Trailer | The King
Preview: Season 20 Episode 9 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The King premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, January 28, 2019.
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.
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Trailer | The King
Preview: Season 20 Episode 9 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
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.
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