Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Influenza, 1918 / a Robert Kenner Films production for American Experience ; produced and directed by Robert Kenner ; written by Ken Chowder.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, VA] : PBS Home Video, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

In the spring of 1918, an army private reported to a hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, an illness that doctors knew little about. By the end of WWI, America was ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Series:

PBS

Subjects:

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- United States.

Influenza -- United States -- History.

Epidemics -- United States -- History.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Kenner, Robert, 1950-

Chowder, Ken.

Hunt, Linda, 1945-

Ellwood, Alison.

Adler, Mark.

Lenzer, Don.

Robert Kenner Films.

PBS Home Video.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Other Title:

Subtitle on container: Worst epidemic in American history

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast on the television series American experience in 1998.

Teacher's guide included on disc as a PDF file or via American experience website.

Editor, Alison Ellwood; music, Mark Adler; cinematography, Don Lenzer [and others].

Narrated by Linda Hunt.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen presentation; stereo.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Sickness at Camp Devens -- A national epidemic -- The death toll rises -- Searching for a cure -- A forgotten horror.

Web Site:

Web Link Related web site.

Web Link Teacher's guide (PDF also available to download).

ISBN:

0793691370

9780793691371

9780793691371 : DVD

0793691370 : DVD

Publisher Number:

AMER605

Other Number:

62560503

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

714118

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 614.518 Influenz