The Crucible
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Good night and good luck : the Edward R. Murrow television
collection. Los Angeles : Fox Video, 1992, c1991. [1] The
best of person to person -- [2] The best of see it now -[3] Harvest of shame -- [4] The McCarthy years. PRESENTER:
Mike Wallace, Connie Chung, Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite.
Uses compilations of Edward R. Murrow's television programs,
documentary work, and interviews to show the impact of his
ground-breaking television journalism. Features discussion
of Murrow's work by renowned CBS News broadcasters.
VIDEO 272 SAL
Salem witch trials. New York : A&E Television Networks, 1996,.
Go back 300 years to the infamous Salem witch trial where
150 people were accused of being witches, and 20 were
killed, all but one by hanging, the last one by pressing.
Research found that most of the accusers were young girls
(not puritanical men as believed), and two decades later,
families of the victims were granted financial restitution.
VIDEO 272 SAL
Salem witch trials. New York : A&E Television Networks ;
marketed and distributed in the US by New Video Group,
c1998. Narrator, David Ackroyd. In 1693, the village of
Salem, Massachusetts was overcome with superstitious
hysteria. At the peak of the madness someone hundred fifty
people, male and female, were accused of being witches.
Twenty of them were executed.
VIDEO 791 CRU
Crucible. 20th Century Fox, 1996. The Salem witch trails of
1692 are brought to life.
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The crucible. Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home
Entertainment, [1998], c1996. Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona
Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison, Rob
Campbell, Jeffrey Jones, Peter Vaughan, Karron Graves,
Charlayne Woodard, Frances Conroy, Elizabeth Lawrence,
George Gaynes, Mary Pat Gleason, Robert Breuler. Against
the backdrop of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials,
a woman extracts revenge against her married paramour by
charging that he and his wife are sorcerers.
VIDEO 812 ART
Arthur Miller. Princeton, New Jersey : Films for the Humanities
& Sciences, 1997.
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Senator Joseph McCarthy : an American inquisitor. New York, NY :
A & E Home Video, c1995. HOST: Peter Graves. Documentary
on the Senator who rose to power by ruining the reputations
of politicians, businessmen, actors, writers, and others by
accusing them of being Communists during the 1950s witch
hunts. Analyzes his abuse of power as a lesson to
politicians of every era.