Visible: Out on Television (2020)

Directed by

Ryan White

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 5 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary miniseries looks at how LGBTQ+ people have been shown on TV over time. It uses old clips and new interviews with people who worked in television.

educationalreflectiveinformativenostalgicempoweringthoughtfulhistorical

What happens

Visible: Out on Television is a documentary miniseries about the representation of LGBTQ+ people in television, both on-screen and behind the camera. Directed by Ryan White, all 5 episodes were released on Apple TV+ on February 14, 2020. The five episodes are broadly chronological; each involving a theme — The Dark Ages, Television as a Tool, The Epidemic, Breakthroughs, and The New Guard — the miniseries combines archive footage with new interviews of LGBTQ+ people in the television industry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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