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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

King (Television program : 1978)

Title:

King / written by Abby Mann ; produced by Paul Maslansky ; directed by Abby Mann ; an Abby Mann production in association with Filmways.

Publisher, Date:

[Chicago, Illinois] : Olive Films, [2015]

Description:

2 videodiscs (271 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Tracing the story of the civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's rise from his early years as a Baptist minister in Memphis to his assassination in 1968, is riveting storytelling of the highest order, combining first-rate performances with spiritual, political and social themes that remain as relevant today as they were in the era portrayed.

Subjects:

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

King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 -- Drama.

Civil rights workers -- Drama.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Drama.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.

Genre:

Television mini-series.

Biographical television programs.

Historical television programs.

Fiction television programs.

Other Author:

Mann, Abby, television director, television producer, screenwriter, interviewee.

Maslansky, Paul, television producer.

Winfield, Paul, actor.

Tyson, Cicely, actor.

Davis, Ossie, actor.

Hudson, Ernie, actor.

Browne, Roscoe Lee, actor.

Bennett, Tony, 1926-2023 actor, interviewee.

Filmways TV Productions, production company.

Olive Films, film distributor.

Notes:

Originally broadcast as a television mini series in 1978.

Bonus features: Recreating history: the making of King (15:30); In conversation with Abby Mann & Tony Bennett (18:57); The struggle (19:55); The civil rights movement (19:26)

Director of photography, Michael Chapman ; editors, Rich Meyer, David Berlatsky, Byron "Buzz" Brandt ; music, Billy Goldenberg.

Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Ossie Davis, Ernie Hudson, Roscoe Lee Browne, Tony Bennett, Lonny Chapman, Cliff De Young, Al Freeman, Jr., Clu Gulager, Steven Hill, William Jordan, Warren Kemmerling, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Kenneth McMillan, Howard Rollins, David Spielberg, Dolph Sweet, Dick Anthony Williams.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 2.0.

ISBN:

9786315814129

0887090088503

Publisher Number:

OF885

OF885-1

OF885-2

Other Number:

898303920

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

562261

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV King