Playboy: The Story of X
1998, English. Directed by Chuck Workman.
100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars
The Story of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as "King of Sexploitation" Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they're now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the '60s when women's rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn's arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. In the '70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind the Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Chuck WorkmanDirector
- Buck HenrySelf - Host
- Christy CanyonSelf
- Ginger Lynn Allen(archive footage)
- Juliet AndersonSelf
- Samuel Z. ArkoffSelf - Distributor
- Juli AshtonSelf
- Lisa De LeeuwSelf (archive footage)
- John HolmesSelf (archive footage)
- Samantha FoxSelf (archive footage)
- Hugh HefnerSelf
- Zalman KingSelf - Producer
- Jayne MansfieldSelf (archive footage)
Details
- Released
- 1 January 1998
- Country
- United States of America
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Playboy: The Story of X runs 82 minutes (1h 22m).
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Playboy: The Story of X isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1998. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Playboy: The Story of X?
Playboy: The Story of X (1998) was directed by Chuck Workman and stars Buck Henry, Christy Canyon, Ginger Lynn Allen.