Bruce C. McKenna

Bruce C. McKenna (born March 14, 1962) is an American writer for television and film. He was the co-executive producer, creator, principal writer and researcher on the 2010 HBO 10 part mini-series, The Pacific, which was co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The Pacific received eight Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Miniseries, at the 62nd annual Emmy Award ceremony held on August 29, 2010. The Pacific had been nominated for 24 Emmy Awards, including McKenna's nomination for "Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special" for his writing (with co-writer Robert Schenkkan) of the episode "The Pacific" - "Part Ten." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Works

SIX

Action drama series inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six.

Release Date: 2017-01-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 495

The Pacific

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

Release Date: 2010-03-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2392

Moto Is Missing

Featurette about the demise, during the early 1940s, of the once-popular Mr. Moto B-films series that starred Peter Lorre.

Release Date: 2007-02-13

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Band of Brothers

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

Release Date: 2001-09-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 3749

Thick as Thieves

Tough City - where grifters, dips and shysters scramble for a dirty dollar and a clean shirt - where one man stands head and shoulders beneath the rest - Al Hacker - small time pickpocket - master bungler. Only Lisa, his curvaceous sister and partner-in-crime, stand between Al and disaster.

Release Date: 1991-01-01

Department: Art

Job: Production Design

The Blue Nile - Flags and Fences

The "lost" documentary of the Scottish music group The Blue Nile's tour of the US in 1990. In 1990, the film-maker Bernard Rudden made this documentary "Flags and Fences", which followed The Blue Nile on their tour of America. It's long been thought "lost", but writer, adventurer and all-round-gentleman, Trevor Ward, located and forwarded this copy, which captures Blue Nile as they seemed on the cusp of world success.

Release Date: 1990-11-01

Department: Editing

Job: Editor