Harry S. Truman
Birthday: 1884-05-08
Place of Birth: Lamar, Missouri, USA
Biography: Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945.
Movies
Catastrophe: No Safe Place
Catastrophe-No Safe Place is a 1980's documentary series presented by Charles Bronson and Jill Irela...
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Korea, A Hundred Years of War
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of bo...
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Laboratory Greece
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the curr...
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The Untold History Of The United States
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present....
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The David Susskind Show: Give 'em Hell Harry
In 1961, David Susskind conducted a series of interviews with former President Harry Truman in Truma...
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Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
Several important historical events occurred on the planes with call sign Air Force One. These event...
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Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
A special that takes a look inside the White House....
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientifi...
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The Kennedy Dynasty
The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent d...
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Superpower
Superpower illustrates how the United States has leveraged its position to ensure unilateral world d...
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The Atomic Cafe
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
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Canadian Headlines of 1947
A compilation of Canadian news stories from 1947 including: long skirts, a new look in women's fashi...
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Hearts and Minds
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...
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A Compassionate Spy
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos w...
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The Day After Trinity
This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the ...
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on ...
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It's Always Fair Weather
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. The...
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Le syndrome du Titanic
Dieser Dokumentarfilm zeigt die ökologischen Probleme, mit denen die Erde zu kämpfen hat. Mit Bezug ...
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Backstage at the White House
This unique glimpse into the private lives of our Presidents and their families showcases some of th...
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Bye Bye Blues
During World War II, Daisy Cooper returns home to Canada with her children after her British husband...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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The Propaganda Game
North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly kn...
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When the Wind Blows
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare ...
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
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1945: The Savage Peace
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atroc...
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Propaganda: Engineering Consent
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...
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White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...
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The Corporation
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
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Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan
The story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial, which, ...
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FDR
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who st...
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Tuesday in November
A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War...
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and na...
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Uncle Tom
In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative th...
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The Front
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...
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McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter
Documentary of the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who rose to prominence in the early 1950s by trumpe...
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Where's My Roy Cohn?
Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demago...
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Strip Search
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in t...
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec...
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Secrets of the CIA
It fought against international terrorism in South America and watched out for our allies abroad...b...
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On Company Business
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA....
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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWI...
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The Unelected Statesman
Billy Graham was a man known worldwide for his southern charm, unmistakable voice and most important...
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Coup 53
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
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Assignment in Korea
Swedish journalist visits Korea to report on the situation during the war...
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Truman
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...
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Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut
Using over an hour of new, never-before-seen material, combined with footage from 1946, producers Da...
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.”...
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The False Promise of Advancement
Origin sticks like shit to your shoe! That's what Marlen Hobrack says, who grew up as a working-clas...
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America at War
The United States of America has been at war for almost all of its 250 years of existence. From the ...
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Songs for After a War
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of th...
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X-Day: The Invasion of Japan
By spring of 1942, Japan controlled the western Pacific, the Philippines, and large parts of Indochi...
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Royal Journey
A documentary account of the five-week visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Cana...
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Atomic People
Combining personal accounts with archive footage, this film features the voices of some of the only ...
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Hiroshima
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. C...
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