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Oscar’s Docs, Part Four
Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1988-1997
Opening event on Saturday, September 20th at 6:30 p.m.
Continuing Monday evenings, through November 24th, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater
This comprehensive screening series of every short subject and feature to win the Oscar® for documentary filmmaking resumes in celebration of the Awards years 1988–1997. The retrospective will begin on Saturday, Sept. 20, with a rare screening of HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE. It will continue on Monday evenings, from September 22 through November 24, offering a unique opportunity to observe the historical impact and evolution of the theatrical documentary. The retrospective will feature the best available prints of these films – often newly struck or restored editions from the documentary collection of the Academy Film Archive. Many of the evenings will feature panel discussions with the filmmakers (schedules permitting).
Special Day and Time: Saturday, September 20th, 6:30 p.m.
HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE (1988) – 267 mins.
During Barbie’s belated 1984 prosecution for war crimes, director Marcel Ophuls interviews dozens of people who remember the man and the monster. 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive collection. Featuring an onstage discussion with executive producer Hamilton Fish.
September 22nd (107 mins. total)
THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (1989) – 26 mins.
On May 31, 1889, a faulty dam failed, destroying the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in one of the worst disasters in U.S. history.
COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT (1989) – 81 mins.
Bringing the AIDS epidemic into sharp personal focus, this film tells the stories of five people memorialized on the NAMES Project’s Memorial Quilt. New print. Featuring an onstage discussion with producer-director Rob Epstein and producer Bill Couturié.
October 6th (128 mins. total)
DAYS OF WAITING (1990) – 28 mins.
Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,000 Japanese- Americans in 1942, reveals the deprivations of camp life in sketches and watercolors.
AMERICAN DREAM (1990) – 100 mins.
This film documents the effects of a mid-1980s strike by the workers at a Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota. New print. Featuring an onstage discussion with cinematographer Hart Perry.
October 13th (122 mins. total)
DEADLY DECEPTION: GENERAL ELECTRIC, NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT (1991) – 29 mins.
The production of nuclear materials by the General Electric Corporation has disastrous health and environmental side effects.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE STARS (1991) – 93 mins.
Members of the San Francisco Opera Chorus, one of the finest choruses in the world, step out from their background roles as peasants, ladies-in- waiting, soldiers and slaves to be celebrated as an integral part of opera’s grandeur.
October 20th (123 mins. total)
EDUCATING PETER (1992) – 30 mins.
Peter, a third-grader with Down syndrome, experiences his first year of study in a mainstream
classroom.
THE PANAMA DECEPTION (1992) – 93 mins.
The untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama – the events leading up to it, the excessive force used, the enormity of the death and destruction, and the devastating aftermath. Featuring an onstage discussion with producer-director Barbara Trent.
October 27th (120 mins. total)
DEFENDING OUR LIVES (1993) – 30 mins.
The personal testimonies of four women imprisoned for killing their abusers shed light on the
magnitude and severity of domestic violence in the U.S.
I AM A PROMISE: THE CHILDREN OF STANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (1993) – 90 mins.
A dedicated principal tries to make a difference in a Philadelphia school composed entirely of African-American students, 90 percent of whom come from poor and single-parent homes. Featuring an onstage discussion wtih producer-director Susan Raymond and producer Alan Raymond.
November 3rd (143 mins. total)
A TIME FOR JUSTICE (1994) – 38 mins.
This film tells the story of the American Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of those
who fought for the right to vote during the 1950s and 1960s.
MAYA LIN: A STRONG CLEAR VISION (1994) – 105 mins.
The young artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., draws controversy with her public creations. New print. Featuring an onstage discussion with producer-director Freida Lee Mock, producer Terry Sanders and composer Charles Bernstein.
November 10th (161 mins. total)
ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS (1995) – 39 mins.
Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein tells of her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty, during which she lost her family, home, possessions and community.
ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED (1995) – 122 mins.
The young Jewish girl whose simple diary entries and observations brought the grim realities of the Holocaust to millions of readers around the world comes to life in this intimate biographical
portrait.
November 17th (125 mins. total)
BREATHING LESSONS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARK O'BRIEN (1996) – 35 mins.
This film explores the unique world of Mark O’Brien, the paralyzed poet-journalist who has lived for four decades in an iron lung.
WHEN WE WERE KINGS (1996) – 90 mins.
In the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle,” of one of the most famous boxing matches in history, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fight for the heavyweight championship crown in Kinshasa, Zaire. New print. Featuring an onstage discussion with producer-director-editor Leon Gast and producer-editor Taylor Hackford.
November 24th (149 mins. total)
A STORY OF HEALING (1997) – 29 mins.
American plastic surgeons and nurses volunteer to help disfigured children and young adults in
Vietnam.
THE LONG WAY HOME (1997) – 120 mins.
The tumultuous years between 1945 and 1948, from the liberation of Nazi concentration camps to the creation of the State of Israel, epitomize the challenges Holocaust survivors faced in re- creating their identity from the remnants of their destroyed world. Featuring an onstage discussion with writer-director Mark Harris, producers Rick Trank and Rabbi Marvin Hier, and editor Kate Amend.
Tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. Tickets may be purchased online. A limited number of series passes for all ten evenings of screenings are available for $30 for the general public and $25 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. (Previous passholders can renew their old passes for a $5 discount.) The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at the Academy's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, 1313 Vine Street, Hollywood. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All seating is unreserved. For additional information, please call the Academy at (310) 247-3600.
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September 20, 2008
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September 22, 2008
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October 6, 2008
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October 13, 2008
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October 20, 2008
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October 27, 2008
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November 3, 2008
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November 10, 2008
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November 17, 2008
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November 24, 2008
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