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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

In search of the Constitution [videorecording] / directed by Vern Diamond ... [et al.] ; produced by Richard Petrow ... [et al.] ; a presentation of WNET New York & WTVS Detroit ; Public Affairs Television, Inc.

Publisher, Date:

[Silver Spring, MD] : Athena, [2010]

Description:

4 videodiscs (ca. 627 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 viewer's guide (13 p. ; 15 cm.)

Summary:

In American history, no document has sparked as much reverence, discussion, and controversy as the Constitution. But how does it really affect our everyday lives? Join Bill Moyers for this eleven-part series, originally produced to mark the Constitution's bicentennial, that delves into the fascinating history and contemporary relevance of the ultimate law of the land.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

United States. Constitution.

Constitutional history -- United States.

Constitutional law -- United States.

Documentary television programs.

Public service television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Moyers, Bill, 1934-2025

Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew), 1908-1999.

Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001.

Brennan, William J. (William Joseph), 1906-1997.

Dworkin, Ronald.

O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-2023

Powell, Lewis F., 1907-1998.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

WTVS-TV (Television station : Detroit, Mich.)

Public Affairs Television (Firm)

Athena (Firm)

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Wayne Ewing Films.

Other Title:

In search of the Constitution (Television program)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on PBS in 1987.

Each program is ca. 57 min.

Accompanying viewer's guide includes questions to consider; a glossary of constitutional buzzwords; and articles on preserving the document, the history of judicial review, and the Constitution's international influence.

"Episodes 3 and 9 [are] a production of Public Affairs Television in association with Wayne Ewing Films"--Container.

Bonus DVD features: updates on the participants and issues and a biography of Bill Moyers.

Host, Bill Moyers.

DVD, full screen presentation (4x3); Dolby digital stereo.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

In the beginning ; Mr. Justice Blackmun ; Mortimer Adler : teaching the Constitution -- Mr. Justice Brennan ; Ronald Dworkin : the changing story ; God and the Constitution -- Strictly speaking ; Justice Sandra Day O'Connor ; For the people -- 1987 v. the Constitution ; Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

ISBN:

9781598285277

1598285270

Publisher Number:

AMP-8527

Other Number:

694629695

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

288576

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 342.73023 in searc

Medium:

[videorecording]