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  1. The King is a 2017 American documentary film directed and co-written by American filmmaker, author and two-time Sundance nominee Eugene Jarecki. As indicated in the film title, the documentary is about Elvis Presley and America during his career.

  2. With Elvis Presley, Eugene Jarecki, James Carville, Mike Tyson. Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.

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    • Documentary
    • Eugene Jarecki
    • 2018-06-22
  3. Jun 25, 2018 · The first shot of Eugene Jarecki’s documentary “The King” is a ribbon of road in remote country, the camera low near the roadside and its shrubbery, as a car with its headlights on, far in the...

  4. Jun 21, 2018 · Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki masterfully explores Presley's life as a metaphor for America as he drives the late singer's 1963 Rolls-Royce across the country, interviewing those he meets along the...

  5. "The King" filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, along with co-producer Steven Soderbergh, talks about Elvis--and his Rolls--as a metaphor for the American Dream.

  6. Jun 25, 2018 · It follows the filmmaker as he drives Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls Royce across the United States in an attempt to understand what has happened to America in the age of Trump. “The American dream …...

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  8. Oct 1, 2018 · 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. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here.

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