Lawrence Hott

Lawrence "Larry" Hott is an American academic and documentary filmmaker.

Lawrence Hott
Hott on production in the Everglades working on the film John James Audubon
Born	(1950-10-06) 6 October 1950 (age 74) New York, U.S.
Occupation	Documentary Filmmaker
Website
www.florentinefilms.org

Hott is a co-founding partner of Florentine Films, joining Ken Burns, Roger Sherman and Buddy Squires in documentary production in 1978.^[1][2] He has produced and directed documentary films for PBS, the Library of American Landscape History, the American Antiquarian Society and others. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award,^[3] received a Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and five blue ribbons from the American Film Festival.^[1] Hott has taught courses in the University Without Walls program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.^[4]

Hott is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.^[5] Hott has been a Fulbright Program Fellow in both Vietnam and Great Britain.^[6]

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
• Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America 1992
• 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