X-Ray Audio: The Documentary

X-Ray Audio: The Documentary

 

(6 from 35 users)

0h 14m 2016 HD

Cold War Leningrad: In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurposed used x-ray film as the base for records of forbidden songs. Giving blood every week to earn enough money to buy a recording lathe, one bootlegger Rudy Fuchs cuts banned music onto such discarded x-rays to be sold on street corners by shady dealers. It was ultimate act of punk resistance, a two-fingered salute to the repressive regime that gave a generation of young Soviets access to forbidden Western and Russian music, an act for which Rudy and his fellow bootleggers would pay a heavy price.


Related Movies

  • 1970
    Summer in the City

    Summer in the City

    Summer in the City

    01970HD

    German writer Uwe Johnson lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside where he got to know his neighborhood very well,...

    Summer in the City
  • 2016
    CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin

    CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin

    CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin

    42016HD

    For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of...

    CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin
  • 1991
    Eastward

    Eastward

    Eastward

    5.31991HD

    Shortly after German reunification, three residents of a quiet area north of Berlin talk about their plans and attempts at new economic beginnings...

    Eastward
  • 1933
    How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points

    How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points

    How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points

    01933HD

    The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.

    How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
  • 1962
    The Wall

    The Wall

    The Wall

    71962HD

    Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog...

    The Wall
  • 1996
    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

    4.51996HD

    The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks...

    Memory Room 451
  • 1960
    Shadows

    Shadows

    Shadows

    61960HD

    Hansjürgen Pohland's short documentary is an audiovisual study that captures events and people on the streets on film. The special feature of...

    Shadows
  • 2023
    Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family

    Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family

    Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family

    02023HD

    Ricky Tomlinson sits back in his chair and takes a fond look back at the much-loved comedy series The Royle Family, sharing his memories of playing...

    Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
  • 2017
    Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur

    Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur

    Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur

    82017HD

    Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur
  • 2022
    Guide to a Midwest Hometown

    Guide to a Midwest Hometown

    Guide to a Midwest Hometown

    102022HD

    Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in his hometown and how they've changed. “Guide...

    Guide to a Midwest Hometown
  • 2021
    Lost Contact

    Lost Contact

    Lost Contact

    02021HD

    Aldo has always felt like a being from another planet, stranded on Earth. His autism and long struggle to speak fluently alienated him from others....

    Lost Contact
  • 2007
    Stalin, the Red Tyrant

    Stalin, the Red Tyrant

    Stalin, the Red Tyrant

    62007HD

    On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is that of a demi-God. Ultimate paradox for one of the...

    Stalin, the Red Tyrant