“I always felt there’s a disconnect about what’s officially reported and what actually happened.”
Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States
In the spirit of Howard Zinn’s classic People’s History and The Nation’s own nearly 150-year history of highlighting the dissenters, rebels and truth-telling voices that have laid the foundations for the rights and freedoms we now take for granted, comes Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States.
By focusing on under-appreciated episodes which have been airbrushed out of standard history texts, this ambitious ten-part documentary series tells the behind-the-scenes stories that have shaped our country and the world as we know it today.
The series premieres on Showtime on November 12 but you can get a first look at the findings at 92Y on Nov 10 when Stone appears with American University professor Peter Kuznick (co-author of the companion book), Lewis Lapham and moderator Thane Rosenbaum.
