Delighted to find such a rich haul of Rich Hall documentaries on Utube

Wow. The last time I even thought about Rich Hall was when recalling his SCTV sketch from decades ago, defining the "bevometer." I never expected to encounter him brilliantly presenting, in a no-bullshit, brutally-honest manner, a documentary of American cinema depicting American culture, for a British audience. My respect for the man has skyrocketed. I'll be binge-watching all weekend. God, how I love KZfaq for introducing me to these kinds of gems.

47:30 - Ripping on Jeremy Clarkson is so articulate, astute, ACCURATE, and well deserved and most importantly it's funny. God bless Rich Hall.

The lugubrious, sarcastic and world-weary Rich Hall had to come to the UK to make his mark. Once that was accomplished, he has gone on to create some wonderful, hugely entertaining and informative videos about the American dream . Ken Burns with a sense of humour. Great stuff.

I was about 5 minutes in when I realised I'd seen this before. It's so good I decided to watch it again. Loved it.

Wonderful from start to finish. It's well researched, well written, well presented, and, well, highly recommended. If you are not familiar with the works of the narrator, he is an actor, comedian, musician, singer... entertainer that I dearly admire... one of the best I have ever seen. You would do well to view some of his works on You Tube.

God, the " I'll be there " speech from Fonda gives me goosebumps EVERY time.... makes me want to hit the barricades with the ' internationale ' singing from my heart...makes me cry too...but then, I come from a city and a country where being called a ' socialist ' is a compliment.

Rich Hall docs bring joy to my wizened heart. I watch 'em every few years. Never gets old.

Rich Hall is a master story teller... thank you for sharing this documentary. It was absolutely brilliant in its analysis and presentation.

Rich Hall is one of our best ambassadors thank you sir

You know when a thing is good, and this is good. Thank you Mr Hall for taking the trouble to slap a satisfied grin on these old chops of mine.

Remember him from HBO's "not necessarily the news" in the early 80s. Glad to see he's still making people laugh! Thanks Rich...

Loving these documentaries on America presented by Richar Hall, great stuff.

I`m in the UK and I admire this guy soooooo much, I had to add extra ooo`s to so. I've seen Rich Hall live, read his books and I think he is one of the greatest blokes on the planet

Rich Hall is someone I will dearly miss if he departs from this world. And why hasn't he been a jurist at Cannes??? That's man's film mind is so on point.

I've been to America three times, hired a motorcycle and done about twenty-five thousand miles. Kept to the back roads and off the highways as much as possible. Went to as many National parks as I could. The scenery is more varied and spectacular than any other country I've been to.

I love this. Rich is the best man to take us on the road.

Some people beat about the bush, some just murmour about their problems, but, Rich Hall says it how it is, calls a spade a spade, goes straight in for the kill. Love him, he's hilarious.

Well aint this a treat. A bit of history, some classic cinema, and Rich Hall's poetic but deadpan commentary. 😎

Go Rich you national articulate treasure. This was passionate and hilarious

The diner rant about cheesecake and LUCAS was both accurate and informative. Well done sir.

I lked Rich Hall before. But after his meaning of muscle car rant and disparaging commentary on Clarkson, I fucking love him.

We are all the Richer for this.

his muscle car monologue at 48mins is hilarious, especially the jermey clarkson line :) I love the way Rich Hall dose serious tv,

What a tribute in the end. 1:25:30. I'd watch any docu narrated by Rich Hall

Fandango smokes them all 😁 Rich Hall is a national treasure over here in Britain..... Horn Up 🤘

I’ve just come across Rich Hall, unbelievable well made ,researched ,narrated and presented, fourth that I’ve up to now, hope there’s loads more…..

My first car was a '67 Cutlass that I got in '73. It was a loaner to my parents while their car was in the shop. For $700.00 I started driving myself to school. Pretty cool for a girl.

YES Rich, THAT happened in Pendleton Oregon on a hot 1970 July night at the DQ. I had a 67 Cnevelle and no clean shirts. She did my laundry the next day and I gave her all my love for 40 years. Shit Happens man.

the description of star wars as a road movie cheescake is priceless

@47:41 Damn! That was the most hilarious (and deserved) take down of Jeremy Clarkson I've ever heard! 🤣🤣🤣

What use of language. What irony. What delivery. What intelligence. What a choice of music. BRILLIANT.

Liked the way he compared Apocalypse Now with Wizard of Oz. Never noticed those similarities before.

Rich Hall is America's best export.

