Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu. It won an Oscar at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject. Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet who lived in Berkeley, California. The documentary explored his spiritual struggle coping with his disability; he had to use an iron lung much of the time due to childhood polio. O'Brien died on July 4, 1999, from post-polio syndrome.
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1996 film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing_Lessons:_The_Life_and_Work_of_Mark_O%27Brien
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2008-05-30T09:36:30Z
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2024-08-30T13:05:35Z
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