Nøkkelord Usa History

Eventyreren og arkeologen Ben Gates (Nicholas Cage) er på jakt etter verdens største og mest myteomspunne gullskatt. Sporene leder til den amerikanske selvstendighetserklæringen, som skjuler en ledetråd i form av en hemmelig kode. Sammen med sin venn, dataeksperten Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), må Ben stjele Amerikas mest velbevoktede dokument, knekke koden, lure FBI og unngå å bli drept av en hensynsløs gangster. Men det viser seg snart at den første ledetråden ikke er den siste. Jon Turteltaubs "National Treasure er et moderne eventyr, fylt med action, dramatikk og humor. Filmen er producert av Jerry Brukheimer ("Pirates of the Caribbean" og "King Arthur").

Før borgerkrigen i USA blir Salomon Northup, en fri svart mann fra New York, bortført og solgt til slaveri. Som slave blir Solomon utsatt for ufattelig grusomhet, men møter også uventet godhet. Han må kjempe både for å overleve og for å beholde verdigheten. I sitt tolvte år som slave møter han en kanadisk slavemotstander som kommer til å forandre livet hans for alltid.

Når en savnet side fra John Wilkes Booths dagbok kommer til overflaten, blir Bens tippoldefar plutselig innblandet som nøkkelkonspirator til Abraham Lincolns død. Bestemt på å bevise sin forfaders uskyld følger Ben en internasjonal kjede av spor som leder jakten fra Paris til London, og tilslutt tilbake til Amerika. Denne reiser fører Ben og hans følge ikke bare til overraskende avsløringer, men også på sporet av verdens best bevarte hemmeligheter.

Distriktsadvokaten Jim Garrison tar igjen opp etterforskningen av mordet på president John F. Kennedy. Det hersker omdiskutert teorier om hvem som sto bak. Han finner en ledetråd som peker mot krigen i Vietnam.

22. november 1963, på en kampanjetur til Dallas, ble John F. Kennedy myrdet. Jackies ikoniske rosa drakt er dusjet i mannens blod. Hennes verden – inkludert hennes tro – er fullstendig knust. Traumatisert av lammende sorg må hun i løpet av en uke trøste sine to små barn, flytte ut av hjemmet hun møysommelig har restaurert og planlegge sin manns begravelse. Jackie innser at disse sju dagene vil avgjøre hvordan historien vil definere hennes manns arv – og hvordan hun selv vil bli husket.

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America’s great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.

Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969 until January 11, 1974. The show was broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 for its first two seasons before settling into its best-remembered time slot of Friday evenings at 9:00, following The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family, and preceding The Odd Couple and Love, American Style. In 1970, Room 222 earned Emmy Awards in three categories: Outstanding New Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

When the United States of America was founded, the ideals of freedom and equality did not apply to all people. These are the stories of the brave Americans who fought to right the nation’s wrongs and enshrine the values we hold most dear into the Constitution — with liberty and justice for all.

The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.

Liberty's Kids is an animated educational historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, originally broadcast on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002 to April 4, 2003, although PBS continued to air reruns until August 2004. The show has since been syndicated by DiC to affiliates of smaller television networks such as The CW and MyNetworkTV and some independent stations so that those stations can fulfill FCC educational and informational requirements. Since September 16, 2006, the series aired on CBS's new block called KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS, then it was aired on KEWLopolis, which taking September 12, 2009. In 2008 it ran on The History Channel. The series is currently on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and CBS's Cookie Jar TV. In 2012, Qubo announced the channel will air Liberty's Kids in fall 2012. The series was based on an idea by Kevin O'Donnell and developed for television by Kevin O'Donnell, Robby London, Mike Maliani, and Andy Heyward.

Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was based on the recently President John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage.

Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962.

Set in 1869 Alberta-Montana border country, “Strange Empire” is a Western whose heroes are women. With most of their men gone, and those who remain battling for control, the women struggle to survive, to find their independence, and to build a life in which to thrive and raise families.

Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.

Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

In keeping with the original project, this series seeks to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.

Sandburg's Lincoln is a six-part mini-series starring Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States.

Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William Boeing. Their fight to reach the top will transform America as they compete to dominate new industries—from the highways to the skyways. After years of fighting each other, and FDR, these rivals must unite during World War II to defeat a greater enemy and save the world.

Explore the Kennedy family's rise to power and how personal relationships within the Kennedy dynasty shaped national and global events from the Cold War to the Wall Street crash.

Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States. The debates over slavery, the populism in the roaring twenties, the struggle for civil rights in the sixties, the rise of the far-right in the early 21st century; the Klan seems to have always embodied the dark side of the nation, with its gray areas and blind spots.

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968.