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Underground Railroad (History Channel)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767050784
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767050789
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 28, 2003
Running Time: 150 minutes
Sales Rank: 16915
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999



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Amazon.com:
The Underground Railroad, 'the first civil rights movement,' was no mere act of civil disobedience. The secret network of guides, pilots, and safe-house keepers (the Railroad's 'conductors') was built by runaway slaves who, over the decades, communicated their experiences through songs and secret gestures, and were supported by abolitionists (many of them former slaves) who risked their own freedom to help free the enslaved. The 'passengers' risked their lives.

A wealth of photos, documents, and commentary by modern historians provides the broad lines of history, but it comes alive in the individual stories of conductors and passengers, among them abolitionist and historian William Still, called the 'Father of the Underground Railroad,' and Henry 'Box' Brown, who mailed himself to freedom in a cargo crate. They (and many others) take their place beside Harriet Tubman ('the Moses of her people') and Frederick Douglass as courageous heroes in America's first integrated social movement.

The DVD also features the Biography episode on Frederick Douglass, the complete text of the Emancipation Proclamation, a biographical essay on Harriet Tubman, and other historical background pieces. --Sean Axmaker



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - "Follow The Drinking Gourd"
One of the most general perceptions that I received from my high school history days in the 1960's ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Interesting History
I find this type if DVD interesting. I love history and digging for facts and found this just up my ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - a fantastic collection of stories
This DVD was essentially a collection of stories about the underground railroad. They include most, ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Important history which everyone should know.
I'm not black, but nevertheless, I would like to see this story which is about a shameful part of American ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - fine documentary of the first civil rights movement
The History Channel's documentary on the Underground Railroad remains one of the definitive television documentaries ... Read More

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