Originally produced in 2013.
Profile of jazz writer and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff, who championed jazz as an art form and who also led the rise of "alternative" journalism in America, wrapping the themes of liberty, identity, and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act. Features conversations with Hentoff, plus additional interviews with Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch, Floyd Abrams, Aryeh Heier, and Dan Morgenstern. Includes music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Bob Dylan, along with never-before-seen photographs and archival footage of these musicians and other cultural figures.
Special features: How Max came to Candid ; Critic to fan ; WWII ; The New Yorker.
Narrator, Andre Braugher ; director of photography, Tom Hurwitz ; editors, David L. Lewis, Sam Pollard.
Featuring, Andre Braugher, Nat Hentoff.
DVD; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo.
Closed captioned.
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