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POV 2009: The English Surgeon
  • 'The English Surgeon' Wins duPont-Columbia Award
    The duPont Awards, administered since 1968 by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, honor excellence in broadcast journalism. We are pleased to announce that The English Surgeon, Geoffrey Smith’s inspiring film about a British neurosurgeon who has traveled to the Ukraine for the past 15 years to treat patients who have been left to die, […]
    theresa 0 min read December 22, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • POV at the News and Documentary Emmys Tonight
    We’re excited for the 31st Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards at Lincoln Center tonight. Three POV films have received four nominations, and POV alum Frederick Wiseman (High School, POV 2001) will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. The nominated POV films are: The English Surgeon, The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court (two […]
    Ruiyan Xu 1 min read September 27, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Weekly Roundup
    This week, we catch up with Rocky from Bronx Princess, get ready for the Cinema Eye Awards, read through lots of year-end and decade-end lists of best docs and more. CNN’s “Inside Africa” aired a segment on Bronx Princess (POV 2009) and talked to protagonist Rocky Otoo and her mother, Auntie Yaa. The film follows […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read January 7, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • “The English Surgeon” Makes Its (Media) Rounds
    Tonight’s broadcast of The English Surgeon has received some great advance reviews in both the press and online. Blogger Michael Tully at the Hammer to Nail blog effused, “For all of you television watchers out there, do the right thing tonight and put your sitcoms, one-hour dramas, and sports on hold in order to take […]
    theresa 2 min read September 8, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Peering Into a Character's Soul
    When I watched this week’s POV program, The English Surgeon, I couldn’t help thinking about Ian McEwan‘s 2005 novel, Saturday. Both are about neurosurgeons, and they’re the best portrayals (Mel Brooks‘ Young Frankenstein doesn’t count) of those elite doctors that I’ve ever read or seen. It made me consider: how does a novel representation of […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read September 7, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Listen to Geoffrey Smith on the Elvis Mitchell Show
    If you’re in Santa Monica, tune in to KCRW’s The Treatment to hear Elvis Mitchell interview The English Surgeon‘s Geoffrey Smith today, September 2, at 2:30 PM. Geoffrey discusses the making of the film about brain surgeon Henry Marsh, who performs pro bono work in a decrepit Ukrainian KGB hospital; the real-life drama that propelled […]
    Catherine Jhee 1 min read September 2, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Opening in Theaters: The English Surgeon
    If you’re in New York this weekend, be sure to check out The English Surgeon at Cinema Village. The film, which will have its broadcast premiere on POV on September 8, is opening its theatrical run in New York this weekend, and director Geoffrey Smith and the film’s protagonist, Dr. Henry Marsh, will be holding […]
    Catherine Jhee 1 min read July 22, 2009 Documentary News Comments