Parade's end
(DVD) 

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Contributors
Stoppard, Tom screenwriter,
Buck, Michele, television producer.
Timmer, Damien, television producer.
White, Susanna, television director.
Donald, Ben, television producer.
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Home Box Office, Inc., [2013].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 
Status
Main Library - Media
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Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Home Box Office, Inc., [2013].
Language
English
UPC
883929325092

Notes

General Note
Based on the novels by Ford Madox Ford.
General Note
Originally broadcast on television in Great Britain on BBC Two in 2012. Originally broadcast on television in the United States on HBO in 2013.
General Note
"HBO Home Entertainment"--Container.
General Note
Bonus feature: Tom Stoppard interview on KCRW's The treatment with Elvis Mitchell.
Creation/Production Credits
Costume designer, Sheena Napier ; composer, Dirk Brossé ; production designer, Martin Childs ; film editors, Jason Krasucki, Kristina Hetherington, Tim Murrell ; director of photography, Mike Eley ; art direction by Nick Dent, Merijn Sep, Huw Arthur, James Wakefield ; set decoration by Barbara Herman-Skelding.
Participants/Performers
Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens, Ned Dennehy, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett, Stephen Graham, Clare Higgins, Alan Howard, Jack Huston, Denis Lawson, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Tim McMullan, Janet McTeer, Tom Mison, Miranda Richardson, Rufus Sewell, Malcolm Sinclair, Anna Skellern, Sasha Waddell.
Description
Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts principles first by marrying Sylvia, a pretty, manipulative socialite who gives birth to a child who may not be his. Christopher endures his new wife's whims and overt indiscretions, foreseeing a cold future with Sylvia at his family's palatial estate, Groby Hall. He finds himself inexorably drawn to a young suffragette, Valentine Wannop, but refuses to give in to their mutual passion or end his marriage with Sylvia, who is alternately infuriated and infatuated by her incorruptible husband. The onset of war, combined with the advent of feminism at home, ushers in far-reaching changes for the English status quo, gradually eroding the constraints that have kept Christopher tethered to his aristocratic past.
System Details
DVD format, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround (English and French) and 2.0 (Spanish).
Language
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish or French; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.