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Arts > Movies > Directors > 20th, 21st century > UK, USA
Restrepo Trailer Video Trailer DrimsProduction June 13, 2010
The film received the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Director: Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger Release Date: 2 July 2010 Genre: Documentary | War Studio: National Geographic
Plot: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh56cCDto08
Sam Pollard USA
“MLK/FBI” (...) is the latest chapter in a quietly monumental filmmaking career.
Pollard’s documentary work alone, whether as director, editor or producer, includes “Eyes on the Prize II,” “4 Little Girls” (on the 1963 Birmingham bombings), several “American Masters” entries, and the symphonic “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.”
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Raoul Peck Haiti
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Stanley Nelson USA
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Ross McElwee
Photographic Memory Offical Movie Trailer Video
2011 film release by Ross McElwee Feature length 84 Minutes copyright St. Quay Films / French Connection / Arte
YouTube > McElweeEntertainment 25 October 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcAjO5G3kTc
The Men of Atalissa
produced by The New York Times video journalist Kassie Bracken and columnist Dan Barry, and edited by John Woo.
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Danny Glover
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Movie Trailer (2011) HD
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish filmmakers, after languishing in a basement of a TV station for 30 years, into an irresistible mosaic of images, music, and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation's most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement.
Featuring candid interviews with the movement's most explosive revolutionary minds, including Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and Kathleen Cleaver, the film explores the community, people and radical ideas of the movement.
Music by Questlove and Om'Mas Keith, and commentary from and modern voices including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles give the historical footage a fresh sound and make
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-75 an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution.
MOVIECLIPS Trailer YouTube > MOVIECLIPS Trailers 11 August 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWHNpfjByQ
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Josh Fox USA
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Eugene Jarecki USA
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Julian Temple UK
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Donal MacIntyre Ireland
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Michale Boganim Israel
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Jean-Xavier de Lestrade France
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Ken Burns USA
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Errol Morris USA
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Jack Hazan
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Charles Burnett USA
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Nick Broomfield UK
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Alex Gibney USA
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Carol Morley UK
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Michael Moore USA
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Ellen Margerethe Hovde USA 1925-2023
documentarian who was one of the directors of “Grey Gardens,” the groundbreaking 1975 movie that examined the lives of two reclusive women living in a deteriorating mansion on Long Island and inspired both a Broadway musical and an HBO film
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Ms. Hovde (pronounced HUV-dee) worked on several films with the Maysles brothers, Albert and David, in the late 1960s and ’70s, when they were expanding the documentary form with cinéma vérité techniques, eschewing sit-in-a-chair interviews in favor of recording life and events as they happened.
In 1969 she was a contributing editor on “Salesman,” a documentary by the Maysleses and Charlotte Zwerin that followed four salesmen as they peddled $49.95 Bibles door to door in New England and Florida.
The next year she was an editor on “Gimme Shelter,” the documentary by the Maysleses and Ms. Zwerin that captured a Rolling Stones tour, including the concert at Altamont Speedway in Northern California in late 1969 at which a concertgoer was killed by a Hells Angel.
In 1974 she was credited as a director, along with the Maysleses, on “Christo’s Valley Curtain,” which was about an environmental art project the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude erected in Colorado in 1972.
That film was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary short.
The next year came “Grey Gardens.”
That film, which garnered considerable attention at the time and in 2010 was named to the National Film Registry of culturally significant movies, took a close-up, often uncomfortable look at the lives of Edie Beale and her mother, Edith Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who had dropped out of high society and were living in East Hampton, N.Y., in a crumbling mansion along with assorted cats and raccoons.
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Leon Jacques Gast USA 1936-2021
filmmaker whose 22-year quest to make “When We Were Kings,” a documentary about Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s epic 1974 boxing match, involved a Liberian shell company, the Hells Angels, a drug deal gone bad, the singer Wyclef Jean and ultimately an Academy Award
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Michael David Apted UK 1941-2021
Peter Lorrimer Whitehead UK 1937-2019
Donn Alan Pennebaker USA 1925-2019
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/04/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/
Harold Monroe Tulchin USA 1926-2017
In August 1969, Nina Simone took the stage at Mount Morris Park in Harlem for a remarkable performance in which she sang “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” and recited a poem that asked, provocatively, if her audience was ready to “kill if necessary,” “smash white things” and “give yourself, your love, your soul, your heart, to create life.”
Ms. Simone was one of many artists, mostly African-American, who appeared that summer at the Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of six free Sunday concerts.
Stevie Wonder was there, as were other popular music acts, each of which could have attracted a big crowd on its own:
the 5th Dimension, Abbey Lincoln, B. B. King, Sly & the Family Stone, Herbie Mann, Hugh Masekela, Gladys Knight & the Pips, David Ruffin, Mahalia Jackson and the Staple Singers.
