Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Roads to Memphis [videorecording] / produced by Amanda Pollak ; written by Michelle Ferrari ; directed by Stephen Ives ; an Insignia Films production for American Experience.

Publisher, Date:

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation : Distributed by PBS Distribution, c2010.

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Documents the story of assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April of 1968. Explores the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex, engaging, and thought-provoking portrait of America in that crisis-laden year.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

American experience series.

Subjects:

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination.

Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998.

Historical television programs.

Biographical television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.