Emile de Antonio

Emile Francisco de Antonio was an American director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political, social, and counterculture events circa 1960s1980s. He has been referred to by scholars and critics alike, and arguably remains, the most important political filmmaker in the United States during the Cold War.

De Antonio was born in 1919 in the coalmining town of Scranton, Pennsylvania. His father, Emilio de Antonio, an Italian immigrant, fostered the lifelong interests of Antonio by passing on his own love for philosophy, classical literature, history and the arts. Although his intelligence allowed him the privilege of attending Harvard University alongside future president John F. Kennedy, he was also familiar with the working class experience, making his living at various points in his life as a peddler, a book editor, and the captain of a river barge . He would later go on to make a film about Kennedys assassination called Rush to Judgment , an early rebuttal of the Warren Report.

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