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Highlights of 16 of John F. Kennedy's best known speeches, chronicling his Presidential years, 1960 through 1963.

In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party.

"While the world waited, Saddam Hussein systematically raped, pillaged, and plundered a tiny nation, no threat to his own."

"The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender."

Academy Award-winner for Best Documentary Feature, THE FOG OF WAR is the story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara was one of the most controversial and influential political figures ofthe 20th century.

This compilation includes highlights from nine memorable speeches given from 1982 to his Farewell Address to the Nation from the Oval Office in 1989.

In this feature documentary, American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky goes to war against the conditions that keep the poor in poverty. The film shows how he helped Black ghettos in the United States find an effective, non-violent method of fighting for their rights.

In this lecture provided on streaming video by the Google Talks, historian and Newsweek editor Jon Meacham picks apart the mixed legacy of President Andrew Jackson.

King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.

King's lecture "Youth and Social Action" envisions the mobilized power of a united youth front in which "hippies", "radicals", and other youth activists work in tandem to combine their strengths.