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• Title: Visions of Star Wars: A Nova/Frontline Special Report
  Author: PBS Video
  Publication Date: 1986
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: UG743.V57 and UG743.V57 guide
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: This show reviews the history of ballistic missile defenses, discusses how President Reagan came to propose the Strategic Defense Initiative, and shows some of the projects currently trying to develop the technology needed for an effective SDI.
  
  
• Title: After the Summit
  Author: WAMU Radio
  Publication Date: 6/2/
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 2398
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: A Live 2 hour post Reagan/Gorbachev Summit radio wrap-up via satellite between the Soviet Union and the United States with live listener call-ins from the US and USSR. to a panel of experts both in the USSR and US discussing the outcome of the summit which will have just ended that afternoon (Soviet time). They will discuss further relations and disarmament proposals. Hosted in the US by former CBS news anchor Rolland Smith at the studios of WAMU in Washington DC. Panelists include Professor Seymour Mellman of Columbia University, chairman of the National Committee on Economic Conversion and Disarmament; Marcus Raskin, Institute of Policy Studies; Retired Air Force Major General Jack Kidd. Hosted in the Soviet Union by Pavel Kusnetzov with Vladimir Posner, well known Soviet journalist and TV Commentator Sergei Plekhanov and Vladimir Bogdanov of the Center for America/Canadian Studies. Reel 1 is missing
  
  
• Title: Bomb's Lethal Legacy
  Author: Coronet Film and Video
  Publication Date: 1990
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: TK1345.H36B66 1990 and TK1345.H36B66 1990 guide
  Subject: Environmental Issues
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation has grown from it s origins in the Manhattan project into the world's largest atomic facility. In 1986, after 40 years of secret operations in the name of national security, the public learned that Hanford had released radioactive iodine-131 into the air. More than 20,000 area schoolchildren were exposed, placing them at increased risk for thyroid disease and cancer. The plant has now been shut down and must clean up vast quantities of radioactive waste. Its story exposes the conflict between national security and public accountability.
  
  
• Title: Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution
  Author: Michael Warner/Center for the Study of Intelligence
  Publication Date: 2001
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/cia_origin/Origin_and_Evolution.pdf
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: "A set of key declassified laws, executive orders, NSCIDs, DCIDs, and policy documents guiding the role and growth of the central intelligence function from 1945 to 2000."
  
  
• Title: Cold War Conundum, A
  Author: Benjamin B. Fisher/Center for the Study of Intelligence
  Publication Date: 1997
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/coldwar/source.htm
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Study of the "Cold War scare," of the early 1980s, in which new evidence suggests that the Soviet Union was convinced that the United States was planning a nuclear attack against their country.
  
  
• Title: Daily Report, Middle East and Africa - Index
  Author: Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  Publication Date: 1980
  Format: Print
  Location: Government Documents
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DT1.D35
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Africa & the Middle East
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Indexes the print and microfiche version of: Daily report, Middle East & Africa, issued by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
  
  
• Title: Day by Day The Eighties
  Author: Ellen Meltzer and Marc Aronson
  Publication Date: 1995
  Format: Print
  Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D848.M45 1995 v. 1-2
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Daily timeline of the 1980s; international in scope.
  
  
• Title: Diane Rehm Show
  Author: WAMU Radio
  Publication Date: 9/24
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 323
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Latin America
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: WAMU On side one, a discussion of Cuba's recent release of 69 political prisoners, and its affect on U.S. relations with Cuba, with Wayne Smith, professor of Latin American Studies at the John's Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and author of The Closest of Enemies, a book about U.S.-Cuban relations.
  
  
• Title: Diane Rehm Show
  Author: WAMU Radio
  Publication Date: 9/8/
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 307
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: On side one, Jerry Hough, professor of Political Science at Duke University and staff member at the Brookings Institution,discusses the detention of US journalist Nicholas Daniloff in the Soviet Union on charges of espionage, and its affect on US-Soviet relations.
  
  
• Title: Diane Rehm Show
  Author: WAMU Radio
  Publication Date: 9/30
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 330
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: WAMU Side one features a live broadcast of a news briefing by Secretary of State George Schultz and President Ronald Reagan. Described by WAMU reporter Frank Stashow, they discuss the exchange with the Soviet Union of accused spies U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff for Soviet Gennadi Zakharov. On side two, a discussion of the release by Poland of 225 political prisoners, and its affect on U.S. sanctions against Poland, with Jan Novak, member of the Polish American Congress and consultant for the National Security Council. First program continues on second side.
  
  
• Title: Frontline - Comrades: All That Jazz
  Author: WGBH
  Publication Date: 7/15
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 365
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Portrait of underground musician in Russia.
  
  
• Title: Frontline - Russia: Love It or Leave It
  Author: WGBH
  Publication Date: 2/11
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 431
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Exploration of Russian people's opinions and ideals about their own country.
  
