In the early 1830s, a youthful Abraham Lincoln (Raymond Massey) departs his home in Kentucky to study law and make a name for himself before working his way toward politics and the fateful future that will see him become one of America's most iconic presidents.
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When Dick Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas) learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body for a proper burial after minister Anthony Anderson's (Burt Lancaster) pleas for it are in vain. While visiting with the minister and his wife, the British mistakenly arrest Dick, who says nothing, choosing to stand in the minister's place. Can Anderson and the rebels convince Gen. Burgoyne (Laurence Olivier) to free Dick before he's hanged?
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FDR and Churchill in Casablanca
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For a short period of time during World War II, the Allied Forces took over the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, plotting how to move forces into southern Europe. Things almost didn't go as planned.
Eight years of brutal drought and bad farming methods caused an environmental catastrophe in the Great Plains that produced dark clouds of dust sweeping through entire states. New Deal policies including the planting of trees as windbreaks and the recovery of top soil led to a powerful agricultural recovery. Created by FDR's great grandchild Perrin Ireland and narrated by Bill Whitaker.
This button is a momento from Eleanor Roosevelt's ride with American bobsledder Henry Homburger on February 4, 1932, at the opening of the III Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid.
