Independent Lens · SEASON 10
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Episode 12 · 2009-02-03
- Documentary
Episode overview
America's original shock-jock, Petey Greene overcame poverty, drug addiction and prison time to "tell it like it is," shocking and entertaining everyone from the ghetto to the White House. Narrated by Don Cheadle, "Adjust Your Color" looks at how Greene's explosive language and brash style unsettled the establishment as he battled both the system and his own demons on a journey to becoming a leading activist during some of the most tumultuous years in recent history.
60 minutes
Season 10 episodes
1. Chicago 102008-10-22
2. Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey2008-10-28
3. Knee Deep2008-11-06
4. Lioness2008-11-13
5. March Point2008-11-18
6. The Atom Smashers2008-11-25
7. Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"2008-12-16
8. Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'2008-12-16
9. Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway2008-12-23
10. Helvetica2009-01-06
11. Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene2009-02-03
12. Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene2009-02-03
13. The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair2009-02-24
14. The Order of Myths2009-02-24
15. Lakshmi and Me2009-03-24
16. Recycle2009-03-31
17. Milking the Rhino2009-04-07
18. Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai2009-04-14
19. Steal a Pencil for Me2009-04-21
20. At Home in Utopia2009-04-28
21. Wings of Defeat2009-05-05
22. Crips and Bloods: Made in America2009-05-12
23. Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors2009-05-19
24. Steal a Pencil for Me2009-05-26
25. Ask Not2009-06-16
