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'WBCN and The American Revolution' is a feature-length documentary film"WBCN and the American Revolution" The Huffington Post, August 11, 2009 that chronicles progressive rock radio station WBCN-FM in Boston, during the years 1968 to 1974, through the original sights, sounds and stories, and examines the station's role in both covering and promoting the dramatic social, political and cultural changes that took place during that era. The film was produced and directed by Bill Lichtenstein with the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media."The Glory Days of WBCN," Boston Globe (op-ed), July 18, 2009

The film's use of crowdsourcing to collect archival material for its production and to raise the funds necessary to produce it has been called "A revolution in documentary filmmaking" by the American University Center for Social Media. In order to produce the film, tens of thousands of individual archival items, including photographs, audio recordings, film, video and memorabilia, were shared with the producers by members of the public. A collection of these items has been established at University of Massachusetts Amherst.http://www.library.umass.edu/news/announcements/american-revolution-documentary-archive/ "American Revolution Documentary Archive

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