America's war on poverty / produced by Blackside, Inc. ; series producer, Terry Kay Rockefeller.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Rockefeller, Terry Kay, producer, screenwriter.

Hampton, Henry, 1940-1998, producer.

Bellows, Susan, producer, director.

Thigpen, Lynne, narrator.

James, Dante J., director, producer, screenwriter.

Bernard, Sheila Curran, screenwriter.

Bundschuh, Werner, director, producer, screenwriter.

Martinez, Paige, director, producer, screenwriter.

Sills, Sam, director, producer, screenwriter.

Farrell, Leslie D., director, producer, screenwriter.

PBS Video, publisher.

Blackside, Inc., film production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Office of Economic Opportunity.

United States.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

Poor.

History.

Poor--United States--History--20th century.

Economic assistance, Domestic--United States.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

United States--Economic conditions--1961-1971.

Economic conditions.

United States--Economic conditions--1971-1981.

United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Video recordings for hard of hearing people.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

5 videocassettes (60 min. each) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, [1995]

Language Note:

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

VHS format.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

Examines the extent of poverty in the U.S. in the prosperous 1960's and the federal anti-poverty programs created during the Johnson administration to promote education, job-training, community action, and basic health care, such as Legal Services, VISTA, and Head Start.

Contents:

pt. 1. In this affluent society

pt. 2. Given a chance

pt. 3. City of promise

pt. 4. In service to America

pt. 5. My brother's keeper.

Credits:

Executive producer, Henry Hampton; music, Nik Bariluk; narrator, Lynne Thigpen; [Pt. 1] producer-director, Susan Bellows; writer, Terry Kay Rockefeller -- [Pt. 2] producer-director-writer, Dante J. James; co-writer, Sheila Curran Bernard -- [Pt. 3] writer-producer-director, Werner Bundschuh -- [Pt. 4] producer-director-writer, Paige Martinez, Sam Sills; co-writer, Sheila Curran Bernard -- [Pt. 5] writer-producer-director, Leslie D. Farrell.

Contains:

In this affluent society.

Given a chance.

City of promise.

In service to America.

My brother's keeper.

OCLC:

34240948

Publisher Number:

AWPI-101 PBS Video

AWPI-102 PBS Video

AWPI-103 PBS Video

AWPI-104 PBS Video

AWPI-105 PBS Video