Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Huey Long [videorecording] / an RKB/Florentine Films production ; produced by Ken Burns, Richard Kilberg ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward.
Call Number:
976 H DVD
Publisher, Date:
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [2002], c1985.
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Uses archival film footage to portray events in the life of the charismatic Louisiana politician Huey Long who built roads, bridges, and schools, but whose brutal, corrupt reign suddenly ended in a hail of bullets. Incorporates interviews with scholars and the recollections of Louisianans who knew Long.
Series:
Ken Burns' America collection
Ken Burns' America collection.
Subjects:
Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935.
Statesmen -- Louisiana -- Biography.
Politicians -- Louisiana -- Biography.
Louisiana -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Genre:
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Burns, Ken, 1953-
Kilberg, Richard.
Ward, Geoffrey C.
McCullough, David G.
RKB Productions.
Florentine Films.
PBS Home Video.
Contents:
Every man a king -- The kingfish -- Sure enough bigshot -- Share the wealth -- Wildness in the air.
ISBN:
0780640381