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Author Bartlett, Gillian, producer

Title Suez Canal, Egypt / by Gillian Bartlett, Andrew Thomson and Madeleine Swain
Published Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (6 min.)
Series Infamous places ; 4
World history in video.
Summary In the mid 1950s, the Suez Canal was one of the most strategically important waterways in the world. Britain no longer needed it to protect its ever dwindling empire, but it was a vital oil route with two thirds of Europe's oil passing through it by1955. You might not expect a sea collision ending in the deaths of 46 people to be described as a story with a happy ending, but there were another 1,660 crew and passengers who survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria. Thanks to a well orchestrated, speedy rescue operation which saved this maritime disaster of July, 1956, from being another Titanic. Even before famous resident and former President Bill Clinton put Little Rock, Arkansas, on the map, the American town hit the headlines for different political reasons. On September 23, 1957, nine African-American students were denied access to Central High School by an angry mob of over 1,000 white students and their supporters
Notes Previously released on DVD
Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011)
English
Subject Andrea Doria (Steamship)
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- Riots & demonstrations -- 1950-1960
Stockholm (Ship)
SUBJECT Andrea Doria (Steamship) fast (OCoLC)fst00532725
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) fast (OCoLC)fst00545053
Subject Government ownership.
Racism.
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- 1950-1960
Shipwrecks -- Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island
nationalization.
Government ownership.
Racism.
School integration.
Shipwrecks.
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041310
England. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82068148
France. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006404
Little Rock (Ark.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79133172
Russia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203
Suez Canal (Egypt) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129633
Subject Arkansas -- Little Rock.
Egypt.
Egypt -- Suez Canal.
England.
France.
Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island.
Russia.
Genre/Form Documentary
Documentary television programs.
History.
Nonfiction television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Documentaires télévisés.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Swain, Madeleine, narrator
Thomson, Andrew, producer
Other Titles Outside New York Harbour, United States of America
Little Rock, Central High School, Arkansas, United States of America