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Title Roots of resistance : the story of the Underground Railroad / a Roja Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell ; co-produced by Susan Bellows ; written by Theodore Thomas.

Publication Info. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation : WGBH Boston Video, [2007]

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 Moore Video  E450 .R66 2007    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
System Details DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital, NTSC.
Enhanced DVD.
System requirements for DVD-ROM features: Computer capable of playing DVD movies; Windows 95 or higher (or a Mac with 0S 9.0 or higher). Will not work in a CD-ROM drive.
Performer Narrator: Ruby Dee ; voice of Frederick Douglass, Ivan Dixon.
Credits Editor, Gail Yasunaga ; director of photography, Michael Chin.
Note Originally broadcast in 2005 as a segment of the television program, American Experience.
Audience Not rated.
Summary Recounts the story of the underground railroad through narratives of escaped slaves. Includes interviews with descendants of slaves and slave holders, who describe the personal danger and terrible risk involved in each slave's departure.
Note Special features: DVD-ROM access to American Experience web site.
Language Closed captioned.
Subject Underground Railroad.
Underground Railroad.
Fugitive slaves -- United States.
Fugitive slaves.
United States.
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
African Americans.
History.
Chronological Term To 1863
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Freed persons -- United States.
Freed persons.
Genre/Form Television programs.
Television programs.
Educational television programs.
Educational television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Added Author Bagwell, Orlando.
Bellows, Susan.
Thomas, Theodore, 1951-
Dee, Ruby.
Dixon, Ivan.
ROJA Productions.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
WGBH Video (Firm)
Added Title American experience (Television program)
ISBN 1593754752
9781593754754
Standard No. 783421400894
Music No. WG40089 WGBH Boston Video