There’s no question that Rodney King was brutally beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers – video taken of the savage act proves it. Yet the four men seen clubbing King were acquitted by a Simi Valley jury in 1992, lighting a match for one of the deadliest and costliest civil unrests in U.S. history.
Read More: How Spike Lee, John Singleton and John Ridley Left Their Marks on the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots
It’s 25 years later, and Los Angeles – and the Lapd – have changed. But has the rest of the country? Regular reports of police brutality, now well-documented in an age of phone cameras, makes it clear that we haven’t come all that far. Several new documentaries explore the L.A. riots, including the underlying reasons, the actual events, what happened next, and how it relates to today. Among the filmmakers putting their own...
Read More: How Spike Lee, John Singleton and John Ridley Left Their Marks on the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots
It’s 25 years later, and Los Angeles – and the Lapd – have changed. But has the rest of the country? Regular reports of police brutality, now well-documented in an age of phone cameras, makes it clear that we haven’t come all that far. Several new documentaries explore the L.A. riots, including the underlying reasons, the actual events, what happened next, and how it relates to today. Among the filmmakers putting their own...
- 4/22/2017
- by Ben Travers, Hanh Nguyen, Liz Shannon Miller, Michael Schneider and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Start your engines. The second season of the Supercar Superbuild TV show premieres on Smithsonian Channel, Sunday, October 30, 2016, at 9:00pm Et/Pt.In the new season, the series will go behind the scenes with the makers of Pagani, Mustang, Viper, and Porches in the search for the next great car. Supercar Superbuild is produced by Cry Havoc Productions. Executive producer for Cry Havoc is Dylan Weiss. David Royle and Charles Poe serve as executive producers for Smithsonian Channel. Read More…...
- 10/13/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Don't miss the new Africa's Wild Havens TV show. The series premieres tonight at 8:00pm Et/Pt, on Smithsonian Channel. The cable channel says the three-part limited series, "...tells stories of endurance and survival of Africa's most iconic symbols of natural history." Joy Galane and David Royle serve as executive producers for Smithsonian Channel.Featured are a pride of lions, a leopard, and a cheetah. Smithsonian says, they, "...play out their lives in the shadows of three impressive trees: the sausage tree in Zambia, the camelthorn tree in South Africa, and the marula tree in the Manyeleti." Get episode descriptions from this press release.Read More…...
- 9/1/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Watch a preview for the new Sacred Sites TV show debuting on Smithsonian Channel, Monday, September 12, 2016 at 8:00pm Et/Pt. The five-episode docu-series features the ancient cities of Petra and Hegra; secrets of the Knights Templar; the oracles of ancient Greece; the tombs and temples of ancient Egypt; and the ruined great houses of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico.Sacred Sites is produced by Tile Films for Smithsonian Channel. Stephen Rooke executive produces for Tile Films. David Royle and Tim Evans executive produce for Smithsonian Channel. Get the details from this press release.Read More…...
- 8/24/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Smithsonian Channel is commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Star Trek TV show, with a new two-hour special, "Building Star Trek," which debuts Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 8:00pm Et/Pt. After the jump find out how to enter Smithsonian Channel's "Building Star Trek Sweepstakes," for a chance to win a trip to Star Trek: Mission New York.Star Trek: The Original Series premiered September 8, 1966. The cast includes: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Eddie Paskey, George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Majel Barret. "Building Star Trek" hails from Yap Films for Smithsonian Channel and Discovery Canada with Elliott Halpern and Elizabeth Trojian executive producing. Writer Mick Grogan directs. Executive produceing for Smithsonian are David Royle, Charles Poe and Tim Evans.Read More…...
- 7/8/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Satellite event planned live from Hockney’s Los Angeles studio.
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired Randall Wright’s feature documentary on artist David Hockney and will open it across the UK on Nov 28.
The launch of Hockney will be driven by an exclusive preview at cinemas around the UK, followed by a satellite Q&A with David Hockney live from his studio in Los Angeles on Nov 25.
The 77-year-old artist granted unprecedented access to his personal archive of photographs and films for the documentary for the first time.
An important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century and is perhaps most famous for his series of paintings of swimming pools, including 1967 work A Bigger Splash.
The documentary chronicles Hockney’s career, from his early life in working-class Bradford, where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema, to his relocation...
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired Randall Wright’s feature documentary on artist David Hockney and will open it across the UK on Nov 28.
The launch of Hockney will be driven by an exclusive preview at cinemas around the UK, followed by a satellite Q&A with David Hockney live from his studio in Los Angeles on Nov 25.
The 77-year-old artist granted unprecedented access to his personal archive of photographs and films for the documentary for the first time.
An important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century and is perhaps most famous for his series of paintings of swimming pools, including 1967 work A Bigger Splash.
The documentary chronicles Hockney’s career, from his early life in working-class Bradford, where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema, to his relocation...
- 9/2/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Satellite event planned live from Hockney’s Los Angeles studio.
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired Randall Wright’s feature documentary on artist David Hockney and will open it across the UK on Nov 28.
The launch of Hockney will be driven by an exclusive preview at cinemas around the UK, followed by a satellite Q&A with David Hockney live from his studio in Los Angeles on Nov 25.
The 77-year-old artist granted unprecedented access to his personal archive of photographs and films for the documentary for the first time.
An important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century and is perhaps most famous for his series of paintings of swimming pools, including 1967 work A Bigger Splash.
The documentary chronicles Hockney’s career, from his early life in working-class Bradford, where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema, to his relocation...
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired Randall Wright’s feature documentary on artist David Hockney and will open it across the UK on Nov 28.
The launch of Hockney will be driven by an exclusive preview at cinemas around the UK, followed by a satellite Q&A with David Hockney live from his studio in Los Angeles on Nov 25.
The 77-year-old artist granted unprecedented access to his personal archive of photographs and films for the documentary for the first time.
An important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century and is perhaps most famous for his series of paintings of swimming pools, including 1967 work A Bigger Splash.
The documentary chronicles Hockney’s career, from his early life in working-class Bradford, where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema, to his relocation...
- 9/2/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Separating fact from fiction and real life from reel life, the Smithsonian Channel original series "The Real Story" launches its fifth season on June 30th, and it will include the true story behind box office hit Scream, airing July 28th.
"The Real Story: Scream" - Premieres Sunday, July 28, at 8 p.m. Et/Pt
Slasher movie Scream, which portrays a brutal serial killer who terrorizes an entire town, has spawned one of the most commercially successful horror franchises in movie history. "The Real Story" reveals that the facts are far more terrifying than Hollywood fiction. Over a week in the summer of 1990, 36-year-old masked serial killer Danny Harold Rolling stalked, tortured, and murdered five young students in Gainesville, Florida. The “Gainesville Ripper” serial killings sparked mass panic, a student exodus, and the largest manhunt in Florida’s history.
"The Real Story" explores the impact Rolling’s shocking killing spree had on the university town,...
"The Real Story: Scream" - Premieres Sunday, July 28, at 8 p.m. Et/Pt
Slasher movie Scream, which portrays a brutal serial killer who terrorizes an entire town, has spawned one of the most commercially successful horror franchises in movie history. "The Real Story" reveals that the facts are far more terrifying than Hollywood fiction. Over a week in the summer of 1990, 36-year-old masked serial killer Danny Harold Rolling stalked, tortured, and murdered five young students in Gainesville, Florida. The “Gainesville Ripper” serial killings sparked mass panic, a student exodus, and the largest manhunt in Florida’s history.
"The Real Story" explores the impact Rolling’s shocking killing spree had on the university town,...
- 6/21/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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