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After the attack, Greenberg immediately reenlisted in the United States Army Air Forces. In 1947, Greenberg, as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates and playing his final season, was one of the few ballplayers to give a warm welcome to Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson, the majors' first black player in many years. Robinson later said, "Class tells.
In 1998, Greenberg was the subject of a documentary which was directed and written by Aviva Kempner entitled The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg. [66] In 2010, he was again one of the main subjects of the film Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story , alongside Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
Partisans of Vilna (1986) (producer only); The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999), awarded the Audience Awards at the Hamptons International Film Festival and Washington Jewish Film Festival; Spirit Award for Best Sports Documentary, International Sports Video and Film Awards; top honors from the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics ...
Co-directed by Ben West and Aviva Kempner, "Imagining the Indian" chronicles the battle to persuade professional, college and high school sports teams to shed their offensive nicknames and imagery.
Hank Greenberg stormed the beaches of Normandy, took part in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, and returned home to spend five decades building AIG into the world's largest ...
I sat down with former AIG chairman and CEO Hank Greenberg this week. We talked about everything from AIG's early days, its growth, to its downfall and bailout in 2008. Below is one of the most ...
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg: Aviva Kempner: 2001 : The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) Agnès Varda: 2002 : Standing in the Shadows of Motown: Paul Justman 2003 : Capturing the Friedmans: Andrew Jarecki: 2004 : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore: 2005 : Grizzly Man (TIE) Werner Herzog: The White Diamond (TIE) 2006
Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Tim Geithner have probably been criticized and critiqued more than any other trio in the history of business for the Wall Street bailouts they designed in 2008 ...