Beginning in 1994, he brought to the moderator’s role credentials as a political activist, an academic and a national correspondent for NBC News.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
Heddy Honigmann, Whose Films Told of Loss and Love, Dies at 70
A documentarian, she liked to engage her subjects — Parisian subway buskers, Peruvian taxi drivers, survivors of genocide — in conversations.
Bob Neuwirth, Colorful Figure in Dylan’s Circle, Dies at 82
He was a recording artist and songwriter himself, but he also played pivotal roles in the careers of Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin.
Jacques Perrin, French Film Star and Producer, Dies at 80
He was a heartthrob in the musical “The Young Girls of Rochefort,” a photojournalist in the thriller “Z,” and later a world-weary director in the
John Zaritsky, Unflinching Oscar-Winning Documentarian, Dies at 78
He took on uncomfortable subjects like rape, cancer and assisted suicide. His account of a student’s murder on a cross-country trip won a 1983 Academy
Gerda Weissmann Klein, Honored Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 97
Her story was told in an Oscar-winning documentary, and her message of hope and love in the face of overwhelming evil was an inspiration to
Marina Goldovskaya, 80, Dies; Filmmaker Documented Russian Life
In about 30 documentaries she looked at the people and history of her homeland, some of it brutally dark.