Triangle fire / WGBH ; an Apograph Productions Inc. film for American experience ; presented by American Experience Films ; written by Mark Zwonitzer ; produced and directed by Jamila Wignot.

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The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Main Author: Goodman, Joel (Composer)
Corporate Authors: WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
Apograph Productions
WGBH Educational Foundation
PBS Distribution (Firm)
Other Authors: Wignot, Jamila (Producer, Director)
Zwonitzer, Mark (Screenwriter)
Murphy, Michael, 1938- (Narrator)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired (SDH).
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2011], ©2011.
Edition:Widescreen.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Triangle Shirtwaist Company > Fire, 1911.
Fires > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Clothing factories > New York (State) > New York > Safety measures > History > 20th century.
Labor laws and legislation > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Shirtwaist Makers' Strike, New York, N.Y., 1909.
Strikes and lockouts > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television programs > United States.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Historical television programs.
Television programs
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Tragedy that forever changed labor and industry.
Format: Video DVD

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