Liberia
Subtitle: America's stepchild
By: written and directed by Nancee Oku Bright ; a production of Grain Coast Productions for WGBH
Contributors: Boucicaut, Jean-Philippe; Hekkens, Arnoud; Grain Coast Productions; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); PBS Home Video
Publisher: Distributed by] PBS Home Video
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Alexandria, Va
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: History; Foreign relations
Description: From Haitian slave revolts and the American Colonization Society to the 1997 election of Charles Taylor to the presidency and his corrupt administration, this program looks at events leading up the founding of Liberia and its history up through the twentieth century.
Notes: Produced by Nancee Oku Bright, Jean-Philippe Boucicaut, Arnoud Hekkens ; editor, Jean-Philippe Boucicaut ; camera/sound, Ton Vriens ; executive producer, Hugh Purcell.

Narrator, Nancee Oku Bright ; scholars, Elwood Dunn, Mary Antoinette Brown Sherman, Patrick Burrows, Kenneth Best, and Ambassador Herbert Brewer.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Back to the land of their ancestors; title: Entering the ethnic mix; title: Black America overseas; title: Slavery & forced labor; title: WWII in Liberia; title: Tubman: from democrat to dictator; title: Tolbert: failed reformer; title: Doe: unprepared native son; title: Economic & political chaos; title: Taylor steps into the vacuum; title: Liberians desperate for peace.