Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Born: May 8, 1884
Died: December 26, 1972
in Lamar, Missouri, USA
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945.

Movies for Harry S. Truman...

Title: Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 12, 2024
Type: TV
With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.
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The Kennedy Dynasty
Title: The Kennedy Dynasty
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: July 2, 2023
Type: Movie
The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America throughout the 20th century; of nine brothers who had truly extraordinary lives, marked by both greatness and tragedy: the story of the Kennedy family.
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Title: Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Character: Self - Politician (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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Title: Le Siècle des icônes
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 27, 2022
Type: TV
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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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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Title: The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: March 30, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel’s book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.
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I Am Jackie O
Title: I Am Jackie O
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Jackie Kennedy Onassis was the most famous woman in the world, impossibly glamourous and universally admired. She was also complex, layered, and extremely guarded, making her endlessly fascinating and enigmatic. This incredibly compelling film provides a definitive exploration of her life, from iconic first lady to widow, unofficial royalty and fashion icon.
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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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Uncle Tom
Title: Uncle Tom
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
In this collection of interviews with some of America's most conservative black pundits, white director Justin Malone presents his vision of being black in America. Featuring politicians, lobbyists, ministers, some unqualified random people (even an alleged sex pest), the film explores their choice to navigate the world as one of America's most self-resenting identities: the American Black Conservative. In this propaganda film from Director Justin Malone and Executive Producer Larry Elder, Uncle Tom evangelizes victim-blaming, selfishness, and their lack of empathy. Uncle Tom shows us a biased perspective of American History from this political ”movement.”
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Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Title: Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2020
Type: Movie
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.
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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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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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Where's My Roy Cohn?
Title: Where's My Roy Cohn?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump. This thriller-like exposé connects the dots, revealing how a deeply troubled master manipulator shaped our current American nightmare.
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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: 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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Korea: The Never-Ending War
Title: Korea: The Never-Ending War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confronts the myth of the “Forgotten War,” documenting the post-1953 conflict and global consequences.
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The Kennedy Who Changed The World
Title: The Kennedy Who Changed The World
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Bill Clinton, Nicole Scherzinger and members of the Kennedy family reveal how JFK's sister Eunice used sport to change the lives of people with intellectual disabilities.
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Propaganda: Engineering Consent
Title: Propaganda: Engineering Consent
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: May 29, 2018
Type: Movie
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public relations, knew the answer to such a key question. The amazing story of the master of manipulation and the creation of the engineering of consent; a frightening true story about advertising, lies and charlatans.
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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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Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan
Title: Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: May 22, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial, which, just after the Second World War, was established in Japan as a special jurisdiction in 1946 (it was closed in 1948) to judge the war crimes of the Japanese leaders; and how and why officials in Washington prevented Emperor Hirohito to be seen sat on the bench.
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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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The Propaganda Game
Title: The Propaganda Game
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 3, 2015
Type: Movie
North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.
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1945: The Savage Peace
Title: 1945: The Savage Peace
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 24, 2015
Type: Movie
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years.
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
Title: Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 20, 2014
Type: Movie
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.
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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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The Untold History Of The United States
Title: The Untold History Of The United States
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
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Title: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 12, 2012
Type: TV
Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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The David Susskind Show: Give 'em Hell Harry
Title: The David Susskind Show: Give 'em Hell Harry
Character: Himself
Released: June 19, 2012
Type: Movie
In 1961, David Susskind conducted a series of interviews with former President Harry Truman in Truman's hometown of Independence, Missouri. After picking Truman up at his home to take him to the Truman Presidential Library for the interviews over a number of days.
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Title: Korea: The Forgotten War in Colour
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: TV
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Title: Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 8, 2009
Type: Movie
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.
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Superpower
Title: Superpower
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Superpower illustrates how the United States has leveraged its position to ensure unilateral world domination through absolute economic and military superiority and government deception.
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Title: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
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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White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Title: White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 2007
Type: Movie
Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully last -- uses of nuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors - many who have never spoken publicly before - and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings, White Light/Black Rain provides a detailed exploration of the bombings and their aftermath.
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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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Strip Search
Title: Strip Search
Character: self (archive footage)
Released: April 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
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The Corporation
Title: The Corporation
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
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Title: History vs. Hollywood
Character: Self - President of the United States (archive footage)
Released: January 22, 2001
Type: TV
History vs. Hollywood is a television show on the History Channel in the United States. On the show, experts are interviewed on the historical accuracy of a film that is based on a historical event. For example the movie The Last Samurai was featured in one episode in which military historian Geoffrey Wawro, professor of history at the University of North Texas, and director of the university's Barsanti center for military-history, compared the movie with the actual events. On the show the expert guests discuss the factual accuracy of the film as well as the everyday objects that a person of the particular time period would have seen. In some episodes an expert or the host will go on a journey to the actual historical sites depicted in the film, or interview someone who witnessed the event firsthand. In each of the more than dozen episodes both expert guests and filmmakers will discuss the historical accuracy of the film dramatized. The series was first released in 1999, and had been produced on a semi-regular basis continuing through at least 2005. The program was conceived and created by producer Steven Jack who also directed a majority of the episodes. Although the hour long programs were made for television most episodes were shot on 35mm film which heightened its authentic looking recreations and aided in earning critical praise for its efforts to both entertain and educate.
