50 Years Later: Three Films from 1969 that Changed America
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July 28, 2019
From the Apollo 11 moon landing to the birth of the gay liberation movement, 1969 was a year that brought historic change to America. The cinema, it turned out, was no different. Merely a year after the new Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system marked the official death knell for Hays Code-era censorship, American moviegoers were more eager than ever to explore radical, new stories at the theater in 1969. From Sam Peckinpah’s ultra-bloody western “The...
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