The handmaid's tale
By: creator, Bruce Miller
Contributors: Moss, Elisabeth, 1982- actor; Strahovski, Yvonne, 1982- actor; Fiennes, Joseph, 1970- actor; Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Drama; Misogyny; Theocracy; Pregnancy; Dystopian plays; Man-woman relationships
Work titles: Handmaid's tale (Television program)
Description: A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred.
Notes: Title from web page.

Based on Margaret Atwood's award-winning, best-selling novel.

Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program on Hulu in 2017.

Wide screen (1.78:1).

Special features: Script to screen; Hope in Gilead.

Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes.

Rating: TVMA.

DVD, wide screen (1.78:1); Dolby digital 5.1.

English dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

2018 Golden Globe Award for best television series, drama.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1: Offred; title: Birth day; title: Late; title: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.; title: Disc 2:  Faithful; title: A woman's place; title: The other side; title: Jezebels.; title: Disc 3: The bridge; title: Night.