Daniel / Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by E.L. Doctorow ; a John Heyman production ; produced by Burtt Harris ; directed by Sidney Lumet.
After his parents work with the Communist Party and are executed for selling secrets to the Soviets, a young man involves himself in the protests of the 60's, and lives with his belief that his parents were wrongly murdered.
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| Language: | English |
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Closed-captioned. |
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[Carlsbad, Calif.] : [Hollywood, Calif.] :
Legend Films ; Paramount Home Entertainment,
[2008], ©2008.
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| Edition: | Widescreen edition. |
| Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Jewish heritage video collection. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
Contents:
- The electric chair
- the Isaacson Foundation
- Young Communist League
- Lessons from the old country
- May Day protests
- Grass roots communist ideology
- My Soviet comrades
- Susan's attempt
- Paul and Rochelle become symbols
- The children are indoctrinated
- The peoples' soldiers go to see Robeson
- Visiting Susan
- Drawn and quartering
- Mindish has been arrested
- FBI comes to question Paul
- Paul is arrested
- Violated the Espionage Act of 1917
- Daniel reflects on Susan's influence
- Rochelle lashes against Mindish
- Rochelle testifies at grand jury
- Rochelle is arrested
- A home for Daniel and Susan
- Daniel searches for answers
- Letter from Mom
- East Bronx Children's Center
- Daniel and Susan break out
- Corporal punishment in Czarist Russia
- Daniel searches for papers and files
- Susan's deterioration
- Jacob Ascher hurts the case
- The trial
- Passion and hate
- Burning at the stake
- The last visit to Mom and Dad
- Linda Mindish, two perspectives
- Confronting Mindish
- The execution
- The funerals
- The resistance continues.