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Liberty! : the American Revolution / a production of Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. in association with Middlemarch Films, Inc.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 87760 | Paramount Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: PBS home videoPublisher: [United States] : Hollywood, Calif. : PBS Home Video ; Paramount Home Entertainment, [2004]Copyright date: ©1997Edition: Full screen versionDescription: 3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1415702179
  • 9781415702178
Other title:
  • American Revolution
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
disc 1, pt. I. The reluctant revolutionaries ; pt. II. Blows must decide -- disc 2, pt. III. The times that try men's souls ; pt. IV. Oh, fatal ambition -- disc 3, pt. V. The world turned upside down ; pt. VI. Are we to be a nation?
Production credits:
  • Producers/directors, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer ; writer, Ronald Blumer.
Awards:
  • Winner of the Peabody Award.
Forrest Sawyer, host ; Edward Herrmann, narrator ; with dramatic performances by Roger Rees, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Victor Garber, Donna Murphy and other featured actors.Summary: Liberty! is a exuberant documentary about the American Revolution and our fight for freedom. It chronicles the events leading up to the declaration of war and the lasting effects these events had on shaping our country today.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD 973.3 L695 Available 33111009128519
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Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Forrest Sawyer, host ; Edward Herrmann, narrator ; with dramatic performances by Roger Rees, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Victor Garber, Donna Murphy and other featured actors.

Producers/directors, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer ; writer, Ronald Blumer.

Originally produced as a six-hour television series in 1997.

DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; full screen ; dolby surround stereo.

Liberty! is a exuberant documentary about the American Revolution and our fight for freedom. It chronicles the events leading up to the declaration of war and the lasting effects these events had on shaping our country today.

" ... Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition"--Container.

"PBS Home Video."--Container.

Winner of the Peabody Award.

Special features: scene selection; Who said what? A trivia quiz; performance by James Taylor & Mark O'Connor "Johnny has gone for a soldier."

disc 1, pt. I. The reluctant revolutionaries ; pt. II. Blows must decide -- disc 2, pt. III. The times that try men's souls ; pt. IV. Oh, fatal ambition -- disc 3, pt. V. The world turned upside down ; pt. VI. Are we to be a nation?

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