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Independent Lens Season 20 Episode 9
Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind.
Serie: Independent Lens
Episode Title: The King
Air Date: 2019-01-28
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