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Senator No: "Jesse Helms"

"Don't miss 'Senator No'... a fascinating account filled with detail [and] interesting revelations." -Jack Betts, The Charlotte Observer "a fascinating and sometimes complex portrait" - Danny Hooley, The News & Observer “No American politician is more controversial, beloved in some quarters and hated in others, than Jesse Helms," wrote The Almanac of American Politics as the conservative North Carolina Republican neared the end of his 30-year U.S. Senate career. From the moment he arrived in Washington in 1973, Helms began injecting hot-button issues into American politics. His notorious political action committee became the largest in the nation with its pioneering use of direct mail and negative television ads. The "New Right" movement he spearheaded played a leading role in mobilizing Christian conservative voters and electing Ronald Reagan in 1980. Two decades later, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Helms became the first legislator from any country to address the U.N. Security Council--all this from the man a Canadian newspaper once called "redneck primitive." “Senator No: Jesse Helms” explores the origins of Jesse Helms's politics, from his Southern Baptist roots in the Jim Crow South to his political baptism in North Carolina's racially-charged 1950 U.S. Senate race. Trumpeting Old South values as an editorialist and politician, he crashed headlong into the civil rights movement, communism, abortion, gay rights--virtually every major issue of his time. Yet in the twilight of his career, Helms had a very public--and intriguing--reversal on international AIDS relief. Independent filmmaker John Wilson had unique access to Helms himself, vast archives spanning his 60 years in media and politics, and a diverse group of Helms's allies, opponents, and observers, from Jerry Falwell to Bono. Actor Will Patton narrates, with an original music score by Chris Frank of the Red Clay Ramblers. Wilson’s previous collaborations with UNC-TV include the Emmy Award-winning “Dr. Frank: The Life and Times of Frank Porter Graham,” narrated by Charles Kuralt. #SenatorNo #JesseHelms #JoeBiden