🎬 Director
D. A. Pennebaker
🎂 Born 15 July 1925 (age 94)✝ 1 August 2019📍 Evanston, Illinois, USA
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Popularity Score
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Acting Credits
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Donn Alan Pennebaker (/ˈpɛniːbeɪkər/; July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. Performing arts and politics were his primary subjects. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award. Pennebaker was called by The Independent as "arguably the pre-eminent chronicler of Sixties counterculture."
Known For
Directed Films(53)
★ 6.9
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
1963
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★ 7.4
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967
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★ 6.8
The War Room
1993
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★ 7.5
Jimi Plays Monterey
1987
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★ 7.4
Monterey Pop
1968
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★ 7.5
Down from the Mountain
2001
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★ 7.3
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
1983
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★ 7.1
Sweet Toronto
1971
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★ 5.5
Adventures on the New Frontier
1961
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★ 7.2
Original Cast Album: Company
1970
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★ 6.2
1 P.M.
1971
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★ 8.0
Depeche Mode 101
1989
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★ 7.5
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
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★ 6.5
Jane
1962
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★ 5.7
The Return of the War Room
2008
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★ 7.8
Moon Over Broadway
1997
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★ 7.5
The Chair
1963
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★ 7.3
Shake! Otis at Monterey
1987
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★ 7.5
Monterey Pop - The Outtake Performances
2002
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★ 9.4
65 Revisited
2007
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★ 7.0
Only the Strong Survive
2002
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Alice Cooper
1970
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★ 7.2
Daybreak Express
1957
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★ 6.6
Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl
2006
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Blackie
1962
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Depeche Mode: Live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl
1989
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The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of Music
2010
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★ 6.8
Unlocking the Cage
2016
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You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
1964
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★ 8.5
Woodstock Diary
1994
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★ 6.8
Kings of Pastry
2009
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★ 5.8
Town Bloody Hall
1979
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Mooney vs. Fowle
1962
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★ 10.0
DeLorean
1981
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★ 5.3
Addiction
2007
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★ 9.0
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
2007
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★ 7.0
Little Richard: Keep on Rockin'
1973
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★ 6.0
Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making
1968
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Wake at Generation
1968
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David
1961
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★ 10.0
Depeche Mode: Video Singles Collection
2016
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★ 8.4
Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music
1992
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★ 7.5
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
1983
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Susan Starr
1962
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★ 7.2
Skyscraper
1959
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★ 8.0
Snapshots from the Tour
2015
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★ 8.0
Westernhagen: Keine Zeit
1996
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★ 10.0
On the Pole: Eddie Sachs
1961
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★ 8.0
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story of Rock and Roll
1991
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Dancers in School
1972
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★ 10.0
Brussels Loops
1958
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Bessie: A Portrait of Bessie Schonberg
1998
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RainForest
1968
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Full Filmography(13 films)
YearTitleRating
2005No Direction Home: Bob Dylan★ 7.82015Janis: Little Girl Blue★ 7.319711 P.M.★ 6.22003World Tour 1966: The Home Movies—2010Godard Made in USA—2000The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack★ 7.41971Up Your Legs Forever★ 8.02020Tiny Tim: King for a Day★ 6.12014A Venue For The End Of The World★ 6.01968Wild 90★ 5.72011Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales—1982Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter★ 6.12008Morris Engel: The Independent—