, investigates new technology and sheds light on criminal and murderous suppression. He does so by accumulating over 100 Government, military and Intelligence-community witnesses who testify on record about the cover-up.
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Propaganda
Title: Propaganda
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 14, 2013
Type: Movie
An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.
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Title: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2012
Type: TV
Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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An Escalator in World Order
Title: An Escalator in World Order
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 26, 2012
Type: Movie
USA is something like a religious belief in Korean history since the liberation. A powerful essay film is born with archival footages and a compilation of images of the Korean modern society. The right film for a generation who's losing the knowledge of Korean modern history.
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YouTube Trilogy
Title: YouTube Trilogy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Director James Benning turned his attention to the digital world in YouTube Trilogy, organizing found material around three thematic clusters.
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The Kennedy Detail
Title: The Kennedy Detail
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 2, 2010
Type: Movie
Based on the book by Gerald S. Blaine With Lisa McCubbin "The Kennedy Detail", this documentary interviews the men who served on President JFK's Secret Service Detail and their memories of the man, president, and perceptions of Camelot. Some of these men were there on the fateful day when life changed on the streets of Dallas, TX in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, 1963.
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Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible
Title: Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible
Character: himself
Released: October 3, 2010
Type: Movie
For the last half of the 20th century, America was consumed by two struggles: the civil rights movement and the cold war. For 30 years, Hubert Humphrey stood at the center of both. As a soldier of the New Deal and the Great Society, he amassed one of the most prolific legislative records in senate history, sponsoring hundreds of billsfrom Medicare to the Peace Corps to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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Title: Korea: The Forgotten War in Colour
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: TV
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A War in Hollywood
Title: A War in Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 16, 2009
Type: Movie
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.
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Title: Apocalypse: The Second World War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 8, 2009
Type: TV
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
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Title: World War II in HD Colour
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: TV
World War II In HD Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, and the Pacific War. It is on syndication in America on the Military Channel. This series is in full color, combining both original and colorized footage.
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All the Presidents' Wives
Title: All the Presidents' Wives
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A look at the women who has served as First Ladies of the United States.
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Blood and Oil
Title: Blood and Oil
Character: Self
Released: June 13, 2008
Type: Movie
The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. In Blood and Oil, bestselling author and Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare challenges this conventional wisdom and corrects the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years -- rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Title: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Character: Self (Archive Photos)
Released: March 24, 2008
Type: Movie
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after the bomb brought the war to an end, in spite of his renown and his enormous achievement, America turned on him - humiliated and cast him aside. The question the film asks is, "Why?"
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Sputnik Mania
Title: Sputnik Mania
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth, bringing America to its knees in awe - then fear. Initially thrilling as a marvel of science, Sputnik was soon viewed by America a weapon of mass destruction.
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Freedom's Fury
Title: Freedom's Fury
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt.
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Title: Good Night, and Good Luck.
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
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Title: Bones
Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Title: The Presidents
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 18, 2005
Type: TV
The show documents each of the Presidents in the union, starting with George Washington, following a chronological order up until George W. Bush. Each President's segment begins with the narrator giving a brief dossier about each one, from their political affiliation, family, and notable traits. The show then highlights the history behind each presidency, linking each one to the following.
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JFK II: The Bush Connection
Title: JFK II: The Bush Connection
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Four part documentary about JFK's murder, and who had reasons and means to do it, and to escape. - Part 1: History is written by the winners. Part 2: Through the Looking Glass. Part 3: Who killed JFK?. Part 4: Deep History.
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Title: Nuremberg
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 2000
Type: TV
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
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Title: Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: TV
Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.
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Presidential Bloopers
Title: Presidential Bloopers
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 18, 1999
Type: Movie
A look back at some of the funniest presidential moments in history.
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Television: The First Fifty Years
Title: Television: The First Fifty Years
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno.
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Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years
Title: Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The first and only video telling the JFK story through his own words! -in original audio tapes uncovered from the JFK Library Collection. -In never-before-published photographs from LIFE magazine researchers. -In re-discovered film footage from the 50's and 60's... images that capture an era and will captivate forever. From young Congressman to President; from eminent bachelor to courtship and marriage; from post-war to Cold Wars; from Hyannis Port to Dallas; these were the Kennedy Years. LIFE in Camelot presents an intimate portrait, a human story, a first-hand glimpse of the life and times of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that will be treasured for generations to come.
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Sports on the Silver Screen
Title: Sports on the Silver Screen
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 16, 1997
Type: Movie
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Title: Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Character: Self - U.S. President (archive footage)
Released: September 29, 1995
Type: Movie
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.
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The Champagne Safari
Title: The Champagne Safari
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 5, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of Charles E. Bedaux, Franco-American industrial efficiency expert, adventurer, and Nazi collaborator. In 1934, he bankrolled a 1,200-mile expedition across northern Canada, supported by an outrageously equipped entourage. Documentary about a wealthy adventurer whose Nazi ties eventually led to charges of treason.
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Title: "KZ Buchenwald. Aushalten. Wir eilen euch zur Hilfe"
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Former inmates and American soldiers remember the cruel conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Ike
Title: Ike
Character: Self (archival footage)
Released: September 20, 1993
Type: Movie
He went off to war an unknown soldier and returned a beloved national hero. Often dismissed as a "do-nothing" president and a good-natured bumbler, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- the last American president to be born in the 19th century -- was actually a skillful politician, a tough Cold War warrior, and one of America's most misunderstood and unappreciated presidents. Two-part documentary from American Experience.
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Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Title: Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 20, 1993
Type: Movie
This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "second conspiracy" to cover up the truth, including attempts to ruin his own reputation.
