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The good lord bird /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 13902793Language: English Original language: English Publisher: [New York, New York] : Showtime Networks, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 2 videodiscs (approximately 335 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Audience:

Rated TV-MA
General

Related works:

Television adaptation of (work) McBride, James, 1957- Good lord bird

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.45/75 23

LOC classification:

PN1992.77 .G63 2020

Contents:

Disc 1: Meet the Lord -- A wicked plot -- Mister Fred -- Disc 2: Smells like bear -- Hiving the bees -- Jesus is walkin' -- Last words.

Production credits:

Directed by Ethan Hawke.

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Beau Knapp, Nick Eversman, Ellar Coltrane, Jack Alcott, Mo Brings Plenty, Daveed Diggs, Joshua Caleb Johnson.Summary: Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this Limited Event Series based on the award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum America and the ever-changing roles of race, religion and gender in American society.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-03655 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050314195

Based on The good lord bird / by James McBride.

Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television mini-series on Showtime Network in 2020.

Wide screen.

Special features: James McBride intro; Rediscovering John Brown; Fireside chat; The making of Harpers Ferry; The art of artillery; Outfitting The good lord bird.

Disc 1: Meet the Lord -- A wicked plot -- Mister Fred -- Disc 2: Smells like bear -- Hiving the bees -- Jesus is walkin' -- Last words.

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