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CNN Cold War Set 2 14of14 Special Feature The Hoaxters X264 AC3
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History Documentary hosted by Kenneth Branagh, published by CNN in 1998 - English narration
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Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world during these years. It is a story of crises and conflict on a global scale: from the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the tanks in the streets of Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, to spies, student riots and encounters in space.
In Cold War, Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing record epic history through the detail of individual human experience: the recollections not only of statesmen whose decisions led to these momentous events, but also of the ordinary men and women whose lives were bound up in these years of conflict. Cold War is the first comprehensive history for the general public to benefit from the recent opening of Soviet, East European and Chinese archives as well as formerly classified American documents. In a driving narrative that it both gripping and informative, the true story of the Cold War can at last be told.
CNN's landmark Peabody and Television Critics Association Award-winning series examines nearly five decades of history and is the crystallization of a massive three-year effort spearheaded executive producer Jeremy Isaacs (The World at War). Its production team shot more than 1,000 hours of original footage and screened 1,500 hours of archival film material, including historically important -- and often emotionally stunning -- images, many not seen before by an international audience. The crew traveled to 31 countries and conducted more than 500 interviews, many with key players of the time who rarely go before the cameras. Conceived by CNN founder Ted Turner, this extraordinary 24-episode chronicle has emerged as the definitive audiovisual record of this tumultuous era of world history.
Series Concept: Ted Turner ; Series Producer : Martin Smith ; A Jeremy Isaacs Production for Turner Original Productions
14) Special Feature: The Hoaxters (1953)
The second bonus feature is "The Hoaxters", a 1952 American documentary film directed by Herman Hoffman about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life. Film is using so called snake oil salesmen at carnivals as the symbols of hoaxters, to show that there are many more globally sinister hoaxters in the form of world leaders of totalitarian regimes, demonstrating the parallels between Nazism and Communism. There are leaders such as Adolf Hitler, who promised of a bright new world in order to gather support. A hoax that Nazism is Communism, despite being on a different political spectrum, are compared for their ideological similarities, including being anti-religion, one party systems, advocating violence as a means to an end, and treating their general populace as slaves. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and won the Oscar for best documentary in 1953. The film compares Hitler and Mussolini to a carnival barker and a snake oil salesman, and connects their outrageous talk to that of the Bolsheviks, in particular Josef Stalin.
