Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
02/04/2002
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.
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Woody Harrelson
as Narrator (voice)
Paul Mazursky
as Self (uncredited)
Roger Corman
as Self (uncredited)
Robert Towne
as Self (uncredited)
Arthur Penn
as Self (uncredited)
John Schlesinger
as Self (uncredited)
Andrew Sarris
as Self (uncredited)
Norman Jewison
as Self (uncredited)
John Frankenheimer
as Self (uncredited)
Arthur Hiller
as Self (uncredited)
Dennis Hopper
as Self (uncredited)
William Wyler
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lee Harvey Oswald
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jim Leavelle
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dustin Hoffman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fidel Castro
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Phyllis Coates
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Connally
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nellie Connally
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
L.C. Graves
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buck Henry
as Self (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Paul Newman
as Self (archive footage)
Leo McCarey
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ike Pappas
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack Ruby
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harold Macmillan
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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