Directing
Neil Hollander
Born
1939-07-09 (87)
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
11 titles
Neil Hollander was born in New York City, NY, on July 9, 1939. His ancestry includes German and Irish. Hollander is a graduate of the University of Washington. Today he lives and works in Paris, France. Neil Hollander is a writer, director and film producer. He is author of several books, interview and has also hosted museum exhibits. During his long career Neil has worked as a professor at the University of Washington and as a journalist and war correspondent from Burma. He got his start as a journalist - reporter travelling the country and writing reports from the places he visits. After spending almost a decade on the road, Hollander decided to turn his attention to writing books and scr…
Known for
In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.
Burma: A Human Tragedy
2012
Wiped out by a stock market crash, Sam Spencer suddenly finds himself broke and homeless in New York. When a friend offers him a job in California, Sam heads west the only way he can afford, hopping trains. Along the way, he befriends Enrique, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and Enrique's canine companion who together introduce Sam to hobo culture.
Riding the Rails
1988
8.0A quest for freedom in the South China Sea. Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy, 100 orphans, all girls, are shepherded by a determined activist, Mrs. Brown (Charlotte De Turckheim) onto a tramp freighter for a harrowing escape from the Chinese authorities.
Birds of Passage
2001
While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.
Under the Radar: Burma
2010
NRThis edge-of-your-seat suspenser pitts Sam Spencer, a Mafia fugitive on the lam, against the obstinate and difficult Captain Savienko. When Spencer hops Savienko's nuclear waste-filled vessel as a stowaway - without asking permission - it sets the stage for a violent conflict between the two hotheaded men.
Sea Devils
1998
9.0Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distinct cultures or geographic locations.
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
1984
Behind the camera
In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.
Burma: A Human Tragedy
2012
In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.
Burma: A Human Tragedy
2012
Wiped out by a stock market crash, Sam Spencer suddenly finds himself broke and homeless in New York. When a friend offers him a job in California, Sam heads west the only way he can afford, hopping trains. Along the way, he befriends Enrique, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and Enrique's canine companion who together introduce Sam to hobo culture.
Riding the Rails
1988
8.0A quest for freedom in the South China Sea. Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy, 100 orphans, all girls, are shepherded by a determined activist, Mrs. Brown (Charlotte De Turckheim) onto a tramp freighter for a harrowing escape from the Chinese authorities.
Birds of Passage
2001
While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.
Under the Radar: Burma
2010
NRThis edge-of-your-seat suspenser pitts Sam Spencer, a Mafia fugitive on the lam, against the obstinate and difficult Captain Savienko. When Spencer hops Savienko's nuclear waste-filled vessel as a stowaway - without asking permission - it sets the stage for a violent conflict between the two hotheaded men.
Sea Devils
1998
NRThis edge-of-your-seat suspenser pitts Sam Spencer, a Mafia fugitive on the lam, against the obstinate and difficult Captain Savienko. When Spencer hops Savienko's nuclear waste-filled vessel as a stowaway - without asking permission - it sets the stage for a violent conflict between the two hotheaded men.
Sea Devils
1998
9.0Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distinct cultures or geographic locations.
The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
1984
NRHunger is a real and growing problem in the 21st century, where hundreds of millions of people go to bed without a meal each night and thousands literally die for want of food every day.
H for Hunger
2009
NRHunger is a real and growing problem in the 21st century, where hundreds of millions of people go to bed without a meal each night and thousands literally die for want of food every day.
H for Hunger
2009
When the "Silk King" Jim Thompson came to Thailand at the end of World War 2, he became one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. His disappearance in the Malaysian jungle in 1967 is one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century
Jim Thompson: The Man & the Legend
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