Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Civil War [videorecording] / a production of Florentine Films and WETA-TV ; a film by Ken Burns ; produced by Ken Burns and Ric Burns ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns ; directed by Ken Burns.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2011.

Description:

6 videodiscs (660 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Television mini-series.

Closed captioning.

Historical television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Nonfiction television programs.

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

Confederate States of America -- History, Military.

Other Author:

Burns, Ken, 1953-

Ward, Geoffrey C.

Burns, Ric.

McCullough, David G.

Plimpton, George.

Freeman, Morgan.

Robards, Jason.

PBS Home Video.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1990.

Special features: Bonus disc: From the archive: Shelby Foote interviews; interview with Ken Burns; additional interviews: George Will, Stanley Crouch, Shelby Foote, and Jay Ungar & Molly Mason; commentary with Ken Burns; biography cards; battlefield maps; Civil War challenge.

Director, Ken Burns.

George Plimpton, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Sam Waterston; Narration: David McCullough.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen presentation; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

Cause Very bloody affair Forever free Simply murder Universe of battle Valley of the shadow of death Most hallowed ground War is all hell Better angels of our nature Bonus disc.

ISBN:

9781608834020

1608834026

1415757836

9781415757833

Publisher Number:

CIVW6400

84913

Other Number:

709617664

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

328559

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 973.7 Civil Wa

Medium:

[videorecording]