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Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
Title: Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
From IMDB: Several important historical events occurred on the planes with call sign Air Force One. These events are described within the backdrop of the evolution of the presidents' airplanes.
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Title: Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, where he found massive success turning pop imagery into art and eventually founded "The Factory," his famed studio and party venue. Among the many notables interviewed are Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtenstein.
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Title: Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 8, 1987
Type: Movie
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
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Genocide
Title: Genocide
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 14, 1982
Type: Movie
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.
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The War at Home
Title: The War at Home
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and interviews with participants that explore the events of the period on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
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CBS Reports: The CIA's Secret Army
Title: CBS Reports: The CIA's Secret Army
Character: as Himself (archival)
Released: June 10, 1977
Type: Movie
This program examines Cuban exile terrorists living in Miami. These terrorists were secretly trained and employed by the U.S. government in the early 1960s to fight Fidel Castro. Now, without U.S. support, terrorist activities continue in Miami and Latin America. The program reviews secret U.S. policies toward Cuba in the 1960s and includes interviews with Castro and former top CIA officials. Members of this group, formerly secretly trained and employed by U.S. Government until 1967, have been active in Watergate crimes and anti-Castro terrorism including bomb explosion on Cuban Airline killing seventy-three. Includes interviews with Castro, E. Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, and Rolando Martinez.' - The Paley Center For Media
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The Front
Title: The Front
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter
Title: McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Documentary of the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who rose to prominence in the early 1950s by trumpeting allegations of a vast conspiracy by alleged Communist agents whom he claimed had infiltrated the U.S. government, media, film industry, labor unions and other organizations. (IMDb)
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Hearts and Minds
Title: Hearts and Minds
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.
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A Place in History
Title: A Place in History
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
A documentary on Dwight Eisenhower shown at the Eisenhower library.
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A Wall in Jerusalem
Title: A Wall in Jerusalem
Released: November 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded using rare archive film footage and photographs of historic events in the development of 20th century Israel. Beginning with the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, the film covers Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism; the earliest immigration and settlements; the formation of kibbutzim; the Balfour Declaration; the rise of European anti-Semitism; the British occupation of Palestine; Arab confrontations; the United Nations resolution; the "Exodus" incident, and the Six Day War.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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La Rabbia
Title: La Rabbia
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 13, 1963
Type: Movie
Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation", and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.
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The Smashing of the Reich
Title: The Smashing of the Reich
Released: July 2, 1961
Type: Movie
An unpublished documentary film proposed in restored version. 100 million meters of film viewing, film libraries inventoried 11 countries and 3 years of work were needed to bring these documents. This documentary evokes the destruction of the Nazi war machine with a particular emphasis on air power. The most significant events are recounted as the Normandy landings, the battle of Paris, the last German offensive with the historical siege of Bastogne and the landing on the island of Elba. Also shown are the bombing of German industrial centers, and the liberation of concentration camps.
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1964 New York World's Fair Report
Title: 1964 New York World's Fair Report
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Preparation, planning and construction for the Fair, under the imperious direction of Robert Moses.
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The Young Lovers
Title: The Young Lovers
Character: Himself, in photo (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
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Freedom Is Indivisible
Title: Freedom Is Indivisible
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 20, 1953
Type: Movie
This film is a powerful reminder of the importance of human freedom and the need to protect our rights and liberties. It follows the inauguration of Columbia University's new president, General David Eisenhower, and includes speeches from a number of dignitaries, including former Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, Admiral Leahy and Halsey. The film emphasizes the need to be educated and aware of the dangers of statism and communism, and the importance of preserving our freedoms and liberties, including the right of property, profit and wage incentives, competition, a free market, and a government that serves us, not rules us.
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The Century Is Fifty
Title: The Century Is Fifty
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 16, 1950
Type: Movie
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that shaped the years 1900 to 1950. Complementing the vintage film clips are three dramatized sketches, delineating the romantic customs of three different points in time. These sketches are inadequately performed, and can easily be ignored. Ce Siecle a 50 Ans both preserved and provided celluloid material for scores of future documentaries.
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Title: Crusade in Europe
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 1949
Type: TV
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Beyond Glory
Title: Beyond Glory
Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Rhin et Danube
Title: Rhin et Danube
Character: Self (archival footage)
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” in the second world war from the days it first crossed the Rhine in March of 1945, through the liberation of a POW-camp in Swabia, until the forces reached the Danube and the Alps at the end of the war and the day French troops marched in the victory parade in Berlin.
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Nazi Concentration Camps
Title: Nazi Concentration Camps
Character: Self
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture during the World War II.
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The True Glory
Title: The True Glory
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.
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Death Camps
Title: Death Camps
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
This film is made up of several reports shot by French and Allied war correspondents on 8 concentration camps located in Germany and liberated by the American and British armies in March and April 1945: Colditz, Langestein, Ohrdruf, Dachau, Buchenwald, Tekhla (Gardelegen), Belsen and Mittelgladbach A detailed description of the infrastructure and functioning of these death camps, where mass graves and starving survivors rub shoulders, bears witness to the atrocity and scale of the crimes committed by the Nazis.
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The Unelected Statesman
Title: The Unelected Statesman
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Billy Graham was a man known worldwide for his southern charm, unmistakable voice and most importantly to him, his love and devotion to Jesus Christ. Lesser known, however, is his role as a statesman of the United States. Despite never holding public office, Graham comforted the nation in some of its darkest hours, spread its causes and principles to all corners of the globe, and counseled every president from Harry Truman to George W. Bush. This is the story of the unelected statesman.
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UFO Invasion at Rendlesham
Title: UFO Invasion at Rendlesham
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie