西索(佛瑞絲惠特克 飾)以白官管家身份隨侍在政治權力核心身旁,長達三十四年的時間,歷經七任總統任期。期間,他先後見證越戰爆發、水門案竊聽事件、約翰甘迺迪遭人暗殺與黑人民權運動興起;而他只不過是個二零年代來自於喬治亞州棉花田的黑人窮小子,一個備受種族歧視欺壓、社會最底層的小人物!當他堅守崗位地努力時,原本幸福的家庭卻開始分崩離析;大兒子積極參與各式抗議活動且生命被受威脅,小兒子則因為參加越戰生死不明,太太葛洛莉亞(歐普拉溫芙蕾 飾)終日借酒澆愁。在面對家務與自身良知的同時,西索來到了無法想像的人生十字路口… 究竟他有何能耐,能夠在大時代的洪流中堅定腳步、走出一片天?面對親人與自己立場相衝突對立,他要如何化解這一個超越國家與種族的家庭考驗?
詹姆士葛雷執導,安海瑟薇、安東尼霍普金斯和傑瑞米史壯攜手主演。影片講述了一個年輕的猶太裔美國男孩與一位非裔美國同學成為朋友,並開始與家人的期望作鬥爭,並在特權、不平等和偏見的世界中成長的故事。
Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the Iran hostage crisis, derailed his presidency dramatically. His crowning achievement, the Camp David Accords, created a framework for Middle East peace, inspiring his life since. The film traces his ascent from Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office and explores the role of religion in his career. This is the first of two parts.
This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America—with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett.
A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
After years of overproduction, the Reagan administration unloads over 500 million pounds of surplus cheese on the American public in the 1980s. The pungent dairy product comes to be known as 'Government Cheese.'
President Jimmy Carter "sings" Ray Charles' "Georgia on my Mind", while thinking about his home state.
Piano Vladimir Horowitz in a televised recital from the White House on 26 January 1978, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his US debut, at the invitation of President & Mrs Carter. On the program, Chopin's Sonata #2 in B-flat minor, Waltzes in A minor and C-sharp minor, and Polonaise in A-flat, followed by encores by Schumann, Rachmaninoff, and Horowitz's own Carmen Variations.
Biography - President Jimmy Carter and his wife discuss the 25 years they've spent working with Habitat for Humanity and their Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation project, in this illuminating documentary. The film showcases Habitat for Humanity's 2008 Blitz Build campaign to rebuild the Gulf Coast and demonstrates Carter's far-reaching impact, the result of a determined man who refuses to ignore people in need. -