A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers

Marshall, Texas: Small Town America (2:28)

Small Town America (3:32)

Religion in Marshall (4:17)

Texas Town (2:15)

Railroads in Marshall (3:38)

Small Town Stories (4:59)

Good Ole Days (3:24)

Small Town Values (2:03)

Small Town Roles (4:19)

Importance of Reading (5:36)

Small Town Entertainment (3:30)

Live by the Whistle (2:35)

Saturdays in a Small Town (3:14)

Shared Values of the Old South (2:47)

Mimosa Hall Cotton Plantation (5:06)

Remnants of Confederate Culture in the 20th Century (3:00)

A Town Divided (1:46)

Habits of a Small Southern Town (3:33)

Segregation "Etiquette" in the South (3:50)

Wiley College in the 1930s (2:31)

Contradiction of Segregation (2:08)

Segregation Protests (4:37)

Change in Marshall, Texas (4:11)

Marshall, Texas - Credits (1:30)

Moments Great and Small (2:55)

Moyers on History (2:56)

Turn of the Century Nationalism (2:29)

Theodore Roosevelt Symbol of Vigor (2:38)

February 15, 1898: Battleship Maine Sunk (2:30)

McKinley Hesitates

TR Does Not (2:00)

TR's Moment of Glory: Rough Riders (3:31)

America the Empire: War in the Philippines (2:28)

McKinley Assassinated in Buffalo (1:51)

TR: Something for Everyone (2:27)

Theodore Roosevelt's Domestic Policies (3:32)

Immigrant Life: Exploited Humanity (4:02)

No "Hyphenated Americans" (2:31)

Women's Issues (3:14)

Political Cartoons: Commentary on the Times (2:12)

Automobiles and Airplanes (3:35)

Nickelodeon Precursor to TV News (2:52)

TR's Moral Duty (2:18)

World War I: Burnt Path Across History (3:18)

T.R. and His Times - Credits (1:08)

Prelude: Changing Face of War (2:14)

Humane Codes of War (1:54)

The Great War/Trench Warfare (6:16)

1916: Armed Confrontation (7:12)

Price of War in Human Lives (3:17)

Advent of the Submarine (3:40)

Attack on Passenger Ship (7:21)

Advent of the Airplane (6:41)

Air Warfare (3:36)

Civilian Targets (5:58)

Military Century (4:17)

Credits: The Arming of the Earth (1:50)

An Introduction to Newsreels and Their Beginnings (2:48)

Ed Herlihy, the Voice of the News (2:02)

World War II News Paired with Entertainment Geared Towards Men (2:56)

Sports, Space, and Fashion in the News (2:25)

Motion Picture Studios and their Influence on the News (2:32)

The Music of the Newsreels (2:38)

1940s: Newsreel Cameraman is "King" (4:59)

Filming the Hindenburg (3:31)

Coverage of the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping (3:22)

The Purposeful and Accidental Preservation of Old Newsreels (3:42)

Newsreels and the Great Depression (2:16)

Commercial Newsreels and the Bonus March of WWI Veterans (2:47)

The Workers Newsreel (4:06)

Opposing the Government's Point of View in the News (1:51)

Entertainment-Based Journalism (3:56)

End of the Newsreel Era (1:40)

Worlds Fair Time Capsule : Eternalizing Newsreels (2:21)

World Fairs and Their Significance (3:21)

What Are World's Fairs? (3:08)

World Fairs of the Past (2:25)

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (2:16)

Olympic World Records (1:52)

San Francisco Fair of 1915 (3:46)

Chicago World's Fair of 1933 (5:14)

!939 World's Fair: World of Tomorrow (4:37)

Future World of Automobiles and Transportation (4:58)

1939: Television's Appearance (2:24)

American Pessimism (2:25)

1962 Seattle's Century 21 (4:18)

1964 New York World's Fair (6:45)

Value of World's Fairs (4:04)

Credits: Come to the Fairs (1:27)

Racism in US Founding Documents (1:59)

Emancipation Day (2:32)

Heart of "Negro New York" (3:59)

Up from Slavery (2:44)

New Hero for Black Struggle (2:13)

Mixed Messages in Black Struggle (5:23)

Jim Crow Laws (1:50)

Dr. Du Bois: Higher Education (2:15)

Separate and Equal (1:58)

Tuskegee Machine (2:59)

Niagara Movement (3:34)

Fight for Equality in 20th Century (6:36)

369th US Infantry (5:56)

"Up You Mighty Race" (4:57)

Marcus' Garvey's Legacy (4:58)

The Second American Revolution, Part 1 - Credits (1:33)

