Andy Warhol
Birthday: 1928-08-06
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andrew Warhola Jr. was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.
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The Velvet Underground
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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influen...
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Bleu comme une orange
Documentary on the use of color and black and white in contemporary arts through nine artists. A “C...
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Andy Warhol
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...
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Persistence of Vision
A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the histo...
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The Cars: Heartbeat City
The Cars were on the cutting edge when it came to music videos. And this Heartbeat City video compi...
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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
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David Bowie & The Story of Ziggy Stardust
BBC documentary telling the story of how David Bowie arrived at one of the most iconic creations in ...
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as ...
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Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art ...
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Take Your Pills
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way t...
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David Bowie: Five Years
Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: f...
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L'Amour Fou
This documentary examines the life and work of the late fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent, recount...
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The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound
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66 Scenes from America
As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what ...
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Identikit
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Andy Warhol's America
A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country rein...
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A Night with Lou Reed
A Lou Reed concert at the Bottom Line in New York City, 1983. Tracklist: Sweet Jane, I'm Waiting For...
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Velvet Underground: Under Review
Velvet Underground Under Review is a 75 minute film reviewing the music and career of one of rock mu...
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surro...
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Andy Warhol - The American Dream
Andy Warhol's answer to the question of where he comes from is well known: "From nowhere". His paren...
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress...
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Beautiful Darling
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known War...
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WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
The best and most memorable matches from Hulk Hogan's career....
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This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
Jonas Mekas reflects on summers spent in the late 1960s and early 1970s with Jackie Kennedy, her sis...
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Happy Birthday to John
On October 9, 1972, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosted an exhibition of John Lennon and Yo...
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Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work in ...
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Cocaine Cowboys
A rock band is on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they've juggled their music career with coca...
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Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe
Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's...
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Andy Warhol
With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this docum...
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Mondo Hollywoodland
Homage to the cult classic “Mondo Hollywood”, a groovy mushrooms dealer and a man from the 5th dimen...
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Underground New York
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbul...
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by...
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Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes - Episode 1
Episode one of Warhol's MTV talk show featuring interviews with artists, including Robin Leach, Jerr...
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Underground and Emigrants
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with...
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Tally Brown, New York
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunhei...
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Tootsie
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Micha...
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Public Speaking
Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp ...
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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
Mickey Mouse is one of the most enduring symbols in our history. Those three simple circles take on ...
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Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exc...
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Detroit Rock City
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getti...
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Horse
Warhol plunked a horse named Mighty Byrd in the middle of the Factory for this dark, homoerotic take...
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Imagine
A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, co...
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Grimace
Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artist...
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Chelsea Hotel
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York ...
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The Queen
In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes ...
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The New Cinema
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a conti...
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Andy Warhol : Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man
One of the most important films in Malanga's body of work is his series of movie portraits of Andy W...
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Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction
A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down a...
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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - th...
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Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
On a fateful San Francisco night in the early '60s, Condor nightclub performer Carol Doda was lowere...
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Normal Love
The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures...
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Obszönität als Gesellschaftskritik?
Ten million German citizens were able to watch cohabiting couples, kissing homosexuals, group sex an...
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Warhol
David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, broa...
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Andy Warhol and His Clan
The film explores the personality of Andy Warhol, through his work in painting and film and through ...
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Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization...
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-th...
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End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archi...
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The Illiac Passion
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his i...
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Nelson Sullivan
Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the fin...
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde...
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I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signatu...
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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Basquiat: Rage to Riches
This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jea...
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Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance
Velvet Underground's first public appearance....
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Andy Makes a Movie
This pop movie about Warhol includes appearances by Henry Geldzahler, Edie Sedgwick and The Velvet U...
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That Summer
Albert and David Maysles' classic GREY GARDENS immortalized the estate of Edith and Little Edie Beal...
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Tintin and I
Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, continue to fascinate u...
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Andre the Giant
An ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated car...
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It Came from Kuchar
It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaki...
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The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966
The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention, ...
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Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was ...
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Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New Y...
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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Facto...
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The Feature
The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represe...
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Poem Posters
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, ...
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Lions Love
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie abo...
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Superartist
Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at th...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Sm...
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Full Circle: Before They Were Famous
An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60's of Robert India...
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In the Fabulous Underground
A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked as ph...
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Edie: Girl on Fire
Model, film star, muse, socialite, icon. Edie Sedgwick was the very first "it" girl of the Andy Warh...
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Danny Says
DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivot...
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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/A...
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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal c...
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Jonas in the Desert
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of t...
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Con Artist
A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront his ...
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Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage ...
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TV Party
From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party....
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Joan of Arc
The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applie...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City p...
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John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
Follows John Cale, a Welsh musician and producer, who founded the legendary 60s and 70s NY rock band...
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at ...
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American Art in the 1960s
During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion...
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York....
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End of the Art World
This is the debut documentary made by Alexis Krasilovsky, author of "Women Behind The Camera" (Praeg...
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The Universe of Keith Haring
A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model for h...
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Cocksucker Blues
This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour, their...
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Blank Generation
Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up an...
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Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other c...
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Andy Warhol + Roy Lichtenstein
This program profiles Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, two of pop art's greatest icons. Back-to-bac...
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The Cool School
How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from sc...
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Roy Lichtenstein
In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twen...
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Halston
From Iowa to Studio 54, this investigation into the rags-to-riches story of America’s first supersta...
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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Jonas Mekas’s intimate diary film spans 1963 to 1990, capturing Andy Warhol alongside friends and co...
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Empire
Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage o...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s Ne...
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Model
MODEL shows male and female models at work on TV commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers, and ad...
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of Ne...
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Studio 54
Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but als...
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Painters Painting
Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Anton...
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Andy at Work
Andy Warhol at the Village Gate, June 7, 1966. Andy videotaping John Kennedy Jr. and Anthony Radziwi...
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Warhol and Maciunas
Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a ...
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One to One: John & Yoko
An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples —...
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Andy Warhol: Made in China
A look at the man behind the legend, capturing the real Andy Warhol, as an artist and as a person, a...
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I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto
New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three sh...
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A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily li...
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Dynamite Chicken
A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement....
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Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
This documentary cracks open the meticulously constructed façade of Andy Warhol, exposing the comple...
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Nico Icon
A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to...
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Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
An instant classic when released in September 1971, John Lennon's Imagine was the ex-Beatle's solo m...
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DEVO
Originally formed amidst the chaos of the 1970 Kent State anti-Vietnam War protest killings, the not...
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When You're Strange
The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, ke...
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Malcolm McLaren: Artful Dodger
A tribute to the inspirational manager and artist who revolutionised the music business in the 1970s...
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