The Adams chronicles

Resource Information

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

Label

The Adams chronicles

Statement of responsibility

Educational Broadcasting Corporation ; Thirteen/WNET New York ; created by series producer, Virginia Kassel

Contributor

• Acorn Media (Firm)
• Educational Broadcasting Corporation
• WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
• Bailey, Anne Howard
• Beal, John, 1909-1997
• Birney, David, 1939-
• Bogart, Paul
• Brandon, Peter, 1926-1983
• Coe, Fred, 1914-1979
• Costello, Robert
• Daniels, William, 1927-
• Davis, Barry, 1936-1990
• Grizzard, George
• Hall, Sam, 1921-2014
• Hirson, Roger O
• Hunter, Ian, 1900-1975
• Jacker, Corinne
• Jones, James Cellan, 1931-
• Kassel, Virginia
• Lampell, Millard, 1919-1997
• Marchand, Nancy, 1928-2000
• Mosel, Tad
• Page, Anthony, 1935-
• Reisman, Philip H., 1916-1999
• Siebert, Charles, 1938-
• Venza, Jac
• Walker, Kathryn., 1943-
• Yellen, Sherman

Subject

• Adams family -- Drama
• Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886 -- Drama
• Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915 -- Drama
• Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 -- Drama
• Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Drama
• Adams, John, 1735-1826 -- Drama
• Biographical television programs
• Historical television programs
• Presidents -- United States -- Biography | Drama
• Television mini-series
• Television programs for the hearing impaired
• United States -- History -- Drama

Genre

• Biographical television programs
• Biography
• Drama
• Historical television programs
• Television mini-series
• Television programs for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond politics, this mini-series portrays these men as husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, as well as leaders

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Original music, John Morris

Dewey number

791.45/72

Language note

Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1992.8.H56

LC item number

A3367 2008

PerformerNote

George Grizzard, Kathryn Walker, William Daniels, David Birney, John Beal, Peter Brandon, Charles Siebert, Nancy Marchand

Runtime

780

Target audience

general

Technique

live action