LibGuides: Civil War Resources in Archives and Special Collections: Audio/Visual Materials

Audio/Visual Materials on the Local History of the Civil War in Archives and Special Collections

This page contains a brief bibliography of audio/visual materials about local history and the Civil War that are available in Archives and Special Collections of University Libraries. This includes documentaries on VHS or DVD format that were produced by The University of Akron or local producers and film makers. The films are non-circulating but can be viewed in Archives and Special Collections during our normal business hours.

Coming home, 1865 by Jack Gieck & Jeffery E. Smith
Call Number: F499.A3 C665 1988 VHS
Publication Date: 1988
A dramatization depicting the impact of the Civil War on Akron, Ohio. It uses conversations between a returning Union officer & his friends & family to illustrate peoples attitudes, economic changes in the city, etc.
Rebels on Lake Erie : a pirate, a prison, a plot by The University of Akron, School of Communication
Call Number: E616.J7 R43 2012 DVD
Publication Date: 2012
In September 1864, a college-educated Virginia pirate sailed out on Lake Erie intent on liberating the Confederate officers imprisoned on Johnson's Island near Sandusky, Ohio. The pirate, John Yates Beall, didn't free anyone but he did succeed in terrorizing the residents of cities and towns along Lake Erie and revealing just how vulnerable the Midwest was during the Civil War.