Date of birth: 1884-05-08
Place of birth: Lamar, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Harry Truman

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945.

1980-09-18
Catastrophe-No Safe Place is a 1980's documentary series presented by Charles Bronson and Jill Irela

2020-06-11
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of bo

2019-12-08
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the curr

2012-11-12
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.

2012-06-19
In 1961, David Susskind conducted a series of interviews with former President Harry Truman in Truma


1991-01-01
Several important historical events occurred on the planes with call sign Air Force One. These event

1991-01-01
A special that takes a look inside the White House.

2008-03-24
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientifi

2023-07-02
The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent d

2008-08-28
Superpower illustrates how the United States has leveraged its position to ensure unilateral world d

1945-08-08

1982-03-17
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed

1947-07-15
A compilation of Canadian news stories from 1947 including: long skirts, a new look in women's fashi

1974-12-20
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de

2022-08-31
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos w

1981-01-20
This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the

2009-04-08
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on

1955-08-30
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. The

2009-10-07
Dieser Dokumentarfilm zeigt die ökologischen Probleme, mit denen die Erde zu kämpfen hat. Mit Bezug

1985-07-19
This unique glimpse into the private lives of our Presidents and their families showcases some of th

1989-09-09
During World War II, Daisy Cooper returns home to Canada with her children after her British husband

1975-08-06
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent

2015-10-03
North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly kn

1986-10-24
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare

2014-10-20
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E

2015-05-24
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atroc

2018-05-29
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995),

2007-08-06
Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las

2003-09-10
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod

2016-05-22
The story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial, which,

1994-10-12
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who st

1945-05-11
A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War

2019-04-29
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and na

2020-06-19
In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative th

1970-05-31

1976-09-17
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice
1975-01-01
Documentary of the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who rose to prominence in the early 1950s by trumpe

2019-09-20
Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demago

2004-04-27
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in t

2023-01-27
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec

1998-01-01
It fought against international terrorism in South America and watched out for our allies abroad...b

1980-04-14
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.

2021-03-30
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWI

Billy Graham was a man known worldwide for his southern charm, unmistakable voice and most important

2019-09-01
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed

1951-04-23
Swedish journalist visits Korea to report on the situation during the war
1997-10-05
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t
2007-11-01
Using over an hour of new, never-before-seen material, combined with footage from 1946, producers Da

1991-10-01
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.”

2025-01-22
Origin sticks like shit to your shoe! That's what Marlen Hobrack says, who grew up as a working-clas

2025-02-28
The United States of America has been at war for almost all of its 250 years of existence. From the

1976-02-09
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of th

By spring of 1942, Japan controlled the western Pacific, the Philippines, and large parts of Indochi
1951-01-02
A documentary account of the five-week visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Cana

2024-06-13
Combining personal accounts with archive footage, this film features the voices of some of the only

2005-08-06
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. C