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The cover for Barbara Kopple's documentary "My Generation." A young Woodstock attendee flashes a peace sign, from Barbara Kopple's doc "My Generation." Note: This story was written from an ...
The legendary singer's band The Dap Kings and documentarian Barbara Kopple discuss how the autobiographical song about Jones' defying the odds has taken on new meaning. Sharon Jones’ life ended ...
CNN news anchor Wolf Blitzer and Oscar-winning director/producer Barbara Kopple are this year’s recipients of the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards lifetime achievement honors, the ...
Sharon Jones, who died Nov. 18, “was one of the most phenomenal human beings I’ve ever met,” said Barbara Kopple, director of “Miss Sharon Jones!” ...
In Barbara Kopple’s 40-plus year career as one of America’s greatest documentary directors, she has won Academy Awards for the seminal 1976 documentary “Harlan County, U.S.A.” a portrait ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — Barbara Kopple is a storyteller by trade. The two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker has been one of the most politically engaged documentarians in the country since her 1976 film ...
Barbara Kopple filming "Harlan County U.S.A." Cabin Creek Films Her latest film, "Running From Crazy," explores the mystique of the family of Mariel Hemingway, grand-daughter of writer ...
On August 22 the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced the two recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 44th Annual News and Documentary Emmys, which will ...
Wolf Blitzer and Barbara Kopple will receive the Lifetime Achievement Honors at the 44th annual News & Documentary Awards, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced on Tuesday.
Filmmakers Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck were Dixie Chicks fans long before lead singer Natalie Maines' shot heard round the world. Intrigued by the arc of their career in an industry known to ...
Barbara Kopple spent much of her twenties living among desperate Appalachian miners, documenting their bloody fight to unionize in a world of pickup trucks, shotguns, and brutally hard work. Her ...
Wolf Blitzer, Barbara Kopple to Receive News & Documentary Emmys’ Lifetime Achievement Honors. The CNN host and Oscar-winning documentarian will receive the honorary Emmys in September.