Directed by Lionel Rogosin • 1965 • United States
GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES is director Lionel Rogosin’s urgent plea for humanity and his searing condemnation of war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. To lend the film a caustic bite, he interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party’s mundane chatter—daring viewers to continue to treat such horrors as abstract. Released in 1964 at the height of the Vietnam War, this powerful call for peace stands as one of the great antiwar films of the era.
Up Next in Lionel Rogosin's Dangerous Docufictions
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Oysters Are in Season
Directed by Lionel Rogosin • 1966 • United States
Something of an outlier (along with the companion piece HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM BANANAS?) in director Lionel Rogosin’s filmography, this comedic short features a series of satirical sketches performed by friends of the filmmaker.
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Black Roots
Directed by Lionel Rogosin • 1970 • United States
Director Lionel Rogosin’s fourth feature is a unique oral history that uses song and bittersweet stories to illustrate the difficulties of Black people living in 1970s America. The extraordinary cast—including Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatr...
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Black Fantasy
Directed by Lionel Rogosin • 1972 • United States
An uncompromising, often discomfitingly frank look at the complexities of interracial relationships in America, this rarely seen documentary unfolds from the perspective of Jim Collier, a Black musician married to a white woman, as he expounds, w...
