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Cnns original series, "the movies" travels back in time to the disco era, the 1970s, and the what some consider the second golden age. they pushed the medium of movie making and gave hollywood directors wider control to make blockbuster classics like "the ♪ >> the queen to me of the 1970s was pam greer. there were never black women who got to be assertive. and guns and took on villains as a black girl, as i was at the time, seeing this larger than life beautiful woman was amazing. >> what i lo...

On the probe. muellers testimony delivered warnings to a different medium to his two-volume report. it did not contain many surprises. his caution performance found him declining questions 198 times claiming he did not want to speculate or discuss internal investigations or was ordered not to answer. while he struggled through some questions, there were times when the hearing crystallized some difficult facts. >> mr. mueller, the president repeatedly claimed your report found no obstruction and ...

Ever going to be impeachment, it is republican minds in terms of votes on impeachment that would be the most critical. we know there are a number of democrats he beliebelieve it is move forward. one republican said that is the case. what is the outcome? it will get the president tweeting and perhaps trying to distract as he has shown a real capacity to do. >> he was tweeting. eli. the white house seems to indicate they want to turn the page. kellyanne conway says this is a waste of time and taxp...

D.o.d. and other humanitarian groups, but it is important to look at the humanitarian program here in the united states, and it is the most generous humanitarian program in the world and unfortunately, we have a backlog of 300,000 cases at the border, and that is the first priority and that is what we need to certainly look at, and what we are going to be seeing here every year the presidents have the opportunity to revisit this program and look at what the ceiling would be, and president obama ...

Friends." in a nut shell, what is elizabeth warren trying to, i dont know, attack here in this detailed plan? >> its a very detailed plan. so lets make it a little more digestible. shes targeting essentially the private equity firms. this is what critics call capitalism on steroids. shes also tried to target executive pay. some of this is wonky and difficult to understand. basically what were seeing here in this plan is elizabeth warren returning to what made her famous after the 2008 financial ...

You could see the weight of what they were about to do. but the world of cinema was fascinated with the moon long before people landed there. french director george meany is surrealistic a trip to the moon from 1902 is thought to be the 1st feature film ever made and certainly the 1st science fiction movie. new years was a performer and to me is a trip to the moon combines his flair for the theater and magic with the potential of the new medium of film and both of crazy was alike scientists land...

Called depth sensors they measure the world basically and thanks to these measurements a phone can locate exactly where it is in a real life environment. so i can move forward or backward or i can turn around. the size of the space is irrelevant it can be the whole world like with one of the 1st games to use g.p.s. tracking it incorporates landmarks from the real world to create a virtual game world. or the skies can be restricted to a book. like this award winning adventure game. here a familia...

Theres something really great about that. >> hey! >> this is why we love movies. we get to see portraits of people and how they deal with whatever the struggle is to be a human being. >> snap out of it! >> the 80s was a good period for american movies. they were comedies that had to do with real life, werent over the top, there were dramas that took on tough subjects. there were genres that hadnt been explored in that way. >> but at the same time, theres just more overload on us. the aesthetic g...

There was real heartache in these peoples lives and you really felt for them. >> ive got aids? >> television at its best is a mirror of society in the moment. >> "st. elsewhere" challenged people, and they challenged you as an actor, much less the audience, to think. the stuff they gave you was extreme in what they did, whether they were dealing with aids or having one of their main doctor characters raped in a prison. >> they tackled lots of difficult subjects. >> "st. elsewhere" was run by peo...

You can sit in the back and feel everybody enjoying it. theres something really great about that. >> hey! >> this is why we love movies. we get to see portraits of people and how they deal with whatever the struggle is to be a human being. >> snap out of it! >> the 80s was a good period for american movies. they were comedies that had to do with real life, werent over the top, there were dramas that took on tough subjects. there were genres that hadnt been explored in that way. >> but at the sam...