DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Hero Street USA [videorecording] : Silvis, IL.

[United States] : s.n., [2006?]

1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Three programs about the eight Mexican-American soldiers whose families emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico around 1910. These eight boys died in World War II or Korea while fight for the United States. The families came to Rock Island to work in the rail yards in Silvis, Illinois. The street that many of them settled on w as renamed Hero Street in their honor and because according to the Department of Defense there is no other street of comparable size (one block) that has sent as many men and women to serve in the armed forces than this block of approximately twenty-five homes.

Title from disc surface.

Hero Street USA originally released in 1984, Hero Street originally released in 1992, and Héroes originally released in 1982.

Hero Street USA: Photographers, Mike Rosenthal, Chuck LeRoi, Mike Barber ; editor, Tom Petrie.

Hero Street: Cameras, Mabel Miller, Don hall, Rick Thompson ; graphics, Linda Sato ; editor, Kim Hoglund.

Hero Street USA host, Martin Sheen.

Hero Street host, Roseanne Tellez.

DVD-R.

Héroes plays twice once in English and once in Spanish.

Mexican Americans -- Illinois -- Silvis.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Mexican American.

Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Mexican American.

Sheen, Martin.

Tellez, Roseanne.

Busch Creative Services Corp.

WGN (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)

Hero Street USA / a Busch Creative Services Corp. production in association with Sheen/Greenblatt Productions; producer/director Mike Stroot; writer Bill Seyle -- Hero Street / [produced by] WGN-TV; producers Craig Constantine, Peter Nuno; director Rick Thompson; writer Craig Constantine -- Héroes / a Busch Creative Services Corp. production.

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