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DVD

The Gilded Age

Call Number

  • DVD 973.8 G468 (CEN, EAS)

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Languages

In English, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Narrated by Oliver Platt.

Publication Information

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

The Gilded Age presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.

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 an episode of American experience in 2018.

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