Films with: Roach, Janet

Change, change

Journalist Bill Moyers offers a retrospective of the 1960s, a decade of upheavals that includes the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, a man on the moon, the civil rights movement, and technology. Also looks at the role television played in bringing about some of these changes. Includes archival film footage.

DVD 12374

Come to the fairs

Survey of America's World's Fairs beginning with the first one held in Chicago in 1893. It was at these fairs that new inventions such as the Ferris wheel and the telephone were first introduced. Also discusses how fairs have changed in recent years.

DVD 12362

Helping hand

Journalist Bill Moyers looks at how the New Deal helped to create jobs during the Depression. Includes interviews of former Civilian Conservation Corps workers who benefited from these programs.

DVD 12369

Prizzi's honor

Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley, the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated, especially when each is given a contract that neither can go through with.

DVD 472

Walk through the 20th century with Bill Moyers.

DVD 12358