Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Civilian Conservation Corps [videorecording] / American Experience presents ; a Robert Stone Film ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written, produced, and directed by Robert Stone ; co-produced by Alison Guss.

Publisher, Date:

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

Description:

1 videodisc (53 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- History.

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- Employees -- Personal narratives.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History.

Public service employment -- United States -- History.

Forest conservation -- United States -- History.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Historical television programs.

Documentary television programs.