The series, partly overlapping with another music festival being held in upstate New York that summer, became known as “the Black Woodstock.”
All six concerts — at what is now called Marcus Garvey Park — were videotaped under the direction of Hal Tulchin, a television veteran.
He compiled an estimated 40 hours of music, dance and comedy (by Moms Mabley and George Kirby).
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Murray Lerner USA 1927-2017
Murray Lerner ('s) documentaries captured some of the world’s greatest folk and rock musicians in era-defining performances
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Mr. Lerner filmed the Newport Folk Festival for four years in the early and middle 1960s, including the much-referenced moment when Bob Dylan plugged in an electric guitar.
He also filmed the volatile 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, where commercial and communal sensibilities collided.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/
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Gary Joe Keys USA 1934-2015
Gary Keys in 1992.
Photograph: John D. Kisch Separate Cinema Archive, via Getty Images
Gary Keys, Filmmaker Who Documented Duke Ellington, Dies at 81 NYT AUG. 30, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/
filmmaker whose documentaries captured some of the most important figures in jazz from the 1960s through the 1980s — notably Duke Ellington, the subject of three of his films —
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Albert H. Maysles USA 1926-2015
Bruce Jeffrey Sinofsky USA 1956-2015
Bruce Sinofsky, right, with his collaborator Joe Berlinger in 1996.
Photograph: Jonathan Wiggs The Boston Globe, via Getty Images
Bruce Sinofsky, Lauded Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 58 NYT FEB. 24, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/
filmmaker whose critically lauded documentaries tracked a notorious East Arkansas murder case and portrayed the heavy metal band Metallica as a dysfunctional family
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Paul Almond Canada 1931-2015
Canadian director whose television film “Seven Up!” examined the lives of a group of midcentury British children and became the basis of the documentary series that has followed them into middle age
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One of the most highly regarded documentaries of all time, the “Up” series, as it is collectively known, is most closely associated with Michael Apted, who directed all but the inaugural installment.
But it was Mr. Almond who helped conceive that film, first shown on British television in 1964.
Forty minutes long and shot in black and white, “Seven Up!” examined the enduring British class system through the lives of 14 7-year-olds from across the socioeconomic spectrum.
He can be heard asking the children — 10 boys and four girls — questions about family, love and adult aspirations.
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Robert Drew USA 1924-2014
pioneer of the modern documentary who in "Primary" and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles
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Mr. Drew's dozens of films included "The Chair," a 1963 documentary about a death penalty case in Illinois, and "784 Days That Changed America: From Watergate to Resignation," winner in 1982 of a Peabody award.
Many of his movies were edited and co-produced by his wife, Anne Drew, who died in 2012.
While a photographer and editor with Life, Mr. Drew formed Drew Associates in 1960 with the goal of applying his magazine experience to films.
Among those joining him were such future directors as Mr. Pennebake ("Don't Look Back," ''The War Room"), Mr. Maysles (who with brother David made "Gimme Shelter" and "Grey Gardens") and Mr. Leacock ("Happy Mother's Day"). http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/07/30/us/ap-us-obit-robert-drew.html
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Robert Grosvenor Gardner USA 1925-2014
Robert Gardner on the banks of the Ganges in the mid-1980s.
Photograph: Ned Johnston
Robert Gardner Dies at 88; Filmed Cultural Practices NYT JUNE 27, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/
intrepid filmmaker who specialized in anthropological documentaries, examining lives in remote societies around the globe http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/arts/robert-gardner-dies-at-88-filmed-cultural-practices.html
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Malik Bendjelloul Sweden 1977-2014
Swedish filmmaker who won the 2013 Academy Award for best documentary with his debut feature, “Searching for Sugar Man,” about a forgotten American balladeer who, unwittingly, had achieved fame halfway around the world
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The film tells the story of Sixto Rodriguez, a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Detroit who recorded two blues-tinged folk-rock albums under the single name Rodriguez in the early 1970s and then vanished from the music scene, a casualty of poor publicity and meager sales.
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For decades he supported himself and three daughters doing manual labor, unaware that his music — songs of protest and hardscrabble life rendered in a heartfelt tenor — had resonated in South Africa, where opponents of apartheid especially admired his anthems of struggle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/
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Robert Maurice Fresco USA 1930-2014
Robert M. Fresco in Atlantic City at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, where he was filming a documentary.
