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Projections of America: Directed by Peter Miller. With John Lithgow, Victoria Riskin, Ian Scott, Kenneth Turan. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Peter Miller
- 2015-03
- The Cowboy
- Autobiography of A Jeep
- A Journey, The Town, and The Cummington Story
The Cowboy, a story on the American West, was a documentary created for the purpose of dispelling the false idea that American cowboys were like those portrayed in popular Hollywood westerns. Written by Arthur Arent and narrated by actor Ralph Bellamy,The Cowboywas filmed on location, using Marfa, Texas as the backdrop for the American West. The fi...
The Projections of America series was mainly filmed with original scenes that were shot on location. Only one film, Autobiography of a Jeep, was different. The film included archival footage used to create a compilation of scenes that helped tell the story of the life of an American jeep. Translated into 16 languages, Autobiography of a Jeeptells t...
All documentaries within Projections of America had a central message to relay to viewers.A Journey focused on how ordinary citizens adapted to disruptions of war manufacturing in towns from Alabama to the Rocky Mountains. The Town featured American’s “melting pot” in a rural Indiana town, and aimed to show the small town not as a naïve community d...
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The PROJECTIONS OF AMERICA films presented American stories – of cowboys and oilmen, farmers and window washers, immigrants and school children – capturing the optimism and messiness of American democracy.
Projections of America. Click here to forward to Projections of America ... John Lithgow narrates the story of a team of filmmakers who, during the darkest hour of global war, hoped the power of the movies could reshape the world.
The Projections of America films presented American stories – of cowboys and oilmen, farmers and window washers, immigrants and school children – capturing the optimism and messiness of American democracy.
During World War II, Robert Riskin and other filmmakers create powerful short documentaries that showed America's strength.
- Documentary
The Projections of America series presents stories of cowboys and oilmen, farmers and window washers, immigrants and schoolchildren, capturing both the optimism and the messiness of American democracy.
