Friday, March 2, 2012

PBS - Slavery by Another Name (2012)

PBS - Slavery by Another Name (2012)



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Directed by Sam Pollard, produced by Catherine Allan and Douglas Blackmon, written by Sheila Curran Bernard, the tpt National Productions project is based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Blackmon. Slavery by Another Name challenges one of our country’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II.

Based on Blackmon’s research, Slavery by Another Name spans eight decades, from 1865 to 1945, revealing the interlocking forces in both the South and the North that enabled this “neoslavery” to begin and persist. Using archival photographs and dramatic re-enactments filmed on location in Alabama and Georgia, it tells the forgotten stories of both victims and perpetrators of neoslavery and includes interviews with their descendants living today. The program also features interviews with Douglas Blackmon and with leading scholars of this period.

Original broadcast date: February 13, 2012

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Technical Specs
Video Codec: x264
Video Bitrate: 3184 kbps
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1 (16:9)
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Framerate: 23.976 fps
Audio Codec: AC-3
Audio Bitrate: 384 kbps 48/24 KHz
Audio Channels: 6
Audio Language: English
Run-Time: 01:26:40
Size: 2.15 GB
Source: 1080i ATSC OTA
Encoded by: joeyjoejoe

Subtitles
Subtitles had a few sync issues. Since an official MVG release demands perfection, I left them out. You can still download them here:
Attached File  PBS.Slavery.by.Another.Name.HDTV.x264.AC3.MVGroup.org.srt ( 138.79K ) Number of downloads: 51
The issues aren't really that big. Just a few lines that are off by a second. If anyone fixes them, please upload them back using the subtitle uploader

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