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Mas De Cien Anos De Cine Mexicano
Learn about the important films, actors, directors, and unforgettable moments of Mexican cinema from its first days. Browse by topic, via the timeline, or jump to an alphabetical listing. Some topics are quite extensively covered; others...
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Museum of the Moving Image: Interview With Tim Burton
A conversation with film director Tim Burton, from a lecture series sponsored by the museum. Click on the appropriate link to access the interview in audio format or with a text transcript.
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Museum of the Moving Image: Interview With Tim Robbins
A conversation with film director and actor Tim Robbins, from a lecture series sponsored by the museum. Click the appropriate link to access the interview in audio format or with a text transcript.
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Museum of the Moving Image: Interview With Francis Ford Coppola
A conversation with film director Francis Ford Coppola, from a lecture series sponsored by the museum. Click the appropriate link to access the interview in audio format or with a text transcript.
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Museum of the Moving Image: Interview With Sidney Lumet
A conversation with film director Sidney Lumet, from a lecture series sponsored by the museum. Click the appropriate link to access the interview in audio format and/or a text transcript of the interview.
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Museum of the Moving Image: Interview With William Dafoe
A conversation with film actor William Dafoe, from a lecture series sponsored by the museum. Click on the appropriate link to access the interview in audio format or a text transcript.
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Canal Kids: Arte (Explore Art?for Kids?in Portuguese)
History of the development of cinema, painting, theater, music, and dance--for kids. Visitors can explore how music is mixed, listen to radio, and watch the making of animated cartoons, among many other activities.
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Museum of the Moving Image: Interview With Robert Altman
A conversation with film director Robert Altman, from a lecture series sponsored by the museum. Click the appropriate link to access the interview in audio format or a text transcript.
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Florida's History Museum
Site offers information on history of Florida through exhibits at the Museum.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 32: The John Travolta Syndrome
The songs and movies of modern times have had a major influence on fashion. Coincidentally, many of these important fashion-influencing films of recent times had one thing in common: John Travolta. From the white leisure suits ofSaturday...
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Russian Archives Online
The site explores Russian history through images, audio, and films. Offers links to Russian archival collections of photographs, movies, and audio clips.
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: Black Battalion
This site, support material for a documentary film, outlines the history of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, a non-combatant Black battalion established in 1916. It was created to permit Blacks to participate in the war effort. This new...
A&E Television
History.com: How Us Presidents Have Communicated With the Public From the Telegraph to Twitter
From carefully staged speeches to radio to Twitter, U.S. presidents have always leveraged the cutting edge to connect directly with voters. Two centuries before Twitter, U.S. presidents understood the power of communicating directly with...
A&E Television
History.com: Was the Escape From Alcatraz Successful?
A 2013 letter to the FBI, if real, suggests the Anglin brothers and Frank Morris survived one of the most daring and dangerous prison breaks of all time. It was one of the most ingenious prison breaks of all time -- if it worked. In...
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Pbs: Baseball
PBS provides this site as a companion to the film, "Baseball." Enjoy "The Wisdom of Yogi Berra," vintage pictures of players, video clips, and more on America's pastime.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Marx Brothers: A Resource Guide
A guide that has a variety of resources to study the Marx Brothers' lives and work.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz
On this comprehensive website is the history of Auschwitz. You can click on maps, photographs, personal histories, and film footage.
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American Film Institute: Top Ten Mysteries
This is a top-ten list of the greatest mystery movies of all time, as chosen through a poll of leaders in the creative community. Number one is "Vertigo," which was released in 1958.
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History Matters: Movie Going in the 1920s
As part of a research study performed in the 1920s, individuals were asked to write about their experiences with movie-going. This is an excerpt from that study by a high school girl, who tells about what the movies mean to her.
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History Matters: Making Sense of Documents
Designed to help teachers and students make effective use of primary documents. There are well written section on how to make sense of numbers, ads, music, diaries, and more. included are interactive activities for students to help them...
Digital History
Digital History: Formation of Modern American Mass Culture
A mass culture developed in America in the 1920s due to several factors. Read about the influence of radio, movies, and spectator sports in the adoption of common speech. Find out about the creativity of the time in literature and music.
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Pbs: Independent Lens: Refugee
Documentary film about three Cambodian Americans who, on a voyage of discovery, return to Cambodia after living as refugees in the United States for twenty years. The film explores the ways in which their personal stories reflect...
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Pbs: Our Town by Thornton Wilder Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the Masterpiece Theater film version of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." Much of it can be used without the film, though. It includes a short biography of the author, a plot summary, a history of the play, class...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern Youth
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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