CinemaOSMovie · 1998 · 1h 22m

Playboy: The Story of X

100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars

68%(8)IMDbDocumentary

The Story of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as "King of Sexploitation" Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they're now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the '60s when women's rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn's arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. In the '70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind the Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.

Directed byChuck Workman

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 22m
Language
EN
Released
January 1, 1998

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Buck Henry

Buck Henry

Self - Host

Christy Canyon

Christy Canyon

Self

Ginger Lynn Allen

Ginger Lynn Allen

(archive footage)

Juliet Anderson

Juliet Anderson

Self

Samuel Z. Arkoff

Samuel Z. Arkoff

Self - Distributor

Juli Ashton

Juli Ashton

Self

Lisa De Leeuw

Lisa De Leeuw

Self (archive footage)

John Holmes

John Holmes

Self (archive footage)

Samantha Fox

Samantha Fox

Self (archive footage)

Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Chuck Workman
Chuck Workman
Produced by
John Leonetti

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