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David McCullough
2 films · 109 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2003–2008
Born 7 July 1933 · died 7 August 2022
David Gaub McCullough was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968), and he wrote nine more on such topics as Harry S. Truman, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, and the Wright brothers.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 109 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2003–2008
- Ken Burns American Heritage Prize2017
- Newberry Library Award2013
- Presidential Medal of Freedom2006
- Jefferson Lecture2003
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography2002
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award2000
- honorary doctor of the University of Miami1996
- Charles Frankel Prize1995
- National Book Award1995
- Helmerich Award1995
- St. Louis Literary Award1993
- Francis Parkman Prize1993
How their films are shot
Measured across 109 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work David takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 73% of their frames are day, 62% natural — the look of the work David takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 109 frames from David McCullough's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.