Discover
For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979—at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 as the Sandy Hook massacre played on television while Marion passed away. In between, Marion filled 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today and in the process tell us who we were.
A mystery in the form of a time capsule, Recorder delves into the strange life of a woman for whom home taping was a form of activism to protect the truth (the public didn’t know it, but the networks had been disposing their archives for decades into the trashcan of history) and though her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, her extraordinary legacy is as priceless as her story is remarkable.
Original Release
05/01/2019
US Release
11/15/2019
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Frank Hollman | Self |
Roger MacDonald | Self |
Michael Metelits | Self / Himself - Marion Stokes' Son |
Marion Stokes | Herself (archive footage) / Self |
Christiane Amanpour | Self |
Richard Branson | Self |
Tom Brokaw | Self |
George W. Bush | Self |
Johnny Carson | Self |
Jimmy Carter | Self |
Directors
Cast
Name | Character |
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Frank Hollman | Self |
Roger MacDonald | Self |
Michael Metelits | Self / Himself - Marion Stokes' Son |
Marion Stokes | Herself (archive footage) / Self |
Christiane Amanpour | Self |
Richard Branson | Self |
Tom Brokaw | Self |
George W. Bush | Self |
Johnny Carson | Self |
Jimmy Carter | Self |
Fidel Castro | Self |
Julia Child | Self |
Bill Clinton | Self |
Hillary Clinton | Self |
Ray Combs | Self |
Bill Cosby | Self |
Phil Donahue | Self |
Sam Donaldson | Self |
Michael Dukakis | Self |
Bob Dylan | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Brendan Doyle | Executive Producer |
Andrew Kortschak | Executive Producer |
Walter Kortschak | Executive Producer |
Peter Sillen | Executive Producer |
Lisa Ciuffetti | Producer |
Munika Lay | Producer |
Kyle Martin | Producer |