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  • TV Movie | 90 min | Documentary, History
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002)
TV Movie | 90 min | Documentary, History

This 90-minute documentary illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as Arthur ...See moreThis 90-minute documentary illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967); Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967); Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" (1969); John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962); Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968); John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" (1969); Richard Brooks' "Elmer Gantry" (1960) and "In Cold Blood" (1967); and Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968). Frankenheimer, Jewison, Hopper, Schlesinger, Penn, Buck Henry, Paul Mazursky, Roger Corman and Arthur Hiller are among the filmmakers who discuss the decade. Written by alfiehitchie See less
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Directors
Lewis A. Bogach (as Lewis Bogach) | Don Fizzinoglia
Writers
Ethan Mordden (book "Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s") | Lewis A. Bogach (as Lewis Bogach)
Producers
Lewis A. Bogach (as Lewis Bogach) | Don Fizzinoglia
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Apr 2, 2002 (United States)

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34 cast members
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Woody Harrelson
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Fidel Castro
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Phyllis Coates
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John Connally
Self (Dallas motorcade footage) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (Dallas motorcade footage) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
Nellie Connally
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Roger Corman
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John Frankenheimer
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L.C. Graves
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Buck Henry
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Arthur Hiller
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Alfred Hitchcock
Self (Psycho (1960) trailer footage) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (Psycho (1960) trailer footage) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
Dustin Hoffman
Self (1975 BBC interview) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (1975 BBC interview) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
Dennis Hopper
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Norman Jewison
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John F. Kennedy
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Martin Luther King
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Jim Leavelle
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Harold Macmillan
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Malcolm X
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Paul Mazursky
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Leo McCarey
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Paul Newman
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Richard Nixon
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Ike Pappas
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Arthur Penn
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Jack Ruby
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Andrew Sarris
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John Schlesinger
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Robert Towne
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William Wyler
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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