Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Uniform Title:
Handmaid's tale (Television program). Season 1.
Title:
The handmaid's tale. Season one / creator, Bruce Miller.
Publisher, Date:
Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2018]
Description:
3 videodiscs (525 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical surround Dolby digital 5.1
video file DVD video region 1
Summary:
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred.
Target Audience Note:
Rating: TVMA.
Subjects:
Theocracy -- Drama.
Misogyny -- Drama.
Dystopian plays.
Pregnancy -- Social aspects -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Genre:
Dystopian television programs.
Television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Miller, Bruce, creator.
Moss, Elisabeth, 1983- actor.
Strahovski, Yvonne, 1982- actor.
Fiennes, Joseph, 1970- actor.
Television picture adaptation of (work) : Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Handmaid's tale.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., publisher.
Notes:
Title from web page.
Based on Margaret Atwood's award-winning, best-selling novel.
Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program on Hulu in 2017.
Wide screen (1.78:1).
Special features: Script to screen; Hope in Gilead.
Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes.
DVD, wide screen (1.78:1); Dolby digital 5.1.
Can be viewed subtitled in French, Spanish or English.
2018 Golden Globe Award for best television series, drama.
Contents:
Disc 1: Offred -- Birth day -- Late -- Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Disc 2: Faithful -- A woman's place -- The other side -- Jezebels.
Disc 3: The bridge -- Night.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
M136099
Other Number:
1022190283
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
106886
Call Number:
DVD F HAN Seas. 1
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2