The Untold History of the United States ~ Oliver Stone

World War II -- "Narrated by Oliver Stone, this new one-hour series features human events that at the time went under reported, but crucially shaped America's unique and complex history. The first chapter explores the birth of the American Empire by focusing on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Through examination of key decisions during World War II, discover unsung heroes such as American Henry Wallace and explore the demonization of the Soviets." (source: www.sho.com)

A Resistência Final de Salvador Allende (1998)

Direção: Patricio Henríquez

Origem: Chile, Canadá e França
Ano: 1998
Idioma: Castellano
56 minutos - legendado pt/br

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Na madrugada de 11 de setembro de 1973, o telefone tocou na residência presidencial do Chile trazendo uma notícia que mudaria para sempre a história de um povo: as forças navais chilenas tinham se levantado em Valparaíso. Poucas horas mais tarde, todo o poderio militar exigiria que o presidente deixasse o cargo. O golpe era um fato. Três anos antes, Salvador Allende, o candidato da União do Povo, ganhou a eleição do primeiro regime socialista da América Latina eleito democraticamente à presidência. Mas nem toda a sociedade chilena comemorou a vitória. As associações de extrema-direita, alinhadas com as principais potências mundiais e apoiadas principalmente pelos EUA, se uniram para derrubar o governo Allende. As últimas palavras de Salvador Allende dedicadas ao seu povo, as imagens angustiantes do bombardeio militar, as ordens severas dadas pelo ditador Augusto Pinochet e o depoimento de sobreviventes que acompanharam o presidente até o último minuto de sua vida, mostram vividamente os acontecimentos daquele 11 de setembro de 1973, dia em que o povo chileno começou a viver uma ditadura longa e sangrenta. O documentário foi produzido pela produtora canadense Télé-Québec e francesa France 3 e descreve o que aconteceu no Palacio de La Moneda durante as longas horas de resistência. - Sinopse OmniDoc

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Bom povo português | 420doc#16

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Bom Povo Português é um filme português de Rui Simões, um documentário histórico de longa-metragem que descreve a situação social e política de Portugal entre o 25 de Abril de 1974 e o 25 de Novembro de 1975, «tal como ela foi sentida pela equipa que, ao longo deste processo, foi ao mesmo tempo espectador, actor, participante, mas que, sobretudo, se encontrava totalmente comprometida com o processo revolucionário em curso (PREC)».
Estreou em Lisboa nos cinemas Estúdio e Quarteto a 18 de Novembro de 1981.
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Portugal entre dois momentos históricos cruciais. O PREC: entre o dia 25 de Abril de 1974 e o dia 25 de Novembro de 1975.
A Revolução dos Cravos e o Primeiro Governo Provisório. As manifestações do PS e do PCP. António de Spínola e o «bom povo». O direito à greve. Camponeses e operários, os campos e as fábricas. Vasco Gonçalves, as coligações políticas e o MFA. Mário Soares perante a contaminação fascista da administração pública. Álvaro Cunhal e o Portugal democrático e independente. Os actos de repressão pela GNR, as manifestações pela descolonização. A radicalização da vida política: o 28 de Setembro, o 11 de Março, o caso Torrebela. As ocupações de prédios abandonados, a Reforma Agrária, o Norte e o Centro, Os Três Efes: Fátima, Futebol e Fado. Os retornados. Os avanços da social-democracia. Os casos do jornal República e da Rádio Renascença Os recuos do PS na revolução democrática. Os ataques a sedes dos partidos de esquerda. A Santa da Ladeira, a prisão de Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho e a entrada em cena de Ramalho Eanes.