  
• Title: Frontline - Russians are Here, The
  Author: WGBH, Boston and Public Television Stations Nationwide
  Publication Date: 6/13
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 432
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Americans know little about the increasing number of Russians who chose to leave their homeland for more freedom in the United States.
  
  
• Title: Frontline- Comrades: October Harvest
  Author: WGBH Boston and other Public TV Stations nationwide
  Publication Date: 9/2/
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 372
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: This program is about harvest time at a collective farm in Russia where people work for the state and themselves, for profit and for politics.
  
  
• Title: Frontline: Comrades: Leningrad Movie
  Author: A BBC Production in association with WGBH Boston and other Public TV Stations nationwide.
  Publication Date: 9/9/
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 370
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: A close-up look at a Russian movie director trying to negotiate politics in her films. The last in a 12-part series on the USSR.
  
  
• Title: Frontline: Journey to Russia
  Author: WGBH
  Publication Date: 6/11
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 406
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: As students travel to the Soviet Union, we learn of Russian perceptions of Americans, as they learn of the American perceptions of them.
  
  
• Title: Frontline: Race for the High Ground, The
  Author: WGBH
  Publication Date: 4/11
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 426
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: The arms race leaves the earth and enters the sky with Star Wars.
  
  
• Title: Frontline: Vietnam Memorial
  Author: PBS Video
  Publication Date: 1983
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: UB357.V54
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Depicts the five-day National Salute to Vietnam Veterans sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, during which veterans and their families rallied in Washington, D.C. to dedicate the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Constitution Gardens.
  
  
• Title: Frontline:Vietnam Under Communism
  Author: WGBH
  Publication Date: 1/15
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 449
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: On the tenth anniversary of our leaving Vietnam, a look at the legacies of the war upon the country.
  
  
• Title: Grenada Documents: An Overview and Selection
  Author: Department of State/Department of Defense
  Publication Date: 1984
  Format: Print
  Location: Government Documents
  Call No./URL/Item No.: S 1.2:G 86/2
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Latin America
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Includes documents from Grenada, Cuba, and the Soviet Union.
  
  
• Title: Helen Caldicott's Farewell Address
  Author: Pacifica Radio
  Publication Date: 6/19
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 214
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Noted anti-nuclear activist gives her final address before retirement--a retirement which was cut short. She talks on women's responsibilities in a nuclear world, issues of self-confidence, women's internal strength, the pervasive sexism in the peace movement, and the lessons of Chernobyl. Recorded in Chicago, June 1986. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives.
  
  
• Title: In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
  Author: Impact Productions
  Publication Date: 1983
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: U263.I35
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Presents interviews with twenty-seven youths, six to eighteen years old, who discuss why the nuclear threat is ignored and what would happen during an atomic blast. Discusses the psychological effect of the nuclear war threat on children. Also gives brief glimpsed of atomic bomb blasts and of a Hiroshima survivor as he describes his experience.
  
  
• Title: Inside Gorbachev's USSR
  Author: Coronet/MTI Film & Video
  Publication Date: 1993
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DK288.I67 1990 pt. 1-4 and DK288.I67 1990 guide pt. 1-4
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Four parts: "The Taste of Democracy," "Comfortable Lies, Bitter Truths," " Looking for Perestroika," and "Coming Apart."
  
  
• Title: Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983-1988 (Digital National Security Archive)
  Author: ProQuest UMI
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/icintro.htm
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: "he documents in this collection include every exhibit released by the official investigations of the Iran-Contra Affair, including the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Tower Commission, the joint select Congressional committees, and the Independent Counsel. Iran-Contra focuses on the period from Fall 1983, when Congress first put limits on official U.S. assistance to the Contras, to the criminal indictments of Oliver North, Richard Secord, and Albert Hakim in Spring 1988."
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• Title: Man of Iron (Czlowiek z zelaza)
  Author: MGM/UA Home Video
  Publication Date: 1997
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.C997 1997 pt. 1 and pt. 2
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: By combining documentary and fictional footage, this film portrays the Polish Solidarity strike that took place at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer of 1980.
  
  
• Title: News conference, President Ronald Reagan, 1981: Foreign policy
  Author: ABC Radio
  Publication Date: 11/1
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 1650
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: News conference, President Ronald Reagan, as aired on ABC radio network, November 18, 1981. First major foreign policy address by Reagan. START talks. Reducing nuclear arms. Anchor: Vic Ratner. KYW Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  
  
• Title: News conference: President Ronald Reagan, May 1982
  Author: NBC Radio
  Publication Date: 1982
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 1640
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: NBC radio network coverage of news conference by President Ronald Reagan. May 1982 (exact date not available). Includes START Talks (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks), Falkland Islands crisis. Foreign relations. Nuclear arms race. Reagan's tenth (10th) news conference since taking office.
  
