• Director(s)

    na

  • Production Year

    2019

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

TV Show

The Movies

THE MOVIES is a documentary that narrates the history of American cinema; this episode explores the early years of the 'Golden Age' era of Hollywood. …

THE MOVIES is a documentary that narrates the history of American cinema; this episode explores the early years of the 'Golden Age' era of Hollywood.

  • Director(s)

    na

  • Production Year

    2019

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

references to racism and sexual violence, mild sex references
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
sex
Film clips include characters talking discreetly about sex. Commentators also discuss films and film stars in relation to the way in which issues of sex and desire are represented in films from the 1920s and 1930s.
discrimination
The documentary discusses Black filmmakers and the role of Black actors in the 1920s and 1930s. In this context, there are references to actors playing stereotyped characters, and to the racism experienced by Black actors within the industry. There is a brief clip from a short film called SYMPHONY IN BLACK: A RHAPSODY OF NEGRO LIFE - the racial language appears briefly on screen. Racism is clearly condemned and discussed within a clear socio-historical context. There are also very brief references to the sexism faced by women working within the film industry in the 1930s.
sexual violence and sexual threat
In reference to the film GONE WITH THE WIND a commentator remarks that a character 'essentially rapes his wife'; the reference is brief and undetailed.
additional issues
There are moments of very mild horror in clips from Universal 'monster' movies of the 1930s. Very mild threat and violence occurs in clips from films featured throughout the episode. Language is very mild ('hell'). There are also scenes of smoking.
mild violence, suicide references, discrimination
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are frequent scenes of mild violence which include scenes of war violence, as well as fight scenes that include gun violence and fist fights. In one shot, a dead body is seen lying on a battlefield. There is very occasional sight of blood or injury detail. There are also verbal references to murder, as well as brief image of a dead body lying in a swimming pool.
discrimination
There are references to the film THE SEARCHERS being about the issue of racism. In clips from the film, Natalie Wood plays a Native American character. There is a use of the term 'Indians'.
suicide and self-harm
There are verbal references to suicide in the context of discussing the film IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. A woman is seen jumping from a cliff in a clip from VERTIGO.
additional issues
There are moments of very mild horror, infrequent very mild sex references, and occasional use of very mild bad language ('hell'). Scenes of smoking occur throughout.
moderate threat
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A showering woman screams when a figure with a knife tears open the curtain. A brainwashed soldier strangles a comrade on command. A man sits on horseback, preparing to be executed by hanging. Another prepares to put his head on an axeman's block.
additional issues
A bloodied soldier clutches a bloody knife. There is mild violence in clips from films, including an implied scene of domestic abuse. There are mild sex references. There are references to racism in the context of WEST SIDE STORY. Language is mild ('balls', 'damn'). Characters smoke cigarettes in clips from films.
strong violence
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There is strong violence and blood spurting detail when a man and woman are shot at. There's also a scene in which a woman is stabbed.
additional issues
The film features infrequent strong language ('f**k') and milder terms including 'bullshit', 'ass' and 'shit'. There's also a rude middle finger gesture. Undetailed verbal references are made to sexual violence. There are also references to racism and historic uses of racial language ('coloured' and 'negro') as well as homophobic behaviour. A woman seduces a man by walking into a room naked, but there's only partial buttock nudity, which is briefly shown.
strong violence
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
In clips from films such as THE GODFATHER and ENTER THE DRAGON there is strong violence, which includes bloody shootings and intense martial arts fighting. There are other scenes of violence, including both gun and knife threat, but these moments are brief and moderate in tone and detail.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as use of milder terms such as 'God', 'damn', 'ass', 'shit' and 'slut'. There are references to sexism, and a brief scene of sexual harassment when, in the film ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, a man asks a woman to turn around so he can 'see her'. There are scenes of moderate threat and horror in brief clips from films such as JAWS. There are also moderate sex references and a brief reference to child sexual abuse. There are also undetailed drug references.
