Lawrence "Larry" Hott is an American

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and

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. Hott is a co-founding partner of Florentine Films, joining

Ken Burns Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker known for his documentary film, documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle United States, American History of the United States, history and Culture of the ...

Roger Sherman Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an American statesman, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to sign four of the great state papers of the United States related to the founding: the Cont ...

and Buddy Squires in documentary production in 1978. He has produced and directed documentary films for

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, the Library of American Landscape History, the American Antiquarian Society and others. He has twice been nominated for an

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, received a

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

, the

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, and five blue ribbons from the

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. Hott has taught courses in the University Without Walls program of the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. Hott is a member of the

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. Hott has been a

Fulbright Program The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

Fellow in both Vietnam and Great Britain.

Filmography

* The Old Quabbin Valley 1982 * The Garden of Eden 1983 * The Adirondacks 1986 * Sentimental Women Need Not Apply 1988 * The Wilderness Idea 1989 * '' Wild by Law'' 1991 * Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish 1994 * Defending Everybody: The Story of the ACLU 1998 * The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America * The Boyhood Of John Muir 1998 * Divided Highways 1998 * Writing Alone and With Others * Ohio: 200 Years * Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival * The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced 2002
John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature 2006
* Niagara Falls 2006 * On Thin Ice * Through Deaf Eyes 2006 * The American Antiquarian Society
Library of American Landscape History
* The Return of the Cuyahoga * Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
Rising Voices 2014

Scitech Band: Pride of Springfield 2017
* The Warrior Tradition 2019 * The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights 2023

References

External links

Online films by Hott for the Library of American Landscape History

Every Cut is a Lie: Lawrence Hott at TEDxFulbright
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