1920. After a few hours in Atlantic City – the capital of entertainment and vice, like the rest of America, will enter into an era of “Prohibition”. Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, the day – the city treasurer, and at night – a dodgy gangster with ties at the “top”, decides to use the situation and gain enormous profits on the underground trade in alcohol. However, he is not one wants to get rich in the new fisheries …
December 10, 1997 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Nigel Hamilton (born February 16, 1944) is an award-winning British-born biographer, academic and broadcaster, whose works have been translated into sixteen languages. In the United States he is known primarily for his best-selling work on the young John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, which was made into an ABC miniseries. In the United Kingdom, he is known for Monty, a prizewinning three-volume official life of famed World War II hero, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, which won both the 1981 Whitbread Award and the Templer Medal for Military History. He has also written about the lives of Thomas Mann and former President Bill Clinton as well as numerous other works in a variety of fields. His film on the life of Field Marshal Montgomery won the New York Blue Ribbon Award for Best Documentary. He founded the British Institute of Biography and became the first Professor of Biography in the UK at De Montfort University. He is currently Senior Fellow at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, where he is writing a modern version of the The Twelve Caesars, to be titled American Caesars: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. Christina Sinatra, primarily known as “Tina” (born June 20, 1948, in Los Angeles, California) is the youngest child (and the second daughter) of Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. Christina’s …
November 3, 1989 www.amazon.com Watch the full film: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com In American political jargon, an October surprise is a news event with the potential to influence the outcome of an election, particularly one for the US presidency. The reference to the month of October is because the Tuesday after the first Monday in November is the date for national elections (as well as many state and local elections), and therefore events that take place in late October have greater potential to influence the decisions of prospective voters. The term came into use shortly after the 1972 presidential election between Republican incumbent Richard Nixon and Democrat George McGovern, when the United States was in the fourth year of negotiations to end the very long and domestically divisive Vietnam War. Twelve days before the election day of November 7, on October 26, 1972, the United States’ chief negotiator, the presidential National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, appeared at a press conference held at the White House and announced, “We believe that peace is at hand.” Nixon, despite having vowed to end the unpopular war during his presidential election campaign four years earlier, had failed to either cease hostilities or gradually bring about an end to the war. Nixon was nevertheless already widely considered to be assured of an easy reelection victory against McGovern, but Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” declaration may have increased Nixon’s already high standing …