1954: Overview by Bill Moyers (2:13)

African Americans vs. the U.S. Constitution: Separate but Equal (3:19)

WWII and Racism (5:50)

Harry Truman and Civil Rights (4:35)

Howard University Law School (4:36)

NAACP and Segregation (6:40)

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Non-Violence (3:33)

Rosa Parks (4:00)

Black Protesters (5:20)

1963: Malcolm X (4:18)

March on Washington (3:32)

Black Struggle vs. Reality (3:20)

Inequality and Racism for Blacks (1:01)

Credits: The Second American Revolution, Part 2 (1:25)

Propaganda: Introduction by Bill Moyers (1:49)

Hitler's Propagandist (5:10)

Nazi Propaganda Films (5:36)

Propaganda: Pride and Fear (5:51)

Nazi Anti-Semitism (6:38)

American Propaganda Films (4:14)

Frank Capra Asked to Make Films (4:13)

Nazi Propaganda Films Used Against Them (7:07)

America vs. War Machines (4:19)

Shock of Savagery (2:09)

Extent of Human Barbarity (3:05)

Credits: World War II: The Propaganda Battle (0:54)

Bill Moyers on Washington D.C. and William Strout (4:31)

Experiences with Warren G. Harding (4:53)

Scandals in Washington (4:36)

Winston Churchill in Washington (4:15)

Herbert Hoover on Television (2:44)

Presidents and Televised Press Conferences (7:27)

President Calvin Coolidge (4:06)

Outstanding Congressional Speakers (8:50)

Moments with Harry Truman (5:51)

Moments with Nikita Khrushchev (2:33)

Notes on D-Day (2:40)

America's Coming of Age (2:19)

Credits: Presidents and Politics with Richard Strout (1:53)

Century on Wheels (3:34)

Cars vs. Horses (1:55)

Romance with the Automobile (2:04)

Henry Ford: Cars for the Masses (4:02)

Cars and Societal Changes (2:22)

Post WWI Prosperity (2:23)

Twenties: Rise and Fall of the Automobile (2:31)

Heart of America Uprooted (1:30)

Cars and Glamour (4:51)

Government Building Projects (2:14)

Labor and Management Form Truce (UAW) (3:21)

Pre- and Post-War Economy in America (3:09)

Wartime Car Production (1:09)

Suburbanites and Cars (2:09)

Innovations in Cars (2:21)

Romance of the Road (2:36)

Teenagers and Cars (1:26)

Cars and Air Pollution (1:31)

Counterculture (1:42)

Europe Challenges Supremacy of Detroit (1:18)

America and Cars: Bill Moyers' Commentary (2:18)

Credits: America on the Road (1:40)

Post-WWII America: Standardized Appetites and Dreams (5:29)

Meaning of Victory: Post-War America (5:56)

Rise of Communist Aggression (4:11)

Occupied Germany and Berlin Airlift (1:57)

Threat of Communism (4:01)

Fear and Conformity (3:29)

McCarthyism: Innuendos and Lies (2:39)

America Hates Its Enemies (4:22)

General Eisenhower (1:02)

Era of "Making It Big" (3:22)

Hydrogen Bomb (2:36)

U.S. in Foreign Affairs (2:19)

Crisis in Hungary (1:38)

Russia's Sputnik (1:47)

America vs. Russia: The Great Race to Catch Up (2:18)

American Disparities and a Thaw in the Cold War (4:04)

Eisenhower Discredited (2:09)

Age of Anxiety (1:27)

Credits: Post-War Hopes, Cold War Dreams (1:14)

Pseudo News: Constant Drama of Persuasion (1:34)

John D. Rockefeller: Patriarch of American Enterprise or the Greatest Criminal of the Age? (3:02)

Ludlow Massacre April 20, 1914 (5:04)

Rockefeller Name Condemned in Ludlow Massacre (2:03)

Birth of Modern Public Relations in Industrial Disputes (3:19)

Alchemy of Publicity Transforms Rockefeller Image (2:34)

Edward Bernays: Public Relations Counselor (1:29)

Propaganda: The Engineering of Consent (4:11)

Propaganda: "Information" Backed with the Powerful Force of Emotion (3:07)

1920s: Public Relations Comes to the Private Sector (4:32)

Edward Bernays: Freudian Influences (1:45)

Selling Lucky Strikes to Women (3:44)

1929: 50th Anniversary of the Electric Light Bulb (8:12)

Dining with Thomas Edison and Henry Ford (2:16)

Who's Pulling the Strings and Why? (1:47)

Credits: The Image Makers (1:27)

