The Adams chronicles
(DVD Set)

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Published
Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, [2008].
Format
DVD Set
Language
English
UPC
054961806393

Notes

General Note
Special features: the Adams home, the Adams women, booklet with essays and a genealogical chart. The 12-page program guide features articles by C. James Taylor, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and Neil Horstman, president of the White House Historical Association.
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General Note
Contains all 13 episodes of the television mini-series.
General Note
Originally broadcast on television in 1976.
General Note
Based on the family's personal diaries and correspondences.
Creation/Production Credits
Original music, John Morris.
Participants/Performers
George Grizzard, Kathryn Walker, William Daniels, David Birney, John Beal, Peter Brandon, Charles Siebert, Nancy Marchand.
Description
Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond politics, this mini-series portrays these men as husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, as well as leaders.
System Details
DVD, full screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Language
Closed-captioned.

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