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2002 Documentary 1h 30m

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

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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Principal Cast

Woody Harrelson

Narrator (voice)

Paul Mazursky

Self (uncredited)

Roger Corman

Self (uncredited)

Robert Towne

Self (uncredited)

Arthur Penn

Self (uncredited)

John Schlesinger

Self (uncredited)

Andrew Sarris

Self (uncredited)

Norman Jewison

Self (uncredited)

John Frankenheimer

Self (uncredited)

Arthur Hiller

Self (uncredited)

Dennis Hopper

Self (uncredited)

William Wyler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lee Harvey Oswald

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)