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12 Years a Slave Restores Historic Firsthand Account to Cultural Consciousness (11/18/13) (L0142845)
Physical Captioned; 5:51 minutes
Produced 2013
Distributor Learn360 (4486)
Producer NewsHour Productions LLC (4543)
Audience Junior High, Senior High (JS)
Series History (3797)
Synopsis In depicting American slavery, Hollywood has long left some of the most brutal realities largely unseen. But the filmmakers behind 12 Years a Slave tried not to flinch in showing the full system of human subjugation. Jeffrey Brown talks to screenwriter John Ridley about the challenge of humanizing a dehumanizing institution.
Producer NewsHour Productions LLC
Subjects History; History
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