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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Called Shakers due to their ecstatic dancing, they were the most enduring religious experiment in American history and are remembered today for their life of simplicity and their furniture.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 58 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. As this fascinating program reveals, it was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction problems and ingenious solutions."--Publisher's website.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This revealing and poignant film by Ken Burns portrays 200 years of Shaker life in America, guided by the recollections of the three surviving members of the faith, along with a wealth of archival material from over 40 collections. Explore every aspect of this strange and noble sect that produced some of the greatest architecture and furniture in American history.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.
6) Huey Long
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"No modern politician has captured the American imagination as has the Kingfish--Huey Long. Two years in the making, Ken Burns' documentary traces Long's spectacular career from the 1920s when he burst out of Louisiana's red clay hills to smash the state's power structure under the banner "Every Man a king.""--Publisher's website.
7) The Congress
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history and promise of the country's most important and least understood institutions. The film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of congress.
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