The Gilded Age [videorecording] / American Experience Films ; produced by Helen Dobrowski, Sarah Colt ; written by Mark Zwonitzer ; directed by Sarah Colt ; a Sarah Colt Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation.

American experience. (other title)

Colt, Sarah, (television producer,, television director.). Dobrowski, Helen Ryan, (television producer.). Platt, Oliver, (narrator.). Zwonitzer, Mark, (screenwriter.). American Experience Films, (production company.). PBS Distribution (Firm), (publisher.). Sarah Colt Productions, (production company.). WGBH Educational Foundation, (production company.).

Summary:

A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.

Record details

ISBN: 153170395X
ISBN: 9781531703950
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: [Arlington, Va.] : PBS Distribution, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally broadcast as a single episode of the television program American Experience on the PBS network in 2018.
Formatted Contents Note:	Gilded is not golden -- Spectacle at 5th Avenue -- A sense of shared peril -- Poverty amid plenty -- A man of iron will -- Social Darwinism -- Panic of 1893 -- The first march on Washington -- Gold vs. Workers -- From backwater to industrial leader.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, John Baynard ; editor, Nancy Novack ; music, Joel Goodman, David Bramfitt.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrated by Oliver Platt ; commentators, Nell Irvin Painter, H.W. Brands, Paula Giddings, Steve Fraser, David Nasaw, Jackson Lears, Edward T. O'Donnell, Rebecca Edwards.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: TVPG.
System Details Note:	DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.
Language Note:	English dialogue; and optional English subtitles.