DVD
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African American lives
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
Closed-captioned.
Performers
Host: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; features Oprah Winfrey, Chris Tucker, Quincy Jones, Sara-Lawrence-Lightfoot, Mae Jemison, T.D. Jakes, Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg.
Publication Information
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, [2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Added Uniform Title
Summary
A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
Notes
Originally broadcast as a four-part television series in 2006.
Contents
- Listening to our past / producer and director, Jesse Sweet; editors, Eric Davis, Michael Weingrad
- The promise of freedom / producer and director, Leslie Asako Gladsjo ; editors, Joanna Kiernan, Geeta Gandbhr
- Searching for our names / producer and director, Leslie D. Farrell; editors, Merril Stern, Kathryn Moore
- Beyond the middle passage / producer and director, Graham Judd; editors, Kate Hirson, Stefan Knerrich.
Subjects
- African Americans > Biography.
- African Americans > History.
- African American families > History.
- African Americans > Genealogy.
- Genealogy.
- DNA fingerprinting.
- Documentary television programs.
- Biographical television programs.
- Historical television programs.
- Television programs.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.