Fonte : http://420doc.blogspot.pt/2012/09/bom-povo-portugues-420doc16.html

Commanding Heights Part Three: The New Rules of the Game

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"With communism discredited, more and more nations harness their fortunes to the global free-market. China, Southeast Asia, India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America all compete to attract the developed world's investment capital, and tariff barriers fall. In the United States Republican and Democratic administrations both embrace unfettered globalization over the objections of organized labor. But as new technology and ideas drive profound economic change, unforeseen events unfold. A Mexican economic meltdown sends the Clinton administration scrambling. Internet-linked financial markets, unrestricted capital flows, and floating currencies drive levels of speculative investment that dwarf trade in actual goods and services. Fueled by electronic capital and a global workforce ready to adapt, entrepreneurs create multinational corporations with valuations greater than entire national economies. When huge pension funds go hunting higher returns in emerging markets, enterprise flourishes where poverty once ruled, but risk grows, too. In Thailand the huge reservoir of available capital proves first a blessing, then a curse. Soon all Asia is engulfed in an economic crisis, and financial contagion spreads throughout the world, until Wall Street itself is threatened. A single global market is now the central economic reality. As the force of its effects is felt, popular unease grows. Is the system just too complex to be controlled, or is it an insiders' game played at outsiders' expense? New centers of opposition to globalization form and the debate turns violent over who will rewrite the rules. Yet prosperity continues to spread with the expansion of trade, even as the gulf widens further between rich and poor. Imbalances too dangerous for the system to ignore now drive its stakeholders to devise new means to include the dispossessed lest, once again, terrorism and war destroy the stability of a deeply interconnected world.

Commanding Heights Part Two: The Agony of Reform

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"As the 1980s begin and the Cold War grinds on, the existing world order appears firmly in place. Yet beneath the surface powerful currents are carving away at the economic foundations. Western democracies still struggle with deficits and inflation, while communism hides the failure of its command economy behind a facade of military might. In Latin America populist dictators strive to thwart foreign economic exploitation, piling up debt and igniting hyperinflation in the process. In India and Africa bureaucracies established to end poverty through scientific planning spawn black markets and corruption and stifle enterprise. Worldwide, the strategies of government planning are failing to produce their intended results. From Bolivia and Peru to Poland and Russia, the free-market policies of Thatcher and Reagan are looked to as a possible blueprint for escape. One by one, economies in crisis adopt "shock therapy" -- a rapid conversion to free-market capitalism. As the command economies totter and collapse, privatization transfers economic power back into entrepreneurial hands, and whole societies go through wrenching change. For some the demands and opportunities of the market provide a longed for liberation. Others, lacking the means to adapt, see their security and livelihood swept away. In this new capitalist revolution enlightened enterprise and cynical exploitation thrive alike. The sum total of global wealth expands, but its unequal distribution increases, too, and economic regeneration exacts a high human price."

The Commanding Heights Part One: The Battle of Ideas

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1466397368167658753

A global economy, energized by technological change and unprecedented flows of people and money, collapses in the wake of a terrorist attack .... The year is 1914. Worldwide war results, exhausting the resources of the great powers and convincing many that the economic system itself is to blame. From the ashes of the catastrophe, an intellectual and political struggle ignites between the powers of government and the forces of the marketplace, each determined to reinvent the world's economic order. Two individuals emerge whose ideas, shaped by very different experiences, will inform this debate and carry it forward. One is a brilliant, unconventional Englishman named John Maynard Keynes. The other is an outspoken émigré from ravaged Austria, Friedrich von Hayek. But a worldwide depression holds the capitalist nations in its grip. In opposition to both Keynes and Hayek stand not only Hitler's Third Reich but Stalin's Soviet Union, schooled in the communist ideologies of Marx and Lenin and bent on obliterating the capitalist system altogether. For more than half a century the battle of ideas will rage. From the totalitarian socialist systems to the fascist states, from the independent nations of the developing world to the mixed economies of Europe and the regulated capitalism of the United States, government planning will gradually take over the commanding heights. But in the 1970s, with Keynesian theory at its height and communism fully entrenched, economic stagnation sets in on all sides. When a British grocer's daughter and a former Hollywood actor become heads of state, they join forces around the ideas of Hayek, and new political and economic policies begin to transform the world.

'The Rainbow Bridge' By Roger Griffin

'The Rainbow Bridge' By Roger Griffin from Wiley-Blackwell Compass on Vimeo.

Bill Moyers at the Howard Zinn Lecture

The first Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture is delivered by veteran journalist, Bill Moyers. Citing Zinn [...]as his inspiration, Moyers focuses on the challenges facing our democracy. He decried what he says has been a 30-year trend toward plutocracy, where the rich get richer at the expense of the average citizen.

