The people speak

Resource Information

The work The people speak represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Oshkosh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The people speak

Statement of responsibility

First Tuesday Media presents ; in association with Artfire Films ; Brolin Productions ; Cross River Pictures ; produced by Dan Abrams, Ara Katz, Artur Spigel ; directed by Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn ; adapted and written by Anthony Arnove, Howard Zinn

Contributor

• Freeman, Morgan
• Glover, Danny
• Guy, Jasmine
• Katz, Ara
• Kilcher, Q'Orianka
• Kirk, Christina
• Legend, John
• Moorer, Allison
• Mortensen, Viggo, 1958-
• O'Malley, Mike, 1966-
• Oh, Sandra, 1971-
• P!nk, 1979-
• Parks, Van Dyke
• Penn, Sean, 1960-
• Robinson, Chris, 1966-
• Robinson, Rich, 1969-
• Spigel, Artur
• Springsteen, Bruce
• Strathairn, David
• Tomei, Marisa
• Vedder, Eddie
• Washington, Kerry, 1977-
• Yulin, Harris
• Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
• Arts and Entertainment Network
• History Channel (Television network)
• New Video Group
• Abrams, Dan
• Arnove, Anthony, 1969-
• Bratt, Benjamin, 1963-
• Cathey, Reg E
• Chalfant, Kathleen, 1945-
• Cheadle, Don
• Chin, Staceyann, 1972-
• Cooder, Ry
• DMC, (Musician)
• Dawson, Rosario
• Dylan, Bob, 1941-
• Ealy, Michael
• Espada, Martín, 1957-
• Fiasco, Lupe

Screenwriter

• Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
• Arnove, Anthony, 1969-

Director

• Arnove, Anthony, 1969-
• Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

Producer

• Abrams, Dan
• Katz, Ara
• Spigel, Artur

Subject

• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Dissenters
• Protest poetry, American
• Social change
• Television programs
• United States -- History
• Historical television programs
• Political ballads and songs
• Protest literature, American
• Documentary television programs

Genre

• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

A look at social change throughout history, as seen through the music, poetry, speeches, and manifestos of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, along with unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. Celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation's rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Narrated by Howard Zinn ; music, David Baerwald ; director of photography, Tony Sacco ; editors, Yesenia Higuera Jon Berry

Language note

Closed-captioned

LC call number

HM831

LC item number

.P46 2010

PerformerNote

Dramatic and musical performers: Allison Moorer, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Robinson, Christina Kirk, Danny Glover, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, David Strathairn, Don Cheadle, Eddie Vedder, Harris Yulin, Jasmine Guy, John Legend, Josh Brolin, Kathleen Chalfant, Kerry Washington, Lupe Fiasco, Marisa Tomei, Martín Espada, Matt Damon, Michael Ealy, Mike O'Malley, Morgan Freeman, P!nk, Q'orianka Kilcher, Reg E. Cathey, Rich Robinson, Rosario Dawson, Ry Cooder, Sandra Oh, Sean Pen, Staceyann Chin, Van Dyke Parks, Viggo Mortensen

Runtime

113

Technique

live action