CNN Films

Film production company

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February 2 2025 CNN Films released 'Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story', directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui.
January 1 2025 CNN Films released 'Luther: Never Too Much', a documentary directed by Dawn Porter.
April 11 2022 CNN Films released 'Navalny', a documentary directed by Daniel Roher.
July 16 2021 CNN Films released 'Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain', directed by Morgan Neville.
December 10 2020 CNN Films partnered with BBC to produce a documentary about COVID-19 vaccine development, to be directed by Catherine Gale and Caleb Hellerman, set to air in 2021 as Race for the Vaccine in the US and Vaccine: The Inside Story in the UK.
May 4 2018 CNN Films released 'RBG', a documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen.
July 4 2014 CNN Films released 'Life Itself', a documentary directed by Steve James.
November 2013 CNN aired Robert Stone's Pandora's Promise, which had been theatrically released five months earlier.
August 2013 CNN premiered Penny Lane's Our Nixon, with Cinedigm releasing it theatrically.
July 19 2013 CNN Films released 'Blackfish', a documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite about orca captivity.
June 16 2013 CNN Films released 'Girl Rising', a documentary directed by Richard E. Robbins featuring multiple writers including Aminatta Forna and Edwidge Danticat.
June 7 2013 CNN Films released 'Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie', directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger.
March 10 2013 CNN Films premiered Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, directed by Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke.
January 2013 At the Sundance Film Festival, CNN announced the acquisition of three documentaries, including Life Itself (a Roger Ebert memoir adaptation), an untitled 9/11 documentary, and an educational documentary about higher education.
October 8 2012 CNN officially announces the creation of CNN Films, with plans to acquire and commission original feature-length documentaries covering political, social, and economic subjects. Signed development deals with documentary directors Alex Gibney and Andrew Rossi.

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