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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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Secrets of the CIA
Title: Secrets of the CIA
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
It fought against international terrorism in South America and watched out for our allies abroad...but what else did it do?...What are the true secrets of the C.I.A.?
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FDR
Title: FDR
Character: Himself
Released: October 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered this country through two monumental crises: the Depression and World War II. FDR served as president longer than any other, and his legacy still shapes our understanding of the role of government and the presidency. A film by award winning filmmaker David Grubin. This is the second of four parts.
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Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
Title: Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A special that takes a look inside the White House.
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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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Bye Bye Blues
Title: Bye Bye Blues
Character: Himself (Voice) (Archive Footage)
Released: September 9, 1989
Type: Movie
Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when husband returns from war. Story watches the progression of the band as it grows into a popular, successful recording and touring group. Excellent music and soundtrack.
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When the Wind Blows
Title: When the Wind Blows
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: October 24, 1986
Type: Movie
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
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The Atomic Cafe
Title: The Atomic Cafe
Character: archival footage
Released: March 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
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The Day After Trinity
Title: The Day After Trinity
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 20, 1981
Type: Movie
This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist and all-around Renaissance man who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb that America unleashed on Japan in the final days of World War II. Through extensive interviews and archival footage, THE DAY AFTER TRINITY traces Oppenheimer’s evolution, from architect of one of the most consequential endeavors of the twentieth century to an outspoken opponent of nuclear proliferation who came to deeply regret his role in ushering in the perils of the atomic age.
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Catastrophe: No Safe Place
Title: Catastrophe: No Safe Place
Character: Self - President of the USA (archive footage)
Released: September 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Catastrophe-No Safe Place is a 1980's documentary series presented by Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland presenting different catastrophic events around the world. But they dug into the events leading up to the event whether it was a bad location or engineering mistakes or unauthorized modifications made by the contractors who built the thing, to seismic or volcanic events.
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On Company Business
Title: On Company Business
Character: Self - US President (archive footage)
Released: April 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.
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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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Владыки без масок. Таинственный миллиардер
Title: Владыки без масок. Таинственный миллиардер
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 31, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: The DuPont Show of the Week
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 1961
Type: TV
The DuPont Show of the Week is an American anthology drama series which aired for three seasons on NBC from September 17, 1961 to August 30, 1964.
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Title: Startime
Released: October 6, 1959
Type: TV
Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC Television network in the 1959-60 television season.
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Title: The David Susskind Show
Character: Self
Released: January 18, 1959
Type: TV
The David Susskind Show is an American television talk show hosted by David Susskind. The program began its existence in 1958 as Open End, and was broadcast by WNTA-TV in New York City. The title referred to the fact that the program continued until Susskind or his guests were too tired to continue late on a Sunday night.
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Assignment in Korea
Title: Assignment in Korea
Character: amerikansk president
Released: April 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Swedish journalist visits Korea to report on the situation during the war
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Title: The Jack Benny Program
Character: Harry S. Truman
Released: October 28, 1950
Type: TV
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
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Title: Crusade in Europe
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 1949
Type: TV
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Title: Crusade in Europe
Character: Himself (Archive)
Released: May 5, 1949
Type: TV
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Canadian Headlines of 1947
Title: Canadian Headlines of 1947
Character: Lui-même
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A compilation of Canadian news stories from 1947 including: long skirts, a new look in women's fashion; scenes of a record snow storm; a representative group of Canadians receive the first Canadian citizenship certificates at the Supreme Court of Canada; 18-year-old Barbara Ann Scott in Ottawa after winning the amateur European and World figure skating championships and being presented the trophy by Governor General Viscount Alexander for defending her North American title; postage stamps that commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell including shots of his home in Brantford, Ontario; the Dominion Ski Championships at Mont Ste-Anne, Quebec with twins Rhoda and Rhona Wurtele of Montreal and Tom Mobraaten of Vancouver.
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Berlin Conference
Title: Berlin Conference
Character: Himself
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
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Tuesday in November
Title: Tuesday in November
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War information, for overseas distribution. It is meant to explain how the democratic process in America works.
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UFO Invasion at Rendlesham
Title: UFO Invasion at Rendlesham
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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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.