Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker who lived from 15 February 1924 to 30 July 2014 and is known as a pioneer, and sometimes called the father, of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Two of his films, Primary in 1960 and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment in 1963, were named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. In 1993 he received the Career Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association.
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Over the course of his career, Drew made scores of documentaries and won numerous awards, including an Emmy for Man Who Dances (1968) about the ballet dancer Edward Villella.
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