Thank you Rich for bringing sarcasm to the States. Even more for showing my music hero JT on film...no actor but what a film...if only his music had been on the soundtrack

Gotta love Rich Hall!!

Excellent analytical content, and very funny at times. I appreciate your work, Rich Hall.

Rich Hall got on BBC 4? astounding! And hilarious.

That was Bloody Fantastic!!!

His documentaries are so underrated, he's affectionate but not reverential about his subjects. Alot of Louis Theroux's docs are good, some of them are great, some aren't all that interesting. But all Rich's ones that I've seen are 10/10.

A+ for the cheesecake rant....sooo bloody true though

I am so glad to see what Rich Hall has been up to since I saw him a few decades ago! Love your work Rich!!

Just watched it again, a year after my first viewing. Got even more out of it. It's one of the best movies I have ever seen.

Loved Rich Hall way back in his Sniglet days. Been wondering where he's been hiding all these years. Now I know - the BBC!

One of the best documentary narrators of all time. Razor sharp wit.

Never heard of this guy....that was great!

Rich Hall does for documentaries what apple sauce, chocolate chips & whipped cream does for plain old pastry.

Glad I watched this. Been struggling to remember the name of that movie Coup de ville for a few days now.

Great video. Until this batch of videos I hadn't seen Rich since Saturday Night Live but he is great now days too! What a huge range of talent! I am looking forward to viewing all Roche's shows that are available on KZfaq. Thanks for Posting!!!

47:44 Literally can't stop watching this bit and laughing out loud! Soo good! This guy is funny AF.

Thanks uploader! I pay my TV licence fee but couldn't find this anywhere

Helluva view and story. Thanks for the posting.

Rich Hall the all English American, Legend.

Great documentary thanks for uploading. Pleasure to watch.

have just discovered Rich docs and love them !!

One of the Best road movies Patti Rocks (1988). Thanks to Rich Hall to remind me.

I'm told I recited a big chuck of Howl in the back of an ambulance, semiconscious with hypoglycemia and concussion. Probably the most baller thing I ever did, and I have no memory of it whatsoever.

HES A GENIUS,SUCH A NATURAL FUNNY MAN.

I really love James Taylor. Mostly road songs. And country. I'm not American and I don't know much about country but I love a few artists like the witty Jewel, my younger friends aren't always into it but I compromise and listen to their club music or ballads.

That hollow longing which inspired the road movie is long gone, replaced by the bile and hatred, paranoia and outrage we see everyday in 2020. Something had to fill he gap, and it wasn't the endless highway. Just the endless howl.

Dear KZfaq, this is the first BBC4 documentary I encounter that has copyright issues and therefor comes with the sound muted. This documentary has aired on British television many years ago. British television is a public service, paid for by taxpayers. Only for that reason it should be free to be uploaded here. Another reason is that probably you are not aware of the fact that many people live in countries that do not sell these kind of documentaries on digital media, nor is Netflix or anything like that available to watch this on. This means that, for your obscure and inconsistent legal reasons, people have to resolve to illegal downloading. Well done, KZfaq.

Informative and entertaining. Keep going Rich Hall.

I applaud KZfaq for this. Would have been so easy to let this go or even remove the video but no, some bright spark at KZfaq thought, let's give lip readers a break for once.

Brilliant , seamless and very funny . One of the best things 'all round' I've watched for ages . "if Jeremy Clarkeson was a woman.......... well ; I wouldn't be surprised" ~ genius*

Bravo for the bit on Jeremy Clarkson ..

This documentary is so totally brilliant. It’s like being taken through the valley of cinema, by a really good guide.

I could listen to this dude all day🌚

I mind when I was a teenager, me and a mate deciced to go on a road trip to "England". In our small village minds, "England" was a whole world away. It was a virgin land yet to be conquered. It was the unknown. To our surpsire, it was basically the same as Scotland, just with slightly different accents. We roved, we toured, we rambled. In the end, I only came home with the realisation that the UK is not as big a place as I thought it was.

New Zealand’s Goodbye Pork Pie is one of the greatest Road movies ever. Being in a small country the futility of it’s impending ending looms like a dark shadow almost from the beginning.

I like Rich Hall. Just wanted to say

This is our country beautifully told.

Rich Hall the American David Attenborough

Magnificent piece.

Awesome upload!

Saw Rich when he played the York theatre royal. Still laugh now when I think of some of his stories 😂

More interesting than movies he talks about.

