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David Brinkley

Nascimento : 1920-07-10, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Morte : 2003-06-11

História

David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Filmes

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Self (archive footage)

A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s. From Selma to Charlottesville, we also see how modern activists use today's technology to continue fighting injustice today.

Agnelli

Self (voice)

Retrato biográfico de Gianni Agnelli, o lendário industrial italiano, playboy e formador de opinião, contado por familiares, amigos, amantes, confidentes profissionais, rivais - e até mesmo seu mordomo e cozinheiro.

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

Self (archive footage)

From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, which include Nixon's conversations on the war in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appointments, and more--while also exposing shocking statements he made about women, people of color, Jews, and the media.

Richard Pryor: Sem Lógica

Self (archive footage)

Este documentário apresenta a vida do comediante americano Richard Pryor (1940-2005), reconhecido como um dos comediantes mais influentes do final do século XX. Participação de familiares e personalidades como Whoopi Goldberg e Quincy Jones.

Quatro Meninas: Uma História Real

Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)

Documentário que relembra um dos piores crimes raciais da história americana. Em pleno apogeu dos movimentos por direitos civis, uma bomba explode em uma igreja do Alabama matando quatro meninas negras.

All Power to the People!

Self (archive footage)

Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the history of race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s and 70s. Covering the history of slavery, civil-rights activists, political assassinations and exploring the methods used to divide and destroy key figures of movements by government forces, the film then contrasts into Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies and the failure of the “War on Drugs”, forming a comprehensive view of the goals, aspirations and ultimate demise of the Civil Rights Movement…

Gunsmith of Williamsburg

Narrator

The gun was a vital part of life in colonial Williamsburg, and this docudrama demonstrates the expertise that went into the making of each weapon. The master gunsmith explains the principal parts of an early American rifle and demonstrates the gun's complex manufacturing process. The guns of the period were crude military weapons, but with revolution stirring, the colonists depended on their weapons to send a message to the British Crown.

The Movie Orgy

Self (archival footage)

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.