Cancer : the emperor of all maladies

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Label

Cancer : the emperor of all maladies

Title remainder

the emperor of all maladies

Statement of responsibility

Florentine Films ; Laura Ziskin Pictures ; WETA Washington D.C. ; in association with Ark Media ; Ken Burns presents a film by Barak Goodman ; series producer, Barak Goodman ; written by Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, Barak Goodman, David Blistein

Title variation

Emperor of all maladies

Creator

• Cancer: the emperor of all maladies (Television program)

Contributor

• WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
• PBS Distribution (Firm)
• Goodman, Barak
• Laura Ziskin Productions
• Ward, Geoffrey C.
• Ark Media (Firm)
• Durrance, Chris
• Florentine Films
• Burns, Ken, 1953-
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• Youngelson, Jack
• Dickson, Deborah
• Mukherjee, Siddhartha
• Herrmann, Edward, 1943-2014

Filmmaker

• Goodman, Barak

Narrator

• Herrmann, Edward, 1943-2014

Presenter

• Burns, Ken, 1953-

Screenwriter

• Goodman, Barak
• Ward, Geoffrey C.
• Burns, Ken, 1953-

Television director

• Goodman, Barak
• Durrance, Chris
• Youngelson, Jack
• Dickson, Deborah

Television producer

• Goodman, Barak
• Burns, Ken, 1953-

Subject

• Television adaptations
• Medical television programs
• Documentary television programs
• Leukemia -- History
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Nonfiction television programs
• Cancer -- History
• Cancer -- Research | History
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities

Genre

• Nonfiction television programs
• Television adaptations
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Documentary television programs
• Medical television programs
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

The story of the war on cancer spans centuries and continents. It is a scientific story, but also a deeply human one: of doctors, researchers, and especially patients who -- through courage, suffering, and occasional hubris -- pushed the boundaries of knowledge. These people helped define cancer as the scourge of the modern age, and then mobilized the federal government and private industry to wage an all-out campaign against it -- a campaign we are still fighting. Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning bood by Siddhartha Mukherjee, tells the complete story of cancer, from its first description in an ancient Egyptian scroll to the gleaming laboratories of modern research institutions

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Editors, Peter R. Livingston, Karen K.H. Sim, Nancy Novack ; composers, David Cieri, Ed Bilous, Greg Kalember ; directors of photography, Robert Hanna, Stephen McCarthy, Sam Russell

Date time place

Originally produced as a television program for PBS in 2015

Dewey number

616.99/4

Intended audience

Contains mature content which may not be suitable for all audiences; viewer discretion advised

Language note

Closed-captioned (SDH: subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing) ; audio-described

PerformerNote

Narrator, Edward Herrmann ; commentator, Siddhartha Mukherjee

Runtime

344

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action