Nothing like a road trip. I've taken my Corvette across country a few times .

Ahhh yes, Vanishing Point! Rich Hall is awesome! I’m not sure why he’s not more popular over here in the states! Brilliant he is…

2013 I was hitchhiking south out of Idaho and found a 16lb purple bowling ball in the gutter. I must have bowled it five miles down the center line about fifty yards at a time. Right down the center till it veered off to the side and then I'd walk up to it and pitch it again. Didn't see a car or truck the entire time. Anyone out there lose a purple bowling ball, it's probably still there. 😉

Just disvovered Rich Halls videos. Haven't seen a bad one yet. The rant about cheesecake killed me. Thanks Rich for the great humor, sarcasm and truths that most of us who lived through these eras had forgotten.❤

Can't believe 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation movie wasn't even mentioned. Still like this series though.

Everything with Rich Hall is good stuff How he merges Britain and the US deep south is weird. However, he does. Having worked for American companies for 25 years, I just drop the satire and irony in the US as everyone believes you. Rich does it! 😀👍

I didn't know about Two Lane Blacktop. I look forward to watching it.

Maybe you were better off reading Of Mice and Men. My 8th grade English class read The Grapes of Wrath, but I think we were too young to appreciate it. When I happened to read it again as an adult, I was blown away by the brilliance of the writing, the courage, the pain, and the despair. I also discovered that the book had numerous sexual references. We'd been given an abridged version as children, and nobody told us. It makes me furious to think I could have gone to my grave believing that I'd read Steinbeck's masterpiece the way he'd written it.

Having recently read the Grapes of Wrath as a mature adult, I am fairly certain that NOT reading or embracing the ideas in this book has put many US citizens at a severe disadvantage. Among many other things, book touches on the sexual predation of religious pastors. The disruptive insanity of religious fanatics. The criminal violence of local and state police. The resilient subsistence lifestyle of small farmers. The dehumanisation of farming by technology. The corrupt mindset of used car salesmen. The definition of Communism as seen through the eyes of the itinerant working class. The evolution of feudal landownership and industrial agriculture in southern California, and its devastating effects on Mexican and itinerant US labor. And for all this, the book really doesn’t have an ending, because the circumstances of the Novel are not resolved. The book just stops with the main protagonists sheltering from a storm in a barn. Roll a dice to work out what happens next. And no… a starving man suckling from a woman’s breast is not some great big metaphor… it’s just another pragmatic solution to make it through the night. No different from the improvised burial ceremonies in the story. And the kicker! The BIG mystery set up by this novel is the fact that MOST small farmers in the Dustbowl DID NOT LEAVE FOR CA, but somehow stayed put. How the majority of these people survived until Perl Harbour is a great American Novel yet to be told.

brilliant Rich

Just saw Rich Hall's live show in Wimborne Dorset. What a genius! One VERY bright guy! Just WHO was Fred Hanson, Physics Teacher? Loved Rich on TV for years and was great to meet him in skin form! :) Thanks Rich...GREAT show! NoAxe

that was excellent!

A Rich Hall documentary is enough by its self, but with Carl Orff, Lemon jelly, and Sigue - Sigue Sputnik on the soundtrack, just sublime.

The straight story is the greatest film ever made.

Miss ya Rich,best comedian ever

Excellent Program

Always wondered what happened to Rich. Hey BBC, send Rich home.

Now I know why I am watching this. Because I believe that I was once told that my Great Great Grandfather's last customer on his last day of work was a young white couple in a white Ford Coupe paid him well in a tip for filling them up. They became his last customers as he saw the young lady in the back seat holding a Thompson Submachine Gun. Bonny and Clyde had just finished raiding the Beaumont Armory. He took the money. They left. He put up the CLOSED sign and walked away having finally seen enough.

Now the waiter shows you a plate of crumbs and a smear of cheese, and we were given it three times! The sequel trilogy!

Rich Hall, one of the best things to come out of America

Wizard Of Oz "A young girl teams up with a bunch of strangers to kill and then proceeds to kill again."

Steinbeck was a very public promoter of Stalinist USSRs invasion of Finland during the Nazi-USSR partnership to divide up eastern Europe. He was enthusiastically and very publicly on the record in support of it. Just a year or two after he published Grapes of Wrath. When I learned this, it completely changed my opinion of Steinbeck, who until then I had greatly admired.

...and Rich Hall never even mentioned a great little film called "Vanishing America"....filmed in Canada! Loved it!

terrific....