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Genre/Form: | Documentary television programs Environmental television programs Nonfiction television programs |
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Named Person: | Chico Mendes; Chico Mendes |
Material Type: | Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adrian Cowell; Roger James; Michael Kirk; Will Lyman; Vicente Rios; Jim Astrausky; Bullfrog Films.; Central Independent Television.; Universidade Católica de Goiás.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) |
ISBN: | 159458334X 9781594583346 |
OCLC Number: | 82142521 |
Language Note: | English with English subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
Notes: | This disc may not play on all machines or drives. Originally broadcast on the PBS television program Frontline. Originally produced in 1990. |
Credits: | Camera, Vicente Rios ; editor, Jim Astrausky. |
Performer(s): | Narrator, Will Lyman. |
Description: | 1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Details: | DVD-R. |
Contents: | Episode 1. In the ashes of the forest -- Episode 2. Killing for land -- Episode 3. Mountains of gold -- Episode 4. The killing of Chico Mendes. |
Series Title: | Decade of destruction, 4. |
Other Titles: | Saga of the Amazon rainforest Frontline (Television program) |
Responsibility: | a coproduction of Central Independent Television, Universidade Católica de Goiás, and WGBH/Boston for Frontline ; written by Adrian Cowell, Michael Kirk ; produced by Roger James ; directed by Adrian Cowell. |
Abstract:
This episode focuses on Chico Mendes, leader of the rubber-tappers, who sacrificed his life in his fight to preserve the forest.
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Related Subjects:(15)
- Mendes, Chico, -- -1988.
- Deforestation -- Amazon River Region.
- Forest conservation -- Amazon River Region.
- Rain forest ecology -- Amazon River Region.
- Amazon River Region -- Environmental conditions.
- Human ecology -- Amazon River Region.
- Rubber industry and trade -- Amazon River Region.
- Mendes, Chico, -- 1944-1988
- Deforestation.
- Ecology.
- Forest conservation.
- Human ecology.
- Rain forest ecology.
- Rubber industry and trade.
- Amazon River Region.