Bernard MacMahon is an Irish-British filmmaker.  His American Epic films are widely considered as the definitive portrait of a musical era, and one of the best music documentaries ever made.  Bernard was born in England and grew up in South London.  He developed an interest in early American cinema at a young age[9] and was shooting and editing 8 mm short films by the age of 12.  MacMahon said “America has fascinated me since I was a child.  My big love is American cinema, especially early American cinema, and I’ve always been fascinated by that period in the 20s when the technology and artistic language of film was being invented.