Robert Kenner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Kenner is an American film and television screenwriter, television director, film director, film producer, and television producer. His career began in 1971 as an assistant cinematographer, and produced his first motion picture, 3:15 - The Moment of Truth, in 1984 (although it was not released until 1986). His second feature film did not come until 1991's Lonely Hearts. His first breakout project was the televised documentary The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal, which he produced for the National Geographic Society and which aired in 1993 on PBS. The following year, he directed and produced Russia's Last Tsar for National Geographic and PBS. He also directed and produced America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye in 1996. The International Documentary Association presented the picture with the Strand Award for Best Documentary. Kenner began a long association with the award-winning PBS documentary television program American Experience in 1998. That year he directed and produced the widely reviewed Influenza, 1918 (about the 1918 flu pandemic)and followed it up with John Brown's Holy War (about abolitionist John Brown) in 2001. His first documentary which he wrote, directed and produced was War Letters, which aired on American Experience in 2001. The documentary is based on the 2001 New York Times best-selling book War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by historian Andrew Carroll. He produced the ...

Jerusalem: City of Heaven (1996)

Documentary portrait of Jerusalem presented through the eyes of the people who live there. Also shows rites performed at the city's most venerated shrines: the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner  •  Tim Lambert
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Documentary portrait of Jerusalem presented through the eyes of the people who live there. Also shows rites performed at the city's most venerated shrines: the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner  •  Tim Lambert
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Food, Inc. (2008)

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Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Michael Pollan  •  Eric Schlosser  •  Richard Lobb  •  Vince Edwards

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Michael Pollan  •  Eric Schlosser  •  Richard Lobb  •  Vince Edwards

Merchants of Doubt (2014)

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Patricia Callahan  •  Matthew Crawford  •  Stanton A. Glantz  •  Katharine Heyhoe

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Patricia Callahan  •  Matthew Crawford  •  Stanton A. Glantz  •  Katharine Heyhoe

Command and Control (2016)

September 18, 1980, 6:25 p.m., Titan II base in Damascus, Arkansas. On this fateful night an explosion kills an Air Force member and transforms the lives of everyone on the base. Honing in on a single case of so-called “human error”, Command and Control juxtaposes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
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September 18, 1980, 6:25 p.m., Titan II base in Damascus, Arkansas. On this fateful night an explosion kills an Air Force member and transforms the lives of everyone on the base. Honing in on a single case of so-called “human error”, Command and Control juxtaposes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
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When Strangers Click: Five Stories from the Internet (2011)

Finding love has never been easy. But it's also never been easier. Online dating sites thrive on the promise that dates and mates are just a 'click' away...but are they? From Robert Kenner comes a compelling new documentary about the way we woo in a wired world.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Jonas Tancred

Finding love has never been easy. But it's also never been easier. Online dating sites thrive on the promise that dates and mates are just a 'click' away...but are they? From Robert Kenner comes a compelling new documentary about the way we woo in a wired world.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Jonas Tancred

Two Days in October (2005)

Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War. Whilst a US battalion unwittingly marched into a Viet Cong ambush which ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Michael Hagiwara  •  Ping Wu

Based on David Maraniss's book They Marched into Sunlight, a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War. Whilst a US battalion unwittingly marched into a Viet Cong ambush which ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Michael Hagiwara  •  Ping Wu

Influenza 1918 (1998)

Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans - more than all the combat deaths of this century combined.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Linda Hunt  •  Alfred Crosby  •  John De Lano  •  Shirley Fannin

Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans - more than all the combat deaths of this century combined.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Linda Hunt  •  Alfred Crosby  •  John De Lano  •  Shirley Fannin

John Brown's Holy War (2000)

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
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Documentary about abolitionist John Brown  (more)

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National Geographic: Ztracené lodě Guadalcanalu (1993)

Explorer follows Bob Ballard and veterans from both America and Japan as they search for ships that were sunk during the Battle of Guadalcanal.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Stacy Keach

Explorer follows Bob Ballard and veterans from both America and Japan as they search for ships that were sunk during the Battle of Guadalcanal.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner
CAST:  Stacy Keach

Food, Inc. 2

A sequel to the Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., described as a continuation of the original story.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner  •  Melissa Robledo
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A sequel to the Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., described as a continuation of the original story.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Kenner  •  Melissa Robledo
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