HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century. Ford’s Model T automobile and his five-dollar-a-day wage ushered in the modern world, earning Ford reverence from millions of Americans. Yet many of the changes he wrought deeply troubled the carmaker. In frustration, he lashed out at enemies, real and imagined.
Languages: English
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AMEX: Silicon Valley
SILICON VALLEY tells the story of the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity we now know as Silicon Valley. The film spotlights the creativity of the young men who founded Fairchild Semiconductor and in particular the brilliant, charismatic young physicist Robert Noyce.
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CEO Exchange: High Energy: Putting the Brakes on Fuel and Transportation Costs D
Meet two executives who know the oil and airline industries from the inside: Gary Kelly, Vice Chairman and CEO of Southwest Airlines, has kept his company flying high despite turbulence caused by rising oil prices and cutthroat competition. Bill Greehey, Chairman and recently retired CEO of Valero Energy, has barreled to the forefront of oil refining while making sure his workers aren’t left out in the cold.
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CEO Exchange: Safeguarding the Future: Heroes and Villains of the Computer Age
In this episode meet two CEOs familiar with the good, the bad, and the ugly of what’s in your computer. Now that Paul Otellini has put Intel inside Macs and PCs, he’s trying to make sure that Intel is at the core of home entertainment, business transactions, and health care. At Symantec, John Thompson is secure in the knowledge that his company is the leader in protecting every technology user from viruses, spyware, and invasions of privacy.
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CEO Exchange: Winning The Game: The Rough-and-Tumble Business of Sports
Get an insiders’ glimpse into the high-stakes world of professional sports from two executives who know it best. David Stern, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association, has taken his sport to new heights while trying to keep viewers from heading for the exits. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has sought to level the field between big market and small market teams while playing defense about alleged steroid use by athletes.
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American Experience: The Presidents Collection 15PK DVD
This collection of 20th century presidential biographies from the acclaimed American Experience President’s Collection includes TR, Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), FDR (1933-1945), Truman (1945-1953), Kennedys (1961- 1963), LBJ (1963-1969), Nixon (1969-1974), Carter (1977-1981), Reagan (1981-1989) and George H.W. Bush (1989-1993).
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American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
A highlight of the nationwide Lincoln Bicentennial celebration is this unprecedented two-hour documentary on the life and legacy of the man widely considered one of our best – and most enigmatic – presidents. It addresses many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln about race, equality, religion, politics, and depression by carefully interpreting evidence from those who knew him and those who study him today.
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American Experience: The Polio Crusade
Based in part on David Oshinsky’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Polio: An American Story, this one-hour film chronicles a decades-long crusade, fueled by the bold leadership of a single philanthropy and its innovative public relations campaign, and features a bitter battle between two scientists and the breakthrough of a forgotten woman researcher.
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American Experince – A Class Apart
In the tiny town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, a field hand named Pete Hernandez murdered his employer after exchanging words in a gritty cantina. From this unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. A Class Apart tells the little-known story of a band of underdog Mexican-American lawyers who took their case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican-Americans.
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Making It – Volume 3
Henna Painting; Creating Bead Jewellery; Making a Wire Toy; Bush Bikes; The Red Violin; Junk Yard Band; Inma Maku; Unlock; Learning the Ropes; Digging Dirt and Doing Pannies; Making Moves; Kungkalu Palyalku; 3 Dinensions. 13 x 5 minutes.