Events › Documentary Club: Recorder Screening and Discussion

Welcome to Documentary Club! A program featuring thought-provoking documentaries focused on the American experience and history. After the film, stick around to discuss your thoughts and ideas with other attendees led by a librarian.

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979—at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. A mystery in the form of a time capsule, Recorder delves into the strange life of a woman for whom home taping was a form of activism to protect the truth (the public didn’t know it, but the networks had been disposing their archives for decades into the trashcan of history) and though her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, her extraordinary legacy is as priceless as her story is remarkable.

© Marion Stokes PSC, LLC | 87 minutes | Not Rated

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Accessibility
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing will be available for this screening.