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DVD

1940s house

Call Number

  • DVD 940.531 N7145 (CEN)

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Edition

Full screen version.

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Publication Information

[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, [2004]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in 1940s house, a re-creation of a World War II household. This time-travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of war in 1939 to Victory Day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into two months. Though the military threat is metaphorical, the privations are real and the pressures create tensions nonexistent in modern society.

Notes

Originally broadcast as a documentary television mini-series in 2001.

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