The El Duce Tapes

APPROPIATE

2019 / 106min.

Rating7

Genres

Documentary

Music

Synopsis

A wilfully offensive band, The Mentors gained infamy for performing in black executioner hoods and spewing cartoonishly racist, homophobic and misogynistic lyrics in the 1980s and ‘90s—but was their use of shock meant to propagate hate or confront it?

Directors

Rodney Ascher

David Lawrence

Actors

El Duce

Bill Maher

Jerry Springer

Milo Yiannopoulos

Robin Thicke

GWAR

Steve Broy

Eric Carlson

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