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Robert Drew

Robert Drew

Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as one of the pioneers—and sometimes called father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Two of his films are archived in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The moving image collection of Robert Drew is housed at the Academy Film Archive. The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of his films, including "Faces of November," "Herself: Indira Gandhi," and "Bravo!/Kathy's Dance". His many awards include an International Documentary Association Career Achievement Award. Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license

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Known For

  • Primary
  • American Football
  • The Sun Ship Game
  • Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
  • On the Road with Duke Ellington
  • For Auction: An American Hero
  • The Chair
  • Faces of November
  • Yanki No!
  • A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy
  • The New Met: Countdown to Curtain
  • Storm Signal