Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

8/1/1992 - 12/31/1992

Funding Totals

$198,648.00 (approved)
$198,648.00 (awarded)


The Donner Party

FAIN: GN-24542-92

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA 02135-2016)
Eric Burns (Project Director: March 1992 to January 1995)

To support completion of a 90-minute documentary film about the group of pioneers who migrated to California in 1846 and met disaster in the snows of the Sierra Nevada mountains.





Associated Products

The Donner Party (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: The Donner Party
Writer: Ric Burns
Abstract: Peabody Award
Year: 1992

Prizes

Peabody Award
Date: 1/1/1992
Organization: University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication