Calvin Coolidge

The Roaring Twenties

Raoul Walsh

James Cagney, Priscilla Lane

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Landslide: A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover

Chip Duncan

Harry Smith, Herbert Hoover

Documentary about personal life of Herbert Hoover's and his governmental career, profiles the former head of state's political philosophy, memorable election campaigns, Great Depression policies and more. Through interviews with scholars such as David Kennedy, Robert Reich and Tim Egan, this biography sheds new light on the underappreciated president's difficult tenure and enduring legacy.

Whirlpool

Roy William Neill

Jack Holt, Jean Arthur

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

The Golden Twenties

Robert Q. Lewis, Frederick Lewis Allen

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Twenty Years After

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Frank Whitbeck, Bud Abbott

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Visitin' 'round at Coolidge Corners

Calvin Coolidge

Edward J. Blanchard, Calvin Coolidge

This is as slick a piece of campaign film as ever came out of Hollywood -- barring, of course, the anti-Upton Sinclair stuff turned out as newsreels in the 1930s during his campaign for governor of California. President Coolidge is presented as a simple man of the people who helps his cousin with the haying when he is in the neighborhood, works in the building he was born in and lives in the same house his father was born in: just another fellow like you and me. He runs the nation just about as well as we could.

President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds

Lee De Forest

Calvin Coolidge

The first presidential film with sound recording.

Charles A. Lindbergh, Hero of the Air

Charles A. Lindbergh, Calvin Coolidge

On May 20-21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh flew alone, non-stop from New York to Paris, in a single-engine plane without parachute or radio. With this feat, Lindbergh became perhaps the greatest hero of the decade. Fox Movietone's sound film record of Lindbergh's take-off was the first popular sensation of sound film; it was soon augmented by coverage of his welcome in Washington on June 11th.

Inside the White House

John B. Bredar

Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Carter

Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and unprecedented access to its hallowed halls, this program from National Geographic takes viewers on an in-depth tour of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- the White House. Interviews with presidents and first ladies offer a revealing look at what goes into running that famous household, and White House employees give viewers a taste of the preparations involved in hosting a state dinner.