DESCRIPTIVE VIDEOS - Braille Institute

From the Crater to the Shenandoah. The summer of 1864 is the North's darkest
hour. Washington is panic-stricken when Jubal Early boldly attacks the outskirts
of the city. To the south, Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest,
the "wizard of saddle," slashes at William Tecumseh Sherman's supply lines,
slowing his approach to Atlanta. Meanwhile at Petersburg, U.S. Grant's siege
drags on with no end in sight.
The Civil War: Episode 8 – 1865 - War is All Hell
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The Final Offensives. The Confederacy is crumbling. Sherman and his army
burn Atlanta and march eastward through Georgia into the Carolinas, wreaking
devastation everywhere. At Petersburg, Grant's 125,000 Federals press in on
Lee's 35,000 ragged Confederates.
The Civil War: Episode 9 – 1865 - The Better Angels of Nature
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Victory. Assassination. Rebirth. At Lee's surrender, church bells peal throughout
the North. The South is in ruin and despair. Unable to accept that the war is over,
the actor John Wilkes Booth steals into a Washington theater and puts a bullet into
the brain of Abraham Lincoln. The nation's grief knows no bounds; even
Southerners are appalled, and gradually the isolated fighting stutters to an end.
The war is over. It is time to rebuild, “to listen,” as Lincoln implored the nation
four years before," to the better angels of our nature.”
Eisenhower
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He went to war as an unknown soldier and returned as one of America’s beloved
military heroes. A shrewd politician and a tough cold warrior, Eisenhower
protected America during a dangerous decade. This documentary reveals a man
who was much more complex and much more in control than his famous grin
revealed.
Eyes on the Prize I, Volume 1: Awakenings (1954-1956)
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Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., these are the names that
awakened America to the injustice of racial discrimination. This documentary
tells the stories that launched the modern movement for civil rights back in the
days when “separate but equal” was the legal basis for segregation and inequality.
Eyes on the Prize I, Volume 2: Fighting Back (1957-1962)
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