KINSEY (PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE)

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: In 1948, Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, cataloging the sexual habits of American men, was compared to 'the atomic bomb.' The book became an instant best-seller. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, released in 1953, would only add to the furor and send further shockwaves through the nation.; ; Behind both volumes was an unlikely crusader. Kinsey was a scientist whose repressed childhood, personal struggles and obsessive nature would propel him to conduct the first full-scale study of sexual behavior, and break through America's silence on human sexuality.; ; American Experience presents Kinsey, a 90-minute biography that features full access to the extensive collection of sex research from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Also included are interviews with members of Kinsey's original research team, his daughters and biographers. This film tells the story of a highly contradictory man - a conservative family man who pushed the boundaries of his own sexuality, an objective scientist who was also a passionate rebel. Alfred Kinsey initiated a conversation about sexual behavior that continues to this day.;
• Cast: Campbell Scott, Kenneth Anger, John Bancroft, Bob Bayer, Alice Binkley, Morris Binkley, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Bradley Douglas Cook, Martin Duberman, Julia Ericksen, Jamie Gagnon, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Paul Gebhard, Alice Ginott Cohn, Miriam Hecht, James H. Jones, Ann Kinsey Call, Joan Kinsey Reid, Alfred Kinsey, Edward Laumann, Clyde Martin, Jefferson Mays, Joan Mister, Barbara Seaman, Patricia Franck Sheffield, John Tebbel, Leonore Tiefert, Barak Goodman, John Maggio, Caroline Harting, Susan Mottau, Sharon Grimberg, Mark Samels, George O'Donnell, Aaron Curran, Susan Bellows
• Director: Barak Goodman
• Runtime: 1:26
• Company: WGBH Boston, PBS Home Video
• Media Format: Series