strong violence, bloody images
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are moments of strong violence, such as people being shot.
injury detail
There are strong bloody images in the aftermath of violence, including a scene from ALIEN in which a man's chest spurts blood.
additional issues
A clip from the film HAROLD AND MAUDE features a teen seemingly shooting himself, but the sequence is not an actual suicide. There are scenes of discrimination from a film excerpt in which racist characters react badly to a black sheriff being assigned to their town. This includes implied use of racist term 'n****r'. There is also a scene in which a woman makes a well-intentioned but discriminatory remark about a man being "a real Jew". There is infrequent use of strong language (‘f**k’), moderate sex references, and scenes of moderate knife and gun threat.
strong violence
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman is shot, with resulting close-up bloody detail. There are bloody boxing scenes in clips from RAGING BULL.
additional issues
Scenes of moderate threat include an axeman breaking through a door, and a woman protecting a child from aliens. A suicidal woman holds a knife to her own throat. There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), and other terms such as 'bitch' and 'Christ'. Sex references are moderate. There is brief natural nudity.
strong language, bloody images, drug misuse, sex references, racism
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'prick', 'shit', 'ass', ''bastard', 'son of a bitch', 'hell', 'damn' and 'screw'.
sex
References to voyeurism and sexual fetish occur in discussion of the film SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE. There are also moderate comic sex references.
discrimination
There is use of racist ('n****r') and racial language ('n***a') in clips from GLORY and DO THE RIGHT THING. There are references to slavery, institutional racism and police brutality. References to the Holocaust occur in discussion about - and in clips from - the movie SOPHIE'S CHOICE. There is also footage of the actor Eddie Murphy wearing prosthetics to appear caucasian.
drugs
In a clip from SCARFACE a man presses his face into piles of cocaine, leaving him with white powder on his face. There are also several references to drugs, including drug dealing and 'dope'.
injury detail
During clips from action films such as DIE HARD, men are seen with blood on their bodies in the aftermath of violence.
additional issues
There are scenes of moderate violence, threat and comic horror.
strong bloody violence, language, sexual threat
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are bloody shootings and images of dead bodies lying in pools of blood.
language
There is use of strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k'), racial language ('n***a') and use of milder terms ('shit', 'bitch', 'ass', 'damn', 'God').
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is a scene of sexual threat in which a woman is held down on the hood of a car by a man; however, she is quickly rescued by her friend who wields a gun and gets the man off her.
additional issues
There is a brief scene of suicide in where two characters drive off a cliff. There are drug references and moments of moderate gun threat.
strong language, drug misuse
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'shit', 'dick', 'ass', 'God' and 'hell'. There is also use of a middle finger gesture.
drugs
In a brief clip from a film, a woman snorts cocaine.
additional issues
There are moderate sex references, including references to pornography, and scenes of moderate action violence.
strong language, violence, sex references
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are brief moments of strong bloody, including shootings and explosions, in scenes from the film DJANGO UNCHAINED. Other violence is moderate and includes fight scenes and car chases from films such as THE BOURNE IDENTITY and CASINO ROYALE. Occasionally, there is sight of blood on characters' faces.
language
Strong language includes uses of the terms 'f**k' and 'motherf**ker. Other language includes milder terms such as 'bitches', 'balls' and 'hell. Infrequent use of racial language ('n***a') also occurs.
sex
In scenes from the film BRIDESMAIDS there are strong verbal and visual references to performing oral sex on men.
additional issues
There are also drug references and scenes of comic nudity.
strong language, violence, threat
Classified Date:
19/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman is shot by a gang and bleeds to death, in a scene from CHILDREN OF MEN.
threat and horror
A lynched man on tiptoes manages to keep himself from strangulation in a scene from TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE.
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k'), as well as other terms such as 'ass' and 'Jesus Christ'. There is use of discriminatory language, such as 'queer'.
additional issues
There are moderate references to sex and drugs. There is a fleeting reference to sexual violence. There are references to racism.
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  • Classified date

    19/09/2022