I Want My MTV

Year: 2019
Country: USA
Director: Tyler Measom, Patrick Waldrop
Genre: documentary
Runtime: 86 min.
Age: 18+

A documentary about the birth, rise and cultural effects of MTV

A touchstone in the lives of millions of young people, as well as a home for musicians and filmmakers to display their frequently offbeat sense of artistic vision, upstart music network MTV burst onto televisions on August 1, 1981. Via a combination of the scrappy handful of young adults serving as hosts, the fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants production style, and the music mini-movies that were the foundation of the original channel, MTV was like nothing Americans had ever seen before.