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  2. Category : Documentary films about United States history

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    Banished (film) Before Stonewall; Benjamin Franklin (film) Birth of a Community: Jews and the Gold Rush; The Bomb (film) Broken Rainbow (film) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (film) The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man; Burying the Past; Butte, America

  3. America: The Story of Us - Wikipedia

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    America: The Story of Us has been nominated for four Emmy Awards for the episode "Division", which traced the growing tensions between the North and South, as well as contrasts between plantation and urban economies. The nominations were in the categories for non-fiction programming of "Outstanding Cinematography", "Outstanding Picture Editing ...

  4. Jan Brett - Wikipedia

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    Jan Brett (born December 1, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. Her colorful, detailed depictions of a wide variety of animals and human cultures range from Scandinavia to Africa. Her titles include The Mitten, The Hat, and Gingerbread Baby.

  5. 102 Minutes That Changed America - Wikipedia

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    The documentary film attracted 5.2 million viewers. [2] The program aired on Channel 4 in the UK, France 3 in France, History Channel in Brazil on 7 September 2009, SBS6, in the Netherlands on 9 September 2009 and on ZDF in 2009 and 2010. [3] The 7 September 2021 was aired in Catalonia on TV3's program Sense ficció. [4]

  6. America: A Personal History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Deals with the great push westward by the settlers, including the Latter-day Saints; the crossing of the continent by railroad; the myth of the cowboy; the domestication of the land by settlers local and foreign; and the final conquest of the Native Americans after much warfare.

  7. Mitten - Wikipedia

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    Hunter's mittens – In the 1930s, special woolen mittens were introduced that had a flap located in the palm of the mitten so a hunter could have his finger free to fire his weapon. [ 16 ] Scratch mitts do not separate the thumb, and are designed to prevent babies – who do not yet have fine motor control – from scratching their faces. [ 17 ]

  8. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt - Wikipedia

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    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. [2] Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with ...

  9. Making North America - Wikipedia

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    Making North America is a 2015 American documentary film which premiered nationwide on November 4, 2015. [1] The PBS Nova film, comprising three episodes of one hour each, was hosted by Kirk Johnson (Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History); Peter Oxley directed the first episode while Gwyn Williams directed the second and third.