Produced by: Yvonne Smith Harlene Freezer Sharon Davis
Directed by: Yvonne Smith
Find out how George Clinton, mastermind behind the band Parliament Funkadelic, expressed the cultural alienation of young African Americans, creating an alternate universe of "aliens" bringing the redemptive power of funk to a world sorely in need of a new point of view. An INDEPENDENT LENS selection.
Co-production of ITVS in association with NBPC
Premiere: Independent Lens, October 11, 2005 at 10 PM
"The truly funkalicious film opens the new season of Independent Lens on PBS...After watching One Nation Under a Groove, all I want to do is dance. Maybe that's not such foolish advice for paranoid times."
