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Title 10,000 black men named George / Showtime and Paramount Pictures presents ; producer, Michelle Mundy ; written by Cyrus Nowrasteh ; directed by Robert Townsend.

Publication Info. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2003]
©2001

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  DVD 10,000    DUE 06-01-11 Assumed Lost
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room DVDs & Blu-rays  DVD TEN-THOUSAND    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - DVDs  DVD T    Check Shelf
Edition Full screen format.
Description 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Series Paramount DVD collection
Paramount DVD collection.
System Details DVD, Region 1; stereo.
Cast André Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles, Carla Brothers, Brock Peters, Kenneth McGregor, Ernestine Jackson, Ellen Holly, Kedar, Joel Gordon, Ardon Bess, Karen Eyo.
Credits Director of photography, Edward Pei ; editors, Katina Zinner, Peter Zinner ; costume designer, Joyce Schure; music, Stephen James Taylor.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Based on the novel, "A long hard journey" by Frederick McKissack.
Audience MPAA rating: R; for language and brief nudity.
Summary The true story of the formation of the first black-controlled union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Asa Philip Randolph, a black journalist establishes a voice for the forgotten workers of the Pullman Rail Company, were all black porters were simply named "George", after George Pullman, the first person to employ emancipated slaves.
Awards Image Awards, 2003: Image Award - Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special (Charles Dutton)
Language Closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 -- Drama.
Pullman porters -- United States -- Drama.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Drama.
Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp. -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Townsend, Robert, 1957-
Mundy, Michelle.
Nowrasteh, Cyrus.
Braugher, Andre.
Dutton, Charles S.
Van Peebles, Mario.
Eyo, Karen.
McKissack, Fredrick Long hard journey.
Showtime Networks.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Paramount Television.
Added Title Ten thousand black men named George
ISBN 0792189108
Standard No. 097368037847
Music No. 80378 Paramount
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