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The Apollo

The Apollo

FromHBO Docs Club


The Apollo

FromHBO Docs Club

ratings:
Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Jun 6, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Apollo is a documentary that explores the historical and cultural significance of Harlem’s landmark theater of  the same name. Brittany and Ronald unpack some of the  most memorable performances highlighted in the film and discuss the role the Apollo has played in Black culture writ large. They also  have an engaging conversation  with the film’s director, Roger Ross Williams, and Kamilah Forbes the Apollo Theater’s creative head who directed the stage production of Ta-Nehisi Coates' “Between the World and Me” and is featured in the documentary.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Jun 6, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (8)

HBO documentaries keep us up at night, captivate our imaginations, and make us ask the big questions about what it means to be human. On HBO Docs Club, hosts Brittany Luse (For Colored Nerds) and Ronald Young, Jr. (Solvable) pull back the curtain on a wide variety of HBO Documentary Titles. Through in-depth conversations and interviews with filmmakers and experts, Brittany and Ronald unpack these stories with new context, exploring what they can teach us about the past, find out where these stories stand in the present, and how they may impact our future.