Fresh out of college, aspiring filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball) read David McCullough's history of the building...
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Co-producer
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1982
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This compilation documentary covers the massive anti-nuclear peace march held in New York City on June 12, 1982, including...
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Cinematographer
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1984
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This excellent documentary on one of America's most well-known national symbols was nominated for an Academy Award in 1985....
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Producer
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1985
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This documentary concerns the 200,000 Czech and Polish Jews of Lodz ghetto who were enslaved by the Nazis during World War...
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Cinematographer
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1988
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Cinematographer
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1989
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Confronting biological inevitability with grace and humor, the 70-something men portrayed in this documentary make a good...
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Producer
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1992
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In 1846, a group of over eighty Westward-bound pioneers were headed to the coast of California from Illinois, which had...
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Cinematographer
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1992
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The emergence of American mass culture is intimately connected to the history of Coney Island. From the mid-1800s, New York's...
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Producer
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1993
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A must-see video for die-hard Bluegrass fans, as well as a mandatory "Bluegrass primer" for those who are just becoming...
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Cinematographer
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1994
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Architect, engineer, philosopher, author and poet Buckminster Fuller was one of the great iconoclasts of the 20th century,...
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Camera Operator
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1996
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Cinematographer
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1996
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This first episode in filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives' epic nine-part series focuses on the various peoples who...
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Cinematographer
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1996
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This Ken Burns documentary, narrated by Hal Holbrook, chronologically traces the well-documented 1804-06 military expedition...
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Cinematographer
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1997
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and child psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles created this PBS program to help caregivers learn how...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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1997
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Part one of this acclaimed PBS series explores the earliest roots of the Irish people in the New World. Centering on the...
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Cinematographer
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1998
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Part four of the acclaimed PBS series explores the rise of two great Irish dynastic families in America, the Kennedys and...
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Cinematographer
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1998
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Oliver Stone is the executive producer of this political documentary recalling the idealism, struggles, and turmoil of 1968...
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Cinematographer
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1998
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Edward Herrmann narrates this portrait of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as directed by renowned documentary filmmaker...
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Cinematographer
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1998
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This 64-minute documentary, winner of the "Audience Award" at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, details the hurdles that...
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Cinematographer
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1998
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Part three of the acclaimed PBS series explores the golden age of Irish-Americans living in America as immigrants, with...
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Cinematographer
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1998
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Part two of the acclaimed PBS series explores the path taken by new Irish arrivals in the New World. Irish roles in the...
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Cinematographer
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1998
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The "Big Apple" has a colorful, influential, and, at times, tragic history that spans nearly four hundred years. This is the...
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Cinematographer
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1999
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Upon finding a written biography of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, film producers Paul Barnes and...
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Cinematographer
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1999
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Calling Prohibition a "noble experiment," New York congressman Fiorello La Guardia then declared the law unenforceable....
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Cinematographer
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1999
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With the Civil War settled, New York could focus solely on the business of business and getting rich. Central Park finally...
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Cinematographer
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1999
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New York of the 19th century was already a haven of celebrities; showman P.T. Barnum's museum drew crowds on Broadway, and up...
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Cinematographer
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1999
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It was the fire that sparked reform; after 146 people -- mostly women and girls -- died in the ferocious 1911 blaze that...
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Cinematographer
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1999
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Episode eight -- 1945 to 1955 -- of Ken Burns' series finds jazz musicians reflecting the prosperity and tension of the...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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The seventh part of Ken Burns' series covers the years 1940 to 1945 and finds jazz at the center of battles at home and...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Fox's contribution to the reality show craze, American High follows the trials and tribulations of 14 students at a suburban...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Episode five of Ken Burns' series deals with jazz during the increasingly bleak Great Depression from 1935 to 1937. Swing...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Episode four of Ken Burns's acclaimed series -- covering 1929 to 1934 -- finds jazz musicians facing the collapse of the...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Episode six of Ken Burns's series -- covering 1937 to 1939 -- finds swing fans decrying the commercialization of big band...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Documentary filmmaker Barak Goodman explores the famed Scottsboro case of 1931. That year, nine black males, aged 13 to 19,...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Episode nine of Ken Burns' series -- covering 1956 to 1960 -- deals with a period of immense popularity and transition for...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Cinematographer
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2000
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The final installment of Ken Burns' acclaimed series -- canvassing 1960 to the present -- finds jazz searching for relevance....
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Cinematographer
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2000
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In a similar fashion to his other documentaries, The Civil War and Baseball, Ken Burns uses historical fact and personal...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Episode three of Ken Burns' comprehensive series -- which covers 1924 to 1929 -- shows how jazz reflected the atmosphere of...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Episode two of Ken Burns's exhaustive series explores the haughtiness of the "Jazz Age" -- 1917 to 1924. During this time...
