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Douglas Brinkley (b. 1960)

Alias:
Douglas Gregg Brinkley

Birthplace:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Born:
December 14, 1960

Biography from TheMovieDB

Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is a history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Brinkley joined the board of directors for the National Archives Foundation in 2023.

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Film Performances

2004 Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
Self
2009 Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
Self
2010 Theodore Roosevelt a Cowboys Ride to the White House
self
2010 Race
Himself
2013 Henry Ford
Himself
2013 Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker
Self
2016 Reagan: From Movie Star to President
Himself
2017 The Obama Years: The Power of Words
Self - Presidential Historian
2020 Public Trust
Self - Professor of History at Rice University
2020 Fandango at the Wall
Self
2022 Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty
Self
2023 Rather
Self - Historian & Author

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TV Performances

1979 CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
2005 The Colbert Report
2018 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

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Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.