Barbara Kopple
![Kopple at the May 2015 [[Montclair Film Festival]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Barbara_Kopple_2015.jpg)
Kopple gained acclaim for the film ''Bearing Witness'' (2005), a documentary about five women journalists stationed in combat zones during the Iraq War. She is also known for directing the documentary films ''Wild Man Blues'' (1997), ''A Conversation With Gregory Peck'' (1999), ''My Generation'' (2000), ''Running from Crazy'' (2013), ''Miss Sharon Jones!'' (2015), and ''Desert One'' (2019).
She received a Primetime Emmy Award for ''Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson'' (1993), and directed episodes of television drama series such as the NBC police drama series ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1999) and the HBO prison drama series ''Oz'' (1999), winning a Directors Guild of America award for the former.
Kopple received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on September 28, 2023. Provided by Wikipedia
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