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Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers.It was Murrow's final documentary for the network; he left CBS at the end of January 1961, at John F. Kennedy's request, to become head of the United States Information Agency.
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. A French-Portuguese-Italian-Luxembourgish coproduction, [ 1 ] the series was directed by Clive Donner ; it was his final project before his death in 2010.
Films set in the Holy Roman Empire (800/962–1806). Some historians refer to the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire as 800, with the crowning of Frankish king Charlemagne, who is considered as the first Holy Roman Emperor. Others refer to the beginning as the coronation of Otto I in 962.
The series claims to survey jazz from 1917 up through 2001, but only one of the 10 episodes deals with music made after 1960. ... primary characters from America’s radio era narrows the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. King of the Franks, first Holy Roman Emperor For other uses, see Charlemagne (disambiguation). Charlemagne A denarius of Charlemagne dated c. 812–814 with the inscription KAROLVS IMP AVG (Karolus Imperator Augustus) King of the Franks Reign 9 October 768 – 28 January 814 Coronation ...
The producer was Michael Gill, who had the idea for the series and chose the presenter. A related book, Alistair Cooke's America, sold almost two million copies. [2] The series was a great success in both countries and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA.
Actor Edward Norton is one of the narrators of "Bad River," a documentary about the Bad River tribe’s fight for treaty rights and sovereignty in Wisconsin for nearly the last 200 years.
The earliest documentary listed is Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894), which is also the first motion picture ever copyrighted in North America. The term documentary was first used in 1926 by filmmaker John Grierson as a term to describe films that document reality. For other lists, see Category:Documentary films by country and Category:Documentaries by ...