These two documentaries directed by British filmmaker Dick Fontaine offer vérité portraits of Mailer in the late 1960s. Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? is the filmed counterpart to Mailer’s Pulitzer-winning nonfiction novel, The Armies of the Night which focuses on his participation in the antiwar protest movement.  In addition, the film provides behind the scenes footage of the filming of Beyond the Law. Norman Mailer vs. Fun City, USA documents Mailer’s 1969 bid for the Mayor’s office in New York City.  Accompanied by his running mate, Jimmy Breslin, Mailer charismatically works the press and the public with a provocative platform that ultimately fails.