The 20th century
By: [an MPI Teleproductions presentation]
Contributors: MPI Home Video (Firm)
Series: HIS 220B (NU course)
Publisher: MPI Home Video
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Orland Park, IL
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 755
Subjects: History
Other titles: Twentieth century; Moving visual history
Description: Brings the 20th century back to life through narration, rare photographs and stunning footage.
Notes: Dolby digital soundtracks contain up to 9.1.channels of discrete audio.

Special feature: Rare newsreels from hte 1920s and the 1970s.

Producers, Marty Callaghan ... [et al.]; writers, Marty Callaghan ... [et al.]; editors, Dmitry Khroustalev, Bernadette Landeros, Chuck Pelini; still images, Corbis Images; moving images, WPA Film Library, Denis Mueller.

DVD; Dolby digital.

In English with optional English, Spanish or French subtitles.
Table of contents: title: side 1A. The 1900s : the seeds of progress ; The 1910s : the modern age begins ; The 1920s : a decade of contradictions; title: side 1B. The 1930s : the Great Depression ; The 1940s : war, recovery and rebirth; title: side 2A. The 1950s : promoting the American dream ; The 1960s : a global revolution; title: side 2B. The 1970s : power plays ; The 1980s : a decade of decadence ; The 1990s : America's hard drive.