Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth is an ancient and active tenet, also known as World to come. The phrase may also refer to:

Film, television and theatre

Music

Heaven on Earth (1927 film)

Heaven on Earth is a 1927 American drama silent film directed by Phil Rosen and written by Harvey Gates. The film stars Renée Adorée, Conrad Nagel, Gwen Lee, Julia Swayne Gordon, Marcia Manon and Pat Hartigan. The film was released on March 5, 1927, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Heaven on Earth (duo)

Heaven on Earth are a husband and wife duo formed in England in 1983 by members Joe Ortiz (from New York City) and Pauly Ortiz (from Essex, England).

As a session and touring musician completing a European tour with the chart reggae group 'Inner Circle' Joe met Pauly, who commissioned Joe's multi-instrumental and vocal talents for her first album, titled Lady's Fire. Pauly was then professionally known as Jo Anna Forte, and signed to Eagle Records UK. This album was also released on CBS Europe.

In 1984, they had a son, Paul Ortiz, also a musician and composer/producer known throughout the internet as Chimp Spanner. In 1987, Joe and Pauly were signed to Atlantic Records for whom they recorded and released the LP and CD titled Dedication. In the same year, they entered their song "Love Come Down" which came in the final eight for the UK entries.

They have also composed and produced popular television signature themes for such programmes as Heirloom, Animals in Action and Jumble. Today they manage their own multimedia business providing products and services to end users as well as the industry. They still continue to compose and record new material and have completed enough music to fill approximately seventy albums. It includes instrumentals.

Revolutions of 1989

The Revolutions of 1989 were part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of Communist rule in the Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. The period is sometimes called the Autumn of Nations, a play on the term "Springtime of Nations" sometimes used to describe the Revolutions of 1848.

Leadup to revolution

By the late 1980s, people in the Caucasus and Baltic states were demanding more autonomy from Moscow, and the Kremlin was losing some of its control over certain regions and elements in the Soviet Union. In November 1988, Estonia issued a declaration of sovereignty, which would eventually lead to other states making similar declarations of autonomy.

The Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 had major political and social effects that catalyzed or at least partially caused the revolutions of 1989. One political result of the disaster was greatly increased significance of the new Soviet policy of glasnost. It is difficult to establish the total economic cost of the disaster. According to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union spent 18 billion rubles (the equivalent of US$18 billion at that time) on containment and decontamination, virtually bankrupting itself.

Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism

Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (2005) is a three-hour PBS documentary film (sometimes recut as a 3 episodes documental mini-series) hosted by Ben Wattenberg and narrated by Henry Strozier. The series' Executive Producer is Andrew Walworth. The series was produced for PBS by New River Media, Inc. (re-incorporated as Grace Creek Media, Inc. in 2008) and first broadcast as a special edition of the television series Think Tank in June 2005.

Heaven on Earth begins with the pronouncement: "This 3-hour documentary explores one of the most powerful political ideas in history. Socialism spread farther and faster than any religion. Then, in almost the blink of an eye, it all collapsed. What happened?"

Synopsis

The documentary is broken up into three distinct hour-long sections:

Hour 1: The Rise

This hour describes Robert Owen and early utopian socialism before discussing the development of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Attention turns to Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution, the American labor movement, and finishes with an examination of Canadian socialism.