"Jolly Roger" could mean Roger Schawinski. But by definition, a "Jolly Roger" is the classic black pirate flag with skull and crossbones. This documentary tells the unvarnished story of the Swiss radio pirates who emerged in the 1970s. The focus is on Radio 24 in its wild years, when Schawinski's team broadcast from Italy, with the strongest FM station in the world at the time, straight down from Pizzo Groppera, 130 kilometers all the way to the Zurich area. Supported by numerous original documents from private filmmakers and from the SRG archives, the viewer relives the absurd radio war between David and Goliath that lasted almost four years, 24 years after this war between the radio pirates and the state power began on November 13, 1979. The many known and unknown fighters, who rallied behind their Radio Winkelried Schawinski in 1979 to help usher Switzerland into a new media age, remember the good and bad times, the demonstrations and the numerous threatened and actual closures.

In this sequel to the award-winning You’ve Been Trumped, director Anthony Baxter once again follows ...

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their ...

The Blocher Experience tells the story of Switzerland’s most controversial political leader. It also...

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...

The campaign for women's suffrage steps up as Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested at the gates of Bucking...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...

John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-...

Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her ...
A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous communit...

In 1970s California, a serial killer dumps young boys' bodies along the freeways. An L.A. street rep...
May 27th, 1971 was a rainy day. In the small town Radevormwald, the world seems to be still in order...

In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and become...

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

German TV film, also shown on Spanish TV in 1976, this is a film all about TD which includes informa...

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...

Imagine an AM Radio Station with a dawn to dusk license that played nothing but jazz and comedy reco...

Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exci...

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, inte...