Turbulent Times, Incredible Songs: ‘1971’ Filmmakers On “The Year Music Changed Everything” – Contenders TV Docs + Unscripted

Art of any kind is often a product of its era. And for music in 1971, that is most definitely true, as artists were responding to the political and social movements of the time, resulting in iconic songs and performances that defined a generation.

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The Masked Singer is currently in the middle of its fifth season on Fox and the team behind it is aware it needs to outdo itself each season to keep fans glued to their screens.

The Amazing Race has been on the air for 20 years, and this year the CBS reality adventure competition series hit a major milestone: 1 million miles travelled.

With Tough as Nails, Phil and Louise Keoghan hoped to honor working-class people whose contributions to American society too often go overlooked.

Ken Jeong, a panelist on The Masked Singer, took on the role of host in Fox’s latest singing competition game show I Can See Your Voice.

On The Real World Homecoming: New York, the original cast members of the landmark MTV series reunite in the same loft where they filmed in 1992 to reflect on how it changed their lives, and the enduring resonance of the issues it brought to light.

“It was one of the most intense seasons that we’ve ever created,” said Emer Harkin, executive producer of MTV and Bunim/Murray Productions’ long-running reality competition series The Challenge.

There are many poignant moments in 76 Days, Hao Wu’s moving documentary about medical workers in Wuhan, China and the patients they treated as the city went through lockdown last year over Covid-19.

The January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol underscored the precarious state of American democracy in a time of deep political polarization. But the Emmy-contending Apple Original Film Boys State offers some hope that bridging ideological differences remains a possibility.

“I think a really telling detail is that on almost all of these shots, the icon would say to us, ‘Oh my God, can I take these letters home?’ ” Dear… executive producer Jane Cha Cutler said of the new Apple TV+ docuseries.

When the planet went into lockdown over the Covid-19 pandemic, the animal kingdom took notice. Within little time at all, species adapted to the retreat of humans, exhibiting different behavior and in some cases venturing into territory formerly bustling with people and automobile traffic.

Hip hop has been the subject of numerous films, both fiction and nonfiction, but there’s never been a documentary series quite like FX’s Hip Hop Uncovered. It takes an innovative approach to telling how the art form emerged and went on to become the dominant genre of music.

In the 1950s, LGBTQ people in America ran the risk of being ostracized from their communities, fired from their jobs, harassed or arrested. The Lavender Scare in that decade purged countless gay men and lesbians from employment in the federal government. And yet, the new FX series Pride reveals many LGBTQ Americans managed to find joy and contentment despite hostility from the prevailing culture.

When the documentary The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears premiered on FX in February, it caused a sensation. More than 1 million reactions were tweeted within a few days of its debut. And Justin Timberlake, whose treatment of Spears after the pop stars’ breakup years ago was questioned in the film, felt compelled to issue a statement apologizing to his former girlfriend.

The FX documentary Hysterical spotlights a number of fierce female comics who share their experiences of breaking into a field that has traditionally marginalized female comedians in favor of their cis white male counterparts. The women share their accounts of their hard-fought journeys to become the voices of their generation and their gender.

Almost everyone in America knows the name Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old African American woman who was killed in Louisville last year in a botched police drug raid. But they may not know much about the circumstances around her death, other than that she was shot to death by police officers serving a “no knock” warrant at her home early on March 13, 2020.

“I think every time I perform the play, I learn something new,” What the Constitution Means to Me’s Heidi Schreck says of her acclaimed stage show that is now an Amazon Studios film. “I learn something new from debating the young women who are in the play, the teenage debaters I debate at the end,” added Schreck, the movie’s writer/performer/executive producer.

While much of the world was eager to bid farewell to the year that brought the world to a standstill, a team of female comics decided to the best way to kick 2020 to the curb was to give the year its own funeral.