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The untold story of Emmett Louis Till / [ThinkFilm and Til Freedom Come Productions present ; a Keith A. Beauchamp film] ; produced and directed by Keith A. Beauchamp.
LIBRA DVD 023 035
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955--Death and burial.
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
- Lynching--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Hate crimes--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- African American youth--Crimes against--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Racism--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Trials (Murder)--Mississippi.
- Trials (Murder).
- Racism.
- History.
- African American youth--Crimes against.
- African American youth.
- Hate crimes.
- Lynching.
- Mississippi--Race relations.
- Mississippi.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Untold story of Emmett Till
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : ThinkFilm, [2005]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Explores the murder of a black teenager in Mississippi in 1955 that ignited the civil rights movement. "In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley of Chicago sent her only child, 14 year-old Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that only 8 days later, Emmett would be abducted from his Great-Uncle's home, brutally beaten and murdered for one of the oldest Southern taboos: whistling at a white woman."--Container.
- Credits:
- Editor, David Dessel; music, Jim Papoulis.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2005.
- Special features: director's commentary; featurette: The impact of the Emmett Till case in American history and today.
- "Digitally mastered."--Container.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- OCLC:
- 671824850
- Publisher Number:
- 821575147255
- TF-14725 ThinkFilm
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