  
• Title: Nuclear Nightmare
  Author: WTMJ-TV/United Learning
  Publication Date: 1986
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: BF723.W3N83 and BF723.W3N83 guide
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Interviews young people about how they feel about nuclear war, how they manifest those feelings and what they see as their future.
  
  
• Title: Nuclear Nightmare Next Door
  Author: 48 Hours/Films for the Humanities
  Publication Date: 1988
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: RA569.N83 1988
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: A segment from the television show 48 Hours. Through interviews with citizens, employees, and government investigators, shows the possible health dangers posed by nuclear plants to their employees and those who live near the plant.
  
  
• Title: Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon
  Author: BBC-TV
  Publication Date: 1982
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: UA929.G7N83
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Western Europe
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Visualizes the effects of a nuclear bomb detonated above St. Paul's Cathedral in London and follows several British couples as they attempt to carry out civil defense recommendations for survival.
  
  
• Title: Operation Urgent Fury
  Author: PBS Video
  Publication Date: 1989
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: F2056.8.O64 1989
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Latin America
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: An analysis of the United States' invasion into Grenada, code name, Operation Urgent Fury, in the Fall, 1983.
  
  
• Title: Red Dawn
  Author: MGM/UA Home Video
  Publication Date: 1982
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.R346 1984
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: When a town is invaded by Soviet forces a group of high school students escape and wage warfare in defense of their parents, their friends, and their country.
  
  
• Title: Reunification of Germany
  Author: Churchill Films
  Publication Date: 1992
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DD257.25.R48 1992
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: After more than forty years of divided rule, the people of East and West Germany were reunited in 1989. In this film, young people from both countries talk about their societies under communist and democratic systems, and the demonstrations that reunited them
  
  
• Title: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Includes "Public Papers of the President: Ronald Reagan, 1981-1988," photographs, and biographical information.
  
  
• Title: Solidarnosc: The Hope from Gdansk
  Author: Riverside Pix
  Publication Date: 1985
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DK4442.S65 and DK4442.S65 guide
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: A documentary that explores the ways in which the rise of the Solidarity Labor Organization has affected everyday life in Gdansk, Poland. Interviews with Lech Walesa, exiled journalists and government representatives provide commentary on Poland's political environment.
  
  
• Title: Struggle for Peace and Justice Continues
  Author: Pacifica Radio
  Publication Date: 1985
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 196
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Ron Dellums, California Democratic representative to the House of Representatives, speaks at Union College on nuclear weapons, Star Wars, disarmament, South Africa, poverty, and justice in the United States. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives. This tape is recorded on two sides.
  
  
• Title: Testament
  Author: Paramount Home Video
  Publication Date: 1984
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.T3978
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: A story about how one family attempts to cope after the unthinkable happens - nuclear war.
  
  
• Title: Threads
  Author: World Video
  Publication Date: 1985
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.T468
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Western Europe
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: BBC-TV production. "A dramatization of the possible environmental, physical, and psychological consequences of a nuclear attack on England. The story centers on the lives of two young people and their families in Sheffield, England, during the events leading up to the attack and for thirteen years afterward."
  
  
• Title: U.S. Intelligence and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1981
  Author: Douglas J. MacEachin/Center for the Study of Intelligence
  Publication Date: 2000
  Format: Print
  Location: Government Documents
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LC Stacks | DK4442 .M33 2000
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: "The declassified materials include some 400 reports on Poland that were disseminated in CIA’s National Intelligence Daily between the emergence of Solidarity in mid-1980 and the imposition of martial law in December 1981, as well as a number of in-depth intelligence assessments and National Intelligence Estimates produced at the time. The declassified documents from US policy components include State Department cables, records of policy meetings at the White House, and accounts of government officials who participated in the decisionmaking process. These documents reflect the perceptions of those policy officials who received the intelligence at the time."
  
  
• Title: Video from Russia: The People Speak
  Publication Date: 1984
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 1034
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Unrehearsed person on the street interviews with the citizens of Russia, commenting on various aspects of Russian lifestyles, dreams, people, and activities.
  
  
• Title: War Games
  Author: MGM/UA Home Video
  Publication Date: 1988
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: PN1997.W37
  Subject: Culture & Society
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1983. "Young electronic wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation."
  
  
• Title: What About the Russians?
  Author: Impact Productions
  Publication Date: 1983
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: E183.8.R9W53
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Presents the thinking of military, scientific and governmental experts on U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, nuclear weapons, and how to end the arms race.
  
  
• Title: World - Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey
  Author: WGBH Boston, Seven League Productions
  Publication Date: 5/21
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 1132
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: Documentary of the Cuban immigration in April 1980 as Castro allowed a port to opened and people free to be transported to the United States.