Cheap Baby Boomers Gift Set (Video) (People's Century) Price

Baby Boomers: The Generation That Changed the World is a set of five hour-long tapes from WGBH's 26-hour epic documentary People's Century. This portion of the series explores issues skirting the boomer generation's concerns and ideologies. Boomtime examines the era following World War II, when boomers were just being born, while Skin Deep and Half the People examine the struggles for racial and gender equality and Picture Power looks at the profound influence of television (only one American TV pop phenomenon is mentioned: Dallas). So, really, only Young Blood actually focuses on the generation in question. Sure, there's mild cynicism behind the packaging--the box's title is insincerely congratulatory, and boomers are a purely American concoction, although the series takes a global perspective. Yet there's plenty of solidly informative and entertaining material here (albeit with some overlap--civil rights are covered in four of the tapes).

Cheers to the research team, who must've gone through months of archival footage and unearthed some downright amazing footage. Some of the most jaw dropping: French propaganda depicting an American capitalist foisting Coca Cola on wine connoisseurs, a South African movie in which black musicians get white policemen tapping their toes to a peppy rendition of "Don't Fence Me In," and Chicago mayor Richard Daley's hilarious malapropism: "The policeman isn't there to create disorder--the policeman is there to preserve disorder." --David Kronke

ACTORS:	People's Century
CATEGORY:	Video
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE:	1999
MANUFACTURER:	Wgbh Boston Video
MPAA RATING:	NR (Not Rated)
FEATURES:	Color, Closed-captioned, Box set, NTSC
TYPE:	Documentary
MEDIA:	VHS Tape
# OF MEDIA:	5
UPC:	783421286337