Person
Robert Drew
Production
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- Feb 15, 1924
- Died
- Jul 30, 2014
- From
- Toledo, Ohio, USA
Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as one of the pioneers—and sometimes called father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Two of his films are archived in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The moving image collection of Robert Drew is housed at the Academy Film Archive. The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of his films, including "Faces of November," "Herself: Indira Gandhi," and "Bravo!/Kathy's Dance". His many awards include an International Documentary Association Career Achievement Award. Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license
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The Chair
Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance
Ricky on Leacock
Nehru
American Football
The Sun Ship Game
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
On the Road with Duke Ellington
For Auction: An American Hero
Faces of November
Jane
A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy
Aga Khan
ABC Close-Up: Yanki, No!
Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America
Who's Out There?
784 Days That Changed America: From Watergate to Resignation