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Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs. Among his productions are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) and Prohibition (2011).
Burns' documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards, and have won Emmy Awards, among other honors.
Ken Burns was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, according to his official website, though some sources give Ann Arbor, Michigan, and some, including The New York Times, give both Brooklyn and Ann Arbor. The son of Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, a biotechnician, and Robert Kyle Burns, at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University, in Manhattan. Ken Burns' brother is the documentary filmmaker Ric Burns.
Burns' academic family moved frequently, and lived in Saint-Véran, France; Newark, Delaware; and Ann Arbor, where his father taught at the University of Michigan. Burns' mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when Burns was 3, and died when he was 11, a circumstance that he said helped shape his career; he credited his father-in-law, a psychologist, with a signal insight: "He told me that my whole work was an attempt to make people long gone come back alive.". Well-read as a child, he absorbed the family encyclopedia, preferring history to fiction. Upon receiving an 8 mm film movie camera for his 17th birthday, he shot a documentary about an Ann Arbor factory. Turning down reduced tuition at the University of Michigan, he attended the new Hampshire College, an alternative school in Amherst, Massachusetts with narrative evaluations rather than letter grades and self-directed academic concentrations instead of traditional majors. He worked in a record store to pay his tuition.
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. The example of his character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
In addition to his cultural impact, Robinson had an exceptional baseball career. Over ten seasons, he played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Championship. He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949—the first black player so honored. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. In 1997, Major League Baseball retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams.
Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault (actress), Michaël Abiteboul (actor), Emmanuelle Devos (actress), Patrick Sobelman (producer), Natacha Régnier (actress), Julie Ferrier (actress), Héléna Noguerra (actress), Laurent Capelluto (actor), Sava Lolov (actor), Grégoire Oestermann (actor), Laurent Poitrenaux (actor), Isabelle Manquillet (editor), Catherine Vinatier (actress), Brigitte Lo Cicero (actress), Stéphanie Gesnel (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Kleven Craig (actor), Sergio Ramon Gomez (director), Sergio Ramon Gomez (writer), Sergio Ramon Gomez (producer), Broderick Whittier (miscellaneous crew), Sergio Ramon Gomez (editor), Sean Kapera (actor), Anthony Stanley (actor), Shane C. Geant (actor), Ruben Hernandez (actor), Sam Keller (actor), Ruben Hernandez (composer), Hannah Srogoncik (actress), Kingsley Amukamara (actor), Alan Potts (producer),
Plot: Three misfit pranksters are called into the Principal's office the morning after 'The Perfect Senior Prank' goes awry and destroys their campus. Each student is asked to give their recollection of the previous night's events. Russ, the military school-bound head-case, tells a story reminiscent of an off the wall action film. Chemistry nerd Tyler's version explains how his 'chemical compound' got loose and 'infected' the now zombified basketball team. Ricky, the fedora-wearing rebel of the school, tells a noir-style version that includes his love triangle with head cheerleader Marie, and and her non-steady boyfriend Jimmy who is also captain of the football team. With three uniquely different versions of the story, our heroes' chances of graduating look slim... unless a miracle happens.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Short,Actors: Mathieu Amalric (actor), Jacques Nolot (actor), Catherine Frot (actress), Daniel Isoppo (actor), Karin Viard (actress), Élodie Van Beuren (miscellaneous crew), Sergi López (actor), Sabine Azéma (actress), Serge Bozon (actor), Christian Gazio (actor), Jocelyne Desverchère (actress), Miquel García Borda (actor), Bruno Pésery (producer), Jean-Marie Larrieu (director), Jean-Marie Larrieu (writer),
Plot: Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly bizarre and eventually apocalyptic, leading us down a narrative path of labyrinthine complexity. The resulting film is an extraordinary feat of imagination and daring, set against the backdrop of a world on the verge of destruction.
Keywords: apocalypse, ash, bicycle, boat, bullrun, contamination, dead-body, death, end-of-the-world, father-daughter-relationshipActors: Christian Slater (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), Stephen King (writer), Al Sapienza (actor), Eugene Clark (actor), Emmanuelle Vaugier (actress), Kevin DeWalt (producer), Kevin Deon (actor), Wes Bentley (actor), Art Chudabala (miscellaneous crew), Daryl K. Davis (editor), Simon Chin (actor), Simon Chin (actor), Greg Bryk (actor), Amy Matysio (actress),
Plot: In Las Vegas, school teachers Robinson and his wife Elizabeth are trying for a baby. While horse riding through the desert one evening, Elizabeth witnesses the execution of two coyotes and an illegal immigrant by the human trafficker Jimmy Dolan and decides to report the incident to the police. However, she loses her cellular and Dolan finds it, tracks her address down and threatens her. Elizabeth goes to the FBI with Robinson and they move to a safe house under the protection of two agents. When Elizabeth sneaks from the house to buy pregnancy tests, her car explodes and she dies. Robinson decides to avenge Elizabeth's death.
