Other honorees included documentary maker Frederick Wiseman, 86, for his work including Titicut Follies, High School, Public Housing and La Danse.
Its most popular shows included documentary Breaking Amish, about a group of Amish people moving to New York, which drew 187,000 viewers, a 0.8% share, between 9pm and 10pm.
A collaboration with the Poetry Society of America, the show takes as its model an earlier one at the Botanical Garden, "Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure," which included documentary materials and was centered on a re-creation of Darwin's 19th-century English garden inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
April 12, 1973 Hong Kong, China Paul Chan, (born April 12, 1973, Hong Kong Hong Kong-bornn artist and activist whose informed interrogative approach to material, imagery, and concept was central to all his endeavours, which included documentary videos, animations, book publishing, and font design.
A soft-power campaign that included documentary films on Russian television and denunciations by Russian officials of human rights violations preceded the uprising in April 2010 that overthrew Kurmanbek S. Bakiyev, a corrupt autocrat who had sometimes thwarted Russian interests, particularly regarding the American base, which the Russians wanted shut down.
Other early organizers included documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, and Nick Penniman, who now heads the nonpartisan Democracy Fund.
The gifts included documentary-style DVDs like "Painful Deceptions" and "Loose Change 9/11," which presented the destruction of the World Trade Center as "an inside job" orchestrated by the Bush administration or by foreign governments with ties to it.
His television work included documentaries produced for BBC Wales, BBC Two and HTV Wales.
The TV shows included documentaries, cartoons, World Cup moments, and episodes of "Absolutely Fabulous," "Dharma and Greg, Frasierer," "Prime Suspect" and "The Simpsons".
The surprise hit bested a field that included documentaries on the scandal at Enron and on a hard-fought mayoral election in Newark.
The bonus disc included documentaries including Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy and several featurettes including "The Characters of Star Wars", "The Birth of the Lightsaber", and "The Legacy of Star Wars".
