Jackie Robinson.

Resource Information

The work Jackie Robinson. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Jackie Robinson.

Statement of responsibility

a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington, D.C. in association with Major League Baseball ; directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon ; written by David MacMahon and Sarah Burns ; produced by Sarah Burns, David McMahon, and Ken Burns

Contributor

• McMahon, David, 1976-
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
• PBS Distribution (Firm)
• Major League Baseball (Organization)
• Burns, Ken, 1953-
• Florentine Films
• Burns, Sarah, 1982-
• David, Keith
• Foxx, Jamie

Broadcaster

• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Film director

• McMahon, David, 1976-
• Burns, Sarah, 1982-
• Burns, Ken, 1953-

Film distributor

• PBS Distribution (Firm)

Film producer

• Burns, Ken, 1953-
• Burns, Sarah, 1982-
• McMahon, David, 1976-

Narrator

• David, Keith

Production company

• Florentine Films
• WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
• Major League Baseball (Organization)

Publisher

• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Screenwriter

• Burns, Sarah, 1982-
• McMahon, David, 1976-
• Burns, Ken, 1953-

Voice actor

• Foxx, Jamie

Subject

• African American baseball players -- Biography
• Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
• Nonfiction television programs
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Documentary television programs
• Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
• Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History
• Biographical television programs

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Documentary television programs
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Biography
• Biographical television programs
• Nonfiction television programs

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family members and rarely-seen photographs and film footage

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Editors, Lewis Erskine, George O'Donnell, Ted Raviv, Michael Levine ; cinematographers, Buddy Squires, Allen Moore, Stephen McCarthy, Tom Mason ;

Dewey number

• 796.357092
• B

Intended audience

Rating: TV-PG

Language note

English and Spanish language tracks; with optional English and Spanish subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH); audio-described

LC call number

GV865.R6

LC item number

J33 2016

PerformerNote

Narrator, Keith David ; voice of Jackie Robinson, Jamie Foxx

Runtime

240

Technique

live action