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, beating, bomb, buried-alive, cadillac, car-bomb, character-name-in-title, chineseActors: Ruxandra Popescu (miscellaneous crew), Pierre Spengler (producer), Steven Seagal (producer), Peter Madamba (miscellaneous crew), Alan Abrams (miscellaneous crew), Michael Keusch (director), Phillip B. Goldfine (producer), Danny Webb (actor), Vlad Paunescu (producer), Steven Seagal (writer), Steven Seagal (actor), Vasile Albinet (actor), William B. Steakley (producer), David E. Van Houten (miscellaneous crew), Richard Turner (producer),
Plot: Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack. After this he takes it upon himself to investigate the suspicious circumstances of the brutal killings. Soon he uncovers CTX Majestic, a covert military operation so secret, that now the military wants Marshall eliminated. Resolute in his pursuit, Marshall engages in a merciless battle with a drug dealer operation that appears to be secretly funded by a rogue arm of the military.
Keywords: action-hero, admiral, aikido, armored-car, blood, blood-splatter, brawl, brutality, burned-alive, car-motorcycle-chaseActors: Stanley Townsend (actor), Delroy Lindo (actor), Clifford De Spenser (miscellaneous crew), Matt Curtis (miscellaneous crew), Anya Noakes (miscellaneous crew), Jo Beckett (miscellaneous crew), Michael Kuhn (producer), Sarah Teboul (miscellaneous crew), Bill Wallis (actor), Anushia Nieradzik (costume designer), Gary McDonald (actor), Kevin Loader (producer), David Freeman (editor), Ilona Sekacz (composer), Jonny Persey (producer),
Plot: Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has the entire kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughingstock at school. So when a Jamaican family moves in next door and builds a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven. But this is 1960s Britain, and when the neighbours start to make life difficult for the new arrivals, David's family is caught in the middle, and he has to choose between fitting in and standing up for the new friends who have turned his world upside-down.
Keywords: 1960s, arson, beer-drinking, bigotry, birthday-party, birthday-present, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, breaking-the-fourth-wall, burning-house, churchActors: Michael O. Gallant (producer), Don Harvey (actor), Charles W. Fries (producer), Richard Thomas (actor), Jeffrey Nordling (actor), Andrew Prine (actor), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (actor), Dale Dye (actor), Marc Macaulay (actor), Stacy Keach (actor), Gordon Clapp (actor), Tim Guinee (actor), Bob Gunton (actor), Robert Iscove (director), Craig Safan (composer),
Genres: Action, Drama, History, War,Actors: Jean-Marie Straub (writer), Jean-Marie Straub (director), Danièle Huillet (writer), Franz Kafka (writer), Jean-Marie Straub (editor), Danièle Huillet (director), Laura Betti (actress), Alfred Edel (actor), Mario Adorf (actor), Harun Farocki (actor), Danièle Huillet (editor), Georg Brintrup (actor), Manfred Blank (actor), Libgart Schwarz (actress), Reinald Schnell (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: George Segal (actor), Ralf Wolter (actor), Jorge Reynoso (actor), Ramón Menéndez (actor), Arthur Brauss (actor), Rodrigo Puebla (actor), René Barrera (actor), Jacques François (actor), Miguel Ángel Fuentes (actor), Roger Cudney (actor), Ignacio Guadalupe (actor), Jesús Gómez (actor), Gérard Buhr (actor), Mario Luraschi (actor), Antonio Zubiaga (actor),
Genres: Western,Actors: José Lewgoy (actor), Paulo César Peréio (actor), Jorge Bodanzky (producer), Jorge Bodanzky (director), Reinaldo Volpato (editor), Ricardo Hoepper (actor), Wolf Gauer (writer), Wolf Gauer (producer), Wolf Gauer (director), Renato Arnold (miscellaneous crew), Marlise Saueressig (actress), Marina Altenfelder (miscellaneous crew), Otto Engel (producer), Ilsoni Martins (miscellaneous crew), Arti Hugenthobler (actor),
Plot: In 1870, in Sapiranga, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the Muckers, a family of German immigrants, decide to organize a community inspired by some biblical precepts, self-sufficient and isolated from society, having a woman as its ruler. Soon the community met opposition from catholics and protestants living in the region, and they were accused of crimes and orgies, being decimated by Brazilian military forces.
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