DVD
The address
Languages
In English or Spanish; English or Spanish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, English descriptive audio.
Publication Information
Boston : PBS Distribution, [2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
At the tiny Greenwood School in the small New England town of Putney, Vermont, its roughly 50 students, boys from the ages 11 to 17, are asked each year to memorize the Gettysburg Address. This would be a daunting assignment for any student, but the boys at Greenwood all suffer from learning differences that have made their personal, academic and social progress extremely challenging. Embedding camera crews at the school for three months to chronicle the boys' struggle to learn Abraham Lincoln's immortal words and deliver them in a final public recitation, filmmaker Ken Burns shows them heroically confronting past failures and humiliations, ultimately opening the door to what Lincoln himself called "a new birth of freedom."
Notes
Title from container.
Originally broadcast on PBS in 2014.