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DVD

The swamp

Call Number

  • DVD 333.918 S9719 (CEN)

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Languages

In English, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Narrator, Tim Hopper.

Publication Information

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation, [2019]

Physical Description

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

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity's attempt to conquer nature. This program, told through the lives of a handful of colorful and resolute characters, explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America's greatest wetland.

Notes

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

Based in part on the book The swamp: the Everglades, Florida, and the politics of paradise by Michael Grunwald.

Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of American experience in 2019.

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