Documentary Channel Honors John Huston

By Melissa Rose Kimbler
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/john_huston_documentary_channel_20080421/
Everyone knows Oscar-winning director John Huston as the man behind such classic fiction films as The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but as cable network Documentary Channel (DOC) will show on Monday, April 21, Huston mastered the art of non-fiction as well. Shortly after being released in 1945 and 1946 respectively, The Battle of San Pietro and Let There Be Light, were confiscated by the War Department but in 2008, are once again ready for public viewing. As part of its tribute to war documentaries, the Documentary Channel programming starts off the night at 7 p.m. with the fourth episode of its original series “DocTalk,” followed by both banned Huston docs.