Super Bowl champion and executive producer Benjamin Watson goes on a journey to discover the truth about abortion — a subject that has been at the center of heated debates since the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973.
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Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture, and telling the story of how Los Angeles changed from a kooky backwater in the early 1960s to become the artistic and industrial hub of the American music industry by the end of the 1970s. The film explores how the socially-conscious folk rock of young hippies with acoustic guitars was transformed into the coked-out stadium excess of the late 1970s and the biggest selling album of all time.
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