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Beyond Our Ken is a 2008 Australian documentary film directed by Luke Walker and Melissa Maclean about the controversial organization Kenja Communication. Released to Australian theatres on 18 September 2008, the film was nominated for Best Documentary at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and also by the Australian Film Institute .
The film has received almost universal critical acclaim and has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 95%. [4] The film received the Grand Jury's Knight Documentary Competition at the 2012 Miami International Film Festival, [5] and was nominated for the Grand Jury's World Cinema – Documentary prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. [6]
Visually, Jazz was in the same style as Ken Burns' previous works: slowly panning and zooming shots of photographs are mixed with period movie sequences, accompanied by music of, and commentary on, the period being examined. Between these sequences, present-day jazz figures provided anecdotes and explained the defining features of the major ...
Ken Burns, the legendary documentarian has examined nearly every era of American history. We ranked all of his films, from Baseball to The Vietnam War.
English Report is a 1967 short (13 minute), avant-garde film by Bruce Conner . [ 1 ] It consists of found footage concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy .
The film was narrated by Robert De Niro. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It featured interviews include Lenny's ex-wife Honey, mother Sally Marr and former TV host Steve Allen , [ 9 ] who had Bruce on his show a few times albeit clean unlike his nightclub stand-up jokes.
The film also includes focus on the Congress's work during pivotal periods in United States history, including the Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, and women's suffrage. The documentary was released on DVD on September 28, 2004. [5] Footage of the Capitol from the film was later incorporated into Burns' 1990 documentary The Civil War.
Now he’s the subject of documentarian Ken Burns' new two-part film, made with daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon, which has its debut Monday and Tuesday on PBS. Leonardo is ...