Independent Lens

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Season 21, Episode 18 of 19

Activist Marion Stokes secretly recorded American television 24 hours a day from 1975 to 2012, creating an invaluable comprehensive archive of the media. Her 70,000 VHS tapes reveal how television shaped - and continues to shape - our world.

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6/15/2020
11 p.m.
6/16/2020
3 a.m.
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