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Three iconic American storytellers have spent their lives chronicling the lives of others, while knowing almost nothing about their own family history. Ken Burns confronts the reality of his southern ancestors' role in the Civil War, including Confederate soldiers held captive and a slave-owning Virginian. Anderson Cooper, scion of one of America's most storied families, the Vanderbilts, longs to know more about his father's southern roots - including...
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This is a story often untold of the United Service Organization (USO), a civilian program that provides off-post welfare and morale building environments for American troops at home and around the world. This historical recording of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture series spans the history of the USO and features cameo appearances by many of the "greats" in the entertainment world, including Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Debbie Reynolds and Lucille Ball, Joe...