I’m watching a 14 part series titled “The Century: America’s Time” that originally aired in April of 1999. I added the series to my watch list in July of this past year. Luckily, I was able to find it on YouTube, most of the episodes are in there. One mam who was interviewed especially intrigued…
I really enjoyed this… At one point Joan Collins was interviewed…. along with several flight attendants, pilots, people who worked on building it and even passengers… They only had one profitable route, New York to London… so they started chartering the plane out….There were people who profited from selling day excursions to exotic places. When…
According to this documentary that came out in 1969, the biggest city in 1800 was Philadelphia. Most people lived in the countryside, approximately 90%.. This documentary follows the Wilson family as they live there life out on an American farm. It appeared they were living in a saltbox style house, which was popular during the…
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The end of the Founding Father’s era and a good explanation of why we have the electoral college… https://youtu.be/HdvTtvKWe-M
This came out in 2000. I didn’t have access to many documentaries at that time… now we can pretty much watch them on demand.
I’m Watching a documentary about the queen mother. She was the last royal from the Edwardian period in British history.. Looking at all this old footage just reminds me how fleeting life really is. Noone lives forever… at the most 100 years if you’re lucky. But are you really lucky? I don’t think I’d want…
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She lived at the Ritz in London where she died. I wasn’t impressed with her, didn’t like her politics.
The documentary starts out with Queen Elizabeth on New Years Eve 2000 at the Millenium Dome in London, which had just been built. Tony Blair, the prime minister, wanted her to be there. You could tell she was very uncomfortable. In a rare display of public affection, Prince Phillip gave her a kiss. The queen…
The documentary started off on Pier 54 in New York City…. it discussed the departure of the doomed Lusitania, who was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland in the Celtic Sea. It showed some disturbing images of children who died in the tragedy. I didn’t like it, they should have omitted…
I’m learning a couple new things about American history, or at least things I’ve forgotten. https://youtu.be/Jbx2OsU3p_A
I can’t get enough of learning about past decades.. Especially one as recent as just one hundred years ago. It was interesting to see digitally enhanced color video shoots of private parties during prohibition, busy streets in New York City and people just living their every day lives…. all caught on film. I wonder if…
Mary Beard is the presenter, she’s quite interesting. She’s my mom’s age. I added her to my interesting people database… Apparently, she’s quite well known, but this documentary is the first I’ve heard of her. While watching this I had an idea for a history project… I also added a couple of places I’d like…
This Titanic documentary focuses on the Addergule 14, a group of poverty stricken girls from Ireland. They were headed to America at the urging of a woman who found success in Chicago 20 years earlier. When they arrived on the ship, it was the first time they had ever seen electricity or running water. They…
I had no idea there were so many courses in the First Class cabin on the Titantic.. The Titantic sunk over 100 years ago now…. I never get tired of learning about it… I am fascinated with 1700’s to 1900’s history.
Peter Jennings hosted this in 1999. He would be dead six years later at the age of 67. It starts off by discussing prohibition and the spread of electricity. People started using electricity in the cities first, then to the point where most households had electricity in their homes by the end of the decade….