Results

Abc News: We Interrupt This Program (2001)

aka: We Interrupt This Program

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 55 minutes), $19.98 (+p&p)

Three live broadcasts of breaking news events on ABC News: the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; the hijacking of TWA Flight 847; and the San Francisco earthquake.

DVD Find Other To order

UPITN - A Short History

Date

23 Jan 2014, 13:00

Author

Gabriel Hernandez

Post Type

Page

United Press Movietone The agreement between United Press and Fox-Movietone to shoot newsfilm for television stations was announced on July 13, 1948. United Press Movietone, or UPMT, was pioneering in...

Other Record only

Abc News: Presidents (1990)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 60 minutes)

An ABC News documentary about the office of the President of the UNited States from George Washington to George Bush. Includes colour and black and white footage from historical archives.

DVD Find Other To order

Race Against Prime Time (1985 Video)

Producer

David Shulman

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min.

Looks at the network and local television news reporting of racial conflict in Miami in 1980, following the acquittal by an all white jury of four Miami police officers on all charges related to the beating...

DVD Find Other Record only

Broadcast News (1992 Multimedia)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

CD-ROM

A database of full-text, fully-indexed transcripts from news and current affairs programmes broadcast on CNN, National Public Radio, ABC News and PBS television and radio networks, covering US and...

DVD Find Other To order

Feeding the Beast (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 30 minutes), $69.95

Following the resignation of two of the New York Times’ top editors in June 2003 , the programme raises issues about newsgathering and decision-making in journalism by looking at the ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT...

DVD Find Other To order

Vietnam War, The: The Seeds of Conflict (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

CBS News footage of the Vietnam War which includes combat footage inside the doomed French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, early American missions, and the lead-up to the first battle at La Drang Valley where the...

DVD Find Other To order

Control Room (2004)

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £19.99

A documentary on the coverage and perception of the American and British War against Iraq, but this time from the perspective of the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera. It provides an important contrast to the...

DVD Find Other To order

Abc News: Lifting the Fog - The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2002)

aka: Lifting the Fog - The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 70 minutes), $19.98 (+p&p)

A provocative investigation into the historical motives that led to the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan.

DVD Find Other To order

Abc News: Hiroshima - Why the Bomb was Dropped (2002)

aka: Hiroshima - Why the Bomb was Dropped

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 70 minutes), $19.98 (+p&p)

Peter Jennings takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Truman administration and the events that led to the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. Includes footage of the incredible destruction, some of which has...

DVD Find Other To order