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The economic meltdown : how America's fiscal fallout triggered a global crisis / WGBH ; PBS.
LIBRA DVD 022 404 disc 1-2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Financial crises--United States--History--21st century.
- Financial crises.
- Bank failures--United States--History--21st century.
- Bank failures.
- Banks and banking--Government policy--United States--21st century.
- Banks and banking.
- Mortgage loans--United States--History--21st century.
- Mortgage loans.
- Foreclosure--United States--History--21st century.
- Foreclosure.
- History.
- Banks and banking--Government policy.
- United States--Economic conditions--21st century.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Documentary television programs.
- Television series.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- [Arlington, VA?] : PBS Distribution, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Features five Frontline programs: Inside the Meltdown-Investigating the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years. Ten Trillion and Counting-The efforts to slow down the crisis added more debt. How debt constrains and challenges the government. Breaking the Bank-Wall Street risked billions and created massive losses, nearly breaking the banks. The Warning-Why did the meltdown happen? Cliffhanger-Investigation of how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. Inside the meltdown / a Frontline co-production with Kirk Documentary Group Ltd. ; produced by Michael Kirk ... [et al.] ; written and directed by Michael Kirk. Ten trillion and counting / a Frontline production with The Documentary Group ; producer, David Schisgall ; written by Mark Obenhaus. Breaking the bank / a Frontline co-production with Kirk Documentary Group Ltd. ; produced by Michael Kirk ... [et al.] ; written and directed by Michael Kirk.
- disc 2. The warning / a Frontline co-production with Kirk Documentary Group Ltd. ; produced by Michael Kirk ... [et al.] ; written and directed by Michael Kirk. Cliffhanger / a Frontline production with Kirk Documentary Group Ltd. ; produced by Michael Kirk ... [et al.] ; written by Michael Kirk & Mike Wiser ; directed by Michael Kirk.
- Participant:
- Correspondent, Forrest Sawyer (Ten trillion and counting).
- Narrator, Will Lyman. Reported by Jim Gilmore (Inside the meltdown, Breaking the bank, The warning, Cliffhanger).
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Ben McCoy; editors, Peter Rhodes (Inside the meltdown), Kenneth Levis, Peter R. Livingston, Jr. (Ten trillion and counting), Chad Ervin (Breaking the bank, and The warning), and Steve Audette (Cliffhanger); music, John E. Low (Inside the meltdown, Breaking the bank, The warning, and Cliffhanger), and Ben Decter (Ten trillion and counting).
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of five episodes of the documentary television series Frontline, originally aired on PBS in 2009 (Inside the meltdown, Ten trillion and counting, Breaking the bank, and The warning) and 2013 (Cliffhanger).
- Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
- Contains:
- Inside the meltdown
- Ten trillion and counting
- Breaking the bank
- Warning
- Cliffhanger
- ISBN:
- 9781608839193
- 1608839192
- OCLC:
- 843127549
- Publisher Number:
- 841887019224
- ECME600 PBS Distribution
- ECME600.1 PBS Distribution
- ECME600.2 PBS Distribution
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