Photograph: unknown
Robert M. Fresco, Oscar-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 83 NYT FEB. 20, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who began his career as a writer of horror pictures http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/movies/robert-m-fresco-a-filmmaker-and-writer-dies-at-83.html
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Saul Irwin Landau USA 1936-2013
a determinedly leftist documentary filmmaker and writer whose passion for asking what he called “the most intrusive questions” yielded penetrating cinematic profiles of leaders like Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/arts/saul-landau-maker-of-films-with-leftist-edge-dies-at-77.html
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Leslie Harrod Blank Jr. USA 1935-2013
Les Blank ('s) sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music and a host of other idiosyncratic subjects, including Mardi Gras, gaptoothed women, garlic and the filmmaker Werner Herzog, were widely admired by critics and other filmmakers if not widely known by moviegoers http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/movies/les-blank-documentary-filmmaker-dies-at-77.html
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Robert Kee UK 1919-2013
Robert Kee (...) belonged to a vanishing tradition of great TV documentary makers and presenters with roots in print journalism and books.
He might be presenting the BBC's Panorama or ITN's lunchtime news programme of the early 1970s, First Report, but his roots and style were always back in the puritanical tell-it-as-it-is ethic of Picture Post magazine.
Thus, of the Famous Five who in 1983 founded the commercial breakfast television station TV-am, he was the least glitzy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/jan/11/robert-kee-obituary
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Timothy Alistair Hetherington UK 1970-2011
The photographer and film-maker Tim Hetherington was killed at the age of 40 while covering the escalating violence in Misrata, Libya (...).
The canon of work he bequeaths defines a generation of reportage.
His eye and ability for capturing on film some of the most disturbing events of the past decade was as relentless as it was unsurpassed.
With a great sense of self-deprecation and humanity, Hetherington was driven repeatedly to explore the ragged, violent margins of society to bring back portraits of people profoundly affected by conflict. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/21/tim-hetherington-obituary
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http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/a-show-of-respect-for-a-fallen-friend/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2011/sep/17/sebastian-junger-war-film-afghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/21/tim-hetherington-remembered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/apr/21/tim-hetherington-in-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/21/tim-hetherington-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/07/
Richard Leacock UK 1921-2011
filmmaker who helped create the documentary style known as direct camera or cinéma vérité, and who played a pivotal role in making some of the most innovative documentaries of the 1960s http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/arts/richard-leacock-innovative-documentary-maker-dies-at-89.html
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Arthur Everett Holch Jr. USA 1924-2010
Emmy Award-winning television documentarian whose work at midcentury and afterward tackled charged subjects like race relations, Nazism and Communism http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/arts/02holch.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/arts/02holch.html
Geoffrey Jones UK 1931-2005
Maker of tiny documentary gems in the 1960s and 70s
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/aug/17/
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John Grierson UK 1898-1972
More feared and respected than liked, John Grierson had a sharp mind and an uncompromising sense of values - a strong brew of socialism and Calvinism.
(He has often been compared to his fellow Scot John Reith, whose faith in the BBC's mission to educate and instruct had much in common with Grierson's view of documentary film.)
Didacticism was the essence of his personality.
After a period on minesweepers during the first world war, Grierson did a degree in moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow - it was the time of "Red Clyde" - and then went to the US, studying the sociology of mass communications and public opinion.
Routine stuff now, but unusual in its day.
He also studied the techniques of cinema.
Two things above all impressed him: the unprecedented achievements of Robert Flaherty, world-famous for his hugely successful (if fanciful) 1922 portrait of Inuit life, Nanook of the North;
and the innovative editing techniques of early Soviet cinema, particularly those of Eisenstein in Battleship Potemkin.
By the time Grierson came back to Britain in 1926, he was a man with a mission: to create a national documentary movement, more or less from scratch.
But he had no production company, no equipment, no workers, no patrons and no money.
What he did have was a highly persuasive manner and an unusual secret weapon: herrings.
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The resulting film, Drifters, cost only £2,948, and it expanded the possibilities of cinema for ever.
It had its first public screening on November 10 1929 at the Tivoli Theatre, home of the Film Society, at an event that also saw the UK premiere of Battleship Potemkin, previously banned in England as enemy propaganda.
Drifters opened the bill; it thrilled the audience with its daring and - as far as they knew - fresh editing style.
Potemkin made far less impact: it looked like watered-down Grierson.
Drifters became the hit film of the season, and soon went into handsome profit.
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The FSA photographs, along with Pare Lorentz's government-sponsored documentaries The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937), with their images of drought, flood, and other rural calamities, helped Gregg Toland (the cinematographer) and John Ford (the director) give authenticity to their 1940 screen adaptation of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
(Indeed, the poetic narration and visual beauty of the Lorentz films actually influenced Steinbeck as he was writing the original novel.)
The Ford film, in turn, fixed the iconography of the thirties for future generations.
We can see its long afterlife in films like Hal Ashby's 1976 biography of Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory.
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