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The Grandest Enterprise under God The West, a Film by Stephen Ives by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Contents: “…Vision of Railroads (2:03) -- Achievements & Consequences of Railroads (2:58) -- An Audacious Plan (2:55) -- Central Pacific & Union Pacific Contracts (2:04) -- Union Pacific Workers (1:49) -- Underbelly of Railroad Culture (1:53) -- Sacred Buffalo (2:22) -- Endangering Buffalo & Angering Indigenous People (2:38) -- Central Pacific's Chinese Labor Force (2:20) -- Introduction of Explosives (1:49) -- Peril & Fatality for Chinese Workers (2:20) -- Finally Emerging from Sierras (0:54) -- Native American Fear of Buffalo Extinction (1:22) -- Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail (3:01) -- Loving's Death & Burial (2:24) -- Race to the Finish (1:54) -- Promontory Point, Utah (2:45) -- National Significance of Railroad (1:25) -- Mormon Isolation Ruined (1:51) -- Mormon Women, Polygamy, & Feminism (2:05) -- Women's Suffrage in Utah (2:34) -- Railroad & Buffalo Hunters (1:41) -- Demand for Buffalo (2:21) -- Railroad's Call for Settlers (2:11) -- European Settlers of Wide Open West (2:04) -- Isolation in the West (1:19) -- Oblinger Family's Move West (2:32) -- Oblinger's Recorded Experience (2:12) -- End of Oblingers' Western Life (2:08) -- Cowboy Character (2:43) -- Strenuous Cowboy Life (1:58) -- Corrupt Cowtowns (3:04) -- Walt Whitman, on the Railroad (1:24) -- Conflict of Cultures (1:00) -- Hunting Ideologies in Conflict (2:02) -- Buffalo Slaughter & Buffalo Products (2:35) -- Native American Uprising & Hunters' Greed (2:55) -- Spiritual & Cultural Wounds from̀Buffalo Extinction (2:19) -- Credits: The Grandest Enterprise under God: The West, a Film by Stephen Ives (2:42)…”
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United News. Release 62 (1943), Latest War Films from U.S. Forces in South Pacific by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase, United Newsreel Corporation

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The Northern Frontier Canadian West by Arts and Entertainment Network, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase

Contents: “…Sacred Land of the Past (2:04) -- Canada, a Penetrable Barrier (2:29) -- Fur Trading in Canada (2:26) -- Métis Demand Recognition in Canada (2:58) -- British Columbia, a Corporate Possession (2:29) -- Gold in Canada (2:47) -- Vancouver, British Columbia, A Bit of Britain (2:14) -- Law and Order, the Canadian Mounted Police (2:52) -- Canadian Mounted Police and the Sioux (2:25) -- Canadian Mounted Police and the Blackfoot (2:24) -- Canadian Pacific Railway (4:32) -- Law and Order on Canadian Railroads (2:14) -- Rebellion Over Canadian Pacific Railway Finances (3:26) -- Canadian Government Defends the West (3:24) -- Riel's Trial in Regina (2:56)…”
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Montreal by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase, Pathé cinéma (France)

Contents: “…Montreal Weather and Daily Life (1:55) -- Geography and Natural Features (2:27) -- The Catholic Mission (2:29) -- Early Economy (3:00) -- English Immigration (5:56) -- The Lachine Canal and the Naval Industry (1:15) -- Industrialization and Population Growth and Transformation (2:55) -- Two Distinct Cities in One (2:16) -- Catholic Churches and Religious Celebrations (3:46) -- Bank of Montreal (1:25) -- Rise of the Middle and Upper Classes (3:13) -- Canadian Pacific Railroad (0:56) -- McGill University (2:16) -- World War II and Subsequent Population Growth (2:07) -- Montreal from 1950 to 1960 (3:49) -- Modern Montreal (6:23) -- The Metro System and the Problems of Metropolis (4:18)…”
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Prelinger Archives. Beef Rings the Bell by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase

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