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Cinematographer
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2000
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Teenagers are one of the hottest targets of the ad industry. This PBS program looks at some of the companies that are most...
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Cinematographer
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2001
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Cinematographer
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2001
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Cinematographer
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2001
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The newest project from the master of documentaries deals with the life of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), one of...
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Cinematographer
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2001
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Cinematographer
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2001
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Tony and Sally Amato were a pair of New York opera enthusiasts who in 1947 (not long after they married) founded the Amato...
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Cinematographer
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2001
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The newest project from the master of documentaries deals with the life of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), one of...
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Cinematographer
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2001
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Richard Rodgers was one of the finest and most influential composers the American musical theater ever produced; with such...
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Cinematographer
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2001
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Once a symbol of '60s counterculture and psychedelic drug use, Ram Dass has since become a renowned speaker and author on the...
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Cinematographer, Co-producer
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2002
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Ulysses S. Grant was born the son of a tanner and little distinguished him as a young man. He attended West Point at his...
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Cinematographer
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2002
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Following the Civil War, Grant considered returning to civilian life. Racial violence in the South, however, along with...
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Cinematographer
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2002
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Ansel Adams chronicles the life and art of one of America's best-loved photographers. Raised by a doting father who...
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Cinematographer
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2002
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Acknowledged as one of the greatest thoroughbred racehorses of the 1930s, Seabiscuit is the archetypal example of the extreme...
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Cinematographer
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2003
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The three-hour documentary Center of the World is part of producer/director Ric Burns' massive 14 1/2-hour filmed history of...
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Cinematographer
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2003
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Cinematographer
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2003
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Cinematographer
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2003
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Experience legendary boxer Jack Johnson's remarkable struggle both in and out of the ring in documentary filmmaker Ken Burns'...
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Cinematographer
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2004
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me documents tales told by real children that express their pride in their...
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Cinematographer
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2004
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Cinematographer
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2004
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Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story documents one of the most shocking and brutal events in the history of boxing. During...
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Cinematographer
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2004
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An artist whose life was as bold and startling as her work, Frida Kahlo battled physical infirmity and a male-dominated art...
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Cinematographer
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2004
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The pressures to pull out of Vietnam reach a crucial turning point as a Viet Cong ambush nearly eradicates an entire...
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Cinematographer
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2005
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With the advent of DNA evidence, a number of convicted criminals have been able to finally be exonerated of crimes they'd...
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Cinematographer
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2005
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The compelling life story of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright comes to the screen in a documentary featuring...
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Cinematographer
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2006
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Filmmakers Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon's documentary Rehearsing a Dream chronicles the experiences of a number of...
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Cinematographer
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2006
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Documentary filmmaker Ric Burns explores the life and legacy of pop art's most beloved icon with this film that seeks to...
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Cinematographer
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2006
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Explore the rich history of the city gave rise to jazz, and endured one of the greatest natural disasters ever to strike...
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Cinematographer
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2007
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Originally produced for IFC, this four-part mini-series exploring sex in independent cinema features the stimulating insight...
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Cinematographer
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2007
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Ken Burns continues his exploration of massive, sweeping subjects with his 15-hour documentary The War; in this case, the...
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Cinematographer
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2007
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Filmmaker Bill Guttentag takes a closer look at the atrocities committed by the Japanese after Nanking fell to the Imperial...
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Cinematographer
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2007
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Crazy Love director Dan Clores crafts this two-part, four-hour documentary following the progression of the Civil Rights...
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Cinematographer
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2008
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Eleven gifted singers vie for a position with one of the world's greatest opera companies in this documentary from filmmaker...
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Cinematographer
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2008
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Billy Pappas was born in Baltimore and raised by a working class family, but in his youth Billy developed a passionate...
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Cinematographer
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2008
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Filmmaker Terry Sanders is offered unprecedented access to combat support hospitals in Iraq, medevac flights, and military...
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Cinematographer
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2008
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Actor Willem Dafoe (The Last Temptation of Christ) narrates this feature-length documentary examination of America's...
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Cinematographer
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2010
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Soundtrack for a Revolution takes a look at the American civil rights movement, focusing on the role that music -- spirituals...
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Cinematographer
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2010
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This historical documentary tells the story of the infamous Sonewall Uprising -- a police raid launched on a Mafia-run gay...
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Cinematographer
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2011
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Ken Burns explores the history of America's prohibition era (1920-33), when alcohol was outlawed after the passage of the...
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Cinematographer
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2011
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This profile of Ethel Kennedy, widow of former senator Robert F. Kennedy, features her recollections of political campaigns,...
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Cinematographer
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2012
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Cinematographer
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2012
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In 1983, a growing number of Americans became aware of a sexually-transmitted disease that was spreading among gay men,...
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Cinematographer
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2013
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The Weinstein Co. presents this documentary on reclusive author J.D. Salinger, featuring interviews with colleagues and...
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Producer
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2013
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