NONFICTION BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
Fri Oct 30, 7pm
Documentary screenings and discussion
This event is in the past.It took place on April 15, 2026 at Maysles Documentary Center.
Harlem, New York
🎬"I had the pleasure of meeting Albert Maysles, what a kind man"
🎤Post-screening talkback with filmmaker Tevin B. Lanier
🎞️Newly restored by Academy Film Archive
Step into the unglamorous grind of door-to-door Bible sales with this 1969 cinéma vérité classic. Four salesmen with nicknames like "The Badger" and "The Bull" chase the American Dream hawking $50 Bibles to working-class families, their persistence and patter captured in raw, intimate detail. Stick around after for a talkback with filmmaker Tevin B. Lanier at this cozy Harlem documentary house.
Intimate documentary house
Classic 1969 film
Post-screening talkback
American Dream exploration
Harlem, New York
🎬"I had the pleasure of meeting Albert Maysles, what a kind man"
🎤Post-screening talkback with filmmaker Tevin B. Lanier
🎞️Newly restored by Academy Film Archive
Step into the unglamorous grind of door-to-door Bible sales with this 1969 cinéma vérité classic. Four salesmen with nicknames like "The Badger" and "The Bull" chase the American Dream hawking $50 Bibles to working-class families, their persistence and patter captured in raw, intimate detail. Stick around after for a talkback with filmmaker Tevin B. Lanier at this cozy Harlem documentary house.
Intimate documentary house
Classic 1969 film
Post-screening talkback
American Dream exploration
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- Intimate documentary house
- Classic 1969 film
- Post-screening talkback
- American Dream exploration
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