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Born in Scranton, PA. The son of a wealthy physician, de Antonio's childhood in the tough coal-mining town of Scranton nevertheless made a deep impression on him. His sympathies were always with working-class people (although he was a Harvard graduate, he was at times a dock worker, a peddler, the captain of a river barge and a broker in war-surplus equipment), and his documentaries are decidedly Marxist in philosophy. His most famous film is probably POINT OF ORDER (1964), about the Army-McCarthy hearings ten years previously, but his most controversial films would be MILHOUSE (1971), a scathing indictment of then-President Richard Nixon, and IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG (1969), a radically left-wing perspective on the Vietnam War.
Other notable credits include RUSH TO JUDGMENT (1967), AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE (1970), PAINTERS PAINTING (1973), McCARTHY: DEATH OF WITCH HUNTER (1975), UNDERGROUND (1976), IN THE KING OF PRUSSIA (1983), and his last film, MR. HOOVER AND I (1989).
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Nominated for Documentary (Features)