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Additional authors

1. Pollard, Sam
2. Bernard, Sheila Curran
3. Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
4. Young, Andrew
5. Bacon, Michael, 1948-
6. Blackmon, Douglas A.
7. TPT National Productions, production company
8. Two Dollars and a Dream (Firm), production company
9. PBS Distribution (Firm)

Description

1. 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.

Subject

1. Nonfiction television programs
2. African Americans > Crimes against > History
3. Historical television programs
4. African American prisoners > Social conditions
5. Video recordings for the hearing impaired
6. Television adaptations
7. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
8. Blackmon, Douglas A > Television adaptations
9. Slavery > United States > History
10. Documentary television programs
11. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century
12. Convict labor > United States > History
13. United States > Race relations > History > 19th century
14. United States > Race relations > History > 20th century
15. Forced labor > United States > History
16. African Americans > Employment > History

Genre/Form

1. Documentary television programs.
2. Historical television programs.
3. Nonfiction television programs.
4. Television adaptations.
5. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-379

Note

1. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas A. Blackmon.
2. Originally released as a television documentary in 2012.
3. Special features include: "The bricks we stand on," Douglas A. Blackmon shares how the project evolved (18 min.); behind the scenes.
4. Summary from videodisc container.

Credits (note)

1. Screenwriter, Sheila Curran Bernard ; producer, Sam Pollard ; cinematographer, Andrew Young ; editor, Jason L. Pollard ; composer, Michael Bacon ; a production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc.

Audience (note)

1. Rating: TV-PG-L, V.

System details (note)

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

Language (note)

1. Soundtrack in English, with optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Title

1. Slavery by another name / directed by Sam Pollard.

Imprint

1. [Boston, MA] : PBS Distribution, c2012.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

System details

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

Performer

1. Narrator, Laurence Fishburne.

Credits

1. Screenwriter, Sheila Curran Bernard ; producer, Sam Pollard ; cinematographer, Andrew Young ; editor, Jason L. Pollard ; composer, Michael Bacon ; a production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc.

Audience

1. Rating: TV-PG-L, V.

Language

1. Soundtrack in English, with optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Added author

1. Pollard, Sam, television producer.
2. Pollard, Sam, television director.
3. Bernard, Sheila Curran, screenwriter.
4. Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961- narrator.
5. Young, Andrew, cinematographer.
6. Bacon, Michael, 1948- composer.
7. Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by another name.
8. TPT National Productions, production company.
9. Two Dollars and a Dream (Firm), production company.
10. PBS Distribution (Firm)

Other standard identifier

1. 841887016285

Publisher no.

1. SBAN601 PBS Distribution

ISBN

1. 9781608836253

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-379