Annal:2001 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature
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Results of the Academy Award® in the year 2001. For a ranked list of films, try an honor roll:
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories Of The Kindertransport
- 2001 Oscar-Documentary winner
- Score: 10.51
This Academy Award®-winning documentary (produced with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Museum) chronicles one of the lesser-known stories of the Holocaust: that of the kindertransport, which saved the lives of 10,000 Jewish children. In the late 1930s, England agreed to accept these children seeking refuge from Nazi oppression. They were placed in foster homes and hostels. Narrated by Dame Judi Dench and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris (who received an Oscar® for his 1997 Holocaust documentary The Long Way Home), this devastating and deeply…
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
- 2001 Oscar-Documentary nominee
- Score: 6.51
The notorious case of the “Scottsboro Boys”—in which the legal battles of nine African American youths charged with rape galvanized America in the 1930s—is brilliantly chronicled in this documentary.
- 2001 Oscar-Documentary nominee
- Score: 6.51
For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid’s rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed. As it investigated the crimes of apartheid, the Commission brought together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa’s brutal history. By revealing the past instead of burying it, the TRC hoped to pave the way to a peaceful future.
Long Night’s Journey Into Day follows several TRC cases over a two-year period. The stories in the film underscore the universal themes of conflict, forgiveness, and renewal.
- 2001 Oscar-Documentary nominee
- Score: 6.51
You might expect that the cochlear implant, a device that can give deaf people the gift of hearing, would be embraced by the deaf community. Josh Aronson’s Sound and Fury, a compelling and often devastating documentary, tells a different story. Two brothers, one deaf and one hearing, grapple with a decision concerning their deaf children, and the debate that rages through the extended family turns less on technology and medical concerns than social politics and culture. The deaf parents of a school-age girl fear what the implant would do to her unique…
