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  1. News from America

    Date released
    19 Jul 1943
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    1357
    NoS ID
    147446
    Story no
    3 / 3

    Mister America contest 1943. Nazi spy collared. Air patrol foils subs. America’s air transport. Chemical warfare.

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  2. America in the Fifties: The Rage Within (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    One of a series documenting American life and culture in the 1950s. The fabled good life delivers peace and plenty to white America, but bypasses black Americans. Depicts the struggle that black Americans...

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  3. Shakespeare and the American Dream. Part 2 (2016 Radio)

    aka: Shakespeare in Obama’s America

    Series
    Compass: Shakespeare in the World
    Producer
    Maggie Ayre

    Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Washington he discovers that his plays are used to discuss ideas of power and politics. He meets Stephen Sondheim...

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  4. America in the Fifties: The Road to the Sixties (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...

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  5. Alistair Cooke’s America (2004)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 650 minutes), £49.99

    The British-born American journalist, Alistair Cooke, traces the history of America from the eve of discovery to the early 1970s in this classic television series.

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  6. America in the Fifties: A Burning Desire (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    In a time of social claustrophobia and pervasive sexual taboos, Hugh Hefner launched ‘Playboy’, the Kinsey Report was published and the Pill first became available, setting the stage for the sexual...

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  7. Now That the Buffalo’s Gone (1969 Film, Video)

    Director
    Ross Devenish
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The history of the American Indian from the first white settlers to 1969.

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  8. America in the Fifties: Selling the American Way (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at how television was used in the 1950s to sell consumer dreams and political deception in the USA. Rosser Reeves devised advertisements for cigarettes, headache remedies and presidents; Richard Nixon...

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  9. America in the Fifties: The Beat (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at the beginnings of pop music and pop culture, strongly influenced by Elvis Presley and Beat poet Jack Kerouac. However, the country’s underlying racist disregard for civil rights comes to...

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  10. 500 Nations (2006)

    Director
    Jack Leustig
    Producer
    Kevin Costner
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 390 minutes), £29.99

    An eight part American television documentary series which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and...

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