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WTTW – Chicago by L: Touring the Neighborhoods (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 787 MB
Part travelogue, part history, and part tour of Chicago’s neighborhoods by ‘L’, Chicago’s elevated train. A glimpse into the cultural life and architectural features of the city’s diverse neighborhoods. [Read more…]
PBS American Experience – Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001) Part 5: The Frightful War
English | Documentary | Size: 532 MB
More has been written about Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln than any other Americans, and yet, A House Divided is the first dual biography. The film follows the couple from their strikingly different childhoods in the South to their years in the White House. It uncovers their public ambitions and their private fears. It paints a vivid picture of a complicated marriage, of a couple who loved each other passionately, quarreled intensely, and who were frequently forced to mourn. And it describes the impact of Lincoln’s brutal assassination on the nation and the sanity of his wife.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin (Napoleon, Truman, FDR, LBJ, TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt), A House Divided weaves stunning and evocative original cinematography of battle scenes and White House dinners, of cabinet meetings and shopping sprees with beautiful daguerreotypes and photographs to create a vibrant sense of America in the mid-19th century.
Part 5: The Frightful War
As 1863 begins, Northerners resent fighting to free black slaves; others are furious with Abraham Lincoln for the devastating Union casualties. Mary Lincoln, worried about her husband, spends money compulsively.
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PBS American Experience – Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001) Part 3: Shattered
English | Documentary | Size: 532 MB
More has been written about Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln than any other Americans, and yet, A House Divided is the first dual biography. The film follows the couple from their strikingly different childhoods in the South to their years in the White House. It uncovers their public ambitions and their private fears. It paints a vivid picture of a complicated marriage, of a couple who loved each other passionately, quarreled intensely, and who were frequently forced to mourn. And it describes the impact of Lincoln’s brutal assassination on the nation and the sanity of his wife.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin (Napoleon, Truman, FDR, LBJ, TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt), A House Divided weaves stunning and evocative original cinematography of battle scenes and White House dinners, of cabinet meetings and shopping sprees with beautiful daguerreotypes and photographs to create a vibrant sense of America in the mid-19th century.
Part 3: Shattered
When the Lincolns arrive in Washington in 1861, the country is breaking apart. The country’s president-elect is unknown, untested and mistrusted.
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PBS American Experience – Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001) Part 2: We Are Elected
English | Documentary | Size: 532 MB
More has been written about Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln than any other Americans, and yet, A House Divided is the first dual biography. [Read more…]
HC History Undercover – Soviet Top Secret Weapons (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 925 MB
Step into the hidden world of Cold War-era Soviet technology – where secrecy, power, and fear ruled the global stage, and when these classified Soviet inventions had the West on high alert. [Read more…]
PBS American Experience – Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001) Part 6: Blind with Weeping
English | Documentary | Size: 532 MB
More has been written about Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln than any other Americans, and yet, A House Divided is the first dual biography. The film follows the couple from their strikingly different childhoods in the South to their years in the White House. It uncovers their public ambitions and their private fears. It paints a vivid picture of a complicated marriage, of a couple who loved each other passionately, quarreled intensely, and who were frequently forced to mourn. And it describes the impact of Lincoln’s brutal assassination on the nation and the sanity of his wife.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin (Napoleon, Truman, FDR, LBJ, TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt), A House Divided weaves stunning and evocative original cinematography of battle scenes and White House dinners, of cabinet meetings and shopping sprees with beautiful daguerreotypes and photographs to create a vibrant sense of America in the mid-19th century.
Part 6: Blind with Weeping
Following the Union victory at Gettysburg, and the surrender at Appomattox, the president tells Mary Lincoln they can find some happiness again. Just days later, he is shot to death.
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PBS American Experience – Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001) Part 1: Ambition
English | Documentary | Size: 532 MB
More has been written about Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln than any other Americans, and yet, A House Divided is the first dual biography. [Read more…]
PBS American Experience – Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001) Part 4: The Dearest of All Things
English | Documentary | Size: 532 MB
More has been written about Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln than any other Americans, and yet, A House Divided is the first dual biography. The film follows the couple from their strikingly different childhoods in the South to their years in the White House. It uncovers their public ambitions and their private fears. It paints a vivid picture of a complicated marriage, of a couple who loved each other passionately, quarreled intensely, and who were frequently forced to mourn. And it describes the impact of Lincoln’s brutal assassination on the nation and the sanity of his wife.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin (Napoleon, Truman, FDR, LBJ, TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt), A House Divided weaves stunning and evocative original cinematography of battle scenes and White House dinners, of cabinet meetings and shopping sprees with beautiful daguerreotypes and photographs to create a vibrant sense of America in the mid-19th century.
Part 4: The Dearest of All Things
Tormented by her grief and losing grip on sanity, Mary Lincoln turns to spiritualists for comfort. Though bowed down with sorrow, her husband never loses sight of the tragedy consuming the nation and issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
Discovery Channel – Pearl Harbor: Seven Views of Defiance (2001)
English | Tutorial | Size: 1.04 GB
— Alternative title: "Pearl Harbor: The Real Story" —
December 7, 1941, is a day that lives in infamy. Early that morning, three hundred and fifty Japanese torpedo planes, high-level bombers and Zero fighters launched an attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. [Read more…]
PBS American Experience – Streamliners: America’s Lost Trains (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 510 MB
Using beautiful period footage and photographs – some of which have been held in private collections and never viewed by the public – and interviews with the men and women who rode and worked on the rails, Streamliners uncovers the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an American passenger rail system that was the envy of the world. [Read more…]