John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Q&A filmmakers Peter Kunhardt, George Kunhardt & Teddy Kunhardt

2018. 105 m. Peter Kunhardt. HBO Documentary Films. US. English. Rated NR.

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Produced and directed by six-time Emmy winner Peter Kunhardt, along with Emmy winners George and Teddy Kunhardt, John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls is a biographical profile of one of the most influential forces in modern American politics, Arizona Senator John McCain. A former Navy pilot who was shot down in Vietnam and spent over five years in a POW camp, McCain returned to forge a career as one of our country’s most passionate and formidable members of Congress. Now 81, the six-term Republican senator and two-time presidential candidate sat down for interviews just a few weeks after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017. The film also features interviews with family, friends and leading political figures including former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Senators Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, among others.

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Peter Kunhardt recently directed King in the Wilderness, Becoming Warren Buffett and Living with Lincoln. He and two of his sons run Kunhardt Films, which has produced, among others, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross; Jim: The James Foley Story; Gloria: In Her Own Words; Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words; and Teddy: In His Own Words. Kunhardt has won 6 Emmys, a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, and an NAACP Image Award.

Teddy Kunhardt is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker whose previous film, The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee, earned him a 2017 PGA nomination. Past producing credits include King in the Wilderness, Becoming Warren Buffett, Jim: The James Foley Story, and Living with Lincoln. He served as co-producer on Nixon by Nixon, Makers: Women Who Make America, and associate producer on Gloria: In Her Own Words and Teddy: In His Own Words.