The Truth Behind the Fiction documentary series explores the realities that inspired some of the most celebrated feature films in recent memory. One Day in September is about the killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, the subject of Steven Spielberg’s drama Munich. The documentary Favela Rising and Fernando Meirelles’s extraordinary feature City of God are both about the rise of youth and drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro. The psychology of young Americans going to war is brutally depicted in both the new Iraq war documentary The Ground Truth and Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam classic Full Metal Jacket. The world of old school tap dancing and jazz unite in Robert Altman’s Black and Blue and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club, and the Nazis’ plundering of cultural treasures finds expression in both The Rape of Europa and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The Rape of Europa
Thursday, December 7, 2006
8:00 PM
$7
The Ground Truth
Thursday, January 11, 2007
8:00 Pm
$7
One Day in September
Thursday, February 1, 2007
8:00 PM
$7
Black and Blue
Thursday, February 22, 2007
8:00 PM
$7
Favela Rising
Thursday, March 29, 2007
8:00 PM
$7
Keeping Time
Thursday, April 19, 2007
8:00 PM
$7
MASS MoCA is located at 87 Marshall Street, North Adams, MA 01247. For tickets, call 413-662-2111, or visit us online at www.massmoca.org.