Fighting for freedom [videorecording] : Revolution & Civil War / Thirteen WNET New York ; producers, Philip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt ; adapted and written by Philip B. Kunhardt III, Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., and Joy Hakim ; directors, Philip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt.
Title from container. Featuring the voices of: Philip Bosco, John Goodman, Brad Pitt, Chevy Chase, Richard Gere, Martin Sheen, Michael Caine, Stanley Tucci, Jeremy Irons, Tom Hanks, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Billy Bush, Raoul Trujillo, Kevin Spacey, Ralph Fiennes, Ving Rhames, Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Samuel L. Jackson, Fred Owens, Matthew McConaughey, Dabnye Coleman, Whoopi Goldberg, John Siegenthaler, Morgan Freeman, Stacey Keach, Dennis Quaid, Robin Williams, Glenn Close, Robert Redford, Al Roker. Based on the book series A History of US by Joy Hakim, published by Oxford University Press. Special features: "America the beautiful" performed by Keb' Mo'.
Contents:
pt. 1. Independence -- pt. 2. Revolution -- pt. 3. A fatal contradiction -- pt. 4. A war to end slavery.
Summary:
British subjects convinced that Great Britain is trying to take away their freedoms fight the Revolutionary War. America founded on the belief that all persons might be free, with a glaring contradiction. The conflict with slavery lead to the Civil War.
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