Robert MacNeil

Acting

Robert MacNeil

Born 1931-01-19 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil OC (1931-2024), often known as Robin MacNeil, was a Canadian-American journalist, writer, and television news anchor. He partnered with Jim Lehrer to create the landmark public television news program The Robert MacNeil Report in 1975. MacNeil co-anchored the program until 1995.

Acting credits

Commitment to Life poster
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Against a rich Hollywood backdrop, "Commitment to Life" documents the true story of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles - and how an intrepid group of people living with HIV/AIDS, doctors, movie stars, studio moguls and activists changed the course of the epidemic.

Commitment to Life

2023

Hamlet poster
5.8

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.

Hamlet

2000

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy poster
5.8

This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "second conspiracy" to cover up the truth, including attempts to ruin his own reputation.

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

1993

An Empire of Reason poster
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Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use familiar language to help today's audience understand firsthand the forces that shaped this country two hundred years ago. The argument, characters, passions and debating points are historically accurate, but the language and the medium of the debate is modern in form. Present day newscasters and commentators play themselves, reporting on the events of the 1780s as though they were occurring now.

An Empire of Reason

1988

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie poster
6.8

The stars come out on Sesame Street in this fun-filled video featuring the show's most memorable moments. Sing-along in this star-studded celebration!

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

1988

JFK: Breaking the News poster
10.0

Looking back over 40 years television and print journalists recall their stories and memories of reporting the murder of President Kennedy and how it changed the country and changed the way the public gets it's news.

JFK: Breaking the News

2003

The Violent Universe poster
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Thirty distinguished astronomers are visited at their observatories throughout the world in this comprehensive report of astronomical theories, research, and discoveries.

The Violent Universe

1969

Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age poster
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The future of preservation is at stake in the digital age. Into the Future explores the hidden crisis of the digital information age. Will digitally stored information and knowledge survive into the future? Will humans twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access to the electronically recorded history of our time?

Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age

1997

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6.5

An abridged dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", performed live at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, and based on Dickens's own adaptation for his dramatic readings.

Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'

1994

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater poster
6.0

The life and career of conservative icon Barry Goldwater is recounted from his days as an Arizona businessman to his five-term Senate career and his ill-fated run for president in 1964. Produced by the politician's granddaughter C.C. Goldwater, this profile features interviews with a host of media and political luminaries, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward Kennedy, John McCain, Al Franken, Robert MacNeil, Ben Bradlee and others.

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater

2007

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8.0

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The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed

1977