A British filmmaker wanders into revolution and never quite leaves.
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.
Direction
Whitehead inserts himself into history he's documenting.
Editing
Jagged cuts between protest and private despair.
Director
Peter Whitehead
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Whitehead shot this between filming Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones, making him the accidental documentarian of 60s British rock.
Kwame Ture appears here at his most electrifying, months before the Black Panther split would fracture the movement Whitehead captures.
US
GB
