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CNN's Millennium Boxed Set
: :A thousand years in 10 hours is an ambitious project, to say the least. But the team at CNN succeeds with its now-typical aplomb, as the team that brought us Cold War shares with us Millennium. 'We know the history of our own country,' narrator Ben Kingsley intones. But this series purports to give us 'history from a global perspective, not through the eyes of the West.' Using reenactments and impressive computer graphics--used with inspiration for everything from rebuilding the 11th-century Pueblo Bonito to representing Freud's idea of the subconscious--the history ...
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Cnn: Cold War (8pc)
: essential video:If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam dragged on, providing the traditional images of modern warfare, some of the conflict's most dangerous battles were invisible--tactical, intellectual, and fought primarily in the minds and war rooms of U.S. and Soviet leaders: Kennedy, Krushchev, Castro, Kissinger, Gorbachev, and Reagan. This 8-volume, 24-episode series, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, is a comprehensive history that examines the key events of the arc of the ...
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Cnn: People Bomb
:Description:CNN, the world news leader, brings together this video collection of the best reports from the last decade. Each video presents the curcumstances surrounding and the impact of a current person, place, or event. Excellent viewing for history buffs and students.
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CNN presents MM Millennium - The Thirteenth Century / The Fourteenth Century
from: Warner Brotohers
: :This is Volume two of the CNN MM Millennium Box set that delineates a thousand years of history. It includes The Thirteenth Century, episode 3 (Century of the Stirrup) and The Fourteenth Century, episode 4 (Century of the Scythe).
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Cnn: Murder By Numbers
:Description:CNN, the world news leader, brings together this video collection of the best reports from the last decade. Each video presents the curcumstances surrounding and the impact of a current person, place, or event. Excellent viewing for history buffs and students.
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CNN Perspectives Presents COLD WAR Vol. 2
from: Warner Brothers
: :Volume 2 of this critically acclaimed series features segments 4 through 6. 4: Berlin 1948-1949 5: Korea 1949-1953 6: REDS 1947-1953
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CNN Prespectives Presents: COLD WAR - Vol 1 - Comrades 1917-1945; Iron Curtain 1945-1947
from: CNN Productions & Warner Home Video
: :1) COMRADES 1917-1945: Though ideological enemies, the Soviet Union and the United States are allies against Hitler during World War II. At the end of the war, Europe is divided, and the one-time allies now confront each other. The United States has the atomic bomb. - 2) IRON CURTAIN 1945-1947: The Soviet Union dominates Eastern Europe. Churchill warns of the consequences. Stalin insists that the governements of the Soviet Union's client states be pro-communist. Impoverished after the war, Great Britain opts out as a world power. The United States assumes ...
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CNN Prespectives Presents: COLD WAR - Vol 2 - Marshall Plan, Berlin
from: CNN Productions & Warner Home Video
: :3) MARSHALL PLAN 1947-1952: The United States adopts the Truman doctrine, pledging to defend freedom worldwide. Secretary of State George Marshall plans to bolster economic recovery in Europe. Seeing this as a treat, Stalin forbids his satellites to particpate. The world effectively divides. 4) BERLIN 1948-1949: In Berlin, the American, British and French sectors form a Western enclave in the Soviet zone of divided Germany. In June 1948, the Soviets blockade the city, but the Western allies successfully airlift in supplies. In August 1949, Soviet scientists explode an atomic bomb, ...
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Cnn: 1991 Year in Review
: :3) MARSHALL PLAN 1947-1952: The United States adopts the Truman doctrine, pledging to defend freedom worldwide. Secretary of State George Marshall plans to bolster economic recovery in Europe. Seeing this as a treat, Stalin forbids his satellites to particpate. The world effectively divides. 4) BERLIN 1948-1949: In Berlin, the American, British and French sectors form a Western enclave in the Soviet zone of divided Germany. In June 1948, the Soviets blockade the city, but the Western allies successfully airlift in supplies. In August 1949, Soviet scientists explode an atomic bomb, ...
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CNN Perspectives Presents The Cold War (12 Tapes)
from: Warner Brothers
: :Comrades 1917-1945/ Iron curtain1945-1947 / Marshall Plan 1947-1952/ Berlin 1948-1949 /Korea 1949-1953 / Reds 1947-1953 / After Stalin 1953-1956 / Sputnik 1949-1961 / The Wall 1958-1963/ Cuba 1959-1962 /Mad 1960-1972/ Vietnam 1954-1968/Make Love Not War the 60's/Red Spring the 60's/China 1949-1972/ Detente 1969-1975/The Wall Comes Down 1989/ Spies 1944-1994/ Star Wars 1980-1988/ Soldiers of God 1075-1988/ Freeze 1977-1981/ Good guys, Bad Guys 1967-1978/ Backyard 1954-1990 Conclusions
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