documentary

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• SOURCE: History.com
  11/15/19
  

  The 1969 Documentary That Tried to Humanize Queen Elizabeth II and The Royal Family

  The idea was to show the royal family in their day-to-day lives. The results were mixed.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/9/2019
  

  Documentary Filmmaker's New Film Probes History of Native Americans in the US Military

  "The Warrior Tradition," a new film set to air on PBS, examines the complex history of Native Americans in the U.S. military since World War I and how their service transformed the lives for Native Americans from various tribes.

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• SOURCE: A Night at the Garden
  Accessed 2/27/19
  

  Video of the Week: A Night at the Garden

  Watch the Oscar-nominated short documentary. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/22/19
  

  Revisiting The American Nazi Supporters of "A Night at the Garden"

  by Margaret Talbot

  One advantage to living through Trumpism is that it has compelled a reckoning with aspects of our country’s past that, for a long time, many Americans preferred not to acknowledge.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/2/19
  

  In Upcoming Documentary, Henry Louis Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction

  The 4-part documentary will air on PBS starting April 9th. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  Accessed 1/17/19
  

  Video of the Week: ‘What Is Democracy?’ Review: Going Back to Greece, Documentary Asks Who Rules

  Like democracy itself, the movie assumes such a broad mandate and has such noble intentions that indicating its shortcomings seems almost beside the point.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/9/19
  

  'The Dictator's Playbook' looks at history, with an eye on today

  The PBS documentary series provides modern-day resonance -- a guide to tyrants of the past, conveying lessons on how those tactics can be employed in the present.

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• SOURCE: The Voice
  7-15-15
  

  The historian behind the BBC’s new documentary — Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners — tells The Voice why unearthing these stories is so important

  "The idea that slavery is over-exposed is a myth," says David Olusoga.

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• SOURCE: The Chicago Tribune
  4-24-15
  

  Documentary tells the story slaves who moved to Chicago and formed a community

  Dreamed of for decades by African-American leader Ernie Broadnax, finally turned into reality over the past two years by director Phil Broxham with the help of the Elgin History Museum, the documentary has finally debuted.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-25-15
  

  Recalling a Film From the Liberation of the Camps

  ‘Night Will Fall’ Examines the Making of a 1945 Holocaust Documentary

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-22-15
  

  A Scorsese Documentary on Bill Clinton Is Stalled

  The project is now indefinitely shelved, partly because Mr. Clinton insisted on more control over the interview questions and final version than Mr. Scorsese was willing to give.

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• SOURCE: University of Virginia Center for Politics
  10-7-14
  

  New documentary on PBS: Why 1964 was the election that defined our politics today

  It ushered in age of negative campaign ads, highlighted by “Daisy” spot.