Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Vietnam War / a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington, DC ; a film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick ; directed by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, & Ken Burns.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS Distribution, [2017]

Description:

10 videodiscs (approximately 18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TV-MA.

Subjects:

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- History.

United States -- History -- 1961-1969.

United States -- History -- 1969-

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Other Author:

Burns, Ken, 1953- television director, television producer.

Novick, Lynn, television director, television producer.

Ward, Geoffrey C., screenwriter.

Botstein, Sarah, 1972- television producer.

Coyote, Peter, narrator.

Squires, Buddy, cinematographer.

Reidy, Tricia, film editor.

Barnes, Paul, 1951- film editor.

Ewers, Erik, film editor.

Mellish, Craig, film editor.

Reznor, Trent, composer.

Ross, Atticus, 1968- composer.

Florentine Films, production company.

WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), production company.

PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Title from title screen.

Wide screen.

Special features: The making of "The Vietnam War"; Bonus content.

Cinematography, Buddy Squires ; editors, Tricia Reidy, Paul Barnes, Erik Ewers, Craig Mellish ; original music, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross.

Narrated by Peter Coyote.

DVD, widescreen.

English (5.1 surround) or Spanish (2.0 stereo) dialogue; English/Spanish subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.

Contents:

Déjà vu (1858-1961) -- Riding the tiger (1961-1963) -- The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) -- Resolve (January 1966-June 1967) -- This is what we do (July 1967-December 1967) -- Things fall apart (January 1968-July 1968) -- The veneer of civilization (June 1968-May 1969) -- The history of the world (April 1969-May 1970) -- A disrespectful loyalty (May 1970-March 1973) -- The weight of memory (March 1973-Onward)

ISBN:

9781531701734

1531701736

9786316906229 : DVD

6316906226 : DVD

Publisher Number:

VWAR600 (VWAR600.1-VWAR600.2)

Other Number:

1000084050

System Availability:

9

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

9

Control Number:

676178

# Local items in:

7

# System items in:

7

Call Number:

DVD 959.7043 Vietnam