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Thomas Jefferson / a film by Ken Burns ; a production of Florentine Films, in association with WETA-TV, Washington ; American Lives Film Project ; produced by Ken Burns, Camilla Rockwell ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward.

[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, [2004], ©1997.

1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.

Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

Biographical television programs.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Biographical television programs.

Burns, Ken, 1953-

Waterston, Sam.

Davis, Ossie.

Ward, Geoffrey C.

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

Florentine Films.

American Lives Film Project.

PBS Home Video.

Special features: Ken Burns, making history -- A conversation with Ken Burns.

Editors, Paul Barnes, Kevin Kertscher ; cinematography, Allen Moore [and others].

Narrator: Ossie Davis; voices: Sam Waterston, Philip Bosco, Blythe Danner, Amy Madigan, Michael Potts.

DVD; full screen presentation; Dolby surround stereo.

Closed captioned.

The Declaration of Independence and the new nation / Eric Slauter -- Jefferson's conception of republican government / Ari Helo -- Notes on the state of Virginia and the Jeffersonian West / Thomas Hallock -- Jefferson and Native Americans : policy and archive / Gordon M. Sayre -- Race and slavery in the era of Jefferson / Douglas R. Egerton -- Jefferson's people : slavery at Monticello / Lucia Stanton -- Jefferson, science, and the Enlightenment / Timothy Sweet -- Thomas Jefferson and the creation of the American architectural image / Richard Guy Wilson -- The politics of pedagogy : Thomas Jefferson and the education of a democratic citizenry / Darren Staloff -- Jefferson and religion : private belief, public policy / Richard Samuelson -- Jefferson and the language of friendship / Andrew Burstein -- Jefferson and Adams : friendship and the power of the letter / Joanne B. Freeman -- The resonance of minds : Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the republic of letters / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Jefferson and the democratic future / Douglas Anderson.

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