Product Details

• Actors: Just the Facts
• Directors: Cerebellum Corporation
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cerebellum Corporation
• DVD Release Date: July 20, 2004
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00026L8LC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #53,006 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Just the Facts: The United States Bill of Rights offers teachers and parents a superb video resource for social studies, history, and government classes at the junior high or freshman-sophomore level of high school. The program is divided into in-depth segments focusing on each of the amendments comprising the Bill of Rights and includes accessible commentary from university professors in constitutional theory and history. After the Bill of Rights, the program spends some time on the amendments that addressed slavery, prohibition, and suffrage. The program is not adorned with flashy production values but is well organized and presented. There is an enormous amount of content in only 50 minutes of play time, so the program will best serve typical junior and senior high school students if it is not shown in one sitting. Teachers should instead implement the segments individually as a multimedia component of a Bill of Rights unit so that the dense information can be unpacked, analyzed, and discovered. --Erik Macki

Product Description

Learn what makes the Bill of Rights so important to America!

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America...

That preface begins the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to The Constitution of the United States.

When the Constitution was written, certain framers, powerful political leaders of their day, like Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, insisted on adding basic legal protections to ensure individual rights. As a consequence the first ten amendments were added to clarify the rights of the citizens of the United States of America

These are essential human rights, granted to all of us, that we should know and understand. In this video they are laid out in very easy-to-understand language, with comments from noted American Political Science experts from major universities who help interpret the language of this essential document.

In addition, this video includes all the subsequent amendments made to the Constitution of the United States through to the present. These include such important national issues as slavery, prohibition, and the extension of voting rights to all citizens.

This video is essential viewing for any student of American History, and anyone interested in understanding our national heritage and basic rights as citizens.

The Just The Facts Learning Series brings you the Bill of Rights in a fast-paced style that makes learning fun!

Special Features:

• Interactive Full-Motion Menus
• Scene Index
• A Teacher's User Guide
• Bonus Profile of James Madison
• Multiple-Choice Quiz
• Bill of Rights Complete Text with Printable PDF
• Trailers

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Rights: Humans' and Others' Best Hope, September 15, 2009

By	David Cantor (Glenside, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Explaining what rights are and why they are important, Just the Facts -- the United States Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments -- is helpful for educators in conventional school settings and those of us who wish to expand basic autonomy and ecology rights to nonhuman animals and ensure that all humans experience all possible protection by all possible rights against all possible forms of tyranny, perpetrated by the state or by corporations and institutions sanctioned and/or funded by the state. [...]