“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 arch-conservative North Carolina Republican neared the end of his 30-year U.S. Senate career. UNC-TV presents Senator No: Jesse Helms, a 90-minute biographical documentary from independent filmmaker John Wilson.  The film chronicles Helms’s life from his humble childhood in Monroe, to his two decades as an outspoken print and television editorialist, to his five contentious terms in the U.S. Senate and the fierce political battles that landed him there.

Click here to visit the Senator No: Jesse Helms website.