Power to heal : Medicare and the civil rights revolution / a film by Barbara Berney ; produced by Barbara Berney, Roberta Friedman, Daniel Loewenthal ; directed by Charles Burnett & Daniel Loewenthal ; writer and contributing producer, Anna Reid Jhirad ; a co-production of BLB Productions, LLC and WETA Washington, D.C.

Power To Heal tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals acr...

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Corporate Authors: BLB Productions (Firm) (Production company)
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.) (Production company)
Bullfrog Films (Presenter, Distributor)
Other Authors: Glover, Danny (Narrator)
Berney, Barbara (Barbara L.) (Filmmaker, Film producer)
Burnett, Charles, 1944- (Film director)
Friedman, Roberta (Film producer)
Loewenthal, Daniel (Film producer, Film director, Editor of moving image work)
Reid-Jhirad, Anna (Screenwriter, Film producer)
Taylor, Stephen James (composer (expression))
Language:English
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Closed captioning available.
Published: [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2018]
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Physical Description:1 streaming video file (56 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences
Format: Electronic Video

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