Howard Zinn, the political activist and author who taught for 24 years in the College of Arts & Sciences political science department, died in January. The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture is made possible by a generous gift from Alex MacDonald, Esq. (CAS'72), and Maureen A. Strafford, MD (MED'76).

Presented at Alumni Weekend on October 29, 2010.

Dark Ages - History Channel

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The once-powerful Rome--rotten to the core by the fifth century--lay open to barbarian warriors who came in wave after wave of invasion, slaughtering, stealing, and ultimately, settling. As chaos replaced culture, Europe was beset by famine, plague, persecutions, and a state of war that was so persistent it was only rarely interrupted by peace.

Dark Ages 7of10 - History Channel  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DfhKQV-jis

Dark Ages 8of10 - History Channel  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Gd7N_56cQ

Dark Ages 9of10 - History Channel  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1rvaijZOI

Dark Ages 10of10 - History Channel  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlKVlq_herE

Dark Ages - History Channel

AllHistories

The once-powerful Rome--rotten to the core by the fifth century--lay open to barbarian warriors who came in wave after wave of invasion, slaughtering, stealing, and ultimately, settling. As chaos replaced culture, Europe was beset by famine, plague, persecutions, and a state of war that was so persistent it was only rarely interrupted by peace.

Dark Ages 2of10 - History Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq9PvjVOpQo

Dark Ages 3of10 - History Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihIW4flSQSA

Dark Ages 4of10 - History Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64fQYmoM7hc

Dark Ages 5of10 - History Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioP_DK4zO0M

LOST CIVILIZATIONS: AFRICA, A HISTORY DENIED

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Recently picked up set specifically for DVD entitled "Africa: A History Denied". DVD contains some excellent little known facts, however film could have covered this material in far less time. Would have loved to see some of the more major ancient African civilizations profiled such as Ghana, Mali, Songhay, or Nubia. Would also like to see a more historically correct portrayal of African personalities like Hannibal of Carthage and societies such as the Moors or Ancient Egypt (Kemet). This product pails in content and engagement to Micosoft's Encarta Africana, 3rd Edition or most other current History Channel type docu-dramas.
- by JoJo

LOST CIVILIZATIONS PRESENTS AFRICA: A HISTORY DENIED

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Europeans played a significant role in shaping the history of Africa especially Great Zimbabwe even though the Europeans never actually came in contact with its citizens. For centuries, Europeans wanted to discover a vanished Anglo empire that had amassed vast riches inside of Africa. Having caught wind of a rumor of a great civilization inside of southern African, Karl Mauch stumbled across the ruins of Great Zimbabwe in nineteen seventy nine (Davidson 178).

The Europeans were convinced that Africans were incapable of creating these marvelous structures. Karl Mauch believed that Great Zimbabwe was the palace of Queen Sheeba and he called it "the city of gold". For many years, white Africans would not credit blacks for being the creators of Great Zimbabwe, because the whites did not believe blacks were capable of creating such magnificent creativity (Waterston video).

Archaeologists excavated carelessly; they wanted to get to the bottom layer of the ruins because it was believed that this layer held the secret to proving that this was a white civilization, and proving whites had been dominate in South Africa (Effland 2). Because of this, the excavation ruined a lot of artifacts that verified the truth about thr civilizationFor a long time, white Africans would not credit blacks for being the creators of Great Zimbabwe, because the whites thought blacks inferior and incapable of creating such magnificent monuments. Cecil Rhodes dug up Great Zimbabwe in order to locate gold and diamonds, and robbed the civilization of many of its treasures (Waterston video). There is little knowledge of this civilization, as its history was passed downby by word of mouth, and none of the history was recorded.

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Cloaked in darkness since medieval times, the spectacular ruins of the once dazzling, southern African kingdom of Great Zimbabwe posed a thorny dilemma for white settlers who claimed to have "discovered" the region a mere hundred years before. Refusing to believe the massive, finely hewn walls could be the product of native culture, white "experts" eager to claim the land for Europeans credited the ancient city to everyone from wandering Phoenicians to the biblical Queen of Sheba. In so doing, they began a long insidious European tradition of willful misinterpretation of Africa's past, until, in the ultimate irony, the place where human history began would become a place with no history of its own.

