Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom was praised by directors like Chris Marker and Joris Ivens for its up-close portrayal of the radical civil rights leader, directed by Jamaican-American filmmaker Lebert Bethune.
Whips was one of the films mentioned in a half page ad in the April 7, 1966 issue of the Village Voice, advertising The Exploding Plastic Inevitable show at the Dom.
Songs about eternal love, American vagabonds, cowboys and desperadoes, with the romance of railways and trains speeding into the distance are recorded as film songs, and so, for example, in the well-known standard Franck and Johnny you will see M.