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SPOT 20 WAR BIRDS
20-second spot for Warbirds, Robert Clem’s award-winning documentary on the 1926 novel by Elliott White Springs, who transformed the diary of his dead companion into the definitive account of aerial combat in World War I.
Original music by Donald Stark
Warbirds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
Robert Clem's film portrayal of three WWI pilots, based on Elliott White Springs's autobiographic story of self-sacrifice and regret amid bitter memories of war.
Original music by Donald Stark.
Big Jim Folsom: The Two Faces of Populism
Robert Clem's film portrait of a flawed yet courageous politician's dramatic rise and fall.
Winner of the 1997 International Documentary Association / ABC News VideoSource Award.
Original music by Donald Stark.
Part one of Robert Clem's award-winning 1997 film on controversial Alabama governor James E. "Big Jim" Folsom who in 1946 upset the power structure that had ruled the state since the end of Reconstruction, advocating the expansion of political rights to blacks and poor whites and using public funds for education, roadbuilding in rural areas, and other public works.
Original music by Donald Stark.
Part two of Robert Clem's award-winning 1997 film Big Jim Folsom: the Two Faces of Populism considers how Alabama's populist governor, first elected in 1946, tried to use his landslide re-election in 1954 to stem the tide of segregationism and the Ku Klux Klan but was excoriated in the press when he dared to invite visiting black congressman Adam Clayton Powell to the governor's mansion for a drink.
Original music by Donald Stark.