Now, trek inland to the remote site of Great Zimbabwe, a fabulous "lost city," which reached its glory in the 14th century. Then, sift the sands of time to uncover the equally splendid culture of Africa's Swahili Coast. The fabulously wealthy center of the thriving gold and ivory trades until the 16th century, its cities now lie all but forgotten, buried under centuries of indifference. Reclaiming their past from a long tradition of racial prejudice and neglect, the descendants of these lost cultures are only now discovering the extraordinary achievements of Africa's indigenous civilizations.

Actor Sam Waterston hosts this ten-part series that revisits ancient cultures on four continents. Dramatic re-enactments recall key historic events, and attractive location footage provides viewers with interesting information about the featured cultures. This episode looks at some of the trade routes established by the ancient, sub-Saharan tribes of Africa.

Michael Parenti - The Struggle for History

An excellent lecture by the well-known American political scientist, historian, and media critic, Michael Parenti. On history and who tells it (complete with Q&A).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5036518851434858037

Howard Zinn "Three Holy Wars" Progressive's 100 Anniversary

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Howard Zinn at Monona Terrace, Madison, WI 5-2-09

Central America: The Burden of Time

Isolated from the rest of the world, the Mayans and Aztecs created sophisticated civilizations that in many ways paralleled ancient Mediterranean empires. God-like kings and a priestly ruling class dominated splendid cities of temples and pyramids.

The Barbarian West

Civilization arose in Asia, but it was the West which would create the first world culture. This final episode traces the origins of western culture through Greece and Rome prevailing by borrowing from the legacies of the original five old world civilizations.

Christina: A Medieval Life Host Michael Wood

Historian Michael Wood delves through medieval court records to follow the fortunes of a village in Hertfordshire and, more particularly, the family of peasant Christina Cok. The 14th century was a perilous time in British history, shot through with famine, plague and war. It was a time of climate change, virulent cattle diseases and, above all, the Black Death. But it was also the time when modern mentalities were shaped, not just by the rulers but increasingly by the common people. It was the beginning of the end of serfdom, the growth of individual freedom and the start of a capitalist market economy. Michael chooses an everyday story of a medieval country family through which to illustrate the bigger picture of how the character and destiny of ordinary British people was being shaped. It is history told not from the top of society but from the bottom - and especially through the eyes of the forgotten Michael brings to life the story of a 14th-century extended family: peasant Christina Cok, her father Hugh, estranged husband William, and her children John and Alice. Michael shows us that though their lives might at first seem quite alien, you only have to scratch below the surface to find uncanny connections with modern-day Britons. In them, you can see our beginnings as a nation of shopkeepers and the roots of the British love affair with beer and football. Perhaps more importantly is the triumph of that sturdy and cussed streak of individualism that has been a characteristic of 'Britishness' down the centuries.

Legacy Origins of Civilization - Iraq: Cradle of Civilization

Host Michael Wood traces the rise of both Asian and Western civilization in one global perspective in these thought-provoking videos. From the crumbling ruins in the Iraqi desert to those of Greece and Rome, viewers contemplate thriving cities and complex societies that have vanished, a reminder that other nations prospered for thousands of years. Now all that remains is their legacy. 1. Iraq: Cradle of Civilization After thousands of years as a hunter/gatherer, man built the first cities 5,000 years ago on the banks of the Euphrates River. Civilization as we know it began with the glorious cultures of Ur, Nineveh, and Babylon.

Barbarians “The Brainy Barbarians” - (Greeks & Persians)

Terry Jones immerses himself in the world of the 'barbarians' of the East - the Greeks and the Persians - and discovers that it was they, and not the Romans, who were the real brains of the ancient world. The story begins and ends with a strange lump of rusty metal discovered on the sea bed in the Mediterranean in 1900. It turned out to be a 2,000-year-old piece of highly complex engineering, the like of which would not be seen for another 1,500 years. What had happened to halt the progress of ancient know-how? The Romans had happened.
From the great Parthian Empires of the East to their closer neighbours, the Greeks, the Roman world was surrounded by mathematical and scientific brilliance. But Terry discovers that all the Romans were interested in was conquest and money. Tragically, in the single-minded quest to expand their Empire, the Romans buried scientific treasures and wonderfully enlightened societies that are only just coming to light.