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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Underground railroad : the William Still story / a production of 90th Parallel Productions Ltd., in association with Rogers Broadcasting Limited and WNED-TV Buffalo/Toronto ; director, producer, and writer, Laine Drewery.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : PBS Home Video, [2012]

Description:

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

Summary:

Tells the compelling story of William Still, one of the most unheralded individuals of the Underground Railroad, and details the accounts of black abolitionists who had everything at stake as they helped fugitives follow the North Star to Canada.

Target Audience Note:

TV-PG.

Subjects:

Still, William, 1821-1902.

Still, William, 1821-1902. Underground Railroad.

Underground Railroad.

Fugitive slaves -- Canada.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Biographical television programs.

Historical television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Other Author:

Drewery, Laine.

Johnstone, Dion, 1975-

90th Parallel Film & Television Productions.

Rogers Broadcasting Limited.

WNED-TV (Television station : Buffalo, N.Y.)

PBS Home Video.

Other Title:

William Still story

Notes:

Title from container.

Release date: Jan. 31, 2012. originally produced in 2011 by 90th Parallel Productions Ltd.

Directors of photography, Michael Ellis, Michael Grippo ; editor, Geoff Matheson ; music by Bruce Fowler, Joe Sealy.

Featuring Dione Johnstone.

DVD, region 1, widescreen; NTSC, region 1; stereo.

Closed captioned.

Contents:

Young William Still -- The entrenched engine of growth -- The underground railroad -- The horrors of the block -- Sydney's Still's run for freedom -- Chief conductor -- Henry "Fox" Brown -- "My feelings were unutterable" -- Seth Conklin -- The Fugitive Slave Act -- Freedom's land.

ISBN:

9781608836178

1608836177

9781608836178 : DVD

1608836177 : DVD

Publisher Number:

URWS601

Other Number:

761401897

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

821719

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 973.7115 Undergro