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Carrier is an Emmy Award-winning 10-hour documentary television series about a six-month deployment of a United States Navy aircraft carrier in 2005 from the United States to the Middle East and back. Carrier is supplemented by a 90-minute companion documentary film called Another Day in Paradise.

Synopsis

Carrier follows the deployment, from May 7, 2005 to November 8, 2005, of the supercarrier USS Nimitz, along with Carrier Air Wing Eleven, from her home port at North Island in Coronado, California to the Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom. This character-driven, dramatic non-fiction series includes extensive footage shot aboard, as well as interviews with many of the crew about their various experiences, as well as their own personal concerns and fears. Along the way to the Persian Gulf and back she makes stops in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Guam, Kuala Lumpur, Bahrain, and Perth.

Production

The miniseries is a production of Icon Productions and Carrier Project, Inc. and was conceived by Mitchell Block and co-created by Mitchell Block and Maro Chermayeff and directed by Maro Chermayeff. Deborah Dickson directed the 90 minute, companion feature documentary Another Day in Paradise) which was shot concurrently. The executive producers were Block and Chermayeff for Carrier Project, Inc. and Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey and Nancy Cotton, for Icon Productions. The film premiered two hours each night from April 27 through May 1, 2008, on the television network PBS.

Seventeen filmmakers, including producers Deborah Dickson and Jeff Dupre and producers in the field Matthew Akers, Michelle Smawley and Pamela Yates, shot 1,600 hours of footage to create the series. The series and companion feature were the first documentaries that were ever produced on a U.S. Naval warship on active duty over an entire mission. This was accomplished by David Kennedy (Captain, US Navy, Retired) and Block who spent two years obtaining permission to embed on the Nimitz. In 2008, the Series won an Emmy for "Outstanding Cinematography Reality Program" honoring the work of cameramen Axel Baumann, Ulli Bonnekamp, Mark Brice, Robert Hanna, and Wolfgang Held.

Events

Robert Macrum

While in the Persian Gulf on the night of September 12, 2005, or early morning of September 13, during the filming of the documentary, Seaman Apprentice Robert D. Macrum, 22, of Sugar Land, Texas, fell overboard from the escorting cruiser . Despite a search lasting over five days, and covering a area, Seaman Macrum was not found.

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