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[Arlington, Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2016]
©2016
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
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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
Originally broadcast as a television documentary in 2016
Widescreen
Special features: The Anderson Monarchs; outtakes; a conversation with the filmmakers
Editors, Lewis Erskine, George O'Donnell, Ted Raviv, Michael Levine ; cinematographers, Buddy Squires, Allen Moore, Stephen McCarthy, Tom Mason
Narrator, Keith David ; voice of Jackie Robinson, Jamie Foxx
Rating: TV-PG
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround (English) and stereo (Spanish)
English and Spanish language tracks; with optional English and Spanish subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH); audio-described