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From Hopper to Wyeth, authors trace back the growing tendency to Realism in American art that emerged after the First World War. In stark contrast to European Modernists, US artists made their nation the...
The MoMA in New York is the first choice for aficionados of modern and contempoary art. Art collectors Abby Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss, and Mary Sullivan laid the foundations for the museum, which opened its...
A dream ride through 20th-century America made entirely from home movies, asks whether we’ve come to the end of the open road. Have we reached "peak travel"? Can we still find fortune (and ourselves) on...
Ten-part documentary series directed and produced by Oliver Stone and co-written by Stone and historian Peter Kuznick. The series looks back at human events that at the time went under-reported, but that...
In 1991 Anita Hill, a law professor from Oklahoma, sat before a US Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while...
From rooftop farmers to backyard beekeepers, Americans are growing food like never before. Growing Cities goes coast to coast to tell the stories of these intrepid urban farmers, activists, and everyday...
Filmmaker Spike Lee returns to New Orleans, the scene of his post-Katrina documentary WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS (2006). On this occasion, he focuses mainly on the BP disaster, from the...
A BBC documentary about the story of Detroit’s automotive industry. Using extraordinary archive footage, including vivid projections of the city’s heyday on its now abandoned buildings, the testimony of...
This programme tells the story of Abraham Lincoln, from the rustic childhood that forged his beliefs, to the tough campaign that made him president. Historians examine the difficult leadership choices of his...
After writing TAXI DRIVER for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this little-known drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. The film is one of...
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