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DVD

The Great War

Call Number

  • DVD 940.373 G78694 (CEN, OSH)

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Languages

In English, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Narrated by Oliver Platt.

Publication Information

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation, [2017]

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (approximately 360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as "doughboys."

Notes

Title from container.

"Subtitles are a function of the disc and serve the same purpose as closed captions"--Container.

Originally broadcast on PBS as episodes of American experience in 2017.

Contents

  • Great War, part one / Great War, part two / Great War, part three

Subjects