Gravitas Ventures has detailed its video-on-demand, VOD, rollout plans for American: An Odyssey to 1947, which begins on September 12.
The Danny Wu-directed documentary on Orson Welles and U.S. politics in the 1930s and ’40s will be available on a number of cable TV, satellite and telco services. Those providers include Comcast/xfinity, Spectrum, Altice, Cox, Fios, Frontier, SuddenLink, Mediacom, Armstrong and Shaw.
American will also be available on Prime Video, Vudu, Google Play, YouTube, Vimeo, Microsoft, Vimeo, Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Alliance, Midwest Tape, Library Bound, iTunes and Apple TV. There will be a flash sale from Thursday, September 7, through Sunday, September 10, on iTunes and Apple TV or the following link: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/
Written, directed and produced by Wu, the documentary centers on Welles’ politics and the changing landscape of U.S. politics from FDR’s New Deal in the early 1930s to the Hollywood Blacklist of the late ’40s. American features a collection of stories leading to the year 1947, one of which delving into Welles’ crusade to bring to justice the police officer who blinded Black serviceman Isaac Woodard. In addition to talking to Woodard’s relatives, Wu interviewed film scholars and authors Simon Callow, Harlon Lebo, Richard France, Catherine Benamou, Todd Tarbox, James Naremore, and the late Robert Carringer.
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