Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The staircase [videorecording] / Canal+ presents ; a Maha Films production ; a film by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade ; produced by Denis Poncet ; co-produced by Allyson Luchak ; directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade.

Edition:

[Widescreen presentation].

Publisher, Date:

[New York, NY] : docuramafilms ; [Bethpage, L.I., NY] : Sundance Channel Home Entertainment ; [New York, NY] distribited by Newvideo, 2011.

Description:

2 videodiscs (384 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A shocking, real-life thriller that follows the high-profile murder trial of North Carolina author Michael Peterson, who was arraigned in 2001 for the murder of his wife after her body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of the couple's upscale Durham home. Did Kathleen Peterson fall down the stairs, or was it cold-blooded murder? As the mystery unravels, de Lestrade's cameras are granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home, and immediate family.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Series:

Sundance documentary collection

Sundance documentary collection.

Subjects:

Peterson, Michael (Michael I.)

Trials (Murder) -- North Carolina -- Durham.

Documentary television programs.

Television series.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Lestrade, Jean-Xavier de.

Poncet, Denis.

Luchak, Allyson.

Lee, Henry.

Pook, Jocelyn.

Studio Canal+.

Maha Films (Firm)

New Video Group.

Docurama (Firm)

Sundance Channel Home Entertainment.

Other Title:

Stair case

French language version released under title: Soupçons

Sometimes released under title: Suspicions

Sometimes released under title: Death on the staircase

Notes:

Videodisc release of all eight episodes of the documentary television series produced in 2011.

Special features: Step by step : the making of the staircase; Family & friends : interview outtakes; filmmaker insights; Michael Peterson follow-up interview; filmmaker biographies.

Director of photography, Isabelle Razavet; editors, Sophie Brunet, Scott Stevenson, Jean-Pierre Bloc; music, Jocelyn Pook.

Henry Lee, host.

DVD, NTSC, Region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Contents:

Disc 1. chapter 1. Crime or accident?; chapter 2. Secrets and lies; chapter 3. A striking coincidence; chapter 4. Prosecution trickery -- disc 2. chapter 5. A weak case; Chapter 6. The prosecution's revenge; Chapter 7. The blowpoke returns; chapter 8. The verdict.

ISBN:

1422993272

9781422993279

9781422993279 : DVD

1422993272 : DVD

Publisher Number:

NNVG261971

Other Number:

768490961

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

459931

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 345.02523 Staircas

Medium:

[videorecording]