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The documentary AMERICAN REDS provides a historical overview of 20th century Communism and the growth, decline and contemporary relevance of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA). Since its founding in 1919, the CPUSA has championed the struggles for democracy, labor rights, women’s equality, and racial justice. During its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, it attracted millions of Americans to support its causes and almost 100,000 men and women to enlist in its ranks. The film begins with the Party's emergence as a small militant sect in the 1920s and documents its rise to the foremost radical group in the United States during the Great Depression, fighting against racism, sexism and fascism, as well as for the rights of workers to organize. It ends with the decline of the Party during the Cold War under the assaults of the FBI and anti- communist crusades.
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Producido para la franja "American Masters" de PBS, es el primer documental producido sobre Charles y Ray Eames, la pareja que revolucionó el mundo del diseño en Estados Unidos a mediados del siglo XX, y cuyos diseños siguen reeditándose hoy en día.
Ofrece una mirada a su manera de trabajar y a la creación de su estudio en Venice, California, donde convirtieron un antiguo almacén en una suerte de estudio renacentista conocido como el 'Eamery', en el que jóvenes talentos de muy diferentes terrenos artísticos aunaban esfuerzos con la intención de experimentar en el diseño.
El documental, narrado por el actor James Franco, muestra multitud de archivos inéditos, fotos, video, etc., producidos en el estudio durante sus cuarenta años de existencia. En diversas entrevistas, familiares, colaboradores, archivistas y biógrafos nos ayudan a perfilar un retrato de las múltiples facetas artísticas y el legado de esta prolífica pareja.
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Esta fascinante película echa un vistazo entre bastidores a uno de los clásicos del cine del siglo XX y a uno de los directores más enloquecedoramente brillantes del cine contemporáneo, Milos Forman.
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American cowboys have been writing poetry for more than a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western Heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history.Cowboy Poets travels to the big sky country of Nevada, Montana, and Arizona to explore the tradition and to introduce three working cowboys and the poetry they write about the lifestyle and land they love. Cowboy Poets profiles three cowboy reciters, Waddie Mitchell, Slim Kite and Wally McRae, representing three different aspects of the cowboy-poetry tradition.
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Explores the attempts of the minister of the Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to persuade his all-white congregation to reach out to "negro" Lutherans in the city's north side.
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A cinema-verite classic set in Chicago, 1968. America's youth demonstrates and agitates. Mayor Daly and the Chicago police react. Violence ensues. A personal story told by those who lived through it.
Broadcast nationally on PBS in 1968.
