Greg Barker

The director of Sergio and many docs talks about docs and movies taken from true stories.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sergio (2009)
Sergio (2020)
Reds (1981)
The Two Popes (2019)
Rules Don’t Apply (2016)
Bulworth (1998)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Innerspace (1987)
Ishtar (1987)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Man On Wire (2008)
The Fog of War (2003)
American Dharma (2018)
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016)
The Killing Fields (1984)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1983)
Under Fire (1983)
Salvador (1986)
The Quiet American (2002)
The Quiet American (1958)
A Private War (2018)
The War Room (1993)
The Final Year (2017)
Independence Day (1996)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Bloodsport (1988)
Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite (1996)
When We Were Kings (1996)
Soul Power (2008)
High School (1968)
Hospital (1970)
Titicut Follies (1967)
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (2007)
Before Night Falls (2000)
At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
American Factory (2019)
Dina (2017)
Honeyland (2019)
The Act of Killing (2012)
The English Patient (1996)
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Purple Noon (1960)

Other Notable Items

Sergio Aragonés
Wagner Moura
Narcos TV series (2015-2018)
Errol Morris
Warren Beatty
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Reagan at Reykjavik book by Ken Adelman (2014)
Howard Hughes
Robert McNamara
Steve Bannon
Tony Robbins
Joe Berlinger
Wormwood TV miniseries (2017)
Peter Sarsgaard 
Sydney Schanberg
Linda Hunt
Haing S. Ngor
Gene Hackman
Nick Nolte
Joanna Cassidy
Roger Spottiswoode
Jerry Goldsmith
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Ed Harris
Phillip Noyce
Joseph Mankiewicz
The Quiet American novel by Graham Greene (1955)
Matthew Heineman
John Reed
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
George Stephanopoulos
James Carville
Bill Pullman
The Apprentice TV series (2004-2017)
Mark Burnett
Muhammad Ali
Leon Gast
The Criterion Collection
“The Rumble in the Jungle”
George Foreman
Norman Mailer
Tyson Fury
ESPN
Game 6 of the 1977 World Series
Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Yankees
Howard Cossell
Reggie Jackson
Frederick Wiseman
Kenneth Anger
Julian Schnabel
Javier Bardem
Mathieu Amalric
Julia Reichert
Steven Bognar
Netflix
Larry Wilmore on Pandemic Parade 4: The Crackdown 
Greg’s documentary Ghosts of Rwanda for Frontline (2004)
Anthony Minghella
Juliet Stevenson
John Malkovich
Burn This play by Lanford Wilson (1987)
Sergio Vieira de Mello
 
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