Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and U.S. President Bill Clinton shaking hands after signing the Declaration of Principles on Palestinian self-government, 1993
14 sec (1.4 MB)

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Aung San Suu Kyi speaking in 1989 about the upcoming 1990 Burmese election
19 sec (2.7 MB)

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Vladimir and Estragon waiting for Godot; from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1952), featuring members of the San Quentin Drama Workshop
42 sec (3.7 MB)

A Co-Production of the University of Maryland at College Park Visual Press, Caméras Continentales, Société Française de Production, La SEPT-Drama Division Guillaume Gronier, FR3 Music & Drama Division Dominique Fournier, WGBH Boston, PBS, Radioteleviseo Portuguesa-EP; courtesy Smithsonian Institution Press Video Division

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, and U.S. President Jimmy Carter signing the Camp David Accords (1978) and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty (1979)
48 sec (4.5 MB)

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Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering his "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington, 1963
30 sec (1.3 MB)

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Willy Brandt, as mayor of West Berlin in 1959, speaking about the goals of West Germany; excerpt from a Telenews newsreel
38 sec (3.3 MB)

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Ralph Bunche describing the role of the United Nations in both peace and war, 1951; excerpt from a Universal newsreel
31 sec (2.7 MB)

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Sir Winston Churchill addressing Parliament in his first speech as British prime minister, May 13, 1940
56 sec (3.5 MB)

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The Dalai Lama speaking about the future of Tibet and the rights of Tibetans, 1987
36 sec (3.1 MB)

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Albert Einstein theorizing on the potential effects of atomic energy, from a newsreel released posthumously in 1960
30 sec (2.6 MB)

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Milton Friedman criticizing government intervention in consumer product safety in the wake of disputes over the safety of the Chevrolet Corvair automobile; excerpt from Free to Choose (1978)
55 sec (5.3 MB)

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Dag Hammarskjöld refusing Soviet demands in 1960 that he resign as secretary-general of the United Nations; excerpt from a 1961 Universal newsreel
24 sec (2.3 MB)

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Cordell Hull speaking in favour of the United Nations in 1943; from the documentary The Good Neighbor: Cordell Hull (1952)
22 sec (1.9 MB)

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Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho initialing the Paris Peace Accords (1973); from the documentary Spies: Vietnam Operation Linebacker
14 sec (1.3 MB)

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Elmer Gantry testifying at a tent meeting in a scene from the 1960 film Elmer Gantry, featuring Burt Lancaster and based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis
54 sec (5.2 MB)

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Guglielmo Marconi demonstrating the wireless radio device, which was used to transmit Morse code over the Atlantic Ocean from 1901
21 sec (2 MB)

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Rigoberta Menchú decrying the injustices of civil war in Guatemala
39 sec (3.4 MB)

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George C. Marshall outlining the Marshall Plan in the documentary Soldier of Peace: General George Marshall (1952)
20 sec (2 MB)

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Linus Pauling delivering his acceptance speech for the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize
44 sec (4.3 MB)

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United Nations peacekeeping forces in Cyprus; from the UNICEF television series International Zone (c. 1960)
44 sec (3.8 MB)

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Theodore Roosevelt receiving Japanese and Russian delegates at Portsmouth, N.H., U.S., in order to mediate a peaceful conclusion to the Russo-Japanese War, 1905
29 sec (2.8 MB)

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Bertrand Russell speaking about the value of abstract thought and philosophy, 1952
39 sec (3.8 MB)

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George Bernard Shaw speaking about the marvels of technology; excerpt from a Hearst Metrotone newsreel (c. 1930)
29 sec (2.5 MB)

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Desmond Tutu preaching to a black congregation about their destined rise to power in South Africa, 1980
42 sec (3.7 MB)

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ABC News report about Lech Walesa winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983
34 sec (3 MB)

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Elie Wiesel delivering his acceptance speech for the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
16 sec (1.4 MB)

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T.S. Eliot reading the first three stanzas of his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915)
1 min 12 sec (3.04 MB)

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Ernest Hemingway reading from a work in progress
1 min 12 sec (3.0 MB)

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Czeslaw Milosz reading his poem, "Rivers" (1980), audio in Polish
2 min 24 sec (1.5 MB)

"Rivers" from The Collected Poems of Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass. Copyright © 1988 by Czeslaw Milosz Royalties, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the Ecco Press. Recording © 1996 Polskie Radio S.A.

Oe Kenzaburo reading the first paragraph of his novel A Personal Matter--audio in Japanese

Kojinteki Na Taiken (A Personal Matter), courtesy Oe Kenzaburo; copyright 1964 by Oe Kenzaburo; originally published by Shinchosa, Tokyo; English translation copyright 1968 by John Nathan; first published in English by Grove Press, New York

Paul A. Samuelson discussing the stability of international economic systems in the second half of the 20th century
1 min 28 sec (3.7 MB)

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Verse XXXIX of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitañjali (1910), as recited by Mohammed Sirajullah, audio in Bengali
56 sec (2.3 MB)

Courtesy Dr. Mohammed Sirajullah, Chicago, Ill.; translated from the Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore

The first stanza of William Butler Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," as performed by the Kiltartan Road Ensemble, 1995
49 sec (2.0 MB)

Music composed by: Joseph Daniel Sobol; published by: Kiltartan Road Music, BMI

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