Once upon a time Baghdad
Subtitle: Il était une fois Bagdad
By: un film conçu et écrit par Mahmoud Hussein ; réalisé par Philippe Calderon ; une co-production FIT Production, La Cinquième, Canal Sur Televisión.
Contributors: Hussein, Mahmoud.; Calderon, Philippe.; FIT Production (Firm); Cinquième (Firm); Canal Sur Televisión (Firm); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Lorsque le monde parlait arabe = When the world spoke Arabic -- 2.; Lorsque le monde parlait arabe -- 2.
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Format: Videorecording
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Civilization, Islamic.; Abbasids.; Documentary films.; Iraq -- History -- 634-1534.
Other titles: Baghdad during the Abbasid Dynasty.; Empire rises from the sands.; Il était une fois Bagdad.; Empire surgi des sables.; Once upon a time : Baghdad during the Abbasid Dynasty.
Description: "The victory of the Abbisids over the Umayyads signified much more than the replacement of one dynasty with another. With it, Islam saw the birth if a multiethnic concept of power, in which both Arab and non-Arab Muslims could share authority. This program presents the Abbasid Caliphate at its peak, enthroned in its prestigious capital city: Baghdad. The defining project of Caliph al-Ma'amun, the translation by an army of clerks of all the ancient writings his emissaries could procure is spotlighted--an achievement that set the stage for an eventual showdown between religious and secular scholars"--Films for the Humanities & Sciences web site.
Notes: "11412-A-NT"--Cassette; "BVL11412"--Publisher's web site.

Film originally produced in 1999.

Narrated by Paul Barrett.

VHS format.

Narration in English.  Interviews in various languages with English subtitles.

MMS copy: Public performance rights included; not for broadcasting for distance learning.