RCBC - Mount Laurel

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The war. Disc 1 [DVD] / American Lives II Film Project, LLC. ; a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington D.C. ; produced by Sarah Botstein ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

Edition:

DVD format ; region 1 ; widescreen (16:9, enhanced) presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. surround ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, NTSC.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor], [2007], c2006.

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.

Target Audience Note:

TV-14; disturbing content, violence.

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Audio-visual materials.

World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Audio-visual materials.

City dwellers -- Effects of war on -- Audio-visual materials.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Audio-visual materials.

War television programs -- Audio-visual materials.

United States -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Audio-visual materials.

Other Author:

Burns, Ken, 1953-

Botstein, Sarah.

Ward, Geoffrey C.

Novick, Lynn.

David, Keith, 1954-

Hanks, Tom.

Lucas, Josh.

Cannavale, Bobby, 1971-

Jackson, Samuel L.

Wallach, Eli, 1915-2014.

Arkin, Adam.

Conway, Kevin.

Holtz, Rebecca.

McCormick, Carolyn.

Wahlberg, Robert.

American Lives II Film Project, LLC.

Florentine Films.

WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)

PBS Home Video.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

War

Notes:

Subtitle on set container: In extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives, 1941-1945.

Originally broadcast by PBS in 2006.

Episode one of a seven-episode series.

Special features: Disc 1: "Making The war" featurette; commentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; photo gallery; biographies; educational resources.

Cinematography, Buddy Squires ; editors, Paul Barnes, Erik Ewers, Tricia Reidy ; original music, Wynton Marsalis.

Narrated by Keith David, with Tom Hanks, Josh Lucas, Bobby Cannavale, Samuel L. Jackson, Eli Wallach, Adam Arkin, Kevin Conway, Rebecca Holtz, Carolyn McCormick, Robert Wahlberg.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Necessary war (December 1941-December 1942)

Call Number:

DVD 940.5373 War

ISBN:

141572749X (set)

9781415727492 (set)

Control Number:

290929

Publisher or Distributor Number:

705212

System Availability:

2

# System items in:

2

# Local items:

1

# Local items in:

1

Current Holds:

0

Medium:

[DVD]