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Manfred Kirchheimer, centre, with stills from his latest film, Free Time. Composite: Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times Manfred Kirchheimer, centre, with stills from his latest film, Free Time. Composite: Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times The 90-year-old German American director, who completed a trio of documentaries during lockdown, reflects on his career, his black activism and asking his father difficult questions about Nazi occupation Thu 3 Jun 2021 11.39 EDT Last modified on Thu 3 Jun 2021 13.09 EDT Manfred Kirchheimer, the US’s least-known great documentarian, may be 90 years old, but his memory is as sharp as a knife. “I wasn’t always a film aficionado,” he recalls. “Then, in 1949, I was at Manhattan’s City College and the students were on strike against two professors – one antisemite, the other anti-black. I saw someone filming a police horse and I asked him why. He said: ‘I’m making this for the film department.â€�

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