Cuenta la verdadera historia de Eugene Allen, un empleado de color de la Casa Blanca que sirvió a ocho familias de presidentes del gobierno estadounidense, a lo largo de tres décadas.
Paul Graff lleva una infancia tranquila en los suburbios neoyorquinos. Junto a Johnny, un compañero de clase excluido por su color de piel, se dedican a hacer travesuras. Paul cree contar con la protección de su madre, presidenta de la asociación de madres y padres de alumnos, y de su abuelo, con el que mantiene una muy buena relación. Pero, tras un incidente, es enviado a una escuela privada, cuyo consejo de administración cuenta con el padre de Donald Trump como uno de sus miembros. El elitismo y el racismo sin complejos con el que se encuentra cambiarán drásticamente su mundo.
A drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his time in the oval office.
Un asesino en serie obsesionado con Ronald Reagan persigue a una banda de hippies que van al bosque de Redwood a un concierto que dura un fin de semana...
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in Hollywood, through his governorship of California until Reagan's last day in office as President in 1989.
Explora la compleja historia del crack en la década de los ochenta, cuando aparece una potente droga barata que enciende las alarmas morales y el racismo de la época.
Two students attempt to bring a stop to the new drug circulating through the school hallways, not realizing that they might just be going up against the entire school body.
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.'
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel of lower taxes, less government, and anti-communism.
Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan Show looks at how Ronald Reagan redefined the look and feel of what it means to be the POTUS.
A dramatization of the 1986 Reykjavik summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Louis Malle se adentra en una pequeña comunidad de Minessota, Glencoe, tratando de desentrañar la base social de lo que se denomina "la América profunda". Se encuentra con una comunidad básicamente rural, un feudo conservador y demasiado pequeño para que ningún habitante escape al castigo de la rumorología. Sin embargo, Malle retrata el pueblo a través de testimonios de personajes que superan esa estampa folclórica. El mosaico resultante de conservadores, liberales, religiosos, pacifistas... compone una elegía sincera y desideologizada de una parte de los Estados Unidos poco conocida en el exterior.
The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live in decrepit welfare hotels. On the verge of losing everything, courageous Americans discover the power of community organizing to fight injustice.
The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dreams to fight social injustice and spread peace, this unlikely band of free-spirited idealists quickly transformed into a drug-smuggling empire and at the same time inadvertently invented the modern illegal drug trade. At the head of the Brotherhood, and the heart of this story, is the anti-capitalistic husband and wife team, who made it their mission to change the world through LSD.
Rocky IV is dually symbolic - it embodies both the victory of the American boxer over the Soviet one and the victory of neo-liberalism over a dwindling socialism. Today, Rocky is held up as a model by some and is a subject of derision for others. An emblem of the 1980s, its culture and its heroes, the film will be the subject of an entertaining analysis of popular culture.
The Reagan Era was marked with names, triumphs and tragedy that made history that became the fabric of American life and memory: Iran-Contra the Cold War the Solidarity Movement and the candle in the White House window Pan Am 103 the Challenger disaster Beirut Libya. Ronald Reagan's speeches were inspired lectures that informed the nation - sometimes angry, sometimes confused, and sometimes frightened of the next steps their government would take. Ronald Reagan: An American Journey is a collection of these dialogues, creating a portrait of the man Time magazine named as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.
Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at political strategist, racist, and former Republican National Convention Committee chairman, Lee Atwater, who reinvigorated the Republican Party’s Southern Strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush and played a key role in the elections of Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Ronald Reagan was the President of the Screen Actor's Guild during the incredibly violent Hollywood trade union strike in the 1940's. Reagan saw first-hand the brutality, destruction and oppression that defined the communist party as it attempted to overtake the unions to convert them into propaganda mills for the Soviet Union. The strike incited in him a call to action and an unshakeable belief that communism was a "form of insanity" which must be wiped from the earth. From SAG President, to GE Spokesman, Governor of California and finally, to President of the United States, this film chronicles the rise of Ronald Reagan, his unwavering conviction that America was the world's last best hope of man, and shows why he is hero to over a billion people who he helped free from the bonds of Soviet domination.
Ronald Reagan said of his beloved Santa Barbara, California ranch, “No place before or since has ever given Nancy and me the joy and serenity it does.” President Reagan’s Rancho del Cielo, his home for nearly twenty-five years and the Western White House for eight, is a window into the soul of Ronald Reagan. But what if the Reagan Ranch had been lost? Future generations would have been robbed of the chance to visit the Ranch and “meet” the real Ronald Reagan. This videocassette is a tribute to the man and his ranch.