Directed by Emile de Antonio
8 Episodes
A self-described “Marxist among capitalists,” documentarian Emile de Antonio wielded the camera as a weapon in his fight against America’s corrupt power structures and the Cold War establishment elite. Unabashedly aligning himself with the leftist movements of the 1960s and ’70s in contrast to the “objective” style of the then-dominant cinema verité movement, he made his films with raw, blunt force, deploying impactfully edited archival footage to examine everything from the assassination of John F. Kennedy (RUSH TO JUDGMENT) to the horror of America’s war in Vietnam (IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG) to the radical ideology of the Weather Underground (UNDERGROUND). Stark, uncompromising, and timely, de Antonio’s films question everything, digging into official narratives to reveal the hidden agendas and systemic rot lurking below.
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1:37:41Episode 1Point of Order!
Episode 1
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1964 • United States
This groundbreaking political documentary distills 188 hours of televised footage from the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings into a compelling narrative that reveals the aggressive tactics employed by senator Joseph McCarthy in his paranoid investiga...
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1:57:12Episode 2Painters Painting
Episode 2
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1972 • United States
Though director Emile de Antonio was best known for his caustic political documentaries, he was also deeply immersed in the art world, a connection that led him to make the definitive look at the New York School of painters from 1940 to 1970. H...
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2:04:47Episode 3Rush to Judgment
Episode 3
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1967 • United States
This bombshell documentary presents a simple, concise legal argument that the Warren Commission was hiding something and that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have single-handedly killed President John F. Kennedy. Director Emile de Antonio and lawye...
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Millhouse
Episode 4
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1971 • United States
Emile de Antonio’s portrait of Richard Nixon deconstructs the controversial American president without editorializing, instead deploying archival footage—newsreels, speeches, interviews—to paint a damning picture of the man via his own words. S...
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1:45:06Episode 5In the Year of the Pig
Episode 5
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1968 • United States
The first major documentary made about the Vietnam War remains a landmark work of political cinema and one of the most powerful antiwar statements ever committed to film. Juxtaposing interviews with newsreel and archival footage edited for maxi...
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1:28:07Episode 6Underground
Episode 6
Directed by Haskell Wexler, Emile de Antonio, and Mary Lampson • 1976 • United States
How did a group of largely middle-class students become guerrilla revolutionaries near the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list? Granted unprecedented access to the members of the militant Marxist organization kno...
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1:30:31Episode 7In the King of Prussia
Episode 7
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1983 • United States
Starring Martin Sheen, Daniel Berrigan, Philip BerriganInnovatively merging documentary and dramatization, director Emile de Antonio reconstructs the trial of the so-called Plowshares Eight, members of a Christian pacifist movement committed t...
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1:26:34Episode 8Mr. Hoover and I
Episode 8
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1989 • United States
The final work by uncompromising political documentarian Emile de Antonio is at once a radical assertion of his defiantly DIY approach to filmmaking, a deeply personal summation of his career, and a scathing attack on a figure whose specter hau...
