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"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men!": Alabama Forty Years On (1979)

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  • Featuring

    Kenneth Wilson

  • Country

    United Kingdom

  • Year

    1979

  • Type

    Television

Synopsis

Documentary which traces the survivors of a family of poor whites in Alabama documented in 1936 by writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans.

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