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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