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Pare Lorentz

Highest Rated: 96% Nuremberg (1948)

Lowest Rated: 96% Nuremberg (1948)

Birthday: Dec 11, 1905

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Birthplace: Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA

Journalist and film critic who made two landmark documentaries while serving as film advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt's US Resettlement Administration: "The Plow That Broke the Plains" (1936), about soil erosion in the West, and "The River" (1937), about flooding on the Mississippi. Despite Hollywood's resistance to Lorentz's subsidized films (the studios claimed unfair competition), his socially progressive work received widespread critical and popular support. In 1938, Lorentz was appointed head of the newly-formed US Film Service, a unit responsible for producing some noteworthy documentaries--including his dramatized study of infant and maternal mortality in America, "The Fight for Life" (1940)--before Congress withdrew its support in 1940.

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Highest rated movies

96% 76% Nuremberg
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The Fight for Life
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29% The River
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62% Plow That Broke the Plains
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Nuremberg: A Vision Restored
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No Score Yet No Score Yet Nuremberg: A Vision Restored Director,
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- 2007
96% 76% Nuremberg Producer - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fight for Life Director,
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- 1940
No Score Yet 29% The River Director,
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- 1938
No Score Yet 62% Plow That Broke the Plains Director - 1934