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A DISPATCH FROM REUTERS 1940 PAUL REUTER, THE MAN WHO BUILT THE FAMOUS REUTER’S NEWS SERVICE.

ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS 1940 AND YOUNG MR LINCOLN 1939 IS ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

GUILTY OF TREASON 1950 THE STORY OF JOZSEF MINDSZENTY, A ROMAN CATHOLIC CARDINAL FROM HUNGARY WHO SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF HIS COUNTRY DURING WORLD WAR II.

INHERIT THE WIND 1960 IS THE STORY OF THE SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL. THIS WAS AN AMERICAN LEGAL CASE IN JULY 1925 IN WHICH A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, JOHN T. SCOPES, WAS ACCUSED OF VIOLATING TENNESSEE’S BUTLER ACT, WHICH HAD MADE IT UNLAWFUL TO TEACH HUMAN EVOLUTION IN ANY STATE-FUNDED SCHOOL.

TENNESSEE JOHNSON 1942 IS ABOUT ANDREW JOHNSON, THE 17TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, HE FAVORED QUICK RESTORATION OF THE SECEDED STATES TO THE UNION WITHOUT PROTECTION FOR THE FORMER SLAVES. THIS LED TO A CONFLICT WITH THE REPUBLICAN DOMINATED CONGRESS, CULMINATING IN HIS IMPEACHMENT BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 1868.

THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET 1945 IS THE STORY OF HOW THE FBI CAUGHT A GERMAN SPY RING IN NEW YORK CITY DURING WORLD WAR II.

THE IRON CURTIN 1948 THE SOVIET UNION TO ANSWER FOR THEIR FAILURES RECALLS A CIPHER CLERK AT THE SOVIET EMBASSY TO CANADA. CANADA’S GOVERNMENT PLACES THE FAMILY IN PROTECTIVE CUSTODY AND GRANTS THEM RESIDENCE.

THE STREET WITH NO NAME 1948 A FOLLOW-UP TO THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET, IT TELLS THE STORY OF AN UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT WHO INFILTRATES A DEADLY CRIME GANG.

WALK EAST ON BEACON 1952 THE CASE OF THE A-BOMB SPIES. IS ABOUT THE MEETING OF GERMAN PHYSICIST AND ATOMIC SPY KLAUS FUCHS AND AMERICAN CHEMIST HARRY GOLD WHICH PROVIDED DETAILS OF THE SOVIET ESPIONAGE NETWORK IN THE UNITED STATES. GOLD’S TESTIMONY WOULD LATER LEAD TO THE CASE AGAINST JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG FOR TREASON.

WILSON 1944 IS THE STORY OF WOODROW WILSON  28TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.