WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 5434

Title: America's war on poverty

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Video

Date: 1995 (Release)

Original Summary:

In the 1960s, in the midst of unprecedented national prosperity, poverty was "rediscovered" by policymakers, the mass media and the American public. America's war on poverty reconsiders the poverty programs created during these turbulent times when America seemed to possess inexhaustible natural and technical resourses and an abundance of goodwill.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 5 hr

Genres: Documentary

Subjects: United States--Social conditions; Public welfare--United States--History--20th century; Poor--Services for--United States; Economic assistance, Domestic--United States--History--20th century; Poverty--United States; United States--Economic conditions

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Producer	Bellows, Susan
	Director	Bellows, Susan
	Producer	Blackside, Inc.
	Executive Producer	Hampton, Henry
		PBS Video
	Series Producer	Rockefeller, Terry Kay
	Narrator	Thigpen, Lynne

Notes:

DESCRIPTION  5 videocassettes (300 min.) : sd., col., ; 1/4 in. + discussion and viewer's guide (24 p. ; 28 cm.)

NOTE	Executive producer: Henry Hampton; series producer: Terry Kay Rockefeller; producer: Susan Bellows; narrated by Lynne Thigpen.

NOTE	VHS.

Items ^x9

	Item	Description
	5434-1	Video Tape : Type C
	5434-2	Video Tape : Type C
	5434-3	Video Tape : Type C
	5434-4	Digital : Video/quicktime
	5434-5	Digital : Video/quicktime
	5434-6	Digital : Video/mpeg
	5434-7	Video Tape : Video home system
	5434-8	Video Tape : D3
	5434-9	Video Tape : Type C

Contents ^x5

Seq No	Title No	Title
1	2	In this affluent society
2	3	Given a chance
3	4	City of promise
4	5	In service to America
5	6	My brother's keeper

Related Works ^x1

	Type	Title No	Title
		5435	America's war on poverty [production]