Barbara Kopple
American film/documentary director · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1946 · age 80
Barbara Kopple is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic French style to a modern American audience.
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Union TownFilm, Director, Producer2023
The Super ModelsSeries, Producer2020
Helter Skelter: An American MythSeries, Producer2019
Desert OneFilm, Director, Producer2017
A Murder in MansfieldFilm, Director, Producer2015
Hot Type: 150 Years of The NationFilm, Director, Producer2013
Running from CrazyFilm, Director, Producer2010
The House of SteinbrennerFilm, Director, Writer2009
30 for 30Series, Director2008
The D.C. Sniper's WifeFilm, Director, Writer2007
AddictionFilm, Director2005Bearing WitnessFilm, Director2002
The HamptonsSeries, Director, Creator
The HamptonsFilm, 2002Director, Producer1999
A Conversation with Gregory PeckFilm, Director, Producer1997
OzSeries, Director
The ViewSeries, 19971994Maya Deren AwardAward1993Dorothy Arzner Directors AwardAward
Homicide: Life on the StreetSeries, 1993Director
Beyond JFK: The Question of ConspiracyFilm, 1993Director, Producer1991Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature FilmAwardDirectors Guild of America AwardAward1983
Keeping OnFilm, Director, Producer1982
American PlayhouseSeries, Director1979Guggenheim FellowshipAward1976Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature FilmAward1972
Winter SoldierFilm, Producer1953
The OscarsSeries1946Born30 July 1946People around Barbara
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Cecilia Peck Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Anne Hathaway Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Channing Tatum Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Michael Biehn Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Mike Vogel Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Josh Peck Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Shiri Appleby Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Laura San Giacomo Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Freddy Rodriguez Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Raymond Cruz Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Bijou Phillips Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Alexis Dziena Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
J. D. Pardo Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Matt O'Leary Barbara directed Havoc (2005)- Sam Bottoms Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Laura Breckenridge Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Sam Hennings Barbara directed Havoc (2005)
Jacqui Safra Produced Wild Man Blues (1997)
Danny Schechter Also in Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (1993)- Jean Doumanian Produced Wild Man Blues (1997)
Known for
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Harlan County U.S.A. 1976
These Amazing Shadows 2011
Havoc 2005
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 37
82 credits on file
Television 9
Media & music
Awards
About this person
Known for her "fly-on-the-wall" filmmaking style, Kopple captured raw, real-life events without interrupting the action. She has won two Academy Awards, for Harlan County, USA (1976), about a Kentucky miners' strike, and for American Dream (1990), the story of the 1985-86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota, making her the first woman to win two Oscars in the Best Documentary category.
