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Films. Film The Cancer Detectives. The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer—which was once the number one cancer killer of women.. Film Mr. Tornado. Mr. Tornado is the remarkable story of the man whose groundbreaking work in research and applied science saved thousands of ...

Floyd Norman: Every time Walt walked down a hallway, he would give a loud cough.It was a warning sign so we would know that the boss was in the area. Richard Sherman, Songwriter: In Bambi, there's a line when "Man is in the forest," there was danger.You have to be worried. We'd hear Walt coughing coming down the hall, and one of the guys would say, "Man is in the forest."

One of the greatest dramas in American politics, President Jimmy Carter was overwhelmingly voted out of office in a humiliating defeat in 1980, only to become one of the most admired statesmen and humanitarians in America and the world.

Newsreel Announcer (archival): The tremendous crowds which you see gathered outside the stock exchange are due to the greatest crash in the history of the New York Stock Exchange in market prices. Narrator: December 31st, New Year’s Eve.The crash and its terrible consequences were still in the future. Financial leaders, everyone celebrated what had been a decade of prosperity and boundless ...

Apr 11, 2011 · Film Description. The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages.

Narrator: In September, 1980, the Department of Energy was in the midst of building a revolutionary house. A recent energy crisis, and early warnings about global warming, had helped to bring the project about. Located in Carlisle, Massachusetts, the remarkable new structure was to have solar heat, solar hot water, solar-powered appliances, and in theory would even sell the excess energy it ...

Related Features. God in America | Article The Black Church. Read about the Black Church in America in this feature written by Marilyn Mellowes. Mellowes was principally responsible for the research and development of the series God in America and has served as its series producer. God in America | Article People and Ideas: Early American Individuals

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Watch THE GREAT WAR, a three-night event, on PBS starting Monday, Apr 10 at 9/8c. U.S. Army Tank Corps recruiting poster showing a man making repairs to a tank. J.P. Wharton, 1st Lt. Tank Corps/Library of Congress In 1914, the United States Army ranked seventeenth in the world, right behind Serbia’s.