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American Government Collection All FOD videos on American government.
American Patriot: Inside the Armed Uprising Against the Federal Government (53:00) Examine the violent battle between a ranching family in the West and the federal government. See how a fight over land became deadly, invigorated a wider right-wing anti-government movement and continues to challenge prosecutors and law enforcement.
Collection of Phone Data Defended by Lawmakers (3:00) The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee defended a secret Obama administration program collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, saying it was a critical tool to combat terrorism, even as other members of Congress condemned the surveillance as an intrusion on innocent Americans. Phil Mattingly reports on Bloomberg Television's 'Money Moves.'
Moyers & Company: Challenging Power, Changing Politics (56:52) In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill talks with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who’s been an independent in Congress for 21 years—longer than anyone in American history. Sanders talks about jobs, the state of the economy, health care, and the unprecedented impact of big money on the major political parties.
The Role of Government in a Free Society (1:26:00) In this discussion, economist Milton Friedman examines the role of the U.S. Government in economic and political contexts (as of 1978), and notes that the government's actions have exceeded proper limitations. Friedman concludes that free societies must try to understand the implications of their values and explore all possibilities for coordinating actions through voluntary means.
A Third Choice (56:59) This program examines America’s fascinating national experience with third parties and independent candidates, covering more than 200 years of American political history. The program looks back to the birth of the two-party system and explores the most influential third-party movements in American political history, including Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party, Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrats and Henry Wallace’s Progressives in the 1948 elections, George Wallace’s American Independent Party in 1968, and Ross Perot.
US Government 20-2 (7:00) This video is about the United States Federal Reserve.

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Vice Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, VICE stars Christian Bale in an oscar Nominated role as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world. Vice is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.