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- The crew of the Pioneer Zephyr diesel train has only a few hours to deliver an iron lung to an injured man at the Boulder Dam construction site.
- A middle-aged couple think back to their college days and courtship.
- An underachieving college student spends his days trying to enter the minds of others rather than studying, but when his hobby takes a strange turn, the wake of his actions proves dangerous for several unassuming lives.
- A documentary about the New Deal era Uptown Post Office Murals in Chicago. How and why they were made by Henry Varnum Poor, why they feature Carl Sandburg and Louis Sullivan, and how they inspire people today.
- The Abraham Lincoln, Douglas Debates film tells the story of the lead up to the famous October 7, 1858 debate. Lincoln and Douglas each have their supporters and are passionately preparing for this great political event. We touch on the Kansas/Nebraska Act, Popular Sovereignty, the Dred Scott case, Lecompton, Lincoln's House Divide speech, La Compton and the Missouri compromise. The characters talk about the first four debates and mention the last two upcoming debates. Even though there are so many intense and controversial topics to discuss, both Lincoln and Douglas focus their debate to the number one issue that is tearing the country apart, slavery. One of the reasons the Galesburg debate remains hugely significant, is that at Knox College Abraham Lincoln for the first time talked at length about the immorality of slavery. In today's terms, the evils and immorality of slavery seem clear. But, in 1858, tragically, people were living in a world were slavery was a reality and an issue that deeply divided people. Even most people opposed to the evils of slavery, did not talk in those terms. People like that were thought to be radical extremist called Abolitionists. Lincoln significantly changed the national debate and the hearts and minds when he laid out his case for why slavery was immoral and needed to end. We have gone to great lengths to research the historically accuracy of this film. We have many of the actually people, that were there at the debate represented, and have tried to incorporate their own words or actions in the dialog. We have taken some liberty in adding a few people that were very important to the overall story. Our hope is that people will want to learn their names, and the major issues leading up to this important debate.
- A young man named Justin is having a difficult time during the holidays. His best friend Kevin tries to make him see the light.
- The Immediate Unknown is a story about Chloe, an eighteen-year-old girl who enters her freshman year at Fitz College, a small liberal arts school in the Midwest. After a few weeks of settling into college life, Chloe makes new friends, experiences her first house party, and meets Dan, a sweet skater boy. As Chloe's relationship with Dan deepens, Chloe's friendships with her extroverted roommate Liz and cool girl Nicole solidify. One day, Chloe finds out her father has unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack. When Chloe returns to school, she attempts to carry on with the new life she's made at college only to find herself deeply afraid of the impending unknowns in her future. Ultimately, Chloe is left with the decision to grow from her grief or let it defeat her.
- A Hiker gets stranded in the Appalacian Mountainds and must find his way out
- Stephen A. Douglas, the incumbent senator, and Abraham Lincoln, a former congressman and current attorney, met for the fifth in a series of seven debates for the right to represent Illinois in the Senate. They debated the issues of the day before an outdoor crowd in Galesburg, Illinois. Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln again directed charges and counter-charges at each other and reiterated their positions enumerated during the previous debates. Mr. Douglas again emphasized the notions of popular sovereignty and black inferiority, and he also accused Mr. Lincoln of duplicity depending on the part of the state in which he was speaking. Mr. Lincoln again defended himself and accused Mr. Douglas of not addressing the morality of slavery. This fifth debate is most significant for two main reasons. First, although Galesburg leaned Republican, the larger area in the center of the state was divided between Democratic and Republican supporters. One can see in their oratorical exertions that the debaters were trying to persuade the more undecided voters of this region as opposed to the more partisan voters in northern and southern sections of the state. Second, Mr. Lincoln's emphasis on the moral issues surrounding slavery denoted a shift and a clear difference from Douglas' procedural arguments. These moral issues would continue to be important in the last two debates and the presidential campaign of 1860. This was the fifth of seven re-enactments of the Lincoln-Douglas senatorial debates in 1858. This debate occurred on October 7, 1858 from 2:30 to 5:30 pm. Mr. Douglas spoke for an hour, Mr. Lincoln for an hour and a half, and Mr. Douglas replied for another half hour. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people witnessed the event. In the 1994 re-enactment, the following people portrayed the characters: Tom Larson (James Knox), William Brady (George Ford), Larry Diemer (Stephen A. Douglas), Michael Krebs (Abraham Lincoln).
- When Jared's best friend and his parents pass away within a week, he backs farther and farther away from his faith to find that his church was not his answer.
- 1980–19941h 59m7.7 (16)TV Episode"Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail." (Perry Miller Adato website)