Minik [videorecording] :the lost Eskimo / an Engstfeld Film GmbH production ; in association with NDR ... [et al.] ; a film by Axel Engstfeld ; a production of WGBH Boston ; WGBH Educational Foundation.
Contributor(s): Morton, Joe | Engstfeld, Axel | PBS Home Video | Engstfeld Film | NDR | WGBH Educational Foundation.
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Visual materialPublisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, c2008Edition: [Widescreen format].Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 9780793694327; 0793694329.Other title: American experience, Minik the lost Eskimo | Lost Eskimo.Uniform titles: American experience (Television program) Subject(s): Wallace, Minik | Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 | Inuit -- New York (State) -- New York | Inuit -- Greenland -- Qaanaaq -- Biography | Polar Eskimos -- Biography | Greenland -- Discovery and exploration | New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration | Video recordings for the hearing impaired | Wallace, Minik | Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 | Inuit -- New York (N.Y.) | Inuit -- Qaanaaq (Greenland) | Greenland -- Exploration | New York (N.Y.) -- History | Arctic regions -- Exploration | VideodiscsGenre/Form: Closed caption video recordings. | Biographical television programs. | Television programs. | DVD-Video discs.DDC classification: 998.2092 | B Young Adult Follett Library Resources
DVD; 5.1 surround; region 1.
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Closed-captioned.
Narrator, Joe Morton.
Director of photography, Hans Jakobi ; editors, James Rutenbeck, Josef van Ooyen ; composer, Hans Günter Wagener.
Originally produced as an epsiode of the television program American experience.
Not rated.
Shares the story of Minik, the youngest of six Eskimos brought to New York City from Greenland in 1897 by explorer Robert Peary, telling of his struggles to create a home and identity thousands of miles from his native land after four of his companions died and the fifth returned to Greenland.
Includes teacher's guide PDF.
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