Sharon Grimberg
1) Jesse Owens
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite Jesse Owens's remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling to overcome its own deeply entrenched bias.
2) The circus
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A four-hour mini-series that tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. Drawing upon a vast and rich visual archive, the film follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus, recounting the era when Circus Day could shut down a town, and circus stars were among the most famous people in the country.
3) McCarthy
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hernández killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican...
Publisher
[Distributed by] PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (394 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their strategies were militaristic, but more often they were diplomatic,...