Beginning of the Welfare State (3:33)

The Way to Better Times (2:38)

National Recovery Administration (2:01)

Works Progress Administration (2:29)

New Deal Homestead Program (2:53)

Opponents of the New Deal (3:12)

Public Benefits as a Right (3:15)

Government Programs Grow (3:46)

Promoting General Welfare on Film (5:00)

Know Your Money (4:00)

Civilian Conservation Corp (6:31)

Limited Options During the Depression (4:13)

Civilian Conservation Corp Reunion (3:04)

Civilian Conservation Corp Life and Work (4:32)

Transformation of American Life (2:24)

The Helping Hand - Credits (1:00)

Physicist I. I. Rabi (2:52)

First Nuclear Explosion (3:46)

American vs. German Scientists (3:09)

Radar and How It Works (4:27)

Atomic Bomb Attack on Japan (3:20)

Societal Destruction (2:43)

McCarthy Phenomenon (3:16)

Robert Oppenheimer (8:17)

I. I. Rabi's Early Years (3:13)

New York City Schools (1:59)

Brooklyn Public Library (2:19)

Evolution of Physics in America (3:10)

Value of Science (5:24)

Hydrogen Bomb (2:48)

Credits: I. I. Rabi: Man of the Century (1:43)

Candidates and the Public (3:32)

Successful Ad Campaign (3:31)

Ad Campaign for Dwight Eisenhower (4:58)

1952 Eisenhower-Stevenson Campaign (3:43)

1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson Campaign (3:50)

JFK's Presidential Campaign (4:13)

1964: Johnson vs. Goldwater Campaign (4:04)

Media Specialist (4:12)

Impact of Television on Politics (6:01)

1968 Nixon-Humphrey Campaign (4:10)

1972 McGovern-Nixon Campaign (5:40)

1976 Ford-Carter Campaign (2:36)

Political Television Spots (3:06)

Credits: The 30-Second President (1:19)

Reconciling Popular Memory with Personal Experiences of the Twenties (2:28)

Reflecting on the Hard Times (2:29)

Novelty: the Key to Twenties Excitement (2:05)

Flappers the Ultimate Twenties Woman. (1:49)

Prohibition & Rise of the Gangster (2:53)

Dark Side of the Twenties (1:53)

Moving Pictures Revolutionize News and Entertainment (2:57)

Achievers Captured on Film (2:51)

Machinery is the New Messiah (2:49)

Free Wheeling Prosperity Ends in 1929 Crash (3:53)

Twenties: The Have Nots (2:38)

Warren Harding Presidency (2:23)

Calvin Coolidge Presidency (1:36)

Herbert Hoover Presidency (1:50)

American Religious Fundamentalism. (1:18)

The Twenties: A Decade of Labor Unrest (1:31)

Red Scare: Sacco and Vanzetti (1:33)

Scopes Trial: Bigotry on Display (1:17)

1920s Morality (1:36)

Black Americans (2:42)

Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (2:36)

Faces of the Twenties (2:10)

Credits: The Twenties (1:09)

Miner's Story: Film Prelude (2:10)

Men and Boys in the Coal Mines (3:42)

Immigrant Mine Workers (4:03)

Coal Mining: Industrial Feudalism (2:43)

Coal Mining: Women's Story (2:23)

Mining: Then and Now (2:36)

Coal Mines: Importance of Mules (3:04)

Coal Mines: Working Conditions (3:07)

Coal Mining Dangers (4:37)

Miners Organize and Strike (4:51)

Heroine of the Labor Movement (5:07)

Miners vs. Militia (4:51)

Coal Mining Wars: Women and Children (3:27)

Aftermath of a Massacre (2:21)

No Company Concessions (4:35)

Credits: Out of the Depths: The Miners Story (1:25)

Film Prelude: Television in the 1960s (2:21)

Upheavals of the 1960s: JFK (3:55)

Lee Harvey Oswald (2:31)

Funeral and Cortege of JFK (1:22)

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights Movement (2:25)

Television and Images of Vietnam (2:44)

Television and Moon Landing (3:29)

Eng of Age of Innocence (1:46)

Proliferation of Computers (2:51)

Muscle Power vs. Brain Power (2:55)

Marriage of Man and Machine in Trouble (5:46)

Robotized World (3:33)

Consumer Society of the 1960s (3:40)

Consumerism and Television Commercials (3:13)

Woodstock Nation vs. Consumerism (1:01)

Economic Growth vs. Environment (4:00)

Personal Narrative (1:59)

Nature vs. Humankind (4:02)

Credits: Change, Change (1:30)