Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Massachusetts 54th colored infantry / produced and directed by Jacqueline Shearer ; telescript by Jacqueline Shearer and Leslie Lee ; a Reel Deal Productions film for American Experience.

Publisher, Date:

[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video

Summary:

Chronicles the formation and battlefield heroics of the first all-black Union regiment, the Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry. Highlights of this documentary include archival daguerreotypes, tintypes, lithographs, and commentary by various historians.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

PBS

Subjects:

United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)

African American soldiers -- Massachusetts.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary television programs.