The Donner Party [videorecording] / produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns ; written and directed by Ric Burns.
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FilmPublisher: Alexandria, VA : PBS Home Video, 2004, 1992Description: 1 dvd (88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w segments ; 4 3/4 inISBN: 1415702330Uniform titles: American experience (Television program) Subject(s): Donner Party | Overland journeys to the Pacific | Donner Pass (Calif.)DDC classification: 973.61 LOC classification: F868.N5 | D665 2003PRESENTER: David McCullough. CAST: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Gene Jones, George Plimpton.Summary: Uses family journals, newspaper accounts and interviews with historians and descendants of the party to recreate the drama of the ill-fated 1846 expedition to California in which the travellers were trapped by snow and forced into cannibalism to survive.
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| DVD | Lancaster Campus | DVD 979.4 DON (Browse shelf) | Available | LA32176000144519 |
PRESENTER: David McCullough. CAST: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Gene Jones, George Plimpton.
Uses family journals, newspaper accounts and interviews with historians and descendants of the party to recreate the drama of the ill-fated 1846 expedition to California in which the travellers were trapped by snow and forced into cannibalism to survive.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
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