Defending Our Lives

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Defending Our Lives
Directed by Margaret Lazarus
Renner Wunderlich
Produced byMargaret Lazarus
Stacey Kabat
Renner Wunderlich
Production
company
Distributed byCambridge Documentary Films
Release date
  • 1993 (1993)
Running time
30 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Defending Our Lives is a 1993 American short documentary film directed by Margaret Lazarus, Stacey Kabat and Renner Wunderlich. It won an Oscar at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994 for Documentary Short Subject. [1]

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  1. "Defending Our Lives (1993)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2011. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2008.