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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0841887051873
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: PBS (Direct)
Manufacturer: PBS (Direct)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: PBS (Direct)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 28161
Studio: PBS (Direct)
Theatrical Release Date: February 06, 2006
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The story of Jesse James remains one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. Jesse James so the legend goes was a Western outlaw though in fact he never went west; America's own Robin Hood though he robbed from the poor as well as the rich and kept it all for himself; and a gunfighter of the first water whose victims in reality were almost always unarmed. Less heroic than brutal James was in fact a product from first to last of the American Civil War; a Confederate partisan of expansive ambition unbending politics and surprising cunning who gladly helped invent his own valiant legend. A member of a vicious band of Missouri guerrillas during the war James sought redemption afterwards. But as this AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production reveals year by year he rode further from it redeeming instead the great and glorious memory of the Old South. In a life steeped in prolific violence and bloodshed he met what was perhaps the most fitting end; like so many of James's own victims he was himself an unarmed man shot in the back.System Requirements:Running Time 60 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 841887051873 Manufacturer No: 705187
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Rating:  -
Having caught this on PBS, I was immediately motivated to purchase the DVD to include in my historical library. I have seen a longer documentary effort last year: "Jesse James; Outlaw-Legend-Terrorist", but found it too dependant upon sensationalism to get it`s point across.
Here, American Experience does it`s usual quality effort; Historians comment as Period Photos and Newspaper Headlines illustrate a concise, yet insightful sketch of one of the most famed--and fictionalized-- figures ... Read More
Rating:  -
Outlaws are really more infamous more than they are famous. I should have known this before pressing play on this DVD. However, once I learned that Jesse James was a Southerner that just couldn't get over the fact that the North won, as an African American, I lost much interest and sympathy for the subject.
In fairness to the work, James' pro-slavery stance and times is contextualized and used to explain his subsequent lawlessness. They are critical of him as well. They say his inspiration ... Read More
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