Cancer (film)
8.6 /10 1 Votes
First episode date March 30, 2015 Duration | 8.6/10 IMDb Director Barak Goodman Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 30, 2015 (2015-03-30) Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series Similar movies The Hunting Ground (2015), Misery Loves Comedy (2015), Maladies (2012), Last Days in Vietnam (2014), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Barak Goodman and produced by Ken Burns. The film, in three-episodes of two hours each, is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, and describes the history of cancer, and cancer treatments, particularly in the United States.
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The documentary film was narrated by Edward Herrmann, who was himself suffering from terminal brain cancer at the time of its production. He died on December 31, 2014, three months before the film's release.
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Participants
The documentary film is narrated by Edward Herrmann and includes the following participants:
Reviews and criticism
According to a review in the Los Angeles Times, the film is "the single most personally relevant documentary of this or any year". According to a review in The New York Times, the series is "absorbing", is "structured as an ever-evolving medical detective story, but the filmmakers give it heart as well by juxtaposing the history lessons with present-day personal profiles of cancer patients", seems perhaps "too much like a promotional video for cancer researchers and hospitals", and "touches only briefly on the significant issue of costs" but "achieves its main goal, which is to show the human impact of cancer."
References
Cancer (film) WikipediaCancer (film) IMDb Cancer (film) themoviedb.org