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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

American experience. 1964 / An Insignia Films production ; written and directed by Stephen Ives ; produced by Amanda Pollak.

Publisher, Date:

Arlington, VA : PBS, [2014?]

Description:

1 DVD, NTSC (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the most prominent figures of the time.

Subjects:

Nineteen sixty-four, A.D.

Documentary television programs.

Historical television programs.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- History -- 1961-1969.

Other Author:

Platt, Oliver.

Ives, Stephen.

Pollak, Amanda.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Margolis, Jon. Last innocent year.

Insignia Films.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Other Title:

1964

Nineteen sixty-four

Nineteen hundred sixty-four

Nineteen hundred and sixty-four

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Title from container.

Based on The last innocent year: America in 1964 by Jon Margolis.

Originally produced an episode of the television program in 2014.

Edited by George O'Donnell and Amy Foote ; original music by Peter Rundquist ; director of photography, Andrew Young ; a production of WGBH Boston.

Narrated by Oliver Platt.

DVD, widescreen; Region 1; 5.1 Surround.

English subtitle for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

Birth of a new era -- The modern conservative movement -- The Beatles and Muhammad Ali -- The feminie mystique -- The great society -- Freedom summer -- The Republican National Convention -- The Harlem riots -- Finding the slain volunteers -- The Gulf of Tonkin resolution -- The free speech movement -- Johnson vs. Goldwater.

ISBN:

9781608830411

1608830411

Publisher Number:

NSFO601

Other Number:

865026494

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

403415

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 973.923 American