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HBO Documentary Films
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By the People: The Election of Barack Obama is a documentary film produced by Edward Norton broadcast in November 2009 on HBO, which follows Barack Obama and various members of his campaign team, including David Axelrod, through the two years leading up to the United States presidential election on November 4th, 2008.
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Barack Obama
Self
Michelle Obama
Self
Malia Ann
Self
Sasha Obama
Self
Joe Biden
Self
Jill Biden
Self
Hillary Clinton
Self
Marshall Curry
Thanks
Geeta Gandbhir
Editor
Sam Pollard
Editor
Edward Norton
Producer
Geeta Gandbhir
Producer
Stuart Blumberg
Producer
Craig Wedren
Original Music Composer
Torn from the Flag
Reverón
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Clara Estrela
Daguerréotypes
La operación
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Mugabe and the White African
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
Joanna
Countdown to Zero
Around the World in 50 Concerts
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
The Pact
The Grandmothers of the Revolution
Miracle on 42nd Street
Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story
Hans-Dietrich Genscher – Mein Halle
Klaus-Maria Brandauer - Ansichten eines Räuberhauptmanns
For Sama
One More Time with Feeling
Disclosure
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
Night Will Fall
Facing Ali
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Sour Grapes
QT8: The First Eight
One Child Nation
78/52
Milli Vanilli
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
We Live in Public
Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly
The Swamp
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Finders Keepers
Room 237
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
Nov 3, 2009
HBO
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