U.S. Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict DVD.
"The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict" is a one-hour television documentary on PBS featuring untold stories of the history of the American flag. With rare archival footage, beautiful images of the historic flags, and stirring music composed for the film, this extraordinary program combines all these elements with reenactments, and interviews with eminent historians and flag experts about the history of the American experience and the flag. This special program is the definitive television documentary about the untold history of the American flag.
The film, "The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict" is based on the companion book of the same title. The authors of the book, Howard Madaus and Whitney Smith, both respected flag historians, are interviewed in the film.
More than any other people, Americans express the spirit of their lives in their national flag. The passions of politics and patriotism, in times of peace and war, are strikingly expressed in these banners. Independence, the "Peoples Flag", territorial acquisition, the "westward course of empire," slavery and abolition - these and a myriad of other issues have been translated into graphic form by those who made these flags and those who flew them.
From: http://www.pbs.org/americanflag/
Internet description about the Film.
The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict is a one-hour television documentary of the untold stories about the history of the American flag. The film is a co-production of Film Police (Chicago, IL) and Fog Kist of Santa Cruz, LLC (Santa Cruz, CA). Specially made for PBS national broadcast by filmmakers Phillip Koch and Sally Marschall with rare archival footage, beautiful images of the actual historic flags, and stirring music composed for the film, the program features revolutionary and Civil War reenactments, interviews with eminent historians and flag experts about the history of the American experience and the Flag. The film features interviews with flag historians Dr. Whitney Smith and Howard Michael Madaus, the nationally known expert on American culture Dr. Wayne Fields, and prominent Americans including well-known filmmakers Norman Lear and Harold Ramis. The world's leading experts on historic flags reveal new facts, interpretations and insights about American flag history to the viewer. Flag stories include very rare revolutionary era battle flags, Early American flags, Custer flags, Exclusionary flags, Civil War flags, Lincoln flags, 1876 Centennial flags, WWII flags, President Kennedy's assassination flags, 9/11 flags and historical American quilts. Flag stories also include the origin of the Pledge of Allegiance, Revolutionary War battle flag auction at Sotheby's, the Flag as art and leading flag collectors including Ben Zaricor, Kit Hinrichs, and Louise Veninga. Photographed by filmmakers Phillip Koch and Sally Marschall at locations across the country including Chicago and Springfield, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, northern Wisconsin, Vincennes, Indiana, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, this is the definitive television program about the untold history of the American flag.
From: http://www.flagcenter.org/pbsfilm.htm
ZFC Significant Flag
Sources:
The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict, IMDb, 20 November 2011, from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0999868/.
The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict, The American Flag, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 20 November 2011, from: http://www.pbs.org/americanflag/
Image Credits:
Zaricor Flag Collection
