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Slavery by another name
Title
Slavery by another name [videorecording] / a production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc. ; produced and directed by Sam Pollard ; written by Sheila Curran Bernard.
Published
[Boston, MA] : PBS Distribution, c2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon.
Originally produced for television in 2012.
Special features include: "The bricks we stand on," Douglas A. Blackmon shares how the project evolved (18 min.); behind the scenes.
Editor, Jason L. Pollard ; original score, Michael Bacon.
Soundtrack in English, with optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Summary
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 09, 2013
Credits
Editor, Jason L. Pollard ; original score, Michael Bacon.
Performers
Narrator, Laurence Fishburne.
System details note
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen, stereo.
Audience
Rating: TV-PG-L, V.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Television programs - United States.
Also listed under
TPT National Productions.
Two Dollars and a Dream (Firm)
PBS Distribution (Firm)
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