Vol 1:
Time Remembers:
The Years and Events That Shaped Our Lives:
Includes insightful vignettes discussing the Kennedy assignation, popular culture and the Beatles, Alabama race riots, the Martin Luther King assassination, Woodstock, Kent State, Nixon in China, the ERA Amendment, Watergate, the royal wedding of Prince Charles & Lady Diana, the emergence of HIV and AIDS, the USA Bicentennial of 1976, the Challenger space shuttle disaster and the Vietnam war.
Vol 2:
Great Events of the 1980's:
The world seemed like bleak times: communism, high gas prices, layoffs and the Iran hostages. The US moves from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan. Reaganomics and the successes and failures of military campaigns before the Persian Gulf War are shown: Vietnam, Beirut, Grenada, Panama, Bosnia and Iran. Indelible images are presented: the freedom uprising at Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Ceau?escu in Romania and the end of the Iron Curtain.
Vol 3:
The 10 Most Important People of the 20th Century include concise video biographies:
1) Henry Ford revolutionizes mass production in the auto industry; 2) Vladimir Lenin reshapes Russia into a dominant force of the USSR; 3) Pablo Picasso's artistic genius makes him one of the leading artists of his time; 4) Adoph Hitler leads the rise of Nazi aggression and events of World War II Hitler and 5) Winston Churchill, whose staunch determinism saw Britain victorious over Hitler; 6) Albert Einstein who fled Nazism to advance scientific theories in the US that led to the culmination of WWII and the dawn of the atomic age; 7) the advances in human behavior and psychoanalysis proposed by Sigmund Freud; 8) Mahatma Gandhi, whose enlightened civil disobedience & nonviolent protest revolutionized India; 9) Martin Luther King, Jr., who furthered civil rights and social enrichment for all Americans; 10) John Lennon leads the Beatles to shape an evolution of modernism in music, art and culture.
