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Title:

Jackie Robinson [DVD] / directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon ; written by David MacMahon and Sarah Burns ; produced by Sarah Burns, David McMahon, and Ken Burns.

Format:

[DVD] /

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Publisher:

PBS,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Robinson, Jackie,--1919-1972.
African American baseball players--Biography.
Baseball players--United States--Biography.
Discrimination in sports--United States--History.
Biographical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
DVD videodisc.
Spanish language materials.

Other Authors:

Burns, Ken, 1953- film producer. screenwriter, film producer.
Burns, Sarah, 1982- film producer. screenwriter, film producer.
McMahon, David, 1976- film producer. screenwriter, film producer.
David, Keith, narrator.
Foxx, Jamie, voice actor.
Florentine Films, production company.
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), production company.
Major League Baseball (Organization), production company.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher. publisher.
PBS Distribution (Firm), film distributor.

Notes:

Title from container. Originally broadcast as a television documentary in 2016. Widescreen. Special features: The Anderson Monarchs; outtakes; a conversation with the filmmakers. Narrator, Keith David ; voice of Jackie Robinson, Jamie Foxx.

Summary:

Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family members and rarely-seen photographs and film footage.

ISBN:

162789618X
9781627896184

LCCN:

be2016011224

UPC:

841887027557

Locations:

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GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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