The Rockefellers
(DVD) 

Editors, Part One: Sarah Holt, Part Two: Editor, Jon Neuburger ; camera, Terry Hopkins ; music, Michael Bacon ; art director, Katha Seidman ; advisors, Ron Chernow, Donald L. Miller.

Narrator, David Ogden Stiers; commentators, Steven Rockefeller, Peter Collier, Ron Chernow, Albert Berger, Clarice Stasz, Ellen Fitzpatrick, Rodman Rockefeller, Judith Sealander, Bernice Kert, Laurance Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller IV, Albert Schenkel, David Rockefeller Sr., Peter Johnson, David Rockefeller Jr., Peggy Dulany, Abby O'Neill, Jay Rockefeller, Joe Persico, William Rusher, Robert Douglass.

Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series American experience in 2000.

For decades, the Rockefeller name was despised in America--associated with John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s feared monopoly, Standard Oil. By the end of his life, Rockefeller had given away half his fortune--but even his vast philanthropy could not erase the memory of his predatory business practices. His only son, John D. Rockefeller Jr., would dedicate his life to recasting the family image. In the quest for redemption and respectability, Junior would give away hundreds of millions of dollars, and would insist that his six children behave impeccably. Their contributions transformed America. When he died at age 86, Junior left his six children and 22 grandchildren an invaluable inheritance: a name which stood not for corporate greed, but for "the well-being of mankind." With unprecedented access to the family and its archives, this film explores the paradoxical lives of this fabled American dynasty using revealing home movies, archival footage and photographs, and interviews with eight Rockefellers, their colleagues and friends, it paints a vivid portrait of four generations of the family

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; stereo; full screen presentation.

In English; closed-captioned.