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Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies is a 2015 American documentary film produced and directed by Barak Goodman and executive produced by Ken Burns. The film, in three episodes of two hours each, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2010 book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, and describes the history of cancer, and cancer treatments, particularly in the United States.
Original Release
03/30/2015 on PBS
US Release
03/30/2015
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Edward Herrmann | Narrator |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Magic Bullets | Monday, 30 March 2015 |
2 | Ep Two: The Blind Men and the Elephant | Tuesday, 31 March 2015 |
3 | Finding an Achilles Heel | Wednesday, 01 April 2015 |
Directors
Barak Goodman, Jack Youngelson, Deborah Dickson, Chris Durrance
Writers
Ken Burns, Barak Goodman, Geoffrey Ward, David Blitstein
Cast
Name | Character |
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Edward Herrmann | Narrator |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ken Burns | Executive Producer |
Pamela Oas Williams | Executive Producer |
Laura Ziskin | Executive Producer |
Dalton Delan | Executive Producer |
David S. Thompson | Executive Producer |
Barak Goodman | Producer |
Rebecca Brillhart | Producer |
Stef Gordon | Producer |
Justine Pierce | Producer |
Holly Siegel | Producer |
Tom Denison | Producer |
Becca Bender | Producer |
Nora Ballard | Producer |
Emily Singer Chapman | Producer |
Lindsey Megrue | Producer |
Ali Sargent | Producer |
Jamila Ephron | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2015 | Emmy | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series | Nominated |