IPTVMOBILE
The 50 Year Argument poster
Back to movies

Watch The 50 Year Argument in streaming IPTV

The 50 Year Argument

Year: 2014 Documentary Runtime: 95 min Rating: 6.6

Overview

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely seen archival material, contributor interviews, excerpts from writings by such icons as James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, and Joan Didion along with original verité footage filmed in the Review’s West Village offices.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

Himself

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Himself

Joan Didion

Joan Didion

Herself

Barbara Epstein

Barbara Epstein

Herself

Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick

Herself

Michael Stuhlbarg

Michael Stuhlbarg

Narration

Similar titles

Revolution OS poster
Year: 2001 Rating: 7.0

Revolution OS

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.

Conscience and the Constitution poster
Year: 2000 Rating: 8.7

Conscience and the Constitution

Americans refused to be drafted from the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Ready to fight, but not before their rights as U.S. citizens were restored and families released.

Você Também Pode Dar um Presunto Legal poster
Year: 2006 Rating: 7.0

Você Também Pode Dar um Presunto Legal

Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death Squad. At the time, the press still had some freedom to disseminate the work of these death squads formed by police officers of various ranks, and that he acted on the outskirts of cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The victims of police repression (as today) were men, poor and black, and this condition is supposed criminals.

RFK poster
Year: 2004 Rating: 8.0

RFK

David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in the shadow of his elder brother John. After JFK's assassination, he discovered his own identity in the forefront of American politics before his career was also tragically curtailed by an assassin's bullet.

Lobanov poster
Year: 2021

Lobanov

The 2021 Duma elections made Mikhail Lobanov a recognizable Moscow politician. The 37-year-old mathematician, lecturer at the Moscow State University, has long been involved in social activities: ten years ago he opposed political agitation at the university, participated in the creation of an independent association of university employees to protect their rights, and was almost fired for his activism. In 2021 elections, Lobanov ran for the Communist Party (he is not a member of the party, calls himself a democratic socialist) and waged a powerful grassroots campaign against the pro-government candidate, TV presenter Yevgeny Popov.

Fascism in Colour poster
Year: 2006 Rating: 7.5

Fascism in Colour

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power, he founds the National Fascist Party in 1921 and assumes political power in 1922, becoming the Duce, dictator of Italy. His success encourages Hitler to take power in Germany in 1933, opening the dark road to World War II. (Originally released as a two-part miniseries. Includes colorized archival footage.)

Thaidina, music in the desert poster
Year: 2009

Thaidina, music in the desert

A documentary that shows the current state of territorial limbo in which the Sahrawi people live through the gaze of those who arrive and leave, those who resist, of the occupiers and the occupieds; a multifaceted view of what is behind the facts.

The Polio Crusade poster
Year: 2009

The Polio Crusade

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. Based in part on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky, Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.

Taking Liberties poster
Year: 2007 Rating: 6.4

Taking Liberties

Taking Liberties Since 1997is a documentary film about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom and increase of surveillance under the government of Tony Blair. It was released in the UK on 8th June 2007. The director, Chris Atkins, said on 1 May that he wanted to expose "the Orwellian state" that now threatened Britain as a result of Mr Blair's policies.

The War Room poster
Year: 1993 Rating: 6.8

The War Room

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George Stephanopoulos.

Streaming IPTV FAQ

Can I watch this title through IPTV?

Availability depends on your IPTV provider and the rights included in your subscription. This page uses TMDB data for discovery and does not host video content.