Le jeune Cecil Gaines, en quête d'un avenir meilleur, fuit, en 1926, le Sud des États-Unis, en proie à la tyrannie ségrégationniste. Tout en devenant un homme, il acquiert les compétences inestimables qui lui permettent d’atteindre une fonction très convoitée : majordome de la Maison-Blanche. C'est là que Cecil devient, durant 7 présidences, un témoin privilégié de son temps et des tractations qui ont lieu au sein du Bureau Ovale. À la maison, sa femme, Gloria, élève leurs 2 fils, et la famille jouit d'une existence confortable grâce au poste de Cecil. Pourtant, son engagement suscite des tensions dans son couple : Gloria s'éloigne de lui et les disputes avec l'un de ses fils, particulièrement anticonformiste, sont incessantes.
L’histoire très personnelle du passage à l’âge adulte d’un garçon du Queens dans les années 80, de la force de la famille et de la quête générationnelle du rêve américain.
After years of overproduction, the Reagan administration unloads over 500 million pounds of surplus cheese on the American public in the 1980s. The pungent dairy product comes to be known as 'Government Cheese.'
Soutenu par des pop stars lors de sa campagne de 1976, Jimmy Carter se distingue des autres présidents des États-Unis par sa passion pour la musique.
Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the Iran hostage crisis, derailed his presidency dramatically. His crowning achievement, the Camp David Accords, created a framework for Middle East peace, inspiring his life since. The film traces his ascent from Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office and explores the role of religion in his career. This is the first of two parts.
A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
Biography - President Jimmy Carter and his wife discuss the 25 years they've spent working with Habitat for Humanity and their Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation project, in this illuminating documentary. The film showcases Habitat for Humanity's 2008 Blitz Build campaign to rebuild the Gulf Coast and demonstrates Carter's far-reaching impact, the result of a determined man who refuses to ignore people in need. -
Piano Vladimir Horowitz in a televised recital from the White House on 26 January 1978, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his US debut, at the invitation of President & Mrs Carter. On the program, Chopin's Sonata #2 in B-flat minor, Waltzes in A minor and C-sharp minor, and Polonaise in A-flat, followed by encores by Schumann, Rachmaninoff, and Horowitz's own Carmen Variations.
President Jimmy Carter "sings" Ray Charles' "Georgia on my Mind", while thinking about his home state.
