John Brown's Holy war

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Special feature: Teacher's Guide [PDF format printable discussion guide, requires a DVD-ROM and Adobe Acrobat]; web links [text feature].
National symbol -- Religious principles -- Pledge to end slavery -- Slavery debate -- Pottawatomie Massacre -- Northern sympathizers -- Harpers Ferry -- Immortalized -- Credits.
Narrator, Joe Morton; commentators, Russell Banks, Bruce Olds, Margaret Washington, Dennis Frye, Edward J. Renehan Jr., James O. Horton, James Brewer Stewart, Paul Finkelman, Charles Joyner; reenactors, Bill Gaddy, Junius Harris, Jon Isaacson, Ed Merchand, Anndromita Moodie, Sherry Porter, James Wassel; voices, René Auberjonois, Melendy Britt, Scott Cleverdon, Richard Doyle, Barry Shabaka Henley, Harris Yulin.
On December 2, 1859, a tall, gaunt, fifty-nine-year-old man was executed in Virginia before 1500 armed guards. Just a month earlier, few had heard of John Brown, a red-faced, thread-bare, scare-crow of a man with wild reddish brown hair whose sky-blue eyes held a look that bespoke madness, who one terrible night in Kansas committed cold-blooded murder as he embarked on a violent crusade to end slavery. Now his name divided North from South. Was he a martyr or a madman, a fanatic or a hero? More than a century later, John Brown--who helped bring on the bloodiest American upheaval ever--remains one of America's most controversial and misunderstood figures.
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; stereo; full screen presentation, preserving the aspect ratio of the original television exhibition.

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